Design from Photos to Imagination

Registration Deposit: $210
Total cost of Workshop: $600
Dates: Friday, Jun 6th – Tuesday, Jun 8th, 2025 (9am-4pm)

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Total cost of Workshop: $600
Dates: Friday, Jun 6th – Tuesday, Jun 8th, 2025 (9am-4pm)
Materials: Conley- Supply List.pdf

In this class Vicki will show how she uses multiple photos to design a bold, graphic landscape. She will demonstrate simplifying the images using a tracing technique with clear sheet protectors or tracing paper as well as the drawing app Procreate on the iPad.

Then you will design your pattern from your own photos. (Vicki will share a pre-class video to help students choose a good photo for the class). The finished pattern will be enlarged and traced on Floriani Stitch and Wash Fusible stabilizer. The stabilizer is used as a template to construct the quilt and is left in the final piece! There will be a discussion about how to use value effectively in your work and Vicki will assist you with fabric selection. The foreground elements are constructed using Turned Edge Machine Piecing and the ombre sky is constructed by traditional foundation paper piecing. However, you design your own piecing pattern! To learn both the turned edge machine piecing and the fussy piecing (used to construct an ombre sky) you will construct a simple rock landscape from Vicki’s pattern. Then you can begin to construct your own piece. Vicki will also demonstrate how she silk screens the lettering on her quilts.

Instructor Bio

Vicki Conley lives in the mountains of southern New Mexico. She has been a creative person all her life and has recently retired from 42 years as a studio potter. She has been a fiber artist for about 20 years and is now also exploring surface pattern design and online teaching. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was part of Quilt National 2017. Vicki has an eye for interpreting the natural world and is best known for her original national park poster art quilts. She and her husband now travel extensively in their RV with their two dogs, always looking for the next inspiration. Vicki enjoys bold graphic landscapes as well as abstract improvisational piecing. You may have seen Vicki’s work in Machine Quilting Unlimited, Art Quilting Studios and Art Quilt Quarterly and she has articles in recent issues of Quilting Arts Magazine. She has also been a guest on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson demonstrating some of the techniques she uses in her national park art quilts. She recently finished taping for Quilting Arts TV series 3100. Look for it this fall on PBS. In her class you will learn all the techniques she uses in these stunning quilts. You can see her work at https://www.vicki-conley.com/

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