Classes & Lectures
Here is a list of many different lectures and workshops to choose from. Click on Supply List for a printable list. (To schedule please Melida, office manager.)
Lectures: Include slide show and trunk show.
Workshops: There are Half-Day (3hrs) workshops and Full-Day (6hrs) workshops for you to choose from.
Half-Day Workshops:
Often in a seminar there just isn’t enough time for full day classes. Half-Day classes are also good if you want a class before or after a lecture. Here are some classes that are perfect for three hours of sewing success. These classes give a smaller range project, achievable within the class period.
Class Fees:
Class fee thru 2011 will be $450 per lecture or 3 hour class, $600 per six hour class, $700 and $1,025 respectively for no sale/ percentage situations.
Seminar Lecture special:
Have Ellen scheduled for 2 class days and a lecture and get your guild lecture for $50 off.
Have Ellen scheduled for 3 class days and a lecture and get your lecture for $100 off.
Not seeing exactly the class you’d like me to teach? Ask me. I’m happy to build a class for your guild’s needs.
Always expect a wonderful selection of wall hangings for you to see up close and in person. I also make my own hand-dyed fabric, threads, stabilizers and quilts available as a resource for sale for your guild.
Travel expenses extra.
If your guild has a no- sale policy or a percentage they require from teacher’s sales, my fees are slightly higher.
Contract:
See my contract for details
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Lectures
Ellen Anne Eddy Seminar Suggestions
If you can have me as your speaker for more than one class day, here are some suggestions for classes that blend together well. Also, seminars allow for extra studio time. So often people in class want to see everything. And I want to show them everything. We often do that, but studio time for students suffers. A longer class allows for hands-on time where they can try everything, and where I can help troubleshoot for them.
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The Beautiful Beast
A slide show exploring the images of animals in the quilt world. Whether they are pets or alter egos, metaphors, or mentors, or a mirror of our reality, we live in a world full of animal imagery. We’ll look at that rich vein of symbolism through the eyes of quilters who are fascinated by beautiful beasts. Recommended for groups who are more interested in quilting stories than in techniques.
The Color Cookbook Approach
A slide lecture offering a gentle and personal approach to color uses. We’ll discuss color choices from dye-pot to fabric selection to thread usage. We’ll examine the effects top name quilters get through their color choices, and show you how to personalize color formulas to work for you. Recommended for anyone wanting to expand their color vocabulary in their work.
The Thread Magic of Ellen Anne Eddy
A slide show and discussion of my own passage as a quilter and artist. From my beginnings as a traditional quilter, I’ll show how I’ve developed my own techniques in machine quilting and embroidery, embroidered appliqué, reverse appliqué with solids and sheers, three-dimensional appliqué, naked needle, specialty threads, and machine beading.
The Visual Path
We explore the elements of design to make nature quilts that move and that move you. The design concepts are easy to understand and so much fun. You'll see how to build a path through your quilt that feeds the eye and the soul. The lecture focuses on taking geometric forms, translating them to organic shapes and creating nature quilts that live, move and breathe.
Thread Magic
A slide show and discussion of machine embroidery and quilting as a design element in contemporary quilting. Techniques discussed include Stitching in the ditch, echo quilting, quilting as line drawing, garnet stitch, machine beading, machine embroidery and machine embroidered appliqué. Recommended for groups with an interest in machine work or as an overview of thread magic techniques.
Workshops - Full Day
A Quick and Easy Ladybug’s Garden
New!!
We will explore using oriental brocade, cut away and direct appliqué techniques, soft and hard edge stitchery to make this lovely ladybug perched on her leaf. This 6 hrs workshop.
This uses the Ladybug Garden book.
Bobbin Work Appliqué
New Workshop!!
We’ll explore working with thick pearl cottons and #8 weight metallics,
to create an appliqué will give you a strong and lightning fast appliqué
embroidery that could go anywhere, on quilts, clothing or home dec
items. 6 hour project oriented workshop. Skill level, beginner/expert
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Bobbin Work Appliqué Flowers
Half Day Workshop:
Working with thick thread and bobbin work techniques we can create an embroidered image we can appliqué on any project, quilt, wearable . Instant gratification! 3 hour project oriented workshop. Skill level, beginner/expert
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Creating the Creator, Free Creative Workshop!
Free Workshop
Creating the Creator, In Imagio Dei
It’s all in the mind” Yellow Submarine John Lennon
“Most people pass out of make believe stage of childhood, but I’m still in it. I don’t think you can act without one foot in the pram”. Derek Jacobi
“I never wanted to be a composer. I am a composer, which is a very different thing.” Vivian Fine
Do or Dye
Fabric empowerment! The fabric you dye yourself can give exactly what you need for your creative process. Instead of doing gradated fabrics, we‘ll be combining some techniques of tie-dye and fabric painting to create the perfect surface for machine quilting, embroidery and embellishment.
6 hour project oriented workshop. Kit available.
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Dragonfly Sky
“Dragonfly Sky"
It will include patterns and step by step directions for a dragonfly in moonlight and focus on skills in Angelina fiber, bobbin work, soft edge appliqué thick and thin threads, thread magic appliqué, direct, shagged and cut away appliqué machine beading, globbing, and couching.
This 6 hour workshop.
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Fantasy Flowers
You’ll build fantastic flowers, and natural forms in this class. Cut-away appliqué allows you to do vines, leaves and branches. Using the latest fusibles we can add brocades,lame’s and organza sheers. Then we’ll shade over our petals with free-motion embroideryand fabulous threads. Add a beetle, butterfly or dragonfly if you’d like. Real or imaginary, you’ll love your flower garden.
6 hours project oriented workshop.
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Gilding the Lily: Ellen Anne Eddy
There are so many wonderful big panel prints available, especially the batiks. This class will teach you how to embellish them with straight stitching and garnet stitch With all the wonderful 40 weight threads available. A lot of stitching fun with no design work.
3 hours project oriented class
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Landscape Design
You’ll build fantastic landscapes in this class. We all drool over the amazing brocades, tulles, Organzas, hand-dyed cottons and lame’s. But the question is, how do you use them? In this class we’ll use non-sewing applique to create the illusions of smoke, mist, water, and fire, to add flora and fauna in fabrics you’ve only dreamed of using. 3 hour design oriented class.
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Meeting in a Box
Sometimes your group just doesn’t have the money for a speaker. But it’s fun to have special supplies, fabrics or threads come in for sale. Ask Ellen to send you a box of fabrics and threads for your group to purchase at a meeting. Let her know what you’d like her to send. $100 minimum total purchase
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Sheer Magic
You’ll build fantastic landscapes in this class. Reverse appliqué and fusing techniques create the illusions of smoke, mist, water, and fire, using hand-dyed cotton creates wonderful vines, trees and greenery. Over it all, we add a layer of incredible machine embroidery and embellishment. Truly magical.
6 hour project oriented workshop.
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Sheer Magic Jacket/Vest
A fairy garment made of organza, embroidery and sheen. Make a vest or jacket out of organza, appliqué and amazing stitching. Bring your favorite pattern or I’ll share mine with you.
6 your project oriented workshop
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Stitch Vocabulary
Free motion quilting and embroidery is the most exciting kind of quilting there is. But it does take some practice. This class offers a vocabulary of different stitches for machine embroideries for quilters.
3 hours for technique oriented class. Kit available.
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Tea Towel Sampler
This updated version of red work uses bobbin work with thick threads on Tea towels/ or muslin in linier designs. It can be done as classic red work or in a myriad of colors. This sampler makes an easy introduction to bobbin work Skill level, beginner/expert 1 Session, 6 hours
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The Perfect Pincushion
Hand-dyed threads and felt scraps make an elegant addition to your studio, your sewing kit or your night stand. We’ll use roving on felt to make an exciting base and add hand dyed threads as embellished stitchery. Hand sewing. These are so addictive it’s hard to stop at making one!Skill level Beginner/ Expert
1 Session, 3 hours product oriented class
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Thread Magic 1: Exploring the Straight Stitch
We’ll explore working with all kinds of threads from rayons, metallics and irridescents to thick perle cottons and novelty yarns, opening all kinds of new horizons to your fiber art. Also focuses on bobbin work, beading, globbing and couching.
6hr master workshop
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Thread Magic Badges
Half Day Workshop:
The techniques involved guarantee that your work is unlike anyone else’s. So why not use them to make a badge that declares who you are. We’ll work with all kinds of threads from rayons, metallic and irridescents to thick perle cottons and novelty yarns using a mixture machine quilting, embroidery, thread sketching, embellishing and machine beading to make your own name badge.
3 hour project-oriented workshop
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Thread Magic II-Image Building
Solid thread-painted images add amazing punch to machine quilted work. We’ll utilize reverse appliqué techniques, embroidery skills, and thread painting skills to create solid shaded images and three dimensional appliqué with no size limitations and little or no distortion. Solid thread-painted images add amazing punch to machine quilted work. We’ll utilize reverse appliqué techniques, embroidery skills, and thread painting skills to create solid shaded images and three dimensional appliqué with no size limitations and little or no distortion. and working with alternative threads.
6 hour project-oriented workshop
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Thread Magic Jacket/Vest
Hot quilting and machine embroidery techniques and stylish cuffs make this dolman Jacket or vest the perfect thing to flatter all figures. Thread magic makes this garment reversible. Choose a velveteen, a hand-dyed cotton, or denim and design your own motif or let a wonderful oversize print design it for you.
6 hour project oriented workshop.
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Thread Magic Overview
Sometimes people basically just want to watch. Students will start with a stitch vocabulary that includes all the basic thread embroidery skills. Then I’ll demo all the techniques: working with thick and thin threads, thread magic appliqué, fantasy flowers and landscapes, machine beading, couching, and thread buttonhole binding. It’s an introduction to everything.
6 hour technique oriented workshop
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Thread Magic Technique Book
New Workshop!!
Sometimes people just want a taste of everything. We'll start with a stitch vocabulary that Includes all the basic thread embroidery skills. Then I'll demo all the techniques and you'll create a small fabricbook to document to take home so you're sure to remember. Your group will try working with thick and thin threads, thread magic appliqué, direct, shagged and cut away appliqué machine beading, globbing, and couching. It's an introduction to everything. 6 hour technique oriented workshop
Skill level beginning to expert
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Ties that Bind
New techniques that make binding a snap. We’ll show you how to cut continuous bias with a rotary cutter, and a method of machine binding that’s positively fool proof and blindingly fast. Then we’ll show you the corded buttonhole binding. People with hand problems and those who love to quilt but hate to bind their quilts will love this. 3 hour technique-oriented class. Kit available.
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