ACTIVITY

Join Denyse for a hands-on day of sewing and fun, as she shows you how to improvise her A Different Stripe quilt pattern. The motto for this class is “sew more, think less” – learn to trust your intuition, build your creative confidence, and streamline your patchwork process! You’ll easily produce enough blocks for a crib or throw-size quilt, and go home armed with momentum and inspiration to apply to all your patchwork projects.

Denyse Schmidt will provide hands-on instruction in creating the DSQ A Different Stripe pattern: preparing materials, improvisational process for composition and stitching, options for overall composition/layout, discussion of continuing the project at home to make a larger quilt, or finishing workshop blocks for a smaller quilt or alternate projects.

Ticket price will include all necessary tools, including a sewing machine, the pattern, and the fabric bundles. Students are recommended, but not required to bring accompanying supplies, such as fabric scissors, thread, 45 mm rotary cutter, cutting mat, gridded ruler, snips, marking tools, etc.

LOCATION

BLUE, The TATTER Textile Library is located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Serving as both an interactive, ongoing art-installation as well as an academic research library, BLUE is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.