Make your own decorative pillow. You will paint your own fabric and embellish it with stitching and beads. The class is on the schedule at Baron’s Sewing Center in Woodland Hills for Tuesdays November 12th and November 19th
6 pm until 9 pm
(6 Hours total – 3 hours each day)
You can create your own design or fashion your pillow along the lines of this one that I made for this class.
I started with a piece of white PFD Kona cotton and painted the background with an acrylic wash of color. Next I painted the flowers and layered the piece with batting and lining. Then the REAL fun began as I used thread painting to add depth and texture to the design. Here’s where you can really let yourself experiment with color and various thread weights. I particularly liked the look of some variegated 30 wt. thread.
When I declared the thread painting “done” I got out my beads and went to town! Because this will be used for “show and tell” in class I wanted to be sure to incorporate several basic beading stitches. I used moss stitch, scatter stitch, seed stitch, bugle pathways, back stitch and stacked stitch.
My goal was to achieve a vibrant mix of color, texture and bling.
Call Baron’s today to sign up – This is a FUN class.
Sign up for this class at Quilty Pleasures – Simi Valley – It is sceduled for Saturday November 2 from 10 AM until 4 PM.
You will make a beautiful piece of Home Decor to use as a table or mantel runner. It is shown here in festive holiday colors but can be made in the fabric of your choice.
“Quilt As You Go” so that when you have finished adding the last border you are finished! Quilting has already been done.
This is going to be a fun class so go ahead and call the shop today to reserve your spot.
805-581-1577 1742 E. Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley
Whether you call it your “Goin Quiltin” bag, your beach bag, your diaper bag or your all purpose “shlep” bag – this tote will hold whatever you like, whenever you like; sturdy, roomy and with pockets galore inside and out.
And we’re having a class on how to make it at Baron’s Sewing Center this Fall.
Tuesday October 15 6 PM to 9 PM Part 1
Tuesday October 22 6 PM to 9 PM Part 2 6 hours total.
It’s time to get bitten by the Quilt Bug – definitely a LOT more fun than mosquitoes.
You’ll have a great chance to jump in with our newly scheduled Introduction to Quilting Course to be held at Quilty Pleasures in Simi Valley starting in September. During the series of 6 classes you will learn the skills that you need to make your first quilt.
You will be making a vibrant Autumn (or theme of your choosing) wall quilt 32 inches by 32 inches featuring fabrics that you will choose at the first class meeting.
We just dropped off 2 embellished journal covers at Baron’s. “How to create an embellished/collaged fabric journal cover” Workshop is scheduled for Saturday March 16 and repeated Tuesday March 19. Call Baron’s to register or for details.
This cover fits a composition book approximately 9 inches high by 7 1/2 inches wide.
Collaged Fabric Journal Cover
This is the size we will be making in class. We will provide the composition books in the purchased supply kit.
This cover was adapted to fit a spiral bound art journal measuring approximately 5 1/2 inches by 8 inches. We will provide guidelines for adapting directions for other sizes.
Just got this in the mail from WordPress.. Some pretty nice numbers there – thanks to all of you. I’m appreciative of each and every one of you who takes the time to see what’s going on here and especially when you leave a like or comment.
I want to write what YOU want to read about. PLEASE tell me what that is. Here are some prompts to get the juices flowing:
What kind of art quilt techniques are you interested in? What kind of sewing/quilting tools would you like to have reviewed? Are you interested in seeing my experiments with fabric and surface design? caution: some of them turn out UGLY, lol. Let me know what you want to see more of and I’ll do my very best to comply.
Have a wonderful, safe, healthy and happy 2013! Thanks for all your support in 2012.
Guila
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
As the year is winding down I’m busy getting my act ready to take on the road for 2013. A new workshop being offered is Celebration Art Cards.
This is one of my favorite things – creating small mixed media pieces – combining colors and textures as I go to achieve a special look. It’s all about color – movement – mood – and most of all letting those creative forces loose and having FUN!!
Here is a preview:
Workshop being offered at Baron’s Sewing Center Friday January 18: 4 PM until 7 PM.
In addition – I will be demo-ing this technique at the San Fernando Valley Quilt Association’s annual Quilt College, Monday February 18, 2013
Topics in Art Quilting Techniques will continue into the New Year. For those who missed them the first time around we are repeating key topics such as Painting on Fabric, Putting on the Glitz and so on.
For those of you who are eager to delve further into Art Quilting Techniques we will be scheduling additional classes such as Using Alternative Materials in Your Art Quilts, Orphan Blocks as an Inspiration for Art Quilting and more!
I CAN tell you that the first scheduled workshop of 2013 will be Tuesday January 15 from 6 PM until 9 PM. It will be Painting on Fabric. You will learn how to select and prepare your fabric; how to select appropriate paint for your project and how to apply the paint. You will learn techniques for stenciling and stamping with paint as well as how to apply paint with a brush to achieve the effect you are looking for. Make sure you wear clothes that won’t suffer if they receive some paint splashes or bring a coverup. It’s going to be a fun and creative evening.
I expect to have the rest of the dates for the first quarter firmed up later this week so keep your eye on this space.
And enjoy your Thanksgiving Day with lots of good food and surrounded by family and friends!
Finally! I’ve created a stand alone page that is devoted to Class Descriptions. On the page now is a list of classes that have been scheduled between now and the end of the year. Next, I will add additional workshop descriptions for classes that I teach but are not currently scheduled.
Just look to the headings across the top of my blog and click on Workshops to see it all. And ***MOST IMPORTANT – I am asking for feedback.
WHAT ART QUILTING RELATED CLASS TOPICS ARE YOU INTERESTED IN? Please let me know as we plan our future workshops.
I can say two things for sure: Teaching teenagers art quilting fundamentals is FUN !!! and… Teaching teenagers art quilting techniques is EXHAUSTING !!!
I just finished up 3 days of workshops at Baron’s Sewing Center in Woodland Hills with a group of bright and talented young women. They were eager to learn and to put their new skills into action.
Day One:
We started off with a lesson in Sun printing using Dynaflow Paint from Jacquard. The plan was that the pieces would dry in the sun while we went on to the next topic. Well, Betsy and I knew they’d enjoy the process but hadn’t realized that this technique would be the hit of the day! All they wanted to do was to Sun Print!!! And I must say some amazing work was produced by these budding artists. (I will be putting a Sun Printing Tutorial on my Blog shortly for all to enjoy).
Prepared Panels Drying In the Sun
The girls used all kinds of things to create their patterns – plumbing washers, nuts, bolts, coins of all sized, keys, decorative flashings from keyholes – sequin waste and decorative cutouts of their own design.
The session on painting techniques continued with stencilling paint on fabric and using rubber stamps to apply acrylic paint as well as pigment or dye ink from stamp pads.
Day Two started with a unanimous request for MORE SUN PRINTING !!
We were glad to oblige but made sure we got to the new stuff as well. Our students learned the use of Fusible web to apply designs to their quilt tops and how to assemble the layers that would give them a foundation for quilting their pieces.
It was exciting and gratifying to see how quickly these girls caught on to the concept of free motion quilting. And although mastery of this technique takes many hours we saw some commendable first timer results here.
Day Three commenced with yet more requests for painting. I promised they could do that after we talked about a couple of other things. I reminded them how excited they had been with the idea of applying glitter to their quilts and took a few minutes to demonstrate how easy it is to do that.
We also went over the many uses of angelina fibers (one teen asked, “What about Brad?” and my response was “huh?”)
They had all decided that they wanted to turn their quilted panels into pillows. So I proceeded to show them how to assemble a removable pillow cover using the pieces they had just created. Here they are digging into the scrap bag looking for suitable pillow back fabric.
looking for that perfect piece to back their pillow with
Here is some of the work produced by this talented bunch.
Original drawing from one of our talented teensAnd More Creativity on Display
Guila's Art & Other Assorted Joys 