Workshops
Pat Pauly's workshops, whether technique- or process-oriented, are fun, fast and full of ideas to start your own work. Here are a few examples of favorite classes!
LINE, SHAPE, SETTING
Take a sleek, strong, clean pieced line beyond its humble roots to accent a form, split a shape, or strike though a construction. We’ll take the simple line, whether curved or straight, and show how to use this valuable design element. Both a class for learning the technique of piecing for contemporary quilts, as well as one that offers work in design and composition, it adds the language of the linear form to your work, and you’ll learn to make line the star!
One to two day class, size limit 20.
MAD aBOUT MOTIF!
Pick a handful of strong motifs -- from light and airy to big and bold – and use them to create spectacular printed fabric. Combine motifs to create whole cloth prints, or overall prints, or some to cut later and use in fiber work. You will use your graphic motif in several applications from linear form, to monoprint, to screened image. The class will rely on value as well as color to pull prints that relate, and graphics that will unite pieces for a strong set of pieces. Knowledge of dye processes helpful but not critical.
A four to five day class, Limit varies.
Take Two
Left: “Take Two: Chinese Lanterns” uses just two fabrics!
Join me for this one, two or three-day workshop in designing abstract contemporary quilts. We’ll grab only two hunks of fabric to make a piece that explodes! This is a great class for those who use artist-made fabric. I’ll show you how to design with improvisational piecing, letting the fabric do the work. We’ll do some warm up design exercises, then dive in and cut up that great fabric. Leave the rulers and templates behind, gain strength in cutting freehand, and discover how to use your fabric in a strong composition.
One to two day class, size limit 20. Click here to take this class virtually!
Glorious Prints! Surface Design
Wonder how those fabulous printed fabrics are made? We will use monoprinting, screening and direct painting on fabric. Using fiber reactive dyes, discover many ways to add pattern, color and texture to fabric. It is a great class to learn how to use surface design on fabric for use on fabric. All skill levels are welcome. Use your finished cotton fabric for functional pieces or in a contemporary quilt!
A four to five day class, limit varies. CLICK HERE to take this class virtually!
The New Big Leaf
Build this large graphic leaf using freezer paper to form the design templates for a final 24” x 24” hanging, or combine with three additional blocks to make a stunning art quilt. Pat Pauly will show you how to transform a line drawing into templates, how to choose fabric and color, and assemble this “Big Leaf.” At the end of this class you will know how to translate your own designs using this freezer paper method.
A one day class. the size limit is 20. Click here to take this class virtually!
Go Big, Go Bold: Printing for composition
With a myriad of printing techniques using fiber reactive dye on fabric we’ll use large graphic motifs and compositional styles to produce whole cloth works. Silk screen, monoprint, stencil – along with a few more techniques – are used to print large images that can become the finished whole cloth. Print with an eye on the whole design, tackle compositional styles, and go big, go bold.
A five day class, limit varies
make it & break it
Make It and Break it uses improvisational piecing (sewing) as the base for composing, along with using a structure to set the units for contemporary works. This workshop starts with building a set – complete with insets, windows, lines, breaks, shifts and curves – all the tools of improvisational quilting. Then the class moves to break apart this set to focus on design and composition, rearranging (with a few added tricks) the parts to become an entirely new piece. A great class with a take-away for future techniques in improvisational design.
A two to three-day class. The size limit is 20.
Within the Frame
Look at improvisationally made fabric to see it either disappear of be highlighted as it is set in a background. With simple methods for scrambling fabric, we’ll make a center that will be supported by a framework for a center medallion composition. Work with color, scale, and value is an important feature in bringing the composition to balance. Bold, graphic prints are a useful tool in piecing improv work, as they offer more shapes that maintain the images brought forth, so they are encouraged to be used in this class. It’s a great way to use one-of-a-kind prints.
Class size limit 20. A one, two, or three-day class.
A DOZEN WAYS: DESIGN FOR ART QUILTS
“Just be creative!” is often encouraged. Well, designing from thin air is extremely difficult! This workshop reveals tips, ideas, and techniques used for starting from scratch for original works. From small studies, to full scale patterns, Pat Pauly uses various ways to design and construct art quilts. We’ll use methods for starting from nothing, to how to read a sketch for design, and learning how to scale up. Bring your notebooks, try some design exercises, and take away more than a dozen ideas for kick starting original contemporary art quilts.
A one or two day class, limit 20