Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival
Loveland, Colorado
August 19 - 21, 2011

SUNDAY CLASSES

Formal Feathers – Basics and Beyond
Hands-on Design Drawing Workshop by Irena Bluhm
705-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 1:15 pm
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $15
Suitable for All Levels
If you have never tried them, it is about time! You will never regret it, once you understand the concept. The rest is just putting a little effort into trying to get them looking exactly the way you like them. The flexibility in creating quilting designs using these feathers cannot be underestimated. Starting with the basics followed by little more advanced designs, you will realize that you can do anything you wish using these feathers on customers or your own quilts once you know how. You will learn how to create those charming, unique plumes of feathers and feather swags, how to fill any shape and form with these charming feathers. Irena will show you how to make them look like they are about to leap off your quilt. They might become your forte with some practice and confidence as time goes by.

Supply List: bring drawing pad with no lines or grid and pen or soft pencil.
Kit fee $15, which includes 14 pages double wire bound laminated design practice diagrams package plus dry erase pen. The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.

Designing & Fitting Bustiers
by Connie Crawford
715-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Class fee: $20
Learn how to design, drape and fit a bustier form-fitting strapless bodice that fits snugly around the rib cage. Connie will present various bNustier designs by draping them and illustrating what is necessary to have to hold its shape and create the design features. She will also demonstrate the bustier lining, foundation garment variations that are sewn between the lining and the outside fabric design. Using the pre-cut fabric foundation pieces that are used in the production process in the fashion industry, Connie will demonstrate sewing the boining in place to create the foundation garment that is sewn between the lining and the fashion fabric of the outside design.

Computer Scrapbooking
by Pam Damour
720-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 11: 15 am
Class fee: $10
There’s nothing like an elegant and memorable book to mark a special event. Discover how easy it is to create your own hardcover photo book, perfect for so many things, such as recording the quilts you’ve made, a memorable event such as a birthday or wedding, or a business portfolio. Even those special pictures your little ones have created can be part of a photo book. These pages are all created on the computer, so you can make as many copies as you desire.

Rag Quilts All Dressed Up
by Connie Sherlock
760-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Class fee: $10
Rag Quilts All Dressed Up – no X’s allowed! Learn how to make a rag quiltor jacket with prim stitchery, photo transfer, appliqué stenciling and more.

Tips & Tricks for Machine Piecing
by Kaye Wood
780-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Class fee: $10
You’ve seen Kaye strip on her TV show, Strip Quilting and Kaye’s Quilting Friends, for over 40 seasons – NOW watch her strip her quilts in person. Kaye Wood, “quilt engineer” has developed strip quilting into more than squares and rectangles; it can be diamonds, triangles, hexagons, and much, much more. Her seminars are lots of fun and educational. You will Learn how easy and how much fun quilting can be with Kaye’s original techniques that assure success and inspire creativity. She designs for both the pointed and the pointless people, so there is something for everyone from the new quilter to the more experienced quilter. She also shares some of the fun things and not so funny things that have happened to her on the road to quilting. Kaye brings lots of her quilts and shares with you step by step exactly how to make these quilts.

Square in a Square
by Paula Doll
735-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 11:30 am – 12: 30 pm
Class fee: $10
The Square in a Square system is a fast and accurate way to make fantastic quilts without ever having to cut or sew triangles. Within the system are 39 different triangle units or options. Using these options, you can make half square triangles four at a time, flying geese two at a time, 60 degree diamond triangle units and much more. The resulting points are sharp, lie very flat and are easy to achieve. The technique provides the quilter with the ability to construct increasing complex patterns. This cutting system is so simple and accurate that quilters everywhere will be producing more quilts and enjoying it more! No supplies needed for this lecture. Just come, rest your feet and be inspired!

Quilting on an Embroidery Machine
by Janice Stewart
790-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Class fee: $10
Are you sending your quilts out to be quilted? Never again! Learn how easy it is to achieve beautiful results to quilt and or embroider your quilts all in one hoping. You CAN quilt on your embroidery machine and sew a quilt from start to finish.

So You Know Everything About Needlefelting
by Barbara Crawford
710-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Class fee: $10
Barbara is one of the leading experts in this country on needle felting and one of the few experts on needlefelting wearables. Join her in needlefelting fun! The experience of a hands-on (your hands-on, of course) is the best way to learn the techniques of needle felting and Barbara will supply you with kits to work with. You will keep the work you make. You will be working with different fibers to create different effects and you will get to experience techniques such as flat surfaced designs, dimensionals for berries, animal characters and more, blending, shading, and outlining. Just go wild with a needle and included will be recipes for hand dying wool to create your own color palette using household products! And as if that weren’t enough, the class will also include going “Beyond Embellishing” completely changing older items into something else

Top Treatment Basics
by Pam Damour
725-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 12: 45 pm – 1:45 pm
Class fee: $10
When creating a custom top treatment, the sewing isn’t the hard part, it’s the designing and cutting that can make or break a custom design. Let the decorating diva guide you through the design process, how to cut, while matching repeats and how to assemble your design. Learn how to mix and match patterns, and how to mount your treatment on a board.

I Want A Pattern That Fits
by Darlene Miller
730-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Class fee: $10
Want to understand why your favorite clothing is your favorite, why you have difficulty getting some garments to fit, and why you do not feel comfortable in some of the clothing you have made? These questions are answered when you learn how important it is to select a pattern that matches your body shape. With this new understanding of which body shape you are, you will be able to discern which patterns will fit you beautifully.

Silk Ribbon Rose
by Helen Gibb
740-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Class fee: $10 Kit fee: $15
Using 2 ½” wide silk ribbons you will learn to make a stunning rose with leaves. Helen guarantees you’ll finish the project in class! Bring scissors.
Kit fee: $15 The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.

Fussy Cutting The Kaye Wood Way
by Kaye Wood
785-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 2 pm – 3 pm
Class fee: $10
Fussy-cut embroidery designs or fabric motifs into squares, circles, hearts, hexagons, octagons, and diamond shapes using Kaye’s original techniques. Learn to create one-of-a-kind quilts that are fun and easy to make. Get lots of different ideas for that first or next project. She designs for both the pointed and the pointless people, so there is something for everyone from the new quilter to the more experienced quilter. You’ll love the seminar saying, “I can do that!"