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Beginners 3-Dimensional Rose Pattern Class – June 21, 2014
CQG CLASS DATE: Saturday, June21, 2014, 9:00am to 3:30pm
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Manipulating fabric to create floral designs has long been a part of our quilting heritage. Many older quilts, particularly the Baltimore Album-style quilts, show some very interesting dimensional work. Today’s quiltmakers can study those quilts to learn the techniques used, and this class highlights how to make a realistic looking 3-dimensional fabric rose with petals, buds and leaves. Beginning appliqué students will use a single solid rose background on which to build the rose, whereas Advanced appliqué students can opt to make a fully-petalled background on which to build their roses.
Before class, study roses in your or your neighbor’s garden to see how they shade in color from inside to outside petals, how the bud in the middle is formed and colored, and how the coloring of dark roses differs from that of shaded light colored roses. Take pictures if you can and bring them to class.
Be prepared to create templates for the rose parts as homework before class. I will email the rose parts templates to class members, so be sure that I have your current email. We will not have time in class to create the templates, so you must be prepared to go directly to working with your rose fabrics in class.
If you are a collector of American Quilter magazine, look up the Spring 1991 issue and on page 18 starts a 5-page article, in color, on how to create the rose. It is published under my old married name of Helma S. Stewart. It also has photos of a number of students works – look at the number of variations they used to create the rose. I will be bringing a number of quilts and projects in which I have made roses for you to see in class as well.
ROSE CLASS SUPPLY LIST:
Fabrics:
Choose 5 to 7 fat eighth’s or fat quarters of rose colored fabrics that grade from light to medium to slightly darker. Larger scraps work well also but make sure that the values of the fabrics grade smoothly from one shade to the next. Be prepared to share, exchange, borrow, etc with your fellow students.
For the leaves you can choose one coordinating green or several, pieces at least 10”x12”.
1— 14” square background fabric, can be white, light, neutral, black, or a nice rich dark jewel tone. If you don’t know what you want to use yet, then bring several different pieces and we will audition the fabrics to see what looks best with your rose colors.
NOTE: make sure that all your fabrics are nicely ironed before you come to class.
Templates:
½ to 1 yd Freezer paper – Reynolds brand works best. If you don’t have freezer paper at home, let me know and I’ll bring some more…there’s no point in buying an entire roll just for this class.
1 sheet template plastic or poster board, or heavy manila folders
Glue stick or spray mount adhesive, if you have it
Paper scissors…small curved ones will make it easier to cut out the shapes.
NOTE: Make sure that all your cuttings are smooth around each piece. Every bump will create a bump in the final petal or leaf.
Sewing Supplies:
Sewing machine in good working order, with a NEW size 80/12 needle in it, plus your general sewing supplies.
NOTE: Not a lot of machine sewing is involved, so you can pair up with a friend and we can share.
Ironing boards and irons… again we can share, and small travel irons work well also. The small heart-shaped appliqué iron works well for this project, too.
A variety of ordinary sewing threads, in greens, greys, neutrals, and in your flower colors.
Hand-sewing needles, thimble, pins. YES, you will need a thimble because you will be going through a lot of fabric layers at once to create the bud and to gather the rose petals.
Regular lead pencil, and white marking pencil (with sharpener) for marking on fabric.
Two pairs of scissors: one sharp one for paper, and one very sharp one for fabric, little ones are much easier to use here.
Tweezers with a sharp point for turning little bitty fabric corners. Surgeon’s tweezers work well here.
1 large crochet hook, or other implement, that has a rounded handle tip. Thang or plastic orange peeler works great, too. Also a new school pencil with a new eraser on it.
3/4" appliqué pins. These are by Clover and come in small, plastic boxes. If you cannot find these, use the IBC 1-1/4” pins. They are very fine and help hold small pieces in place.
Optional: 1 piece foam core board, 1/4 to 1/2" thick, and also approx. 14” x 14” for holding your work.
Anything else that will make your sewing experience more pleasurable!
If you have any questions, please call me at:
Helmina Schenck (805) 666-9515
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