Between with Wilma Brock: Fabric / Paper Fusion

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Wilma Brock began sewing with Barbie doll clothes on her Mom’s treadle sewing machine. She taught elementary school for 35 years and also has her Diploma in Fine
Arts from S.F.U. Wilma has been quilting for about 35 years and fiber arts is a major passion in her life. Nature, travel, and camping are also important to her and are a constant theme in her work.

Fabric/Paper Fusion Workshop

Give yourself PERMISSION TO PLAY! Come be creative! Make your own paper cloth. Yes, you read it correctly. It is cloth made with layers of various papers, glued down to a cotton muslin base. When dry, it can be cut, stitched, painted, foiled, stenciled and stamped like regular fabric. It is not washable but can be sewn into a wall hanging, journal book cover, labels, greeting cards, postcards, or other mixed media projects.

Member: $10 Non-Members: $20

Trunk Show: Journey with Lorna Moffet

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Growing up in Scotland, Lorna was surrounded by fabric, buttons and colourful knitting yarn in her granny’s drapery shop. It was no surprise that this influenced her creative path to The Glasgow School of Art in 1982, where she graduated with both Honours and postgraduate degrees in Embroidered and Woven Textiles. She carved out her career running her small business designing and making silk, machine-stitched, soft furnishings. She sold and showed her many creations and collections in prestigious shops and museums both in the UK and North America.

With her geologist husband Lorna left the UK to live and work around the world. While contractually unable to work and with two young children, Lorna filled her spare time with volunteer work: Back at home in Scotland she wrote her book Silk Unraveled, which was published in 2008. This is a project-based book and creative guide to some of the techniques she loves to use.

Lorna will talk about her quest to establish a foothold in Vancouver’s rich craft scene and evolution of her work since she arrived in BC in 2012. She will show examples of bags pillows and blankets made from leather, velvet, wool and cottons and talk about the variety of techniques she uses to manipulate the surfaces to create her unique designs. Lorna will also include inspirational images from the people she met on her travels to the beauty of the landscape that surrounds us.

Lynne Fanthorpe- Colour Wash

PLEASE NOTE THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Saturday November 16 and November 23, 2019

I have been sewing since I was 7 years old. My journey into quilting started over 20 years go with a “Colourwash” quilt. I felt I needed to improve my colour choice decisions and I knew the “ Colourwash” style would do just that. This technique has taught me to not be afraid of new techniques.
After reading three different books on “Colourwash” and taking a class by Lorraine Torrence, I was ready to start my first “colourwash” quilt.
Learning this technique has immensely improved my ability to confidently use colour in all my quilting.

“Between” with Dougal Walker

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

STRIP AND QUILT AS YOU GO

A great technique for all those left-over strips. Two techniques will be demonstrated, random multi-coloured strips on angle and one colour strips sewn in a round. We will also use scraps of fabric, batting and backing for borders and backing. Blocks are quilted as they are sewn. The sashing is the “trick.”

Members $10     Non-Members $20

Rulers by Silly Moon with Kellie Kaczmarek

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

I am a Canadian quilter, business owner, wife, mother and owner of two very large dogs.  I have been quilting for a short time but have jumped in with both feet!  I purchased a longarm after quilting for approximately a year and needed “rulers” to keep me within the lines, so to speak.  So, I made them!

I am fortunate to have experience in, and access to CNC Milling equipment, as well as a variety of software programs that enable me (along with my math guru hubby) to create machine quilting rulers that will do just what I want them to. I really enjoy coming up with new ideas, that make ruler work fun and accessible for all quilters.

I love attending retreats, guild meetings and trade shows not only to showcase our products, but to meet quilters, and take in all the great feedback and suggestions they bring to the table.

Silly Moon Quilting Co is proudly Canadian, and all our rulers are designed and manufactured in beautiful British Columbia.  The company started less that a year ago, and we are excited to see steady growth with a large number of repeat customers!  I always warn people, rulers are like potato chips, you can’t have just one!!

Demonstration:

I will be bringing my Juki, and will be set up to show on a large screen how to use a few of our rulers.  I will also be covering the basic of ruler work as well as explaining the difference in our domestic and longarm rulers.  I will be talking about how we make our rulers and how they are different from others on the market.

Workshop with Janet Scruggs: Image Transfer

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Janet will lead us through a variety of techniques to transfer images to fabric. A kit will be provided to each participant ( at an additional cost of $20) . The kit contains different fabric pieces and materials such as Citra Solv, hand sanitizer and Textiva to experiment with. As well, Janet will provide colour and black and white images for transferring. Come explore and have some fun. Who knows what exciting quilts will result from your finished fabric images! Come and join the fun.

Members $40
Non-Members $50
Kits: $20.00 paid to teacher

“Between” with Dougal Walker

Tuesday, October 8,  2019

Dougal Ann Walker is the designer of The Freckles Collection of whimsical stitchery and applique patterns. Combining hand-work, a particular love, with quilting techniques into a wall-hanging was the basic premise. Since first exhibiting at Quilt Market in 2000, the patterns have been distributed around the world and have been published in a number of magazines.

After moving to Ladner, B.C. in 2012 and working at The Quilted Bear for 4 1/2 years, her interest shifted to scraps and teaching classes. Learning new techniques and the multitude of ways that scraps can be incorporated into a quilt became the challenge. Machine quilting and thread painting are the finishing touches to make a quilt.

Art quilts are another part of her quilting personae. The world is full of inspiration: to take an idea, research it and develop it into a wall-hanging, quite often using many techniques until the desired effect is reached, is one of the best parts of her quilting journey. A few of her pieces have traveled to different shows and many have won awards at Guild shows and challenges. Dougal is a member of the Fraser Valley Quilters’ Guild, Boundary Bay Quilters’ Guild and the Modern Quilters’ Guild. She has also given trunk shows to many Lower Mainland Guilds.

HEXIES THREE WAYS (hand sewing)

This is a hand-sewing techniques class. The three techniques are 1) freezer paper, basting and whip stitch; 2) cardboard hexie template with glue stick (English paper piecing) and 3) quilt as you go hexie. Each technique has a different prep time but all are completed with a whip stitch. Samples will be made in all techniques.

Suggested projects: quilts, preemies, table runners, pillows, purses, endless…

Members $10
Non-Members $20