I’m thrilled to share that I will be teaching online again in mid August, and for the first time ever you can take my most popular class, Collage the Garden, LIVE ONLINE! Sign ups are open NOW and are here. One of the best things is you will be home, so you can get whatever it is you wish you had brought to class, because you are at home and sewing on your machine!
I’ll be offering: Wednesday, August 12, 2020: Collage the Garden: From Photo to Flower (6 hours) from 10-4 Eastern daylight (there will be a lunch break) Thursday, August 13, 2020: Mastering Metallics (3 hours) from 2-5 Eastern daylight. Kit is optional. Saturday, August 15, 2020: Easy-Peasy Inside-Out Bags and spin off projects from 2-5 Eastern daylight.
You can find complete class descriptions and PDF supply lists on my Workshops page (classes are listed in alphabetical order). When available, there are also hotlines to blogposts so you can see previous student work. If you have ANY questions, please don’t hesitate to write to me! I’ve done a recap of each of the workshops below as well.
The two images are this orange lily which grows wild along the roadsides in Maine this time of year and the following small quilt.Pink water lily
Collage the Garden is all about my process. I teach you how to interpret a photo in class, then you will know how to use YOUR photos to create your own original artwork. We talk about selecting a good image, selecting fabric, fusing, tricks for working with cloth and, time permitting, introduce how to quilt (this is a who second follow-on workshop).
Mastering Metallics half day workshop will teach students to use metallic in both the needle and the bobbin. The workshop will debut at the Mancuso Online QuiltFest in August!, and is the half-day version of my Tame Fussy Fiddly Threads class. A kit with my original snowflake fabric, a 12×42 strip to make a table runner (custom printed at Spoonflower) and 2/3 yard coordinating blue for backing and binding is available when you sign up–only 15 kits available. BUT you don’t have to do this exact project if you prefer to do your own thing. (PS–if I have leftover kits they will be for sale on my website after August 15, or I’m making placemats to match my table runner!)Pennants in the wind is a new class sample. You can paint as I did, piece a similar sample (I’m thinking of doing a landscape…same idea, rotate 90 degrees, with one line of trees), or use solid or semi-solid and draw shapes and quilting zones on your cloth to practice and learn.Easy Peasy Inside Out bags is one of my favorite classes to teach…in a half day in person class students go home with a nearly-finished bag or even one or two finished bags depending on their experience. These are SO FAST and easy, and there are a ton of variations.I’ve used this notebook cover for years and just love it!You can customize many ways, and you’ll LOVE my rick for perfect pockets for pens and pencils. I’m going to make myself a double-pointed knitting needle holder using this process between now and the workshop. You can adapt the techniques to all sorts of goodies!
I’d love to have you in one of my workshops at the Mancuso Online Quiltfest here. If something you want to take isn’t offered, let me know what and I’d be happy to schedule an online class offered directly from me later in the year.
Hi SarahAnn!
I met you at the quilt show in Springfield, Mass last year and you joined me and a couple of friends for dinner before you drove home! One of those ladies forwarded me your email that she gets.
I’m interested in your Collage the Garden class but can’t seem to get it on my computer. Could you please send me info regarding it.
Thanks!
Waving a happy hullo!!!!!! That was a fun dinner…I was to have taught this in person in Mass. this year, so delighted to offer it online. For details on my website, go here http://www.sarahannsmith.com/schedule.php and scroll down to Collage the Garden. There’s a hotlink to a blogpost about a prior class and the full supply list. To sign up, head here: https://www.quiltfest.com/register/online-quilt-festival/workshops-by-instructor/sarah-ann-smith/ Thanks for searching me out and hope to see you in class! PS–dashing out the door but if you have questions or any difficulties, just write!
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July 20th, 2020 at 7:57 pm
Hi SarahAnn!
I met you at the quilt show in Springfield, Mass last year and you joined me and a couple of friends for dinner before you drove home! One of those ladies forwarded me your email that she gets.
I’m interested in your Collage the Garden class but can’t seem to get it on my computer. Could you please send me info regarding it.
Thanks!
July 21st, 2020 at 8:40 am
Waving a happy hullo!!!!!! That was a fun dinner…I was to have taught this in person in Mass. this year, so delighted to offer it online. For details on my website, go here http://www.sarahannsmith.com/schedule.php and scroll down to Collage the Garden. There’s a hotlink to a blogpost about a prior class and the full supply list. To sign up, head here: https://www.quiltfest.com/register/online-quilt-festival/workshops-by-instructor/sarah-ann-smith/ Thanks for searching me out and hope to see you in class! PS–dashing out the door but if you have questions or any difficulties, just write!