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Silk Art Quilts Made Simple

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I have a new online course for you! In Silk Art Quilts Made Simple, you’ll create a stunning art quilt using the finest fabric of all—silk. I’ll show you how to select the best silks for your design, how to paint a sky fabric, and how to fuse the silk for easy handling.

Next, you’ll learn to construct your design on silicone release paper, using free-cutting and pattern transfer techniques, and then prepare your quilt top for stitching by steam-setting it to wool batting. In the final lesson, we’ll discuss thread and needle choices and I’ll demonstrate beautiful hand embroidery stitches to bring your silk piece to life.

This class comes with a list of resources for silk, directions on how to paint silk fabrics, a pattern for the Fine Line Tree above, and how to make a pillowcase binding for your design.

Make something beautiful! Join me and make a silk art quilt.

Click here for more information on Silk Art Quilts Made Simple (priced at $39.99).

Creative Stitch Combinations Class

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My new online class, Creative Stitch Combinations, is all about combining basic hand embroidery stitches to create dynamic textures, patterns, and shapes with thread for your free-form embroidery projects. I hope you can join me!

I’ll show you my favorite ways to combine stitches using 15 embroidery stitches to create exciting and enjoyable art. Colorful examples and helpful tips are given in each of the three lessons. And there is a bonus project too!

A bonus PDF for this project, Lovely as a Tree, includes step-by-step directions and colorful illustrations on how to make this small landscape full of texture, pattern, and shapes. It’s the perfect project to put all you’ve learned into practice.

Read more about the class here on the C&T Blog. Or visit my introduction to the class on Creative Spark to learn more.

What We’re Stitching 5

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Mi Cas es Su Casa #1 by Laura Wasilowski

My classes at the Asociación Española de Patchwork festival  are complete. The Spanish quiltmakers are delightful and I had a wonderful time! Thank you to all who made my visit possible.

One thing I discovered during this trip is that the love of hand embroidery translates easily across languages and borders. We all love color and pattern and texture. It’s an artform for all!