Skill Level: Confident Beginner.

Ultraviolet Radial is a quilt made using paper piecing and curved piecing techniques. This workshop covers the basic concepts of paper piecing on an arc, curved piecing, and precision piecing. We will also discuss color options and quilting ideas. Students will finish 1-2 blocks during class.

Prework: Select fabrics for the quilt. Reference page 3 of the pattern when collecting fabrics and building the color palette. Printed paper templates will be provided to you in class. Cutting fabric before class is not necessary or recommended.

Kits and Patterns: A required kit fee of $10 is payable to Audrey before or during the class. The fee is for pre-printed paper templates required for the Ultraviolet Radial workshop. A pattern is also required and can be purchased from Audrey onsite or as a digital PDF download in advance from www.CottonandBourbon.com for $12.

Supply List

This in-person class runs from 9:30 AM-4:00 PM Eastern Time with a 1/2 hour break for lunch. 

On Saturday, September 16, 2023, Audrey Esarey will present a lecture titled “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting.”

This lecture focuses on my path to becoming a modern quilter and how I’ve applied many traditional techniques in my modern quilts. I’ll discuss the progression of my work and show my Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and a few others too! I’ll share information on design inspiration, favorite artists, and discuss some quilting highs and lows along my journey. I look forward to sharing my quilts and stories with you!

Skill Level: Intermediate.

Mobius Radial is a wall hanging made using paper piecing, curved piecing, and partial seam techniques. This workshop covers the basic concepts of paper piecing on an arc, curved piecing, and precision piecing. We will also discuss quilting ideas. Students will learn the concepts of paper piecing on a curve. There will be a focus on curved piecing and partial seam construction. The students will complete a portion of the quilt during class. The Mobius Radial Quilt finishes at 30 x 30 inches.

We’ll be using the Swoop Quilt Block as an exercise to demonstrate and practice curved partial seams in class. Please see the Supply List for the fabric remnants needed for this test block. These can easily be selected from the scrap bin. An example block is pictured.  This block is made with two feature fabrics and background fabric.

Kits and Patterns:

A required kit fee of $10 is payable to Audrey before or during the class. The fee is for pre-printed paper templates required for the Ultraviolet Radial workshop. A pattern is also required and can be purchased from Audrey onsite or as a digital PDF download in advance from www.CottonandBourbon.com for $12.

On Saturday, November 18, 2022, Jane Sassaman will present her lecture “Under the Influence.”

“Under the Influence” is a lecture of the visual and philosophical ideas that have influenced me and my work. There is an extraordinary range of wonderful images. This is a very colorful lecture. I hope to excite and inspire the audience by exposing them to an unusual combination of fantastic images.

Skill Level: Beginning to Advanced.

Nature is an endless source of inspiration.  In this class we will examine a wide variety of artists’ interpretations of nature before beginning to manipulate natural forms ourselves.  Through a series of exercises we will experiment with abstraction and exaggeration to capture the essence and energy of your favorite flora and achieve dramatic visual effects.

Drawing skills are not needed but participants should have a strong interest in developing their own design language and unique visual symbols.

In this one-day class you will choose a plant subject to work through a set of design exercises. This subject needs to have a variety of elements to work with… like a blossom, stem, leaves, buds, etc. to make the exercises successful. Bring as many views and detailed (leaves, blossoms, overall, etc.) pictures as you can for each one. Our goal is to discover as much about the plant as we can before simplifying and exaggerating it for our own interpretation. Many folks bring their inspiration on a computer or iPad, which also allows us to look up images on the internet. Others bring 8.5” X 11” prints or snap shots. Personally, I prefer prints because you can spread them out and look at them easily and you don’t have to keep scrollingback and forth. Books, of course, are another way to go. Seed or bulb catalogs can be helpful, too.

This class is especially beneficial for the drawing impaired and the tragically literal.