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KAREN BOLAN
Pieced Curves and Play with Transparency
SRQG Members $40
Non Members Signups after Feb 2, 2023 $50
In Person atLUTHER BURBANK ART & GARDEN CENTER
MAY 19, 2023 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Forever a textile addict, I am a civil engineer-turned-quilter in Santa Rosa, California. I am drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, and love the learning that comes from experimenting. I endeavor to find efficiencies in process and material use. My designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. My work has been featured in magazines, and exhibited at local and international quilt shows.
I teach and write quilting patterns with an encouraging and engineering-influenced methodological approach. My classes blend lecture, demonstration, and discussion, and include ample hands-on time for students to experience and practice new techniques with individual instruction. I always teach with a focus on fun and skill-building. I carefully and compassionately guide students beyond their comfort zones to new levels of enjoyment, creativity, and skill.
I teach and write quilting patterns with an encouraging and engineering-influenced methodological approach. My classes blend lecture, demonstration, and discussion, and include ample hands-on time for students to experience and practice new techniques with individual instruction. I always teach with a focus on fun and skill-building. I carefully and compassionately guide students beyond their comfort zones to new levels of enjoyment, creativity, and skill.
SOME OF Karen's Quilts
Karen Bolan, Instructor
https://www.karenbolan.com/
Are you intimidated by curves but love precision piecing? Make the Cool as a Cactus quilt in class, featuring pieced curves, a unique border treatment, and color palette that features transparency. Class will begin with an exercise in creating transparency effects, then we work from paper templates to accurately cut and piece large diameter curves. Students must purchase the digital pattern. Leave class with at least one block and border complete.
Students will learn to cut and precisely piece large-diameter curves from templates, assemble a quilt top with pieced borders, and plan a color palette that includes a transparency effect. This is a six-hour class with instructive lecture, demonstration, discussion, and ample time for practice and personal attention.
Fabric yardage as listed in the pattern for the quilt size of your choice (Note: to prepare for class, press all your fabric. Cut the width-of-fabric strips according to the pattern, but do not subcut into smaller rectangles. We’ll do that in class!)
Rotary cutter and cutting mat
6” x 24” quilting ruler
6” or smaller square quilting ruler
(optional) 16 1/2” square quilting ruler
Pins and any favorite notions
Sewing machine in good working order
Thread for piecing
https://www.karenbolan.com/
Are you intimidated by curves but love precision piecing? Make the Cool as a Cactus quilt in class, featuring pieced curves, a unique border treatment, and color palette that features transparency. Class will begin with an exercise in creating transparency effects, then we work from paper templates to accurately cut and piece large diameter curves. Students must purchase the digital pattern. Leave class with at least one block and border complete.
Students will learn to cut and precisely piece large-diameter curves from templates, assemble a quilt top with pieced borders, and plan a color palette that includes a transparency effect. This is a six-hour class with instructive lecture, demonstration, discussion, and ample time for practice and personal attention.
Fabric yardage as listed in the pattern for the quilt size of your choice (Note: to prepare for class, press all your fabric. Cut the width-of-fabric strips according to the pattern, but do not subcut into smaller rectangles. We’ll do that in class!)
Rotary cutter and cutting mat
6” x 24” quilting ruler
6” or smaller square quilting ruler
(optional) 16 1/2” square quilting ruler
Pins and any favorite notions
Sewing machine in good working order
Thread for piecing