This workshop covers unique machine-piecing techniques, and color and fabric guidelines for creating the complex and mobile reflection of a kaleidoscope. While gaining insight into the nature of symmetry and intricately printed fabrics, students will learn to create a design that sews together successfully and renders a kaleidoscopic image filled with luminosity and dramatic impact.
On Day 1, students learn to draft a perfect angle and the template techniques I use to create complex images by sewing a pattern called Sixty-Thirty.
Days 2-3 will explore more advanced themes (ie: piecing curves, innovative use of fabrics, learning to identify and join divergent angles) while using a pattern called Sunstar. This product and process class culminates in the creation of a unique and fabulous kaleidoscope block. Often effects more wonderful than you imagine occur, making you both the one who makes the magic and the one who is surprised.
Why take a 3-day workshop? Time is provided for both process and product and for setbacks – which often turn out to be the takeaways, the lessons that occur when a misstep needs to be fixed. Skills get cemented and integrated, making the processes richer and layered. Consider time and space to create among like-minded peers a rare gift to be much appreciated. In the classroom context, seeing what others make is almost as good as making it yourself.