Karen will present her fanfreakin'tastic trunk show to The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild Thursday December 8th from 7-9pm. Visit http://cabinquilters.net for trunk show details. You can sign up for Karen's classes today
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AT THE SHERWOOD PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE.
Mastering the Art of Mctavishing
Thursday December 8th, 2011
9-12pm
Mastering the Art of McTavishing Certification Class is for instructors or those who would like to teach this class. This class will help you master,
understand and quilt the popular background filler called McTavishing. This background filler is all the rage! Quilts become award winning from appliqué to wholecloth. Become a certified trainer in this quilting style - you will then be able to teach this technique to others at local quilt shops and/or offer this class if you are already teaching quilting techniques.
Victorian Feathers
Thursday December 8th, 2011
1pm-4pm Victorian Feathers
Victorian Feathers – 3 hours
This class is all about Victorian Feathers - how to place the feathers in a quilt without marking and how to make them look hand-quilted. It’s a very fast way to achieve today’s heirloom style without the time commitment of marking the quilt. This is a great class for those who are in a rut and need something new! Bring your favorite quilt tops to this class!! $200
Wholecloth Design Class
Friday December 9th
9am-4pm Wholecloth Design Class
Wholecloth Design Class: Beginner *hand-quilters, domestic or longarm quilters.
Wholecloth Design Class (6 HOUR CLASS) (NO MACHINES REQUIRED)
"Wholecloth Design Class" is an all day event, where no quilting machines are needed. This is a class which results in a large wholecloth, which is entirely marked by the student and is ready for trapunto, hand-quilting, or machine quilting by the end of class. This one day class is for anyone who would like to design an original wholecloth from scratch. Table space will be provided for each student. Instructor will also have many wholecloth quilts in the truck show as well as a small lecture on the history of wholecloth.
How am I suppose to Quilt That
Saturday Dec 10th
9am-12pm How am I suppose to Quilt That
How Am I Suppose to Quilt That? – 3 Hours
This class is for any quilter that needs direction in designing quilting ideas for un-quilted tops– I will take the mystery out of designing quilts tops with very simple instruction. Students will bring quilt tops to class and you will see how the professionals figure it all out and turn boring quilts into award winning quilts. $150.00
Victorian Feathers
Saturday Dec 10th
1pm-4pm Victorian Feathers
Victorian Feathers – 3 hours
This class is all about Victorian Feathers - how to place the feathers in a quilt without marking and how to make them look hand-quilted. It’s a very fast way to achieve today’s heirloom style without the time commitment of marking the quilt. This is a great class for those who are in a rut and need something new! Bring your favorite quilt tops to this class!! $200.00
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Custom Heirloom and Curves
Custom Heirloom and Curves:
Sunday December 11th, 2011
9am-12pm Victorian Feathers
This 3 hour class covers “curved crosshatching” using Ronda’s Rulers – in addition to all the tricks of the trade regarding marking a quilt top and using stencils. This class is for everyone who is ready to discover something new and easy in today’s advanced quilting.
Mastering the Art of Domestic McTavishing – 3 hours $125
Mastering the Art of McTavishing - Domestic Machine
Sunday December 11th, 2011
2pm-5pm
“Mastering the Art of McTavishing is a domestic machine free-motion class for true beginners to advanced quilters. This class will help you master, understand and quilt the popular background filler called McTavishing. This background filler is all the rage! Quilts become award winning from appliqué to wholecloth. Supply list is required with your domestic machine, paper and pencil/pen for note taking”
Custom Curves
by Karen C. McTavish ~ Available now!
In this book Karen McTavish offers you 128 unlimited use designs, including 5 complete wholecloth designs from 27 original elements to help you make truly unique quilts.
On the included DVD, Karen invites one of the quilting world’s best innovators, Ronda K. Beyer, to teach her curved crosshatching technique. Together they teach a 65 minute lesson. No matter if you quilt by hand or machine, the designs and lessons in this book will inspire you to express your artistic talents through quilting.
Just like in The Secrets of Elemental Quilting, the patterns in Custom Curves will be unlimited use. You may use these patterns as many times as you like in any of your artistic or custom quilting ventures.
This book is softcover, 96 pages, 128 unlimited use patterns, and includes a 65 minute DVD.
Pre-Order for pick-up during Karen's classes at Sparrow Studioz or Trunk Show at The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.
Whitework Quilting
by Karen C. McTavish
Whitework Quilting by Karen McTavish combines the best of how-to, history and art. This book is a fusion of two concepts: an artful, coffee-table lexicon of award-winning quilts, and a resourceful, knowledge guide structured to lead readers to their own wholecloth quilting success.
This book features some of the country's best quilters, showcasing 60 award-winning Wholecloth, Trapunto, Appliqué and Pieced quilts. Never before has so complete a collection of wholecloth quilts been amassed. Karen's humor and quilting knowledge make the book a joy to read. In very little time you will understand the core concepts of creating your own heirloom wholecloth quilt.
This book breaks the "Quilt book" mold. It is a book of art and practicality. It will be comfortable on your coffee table or your work table. This is more than a quilt book; it is an expression of love for the beauty of art in cloth.
The photography has been done by one of the country's premier quilt photographers. Images of the quilts fill the pages and include incredible, detailed shots. Viewing the quilt in person with a magnifying glass would not render better views of the stitching.
This hardcover, square-backed book with a satin marker ribbon, features over 60 quilts, is 192 pages, full color.
Pre-Order for pick-up during Karen's classes at Sparrow Studioz or Trunk Show at The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.
Quilting for Show
by Karen C. McTavish
Quilting for Show showcases a collection of the nations’ best quilts and quiltmakers. Karen explains what it means to quilt for show, how to go about finding a show, what to expect from judges, what kind of behavior is ethical, what to do about photography, how to ship your quilt to a show and why appraisals are important. She also shares practical, quilt construction knowledge such as how to bury your threads, how to block a quilt, how to add a sleeve and how to quilt like a hand quilter.
This book is organized into 4 main sections to guide the reader towards successful competition quilting: Inspiration, Before the Show, Into the Minds of Judges and Quilting Concepts - the practical guide to quilting. Each section includes multiple examples of award winning quilts with comments and advice from the quiltmakers. Helen Squire, Caryl Bryer Fallert, Diane Gaudynski, Ricky Tims, Sharon Schamber, Hollis Chatelain, Linda Taylor, Linda McCuean, Carol Selepec, Myrna Ficken, Kim Brunner, Carie Shields, Anita Kris Mattson, Jean Carlton (quilt appraiser) and Pepper Cory (judge) add their collective wisdom to Karen's instruction on what it takes to quilt for show.
The book and DVD include lessons in blocking a quilt, applying a sleeve, quilting feathers, rope and cable and straight line quilting such as crosshatching, enabling the reader to enhance any kind of quilt with show quality quilting. Quilters who have been asking Karen to re-release Quilting for Show will be delighted with this new book and accompanying DVD*.
This book is softcover, 112 pages, features 25 award winning quilts in full color with close-up pictures of quilting details, and includes a DVD* with detailed lessons in blocking a quilt, applying a sleeve and learning to quilt like a hand quilter.
Pre-Order for pick-up during Karen's classes at Sparrow Studioz or Trunk Show at The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting
Karen's book, The Secrets of Elemental Quilting ~ Innovative Quilting Designs plus Trapunto Tips & Tricks, showcases the author's creative design ideas through multiple element and pattern examples. These patterns will enhance Appliqué and Pieced quilts or can stand alone as a Wholecloth design. Longarmers, domestic machine quilters and hand quilters alike can use these elements (as many times as they like). The book includes a detailed 60 minute DVD* of Karen teaching the techniques, step-by-step, of Trapunto, Shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto.
This book is organized in 3 main sections to guide the reader in using the elements in their quilting: How to Use Elements which includes Supplies and Getting Started, Patterns which includes Fundamental Feathers, Seashells, Victorian Feathers, Seussian, Primordial and Wholecloth Patterns and Trapunto How-To which includes instruction on Basic Trapunto, Shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto. The accompanying DVD* offers a private lesson with Karen on these 3 Trapunto techniques.
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting offers a peek into the unlimited potential of quilting design. The author shares her secrets for creating complex motifs out of a single, simple design. The book and DVD include 3 trapunto lessons, enabling the reader to enhance any kind of quilt. Quilters who have been asking Karen to teach her trapunto techniques will be delighted with this new book and accompanying DVD*.
This book is softcover, 112 pages, 120 unlimited use compound elements, and a 60 minute DVD* which features 3 trapunto lessons.
Pre-Order for pick-up during Karen's classes at Sparrow Studioz or Trunk Show at The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.
Mastering the Art of McTavishing
Mastering the Art of McTavishing ~ The Official Guide to Adding this Stitch to Your Quilts, showcases the author's signature stitch on Apparel and Art, Appliqué, Wholecloth, and Pieced quilts and garments. Contributing quilters are longarmers, domestic machine quilters and hand quilters. The book includes a detailed 90 minute DVD* of Karen teaching the process, step-by-step, of McTavishing.
McTavishing is the most popular new design concept in quilting. This innovative stitching technique is inspiring quilters from New York to Australia. The author’s namesake stitch makes a quilt look and feel as if it has motion and texture.
The inspiration for this style of quilting comes from Art Nouveau artist, Alfonse Mucha. Author, Karen McTavish, adapted Mucha’s curvy, stylized art form into a free-hand background filler quilting design. The effect was electric on the quilting community and in judged competition. Quilters started to emulate her form and dubbed it “McTavishing.”
Her newest book is a compellation of masterpiece quilts that highlight McTavishing in all its complex forms. Mastering the Art of McTavishing instructs the quilter on adding this technique to any quilt or garment, from traditional wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, for use by hand, domestic machine, or longarm quilters.
Seven how-to chapters, twenty-two quilts, and four garments from thirty-two contributing quilt artists help illustrate the many ways to use McTavishing: add the stitch to an open quilt block, use it in a border, highlight complex appliqué, custom tailor your favorite garment, make a large over-all design or quilt it tightly packed to emphasize trapunto - every aspect of how to use McTavishing is compiled in the book and in the accompanying DVD*. The book is softcover, full color, 96 pages, includes a DVD*.
Lessons from the author combined with interviews of accomplished hand and domestic machine quilters on the DVD* give the reader an unparalleled view of the quilting process. Quilters who have been asking Karen to teach her technique will be delighted with this new book and accompanying DVD*.
Pre-Order for pick-up during Karen's classes at Sparrow Studioz or Trunk Show at The Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.
