Posts by mwelych

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 20-24, 2026 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 27-31, 2026 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 27-31, 2026 Discover the joy of transforming plain fabric into something uniquely yours! This beginner-friendly, multi-day workshop invites you to explore soy wax batik using simple tools — metal and silicone objects with interesting textures — to make expressive marks and patterns. You’ll also learn easy silkscreen techniques with…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 27-31, 2026 A great story begins with well-defined, diverse characters. You will be guided to create abstract patchwork characters based on color, shape and rhythm, and incorporate them in a single narrative quilt. Learn to express color intuitively by tapping into your heart centered relationship with color, through memory,…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 27-31, 2026 Discover the innovative world of water-soluble fabric embroidery in this immersive five-day intensive focused on the diverse plant life of New York State. This unique workshop combines traditional hand embroidery with modern machine techniques to create  botanical-inspired textile pieces that capture the essence of local flora. Working…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 27-31, 2026 Explore the potential of intricately cut surfaces created with the Silhouette Cameo electronic cutter. Create lovely collages using shapes such as map elements, floral motifs, and/or geometric patterns& shapes using opaque & sheer fabrics. This popular machine can provide precision cutting that leads to beautiful detail. The…

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 27-31, 2026 You will love this class if you have been looking for reliable, easy techniques that open a path to creative outcomes. Fill blocks, medallions, borders or whole cloth projects with personal symbols, motifs, people or places that you love. Organic Appliqué is all about considering the importance…

5 Days Monday to Friday, July 20-24, 2026 In this workshop, we will stylize some of your favorite characters in nature and arrange them into an interlacing appliquéd fabric collage, a colorful and graphic Totem of Life. Come to class with a chosen theme to help organize your ideas. For, example, you could pick autumn…

This class is FULL! To be placed on a waitlist please call the Art Center at: 315-255-1553. 5 Days Monday to Friday, July 20-24, 2026 In this immersive course for fiber artists, we’ll explore the expressive potential of working with limited palettes of thickened primary Procion MX dyes plus black and gray. You’ll learn how…

5 Days Monday to Friday, July 20-24, 2025 In this dynamic five-day workshop, artist Deborah Boschert guides students in creating original art quilt collages inspired by their personal photos. Rather than copying an image, we’ll use photographs as source material for exploring color, pattern, shape, and composition. Deborah will demonstrate a variety of printmaking techniques including freezer-paper…