Instructor: Maria Shell
The supply list has been provided by the instructor. If you have any questions, please contact the instructor at mariashell4@gmail.com.
Supply List
Quilting Supplies
- Improv Patchwork: Dynamic Quilts Made with Line & Shape by Maria Shell
- Sewing machine with a straight stitch and a quarter-inch foot and/or the ability to create a quar- ter inch seam. (A quarter-inch foot with a flange will NOT work for sewing curves.)
- Rotary Cutter with a sharp new blade—Olfa 60MM Straight Handle Rotary Cutter (RTY-3/G) is preferred
- Rotary rulers (bring your basic longer ruler, my favorite is the Omnigid 4’’ x 14’’.
- Tri-Rec Ruler and Companion Angle Ruler if you have them. Or any triangle ruler that you have on hand and want to explore using.
- Three yards of Pellon 810 True Grid tracing paper, OR Pellon 830 Easy Tracing Material, OR some other sort of non-woven but stable pattern tracing material.
- Rotary Mat
- Basic quilting supplies including straight pins, seam ripper, neutral thread, scissors, measuring tape and snips
- Small sticky note pad
- Paper and/or notebook and/or draft paper for making notes, sketches, and drawings about your quilt.
- Calculator and Camera or a smart phone
- Design wall (a large piece of flannel or batting works fine) If this is a one day class, you may not need a design wall. You decide.
- Stiletto or Awl
- Small bag for trash/fabric scraps
- Painters tape for hanging up design wall
Fabric—You have choices!
Choice #1. If you are traveling and have a limited amount of room, please bring at least 1/2 yard cut to represent each of the following colors from the color wheel—purple, blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red, and pink and four one yard cuts of neutrals—white, grey, black, and brown. This will result in a 12 color palette with a total of eight yards of fabric. Please refer to the Palette Exercise for additional information on creating your palette
Choice #2. If you have room and want more options, please pack a suitcase or large box or large tub of an assortment of solid color fabrics that represent all colors plus neutral and a variety of in- tensities (the wow factor of a color) and a variety of values (light and dark and everything in be- tween!) Please refer to the Palette Exercise for additional information on creating your palette. NOTE—If you want to work with prints or tonals you may do so but realize that the graphic quailtiy of your work will be muted by the prints and the variations in color that exist in tonals. You can also work with a mixture of prints and solids if that is your thing. We can make it work.