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Urban Sunsets Workshop for Quilters with Christine Barnes
Urban Sunsets Workshop for Quilters
with Christine Barnes
June 3, 2018 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Learn about color, value, and pattern, plus my technique for making super-skinny strips in this modern-quilt workshop. Three related (but not matching) fabrics make up each center unit. Narrow black-and-white strips inserted asymmetrically between the "segments" define and separate the fabrics. You'll also learn how to cut and add the ombré borders to make it appear as if light is sweeping across the surface. (The gray ombré will be available in class.)
Finished block: 13" x 13"
Finished quilt: 47" x 47"
CHRISTINE BARNES~A brief bio
Christine Barnes is a writer, designer, and contemporary quilter specializing in color. Degrees in design and journalism led to a career writing decorating and remodeling books for Sunset Publishing. Christine says, "I wrote about color for the home then, but my real love has always been color and design in quilts." She has been teaching for 18 years and is the author of four quilting books, including The Quilter's Color Club (C&T), and Color: The Quilters Guide (Martingale), as well as articles for Modern Patchwork, McCall's Quilting, American Patchwork & Quilting, American Quilter, and Fabrications, a British quilting magazine. Christine lives in Grass Valley, CA. You can see her work on her website, www.christinebarnes.com, where you can also sign up for "Christine's Color Connection," a newsletter on color.
©2018 Christine Barnes
www.christinebarnes.com
cebarnes@sbcglobal.net (I prefer email queries over phone calls.)
SUPPLY LIST: Urban Sunsets (with super-skinny swizzle sticks)
Fabrics:
* Scraps about 4" x 9" for the block segments (the center unit). I used three different fabrics in nine different blocks for a total of 27 fabrics. You can repeat some of the fabrics, but know that your quilt won't look as varied. When in doubt, bring more fabric!
What kinds of fabrics work well? In most of my blocks I used a
* hand-dye,
* Kaffe Fassett stripe (www.gloriouscolor.com),
* Marcia Derse print (www.marciaderse.com)
I went for contrast in color and in the openness (versus density) of the fabric design. You can use other fabrics, of course, but I think it's most appealing when you combine different "species" of fabric in each block for example, a hand-dye, a stripe, and a print.
* For the segment fabrics, I tend to avoid very dark colors and prints; they will blend with your B&W super-skinny strips. By the same token, you will want to avoid very light fabrics; they will jump out.
* 1/4 yard black-and-white fabric for the skinny strips (predominantly black, with just a little white). Fabrics that are half-black and half-white wont work; they end up looking gray. This is the #1 mistake students make with this quilt.
* 1 1/2 yards of Gelato #714 (gray ombré), available in class or online in my Store (www.christinebarnes.com). You can use any neutral gray, but the value changes in the ombré make the blocks look lustrous.
Border strip instructions and window template for auditioning the center units, provided.
LUNCH:
Bring a snack or lunch (a refrigerator is on site); if you wish to purchase lunch, the closest place is L'Atelier TR, located across the front parking lot from BARN at 8893 Three Tree Lane NE, Unit 7.
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LocationBARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) (View)
8890 Three Tree Lane NE
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
United States
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