Programs and Workshops
April Program
Carla Javornik presents "Influence & Evolution" - How a quilting journey ebbs, flows, and morphs as long as you let it and allow yourself to embrace new ideas and techniques.
An avid quilter, Carla has been creating quilts for 40 years and counting. Her quilting journey began with making more traditionally-styled quilts and has moved into creating more modern quilts and art quilts over the last 10 years. Constantly pulling from nature and incorporating different piecing and artistic techniques, she loves to share her enjoyment of quilting with others. “We all start somewhere”, she notes, and encourages others’ interests in the quilting arts. She enjoys creating her own patterns and designs and finishes all her works with her own free motion quilting. “I love the process of quilting – from designing to piecing to quilting. For me, it’s a full process of creativity.” She’s won Best of Show at the Boulder County Fair and her “The Zen of Bubble Gum” quilt was selected for inclusion in the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum’s “Logs on a Roll” exhibit in 2023. She teaches classes on free-motion quilting, fussy cutting, and color (and more coming) at The Quilt Store in Broomfield, Colorado.
An avid quilter, Carla has been creating quilts for 40 years and counting. Her quilting journey began with making more traditionally-styled quilts and has moved into creating more modern quilts and art quilts over the last 10 years. Constantly pulling from nature and incorporating different piecing and artistic techniques, she loves to share her enjoyment of quilting with others. “We all start somewhere”, she notes, and encourages others’ interests in the quilting arts. She enjoys creating her own patterns and designs and finishes all her works with her own free motion quilting. “I love the process of quilting – from designing to piecing to quilting. For me, it’s a full process of creativity.” She’s won Best of Show at the Boulder County Fair and her “The Zen of Bubble Gum” quilt was selected for inclusion in the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum’s “Logs on a Roll” exhibit in 2023. She teaches classes on free-motion quilting, fussy cutting, and color (and more coming) at The Quilt Store in Broomfield, Colorado.
Carla Javornik Art Quilt Workshop
May 9th from 9:30 to 3:30 at the Kersey Community Center, 215 2nd Street, Kersey CO . Cost is $45
The workshop will be an introduction into developing your own designs (brief introduction) and using the provided pattern to make a small art quilt. It's probably about an 16" x 20" art quilt using the technique Ruth B. McDowell used for construction. It is a machine piecing design and you will learn how to machine piece gentle curves, straight lines, choose fabric, and develop your own art quilt. You most likely will not finish the project in class, but it is designed to teach you how to create a design and use that design to make a pattern, then execute that pattern. A supply list will be provided before class.
The picture below represents a similar type of project, but the workshop art quilt will be simpler.
The workshop will be an introduction into developing your own designs (brief introduction) and using the provided pattern to make a small art quilt. It's probably about an 16" x 20" art quilt using the technique Ruth B. McDowell used for construction. It is a machine piecing design and you will learn how to machine piece gentle curves, straight lines, choose fabric, and develop your own art quilt. You most likely will not finish the project in class, but it is designed to teach you how to create a design and use that design to make a pattern, then execute that pattern. A supply list will be provided before class.
The picture below represents a similar type of project, but the workshop art quilt will be simpler.
May Program
Daisy Boulter will be presenting a program on entering your quilt in the Weld County Fair and judging quilts
June Program
Denise Russell is a designer who publishes under the label "Pieced Brain." She designs quilts for fabric manufacturers from the US and Canada, for magazines and books. She has been blogging about quilting, quilt designs, machine applique’, free-motion quilting, and other crafts since 2013.
You can check out Denise's eclectic quilt designs by looking at her patterns and the places her designs have been featured on her website https://piecedbrain.com
You can purchase patterns from her Etsy Store: PiecedBrain. She also has some free patterns downloads on her website as well.
You can check out Denise's eclectic quilt designs by looking at her patterns and the places her designs have been featured on her website https://piecedbrain.com
You can purchase patterns from her Etsy Store: PiecedBrain. She also has some free patterns downloads on her website as well.
Denise Russell will be presenting her program called "Making Quilts With Panels" via Zoom. You may stay at home and watch or come to our in-person meeting at Sew Downtown and watch along with all your friends. Her program will cover:
- Design tips: the role of color and scale of motifs
- What makes and breaks panel quilt designs
- My process as a designer
- My process as a quilter
- The [simple] math involved
- Straight vs. Pieced Borders: when and how to use them
- Trunk Show