Laura Lee Fritz and Stephanie Bennett-Strauss, M.D. of
"Studio B" offer a
Quilting Arts Academy
Here in Studio B, we are passionate about expressing ourselves with fabric.
The colors are rich, the textures are primal, there is an emotional connection everyone
has with fabric, since our lives are clothed and decorated with it since we are born.
Laura Lee Fritz and Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Strauss present an on-going academy of classes in quilting techniques, to include piecing and appliqué-ing fabrics with machines, piecing and appliqué by handstitching, straight-seam designs, curved seams, hand-applique, batiking, stencil making and printing, screen printing fabric, sky painting, quilting, continuous-line design, and custom quilt block design.
All the quilt blocks you will sew are designed originally by Laura and Stephanie, or by yourself in class. (Give us another week and sample photos will start to appear here with the descriptions.)
Beginning March 11, 2012 11:30 – 3:30 Two Sundays per month (mostly)
Participants are requested to pre-register for classes, but pick and choose any individual classes you want. Register one weeks before any class so you can receive the supply and materials list. If you cannot preregister, then come to the Museum office on the way to class to pay on the first day of class, we'll try to have some extra materials on hand in this case, but be prepared to pay a small fee if we supply your materials. Registration is done by contacting info@marinmoca.org
$25 per day For each of these classes, you need not feel overwhelmed and left to fend for yourself if you do not complete the project in class. Follow-up if necessary can happen the following week in our studio, on a personal basis. Each class has a class-free week in between it and the next, and a drop-in at our studio will be welcomed, fee or no fee can be negotiated for drop-in, depending on your need.
Schedule:
March11: Dog eat dog: This is a unique variation on the classic “monkey wrench aka kissing dinosaurs” block, but the blocks look like dogs. First we’ll create dry-brush painted fabric textures, then cut and sew some blocks. Make only a few, and be done in class, or keep making more for a large quilt you finish at home. Basic quiltmaking techniques taught in this class for beginners, but experienced quilters will fly ahead and make lots of wonderful blocks, and benefit from the wonderful examples of varied settings to let them play in. One day class.
March 25: Name Doilies: Design a snowflake pattern using your own name, and sew it or just fuse it. Complete the block for a small wall quilt, or make a pillow of it, use it for the pillow pocket for the Quillow class that follows, or use it for a wall of one of your houses in the multi-month Neighborhood class. One day class.
April 6 and 22: Cannibal Block / Eclipsing Moons Quilt: No we don’t make a quilt looking like a cannibal, we make simple blocks and then cut them up again. The quilt we will create is the Eclipsing Moons, a unique variation of the classic “Drunkard’s Path” pattern, sewn with curved seams. Two day class.
May 13: Quillow: Learn to make an artistic quilt which turns into its own pocket to become a pillow when you do not need it spread out. Stephanie teaches this with various techniques to make both the pillow and the quilt itself. Scheduled for one day, but we will be anticipating some follow-up participants the following week. One-two day class.
May 27, June 24, July 8 and 22: Zuni Basket: Using only straight-cut fabric strips, create a "knock-out" of a circular quilt medallion, set it into a square background and border it with a straight-strips border design you design yourself. Makes a queen-king size quilt, two colors or more. Four day class.
June 10: Hawaiian Doilies: Hawaiian quilts are made with the same concept that Stephanie employs for the doily quilts, for summer she is leading you to design your own floral doily designs to stitch or fuse for your quilt block. Complete the block for a small wall quilt, or make a pillow of it, use it for the pillow pocket for the Quillow class that follows, or use it for a wall of one of your houses in the multi-month Neighborhood class. OR, make your design extra big and spend the next months or years making your own hawaiian-style applique quilt to fit your bed. One day class.
August 12: Mystery Doilies: Design your own wonderfully spooky doily for a halloween quilt! Stephanie's halloween quilt has her bat snowflakes, her haunted house, owl flying in the night, witch doilies/snowflakes, but you can invent your own in class. Complete the block for a small wall quilt, or make a pillow of it, use it for the pillow pocket for the Quillow class that follows, or use it for a wall of one of your houses in the multi-month Neighborhood class. One day class.
August 26: Fabric Marbleizing: Marbleize fabrics for your own projects, or get a head start on the fabrics you will design throughout the next series of classes. The series is Your Neighborhood?, see the description immediately below. Materials fee applies pay with registration for class. One day class.
Ongoing targeted techniques series begins in August, this schedule will be released before summer:
Your neighborhood?: Make a succession of blocks that look like houses, factories, and other buildings, create unique neighborhoods of these blocks as you assemble them into a quilt. We will batik some fabrics, marbleize some fabrics, “doily” some fabric walls, screen print some fabrics, hand-paint some sky designs onto fabrics. We will machine piece, hand piece, hand appliqué, hand and machine quilt. Learn it all in this 6 month class, or come for a Sunday here and a Sunday there, to learn a few different techniques for a smaller quilt project.