workshop
Make a Memory
Start with fabrics that have personal history or motifs that have special meaning for you. Bring in fabrics you've used for kids' clothes, home decorating, and quilts you've made. Or, choose a few conversation prints that speak to you—or will resonate with the person who will receive this amazing, personalized gift. You will discover how easy it is to combine fabrics and create color "bridges," to foundation-piece, and to appli-quilt, making a “memory lane” with your fabrics. Rickrack makes it easy! Your finished piece can be a small quilt or table runner, a pillow, a photo album or scrapbook cover.
PLEASE BRING THE FOLLOWING TO CLASS:
MATERIALS:
- Scraps of the following: 3-6 conversation print fabrics that reflect the personality and pursuits of the person you're making this project for, plus several other fabrics to coordinate, especially geometrics, stripes, and plaids, batiks and hand-dyes
- One yard of fabric with a quiet pattern for background
- 1 package (2 1/4 yds.) jumbo rickrack in color to coordinate with your chosen fabrics
- Thread to match rickrack, and thread to blend with most fabrics
- 1 1/2 yards of tear-away, non-woven foundation material
- 18" x 48" piece of polyester fusible batting or fusible fleece
- Freezer paper
- Optional if desired: photos transferred to fabric; album or scrapbook to custom-cover; 14" square pillow form; decorative threads; embellishments that fit your theme--such as vintage or novelty buttons, charms, sequins and bangles, purchased appliqués; braided trim
TOOLS:
- Sewing machine
- Optional for embellishing: darning foot, cording foot
- Pencil
- Permanent ink marker with fine point (Sharpie)
- Fabric-cutting scissors, thread snips, pins, needle
- Iron, small ironing surface, presser sheet, iron cleaner