Line Dance

2 days - Beginner to experienced

This class is for quilters willing to believe their third grade teacher was wrong and they can draw! Textile artists use line in piecing, appliqué, surface stitchery, and quilting, and can use these techniques as tools for expression and meaning if they can use line well. In this workshop, students will approach line playfully using wire, pen and paper, fiber and thread, free motion sewing and fusible collage. Learn how to make marks, and make them your own, knowledge that will help you use the design element of line to energize your next quilt.

Taught by:  Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer

Supply List

• Sewing machine in good order (oil it and have it serviced before class). We will be free motion sewing, so you need a machine whose feed dogs can be lowered or covered.
• Darning foot (or whatever attachment you like to use for free motion sewing)
• Extra needles
• Bobbins - one wound with white thread, one with black, if you have Bottom Line thread use that
• Scissors (both paper and fabric)
• Rotary cutter and mat
• Thread – one spool each of black and white
• Extension Cord
• Unlined paper, such as computer printer paper; about 15 sheets
• #2 Pencil and sharpener
• Thin black marker
• Thick pointed black marker
• Thick wide point black marker
• Large brown paper grocery sack (clean)
• Tracing paper
• Uncommon senses: sense of humor, sense of adventure

Fabric

• 1 to 1 ½  yards of solid white cotton broadcloth (or other quilt weight cotton)
• ½ to 1 yard of solid black cotton broadcloth (or other quilt weight cotton)
• 2 to 3 fat quarter-sized pieces of thin batting, such as Warm and Natural
• One yard of Steam a Seam 2 (or your favorite fabric adhesive)

OPTIONAL:

• Teflon sheet for use in fusing
• Extension cord
• Digital camera to test compositions
• Different colored thread (red, yellow, blue, etc)
• Chocolate for the break you’ll need when you realize you’ve fused your fabric to your iron by mistake

SUPPLY FEE: $5