Description
This workshop is sold out. Please call the store at 609-737-4321 if you would like to be added to the waiting list.
Monday, September 30, 9:30am-4:30pm
Instructors: Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably
Class fee includes lunch, design wall flannel, and Kaffe reducing glass.
"Why strive for complicated, difficult to sew arrangements when simple squares, diamonds, and triangles are so endlessly fascinating as long as the colors are alive?" - Kaffe Fassett
Globally, Kaffe Fassett fans have enthusiastically embraced his Seed Packet Quilt. It's sew much fun to search out bold blooms from your stash and shop for the latest blooms and fruits. Designing and sewing a Seed Packet Quilt is like planting a garden: browsing the catalogs (stash & LQS), planning the layout and planting the seeds (working with Kaffe and Brandon and cutting the squares) and watching it grow (sewing your squares), and finally reaping what you have sown/sewn (wrapping yourself up in your new quilt).
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The workshop Seed Packet variation is composed of 6" and 3-1/4" squares. It features large scale floral, vegetable, and fruit fabrics fussy cut for each square. The blossoms or fruit should fill out the squares of both sizes.
Choose your fabrics with an eye for them to create a harmonious arrangement. They should go together well - perhaps most have a similar background or same level brightness.
You will need 15-20 half yards of super large florals and 15-20 half yards of medium/large florals. Please DO NOT cut fabrics before the class.
Please feel free to bring any fabrics you would like to use for the workshop - they do not have to be Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics. If you are not sure how you are going to proceed, that is OK! Please bring your stash favorites and be prepared to shop with Kaffe and Brandon during the workshop.
We suggest bringing a 6"xWOF ruler and a 6" square ruler to make cutting fabric easier. You may wish to bring some washi tape to mark off your 3-1/4" square.
No sewing takes place during the workshop. No sewing machines needed.
In his lectures and workshops, Kaffe Fassett reveals how he experiences the colors and basic shapes around him, how we can train our own eyes to see this rewarding source of creativity, and how we can, just as he does, combine striking fabrics with simple shapes to create our own spectacular quilt designs.
In each workshop, Kaffe & Brandon will teach and mentor each participant's own personal color journey through fabric choice and placement. Everyone will follow the same process of choosing fabrics as Kaffe and Brandon do when they are designing, working on a design wall flannel. The design wall flannel is then rolled up with their quilt, to take home at the end of the day. No sewing takes place during the workshop. No sewing machines needed.
Photo credit: FreeSpirit Fabrics