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.

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.

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!

New 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

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Do or Dye

Full Day Workshop:
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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Fantasy Flowers

Full Day Workshop:
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

Half Day Workshop:
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

Half Day Workshop:
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. $50 minimum purchase. You pay for postage and can send back whatever isn’t sold. Perfect for small groups or a fun shopping evening.

Until March 2008, we're offering free shipping to you for your meeting in a box. Try it and see how much fun it is!

Personal Studio Time

Learn what you want when you want .

Sheer Magic

Full Day Workshop:
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

Full Day Workshop:
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

Half Day Workshop:
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

Full Day Workshop:
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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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 I - Using Every Kind of Thread

Full Day Workshop
Beyond machine quilting and embroidery there’s thread magic. 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. We’ll utilize a mixture machine quilting, embroidery, thread sketching, embellishing and machine beading to make a 18”x22” hanging.
6 hour project-oriented workshop.
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Thread Magic II-Image Building

Full Day Workshop:
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

Full Day Workshop:
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

Full Day Workshop:
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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Ties that Bind

Half Day Workshop:
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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Windows and Doors

Full Day Workshop:
Everyone loves to discover things. Quilts with flaps and 3 dimensional additions gives us an extra dimension of excitement! We’ll use several appliqué techniques to create a layered quilt with windows, flaps and overlays. Over it all, we add a layer of incredible machine embroidery
and embellishment. The perfect quilt for the child in us all.
6 hour class project oriented workshop
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