Maggie Vanderweit
Maggie Vanderweit operates Stone Threads Fibre Art from her walkout studio in Fergus. She is an award-winning quilter with work in Canadian galleries, museums and private collections around the world. www.stonethreads.ca
Threadplay, Maggie Vanderweit
Threadplay (25) Intermediate to Advanced
Plan to experiment and have a lot of fun getting your machine to do tricks you did not know were possible! Hoop work, openwork, straight, decorative and zigzag stitches are explored. It is a fast-paced and exciting class that will give you enough tools to go home and make original textile art using your threads as paint. Supply List
6 Hour Workshop
Machine Quilting: The Next Level, Maggie Vanderweit
Machine Quilting: The Next Level (25) Intermediate to Advanced
You have mastered the basics of meandering and stippling and are ready for more. Let’s start developing your own machine quilting patterns and challenging yourself with more complexity in your designs and finishing techniques. Join Maggie for an empowering experience that will free you to get really creative with your quilts and wall hangings! Supply List
6 Hour Workshop
Bead Embellishment for Art Quilts & Talking Sticks, Maggie Vanderweit
Bead Embellishment for Art Quilts & Talking Sticks
Take a trip through Maggie’s world of inspiration and see stunning samples of quilts and textile art featuring fabulous beaded work and surface design. Get great tips to add shimmery bling to your textile art, some subtle and delicate, others bold and eye-catching. Plus, discover Maggie’s reinvention of the talking stick used in traditional First Nations’ circles. The person holding the stick is the one who gets to speak and these speak even louder as they take on a character of their own through colourful, intricate beadwork executed in circular peyote stitch.
1.5 Hour Seminar
Class registration will begin July 30, 2012. Check out our website for additional details on classes, packages and registration information. www.creativfestival.ca