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September Workshop: Making Prints with Maria Shell

  • September 10, 2022
  • September 11, 2022
  • 2 sessions
  • September 10, 2022, 10:00 AM 1:00 PM (MDT)
  • September 11, 2022, 10:00 AM 1:00 PM (MDT)
  • online using Zoom
  • 7

Registration

  • Discount for members who register & pay by September 8, 2022 while space is available.
  • Regular admission for ACQ members starting September 9, 2022 while space is available.
  • Regular admission for non-members while space is available.

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MAKING PRINTS with Maria Shell

All of my workshops are designed to work with a variety of skill levels within the same class.  While each of my workshops cover color, pattern, and repetition which are core components of my work, the focus--indicated in the title of the class--allows us to zoom in on a particular aspect of quilt design.  Subject matter includes, but is not necessarily limited to the following--exploring color theory, composing abstract design, improvisation-ally cutting and piecing fabric, working with prints, and trouble shooting patchwork construction issues.

In this class, students will learn how to piece an assortment of prints--stripes, dots, track, and plaids. While learning how to build these new units, students will also be given information about working with solids colored fabrics, improvisational piecing techniques, and ideas for taking these techniques and creating original quilts.

Get the Supply List HERE

Watch a Demo on Creating Stripes HERE

Meet Maria HERE


ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

My artwork is firmly grounded in the craft of quilt making. It has taken me many years to acquire the cutting, piecing, and quilting skills that I now use daily. Vintage and contemporary commercial solid and print cotton fabrics, as well as hand dyed cotton fabrics I have created, are the materials I use in my work. These textiles are cut primarily without rulers and stitched into a two dimensional surface. Once I create this pieced canvas, I spend hours on my long arm quilting machine stitching the top to cotton or wool batting and a fabric backing. The final step is to bind or face each individual piece.

I have always been interested in pattern and how complex pattern can also create complex figure ground composition. In 2011, I began to wonder what would happen if I selected a particular pattern–in this case the grid–and continued to play with it over the course of a series. What I discovered is that limiting the pattern but manipulating the line, color, and shape, can produce dynamic results that not only stand alone as compelling individual compositions, but also are intriguing to look at as a group.

Limiting the structure of my work to a grid has allowed me to more fully explore my love of color. How to make color vibrate on the wall? Most often the answer lies in proportion of line and shape in relation to color.

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Maria will be speaking at the September 8 Guild Meeting.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88505530523?pwd=U0ZLaEs4NFhTdW0xWS9xakNEOXIyUT09

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      6335 S Holly St, Centennial, CO

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