Workshop & Instructor Information

Carol Taylor

Piecing It Together with Circles and Sensuous Lines

April 11 - 17, 2010

All Levels

Carol Taylor will teach 20 different improvisational piecing techniques and really free ways of creating designs. Learn to play with color, value, and design without anxiety. We will make strip sets, circles, offbeat squares, skinny lines, couching and even add a little fusing. You will be encouraged to experiment with color, value, and design. All construction methods are fast and easy! Tired of that precise cutting and those exacting patterns? Then this is the workshop to free you up, expand your creativity, and allow you to just have fun with some spontaneous sewing.

Have you always admired those pieced circles in Carol's Gong Series or Nuts and Bolts Series? You can piece them with ease and without even pinning. Create your own very own unique quilt using these techniques to piece circles, and learn to do Carol's trademark circular quilting to complete the look.

Or do you love the look of those really skinny lines and curves in her Linear Series, but don't know how to create them? Carol shares the secrets of piecing them, and you can make those practice blocks into your own wall quilt full of those "sensuous lines and curves"! We'll even use couching to create more sensuous lines in your quilt. You'll also learn how to finish your quilts with facings instead of bindings.

And lastly, in order to finish your quilts, Carol will also give you a special session on Free Motion quilting including demos and drawings of 16 designs that we will practice in class, using various threads appropriate to the designs.

All of these techniques are done with a minimal amount of measuring to free you up and allow you to think outside of the box. Use these basics to gain the confidence to work more freely, improvise, and express your individuality in your quilts.