Quilting - Handquilting
Learn the basics of hand quilting, playing with design to create a beautiful cushion top or wall hanging.
Teacher: Anna Farago
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: The workshop will start with the essentials of how to prepare and secure the layers of a quilt prior to getting started on the quilting. Once the layers are prepared, options for marking where to stitch will be shown and explained. Finally the hand stitching will be explained and demonstrated giving participants plenty of time to get their hand quilting technique worked out, practiced and applied. Binding will also be on the agenda.
You can use a piece of whole cloth or if you went to Pattern Play on the Friday arvo you can use your patchwork top.
Materials: Fabric - either completed patchwork quilt top or a piece of fabric 21 x 21inches. Rotary cutter and cutting matt (if you have one). Greylead pencil and ruler
Perle 8 or sashiko thread. Long needle with large eye.
Takeaway: Depending on designs and stitching time, participants will leave with a near finished handquilted cushion top or wall hanging with the knowledge and instructions on how to finish it off.
Level: Beginner/Advanced Beginner/Intermediate.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.