Quilting by the Lake 2011 Classes

QBL offers over thirty 2, 3 and 5 day quilting classes taught by nationally and internationally recognized quilt artists and teachers.  All quilting classes are held on the campus of Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY.

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Important Class Information

• 2 day classes meet Monday & Tuesday
• 3 day classes meet Wednesday - Friday
• 5 day classes meet Monday - Friday

• All classes meet from 8:30 - 11:30am & 1 - 4pm. 
• Additional materials fees apply for some classes & are indicated on the supply list. Supply fee is paid directly to the teacher at QBL.
• A QBL equipment fee of $5 per session will be included on your final invoice. This fee is applied to the increasing cost of supplying classroom equipment. The QBL equipment fee is in addition to any supply fee that the teacher may require, which is paid directly to the teacher at QBL.
• All classrooms are air-conditioned.

1. Collage + Cloth= Quilt Blaydon, J (5 day)

2. Studio with Teacher Corbin, C(2 day)

3. Studio with Teacher Corbin, C(3 day)

4. Face Value Dace, R (5 day)

5.The New Complex Cloth, Dunnewold, J (5 day)

6. Experimental Layers Heller, H (5 day)

7. Elements that Please Hergert, A (2 day)

8. Layers of Intrigue Hergert, A (3 day)

9. Ask "What If?" Jarrard-Dimond, T (5 day)

10. Quilts with Something to Say Kranz, M (2 day)

11.Photo Inspired Landscape Quilts Kranz, M (3 day)

12. Painted, Stitched Canvas, Masopust, K (5day)

13. Making Your Own Emrboidery Ringquist, R (2 day)

14. Fast/Slow Drawing & Embroidery Ringquist, R (3 day)

15. Independent Studio (2 day) No Instructor

16. Independent Studio (3 day) No Instructor

17. Studio with Teacher Belford, M (2day)

18. Studio with Teacher Belford, M (3 day)

19. You like Tomate and I like Tomato Blaydon, J (5 day)

20. To Be Continued Corbin, C (5 day)

21.Cross Currents Dace, R (5 day)

22. Hot Colored Wax Dunnewold, J (5 day)

23. Sensational Stars & Spectacular Circular Borders Garber, G (2 day)

24. Flying Colors Garber, G (3 day)

25. From Concept to Implementation: Integrating Reused & Recycled Materials Hergert, A (5 day)

26. Radiant Circles Lehman, L (2 day)

27. Threadplay Lehman, L (3 day)

28. A Common Thread, Riley, L (5 day)

29. Paper & Fabric Collage with Painting & Printing Skiles, F (5 day)

30. Independent Studio (2 day) No Instructor

31. Independent Studio (3 day) No Instructor

Session l:  July 18 - 22, 2011

1. Collage + Cloth = Quilt  Judi Blaydon

    5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – Intermediate/Advanced

Inspired by a collection of your own photographs chosen for their content, color, pattern and textural details, your initial “sketches” will emerge as you play spontaneously with intuitive arrangements until the photo images and/or parts and fragments from those images lead to an abstract collage composition. The results may be powerful or subtle, lyrical or dramatic, symmetrical or not, suggestive of an elusive landscape or not; the process will produce unexpected and inventive design elements and new directions in your quiltmaking. Sewing machine required. Judi's new book, Collage + Cloth = Quilt, documents the work of several QBL participants who took her workshop, as well as her own quilts.

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2. Studio with Teacher   Cynthia Corbin

   2 days (7/18 & 7/19) – All Levels

What a treat! Time to work and focus on anything you want. Bring a project to finish, a project to start, or come with a resolution to try something new. This is your time. I will be there as a guide, a problem solver, a cheering section, an audience, or even a door stop, depending on your needs. For those of you who wish, I will have fun exercises daily to “grease the wheels” and get those creative juices flowing. This is also a good time to bring in work (finished or not) on which you would like my critique. We can discuss the strengths and weaknesses, the ever illusive consideration of “voice”, and address any other questions or concerns you may have. I love all types of quilts and it is a pleasure to hear others talk about their work. I am not there to impose my will or style but to encourage yours. Remember, this is your time and your work!

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3. Studio with Teacher  Cynthia Corbin

   3 days (7/20 - 7/22) – All Levels

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4. Face Value   Rosalie Dace

    5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – All Levels

Every day, whether we like it or not, we see our faces in the mirror. Seeing faces is the most important way we have of recognizing friends and strangers. Facial expressions speak volumes about moods and feelings. From rock engravings and masks to formal portraits and cartoons, people have depicted faces for thousands of years. In this class we will look at ways of unraveling the mystique of portraying faces in fabric and thread. An ability to draw is not required for this fun approach to observation and free-style appliqué as students layer fabrics to make a small quilt. Emphasis will be on fusing, appliqué and machine and hand thread work. Sewing machine required.

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5. The New Complex Cloth    Jane Dunnewold

    5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – Beginner/Intermediate

The classic layering workshop updated!  Explore the fundamentals of layered patterning, generated through dyeing and printing. Dunnewold will share her revised approaches to immersion dyeing, and the replacement of discharge processes with a variety of water-based resists. There will be an emphasis on tool making, and decorative finishing techniques, including foiling and metal leafing. Perfect for the beginning surface design artist or for more experienced folks interested in advanced layering.

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6. Experimental Layers:  Surface Design, Photo Transfer & Collage

Hollie Heller

    5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – All Levels 

This workshop will offer artists experimental approaches to combining paper, fabric and photography with collage.  We will begin with producing a variety of patterned and layered papers using surface design techniques that are commonly applied to fabric such as batik, shibori, application of dyes and discharge, printing and stamping.  The incorporation of a variety of photo transfer techniques on paper and fabric utilizing an ink jet printer will enable the inclusion of photographic imagery. Students will then be introduced to collage techniques combining their colorful and photographic papers with other found papers, fabrics and recycled materials.  A demonstration of a unique process of stiffening fabric will be given as well as folding saturated transparent papers and fabrics that have been immersed in a stiffening agent to create beautiful individual “design packages” that can be combined together in a variety of innovative ways. Sewing machine optional.

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7. Elements that Please   Anna Hergert

    2 days (7/18 & 7/19) – All Levels  

This workshop is designed to create a small quilt for the sole purpose of embellishing. We will incorporate beads, foils, and many more simple materials to set your design apart from others. Hand and machine work will be demonstrated and sampled. Basic design principles will be introduced and discussed. Sewing machine required.

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8. Layers of Intrigue   Anna Hergert

    3 days (7/20 - 7/22) – All Levels  

Are you looking for a fun and creative way to combine a multitude of colored and patterned fabrics? Join us in layering and cutting back intriguing combinations of quilting cottons. Create your very own design and listen to your heart rather than your head. You will emerge from this class with an exciting and original art quilt and countless ideas for future projects! Techniques covered: Machine cut-back appliqué, machine embellishments and hand-embellishments, which is optional. Basic color theory and sound design principles are an integral part of this workshop. Sewing machine required.

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9. Ask "What If?": Building Pathways to Creative Work  

Terry Jarrard-Dimond

    5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – Beginner to Intermediate 

Learning to ask “What If?” is one of the most important skills any artist can develop, regardless of medium. Being able to generate new ideas and develop a breadth of ideas is the mark of a true professional. Everyone has a lifetime of experiences and knowledge, but often some assistance is needed to tap into that knowledge and translate it into art. Through a series of individual and group exercises, students will be focused on techniques to help start on a path toward more stimulating and creative ideas. This class will be fast paced with lively and supportive exploration. Sewing machine required.

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10. Quilts with Something to Say:  Using Text in Fabric

Mary Ellen Kranz

      2 days (7/18 & 7/19) – All Levels

Give your quilts and fiber art pieces a voice by including a special sentiment, message, poem, or story in them.   In this workshop, we’ll make creative use of the many intriguing fonts available on your computer to print text in various shapes and sizes onto fabric. Learn how to get your printer to print lines of text up to 44 inches long. These fabric pieces can then become your quilt’s border or background or special embellishment.  We’ll use the latest techniques and products to make your printed fabric soft, colorful, washable and lightfast.  In class, we’ll create at least one small piece to illustrate the technique that you can later employ in your narrative quilts. Laptop computer with Microsoft Word & Paint Shop Pro Photo or Photoshop Elements required.

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11. Photo Inspired Landscape Quilts  Mary Ellen Kranz

      3 days (7/20 - 7/22) – All levels

Create a beautiful landscape quilt based on a photograph. Using the latest wide format fabric printing technologies, we’ll print the photo so that your fabric image is soft, washable, and lightfast.  Extend the quilt outward from your landscape photo using several easy, new techniques.   Blend your fabrics with your photo in such a way that viewers will wonder just where your photo ends and the fabric begins.   We’ll discuss and experiment with wonderful embellishment and photo enhancement techniques. Sewing machine required. Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class.

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12. Painted, Stitched Canvas Katie Pasquini Masopust

     5 days (7/18 - 7/22) – All Levels

This class combines painting and quilting. Using acrylic paint we will create layers of imagery onto thin canvas, applying fused fabrics and many layers of thin fluid acrylic paint. A color scheme is chosen and 2-3 canvases are painted within that color scheme. Then these canvases are cut apart and combined to create a complex composition. The reconstructed canvas is layered with batting and backing and stitched. These stitched pieces can then be stretched on a frame ready to hang or inserted into a quilt of the same design to create a many textured creation. Sewing machine required.

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13. Sampling:  Making Embroidery Your Own   Rebecca Ringquist 

      2 days (7/18 & 7/19) – All Levels

This class will begin with a look at historic American samplers.  Examining the roots of these cloths as both educational and social, we go on to create our own contemporary samplers.  Asking questions about what it means to sample, we explore several ways of transferring photocopied and hand-drawn images while creating a small composition that will teach you the basics of a number of different stitches. In addition to covering basics like the French knot and the chain stitch, you will learn a variety of embellishment stitches including: the bouillon, the spider web, woven picots, needle lace, and more.  While examining traditional stitches, we focus on developing our own vocabulary of mark making. No sewing machine or embroidery experience required.

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14. Fast/Slow Drawing & Embroidery  Rebecca Ringquist

       3 days (7/20 - 7/22) – All levels

We will warm up with fast, automatic drawing techniques including blind contour and non-dominant hand and feet drawings. This will generate a collection of ideas and references. After collecting a stack of inspiration, we will begin to translate these images into drawings with needle and thread, and even attempt a variation of these techniques working directly with thread and cloth. In addition to direct drawing techniques using both pencils and thread, the class will also explore a number of ways of translating from one method to another, using rubbings, water soluble transfers, wintergreen transfers, and more.  In this fast paced class you can expect to develop a stack of drawings and a wealth of inspiration to go home with. No sewing machine, drawing or embroidery experience required.

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15. Independent Studio  No Instructor

     2 days (7/18 & 7/19)– All levels

A classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Not suitable for dyeing.

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16. Independent Studio  No Instructor

     3 days (7/21 - 7/23) – All levels

A classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Not suitable for dyeing.

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17. Studio with Teacher   Marilyn Belford

      2 days (7/25 & 7/26) – All Levels

Students are invited to bring works in progress or to start new projects in this open studio. The class demos/teacher instruction will mostly deal with pictorial quilts and other art related projects but all types of quilting welcome. There will be some slide presentations and talks by Marilyn, as well as end of day discussions & critique of the student’s daily work.

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18. Studio with Teacher   Marilyn Belford

      3 days (7/27 - 7/29) – All Levels

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19. You Like Tomato and I like Tomato   Judi Blaydon

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – Intermediate/Advanced

To discover and document the richness and range of personal responses to a single inspiration, each student will be provided with an identical composition diagram of a small abstract asymmetrical pieced motif (containing no tomato imagery) and a gray-scale guide showing the relationship of values within the composition. While respecting the design format and the predetermined value placements, each student will introduce their own expressive and intuitive color and content, via selections and combinations of fabrics that express a favorite style, mood or theme. Sewing machine required.

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20.  To Be Continued  Cynthia Corbin

       5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – Intermediate/Advanced

Think of the work you create as a conversation between you and the fabric. It is exploration, experimentation, and practice, practice, practice. You could also say it is process, process, process - turning your own ideas into successful work. This class is designed for those students ready for more challenging, independent, focused study, and problem solving critique. While it is perfect for returning students, it is open to any experienced student ready to take the plunge. The content for this class will change and evolve, reflecting the study and practice I pursue in my own work. We will also draw on exercises from all of my classes as the need demands. This is a process class, focused on continued and fresh exploration with the goal being the refinement and clarification of individual work. Daily studies will be preliminary work for a final project to be completed in class. Sewing machine required.

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21.  Cross Currents Rosalie Dace

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – Intermediate/Advanced

Give your quilts a new energy by discovering the strength of crossed designs. From signatures, to quilts, to voter’s marks, X and + shapes have long provided visual impact along with strength, stability and symbolic meaning. Learn how these powerful and energetic lines and shapes in all their variations have been used for generations by quilters and other artists and crafts people to make stunning designs. Discover how you can make your compositions sing with new life as you make X mark the spot! As you make single or repeat images, you may choose to piece, fuse or appliqué your quilt, mark it with pen, or stitch by hand or machine for embellishment. Sewing machine required.

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22. Hot Colored Wax  Jane Dunnewold 

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – Beginner/Intermediate

Got soy wax? Got dye? Put the two together in exciting combinations, including crayons perfect for rubbings, drawing and writing, and hot, colored wax ideal for stenciling and stamping applications. The workshop begins with a discussion of both products - dyes and wax - and then jumps right into crayon production. A thorough explanation of the wax’s characteristics will include open lab time for experimentation with stamping and stenciling, and a specially formulated wax paste. Additional lectures focus on building and using a steamer, ideas for incorporation of techniques into other surface design processes, and an end of week show and tell.

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23. Sensational Stars & Spectacular Circular Borders   Gail Garber  

      2 days (7/25 & 7/26) – Intermediate

Two days to explore, draw, design and play! Spend a two day “vacation” learning the fundamentals of star design and a myriad of spectacular borders. In this class students will create a full sized original quilt design with a central star and surrounding borders, and will begin stitching it together using paper foundation piecing. Learn the step-by-step process to make your own one-of-a-kind art quilt. Sewing machine required.

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24. Flying Colors   Gail Garber  

      3 days (7/27 - 7/29) – Intermediate

Understand the process of creating your own original design star quilt, complete with complex circular borders, and free-form geese creating motion and adding light. It is simple and easy with a ruler and a compass, even for those of you who hate math. This class is designed for the student that desires an in-depth experience, exploring all aspects of creating innovative geometric quilts. Students will learn design, color selection, use of contrast and scale, and stitching techniques such as paper foundation piecing. Sewing machine required.

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25. From Concept to Implementation:  Integrating Reused & Recycled Materials   Anna Hergert

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – Intermediate/Advanced

If you are comfortable and accomplished in working within the 2 dimensional perimeters of art quilting, but have interest in adding a third dimension and/or new materials to your conventional quilting supplies then this workshop is for you! Discover how to incorporate interesting and unusual supplies, including recycled products, successfully into your art. This workshop is ideal for those aiming to achieve special effects to depict natural and/or abstract elements within their work. We will explore conceptual ideas leading to finding individual answers for each participant. Come with your sketchbook, images, scribbles or nebulous visions. Bring an open mind! Be prepared to play through hands-on sampling to gain the confidence and knowledge to design sculptural details. Not interested in sculptural details? How about exploring reflective qualities to depict water? Have you ever wondered how to achieve the properties of ice or fire? The possibilities are endless! This workshop will push your boundaries! Embrace the adventure!

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26. Radiant Circles  Libby Lehman 

      2 days (7/25 & 7/26) – All Levels

Making this small sampler will have you going in circles with fun and new skills! Learn how to do reverse appliqué, thread painting, satin stitching, decorative stitching, couching and free motion quilting. You’ll be an expert in no time! Sewing machine required.

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27. Threadplay  Libby Lehman 

      3 days (7/27 - 7/29) – All Levels

Go beyond learning the basics and tricks of machine embroidery to create special effects on your quilts or wearables. Students will make small samples of techniques such as sheer ribbon illusions, thread painting, potluck reverse machine applique, bobbin drawing, and fusible webs and some surprises will be thrown in along the way! Zigzag sewing machine with an adjustable bobbin case is required.

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28. A Common Thread   Lesley Riley

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – All Levels

What is the common thread that we as artists share? We are not like one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, texture or size. Artists are more like a collage, many patches, pieces, colors and sizes bound and held together by a common thread. Students will begin with a blank canvas, adding color through painting, printing, resist and more. Students will then use needle and thread to explore mark-making as well as developing a personalized and contemporary approach to creating hand-stitched compositions. Emphasis will be on personal work and expressive hand-stitching through both individual and group discussion. The work created in class can serve as studies for larger work, stand alone or become a small quilt or fabric book. Sewing machine optional as emphasis will be on hand-stitching.

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29. Paper & Fabric Collage with Painting & Printing   Fran Skiles

      5 days (7/25 - 7/29) – All Levels

The essence of the work in these 5 days is learning and following a process of intuitive thinking. Students will build 5 collages, beginning with simple marks and shapes; each day building layers of paint, stitching, paper and silk. By using either hand or machine stitching, students will build shapes, structure and texture into canvases. Students will work with and be given demos in simple silkscreen, painting, ink applications, resist and the layering of photo transfers and other paper onto canvas. The finished product is always a surprise and changes many times. This is a process loaded with fun and students will learn to trust both the process and the outcome. Sewing machine required.

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30. Independent Studio  No Instructor  

      2 days (7/25 & 7/26) – All levels

A classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Not suitable for dyeing.

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31. Independent Studio  No Instructor

     3 days (7/27 - 7/29) – All levels

A classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Not suitable for dyeing.

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