There is a certain art to painting a doll face and getting the details just right. Let elinor show you her technique for making a doll come alive with her face painting techniques. A copy of elinor’s book Let’s Face It, 2nd edition is required for the class and may be purchased in advance through her website www.epbdolls.com.

Skill level: Confident Beginner to Advanced

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Why fear the Y-seam? Choose a wonderful print to “frame” and learn a marvelous technique for mitering sashing and borders while making a few blocks in class. Your fabric will be cut to showcase its motif and frame size will be your choice. You may also decide how many different frame fabrics to use. Individual help will be given to everyone who would like the advice. Accuracy will be taught and emphasized. Several variations will be discussed so you’ll have skills to design your own frames, sashing and borders with perfect miters!

Skill level: Confident Beginner to Advanced

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A workshop for quilters who are ready to “dive into” the world of free motion machine quilting! Learn the basics of machine quilting...thread, needles, tension, and “tricks of the trade”. Then apply this knowledge to 12 simple (but effective!) free motion quilting patterns.

Skill level: Confident Beginner to Intermediate

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Create a terrific quilt design from your favorite fabrics, incorporating an 8-pointed star where the block corners meet. Strip piecing methods used. See all three colorations of the Hunter Star in Jan’s Workshop Quilt Gallery.

Skill level: Skilled Beginner and Above

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What a difference embroidery makes when added to appliqué! See examples of appliqué with embroidery--then needleturn appliqué a small bunny (individual help will be given to each student as needed for sharp points, perfect inside curves, and smooth edges). Add embroidery and see the difference!

Skill level: All

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Learn to make ruched flowers and buds for a traditional appliqué block, using the RucheMark circular ruching guide.

Skill level: All

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This is a splendid workshop to honor one of the most common loved quilt designs - a Star. Edyta will help you create beautiful star blocks and inspire you by sharing her thoughts, knowledge, and star quilts. The “Star in Quilts” workshop features 15 different star patterns. Through these patterns we will look at star blocks, layouts, sashing and different techniques to set stars in quilts.

Skill level: All

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