3750 Taylor Rd
Loomis, CA 95650
USA
Designing and making your own fabric is an exciting process and a great way to define your work and individual style. Combining felt with fabric and interesting stitching patterns to create a new design stretches the creative process and allows you to push your own boundaries to see what is possible.
During this three day workshop students will learn how to create textural elements through felting, fabric collage and sewing to create a unique piece of fabric that will be used to make a vest. Designs for the fabric can be simple, elegant r couture.
A garment that fits is key to looking good. Most of our body types don’t conform to standard patterns so we will be fitting your pattern to your individual silhouette and giving you some overall fitting tips and techniques.
Two patterns will be available as part of the materials fee: Diane Ericson’s Fault Lines Vest/ Jacket and my Everyday Vest Pattern.
Day One: Students will make nuno felt yardage. Yardage can be simple or incorporate textural elements and design. We will discuss basic design elements when creating fabric for patterns.
Day Two: We will focus on combining nuno felt with other types of fabric to make pattern pieces. Stitching techniques will be used to create interesting pockets or collage pieces to be incorporated into the fabric.
Day Three: Pattern fitting, cutting, piecing and sewing vest to completion.
Instructor: Jo Ann Manzone
Class Fee: $400 + $50 supply fee + materials
Level 1: Nuno felted scarf class OR 4 or more hours of felting experience required.
How to register: We are currently unable to register students online. Please call us at 926-652-2134 Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00am to 5:00pm and we’ll be happy to register you over the phone. Prepayment is required to guarantee your spot in class.
Jo Ann Manzone is a felt maker, botanical printer and natural dyer. She has taught felt making at Create, Mixed Media Retreat for Artists, Costa Mesa, California, coordinated a two day workshop, Nuno Felt basics with Polly Stirling at Ashland Art Center, Ashland, Oregon, taught workshops at the American Sewing Guild’s Southern Oregon Chapter, and has exhibited her work through the Lithia Artisans Guild. She has a studio at Ashland Art Center where she exhibits and sells her work and a working/teaching studio at The Design Center in Ashland where she creates and teaches felt making, botanical print, natural dyeing and garment design.
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