Craft Napa Workshops

I love to teach virtually or in person. Last week I gave two workshops through CraftNapa virtually to a very talented group of artists. We shared good laughs. Some couldn't be present, luckily it was recorded so they watched the recording and worked at their own pace. 

The projects for both classes were made with mixed media materials. It's amazing how each student put their own twist and created something different. It was fun!

Easy Way to Print Cloth

"Florida Sunrise"

This is another quilt that I've made with the method I explained on page 75 in the latest magazine Crafts'n Things Summer 2013

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Instead of a house, I made two flowers for the plate design and used the same bird from the original pattern. I used it as a guide to cut from scrap pieces of fabric fused with wonder under. 

 Next, I sewed them together with a curve seam.

Then I sewed four pieces of fabric around, also with a curve seam.

I ironed on the birds in place. Sandwiched the quilt with batting and a back fabric. Drew "extra" flowers in between the blocks and outside the blocks on each side. Chose a thin 50 weight thread to sew inside the blocks and a thick 12 weight to sew around the outside. I chose a quilting design from Leah www.thefreemotionquiltproject.

Afterwards I sewed beads for the center of the flowers....

..and french knots for the birds eyes.