Student Work with Reflections
Workshop Details for Reflections
Are you tired of working with OPP’s (other people’s patterns)? Are you ready to translate your design ideas into workable patterns for yourself and others?
In Reflections, you will learn how to design and make simple working drawings for patchwork quilt patterns – so easy a child can do it! Master one of the simplest and easiest design devices to generate hundreds of original quilt designs!
Manipulate quickly drawn preliminary sketches, pushing to see what looks best and works well in any given composition. Move toward completing a finished design for an original patchwork quilt, a one-off expression of your unique personal style.
You will hardly realize you’re working; Reflections is more like playing. And the outcome is an original patchwork quilt design that you can interpret, with competent guidance as to sewing, to suit yourself.
In Reflections, you will learn how to design and make simple working drawings for patchwork quilt patterns – so easy a child can do it! Master one of the simplest and easiest design devices to generate hundreds of original quilt designs!
Manipulate quickly drawn preliminary sketches, pushing to see what looks best and works well in any given composition. Move toward completing a finished design for an original patchwork quilt, a one-off expression of your unique personal style.
You will hardly realize you’re working; Reflections is more like playing. And the outcome is an original patchwork quilt design that you can interpret, with competent guidance as to sewing, to suit yourself.
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Supplies for Reflections
In Reflections, we will draw and design first, then turn sketches into quilt tops.
- Plain white letter-sized paper for making folded paper mock-ups of designs – about 24 sheets
- Large paper, brown wrapping paper or newsprint, for making full-scale designs – about 18 sheets about 18” x 24”
- Paper scissors
- Dressmaker shears for cutting fabric; never use fabric scissors for cutting paper
- Pencil and eraser
- Ruler for straight edge
- Padded board or ironing board, without Teflon cover, for use with for use with push-pin, t-pin or straight pin to perforate patterns through several layers of paper
- Fabric stash for interpreting your designs as quilts
- Sewing machine and regular sewing kit for sewing quilt tops and quilting
- Rotary cutting equipment is not necessary, although occasionally you may find it useful.
- Two mirror tiles with safety edges but no frames. You may find 10” tiles at a home hardware shop. Tape the two tiles together along one side to form a hinge. Quilt shops sometimes sell hinged mirrors for seeing repeats (image and link from Amazon).
- Non-woven fusible interfacing, like Pellon or Vilene, that is sticky on one side only, for making patterns that stay in the quilts. You will need one piece about 1 yard or meter square for the quilt you make in course.
- Selection of threads for piecing, quilting, and embroidery
- Embellishments, beads, trims, metallics, found objects, for enhancing your quilts. Do not buy anything until you see what you need. You may have just the right thing already in your stash.
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