Archive for November 2023

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 15-19, 2024 Join us for your choice of 5 days to concentrate on your own projects within the amazing community at QBL! Whether you are starting a new project, working on that long haul masterpiece, or putting on the finishing touches, QBL is a great place to come and…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 22-26, 2024 Join us for your choice of 5 days to concentrate on your own projects within the amazing community at QBL! Whether you are starting a new project, working on that long haul masterpiece, or putting on the finishing touches- QBL is a great place to come and…

THIS CLASS IS FULL! CALL 315-255-1553 to be placed on the waitlist. 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 15-19, 2024 Rediscover the pleasure of pulling a threaded needle through layers of cloth. Hand stitching can be used to make marks, define texture and create a rich and visually interesting surface design in fiber artwork.  We’ll…

CLASS IS FULL! Call 315.255.1553 to get on waitlist 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 15-19, 2024 Learn paper piecing and many helpful tips for curved piecing to make this bold checked double wedding ring quilt. This quilt will teach you to make the most of acrylic templates by using creative ways to quickly fill spaces with precision. Florid…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 15-19, 2024 Get your bias-strip Flower Power curve on! Tap into your intuitive sense of color as you learn a variety of engineering grid busting tricks for improvising and piecing large-scale, floral, and nature inspired compositions with the innovative ruler-free technique of bias-strip piecing on the curve (and s-curve).…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 15-19, 2024 Learn to paint and print with natural dyes. This workshop will concentrate on the direct application of mordants and natural dyes using various tools and techniques, including mono printing, stamping, and hand painting on cellulose and silk. Emphasis will be on developing unique color combinations and expressive…

THIS CLASS IS FULL! Please call 315-255-1553 to be placed on the waitlist. 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 22-26, 2024 In this five-day workshop, you will learn how to find and use ideas for starting a quilt and the techniques you need for making it. Learn how to balance positive and negative spaces while…

ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT! 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 22-26, 2024 Guardians. Superheros. Pets. Monsters. Heroines. Villains. They will all be here during our stitch-and-collage class. This class will hone your funny bone and polish your grip on stitching. We will practice free-motion stitching to create narratives, textures and patterns. We’ll collage scraps of…

ONLY 4 SPOTS LEFT! 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 22-26, 2024 This five-day workshop focuses on art quilt composition and design, fabric painting, quilt top texturing and construction techniques, and quilt finishing. The workshop will discuss the comparative strengths, benefits, effects, and use – basically, the what, when, why, and how – of raw…

ONLINE 5 Days Monday – Friday, July 22-26, 2024 Discover the importance of abstracting, editing, and simplifying ideas in order to make a good visual composition. Learn how to bring your great ideas to life and translate them into fabric and thread with meaningful shapes and lines, creating rhythm and movement. As we look at…