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Quilting - Patchwork Pattern Play
Spend the afternoon with Anna, learning basic patchwork skills and playing with pattern and colour.
Teacher: Anna Farago
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: Starting with 16 squares, participants will learn how to prepare, cut and sew a simple half triangle block. You will then play and create options of patchwork designs by sketching designs and/or laying out possibilities with their 16 simple blocks. Once a final design is decided upon the 4x4 gridded design will be sewn ready for quilting or finishing off into a cushion cover.
Materials: Fabric for cutting 16 squares of approx. 6”. We suggest a light, mid & dark shade of similar coloured fabric (could be slightly different textures) and one that is quite different like a bright colour or a patterned fabric (this could be a scraps). To have ample fabric to play with, we suggest about ½ metre of each different fabric choice. Rotary cutter and cutting matt (if you have them). Greylead pencil and a ruler. Sewing machine.
Takeaway: A patchwork cushion top ready to be made up, quilted or used as part of a larger piece.
Level: Beginner / Advanced Beginner / Intermediate. You must be able to sew a straight seam.
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.