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Joen's Workshops and Lectures Traditional Theme A Marriage of Blocks---Blending Blocks into Beautiful Designs Create beautiful original traditional designs by learning how to use blending-block and exploding- block design techniques. You will be surprised at how easy it is to create exciting new designs with many of our much-loved traditional patterns. By the end of class, you should have at least one new design for a future quilt. Class length: 1 day Skill level: all Color Play Have you always wanted to experiment with color, but were afraid to try on your own? Would you like to create your own dynamic quilts and fabric art, using your favorite colors to their fullest potential? If so, join this class. We will play with all sorts of colors in paint and fabric. Color scales, values, temperature, after-images, color schemes, and several illusionary effects will be included in this most colorful class. You’ll be amazed at how much you’ll learn by playing. Class length: 4-5 days Skill level: All levels levels Creating A Scene---with Pizzazz If you want your landscapes to be enhanced with nature’s beautiful features, this class is for you, regardless of your preferred technique or skill level. In class, you will create “cut and paste” fabric scenes while learning all of those important tidbits about creating landscape designs. You will be excited to see how easy it is to incorporate depth, luster, and luminosity in your own small fabric landscape picture. Class length: 1 day Skill Level: All Design Extravaganza---Sensational Patterns and How to Draw Them Learn how to design some of the most beautiful patterns in the quilt world by using easy drafting methods. Patch-patterns, eight-pointed star designs, mariners’ compass, starburst patterns, and six-pointed star designs will be featured, as time permits. Class length: one day class All skill levels Stretching & Squeezing----Exercising Your Blocks with Magic Traditional-block quilts are captivating when they are stretched and squeezed in different directions. Learn how to create fascinating quilts by changing a block’s design grid. You’ll enjoy the exciting new designs that evolve when blocks are changed from squares to rectangles----or magically evolve into another captivating shape. Learn how to play with design to create quilts with fascinating shapes and exciting movement. Class length: one-half day or 1 day Skill Level: All levels. Curved Piecing Summer Blooms---In Curves Create a happy, blooming flower quilt, using this curved-piecing, freezer paper technique. Draw your own flower design or learn how to transpose a small flower image to one in the size you desire. Besides helpful curved-piecing hints, you will be presented with many ideas for creating beautifully realistic flower designs. Class length: 1 day Color and Illusions A Celebration of Color Have you ever been apprehensive about selecting fabrics for your quilt projects? If so, join Joen to see how easy it is to pick the winning colors and fabrics for your quilts. Find out what companion colors work best with your favorite color, how you can create your own dynamically-colored quilts, and how you can use your favorite colors to their fullest potential. Also, learn how easy it is to work intuitively with color through visual coloring. You’ll be amazed at how much you will learn in one day of color play. Class length: 1 day Skill level: all levels Lighting Up Your Quilts You will be surprised at how easy it is to light up your quilts with seemingly magical color effects. In class you will be presented with the most important color basics, so that the world of color is in your hands. Then you will learn how to create the wonderful illusions of depth, luminosity, and luster in quilts. Later, as time permits, we will explore the illusions of shadows, highlights, and transparency. You will leave class with a wide array of beautiful, evocative lighting ideas to use in your future quilts. Class length: 2-3 days Skill level: all levels Landscapes and Nature Miscellaneous Adventures in Design---Expanding the Visual Dance Learn the keys to successful designing, so that your quilts and fabric art live up to their potential. In class you will investigate ways to focus on your favorite design features and explore the many elements and principles that will make your artwork successful. Design choices, innovative ideas, border concerns, and design pit-falls will be presented in class. In an extended class, each person will begin creating a design of their choice. Class length: 3-5 days Skill level: all Lectures Creating Fascinating Quilts from Traditional Roots You will be tickled to see how easy it is to create dynamic new quilt designs from traditional roots by making changes, either simple or complex. Amazing changes may take place in a quilt design with simple color, fabric, and value changes. Blocks can be given new roles, as they are stretched, squeezed, dropped, rotated, staggered, floated, and blended. Your mind should swim with new ideas after this presentation. Glorious Landscapes---Our Beautiful World in Quilts Lecture Landscape quilts are one of the most popular quilting genres. Enjoy a visual show of glorious landscape and nature quilts created by quiltmakers throughout the world, using a variety of styles and techniques. It's Color That Makes the Quilts Go Wow! Take a journey into the world of color, finding clues to basic color ideas and such wonderful illusions as luminosity, luster, depth, shadows, and highlights. Enjoy a slide show parade of eye-catching, show-stopping quilts that go WOW with color as you learn more about the magic of color. (This is a thinking, conceptual idea-based lecture.) The Visual Dance---Creating Spectacular Quilts Would you like to seek new ways to create your own spectacular quilts? This presentation gives you a multitude of ways to design spectacular quilts. Thoughtful design choices, innovative ideas, border concerns, and quilt design pitfalls will be presented. (This is a thought-provoking, thinking, idea-based lecture.) Who Says We're Not Creative? Would you like to create quilts with your own unique blend of individual color and design style? This slide lecture will accentuate the possibilities that each of us is uniquely blessed with creative abilities---even when we think we are not. You will see the dramatic creative growth of several quiltmakers, allowing us to see how the creative process works. (This is an inspirational lecture.)