Kitchen Garden Quilt – Virtual Workshop

Kitchen Garden Quilt is an exploration of fabric coloration and stitch to create a personal unique art quilt with a tasty theme. Class will begin by colorizing fruit and veg block prints with fabric dye pastels provided in your kit. Then let the stitch begin! Lisa will teach a stitch technique that borrows from the traditional Japanese styles of boro patches and sashiko stitch and sprinkles in a bit of grandma’s crazy quilting too. You get to choose if you want colorful patches look, a solid color background so the stitches shine or some of both! Your finished blocks can be framed or finished individually or stitch together in any combination to create a larger art quilt. Lisa will show you lots of examples and share finishing ideas and techniques too.

Your kit includes:

• 6 -fruit/veg block prints with 12 words on white cotton
• 6- 9×12” rectangles of muslin with Misty fuse applied
• 1 – ball of white pearl cotton thread size 8
• 1 – chenille needle size #24
• Set of 15 pentel fabric dye sticks

To complete your 6 kitchen garden art quilt blocks you need:

• 6 – 9×12 pieces of cotton color of your choice or enough small scraps of fabric to cover six 9×12 rectangles with patches of print or solid cotton fabric.
• iron and pad or board to iron on
• pins and or glue stick.
• scissors or rotary cutter (pinking shears are nice but not required)

• Optional: disappearing fabric marker such as Pilot FriXion or Fabric Chalk such as Dritz Quilting Chalk Cartridge set is good if you want to mark precise stitch lines – you can also stitch freehand with no marking (I do both)