ONLINE: The Kitchen Garden Quilt with Lisa Thorpe
Sun, Aug 29
|Kitchen Garden Quilt with Lisa Thorpe
Join us for an exploration of fabric coloration and stitch to create a personal and unique art quilt with a tasty theme! Lisa will teach a stitch technique that borrows from the traditional Japanese styles of boro patches and sashiko stitch and sprinkles in a bit of Grandma’s crazy quilting, too.
Time & Location
Aug 29, 2021, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
Kitchen Garden Quilt with Lisa Thorpe
About the Event
The Kitchen Garden Quilt workshop is an exploration of fabric coloration and stitch to create a personal and unique art quilt with a tasty theme!
Class will begin by colorizing fruit and vegetable block prints with fabric dye pastels (which are provided in your kit). Then let the stitching begin! Lisa will teach a stitch technique that borrows from the traditional Japanese styles of boro patches and sashiko stitch and sprinkles in a bit of Grandma’s crazy quilting, too. You get to choose if you want the look of colorful patches, or a solid color background so the stitches shine, or some of both!
Your finished blocks can be framed or finished individually or stitch them together in any combination to create a larger art quilt. Lisa will show you lots of examples and share finishing ideas and techniques too.
This class will be recorded and available for students to…