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8 HD Video Lessons
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Wendy Butler Berns
Wendy is an award-winning teacher, quilter and the author of Photo Album Quilts. Her quilts have appeared in regional, national and international juried shows.
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Pictorial Quilting Techniques
with Wendy Butler Berns
Turn your treasured photos into fiber art. Create a pattern, choose a fabric palette and learn Wendy's easy machine appliqué method.
As you turn cherished photos into works of fiber art, you'll find that pictorial quilting is a perfect first step into the world of art quilting. Favorite Craftsy instructor Wendy Butler Berns shows you the way! Using Wendy's "Pretty as a Picture in Yellow" pattern (included free), you'll learn how to translate photos into line drawings, then find the perfect set of fabrics to use as your color palette. You'll create a pattern template with simple supplies like freezer paper, glue sticks and fusible interfacing. You'll learn how to machine appliqué your quilt design, an easy technique that gives beautiful results, and use free-motion techniques to embellish your quilt with an unbelievable variety of thread options. Along the way, Wendy shares dozens of techniques and tips you can use in any quilting project.
These pictorial quilting techniques will give you the confidence to create beautiful and meaningful works of art. Sign up today for Art Quilting: Pictorial Techniques and get ready to share your quilting artistry and cherished memories with the people you love.
What You'll Need:
- Freezer paper
- Fine tip permanent markers
- Masking tape and clear tape
- Décor Bond by Pellon Fusible Stablizer- yardage will depend on size of project
- Monofilament threads: clear and smoke
- Glue sticks
- Rotary cutting mat
- Rotary cutter
- Rotary Ruler
- Design board
- Specialty threads: rayons and metallics
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Course Introduction | 14:54 |
| 2 | Working With Fabric | 40:31 |
| 3 | Assembling The Quilt | 57:53 |
| 4 | Heading To The Machine | 33:11 |
| 5 | Different Finishing Techniques | 34:29 |
| 6 | Human Form In Fabric | 40:54 |
| 7 | Your Photos In Fabric | 32:41 |
| 8 | Quilting Stories | 26:57 |
Skills you should have:
- Basic machine sewing skills
- Use a rotary cutter
- Sew a straight stitch
- Sew using ¼" seams
- Imagination for designing new projects!
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Excellent class!
I have purchased two of Wendy's classes. I love her style if teaching. She explains everything in depth, which is what I need. I love hearing her personnel stories too. A great class.!!
Thanks! Wendy!!
Exellent class!!!!
This class was a big delight form start to end. The way it was planned made it easy to follow, the technique was so much fun, and Wendy is a very enthusiastic teacher. It gave me lot of inspiration and knowledge to use in my own projects
Amazing class
I loved this class. The instructor knows her wall quilts and passed on her passion through her instruction. Wonderful learning experience.
Excellent Class
So informative. I've been quilting for 20 years and always looking for new techniques. I love making pictorial quilts and this is one of the easiest ways to put one together. My 3 daughters already put there requests in for me to make there favorite flowers into quilts. I would suggest this to anyone who is interested in this type of quilting.
Wonderful!
I learned a lot of things from this class. I really like how she puts the template on top of the fabric piece and then turns under rather than on the wrong side and then later having to get that freezer paper out of there somehow as I have seen in the past.
I was quite surprised to read some negative comments because all aspects of making this pictorial quilt were covered. (Perhaps some people missed lesson 4 where a good part of it is spent at the machine.)
Really I could ...
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