Nancy Halpern - Workshops

Off The Charts (New Workshop)

Maps, explorations, quests, doodles, meanders and daydreams. Using the classic "Snake" pattern, create a map to a favorite place. The Loire River Valley? The Grand Canyon? The Charles? The canals of Venice (Florida, California or Italy)? The Milky Way? To (or through) the fabric store?
Bring fabrics that remind you of your real and imagined landscapes, sights along the way, purchases made, etc.
20 students, all levels including brave beginners.

Meander

lnteriors

Working from simple 3-D models of rooms and furnishings, students will develop pieced and/or appliqued quilt blocks, depicting real or imaginary enclosures, that may grow, ramble or multiply into more ambitious constructions.
Design. Intermediate/advanced, 20 students.

Adda Barn I

A modular template system which combines the idea of tangrams, children's blocks and off-the-shelf building materials to re-create the house-shed-shed-barn style of rural, additive architecture. In the afternoon. free-form landscaping as well.
Design and technique. 20 students, all levels.

Adda Barn II

Different templates; same system.
Design and technique.
20 students, all levels.

Stitch / Line: Contemporary Quilting Design

Bold/ graceful? Serious/ whimsical? Rough/ polished? Formal / free and easy? Try unusual ways of making your quilt expressive through line, shadow, and character of stitch. Unquilted tops needing suggestions are particularly welcome.
Design /technique. 20 students, all levels, all day.

Japanese Puzzle Quilts (Full and Half Day)

Explore  the  crective possibilities of the  enigmatic Japanese Puzzle Block, a simple diamond which forms two visually mesmerizing secondary patterns.  Floating serenely or twisting energetically, both can be constructed with surprising ease.
20 students, all levels.

Monet's Puzzle

The enigmatic Japanese Puzzle Block, a simple diamond which forms visually mesmerizing secondary patterns, is ideally suited to interpret the interplay of color and light sought by Impressionist painters.  Monet's gardens, landscapes and waterlilies suggest possibilities for fabric choices, while other Impressionist painters, both European and American, widen our range of opportunities. Come with a print of a painting, fabrics in its colors, and create an impression of an impression.

Chicken Delight (Full and Half Day)

Nancy Halpern

Half of the fun of this workshop is in the pattern for the block, which I will provide.  The other half is in creating a surrounding landscape, or place setting, for your one (or more) intriguing block(s). If you hate chickens you may bring ANY other block your heart desires, completely sewn or simply drawn on paper. The workshop activities will be to 'materialize" the chicken and then design its ambience. For ideas, think of the possibilities suggested by such titles as Chicken Little, Little Red Hen, Chicken Kiev, Chicken Tetrazinni, Strange Flavor Chicken, Chicken Sukiyaki, Mad Wet Hen, Chicken Under Glass, Chicken and Stars, Free-range Chicken, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Chicken in Every Pot,

Color, design and construction. 20 students., all levels.

 

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