Hurtling Through Time - Wedge Quilts
23may10:00 am3:00 pmHurtling Through Time - Wedge Quiltswith Grace Widders10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Event Details
In this workshop Grace Widders will be teaching us all about using the 10 degree wedge ruler to create circles. The class is based on Grace’s mesmerising prize winning quilt
Event Details
In this workshop Grace Widders will be teaching us all about using the 10 degree wedge ruler to create circles. The class is based on Grace’s mesmerising prize winning quilt Hurtling though Time. (Pictured Below) You’ll learn how to use the 10 degree wedge ruler, clever fabric placement and piecing to create that spinning ‘time machine effect’. Employing the optical illusion is not compulsory! You could come along and enjoy discovering how to put together any style of circles from the wedge. Scale is a feature of this workshop. If you’ve made smaller wedges like dresden plates, perhaps by hand, this workshop will extend your skills by bumping up the scale, working larger than you perhaps have before and bumping up the number of ‘wedges your circle. The 10 degree wedge needs 36 wedge sections to make a circle.
The technique lends itself to being made in lovely textural wovens and stripes in a range of moody neutrals or crisp black and white prints but I can see it in anything from solids to brights. Perhaps employing Tula Pink’s famous multicoloured stripes?
Grace ventured into our craft as a self taught quilter, beginning with a wall hanging kit, then a Mariner’s Compass. Joining Hunters Hill Quilters in 2000 opened new opportunities to Grace, inspired by the variety of talented group members to work with wool in to make Waggas quilts, to produce community quilts, join workshops, take up several committee positions and move into teaching machine quilting. Grace’s work has been displayed and has won awards in several quilting shows, including at the Sydney Quilt Show and the Modern Quilt Show Australia. Grace won a Berry Quilt & Co sponsored award in the Modern Category at the QNSW Sydney Quilt Show for her quilt Anyone for Noughts and Crosses pictured below.
Grace’s current quilt designs grow from fabric that ‘talks to her’, enjoying the texture that wool and linen offer. Grace teaches beginners at the Material Obsession shop in Sydney and whilst she machine quilts for others, still loves the process and appearance of hand quilting her own quilts. You may have admired Grace’s beautiful hand quilting with out realising it in this year’s Raffle Quilt at the Sydney Quilt Show. In 2018 Grace presented a ‘Friday Showcase’ for Quilt NSW and presented a hand quilting workshop for members. She is a quilter who intuitively develops colour palettes from what is around. I look forward to seeing Grace help you develop your palette and learn some new skills.
Grace is teaching with us for two days. The first day’s class is the The Wagga Quilt Class and the second day is this Wedge Class. If you’d like to come for two days and continue to work on your Wagga instead of beginning the second project you are very welcome. Two days classes will cost $150 and each single day will cost $80. If you’d like to come to the two days and access the discount please book by Phoning the shop ph 4464 3387.
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location
Berry Quilt & Co.
Shops 4 & 5, 66 Albert Street, Berry NSW 2535
Cost
$80 per person. Bookings required. ($150 for two days-Phone to book deal)
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