IMP001Thu - Railroad Ties: Exploring Color and Improv

Seats Available?: Sold Out

Required Supplies:
- Personal Cutting mat, Rotary cutter, and spare blade - shared cutting stations will be provided but you may wish to have your own to maximize class time
- Small ruler for trimming
- Scissors - shared scissors will be provided but you may wish to have your own to maximize class time and ease of cutting
- Thread - neutral 50wt thread provided but students are welcome to bring their own to match their project if they wish
- Seam ripper
- Pins
- Tape (a clear tape like scotch is best)
- Notebook or several sheets of plain white paper. You will be taping your color choices to this. Whether you want to keep it in a design journal or on loose pages is up to you.

FABRICS
For the color exercises:
- The exercises are fast paced, and trying to do them with yardage is cumbersome and time consuming-
small pieces of fabric are required for this class. Have small scraps of solids and/or a complete Kona charm pack, or any other solid charm pack. These will be used for the color exercises, so size is not important. You may also use solid colored papers or paint chips if you have those available. Have some colors you DO NOT care for as we will be exploring how to use “ugly” colors.
- Include neutrals.
- Organize fabric/paper scraps by color for best use during the exercises.
- The more colors you have the more you will get out of the class.

For the Railroad Ties Quilt:
- Tara recommend bringing a large variety of 1/4 yard cuts. You will need approximately 6-7 yards of fabric for a throw size quilt, and approximately 2 ½- 3 yards of fabric for a mini. You will not be using all the fabrics in class, but it's nice to have a large selection of color to work with.
- If you want to stay with color exploration, Tara recommends solid or blenders that read like solids. But, this is your quilt! Feel free to add in prints and blenders as you would like. Again, the more you have on hand the more creative you can get with color choices.
- Have enough color choices to suit your creative style. Pick fabrics you love with a variety of light, medium and dark options.

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