Fabric Painting with Denise Labadie (2 day class)

Denise is constantly asked about the "stone", landscape, and sky fabrics that she uses in her quilts. There is not much commercial fabric with the types of colors, textures, depth, and complexity that many quilters are looking for. So Denise -- and participants -- create their own!

In this hands-on 2-day fabric painting workshop participants learn techniques to create uniquely textured and colored fabric. The focus is on how best to mix, apply, and layer paint; how to create and use resists; and how to cause (and control) layer-by-layer differential paint absorption, diffusion, blending, patterning, and mottling. The two days of hands-on painting ensures plenty of time for "guided experimentation" and techniques exploration. Each participant completes the class with a collection of their own unique and highly textured fabric that they themselves have selected to bring depth and complexity to their art quilt projects.

Two days, 9-3PM, $355, includes fabric paints, squeeze bottles, brushes, sheeting, and stamping and texturizing materials, etc. Fabric required: A minimum of 5 yards of a variety of white (plain, smooth, perhaps some textured) fabric, each piece being approximately a fat quarter or so in size. Alternatively, a fabric kit is available from Denise the day of the workshop for $75. This kit includes 1-1/2 yards each of very high quality white cotton Kona, Pima, and Sateen (all from Robert Kaufman); white cotton-linen blend (also Kaufman); and white silk organza (from Dharma). These are the same fabrics that Denise uses in her art quilts. If you desire to purchase a kit, please let Twisted Stitches know as early as possible.