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Sweet
Treats Quilts Workshops |
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In this fun collection
of workshops featuring dessert inspired quilts students
will learn how to work with color and create contrast
using values. All these delicious and diverse
quilts use the Four Patch and the Half-Square Triangle
as their main building blocks.
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Quilts for Supply Lists
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Key Lime Pie Quilt
Play with two little known but very dynamic
complementary pairs, yellow-green and red-violet. Talk about a smashing
combo! Use a variety of fabrics. Throw in black now and then for interest.
Have fun!
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Hot Fudge Sundae With A
Cherry On Top Quilt
Do you like high contrast with a spark of color? If you do, this delicious
quilt is for you! It features solid black, solid white, and black and white
prints with an accent of red. This is a bold, but colorful high-contrast
design!
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Pumpkin Pie Quilt
Inspired by a wonderful palette of rusts, this
Pumpkin Pie quilt from the Quilter’s Dessert Series will knock your socks
off with its richness. Rust is a color seldom chosen by quilters because it
is a member of that awkward orange family. But wait until you use dark
orange - rust - in a quilt! It says warmth, richness and autumn in a way no
other color can.
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Periwinkle Cupcake Quilt
Periwinkle Cupcake is a quilt that features all
periwinkle (blue-violet) and white fabrics. This
quilt whispers calmness and serenity. Creating
it is a beautiful way to celebrate the beginning
of spring or to create some lightness and
brightness in the fall and winter.
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Blueberry Cobbler Quilt
Another delicious quilt and recipe in the
Quilter’s Dessert Series! Blueberry Cobbler is a
beautiful all-blue quilt. Using just blue (or
their choice of color), students will create a
eye-catching quilt while learning how to mix
values of one color. They may choose to work with
any combination of light, medium, or dark blue
fabrics. You'll feel like having a bite of
Blueberry Cobbler as you sew
this mouthwatering quilt.
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Apple Crisp Quilt
It's another scrumptious quilt and recipe in
the Quilter's Dessert Series. Students will create
contrast with all neutrals in this quilt. They
may choose cool neutrals such as black, white and shades or gray or warm
neutrals such as muslin and tan (with darker tans edging toward or including
browns), or combine both warm and cool neutrals in the same quilt.
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Caramel Sundae Quilt
Using all medium value fabrics (no lights, no
darks), students will create contrast in this
quilt. Be careful when choosing fabrics! Make sure the mediums
chosen are not closer to lights or darks, but are REALLY medium in value.
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Mud Pie Quilt
This quilt in the Quilter's Dessert Series
has eye-catching contrast! Students will work with
light, medium, and dark values to create this
star quilt - but there are optical illusions in
this quilt, too! Play with colors. They can
use just two or three colors, or more. My quilt
is all stripes and plaids, but all prints or a combination of prints and
plaids, or all batiks can be used! It's the values that are most important
in Mud Pie.
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Chocolate Decadence Quilt
Using dark red
and black fabrics (or their choice of dark
colored fabrics), students will create a rich-looking
quilt while learning how to produce contrast
with dark fabrics. You will feel like having a
bite of Chocolate Decadence as
you sew this luscious quilt.
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Lemon Chiffon Quilt, One
Using their choice of colors, but all light
values of those colors, students will create a
charming quilt while learning how to produce
contrast with light fabrics. The look of this
quilt is reminiscent of those our grandmothers
might have made. You’ll feel like having a bite of Lemon Chiffon Pie as you
sew this luscious quilt!
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Lemon Chiffon Quilt, Too
Using their choice of colors, but all light
values of those colors, students will create a
charming quilt while learning how to produce
contrast with light fabrics. The look of this
quilt is reminiscent of those our grandmothers
might have made. You’ll feel like having a bite
of Lemon Chiffon Pie as you sew this luscious
quilt!
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Folk Art: No Seam |
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Rippers Allowed! |
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(1 day) |
Use up those extra strips from previous projects!
Students make scrappy blocks and cut them askew to
create Lopsided Logs, then combine them to make a
wonderfully fun and colorful quilt. Blocks will be
different sizes, so techniques for fitting them together
are demonstrated. Embellishments are also discussed.
This workshop teaches students to be random in their
fabric choices and allows them to use up the many extra
strips they may have accumulated.
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Americana Themes: |
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Patriotic Folk Animals |
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(1 day) |
A chicken, a horse, and a
dog - playing, marching, and dancing across the top of a
large pieced flag. Have fun with this whimsical
piece of Americana!
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Photo Transfer Quilts |
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Memories in Fabric |
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(1-2 days) |
Learn to make a quilt that includes your favorite
family photographs. Students bring photographs already
transferred to photo transfer paper; complete directions
for this process will be provided prior to the workshop.
Techniques for combining photos and patchwork
effectively are discussed and demonstrated, and students
create a memory quilt they will cherish.
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here for Photo Transfer workshop samples
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