Playful Poppies

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501S Lines, Curves and Shapes

Details

This course teaches you to get away from very specific and painstaking cutting and sewing using the so-called free cutting technique.  The design is very striking, without having to match or line up corners and seams.  This makes it a very successful technique to learn in a few hours.  The technique has been adapted from the book Blumen Patchwork by Bernadette Mayr (ISBN 3-332-01630-X).  We will make one large poppy, approximately 40 cm x 70 cm.  The end product can be used as a wall hanging or table runner.  Cutting instructions to make a smaller version of the poppy will be included.

Student Requirements:

• Basic Sewing Supplies
• Fabric:
  o 0.5 m background fabric, preferably a dark colour (black, dark brown or navy works well)
  o Poppy fabric: Audition your favourite bright colours - e.g. red, yellow, orange, purple, pink, or lilac. Choose one colour and bring 25 cm x 25 cm of each of the four (4) different shades of that colour with you
  o A small scrap of black fabric 5 cm x 5 cm
  o A strip of bright green fabric, 5 cm x 30 cm
• Cotton thread in a neutral colour
• Cutting mat and 45 mm rotary cutter with a new blade. If you have a smaller 28 mm cutter, please bring it along
• 6 x 12-inch ruler (best to have or longer if that is all you have)
• 6½ inch or a larger square ruler
• Notebook and pencil
• Water spray bottle
• Portable design board or a piece of batting or flannel for a make-shift design board
• Sewing Machine in good working order;
  o New 80/12 machine needle,
  o Regular straight stitch presser foot
• Extension cord, 15 amp plug or adaptor, surge protector plug

NOTE: Pre-cutting instructions will be provided after registration. Pre-cutting must be done before class, as there will not be class time available for cutting.