  May 28 - June 4, 2011 Cruising ALASKA, roundtrip from Seattle, WA aboard Holland America Line’s wonderful Vista Class ship, the ms Westerdam |
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In this basic workshop, learn all aspects needed to master machine quilting. Start with a discussion on machine quilting supplies, including thread, needles and notions. Next, practice the basic techniques of straight line and free motion machine quilting on small quilt packages. After learning the skills to feel confident with these techniques, students will quilt a small piece that can be made into a unique bag for a memoir from your cruise! Learn to successfully baste, package and machine quilt the actual quilt. Go home feeling confident to quilt any size and style quilt. With Sue’s patient guidance, learn all the basic skills needed to master machine quilting on your home sewing machine!
In this workshop, explore the beautiful feather design and how to enhance it with traditional stipple quilting. Sue has used the feather design successfully on many of her quilts and uses traditional stipple quilting to add dimension. The feather is the ideal design for free motion quilting and is easier than you think. Students will work at the machine on a small feather project that Sue has created just for this cruise. Fall in love with this fabulous combo: Feathers and Stippling!
Paula’s fabulous Needlestar class is a Kaleidoscope workshop that is both a process and product class. The Needlestar Pattern is a 4 patch block reminiscent of a Kaleidoscope pinwheel. Students will learn all of Paula’s unique machine piecing and template techniques to create a complex image while simultaneously exploring the virtues of bilaterally symmetrical fabric.
Paula has instilled twenty years of complex quilt making into simple theories that explain her idiosyncratic Patchwork sensibility and define her way of thinking about fabric. A Puzzle Quilt is a clever vehicle for combining these elements into a sampler with a secret: each block design is used twice. By using totally different fabric combinations, an illusion is created: each block appears unique. The “puzzle” is to pick out which two are the same. Paula promises: You will see possibilities in fabric in a whole new way! 
The distinctive charm of Simple Symmetry is based on a simple fact: one single fabric is responsible for all of the elaborate patterns in one quilt. Learn how to use one single template and one symmetrical, intricately patterned fabric to achieve a complex quilt filled with dramatic impact. This class explores and exploits the virtues of bilaterally symmetrical fabric. You’ll feel like you’re making magic with fabric when motifs connect to their mirror images, creating effects more wonderful than you imagined! 
In this workshop, Stevii will show you a new method for hand sewing, while making an awesome table runner! English paper piecing is a great portable technique. To make our table runner, we will be sewing hexagons, which are the most common shape for English paper piecing. The class will also include discussion and demonstration of other shapes suitable for this technique.
We will play, we will swap ATC’s, we will collage, and we will stamp and then play some more! Differences between fabric postcards and ATC’s (artist trading cards) will be discussed. Wit the exception of some US Post Office rules for postcards, this is a “no rules hold” class. Day one will focus on constructing artist trading cards. On day two we will continue with fabric postcards, finish up our ATC’s and have our ATC swap...A perfect momento of a perfect cruise!
Join Stevii for this purely Alaskan adventure in appliqué! The words Alaska and flowers may seem to be an illogical combination, but Alaska is actually teeming with wildflowers from the end of May until September. Our Alaskan wildflowers will be made using Stevii’s favorite method of “complete unit” appliqué. It’s so fun and easy it’s sure to become a favorite for you too! You can place your flowers as shown in the sample, or you may place your flowers in your own design. Endless creative possibilities!
In this class, Linda will show how easy cutwork appliqué can be. Learn may tips for successful reverse, needle-turn appliqué from this award winning appliqué teacher! You will design a piece of lacey appliqué of your own and stitch on Linda’s wonderful Butterfly #3 design. Linda will show you that designing your own cutwork appliqué is easier than you think! 
In the morning session we will be stitching Linda's wonderful Alaskan Pink Salmon cutwork applique kit and learning how multi fabrics can be used in this two layer cutwork applique technique, to add zest to your project! Linda will share her tips for great needle-turn applique. In the afternoon session we will be creating a Victorian Greeting card in the form of a fording rose. Your fabrics can be transformed into special greeting cards and the possibilities are endless. Linda will show you many samples. 
In this workshop, Linda will show you how well planned choices of prints and colors can add depth and realism to your quilts! You will manipulate your kit fabrics into realistic three-dimensional forms. In the morning, watch a rose bloom before your eyes. This rose can be stitched onto your quilt block, or worn as is. Many types of flowers will be shown and discussed. After lunch, return to create a 3-D Victorian lady’s face, hair and fancy hat with feathers. Let Linda show you how to look at fabric in a different way!