Mt. Battie Fashionable Quilt Guild gives Zoom workshop with Maria Shell – Knox County VillageSoup

CAMDEN — “Making Prints – Strips & Stripes” with famend quilter Maria Shell is obtainable as a two-part workshop by way of Zoom Thursdays, Oct. 6 and 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. The price is $80 for this Mt. Battie Fashionable Quilt Guild workshop.

Utilizing solid-colored quilters cottons, college students will discover ways to sew an assortment of pieced prints together with stripes, tracks, dots and grids. Whereas studying these new strategies, college students can even be given details about deciding on a colour palette, improvisational piecing strategies, and concepts for taking these strategies and creating authentic quilts.

Shell’s work is grounded within the custom and craft of American quilt making. She strives to take the classical elements of a conventional bedquilt and manipulate them with the hope of making shocking combos of sample, repetition and colour for the viewer. Shell is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Basis 2011 Winter Award, a Rasmuson Basis Venture Award and two Rasmuson Fellowships (2009, 2013, 2017). She has had a number of solo and small group reveals together with fiber on the Fitton Heart for Inventive Arts in Hamilton, Ohio; “Proper Strains and Circles” on the Ormond Seaside Memorial Artwork Museum and Gardens in Ormond Seaside, Fla.; “Line + Form” on the Howdy Sew Studio in Berkeley, Calif.; and “The Pieced Canvas” on the Visions Artwork Museum in San Diego, Calif. Her most up-to-date solo exhibition is “Off the Grid,” which will likely be on view on the Shelburne Artwork Museum in Shelburne, Vt. by way of Oct. 2022. Her first guide, “Improv Patchwork — Dynamic Quilts Made with Line & Form,” was revealed in 2017. See extra of Shell’s work at mariashell.com.

The Mt. Battie Fashionable Quilt Guild is a member of the Fashionable Quilt Guild nationwide group. To register and for extra data, electronic mail midcoastquiltguilds@gmail.com.

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