Class Fee: $145/ WMQFA Members (with member code); $170/Non Members

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Workshop Description: Learn to quilt by hand, following your intuition and improvising as you go. In this class, you can make a 'wholecloth' quilt, using a single cut of fabric as your quilt top, or you can use an existing quilt top.

This workshop is both conceptual and technical. Heidi will begin with a trunk show, during which she will explain both why and how she quilted as she did. Stitch density, exposed or hidden knots, overlapping lines of quilting, and color choices will be expanded upon. Heidi loves to quilt with pearl size 8 thread for its high visibility and strength. Students can work with an existing quilt top or a 'wholecloth' single piece of fabric. We will cover basting, quilting with a tabletop and a heavy book to create tension, hand positioning, hand care, thimble use, and a variety of ways to balance planning with improv. We will not use pens to 'mark,' our fabric, but will learn a few tricks to anticipate our stitching. Heidi is an expert at creating areas of visual interest and activating the quilt top with the quilting functioning like a 'drawing' on the surface of the fabric. Students will not complete their quilt in class, but will get a solid foundation on improvisation and hand quilting.ing.

Class Fee: $145/ WMQFA Members (with member code); $170/Non Members

Supplies Checklist

Workshop Description: Learn to quilt by hand, following your intuition and improvising as you go. In this class, you can make a 'wholecloth' quilt, using a single cut of fabric as your quilt top, or you can use an existing quilt top.

This workshop is both conceptual and technical. Heidi will begin with a trunk show, during which she will explain both why and how she quilted as she did. Stitch density, exposed or hidden knots, overlapping lines of quilting, and color choices will be expanded upon. Heidi loves to quilt with pearl size 8 thread for its high visibility and strength. Students can work with an existing quilt top or a 'wholecloth' single piece of fabric. We will cover basting, quilting with a tabletop and a heavy book to create tension, hand positioning, hand care, thimble use, and a variety of ways to balance planning with improv. We will not use pens to 'mark,' our fabric, but will learn a few tricks to anticipate our stitching. Heidi is an expert at creating areas of visual interest and activating the quilt top with the quilting functioning like a 'drawing' on the surface of the fabric. Students will not complete their quilt in class, but will get a solid foundation on improvisation and hand quilting.ing.

How has the pandemic influenced and affected artists? Join us to hear from Anne Katz from Arts Wisconsin, Angela Johnson from the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP), and Milwaukee artist Heidi Parkes on how this unusual year is impacting artists.

The program is free, but donations are appreciated: https://www.wiquiltmuseum.com/products/artists-in-the-pandemic-virtual-chat

Watch via Zoom or on live on Facebook.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83296053403

For more information about WRAP, click here: https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/wisconsin-regional-art-program/

For more information about Arts Wisconsin, click here: https://www.artswisconsin.org/

For more information about Heidi Parkes: http://www.heidiparkes.com/

Join us Friday, May 22, at noon CDT for a free, Zoom panel discussion with Milwaukee artists Linda Marcus, Heidi Parkes, and Nirmal Raja. Learn about these artists' inspirational practices and creative processes during a lunchtime talk moderated by WMQFA curator Emily Schlemowitz.

About the Artists:
Linda Marcus is a nationally-recognized textile designer and fiber artist whose work embraces the expressive possibilities of fiber alongside less traditional materials.

Heidi Parkes is a decorated quilter and quilt instructor whose evocative quilts utilize textiles from domestic culture, fashion, family heirlooms, and scavenged prints. These cloths are often beset with hand stitching that functions as a layer of “drawing” on the quilts' surface.

Nirmal Raja is an interdisciplinary artist whose sensitive practice examines notions of memory, identity, place, and belonging through a range of materials and processes.

Registration for the panel discussion is not required.
Please click this link to join the Zoom webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87939364481

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