This coming year the Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild is offering a stimulating selection of classes that will build on what we have learned this past year and help us translate our inspirations into a finished work. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to develop their own designs drawn from nature, ethnic and decorative motifs and to explore textures, thread work and other embellishments that will add new dimensions to their skills and to their quilts.
Once again we are offering a discount to PPQG members who register early for this year’s workshops. Both the full and discount fees are listed below.
To sign up for PPQG workshops, send your check, made out to PPQG, to Janet Windsor, P.O> Box 571, Gualala, CA 95445. Receipt of your check confirms your registration.
IMPORTANT: Please note the Guild policy for workshop registrations and cancellations.
Jeanette de Nicolis Meyer works with hand-dyed and treated fabrics to form visually striking abstract quilts and quilt series. She will be conducting a two-day workshop, Layered Imagery, which will focus on the idea of the quilt as a layered medium. Her workshop will emphasize techniques to create surface texture, including fusing, appliqué, reverse appliqué, image transfer techniques and machine and hand stitchery. This class builds on some of the techniques we have learned in other workshops. To view Jeanette’s work visit her website at http://jdmeyer.com/. For a description of her Layered Imagery class, go to http://jdmeyer.com/classes_the_art_quilt.htm
Full fee: $300 Member discount: $255.00 if paid in full by 1/15/2005
Ruth McDowell will be conducting our major workshop for the year, a four-day Designing From Nature workshop. Ruth is renowned for her intricate pieced designs of natural objects and has written several books that explain her techniques. When Quilters Gather, Pieced Vegetables, and Pieced Flowers will be particularly helpful for this class. Students will design a quilt of a favorite subject based on a photograph or drawing they choose. The class is limited to 20 participants to give Ruth time to work with each student one-on-one. To view Ruth’s work, visit her website at www.ruthbmcdowell.com/catalog.html. For a description of her Designing from Nature class, go to www.ruthbmcdowell.com/workshops.html
Full fee: $170 Member discount: $144.50 if paid in full by 1/15/2005
Jane Sassaman is another quilt artist who derives her inspiration from nature, but with a strikingly different result. Her two-day Shapeshifting workshop will focus on abstract design and playing with patterns, particularly ethnic and other decorative motifs. Each student will select designs that they are particularly drawn to and will manipulate and reinterpret them into a unique statement in fabric and thread.In her notes, Jane says that her classes are especially beneficial for “the drawing impaired and the tragically literal”. To view Jane’s work, visit her website at www.janesassaman.com/index.html. For more information about her Shapeshifting workshop, see www.janesassaman.com/core-pages/workshops.html.
Full fee: $90
Cara Gulati will present a stimulating workshop. She will focus on the Third Element, Threads of Imagination, which will give class members the opportunity to explore the decorative use of threads and ornamental yarns, free motion machine quilting, double needles, bobbin quilting and trapunto to achieve exciting results. For examples of Cara’s work and a description of her two workshops, see www.doodlepress.com
Workshop instructors and other speakers will present lectures about their work at the monthly guild meetings held the third Friday of each month. Check the 2005 Schedule of Events for listings of lectures and smaller one-day workshops scheduled for 2005.