Student Work from Goodbye to the Grid
Workshop Details for Goodbye to the Grid
Take the plunge and become an art quilter with this inspired method for releasing inner expressions. In Goodbye to the Grid, Dena teaches you to create original patchwork art quilt designs. The workshop moves you all the way off the grid at the heart of traditional patchwork quilting and still the basis for much innovative work. It can open the way to a new vista of art quilting for those ready and eager to begin a journey into the creative inner self. With no tricks or gimmicks, you make original works of quilt art in no time!
First, learn how a simple sketching technique, so easy a child can do it, helps you make abstract drawings of one-of-a-kind quilt designs. Put aside the logical part of your brain and let unusual shapes grow out of the subconscious mind. Discover and meet your personal artistic style and find a means of expressing it that leads to entirely new ways of thinking about design. Then explore the potential for interpreting your sketches as finished quilt tops of abstract or realistic imagery. Find release from the grid that holds back many creative patchwork quilters as you grasp the concepts and practice the sewing methods taught in Goodbye to the Grid.
With a strong emphasis on construction, Goodbye to the Grid encourages you to resolve design and sewing challenges as they arise. It simultaneously builds your self-confidence by empowering you to make any patchwork quilt top you can design.
If you are an intermediate- or advanced-level patchwork quilter who is ready to move beyond the limitations of traditional grid-based patchwork designed by other quilters, Goodbye to the Grid is for you.
Are you brave? Are you ready? The world of quilt art awaits!
First, learn how a simple sketching technique, so easy a child can do it, helps you make abstract drawings of one-of-a-kind quilt designs. Put aside the logical part of your brain and let unusual shapes grow out of the subconscious mind. Discover and meet your personal artistic style and find a means of expressing it that leads to entirely new ways of thinking about design. Then explore the potential for interpreting your sketches as finished quilt tops of abstract or realistic imagery. Find release from the grid that holds back many creative patchwork quilters as you grasp the concepts and practice the sewing methods taught in Goodbye to the Grid.
With a strong emphasis on construction, Goodbye to the Grid encourages you to resolve design and sewing challenges as they arise. It simultaneously builds your self-confidence by empowering you to make any patchwork quilt top you can design.
If you are an intermediate- or advanced-level patchwork quilter who is ready to move beyond the limitations of traditional grid-based patchwork designed by other quilters, Goodbye to the Grid is for you.
Are you brave? Are you ready? The world of quilt art awaits!
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Supplies for Goodbye to the Grid
There is no way to plan fabrics for these quilt designs. Simply come with a small selection (a one-gallon bucket of cloth would be more than enough) of fabrics from which to chose. We'll be drawing first until you have workable designs to piece, and then the cutting and sewing will begin.
- Large sketch pad of inexpensive paper such as newsprint
- Inexpensive tracing paper, minimum 6 large sheets but you will probably want more - kitchen greaseproof or parchment, child’s tracing paper sketchbook or other (Do not buy expensive artist’s tracing paper unless you really want it)
- Pencil, eraser, sharpener
- Optional drawing aids: curves, triangles, protractor, compass, straight edge
- Design wall, minimum size 4' sq
- Sewing machine and regular sewing supplies
- A small fabric stash
- A small notions stash
- 2 yards of non-woven fusible interfacing (Pellon 900 series or Vilene H 250)
- Batting - amount determined by size you choose
- Dressmaker shears or other sharp scissors for cutting fabric
- A piece of cardboard, like that on the back of a sketchbook tablet, about 6 x 10
- Straight pins
- Bent safety pins or quilter tack gun and tacks for securing the quilt top to the backing through all layers, ready for quilting
- A yardstick or other very long straight edge
- Optional
- rotary cutting equipment
- tracing paper