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• A Day of Play: Surface Design & Embellishment with Lyric Montgomery Kinard

  • When
    Friday, September 20, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Western Carteret Public Library, 230 Taylor Notion Rd., Cape Carteret
  • Spaces left
    6
  • Registered
    14 registrants

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  A Day of Play: Surface Design & Embellishment with Lyric Montgomery Kinard  

  Come spend some delightful time playing with surface design techniques such as screen printing, foiling, and photo transfer, as you create little winged friends, ready to turn into lovely mini art quilts. Learn two easy techniques for transferring photocopies onto cloth and please your inner magpie with easy to apply, shiny, permanent, metallic foil. 
  

  In the afternoon we will add beads of all shapes and sizes to your mini quilt. Here’s the prize: no knots or mess on the back! Learn to embellish in a way that adds to the overall design instead of looking like an afterthought.

  $35 supply fee required.

  Techniques Taught include:

  • Solvent Photo Transfer (will be using Citra-Solv, and orange-based cleaning solvent)

  • Inkjet Transfer Paper

  • Thermofax Screen Printing

  • Foiling on Fabric

  • Beading on Fabric

  Surface Design Supplies:

  • 1/2-yard Tight weave, smooth white fabric (washed without fabric softener, ironed) These are for practice and tests. Most will be cut or torn into US letter sized pieces.

  • 4-6 solid(ish) pieces of fabric both for screen printing and creating a small project

  • Fat quarter of any flat batting that doesn’t beard (80/20 cotton/poly is great)

  • Fabric and Paper scissors

  • Baking Parchment or Silicone press sheet to protect ironing surface and iron, from fusible web

  • Masking tape

  • Fusible Web, 1/2 yard (regular weight Wonder-under preferred, NOT Heat n Bond)

  • FQ or several letter-page sized pieces of hand dyed or solid-ish fabric (4 pieces to play with is ideal)

  • Piece of craft felt to use as a printing surface

  Beading Supplies
  (optional kits and supplies will be available for sale during class)

  • Seed beads: sizes 11, 15, & 6

  • OR - beads that your eyes can see and any needle that will fit through their holes!

  • Bugle beads (bead kits will be available for sale during class)

  • Cabochon, button (no shank) or flat bead, about 20mm diameter (cabs will be available for sale during class)

  • Long appliqué needle size 11 (Foxglove cottage straw needles will be available for sale)

  • Thin cotton or cotton blend batting, 8”x8”

  • Nymo or Sylamide beading thread to match your beads or background fabric (beading thread will be available for sale during class)

  Optional but Useful:

  • Any interesting beads or embellishments you might have

  • Any old lace bits or ephemera you might want to play with

  • Thimble and needle threader

  • Thread snips

  • Rubber finger from an office supply store, helps pull your needle

  • Lamp or magnifying lamp and extension cord

  • Gloves to protect hands from solvent

  • Mini iron and ironing surface

  Bring lunch.

  Lyric's Website 

  
  

  If you have any questions, please contact Chris or Joyce.

  
  

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• Sew Day Workshop

  • When
    Saturday, October 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Western Carteret Public Library, 230 Taylor Notion Road, Cape Carteret
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Come and spend a day sewing with your friends.

  Bring your sewing machine and projects to work on. There will not be any instructions, you will sew on your own projects.

  We will spend the day sewing and talking, talking and sewing, and eating.

  Don’t forget your lunch.
  

  Hope to see you there.

  If you have questions, please contact Chris.

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• CANCELLED: Embrace Your Curves with The Pizza Girls

  • When
    Saturday, October 26, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Western Carteret Public Library, 230 Taylor Notion Road, Cape Carteret
  • Spaces left
    12
  • Registered
    8 registrants

  
  

  Embrace Your Curves with

  The Pizza Girls of Quilter's Gallery 

  Everyone loves the look of curves in a quilt, but often it is a technique that scares quilters.  Workshop will cover several curved pieced blocks, such as, the Rainbow Curve, Wheel of Mystery, and Winner’s Bouquet.  

  Skill level: Confident beginner or intermediate.
  

  Kit Fee: $10.00. 

  Kit contains all the fabric to make the 3 curved blocks that will be taught in class.

  Supplies:

  • Sewing machine with a 1/4" foot (no side blade)
  • Basic sewing tools (no cutting tools)

  Bring lunch.

  Pizza Girls Website

  If you have any questions, please contact Chris or Joyce.

  
  

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• Charity Sew Day: Hero Quilts

  • When
    Saturday, November 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Western Carteret Public Library, 230 Taylor Notion Road, Cape Carteret
  • Spaces left
    15
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  It is Charity Sew Day, Come and Sew with Us!!

  
  

  Kits will be provided so all you need to bring are sewing supplies. 

  Sew with a friend and see how fast your quilt tops comes together.

  Cutting and pressing stations will be available.

  Looking forward to seeing you.

  Supply List:

  • Sewing machine in good working order 
  • Standard sewing tools
  • Square ruler to trim your blocks to the finished size
  • Rotary cutter, small cutting mat for your table (optional)

  If you have any questions, please contact Chris P.   or Joyce D.
  

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