Summer
Seminar June 27-July 1, 2009
Presented by North Suburban NeedleArts Guild
We are proud to announce our programs for the Summer Seminar 2009. We have four distinguished teachers, offering a variety of classes. Listed below are our guest teachers and a brief description of the classes offered. We are once again thrilled to announce the facility for our 2009 Summer Seminar will be at Techy Towers in Northbrook. The facility provides classrooms, overnight accommodations and food service so we can avoid all those outside distractions for the duration of our class.
Missing details for the classes will be added shortly.
Reina Mia Brill
http://www.reinamiabrill.com/
Knit your World in Wire - 5 day workshop (Saturday, June 27 through Wednesday, July 1)
This workshop is designed to expand the skills of the average yarn knitter into the three-dimensional world of wire knitting. In the first two days, students will learn how to knit 3 basic wire shapes: the cone, the pod and the sphere. With a wide array of colored copper wires to play with, students will use these shapes to create a fantasy flower. This flower can be worn as a piece of jewelry, or used as a decorative object.
The final three days, students will be encouraged to work on their own designs based on sketches or photos brought to class. Individual attention will be given to guide each student toward a finished product. Other wire topics of discussion include: stuffing, embroidery, blending color combinations and spool knitting.
Tricia Spitzmueller
http://www.triciaspitzmueller.com
Rose, Three Stages of a Woman's Life - 2-day workshop (Saturday-Sunday, June 27-28)
This class is designed to teach a new and unique way of quilting in three dimensions. At last you will find a new way to render two aspects of the same idea onto one quilt. Using Tricia’s pattern of a rose you will not only have a breathtaking new wall hanging but the knowledge of a new technique to render your own original ideas. What has once been a design problem is now made easy by introducing this new way of composing a quilt. You will begin by fuse-piecing two separate tops. Then adding dimension by thread painting and cutting the finished quilt tops into strips before reassembling, quilting and mounting it on a background. This method will provide new opportunities for quilters who wish to work in three dimensions.
S.O.U.L. Dolls - 1-day workshop Monday, June 29
Let a doll make itself through your hands! This six-hour workshop begins with the basics of doll making. Participants will sew an original doll from the Quirky Doll collection of Tricia Spitzmueller learning all the secrets of unbreakable seams, quick turn methods, effortless stuffing and fanciful gesture. At the end of the class we will paint on faces and discuss opportunities of how to dress, accessorize and put hair on your doll. Basic sewing skills and the ability to kick back and laugh are mandatory.
Quirky Petal People -1-day workshop Tuesday, June 30
Quirky Petal People is a fun and fanciful entry into doll making. Create a sprightly little figure that is dressed with silk flower petals with its head turned upwards as if to sniff spring. The pre-made armature of copper wire is wraped with t-shirt strips for a solid but cushy body. Step-by-step instructions in sculpting a polymer face will be taught.
Short Description: It’s a sprightly little 9” figure that is dressed with silk flower petals. Step-by step instructions in sculpting a polymer face will be taught. Dress this doll in a silk mum or poinsettia flower and it’s ready for the holiday season!
Inner Spirit Wrap Doll - 1-day workshop Wednesday, July 1
Making a doll or figure is an encouraging and powerful act. Creating a doll can help us to center, focus, clarify and begin a healing. They often give birth to inner workings and become a visible personal symbol. You will be taught the ancient technique of the African wrap doll and will receive personal instruction on how to create a paper-clay face. As you follow your intuition a doll will make itself through your hands. By the end of the day, you will have a friend from you inner spirit to take home.
Melanie Terasaki
Two Star Book - 2-day workshop Saturday-Sunday, June 27-28
Maggie Weiss
http://www.maggieweiss.com/
Sheer Bliss - 3-day worksop Monday-Wednesday, June 29-July 1
Using airy, translucent silks, students create dazzling layered effects as they assemble collaged quiltsurfaces and learn the tricks of fusing Wonder Under with organzas and other sheer fabrics. Both a process and product class, students experiment with design tools developing composition skills and further strengthen work with machine quilting on Day 3.