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Workshops
February 28, 2019
February 19, 2019
February 07, 2019
Meet June Jaeger ...
For more information, or to sign up for classes, follow the links below...
January 23, 2019
January 16, 2019
Teacher Profile - Shelley Tobisch
So many amazing and inspiring teachers visit Stitchin' Post and we thought you would like to get to know them a bit better.
So meet Shelley Tobisch...
Join us for Build a Better Relationship with Your Machine
and Muskrat Hollow Precision Piecing this April.
You can also find out more about Shelley and Bernie on their website.
September 13, 2018
Your Own Forest Workshop Giveaway
Enter our workshop giveaway!
Hilde Morin will be at Stitchin' Post September 24th to teach "Your Own Forest" and you have two chances to win a spot in the class! Two chances!
The first way you can win is to sign up for our newsletter. That's it, sign up. We will randomly choose one winner from our subscriber list. That means if you're already a subscriber you're already entered. Go here to sign-up.
The second way to enter is to tag us with @StitchinPostOR on Facebook or #stitchinpost on Instagram. Share your work, talk about your last visit to the shop or just say hello; all you have to do is tag us in your post and you're entered. The last way to enter the social media drawing is to pin our contest pin to one or your boards on Pinterest.
Good luck!
For those who don't want to trust to luck, we still have a couple seats open in the workshop and you can purchase a spot from our website.
Enter between now and noon on 9/21/2018. We will choose one lucky winner from social media and one newsletter subscriber to win a free 5 day workshop with Hilde Morin. Workshop is "Build Your Own Forest" offered Sept. 24th - 28th at Stitchin' Post in Sisters Oregon. Prize is transferable, but not refundable.
All quilts and photos by Hilde Morin
March 17, 2017
Art Date with Jean
I had a wonderful opportunity this week to work with two of my former students that wanted mentoring on their Art Quilting Journey.
They arrived bright and early on Monday morning and we spent the day exploring color in a variety of ways and working on color mock up’s to see how different fabrics played together. Our key work was “variety” and we tried to keep that in the forefront in our discussions.
They brought finished work and work in progress that they wanted to critique’ in a learning environment to spark their composition skills.
On day two I surprised them with a field trip to Bend to A6 for a lecture from Dawn Boone on Composition. The whole discussion played right into our discussion the previous day. We visited a gallery and looked at art with new eyes and came away with ideas and inspiration. Art Dates are a wonderful way to jumpstart the creative juices and help you to see principles and elements of design in a whole new way.
On the final day we reviewed what we had been doing for the past two days and I brought some work in progress in for them to critique’ so practice their skills. You can see in the “Fireweed” quilt how magenta placed a very important role in moving the eye around the piece.
It was a very interactive experience and they were such eager and open students that a lot was accomplished. They will check in with me from time to time and we will get together again in May.
Happy Sewing!
~Jean
February 18, 2016
Elizabeth Hartman Workshops!
Elizabeth Hartman is a quilter, pattern designer, and fan of color from Portland, Oregon. For her, quiltmaking is the perfect combination of creativity and technical challenge, all in the service of making a useful object.
Just for you! Together with Elizabeth Hartman, we've procured special pricing on her workshops: Fox & Hedgehog and Patchwork City. We have a few more spaces left so please come join us. www.StitchinPost.com
Patchwork City, March 18-20th, $210 (includes lunches)
In Patchwork City, students will learn some of Elizabeth's favorite tips and tricks for fabric selection and precision piecing, as you make blocks from her new sampler book, Patchwork City. The blocks can be combined to make a small sampler, or they can become the start of one of the larger projects in the book.
These blocks are so much fun to put together, choose from 8" x 8", 5" x 8", and 5" x 14" blocks. Mix and match, have fun and use some of those stash fabrics you've been saving for something perfect.
Or keep it all solid for a clean, bold quilt. The possibilities are endless!
It is never too late to sign up for this class. Lunches for all three days is included.
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Foxes & Hedgehogs, March 17th, $70 (includes lunch)
Use your favorite fabrics to make these fun hedgehogs and fox faces! The foxes can be made with scraps, precut strips, fat eighths, or fat quarters. Use fancy fabrics like Liberty Lawn, brightly colored solids, or your favorite print fabric collection. The hedgehog pattern uses conventional patchwork techniques (no paper piecing or templates) and can be made using precut 1½" strips, precut 10" squares, or an assortment of fabric scraps. You can use 3 coordinating pieces of fabric to make each hedgehog (as I've done here) or use the same fabrics for all of the faces and bodies with a different colorful or print fabric for each hedgehog's spines. These hedgehogs and foxes will look adorable in whatever fabrics you use.
Make a throw of Fancy Foxes and Hazel Hedgehogs, then make a few. You can also give these little critters stylish frames later on.
Once you make one block, you won't want to stop.
Sign up now online at www.StitchinPost.com or in store.
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Elizabeth is also the pattern designer of many other pattern such as Kittens, Preppy the Whale, Fancy Forest and more. Find her patterns and books here online and in our shop.
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Being self-taught, Elizabeth says that she did everything wrong at least five times before she figured out how to do it right. So, when she wrote her first book, she wrote the book that she wished she had when she was just beginning. That book, The Practical Guide to Patchwork, was published in 2010 and won the Next Generation Indie Book Award (How-To Category) in 2011.
At the end of 2009, Elizabeth quit her day job to pursue quilting full time. Since then, she has written two more books, Modern Patchwork (2012) and Patchwork City (2014). Her work has also been featured in a variety of other books, publications, and media, including: Stitch, Quilt Scene, Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, Patchwork Tsushin, and Quilting Arts TV. In 2012, Elizabeth recorded two video classes for Craftsy.com, Inspired Modern Quilts and Creative Quilt Backs. Somewhere in there she also founded the Portland Modern Quilt Guild and was a Board Member of the national Modern Quilt Guild for four years. She started selling wholesale print patterns in 2014, and her first print fabric collection for Robert Kaufman, Rhoda Ruth, shipped out last fall, and was follwed by her new line, Pacific.
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