Program:
Making Quilts with Panels (Workshop is also available. See below!)
I can’t thank you enough for presenting such an engaging and informative program. I don’t believe anyone will look at panels the same way again. I am anxious to use a piece of fabric I like as a panel. I purchased a panel map of the US with the various National Parks and started to work on it several months ago but was unhappy with the results, so I took it apart and decided to wait for your presentation to get some ideas. Denise, your examples and things to consider in the framing of the panel led me to plan more appealing borders. I heard so many positives, many thanks.
Diane LaCharite
Pine Needle Quilt Guild, Big Canoe, GADuration: 1 hour
- Design tips: the role of color and scale of motifs
- What makes and breaks panel quilt designs
- My process as a designer
- My process as a quilter
- The [simple] math involved
- Straight vs. Pieced Borders: when and how to use them
- Trunk Show
Workshops
Quilts
Fearless Panel Quilt Makers! MY MOST POPULAR WORKSHOP!!!
One-day workshop (6 hours):
After this workshop, you will never fear making quilts with panels again! We will evaluate the panels brought to class, brainstorm layouts, review numbers likely to work with panel measurements and sew. You will learn (and practice!):
- Which fabric colors to use around the panel
- How to design pieced borders:
- Which type of blocks? How many blocks? Which fabrics to place in the blocks?
- What do you do if the math—or the final size of the project you have in mind—isn’t
working for the blocks you want to make?
- Where to place fabrics and which fabrics to use on straight borders
- How to use panel blocks
- How to use panels with blocks of different/odd sizes
Zen Life Quilt
Quilt size: 73¾” x 83½”
Block: 9”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- Fabric selection and placement in blocks and borders for the most visual and pleasing impact
- On-point layout: how to determine the size of setting and
corner triangles - Make as many of the blocks with personal instruction
and feedback - List of resources
Flights of Whimsy
Quilt size: 70” x 82”
Block sizes: 3”, 6”, 12”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- Fabric selection and placement in blocks and borders for the most visual and pleasing impact
- Raw Edge Appliqué: machine appliqué using blanket or zigzag and decorative stitches.
- Discussion and demonstration: straight stitch, free motion appliqué, and trapunto.
- Discussion and demonstration: light appliqué over dark background
- Beginning Paper piecing (trees)
- List of resources
Fall Beauty
Quilt size: 87¾” x 104”
Block: 16¼”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- How to use color value to emphasize parts of the quilt design
- How fabric changes quilt designs
- Options for fabric placement
- Making the blocks
- List of resources
Give it a Twirl
Quilt size: 75-1/2” x 90-1/2”
Block: 15”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- What makes a quilt ‘modern’
- Borders or no borders?
- Quilting motifs for a modern quilt
- Making the blocks: color placement choices
- List of resources
Skills
English Paper Piecing
- Thread or glue basting
- Freezer paper method
- Making ‘fabric’
- Threads for each desired look
- Creating quilt projects
- List of resources
- Duration: 4 hours
Quilting projects using your domestic machine
(walking foot, free-motion quilting)
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- How to set up your machine and chair
- Must-have and optional supplies
- How to mark the quilt for quilting
- Selecting quilting motifs
- Quilting with the Walking Presser Foot (beyond straight lines)
- Free motion quilting – tips and tricks
- Practice using quilt sandwiches or small quilt projects
- List of resources