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Come and join these amazing artists as we create something magical each lesson!
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Hi everyone, my name is Desiree Habicht and I am your host and the creator of The Fiber Art Connection. My dream is connect the best that Fiber Art has to offer with students around the world. I am so excited to be launching Session 2 with this incredible line up of artists. I will also be teaching as well as helping you with any questions or concerns you might have in class. I will be the teachers pet, helping them to deliver a top quality class that you can enjoy and learn from. It is all about connecting, being a part of a community and honoring your creative spirit. I hope you will join us for:
The Fiber Art Connection Session 2!
Sign up today, Classes Start March 1 ,2017, registration is open now!
Let me introduce you to the amazing Artists and the classes for this session. Each artists class will last for 2 weeks so you have time to work on and finish each project! With Christmas just around the corner this is a wonderful opportunity to create some unique gifts that only you can give!!
The Fiber Art Connection Session 2!
Sign up today, Classes Start March 1 ,2017, registration is open now!
Let me introduce you to the amazing Artists and the classes for this session. Each artists class will last for 2 weeks so you have time to work on and finish each project! With Christmas just around the corner this is a wonderful opportunity to create some unique gifts that only you can give!!
Lesson 1- Old World Tiles with Desiree Habicht
Let me introduce myself to you! I am a professional artist and I work in several different mediums. One of my favorites is fiber!! I love that fact that you can touch your artwork so it adds to why it is so special for me, most artwork isn't really touchable! In Session 2 I will be teaching you how to use Acrylic Inks like watercolors to create this wonderful landscape that will look like old world tiles.
I am an award winning artist and designer, my work has been featured in books and magazines. I also appeared on Quilting Arts TV show in the 1600 series. I also design patterns and fabric for the quilting industry. The best part about Art is sharing and I love share my art with others. Read more about my story and my dream about why I wanted and needed to create this amazing community
I hope you will join me, Desiree Habicht, for Session 2 as I show you how you can use Acrylic Inks to create your own old world landscape. This landscape adds painting techniques, inks, netting and threads to create the look of old world tiles. You will learn how to use acrylic inks along with a watercolor technique to create this beautiful scene! The best part is that no artistic training is required, I will gently lead you through this amazing process. The last part of class we will discuss how to finish your piece for easy displaying in your studio etc. Join me for this wonderful introduction into using Acrylic inks on fabric. See more of Desiree's Fine Art and Fiber Art on her websites and on most social media
Fine Art and Fiber Art -www.desireehabicht.com
Patterns and Fabric- www.desireesdesigns.com
Let me introduce you to the other artists!!
Let me introduce myself to you! I am a professional artist and I work in several different mediums. One of my favorites is fiber!! I love that fact that you can touch your artwork so it adds to why it is so special for me, most artwork isn't really touchable! In Session 2 I will be teaching you how to use Acrylic Inks like watercolors to create this wonderful landscape that will look like old world tiles.
I am an award winning artist and designer, my work has been featured in books and magazines. I also appeared on Quilting Arts TV show in the 1600 series. I also design patterns and fabric for the quilting industry. The best part about Art is sharing and I love share my art with others. Read more about my story and my dream about why I wanted and needed to create this amazing community
I hope you will join me, Desiree Habicht, for Session 2 as I show you how you can use Acrylic Inks to create your own old world landscape. This landscape adds painting techniques, inks, netting and threads to create the look of old world tiles. You will learn how to use acrylic inks along with a watercolor technique to create this beautiful scene! The best part is that no artistic training is required, I will gently lead you through this amazing process. The last part of class we will discuss how to finish your piece for easy displaying in your studio etc. Join me for this wonderful introduction into using Acrylic inks on fabric. See more of Desiree's Fine Art and Fiber Art on her websites and on most social media
Fine Art and Fiber Art -www.desireehabicht.com
Patterns and Fabric- www.desireesdesigns.com
Let me introduce you to the other artists!!
Lesson 2- Gelling Crocuses & Crazy Colored Shoes with Lenore Crawford
I am so happy to introduce you to award winning Artist, Lenore Crawford and her class Gelling Crocuses. Lenore is known for her amazing, realistic fiber art quilts and teaches in-depth workshops and how to recreate your own photos into beautiful fiber art. I am thrilled that she has agreed to join us here and that she is offering us some things that her students have asked her to teach but she saved them for us! She will be doing a small fiber art piece that uses her technique to create beautiful, ultra realistic fiber art but, She will be teaching you how to apply them differently. This has been a highly requested class and she have never taught this class before. Lenore is excited to offer it exclusively to the students at the Fiber Art Connection in Session 2!
This method will allow you to cover almost anything with beautiful fabrics. I can't wait!!
Once you learn the technique you will find numerous ways to infuse this into other projects or fiber art pieces.
We will be using colorful, fun and bright fabric that you will select to learn how to precisely and professionally recreate these beautiful Crocuses onto a wonderful canvas covered fiber art piece that will be ready to hang or frame.
You will also be excited to know about her bonus project, her Crazy Colored Shoes!! This has been one of Lenore's most requested classes and she has never taught it before, its just for the students at the FAC!! You can use all of your favorite fabrics and create some shoes that scream YOU!
These also would make wonderful gifts with the Holidays coming up!!
Check out Lenore's website and Facebook page for more information on her wonderful
workshops, classes, patterns and Fiber Art at
www.lenorecrawford.com
Lesson 3- Create your own Stamps for Fabric Design with Lisa Chin
Let me introduce Fiber Artist, surface designer and author, Lisa Chin, she will be teaching us how to create our own wonderful stamps that can be used to enhance and create our own fabrics. I love Lisa's creative spirit and love following her on FB! I know you will love her too. Lisa will be teaching us how to carve rubber stamps using your own drawings, or copyright free images, to customize hand dyed or commercial fabric. You will learn how to carve words, patterns and layer stamps, allowing you to change your fabric from okay to WOW. We will also discuss the best paints, inks and stamp pads to use on fabric.
Lisa loves being a full-time surface design artist, and art quilter. She enjoys discovering new techniques and creating art as well as practical projects.
Lisa has had her work published in various popular quilting magazines and books, and will be appearing on Quilting Arts TV. She is the co-founder of The Printed Fabric Bee, and the current administrator of The Prayer Flag Project.
One of her greatest joys comes from sharing her love of learning through teaching, both online and in person.
Learn more about Lisa on her blog here and make sure you look her up on Facebook.
I am ready! Sign me up!
Let me introduce Fiber Artist, surface designer and author, Lisa Chin, she will be teaching us how to create our own wonderful stamps that can be used to enhance and create our own fabrics. I love Lisa's creative spirit and love following her on FB! I know you will love her too. Lisa will be teaching us how to carve rubber stamps using your own drawings, or copyright free images, to customize hand dyed or commercial fabric. You will learn how to carve words, patterns and layer stamps, allowing you to change your fabric from okay to WOW. We will also discuss the best paints, inks and stamp pads to use on fabric.
Lisa loves being a full-time surface design artist, and art quilter. She enjoys discovering new techniques and creating art as well as practical projects.
Lisa has had her work published in various popular quilting magazines and books, and will be appearing on Quilting Arts TV. She is the co-founder of The Printed Fabric Bee, and the current administrator of The Prayer Flag Project.
One of her greatest joys comes from sharing her love of learning through teaching, both online and in person.
Learn more about Lisa on her blog here and make sure you look her up on Facebook.
I am ready! Sign me up!
Lesson 4- Stitch-Paint-Whimsy with Libby Williamson
Drum roll....Introducing Libby Williamson who is not only a friend and neighbor but also an amazing textile and mixed-media artist and teacher who combines a variety of cloth and paper fibers to create her art quilts and canvases. Her work is textural, brightly colored and usually incorporates both hand and machine stitching. Using assorted mark-making techniques, Libby adds paint and dye to the materials as she works. Rarely does she use commercially printed fabric without altering it first. By over-dyeing and painting the printed fabrics, Libby transforms the cloth with her own marks and colors.
Join Libby for two weeks of creative fun as she guides you through a series of her free-motion stitching techniques. Libby’s style is one of loose, sketchy lines with overlapping stitches and little regard to meticulously fussy stitch-length. She is rarely concerned with precision and perfection. Libby often sits at her machine with only a vague sense of her design outcome. She approaches sewing the same way she paints…freely and intuitively. I have been to Libby's Studio where she teaches her classes for both adults and children, it is a magical place!
Though Libby has an enormous appreciation for finely skilled free-motion quilting, her focus is on art making with the use of a sewing machine. These are more projects perfect for the holidays fast approaching!!
Using your sewing machines as a drawing tool, you will practice creating loose, sketchy designs on fabric.
Learn more about Libby on her blog and find her on Facebook!
Drum roll....Introducing Libby Williamson who is not only a friend and neighbor but also an amazing textile and mixed-media artist and teacher who combines a variety of cloth and paper fibers to create her art quilts and canvases. Her work is textural, brightly colored and usually incorporates both hand and machine stitching. Using assorted mark-making techniques, Libby adds paint and dye to the materials as she works. Rarely does she use commercially printed fabric without altering it first. By over-dyeing and painting the printed fabrics, Libby transforms the cloth with her own marks and colors.
Join Libby for two weeks of creative fun as she guides you through a series of her free-motion stitching techniques. Libby’s style is one of loose, sketchy lines with overlapping stitches and little regard to meticulously fussy stitch-length. She is rarely concerned with precision and perfection. Libby often sits at her machine with only a vague sense of her design outcome. She approaches sewing the same way she paints…freely and intuitively. I have been to Libby's Studio where she teaches her classes for both adults and children, it is a magical place!
Though Libby has an enormous appreciation for finely skilled free-motion quilting, her focus is on art making with the use of a sewing machine. These are more projects perfect for the holidays fast approaching!!
Using your sewing machines as a drawing tool, you will practice creating loose, sketchy designs on fabric.
Learn more about Libby on her blog and find her on Facebook!
Lesson 5- Shibori Dyeing with Indigo or Procion Dyes
I am so excited to introduce you to Cecile Whatman a wonderful Fiber Artist and Instructor Cecile is an Australian textile artist, teacher and designer who works with dyes, paints, fibers and fabric to create art quilts and fabric through felt, mixed media and surface design techniques. She loves using unusual fabrics which she hand dyes, such as silks, velvets, burlap and more to create texture and depth.
Cecile works with art quilts as well as modern and traditional patchwork. She started her creative journey making clothes for herself and later her children. She bought her first sewing machine when she was fourteen and has not really stopped sewing since. The need to make utilitarian items like clothes and household items plus a love for hand embroidery lead her to quilting when expecting her first child who is now 25. The rest, as they say is history.
Cecile has taught extensively throughout Australia and New Zealand for over 15 years; at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham in 2014 ,2015 and 2016; and Houston International Quilt Festival in 2014 and 2016. Cecile appeared on Quilting Arts TV in Series 1600 and 1700 and had articles published in Quilting Arts Magazine in Issues 76 and 77 in 2015. She will be teaching in both Birmingham and Houston again in 2016 and is running additional online classes in Surface Design (Stunning Surfaces) and dyeing with Procion dyes (Almost Alchemy). She has been published in countless Australian patchwork and textile art magazines and has self published three books on traditional patchwork for beginners.
Learn more about Cecile Whatman and see more of her work and follow her here:
Blog- http://uniquestitching.wordpress.com
website- www.uniquestitching.com.au
Facebook- www.facebook.com/Uniquestitching and www.facebook.com/mixedmediamayhem
Our Art Celebration and Bonus Week-
Join the artists for a Bonus week filled with all sorts of bonus projects, ideas, and helpful hints on all sorts of topics. We will have bonus projects and techniques for you to discover.
It is also an opportunity for you to submit your big questions at anytime during the week to any of the artists and we will be answering them for you.
This week is also our Closing Celebration of all that was accomplished during the Session. I will have a place to show off the projects that were made in class over the last few months. Don't miss out on all the fun as we will be here for you with any last minute help or answers to questions. We want you to know how special you are and how your talent needs to be shared. By adding techniques to your tool box of abilities you have a larger range of possibilities for telling your own story!
We also will be having a special guest this week, Iris from Misty Fuse! Iris is the founder and CEO of the Misty Fuse. Iris will have a demo video on how to use Misty Fuse for all of your Fiber Art quilting needs and will offer students a special discount. This offer is only available to our students. These are a few of the amazing things that are going to be taking place during Bonus Week!!
All of this sounds great, sign me up!!!
Join the artists for a Bonus week filled with all sorts of bonus projects, ideas, and helpful hints on all sorts of topics. We will have bonus projects and techniques for you to discover.
It is also an opportunity for you to submit your big questions at anytime during the week to any of the artists and we will be answering them for you.
This week is also our Closing Celebration of all that was accomplished during the Session. I will have a place to show off the projects that were made in class over the last few months. Don't miss out on all the fun as we will be here for you with any last minute help or answers to questions. We want you to know how special you are and how your talent needs to be shared. By adding techniques to your tool box of abilities you have a larger range of possibilities for telling your own story!
We also will be having a special guest this week, Iris from Misty Fuse! Iris is the founder and CEO of the Misty Fuse. Iris will have a demo video on how to use Misty Fuse for all of your Fiber Art quilting needs and will offer students a special discount. This offer is only available to our students. These are a few of the amazing things that are going to be taking place during Bonus Week!!
All of this sounds great, sign me up!!!