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Laura Wasilowski
Laura is a textile artist, author, teacher, and creator of hand dyed fabrics and threads. She has an undergraduate degree in Costuming from the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN and a Master of Art degree in Fiber from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. She lives in Elgin, Illinois and is owner of ARTFABRIK.
She combines vivid fabrics and whimsical stories to make pictorial art quilts. Her colorful, hand-dyed fabrics inspire Laura, as do stories of her family, friends and home. These pieces often chronicle her life. Each wall piece she makes is of her own design, of fused appliqué, and machine quilted. |
Friday, July 25
212 Wood Cut Quilts
Intermediate Level
Kit Fee $20
Adapt the graphic impact of woodcuts to quilt making. Create beautiful pictorial woodcut-inspired quilts by free cutting fused fabrics into intricate shapes and ironing them onto black fabric. Learn free cutting, pattern transfer, and the design secrets of the woodcut quilt. This type of art quilt construction is painstaking and so only one small quilt can be completed in one day. But the results are worth it! Supply List
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Saturday, July 26
310 Color Chip Collage
All Levels
Kit Fee $20
Make an art quilt that is a treat for the eyes! Create an improvisational quilt from bright, fused fabrics by building quick collages from free-cut fabric chips. Learn to arrange the collage blocks into pictorial or abstract designs with simple fusing techniques. The result is a free-from art quilt that is improvisational, innovative, and has the surface texture of paint dabs on canvas.
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Sunday, July 27
411 Object Lesson
All Levels
Kit Fee $20
To truly make your own art quilts, begin by designing your own fabric. In this class you will make swatches of colorful fused fabrics like florals, checks, stripes and dots. Using those fused fabric swatches, you can then create an art quilt illustrating a familiar object. It can be an object of personal meaning such as a teapot, chair, or birdhouse or possibly an abstract collage full of texture and pattern. Either way, it is an original quilt made with original fabric designs.
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Questions:
Contact Carol Leigh, Workshop Registrar.
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