Quilting Images
A beautiful new way to combine photography, printing and quiltmaking
Classes & Lectures
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The topics listed below can be taught in a number of formats ranging from one hour lectures to several day courses and can be tailored to the needs and interests of your group.
Imaging on Fabric: New Ideas
The fabrics range from cottons to silks. The processes range from direct computer printing to image transfer methods. Extensive discussion and demonstrations on the newest techniques and products enable students to incorporate images in their fiber projects artistically and reliably. We’ll print our fabric in class using an ordinary inkjet printer but we’ll also learn how to prepare it for sending to companies that can now reasonably print yardage from your images.
Lecture: Picture Perfect: Getting the Most from your Digital Camera
Is your digital camera set on Automatic mode? Mary Ellen will show you how to get off your “A” and use settings and techniques that will turn your photos into digital art for your fiber projects. Learn the features that you, as a fiber artist, should look for in a digital camera. We’ll discuss the latest in photo editing software and new ways to artistically set your cherished photos into your quilts.
Blending Photos with Fabric to Make Lily Pond Quilt
The secrets of this tranquil water lily pond quilt are in the block shapes and setting and the integration of actual water lily photos into the piece. Learn the role that scanners, digital cameras, photo software and printers play to get crisp, richly colored images on fabric. Use the latest products to make your fabric images soft, washable, and lightfast. After preparing and printing onto fabric, we’ll begin making a wallhanging using your choice of several techniques for Drunkard’s Path block construction.
“Larger-than-Life” Photo Printing
Learn how to print an image on fabric, using an ordinary inkjet printer, so that the finished piece is larger than life. You can make a single photo into your own whole cloth piece using Mary Ellen’s innovative techniques. The secrets of producing crisp, richly colored, soft and washable fabric photographs will be shared in this workshop.
Choose your favorite flower from my collection of exquisite flower photographs. Your class project fabric photo will be approximately 16 x 20 before borders. Once your larger than life flower has been printed, we’ll begin putting it all together, blending your large flower image into borders carefully chosen to blend and extend the mood of your piece.
Photo Inspired Landscape Quilts
Print a landscape photo onto fabric. Use the latest products to make your fabric images soft, washable, and lightfast. Learn how to extend your quilt outward from your landscape photo using an easy, new technique. Blend your fabrics with your photo in such a way that viewers will wonder just where your photo ends and the fabric begins. We’ll finish with a discussion of wonderful embellishment techniques and quilting possibilities.
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
Make your own poster sized quilt. Combine the latest techniques for printing photos onto fabric with a new technique for adding large, graphic text shapes to your quilt top. Choose an image from my collection or bring one of your own to print. Create your own wording and then use my new method for making a bold, seamless fabric word or phrase. This can be a sewing or no-sewing workshop. Students can begin sewing a poster quilt in class or take home the ingredients for making one or a series of unique poster quilts.
Photo + Words + Fabric = Poster Quilt
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
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Lecture: Designing Great Quilts Using Your Fabric Photos
‘Photo quilts’ often use a bulletin board setting – fabric photos set in a regular pattern on the surface of the quilt. But, there are so many other ways to incorporate your own images into your quilted pieces. We’ll start with a quick review of the mechanics of printing from your computer onto fabric. Then, we’ll focus on a variety of ways to include your fabric photo in your quilt design. Mary Ellen’s trunk show provides an inspiring and innovative look into the art of blending photos with fabric.
Lecture: The Top Ten Ways Quiltmakers Can Use Computers
If you can write an e-mail or print a letter on your computer, you are ready to move on to using the computer as a tool in your quiltmaking process. What are the advantages of the various software packages aimed at quilters and fiber artists? What roles do printers, scanners and digital cameras play in designing and making unique quilted pieces? What special quilt-related supplies do ‘virtual quiltmakers’ need? Learn the top ten ways quiltmakers use today’s technologies in designing and planning superlative quilts!
Project Runway did it, now you can too. Create your own fabric to use in wearable art projects. Start with a photo image. Learn to transform it to suit your taste - realistic, abstract, kaleidoscope, or themed using easy photo imaging software. We’ll print our fabric in class using an ordinary inkjet printer but we’ll also learn how to prepare it for sending to companies that can now reasonably print your very own “fabric line” as yardage. In the afternoon, we’ll use your fabric to make a photo inspired wearable** that will have onlookers saying, “Is that a …..?”
*J.Pegg - my fun name for wearables made using photo (jpg) images - is not as big as J.Jill right now but who knows?
**J.Pegg class projects can be one of the following - small purse, silk scarf or journal notebook. The purse project requires sewing machines. The silk scarf and journal notebook can be made without machines.
Students do not need to bring any computer equipment for this class!
Is that a J.Pegg* you're wearing?
