Seats Available?: Sold Out NOTE: Materials fees are required for some workshops. These fees are paid directly to faculty and are not part of your registration fee. Materials Fee: $15 Fee Details: A set of curvelitos templates for quarter circle, half circle, full circle, and an arc for integrating with the larger curvelets.
Required Supplies: - Fabric: a mini charm pack, or charm pack would be plenty fabric and give you some variety. You could also bring a bundle of scraps instead, anything as small as a 1" square is usable for the quarter circles, you will also need pieces that are at least 2" square for the half and full circles. If you want the same background for the blocks in the mini project an eighth of a yard is more than enough. Try to choose fabrics with a finer weave such as batiks, Ruby Star Society, Art Gallery Fabrics, Ruby + Bee solids etc. - Thread: Bring your favorite hand piecing thread. Fiona uses 50wt cotton from Aurifil. - Needles: Your favorite small sharp hand piecing needles such as Clover Black Gold Quilting Betweens, or John James size 12 needles. - Scissors: Small sharp scissors with a sharp point. We will be cutting pieces out by hand and a sharp tip is a necessity. - Marking pen - a marking pen or pencil that shows up on your chosen fabric. (e.g. Frixion, Legami erasable, graphite pencil, white Gelly Roll etc.) - Glue - A glue suitable for glue basting such as a Sewline glue pen, or a glue stick with a precision tip. (A normal glue stick would work, but is a bit messier!) - Templates: The Curvelitos template set will be provided and is covered by the required materials fee. (If you have purchased it already bring it along!)
Optional Supplies: - Thread wax, or thread gloss. - A seam roller for flattening seams before trimming, there will be a few shared irons provided in the workshop room. - A small cutting mat and 25mm rotary cutter are optional for trimming, there will be shared cutting mats and rotary cutters provided in the workshop room. - Small ruler for trimming. 2.5" or smaller is useful. A 1.5" square ruler is perfect. - Curvelets templates if you want to see how they can work together with the Curvelitos templates.
In this workshop students will learn to hand sew a 1/2" finished quarter circle block. We'll cover the quarter, half, and full circle shapes and how to combine Curvelitos with Jen Carlton-Bailly's Curvelets for some really interesting petite piecing potential! It's a perfect workshop for tiny piecing enthusiasts or as a add-on from the Curvelets workshops from previous QuiltCons!
