QUILTMAKING LECTURES and WORKSHOPS with MISCHELE

Check Mischele's Schedule Mischele Hart has been involved with quilting since 1988 as a designer, teacher, lecturer, author and former quilt shop owner. Mischele's primary focus is creating geometric quilts using simple shapes.  Her love for designing and quick piecing techniques has been reinforced by 11 or 12 teacher/shop owner seminars with Mary Ellen Hopkins. Teaching in her own quilt shop quickly evolved into working for quilt guilds in various parts of the country. Her first book, Creating Quilts With Simple Shapes, co-authored with Ann Castleberry was published by That Patchwork Place/Martingale Inc in 2001.  The book features a flow sheet method for advancing designs, fabric pulls, and 14 specific quilt projects. Mischele has also created quilts for books by Mary Ellen Hopkins, Ott Light magazine advertisements, and for fabric companies to feature their fabrics at Quilt Market. Now living in Eastern Tennessee, Mischele is busy working on new designs, dabbling in home renovation,  doing volunteer work, and being a stay at home wife, mother, and grandmother.

LECTURES

It Ain't Cheating If It Gets You Where You Want To Go Here's a popular lecture filled with piecing tips, how to get around dealing with bias cuts in some of your designs, using connector methods, making templates for your own seam allowance, dealing with color value regarding fabric pulls, the importance of consistent seam allowances, thinking of increasing or decreasing quilt sizes in small increments and much more. An extensive display of quilt visuals will show you simple steps in design progressions, the importance of color value locations in your quilts, and an open forum for questions and comments. A four page handout is provided for guilds and shops to copy and share with attendees.

WORKSHOPS

NEW! Going Out the Window Going out the window is slang phraseology meaning: Plans or patterns no longer exist; they disappear. We won’t be using plans or patterns, just sewing a bit and designing a bit, sewing a bit and designing a bit until the project says it’s done. In this workshop, we’ll discuss various types of quilts with a view and you will design your own unique window art while learning to sew using your private personal measurements (PPM). You’ll learn this rational and practical way that was developed by Mary Ellen Hopkins to piece and also discover how to use this method with future pieced projects. There will be no tedious Y seam construction, no bias edges to deal with, and no pivoting while manipulating fabric alignment. Really.

NEW! Connecting Up With Your Inner Child Find your inner child again while making this rotary friendly quilt.  Arrange and dress your little girls in any way that appeals to the whimsical you.  In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to embellish the blocks in creative ways.  Want to make a boy block?  You’ll get a handout for that in class, too.  Easy piecing makes this fun.

NEW! Ribbon Hearts Here's a simple geometric design with lots of visual fun.  Simple piecing and cutting.  Make in any size from lap to king.  The larger the quilt, the more the ribbons curve and reach as they spill out more hearts in the design. A great workshop for the rotary friendly quilter. Buy the pattern right away at Animas.com or buy the pattern during class.  You'll find kits available from Jackie Robinson's gorgeous new Fuschia line by Maywood Studio on her web site.

One Block Art, aka Faux Stained Glass Here are five of the endless layout possibilities for this class. Easy piecing and a large palette of fabrics shared by me and your classmates will allow you to explore all sorts of design layouts. It's a particular favorite to teach. This class focuses on using color value to create your own "one of a kind" quilt. Here's a personal guarantee that no two quilts will look alike and that you will leave class with a project that is uniquely yours. And it's easy! A 6 hour workshop for rotary friendly quilters of all skill levels.

Tampa Connects Up The original design that inspired the book "Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes", this quilt can be made as a wall hanging or lap quilt. You'll use connectors to create this geometric quilt which is composed of easily built pinwheel, square in a square, and star point blocks. And, best of all, lots of "blank" blocks that are simply sewn together! Simple precutting maximizes your important class time. A small trunk show displaying quilts using connectors will be shown. For rotary friendly piecers of all skill levels. A 3-4 hour workshop for the wall hanging and a six hour workshop for the lap quilt.

Interlocking Rings Interlocking Rings is the perfect way to display the bright tone-on-tone fabrics that are so popular now. Looks great with a very dark or very light background. Connectors form rings that link together to make a quilt with strong visual punch. It's now quite a four patch and not quite a chevron log cabin, but includes a bit of each. Currently shown in Ott Light magazine advertisements. Easy Piecing. A 6 hour workshop for rotary friendly quilters of all skill levels.

Fun With Sprockets Here's a great chance to use very basic blocks to create a lap (Turquoise Tango) or baby (Jungle Sprockets) quilt. You'll explore using simple variations of nine patch and snowball shapes as well as using a grid as the "backbone" for a design. Looks like tinker toys and is as easy to play with. Designed for "Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes". A 6 hour workshop for rotary friendly quilters of all skill levels.

Floral Tents An unusual name for a striking quilt. A lap or baby quilt composed of rails, star points, dugouts and square in a square blocks used harmoniously to create a wonderful visual grid. You'll learn to cut, piece and measure as you sew to compose the units for this quilt, so you'll be assured of a nice flat quilt top. Designed for "Creating Quilts with Simple Shapes". A 6 hour workshop for rotary friendly quilters of all skill levels.

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