Embellished Textile Collage

$870.00

Full

Sewing

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Saturday)

Ages

Jun

Sun

Jun

Sat

04:00

09:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Sessions: 7

Session Hours: 7.00

Program Area: Needlework & Thread Art, Sewing

Instructor: Jennifer Reis

Studio/Location: Quilting Studio

Student Materials: Please bring the following and extra to swap: NOTE: No Sewing Machines Please -Cotton or cotton blend fabric(s), ~½-1yd pre-washed -Low loft 'traditional' polyester batting, ~½-1yd -Fabric pieces to appliqué. Fat quarters of cotton/cotton blend with loose enough weave to hand sew through; silk dupioni; other fancy fabrics (bring lightweight fusible interfacing if you want to use this) -Pencil/paper -Embroidery floss -Beading thread for SEWING (not stringing): Nymo, a few spools/colors, or instructor will have some to purchase -Several colors quilting thread -Needles: quilting, embroidery, and beading (Dritz Short Beading Size 10) -Straight pins -Fabric scissors -Small scissors -Pailettes, large sequins and/or Shi-Sha mirrors -Beads (seed beads, larger beads, bugle beads etc), sequins -Costume jewelry, buttons, ribbons, patches, trim, anything you can sew down (Optional) -Laminated images, fabric printed images, photographs, other thick paper images -Fabric pen/chalk -Binding/joining notions (grommets, velcro, etc)

School Fee & Materials:

Instructor Materials: Extra supplies for students to purchase, as needed.

Equipment Needs: Quilting Studio - Tables & rolling chairs - Cutting tables and extra mats, along with Alto & Martelli cutting system - Design walls - Sewing machines, for students who do not bring their own - Irons & ironing boards - Table Ott Lights - Coffee Maker, Teapot, Microwave & Small Refrigerator

Skill Level: All Levels

Total Materials Fees: $25

Quilting Studio
1 FOLK SCHOOL RD
BRASSTOWN, NC 28902-8008

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Enrich and enliven your creative practice through exploring the unlimited possibilities of textile collage in your mixed-media surface design work. Explore embellished textile techniques, appliqué, quilting, thread and bead embroidery, and photographic images, and learn how to incorporate these new skills into your own projects. Explore composition and design, how to communicate through textile art, and ideas for presenting your finished pieces.

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Enrich and enliven your creative practice through exploring the unlimited possibilities of textile collage in your mixed-media surface design work. Explore embellished textile techniques, appliqué, quilting, thread and bead embroidery, and photographic images, and learn how to incorporate these new skills into your own projects. Explore composition and design, how to communicate through textile art, and ideas for presenting your finished pieces.

$25

Jennifer Reis is a textile artist who creates intensively hand-worked, ornately beaded, and embellished paper doll icons on cloth using traditional and alternative materials. Her artistic practice has been honored with numerous awards and prizes, including Kentucky’s Al Smith Fellowship, national adjudicated and invitational exhibitions, and teaching opportunities at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, Society of Contemporary Craft, and the Southwest School of Art.

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