More than a hundred students enjoyed learning new skills with our renowned teachers:

Lynne Huneault — Professional Tote

Lynne’s email address: lynhun@yahoo.com

Lynne Huneault – Professional Tote

The Professional Tote has all the pockets and compartments needed for today’s "professional" woman. There is a pleated pocket on each side of the tote to hold a bottle of water, umbrella, magazine, baby bottle or telephone. On the front is a zippered pocket to hold your ID and Passport for your airport arrival. Behind that pocket is one to hold your boarding pass. On the backside is one large pocket for a newspaper or magazine. On the inside, there is a large center dividing zippered pocket that holds file folders. There is plenty of room for a laptop computer. Several inside pockets for keys, pens, and more! To finish off, there is a zipper that will close tight to keep the bottom secure. This could be a great sewing tote with a place for patterns or books, fabrics and notions.

Pattern available at Quilters Dream – email: info@quiltersdream.ca or phone: 905-689-4575.

Pat Menary — Thread Painting

Pat’s Web site: www.schoolhousecottage.com

Pat Menary – Thread Painting

Create a miniature landscape "painting" using your sewing machine. Fabric inks are used to create areas of colour that are then embellished with free motion machine embroidery techniques.

Free motion embroidery or free-machine quilting experience was an asset for this workshop. Sewing machine in good working order with drop feed dog capabilities and a darning foot were required.

Heather Stewart — Cobblestones

Heather’s Web site: www.heatherstewart.ca

Heather Stewart – Cobblestones

All of Heather’s speed piecing and cutting methods, including cascade cutting are covered. These techniques can cut up to a third of the construction time on any quilt you make.

While learning these techniques, students made this quilt that has over 80 layout possibilities. Almost any style of fabrics works — from batiks to homespuns; if your fabrics harmonize, so does your quilt.

Kathy Wylie — Sewflakes

Kathy’s Web site: www.kathykwylie.com

Kathy Wylie – Sewflakes

Papercut appliqué is a technique similar to making paper snowflakes. In this workshop, students learned how to design these snowflakes for fabric, with an emphasis on incorporating recognizable images into the design. The workshop then looked at various ways to transfer the design from paper to fabric.

Sewflakes book includes both techniques and patterns. The book was available for purchase.

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Marc Cohen — Shiva Paintstiks

Marc’s email address: quiltmarc@rogers.com

Marc Cohen – Shiva Paintsticks

This is a "How to get Started" course using Shiva Paintstiks on fabric. Participants learned the basic techniques for creating their own beautiful fabrics using stenciling, rubbing plates, and other objects to create textured designs. Effective heat setting techniques to insure lasting beauty were also covered.

Create unique and artistic clothing, quilt blocks, wall hangings, and table runners using the Shiva Paintstiks. Let you imagination guide you.

Supplies available from Ruti’s Needlebed, a show vendor, 905-821-9370.

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Lorraine Roy — Fabric Collage with Tulle

Lorraine’s Web site: www.Lroytextileart.com

Lorraine Roy – Fabric Collage with Tulle (Sunday, April 26, 2009)

Using small fabric cuttings held down by transparent tulle and free-motion machine stitchery, we create colourful textured images limited only by our fertile imaginations. By the end of the course, participants had at least one finished surface that can be completed in various ways. This technique is much like ‘painting’ with fabric, sure to inspire the creative spirit and provide a reason to save all those scraps!

Note: pictures shown are just examples of Lorraine’s work; to see more of it, please visit her Web site.

Heather Stewart — Colours for Quilters

Heather’s Web site: www.heatherstewart.ca

Heather Stewart – Colours

Do you have difficulty combining colours or selecting fabrics for your quilting projects?

With Heather’s guidance, our students developed a colour workbook exploring colour principles and the colour wheel using fabric swatches.

Heather Stewart — Tips and Tricks for Quilters

Heather’s Web site: www.heatherstewart.ca

Heather Stewart – Tips and Tricks

Heather demonstrated her favourite quilting tips, techniques, and tricks — the students were amazed with all the new and wonderful knowledge they gained. Many of her favourite tools and methods were demonstrated.

Barb Scott — Jacket Schoolhouse
In this workshop, students had a choice of two patterns from Favorite Things pattern designs.

Barb’s email address: barbkyis@gmail.com

Barb Scott – Jacket Schoolhouse

The Frayed Jacket is a short lined princess jacket with a notch collar if the edges are frayed; and if you choose not to fray but finish your jacket with binding then a rounded shawl collar is the best choice.

The Mandarin Jacket is a semi-fitted princess jacket with a mandarin collar. Rather than putting in a separate lining, as the patterns suggest, Barb has chosen to machine quilt all the layers together and then put the jacket together and finish the edges with binding.

Kits and patterns are available at Country Patchworks (a show vendor) – www.countrypatchworks.ca, or phone: 519-537-8753.

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