A Little Creative Space

The Mini Art Quilt Fabric Book Workshop:
This workshop has 5 full lessons and 169 pages teaching you how to make mini art quilts. These are also called: Quilties, fabric collages, and fabric pages! Mini art quilts can be framed to hang and enjoy or you can make them into soft, touchable, very creative fabric books. Through doing this workshop you will discover that quilties use only the smallest amounts of fabric and are very easy to put together in a short amount of time. Fabric pages/Quilties are really so much fun to make! A sewing machine is not an absolute requirement for this workshop, although it is useful. Hand sewing & gluing your fabric pages together is another option.
Creative Lenna workshops come complete with step-by-step photos and detailed instructions via PDF files. Additionally, you can reach me by email with any questions. We will go over sewn and non-sewn versions of mini art quilts, how to get started making quilties and what kinds of interesting things you can add to your quilties. We will spend a lot of time during Lesson 2 learning a variety of image transfer methods.
The cost of this 5-lesson workshop is $50.00 payable via PayPal.
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It is typical for students to create between 5- 8 mini art quilts or quilties during this workshop and finish their last lesson by putting all of the quilties they have created together making a fabric book. You will have the opportunity to try new ideas combining fabric, transparencies and paper, and you will create at least one cover for a fabric book. (There are instructions for a several different types of fabric book covers).
Mini Art Quilt Book Workshop details:
Lesson 1 = 38 pages long
Getting started with mini art quilts!
Lesson 1
*Choosing a theme (or not)
*Choosing fabrics
*Adding batting (or not)
*Lots of creative ideas on what is possible to add
*Gluing vs. sewing or fusing
*Using pre-printed collage images & how to attach them
*Adding simple trims -how?
*Simple edge treatments
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Lesson 2 = 32 Pages long
Image Transfers & Ink Jet printing onto fabric

Lesson 2
*Immediate Gel medium transfers: ink jet printed images to fabric
*Immediate Gel medium transfers: ink jet printed transparencies to fabric
*Overnight Gel medium transfers: printed images on paper, to fabric
*Ink jet printing on fabric through your own printer: images & words
*Ink jet printing directly onto blank Twill Tape
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Lesson 3 = 36 pages long
Attaching things & embellishments

Lesson 3
*Using eyelets and mini brads
*Different glues for different things
*Hand or machine sewing?
*How to attach transparency images
*Sewing or gluing buttons and charms
*using paper ~ how to protect and how to attach paper to fabric
*Design considerations
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Lesson 4 = 33 pages long
Rubber stamps, nature printing and finishing touches
Lesson 4
*Choosing rubber stamps and inks for working with fabric
*How to utilize rubber stamp designs (all over the piece or just one word)
*Nature Printing as an alternative to rubber stamps and how
*Free form sewing as a way to add texture & interest
*Adding beads and decorative stitches
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Lesson 5 = 30 pages long
Putting it all together!
Lesson 5
*Creating a cover for your mini quilt pages
*Putting all your quilties together!
*Simple wrap style cover
*Intermediate eyelet/ribbon cover
*More advanced – sewing the fabric pages into a spine
*A gallery of examples and ideas
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