50 York St
Guilford
CT
Schedule: Sunday, March 31st from 11 AM to 5 PM
Instructor: Christina Blais
Ages: 16+
Fee: $129 + materials.
Prerequisite: Basic quilting experience. If you can sew a 1/4″ seam. you’re ready for this workshop.
Class Description:
Say what you mean in an art quilt. Make the baby’s name for the nursery, piece together your favorite quote, or challenge yourself to stitch the entire alphabet! You think it, we’ll make the letters.
This class explores the construction of letters, making words, and making lines of text. Quilting options will be demonstrated.
Space is limited.
Christina’s Autobiography:
I make quilts, but mine are probably unlike anything your grandmother ever made (unless you had one very hip grandmother).
In my work, no subject matter is off-limits, nor any construction method. Up until now, my quilts have reflected the physical, social, spiritual, and historical worlds as I perceive them, in all their beauty, complexity, simplicity and emotion. And dogs. Several of my works have been of my dog, Dutch; I believe Dutch should earn his keep, and he enjoys being my model.
My work has been displayed in such places as my very own living room, Grand Central Terminal and the International Quilt Festival. I post the whereabouts of my quilts on my Facebook page.
In addition to making quilts, I am a wife, mother, dog walker, and recently have taken up the sport of curling. I am a member, and past CT state representative to the international art quilt organization Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA).