Kitchen Garden Quilt

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 veggie 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 a colorful-patches look, a solid-color background so that 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.

Prerequisites: None
Kit Cost: $30.00 kit payable to the instructor
Kit Contents: Kit includes 6 fruit and veggie block prints on cotton, 15 color set of fabric dye pastels, two 9” x 12” prefused muslin, two 9” x 12” black cotton, 1 ball white pearl cotton thread, chenille needle size #24. Fabric scraps in multi colors to share. This is enough to completely finish 2 of 6 blocks.
Supplies Students Must Bring: Pins and or glue stick, iron and ironing pad (there will be some to share if you don’t have a travel iron), and 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—I’ll have some to share. You can also stitch freehand with no marking. (I do both.) If you have lots of fabric scraps you’d like to use, bring some along in a favorite color family to use in a crazy-quilts design.
Homework: None