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October Tara Faughnan Workshop!

On Saturday, Oct. 25, CVAMQG is offering an online workshop with Tara Faughnan. Tara has spent the past 20+ years stitching her way through color palettes, quilt blocks, and creative experiments that don’t always go according to plan—and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Tara Faughnan

“Quilting, for me, is more than just a craft. It’s a way of slowing down, playing with color, solving little puzzles, and finding joy in the process (even when I’m seam-ripping!),” she says. With a background in textile design, Tara’s creative soul belongs to quilting—especially when she gets to share that love with other curious, creative minds.

On Monday, October 6th, at 7-8 pm EST, Tara presents a lecture, “Value Creates the Design” via Zoom. The lecture is FREE for CVAMQG members and $15 for non-members.

On Saturday, October 25th, at 10am-4pm EST, Tara offers her workshop, “Bokeh Quilt Color and Design” via Zoom. The workshop is $125 for CVAMQG members and $150 for non-members. Refund given only if there is a replacement for your spot. Workshop is limited to 24 students.

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VALUE CREATES THE DESIGN – LECTURE

Join Tara in a talk all about why value is one of the most important and essential design tools at our disposal.  Tara will present a lot of pictures so you can clearly see how value plays a role in creating movement, tension or flow in the design of a quilt, and she’ll leave you with a few exercises you can take forward into your own quilt making.

BOKEH QUILT COLOR AND DESIGN – WORKSHOP

The Bokeh Quilt is an exploration into creating rhythm through the use of color and value. Rather than relying on shape to create a design, we will use value and contrast to create movement and tell a story.  Whether you choose to use precise piecing, or go ruler-free for this quilt, the design employs a method of strip piecing to make the sewing fast, easy and fun.

REGISTER HERE!


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Spring Zoom Workshops with Cheryl Arkison

Canadian quilt artist Cheryl Arkison is excited to share these online workshops with CVAMQG members and friends. Her lecture is free to guild members.

  • Wednesday, March 12th, 7pm-8:30pm – Improv Is My Love Language Lecture via Zoom
  • Saturday, March 15th, 10am-4pm – Improv Lettering workshop
  • Saturday, April 12th, 10am-1pm – Improv Applique workshop

About the workshops:

IMPROV LETTERING

Say what you want to say, but say it in a quilt. From simple holiday greetings to profound statements, use words in quilts to convey your message. This class covers planning and construction for any letter. With a little bit of planning you can turn your words into beautiful quilts, table runners, or even personalized baby gifts This class covers planning your letters, improvisational piecing, and fabric selection.

IMPROV APPLIQUE

From the tools of the trade to basting to final stitches, this class with cover hand applique basics with a big twist – we’re doing it improvisationally! Looking for inspiration, cutting shapes, and block prep are part of the class. This is definitely not the applique you are used to. Portability and great design make applique a skill worth learning. Settle in for some slow stitching. 

COSTS

  • Improv is My Love Language Lecture – FREE for Members, NonMembers $15
  • Improv Lettering – Members $45, NonMembers $60
  • Improv Applique – Members $30, NonMembers $45

NOTE: Refund given only if there is a replacement for your spot.

PLEASE REGISTER HERE.   

About Cheryl (in her own words):

Back when I started quilting it was practically unheard of for a 23-year-old to do so, but there I was. Now, over 25 years later, I haven’t stopped. In addition to my own creative work, I love to teach, write books, spread the gospel of improv, and design quilts. Every now and then I make a garment my Grade 8 home-ec teacher would be proud of. When it comes to making I am happy to make what inspires. I am well known for my use of bold colour and the quiet whispers of low-volume fabrics but I will use anything in between as well. Use what you love, make what makes you happy. Just get your butt in the seat and sew. I am a huge proponent of play and through The Quilters’ Playcation lead us all on adventures! In the past decade I’ve published three books: Sunday Morning Quilts (co-authored with Amanda Jean Nyberg), A Month of Sundays, and You Inspire Me to Quilt. I’ve also travelled the world to teach quilting and have even judged QuiltCon. In between I am raising three active kids and running a business with my husband. Sometimes, I sleep. 

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Abstract-a-liscious with Lyric Kinard

Now open for registration to members and non-members!

Lyric Kinard will offer her ABSTRACT-A-LICIOUS Zoom workshop on

Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10am-1pm EST, and

Saturday, February 1, 2025, 10am-noon EST

Abstraction: Freedom from representational qualities in art. Taking away or removing characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of essential characteristics.

Abstract-a-licious: Freedom from pressure or the need to make it real. Removing fear and the need for perfection in order to enlarge the artists essential joy in creation.

Participants will have full access to Lyric’s on-demand Abstract-A-Liscious workshop for a full week between the two sessions. The live session will NOT be recorded.

Cost: CVAMQG Members: $40; Non-members: $50

Refund given only if there is a replacement for your spot. Class size limited to 24 students.

Register here.

Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award-winning quilt artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students possesses. With playful support and gentle encouragement she creates a classroom environment where discovery and joy are the products of a willingness to freely play and fearlessly learn. 

One of Lyric’s greatest joys is sharing that moment when a student realizes that they do, indeed, have a spark of creativity inside them. She then gives them the tools to fan that spark into a steady flame. 

She is the author of the book Art + Quilt: design principles and creativity exercises. She has written extensively for Quilting Arts and a number of other magazines, and appeared on Quilting Arts TV, and The Quilt Show.

Lyric is also cofounder of the Global Quilt Connection, an online resource connecting virtual teachers with guilds worldwide, and dean at The Academy for Virtual Teaching, where creatives learn the tech needed to build successful online teaching careers.

You can see her work at LyricKinard.com