Piecing It Together with Circles & Sensuous Lines

Carol Taylor
www.caroltaylorquilts.com

Section 1: October 21– 27, 2007
Section 2: Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2007
Medium: Fiber
Level: All Levels
 

Internationally known, award-winning quilt artist, Carol Taylor, approaches her quilt making with intensity and a seemingly boundless energy. Vibrant colors, striking contrasts, use of value, as well as heavy machine quilting and embroidery distinguish Carol’s work.

In this workshop Carol teaches 20 different improvisational piecing techniques and free ways of creating designs. Learn to play with color, value, and design without anxiety. Work with strip sets, circles, offbeat squares, skinny lines, couching, and even a little fusing. 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.

Piece circles with ease and without even pinning. Create your own very unique quilt using these techniques and learn to do Carol's trademark circular quilting. Carol also shares the secrets of piecing the really skinny lines and curves in her Linear Series. Use couching to create more sensuous lines in your work. Learn to finish your work with facings instead of bindings.

Carol demonstrates how to free-motion quilt and gives you drawings of 16 - 20 designs to 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.