1pm to 4pm – Workshop Fee is $75 (includes applique pattern)

Irene Blanck hails from Australia. She has won awards, exhibited her quilts, and taught applique all over the world.
She has a QUILTMANIA published book, Focus on Applique.

This workshop will teach us the basics of needle-turn applique – the way Irene Blanck does it. Straight line applique, curves, points, circles and stems. She will teach us how to prepare our shapes as well as glue them onto the background using a lightbox. Using the lightbox eliminates many steps in the prep process that she used to do many years ago (in the dark ages!!) If you don’t have a lightbox, you can make one by turning over a clear plastic container with a flashlight underneath, or use your window.

This is a 3 hour interactive workshop where she explains and demonstrate each step in detail then gives us time to complete that step – before she continues onto the next step. So we work side by side with her. While working on our quilt we will have lots of time to ask questions.
For Irene, needle-turn applique must be fun. Needle-turn applique does not have to be accurate – our perceived mistakes are all part of the charm of our quilts.

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