Mark your calendar for April 22-25, 2015. Bring your friends! Enjoy the incredible AQS contest quilts! Visit the vendors! Enjoy learning new techniques!
Edge-Ruched Flower and Bud - Wednesday Afternoon 1:00-4:00 pm Lincoln Room
SOLD OUT Dress up your appliqué quilts or clothing with easy edge-ruched flowers and buds. Learn easy techniques to finish this little block. Start with a simple leaf and stem and learn to appliqué smooth curves. Sew a fancy ruched flower and a bud bursting from its calyx. Add a stuffed circle or button to finish your ruched flower. I will also show you how to turn your ruched flowers into fabric jewelry to wear.
SOLD OUT Start as a beginner or expand your appliqué toolbox! Barbara will demonstrate as many methods as time allows to make stems, vines, and basket weavers for various styles of hand or machine appliqué. Determine which methods are best for each appliqué situation. Learn about bias and straight grain, when each cut is most effective, and easily figure out how long and how wide to cut fabric for stems and vines to fit your project. Learn several methods of stem placement, how to neatly turn under cut stem ends, and how to reduce bulk or add dimension. Handout booklet is loaded with graphics, tips, and tricks for eighteen different methods. Choose a few methods to sew stems on your class project, or make samples to store in your booklet for future reference. Top off your stems with colorful yo-yos or add flowers of your choice. 
SOLD OUT This graceful applique block is drawn
from the antique quilt featured in Barbara’s book “Baltimore Garden Quilt,” and may
have been inspired by our native dogwood trees. Honor tradition with red and
green, sew pink dogwood flowers, or learn ways to harness the power of modern
fabrics for any color flowers. Start as a beginner, or expand your appliqué
skills! Learn techniques to
finish this block using needleturn with freezer paper on top method. Begin with
gentle, smooth curves and pointy points on leaves. Choose from several methods
to make stems and two ways to place them in graceful curves. Learn how to
appliqué inner curves and round outer curves on the flowers. Experiment with
layered appliqué. Finish with perfectly round stuffed flower centers, or embellish
with French knots or beads. Learn Barbara’s method for accurate placement
without marking the background, tips for handling small pieces, and ideas to
make your hand appliqué faster.
Baltimore Garden Bluebird and Tulip - Friday Morning 8:30-11:30am Lincoln Room
SOLD OUT A single tulip
clipped from one of the original blocks in Barbara’s “Baltimore Garden Quilt” is joined by a swooping bird. Start as
a beginner, or expand your applique skills. Learn to applique smooth inner and outer curves, and two methods for a graceful
curved stem. Master inner and outer points and learn tricks to make your fabric do as
YOU wish using freezer paper on top as a guide for needleturn. Barbara will
offer a method of accurate applique placement without marking the background,
and tips to make your hand applique faster. For a final touch, the bird will
seem to come to life with an embroidered eye. Antique Cornerstone Applique - Friday Evening 5:30pm - 8:30pm Lincoln Room
SOLD OUT Inspired by an antique
Pennsylvania applique quilt, learn to hand applique with an easy back-basting technique and
needleturn using very simple tools – fabrics, pencil, scissors, needle and
thread. Start as a beginner, or expand your applique toolbox! Choose fabrics
and marking tools for best results with this easy and portable technique. Honor
tradition with red and green, or go wild from your fabric stash. Determine the
order of appliqué placement and how to align symmetrical pieces. Learn to
appliqué gentle inner and outer curves, turn angles on flower buds, and perfect
points on leaves. Barbara will offer tips and tricks to handle small and large
applique pieces, and ideas to make your hand applique faster.
Baltimore Garden Rose Sprig - Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30am Lincoln Room
SOLD OUT This graceful
little rose sprig is clipped from a pattern in Barbara’s book Baltimore Garden Quilt. With freezer paper on top as your guide for
needleturn, learn to hand appliqué with gentle curves, Vs, easy points,
and a two-part flower bud with inner and outer curves. Choose from several
methods to make graceful curved stems. Honor the traditional with red and
green, harness the power of modern fabrics to fussy cut roses and buds, or try
an optional broderie perse technique. Barbara will offer tips
and tricks to make your hand appliqué faster, and teach you how to manage placement of
small appliqué pieces with no marks on the background.
Hope to see you in Paducah!
SOLD OUT This graceful
little rose sprig is clipped from a pattern in Barbara’s book Baltimore Garden Quilt. With freezer paper on top as your guide for
needleturn, learn to hand appliqué with gentle curves, Vs, easy points,
and a two-part flower bud with inner and outer curves. Choose from several
methods to make graceful curved stems. Honor the traditional with red and
green, harness the power of modern fabrics to fussy cut roses and buds, or try
an optional broderie perse technique. Barbara will offer tips
and tricks to make your hand appliqué faster, and teach you how to manage placement of
small appliqué pieces with no marks on the background. (c) 2015 Barbara M. Burnham. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any kind is expressly prohibited without prior written authorization.
