Personal Symbols for Art Quilt Collage Workshop

What symbols and personal themes will you incorporate into your small art quilt collages? Houses, leaves, bowls, ladders? Deborah will guide you through exploring and creating shapes and symbols that have personal meaning. Create 5×7” fabric collages highlighting personal symbols using composition templates and inspiring fabrics. Embellish with machine and hand stitching. Learn simple finishing techniques and mount your art quilt collage on mats ready for framing.

Supplies

Bring Your Own Fabric

• six to ten pieces of fabrics approximately 9x10” — or similar scrap sizes Consider picking a focus fabric and building the rest of the fabrics around that with small tone on tone prints. At least one fabric should be dark and one should be light. Choose at least one “pop of color.” Fabrics don’t need to be measured exactly. Large scale multi-color pints can be tricky for this project. If you have a stash of pre-fused fabric, this is a great workshop to use it. Watch this video to help you choose fabric and prepare your supplies. Follow the instructions in this video for fusing your fabrics ahead of time.

• six 6 x 8ish inch pieces of batting or felt any color

• card stock window (Using an 8.5 x 11” piece of card stock paper, mark a 5x7” rectangle and cut it out, leaving you with a window to help with design decisions.)

Or Purchase a Kit (Scroll down for kit options.)
Kit Includes:

• nine pieces of pre-fused fabrics approximately 9x10” Deborah selects fabrics that complement each other and provide lots of options for design decisions.

• six 6 x 8ish inch felt bases for your fabric collages 

• 8x10” backing board and plastic sleeve for mounting your finished work 

• cardstock window 

Plus Everyone Needs

• iron and ironing surface

• parchment paper

• embroidery floss and/or perle cotton — A sandwich size plastic bag full of floss will give you lots of options. Choose darks and lights in a variety of colors. If you don’t have embroidery floss in your stash, I suggest bringing 4 to 6 skeins in a variety of colors.

• embroidery needle

• thimble, needle threader and stitching glasses if you use them regularly

• scissors, large and small

• rotary cutter, ruler (6x12 is great), small rotary mat

• One or two colors of acrylic paint to finish the edges of your art quilt collages

• Sponge brush or spouncer for finishing edges

• sketchbook, pen and pencil

  Optional

  • sewing machine  

  • apron and rubber gloves

  • Art Quilt Collage: A Creative Journey in Fabric, Paint and Stitching by Deborah Boschert

  • If you want to mount your small art quilt collages, you’ll need an 8x10 backer board and double sided tape or some other adhesive. (Even a few dots of glue would work.) These plastic sleeves are great for presentation, too.

Personal Symbols for Art Quilt Collage Kits

If your workshop is IN PERSON, Deborah will bring kits with her and you’ll be able to select and pay for a kit on the day of the workshop.

For VIRTUAL workshops, kits must be ordered two full weeks before the date of your workshop. Kits can only be sent to US addresses.
If you live outside the US and would like to order a kit with additional shipping fees, please email Deborah.

If you’d like to order a copy of my book, Art Quilt Collage or Creative Voice workbook, please check out my Etsy shop. (If you order from here and from Etsy on the same day, I’ll combine and refund shipping costs.)