Quilter on Fire Workshops

Add a splash of fabric ink to a contemporary table runner taking the mystery out of screen printing. The simple light-medium-dark colour way makes this a perfect beginner class with an added art element that expert quilters would also enjoy. Students come away with a printed and pieced 20" x 50" table runner ready to quilt. Kit purchase of $20 includes silk screen, squeegee, printing ink and pattern. 

Still stuck piecing tumbling blocks by hand? This strip-pieced tumbling block table topper gives vibrantly coloured fabrics the spotlight framed with a classy black border. Students challenge themselves to choose 3 distinct values for 5 different colours of fabric. The shopping for this class is so fun! This uniquely shaped quilt finishes at approximately 30” x 34” in size. Beg, borrow or buy – a 60 degree ruler is required for this class. Pattern fee of $8.00.

Looking for a gift for a little one? This class is great for quilters of any level. Hitting on the latest trend of simple techniques with modern pops of colour on white, we start with a morning of crazy quilting with a simple sew and fold - no pattern, no piecing technique. Quilters work to balance colour vs. white throughout the quilt. By the afternoon students will quilt the layers and master a simple fold over binding with a perfect mitred corner. This carry along baby quilt finishes at 24" x 32".

Add a strong warm colour palette to the walls of your home with this 17"H x 26"W radiant landscape fibre art quilt. Students will get a brief overview of colour theory. They'll tackle the simple freestyle Bargello-look technique and then quilt the background before preparing the fusible backed tree. (Beware - some intricate cutting, but it's well worth it!) On day 2 it's a cutting and fusing frenzy as students learn the ins and outs of transferring a sketch to fusible appliqué to create the tree feature. To finish there is a black on black introduction to straight stitch or free motion quilting.  

Create a beautiful fibre art piece to mount on any size canvas or wood panel. Dive into those favourite batiks that you tuck away into your stash and never cut up! This class gets you to pull out all of your precious scraps and play with colour. Watch the patterns weave in and out with gorgeous simplicity adding fibre, embellishments and fancy stitches along the way. Students finish this workshop with an art piece complete and ready to hang on the wall. 

Wine Bottle Bags with Fibre Art Techniques! This beginner class is great for newbies to fibre art as well as advanced students who want to explore their creative side. This class starts out with a simple lesson on bag construction and eases into 3-5 creative ways to adorn your gift bag with fibre art. The day will include techiniques such as paint sticks, dissolving stabilizer, foil, felt, landscapes, art trees and more. With dozens of art processes to choose from, your guild can cater this class to suit their needs. Students explore new art products and come away with 3 or more finished bags, depending on their motivation, that are ready for gift giving on any occasion. FQ friendly!

Join Brandy Lynn for a day of healing through stitch. We’ll explore words, phrases, or even a small poem about what you do in life that heals you most and incorporate that into a take home fibre art piece. You’ll learn couching, hand stitches, beading and how to mount a small piece as fibre art. The gentle motion and creative freedom of stitching, beading and design will leave you feeling as though you’ve had a creative healing retreat right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of your daily life.

This is such a fun and easy intro to paper piecing! If you’ve never tried it, this is the class for you. An easy morning of cutting a prepping your fabric and fleece with an afternoon of diving into the world of paper piecing. On day two the bag assembly takes place and you walk home with a beautiful finished project to keep for yourself or give away as a gift. (Note: This class is also available with each quilter freely designing their own front flap!)

Celebrate Canada's rich heritage with a contemporary take on the Canadian maple leaf. In this beginner quilting class quilters learn the basics of rotary cutting, precision piecing and half square triangles and then enjoy a day of piecing to their heart's content. This workshop gives students plenty of time to ask questions and learn how to follow a simple pattern. Intermediate quilt groups can work this class into a single day and finish the project at home or take on the challenge of designing a colourwash maple leaf to increase the difficulty level.  

Dive into that huge pile of scraps you never know what to do with and start exploring! In this sampler class you will be inspired to use those bits of batiks and hand dyes that you love so much to create a beautiful gallery style fibre art piece to hang in your home. We will learn the basics of colour, depth and balance in design, and master several fibre art and stitching techniques. The play time artistic element of this class is learning 6 different fabric manipulations to create a sun feature. Embellishments will include embroidery floss, wool, beads and foil - anything goes here as long as you love it and the colours make you feel warm inside.

Need a gift-giving idea for the holidays? A fun and simple beginner class, this action-packed holiday workshop features a whole bunch of great techniques to have in your quilting toolbox for years to come: simple screen printing, flange inner border, half square triangles, prairie points, and quilt facing. I taught this workshop first many years ago at my local quilting guild and they surprised me by having dozens of them on display at our holiday luncheon!