Vashon Island Sewing Retreat
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From quick gift bags to carry all totes, Janice will show you how to make this muti-purpose, multi-pocketed tote your own.
There are lots of choices of sizes, closures, color and pockets combinations. Make open or closed tops, zippers, snaps and flaps. Janice's tips and tricks will help your bags fit you’re needs and personality. You'll be showing them off and using them for years. And, you can use your new bags to tote it all home.
Wild Crazy Quilt : (8 Students)
Lorraine Kimmel will show you an easy method of making Crazy Quilts.
She will focus on velvets, brocades, lace, silks, and ties and show you how to make crazy patches and hold them together with elegant embroidery stitches.
You will be delighted with your own crazy quilt heirloom .
Slice & Dice : (8 Students)
Barb Trenary will show you how to slice 4
fat quarter quilt blocks and dice them into
new quilt blocks. Or slice 4 other quilt
blocks into your very own “Convergence” quilt. Fast and fun techniques, and all done on the machine.
Robbie's Faulous Fabric Bowls
Fabulous Fabric Bowls: (8 students)
Robbie Severson will teach you two different methods for making these unique fabric bowls and give you tips on embellishing them.
You should be able to finish 2 to 4 bowls during the Retreat.
Jinni's Robe Classes
Jinni's Robe: (6 students)
Our aclaimed pattern
maker, Jinni Nastiuk, is
bringing her unique
body
fitting patterns, developed
over years of intensive
research
fitting thousands
of bodies, to this fun and
easy robe class.
Her patterns are multi-sized from petite to extra large, proportioned for the mature female figure and customized for different body shapes.
The robe patterns come in 2 styles: drop shoulder and raglan. You can also make a coat or jacket from these same patterns.
Some Simple ideas for Silk Class
Something Simple in Silk: (6 students)
Slip into something soft, smooth and
sensational ....
something supple and seductive
....
something simple ...
something
silk.
It’s not as hard as you might
think. Make sleepwear, slip-ons, skimmers,
shifts, or shapely drapey shells, but keep it simple to
let the fabric shine.
You'll learn to love this luscious fabric.
Carolyn's Stack'N Whack
Quilt Clinic + Stack'N Whack: (10 students)
Have a quilt you’ve been wanting to make but just don’t know where to start? Bring your pattern and fabric for expert help.
This year’s focus quilt will be Stack’n Whack. Chose a large scale print with lots of color contrast and watch it turn into a kaleidoscope of fascinating blocks.
Carolyn's class always fills early, so get your reservation in soon.
Cheryl's Machine Sashiko
Machine Sashiko: (8 students)
This traditional Japanese
style of whole cloth
quilting was orginally
done by hand through
several layers of indigo
cloth using heavy white
thread. You will use your
sewing machine to
to achieve this stunning embellishment on a
comtemporary project of your choice.
Sashiko can be used to decorate garments, pillows, table runners, purses and totes.
You will learn techniques for using different
threads, transferring designs, continuous line
quilting as well as free-motion. Cheryl will teach
a reversible 2-sided binding and share lots of design ideas.
Some of us sew, some kint and some do both.
Sewing Time for You -OR- Do Your Own Thing:
No Instructor (No student limit)
We provide the space, the power and a chair. You bring your projects, knitting or whatever and join in on all the fun, good food, and camaraderie.
A real stress free vacation.
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