the studio: workshops: design class - STUDIO 1
Design Class: STUDIO 1
Monthly : 10.00 – 4.00
£35 per session, lunch included
This is a sequence on design classes working through a programme of topics that will build confidence and skills in design. Mainly aimed at the patchwork and quilt maker,
it is suitable for all makers of textile arts.
Each day will consist of a number of practical exercises based around the subject of the day and a theme chosen to reflect and inspire. They can be taken as one off workshops but are intended to build skills and confidence throughout the ten months. The class will reflect the knowledge and skills of those who attend. Sharing of work and ideas will be key to the success of the class.
The main emphasis in this class is stitch, both machine and hand stitching.
Homework: Each day will finish with ideas for a small project.
| Thurs 13 October | Intro Day | 'The Road not taken'.....yet. |
| Thurs 10 November | Colour: 101 | |
| Thurs 8 December | Colour: Applied | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly! |
| Thurs 12 January | Pattern: Line | |
| Thurs 9 February | Nature knows best? | |
| Thurs 8 March | Cityscapes and grids | |
| Thurs 12 April | Group Task | Top Secret Mission |
| May | No Class | Loch Lomond Quilt Show |
| Thurs 7 June | Alphabets |
October: Introductory Day: “The Road not taken” – yet……..
A day to meet and find out about each other. If you have been making quilts or other textile art bring something along. A check list of what you have done already – so the course can be properly geared to all the participants. A day of fun and quick exercises to help start things off – just the way we mean to go on.
Design Principles, keeping ideas, safe & healthy quilting, information gathering …..and lots more
November: Colour: 101
Inspired by colour: how to understand colour terms, use of colour, how colour works with cloth, how to build your own colour reference sources, a colour library
December: Colour: Applied The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Inspired by colour: how to add your own, dyeing, printing, removing. How to record your experiments
January: Pattern: Line
Inspired by pattern: understanding pattern, how to build pattern and use pattern in your work, looking at pattern use in quilt making and other textile arts.
February: Nature knows best?
Inspired by the shapes in nature. How to add interest through appliqué and stitch.Skills: Stitch, hand and machine, machine cut and stitch again techniques
March: Cityscape and Grids
Inspired by the man made landscape.
April Group Task...... Top Secret
Top Secret means just that.......wait and see! Information given on a need to know basis only.
May: Loch Lomond Quilt Show
June: Alphabets
Inspired by shape: Looking at simple shapes, moving and building them into more complex shapes.
The Studio’s original Design Class group are still going strong and are now setting a programme of their own.
Taught by Ruth Higham
the Studio: is part of The Loch Lomond Quilt Show Limited registered in Scotland no: 123456 | Registered office: