Advanced Appliqué with Christine Wickert

3-Day Workshop with Christine Wickert

Saturday – Sunday, March 27-29, 2026, 9am-4pm

In this three day Advanced Appliqué Class students will use either silk or cotton fabrics to make one of the blocks featured in Deborah Kemball’s pattern pack entitled “Floral Abundance.” It is helpful, but not absolutely necessary, to have taken Chris Wickert’s Basic Silk Appliqué class. Chris will use one of the blocks to demonstrate the following techniques:

(1) Making various insects like butterflies, caterpillars, dragonflies, ladybugs etc. Patterns will be supplied free of charge;

(2) Pattern transfer techniques;

(3) Prepared edge appliqué;

(4) Making skinny stems and attaching them to other skinny stems;

(5) Making very small ovals and circles

(6) Making leaves and flower pedals with narrow points

(7) sequencing layered appliqué

(8) Applying various beads

(9) Embroidery stitches such as detached button hole stitch, whipped running stitch, stem stitch, French knot

Chris will share during the class many of her own supplies, including 100 weight silk and polyester threads, 50 weight cotton threads, her beads, various embroidery threads, an assortment of silk scraps as well as Karen Kay Buckley’s “Perfect Circles” and “Perfect Ovals.”

Skills Level: All levels

Materials fee: $5 for Sewline Styla water erasable fabric markers; $10 for CutRite Heavy Duty Freezer Paper (25 sheets/pack). Fees for these materials are payable directly to Christine Wickert with cash or check.

Non-Members $450 / Members $440

Christine Wickert is a mainly self taught traditional quilt artist.  She has been quilting since the 1980’s and is an active member of the Genesee Valley Quilt Club in Rochester, NY.  Her many prizes include three Best of Shows at the Vermont Quilt Festival (2012, 2014, 2016), one Best of Show at AQS Lancaster (2013), one Best of Show at Pennsylvania Quilt Extravaganza (2023) and two Best Wall Hand Workmanship at AQS Paducah (2019, 2023).  Her silk quilts were part of three special exhibits at the New England Quilt Museum (2013, 2017, 2019). She has conducted a quilt residency with elementary school children in the Webster NY School District under the auspices of Young Audiences of Rochester (2001), given trunk shows of her quilts at various venues in New York State and Massachusetts, and teaches silk appliqué workshops across the country.   Her traditional quilts are often adaptations of designs by well known quilt artists.  Hand appliqué and hand quilting continue to be her favorite techniques and indeed define her style. Christine lives in Rochester, NY.