Mini Sunflower Bargello with Jennifer Houlden

Description

Perfect precision is not required to create this stunning sunflower.

With expert instruction, you will explore the world of colour to select fabrics for the flower, cut and sew your strips, and arrange your strips to create a wave-like effect (the Bargello). Transform the Bargello into an amazing sunflower adding the finishing touches with free motion zigzag.

Whether you’re a seasoned quilter or a beginner, you’ll leave this workshop with a beautiful Bargello Sunflower quilt that you can proudly display in your home. https://quiltsbyjen.ca/

What Does the Student Bring to Class? Sunflower

• 5 fabrics ranging from light to dark in the colour of your choice in cottons and batiks with texture for the flower (any colour goes) - .25 metres or FQ of each
• 6 inch piece of fabric for flower centre - something with texture and complementary to the flower fabric

Background, Binding & Batting

• 1 metre of a fabric that will complement the flower - can be textured, solid, mottled, batik, shot cotton, etc
• 24 x 24 inch piece of cotton or low loft batting

Note: if you wish to create a different more involved border from the simple border taught in the pattern then I recommend purchasing .5 metres of each of the flower fabric.

Thread

• Neutral 50 weight cotton for piecing
• Quilting of background: colour that blends in or contrasts with the background fabric
• Stitching around the flower: a colour that either blends in or contrasts - can be rayon, polyester, cotton, solid or variegated - 30 wt thread works well for the appliqué stitching

Other Supplies

• ½ yard of a paper backed fusible web
• Sharp scissors that will cut paper and fabric together for appliqué
• Rotary cutter
• Ruler - 6 x 24
• Cutting Mat - 18 x 24 or larger works best
• Green painters tape for labelling strips
• Parchment paper or Teflon pressing sheet
• Pins, seam ripper, scissors
• Pencil
• Sewing machine needles: 80/12 Microtex or Universal for piecing, 90/14 Topstitch for quilting & appliqué
• Basting pins or spray baste glue

Pre-class cutting & sewing recommended - will be discussed in pre workshop Zoom session in July

bag lunchWorkshop Details

• Saturday August 12 and Sunday August 13
• 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
• FFAA Studio located at 10554 - 110 St NW
• Open to FFAA Members Only
• Maximum students = 15
• Includes pattern

Registration Fee is $40 per student A Zoom date will be announced to all students to go over supplies needed.

Register here - https://www.focusonfibreart.org/copy-of-events-workshops

Please note that there are no refunds. If you find you cannot attend, the onus is on you to find your replacement.