Presented By: Twisted Stitchers Quilt Guild
Trisha DellaVella
Trisha DellaVella – Her love of sewing has naturally progressed over the past 50 years from her passion to her life style. She has tried her hands at everything from crafts and dressmaking which included wedding, bridesmaid and prom dresses to designing and creating children’s competitive dance costumes. Trisha has enjoyed a 20 year career of teaching children and adults to sew out of her home and continues to teach garment sewing at Sew Here, Sew Now Sewing Sewing Center in Scarborough, ON. Harebrained Happenings a Canadian whimsical and creative quilt pattern making company, is the brainchild of Trisha and her partner, Mary Eeg. www.harebrainedhappenings.com
Machine Appliqué: Christmas Angel, Trisha DellaVella
Machine Appliqué: Christmas Angel (20) Beginner+
Let Trisha take you through the steps to make a machine appliqué design from start to finish. Learn basic techniques that include creation of the design, use of fusible web and tear-away stabilizer, cutting the design, positioning, ironing on background and machine blanket stitching the design edge. Your angel can be finished as a wall hanging, bag or pillow. Supplies courtesy of: Sew Here, Sew Now Sewing Centre. Pre-requisite: Machine sewing experience. www.harebrainedhappenings.com
3 Hour Workshop
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Margaret McDonald enjoys playing with colour to create realistic and abstract work with fabric, threads, paints and dyes and considers herself a creative gleaner. www.creativegleanings.blogspot.com
Waves of Colour, Margaret McDonald
Waves of Colour (25) Intermediate
Free yourself from patterns and straight edges. Make a stunning one-of-a-kind wall hanging or table runner using free-hand rotary cutting and precision piecing. Margaret shows how to enhance your own interesting fabrics with curves, shapes and line. Pre-requisite: Basic machine sewing skills. Supply List www.creativegleanings.blogspot.com
3 Hour Workshop
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Sharon Galna was taught to sew at the age of 11 by her mother. She started out by making simple garments and continued with her love of sewing throughout public and high school by making her own clothes. She took that love of sewing to the next level by studying fashion design at college. It was while in college in 1983 that she made her first quilt to celebrate her grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary and was immediately hooked.
It’s been ages since that first quilt and she hasn’t made garments for a very long time. Sharon’s time is now devoted to teaching the art of quilting at The Ultimate Sewing Centre in Oshawa and presenting trunk shows and giving workshops to quilt guilds around the province of Ontario.
She has had pieces juried into the Grand National Quilt Exhibition (2006, 2007, 2010) where she received an honourable mention for Party Animals in 2006. Her work has also been shown at the Joseph Schneider Haus, the Oshawa Fibre Arts Show, the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and the Mclean Community Centre, Ajax.
Neon Quilting, Sharon Galna
Neon Quilting (20) Intermediate
The perfect class for quilters who want to take free-motion machine quilting to the next level and express themselves more creatively. Sharon guides you through the fun process of ‘painting’ with thread as you create a table topper sized work of art. You’ll doodle on a dark fabric with neon coloured threads that bring your stitching to life. Pre-requisite: Free-motion experience. Kit $25+
3 Hour Workshop
Class registration will begin July 30, 2012. Check out our website for additional details on classes, packages and registration information. www.creativfestival.ca