Composing Modern Quilts from Architecture: Saturday, April 26

 In this hands-on quilt composition workshop, students will explore how to use design inspiration from architecture for both piecing and quilting. This is a NO SEW presentation. It can be taken in conjunction with the Inspired by Architecture class at Quilted Strait on April 25 or as a stand-alone class.

Learn to see architecture with the eye of a modern quilt designer, and translate your vision into a modern, minimal quilt design!

Create 2-d designs from 3-d architectural spaces.

There will be a quick smartphone photography demonstration, including practice enhancing photos with a free app called SnapSeed. Learn the best settings to create more dramatic photos, and simple, striking compositions. Explore how framing, cropping, and composition work together for modern minimal design. 

Participants will then create paper photo collages as studies for modern abstract quilt designs. They will learn how to plan out the piecing as well as the quilting using printed photos of architecture and tracing paper. 

Participants will leave with a greater understanding of architecture photography, how to enhance photos with their smartphone, and multiple options for designing a unique, modern architecture-inspired quilt… including a plan for the quilting! This is a no-sew workshop.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

• Watch a demo of SnapSeed, a powerful and free smartphone app
• Explore composition, framing and cropping and how simple effects can enhance architectural photos
• Cut, crop and scale paper hard copies of architectural photos and use them as abstract building blocks
• Assemble the abstracted blocks on a paper grid, creating a collaged composition
• Play with scale, shape, value, and the concept of figure and ground
• Using tracing paper, outline the main elements of the collaged composition, creating a plan for piecing
• With colored pens, fill in spaces to assign color and value to the shapes
• Generate ideas from the piecing in your composition to plan the quilting lines
• Practice making several quilting options for one composition
• Discuss fabric choices and options for construction
• Leave the workshop with a plan for sewing your unique modern, minimal quilt design 

Suitable for all levels.

This class has a thirty-day cancellation policy. By registering for the class you are agreeing to abide by all of the Class Policies including the refund policy.

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