Exploring the Surface: An Integrated Approach

2 - 3 Days

This workshop will focus on simple but seemingly complex techniques--painting, free-motion machine embroidery, layering, and applique, and show you how to integrate these techniques with pieced work to create quilts and clothing which can be interesting and powerful.

Embroidered Collage: Making Dense Surfaces

2 - 4 Days 

Learn satin-stitch free motion machine embroidery and how it can be useful in your quilts. We will learn how to collage images and over-embroider them. Emphasis will be placed on thread usage, design composition, and finishing techniques.

Beyond Crazy: Contemporary Crazy Quilt Technique as Background 

2 - 3 Days 

A crash course in contemporary crazy quilt technique and how to use this technique to achieve landscape and color-wash effects. 

This workshop is excellent when taken in conjunction with Exploring the Surface workshop. 

Fabulous Finishes: Getting Your Quilt Ready for Exhibition

1 Day

This is a technical class teaching strategies for binding, finishing, hemming, making sleeves, and presenting your work for exhibition. We will be making samples of different finishes and actually finishing a quilt the student brings.

WORKSHOP FEES FOR GUILD AND GROUPS -- $475 USD per day for up to 15 students plus expenses (lodging, meals, transportation). Please CONTACT Judith for more information. Studio workshops priced individually.