Architectural Quilting
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Architectural Quilting
with Sujata Shah
Take your improv quilting skills to the next level by diving deeper into the art of creating dynamic and expressive quilt blocks. The focus will be on adding layers, textures, and line movement to your improv blocks, transforming them into complex, visually striking compositions.
You’ll learn to add depth through layering fabrics, incorporate varied textures, and use lines to guide the viewer’s eye and create movement within each block. We’ll explore ways to play with negative space and unexpected design elements, pushing the boundaries of traditional improv quilting.
By the end of class, you’ll have a series of improv blocks that showcase your skills in layering, texture, and movement—ready to assemble into a quilt or keep as stand-alone art pieces.
Meet the instructor!
Sujata Shah is an award-winning quilter and designer and author of Cultural Fusion Quilts. She finds inspiration in the rich handmade tradition of her home country, India; the quilts of Gee’s Bend; Indian and American utilitarian quilts and African textiles.
Drawn to imperfections and irregularities of handmade crafts, Sujata believes each quilt has personality of the maker. Using imperfections as design element has led her to abstract interpretations of traditional quilt blocks. She finds hand stitching therapeutic and nourishing to the soul, ultimately helping her write personal stories in stitches.
Join Sujata as she shares her quilts and talks about her daily life as a quilter. How somewhere during the making of each quilt, whether it is the fabric selection, constructing the quilt top or finishing the quilt by hand, she ends up writing stories in Stitches.
Please bring the following supplies to class:
- Sewing Machine
- Basic Rotary Cutting Tools
- Fabric scissors
- Basic sewing supplies – Thread, pins, scissors etc.
- A variety of fabrics in different colors, patterns, and textures like cotton, corduroy, denim and shirting.
- Include large and small prints, geometric textures and solids.
- A willingness to experiment and think outside the box ;)
Class is held in our Ohio Studio located at 3792 Boettler Oaks Dr, Suite B, Uniontown, OH 44685.
Lunches will be provided each day, as well as morning and afternoon refreshments, coffee, tea, and use of our fridge and kitchen. Please let us know if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions!
Supplies are available for purchase in-store during class if not purchased ahead of time.
For suggestions on hotel accommodations or any other questions/concerns, contact Abby at shop@suespargo.com or call 330-899-9454 ext. 114.
Cancellation fees reflect the cost of registration, staff, instructor contracts, material acquisitions, and other services. This policy applies to all registrants, regardless of the reason for canceling. We encourage you to take our cancellation policies into consideration before registering for classes.
If you need to cancel your registration, you have the following options:
Transfer:
Registrants who cancel their enrollment in a workshop held in our Ohio studio may make a one-time transfer to any other workshop held in our studio.
- Transfers may be made either in the current workshop season, or any workshop in the following year. Transfers must be made more than 30 days prior to the workshop, and is subject to a 5% cancellation fee.
Refund:
If you prefer not to transfer your workshop registration, the following fees apply:
- More than 60 days prior to the workshop, refund of your deposit minus a 20% cancellation fee.
- Less than 60 days prior to the workshop, no refunds will be issued.
Redirect:
Registrants are able to send someone in their place into the workshop for no additional fee. In this case, no refunds will be issued, payment arrangements are the responsibility of the original registrant if needed.