Quilt Wellington Symposium 2009 - Needs List

 

Class

JBOWTU2

Patterns from Science

2 days 

$240  

Tutor

Jenny Bowker

 Kitset: $4.00

 

Skill Level

All levels but you must be willing to let go of traditional methods.

There is an additional charge of $NZ4.00 payable to the tutor for materials supplied.

Needs:

  • Sewing thread to match fabric                     

  • Pins                                                             
  • Scissors (fabric cutting)                                 
  • Scissors (paper cutting)                                
  • Glue stick                                                     
  • Lightweight Vilene or non-fusible interfacing or lightweight Tearaway to use as template material
  • Sharp pencils                                                    
  • Eraser                                                               
  • Sellotape (might be useful!)
  • Coloured pencils/pens                                       
  • An A4 Visual Diary
  • Lots of tracing paper  - heavy quality smooth one like white drafting paper.
  • ACETATE - several sheets
  • Rotary cutting equipment: Cutter, mat and ruler(s) - bring only if you like to work with squares and not with informal shapes!
  • Fabric for design wall (flannel, batting, sheet - to be taped to a wall)               
  • Sewing machine (plus instruction book and all cords)                                                         
  • Foot for free motion stitching - either darning or quilting
  • About half metre Vliesofix/fusible web/wonder under Be warned - you might not use this. If you bring it you also need some Gladbake to protect the iron.
  • Fine Overhead Projector pen, permanent and black, as it must be able to write on acetate.
  • A ruler
  • A good, broad selection of fabrics in the colour and value ranges you are likely to want. These can be similar to colours in your original images or wildly different - and it is interesting to try both. Cottons are easy to work with and homespuns or hand dyes can be wonderful - but keep in mind that you are making up class samples and keep your most precious pieces for your quilt. Your images can be the base for colour play.
  • Good quality calico, Quilter's muslin or homespun, pre-washed. This could be used as a foundation.  About a metre - more if you work fast
  • Usual sewing tools - pins, scissors, quick unpick, accessory box et cetera.
  • A selection of photographs or images from science in magazines or books with patterning ideas.. It is better to have a wide selection of ideas than only one or two. Dover books of early scientific illustration can be marvelous as they are copyright free. Images of fossils, close-ups of things like fish skin, microscopic images, and so on can be interesting as sources. Black and white photocopies are fine.