This course focuses on the development of individual designs to create samples of work using fabric and threads. A range of uncolored fabric types are patched, pieced, and quilted together by hand or by machine. Color, pattern, and texture are applied to these samples by the use of printing, dyeing, and stitching.

During this course, you will:

• Develop design ideas on paper, from a source, which can be used as resources for future work
• Develop patterns into blocks and masks
• Use white and cream-colored fabrics to patch, piece, and quilt samples
• Make further additions of print and pattern on plain and pieced fabrics, using white and opaque pigments (to retain white once dyed)
• Embellish samples with hand and/or machine stitch using natural fabrics and threads that can be dyed
• Paint dye directly onto already prepared stitched, pieced, patched, and printed fabrics
• Evaluate the resulting samples
• Further build upon samples by cutting and introducing contrasts of color, surface, and pattern, adding further texture with stitch, and/or create further complementary pieces
  
  Student needs for this class:

• There is a Supply Fee for this class, to include use of most media that will be used in the classroom, payable at the class. The amount will be available closer to class.
• An additional supply list (papers, fabrics, etc.) will be sent to the student by 30 December 2004.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Friday, 11 February - 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, 12 February - 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, 13 February - 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Monday, 14 February - 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 15 February - 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Approx. lunch hour will be 12:30-1:30 p.m. Dinner on Sunday will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.