Independent Studio SI

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…

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Independent Studio SII

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…

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Exploring Hand Stitching with Helen Geglio

THIS CLASS IS FULL. Call 315-255-1553 to be put on a waiting list. 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. …

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Florid Flashes Double Wedding Ring Variation with Victoria Findlay Wolfe

CLASS IS FULL! CALL 315-255-1553 TO BE PLACED 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.…

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Flower Power Bias-Strip Curves with Sherri Lynn Wood

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).…

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Natural Dyes: Developing a Personal Language with Elin Noble

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…

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Big and Bold: A New Comfort Zone with Joe Cunningham

THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please call 315-255-1553 to be put on a 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…

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Alter Ego Stitch and Collage with Paula Kovarik

CLASS IS FULL! Call 315-255-1553 to be placed on a waitlist 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,…

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Art Quilt Design Intensive with Denise Labadie

THIS CLASS IS FULL. Call 315-255-1553 to be placed on a waiting list. 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,…

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Which Way Is Up? with Rosalie Dace

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…

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