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12 HD Video Lessons
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Instructor
Laura Wasilowski
Laura travels the world teaching how to make fused and hand-embroidered art quilts. Author of "Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts," she is also owner of Artfabrik, selling hand-dyed materials. View profile »
Hand-Stitched Collage Quilts
with Laura Wasilowski
Step away from your sewing machine and cut straight (or wonky) to the fun of creating fused art quilts with hand-stitched embellishments. Laura Wasilowski will show you how!
Laura shares whimsical designs for three small, single-block quilts that you can create along with her. You'll add fusible web to your fabrics and learn how to protect your tools and work surfaces. Cutting out free-form appliqué shapes and composing your artwork are a breeze - your creativity and improvisation are encouraged! Then it's time to add details and texture with a wealth of hand-embroidery stitches, from lazy daisies to French knots. Laura will show how to make more than a dozen stitches, and help you finish your quilt with batting, a colorful border and options for hanging. Bonus: Laura's e-book "Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts" (a $14.99 value) is included free!
Expand your art-quilt horizons with Laura. Enroll in Hand-Stitched Collage Quilts today!
What You'll Learn
- Choosing the right fabrics, fusible web and tools for your project
- Adding fusing to your fabrics and assembling your collages
- Transferring template patterns to fabric
- More than a dozen hand stitches for embellishment
- Adding batting, bindings and rod pockets
- How to improvise using scraps
- Free-form cutting techniques to create original appliqué shapes
What You'll Make
Three bold, colorful art quilts:
- "House in the Valley" (approximately 14" x 14")
- "Vase on a Table" (approximately 9" x 18")
- "Bird on the Wing" (approximately 14" x 14")
What You'll Need:
- A variety of color-saturated fabrics, such as hand-dyed or batik fabrics
- Fusible web and release paper
- Batting
- Iron and ironing surface
- Rotary cutter with straight and decorative blades
- Cutting mat
- Rulers
- Embroidery thread in assorted colors
- Embroidery needles
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 3:56 |
| 2 | House in the Valley | 22:07 |
| 3 | Adding Elements | 23:12 |
| 4 | Batting & Stitching | 20:31 |
| 5 | Binding the Quilt | 13:39 |
| 6 | Vase on the Table | 26:20 |
| 7 | Stitching & Binding | 8:10 |
| 8 | Bird on the Wing | 13:40 |
| 9 | Pattern Transfers | 9:57 |
| 10 | Finishing Bird on the Wing | 18:54 |
| 11 | Improvising with Scraps | 12:21 |
| 12 | Adding Stitches | 8:41 |
Skills you should have:
- Use a rotary cutter
- Imagination for designing new projects!
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Great Class
I loved this Craftsy class and Laura is a great instructor. (I also really enjoyed her presentation at our local quilt guild last fall.) She explains and demonstrates all the steps very clearly and in a fun way. I watched all the lessons just sitting here mesmerized. Now I will go back and watch them again and actually make a project! I wake up at night planning all the various projects I want to make. I'm not getting much sleep but I'm enjoying it!
Fabric Addiction
This is a wonderful class. Laura explains and demonstrates all the different techniques so clearly. Fusing is new to me, but I now feel I have the tools to be able to produce a wallhanging that is meaningful to me. Each of the three lovely projects introduce new skills helping to build a repetoire of methods to try. I particularly like the idea that the design is created through play. I have watched all the lessons, have hand-dyed some cotton fabric for backgrounds and am just waiting for ...
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