Thursday Class
Freestyle Quilting 101
Lisa Shepard Stewart
Quilter, Author, Owner of Cultured Expressions Fabric Store 
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Thursday Class
Freestyle Quilting 101
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Discover a creative, hand-stitched quilting style with design-as-you-go freedom and minimal measuring! Students will recreate a classic quilt block design using Lisa’s beginner-friendly hand-piecing and hand-quilting techniques and a variety of ankara/African prints and blender fabrics. You’ll also learn quick and simple ways to finish your piece as a wall hanging, pillow, jacket panel and more!
Supply List (what you need to bring):
Supply List (what you need to bring):
- 18” square of fabric for the back (quilting cotton weight, denim, lightweight canvas, etc.)
- Basic hand sewing needles and thread (neutral colors like grey, taupe, tan, or black)
- 16” or 14” pillow form, if you want to make a pillow from your creations
- Additional fabrics and embellishments, if desired
- Access to community fabrics
- Access to specialty threads for optional embellishment
- One 16” square of cotton batting
- Printed tip sheet
Friday Class
Jacquard Batik Quilted Landscape
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Join Lisa in a creative journey utilizing gorgeous Jacquard weave batiks which she imports from Ghana. Their rich colors and artful designs lend a unique quality to landscape quilts in particular. In the class, you'll learn a variety of tips and techniques for designing with these fabrics to create both realistic and stylized landscape designs (approx 16" square), to be finished later as a wall hanging, pillow, or other decorative accents. Gain inspiration from the natural surroundings of Squam Lake, or bring a photo of a favorite photo to guide you. Stitch by hand or machine; quilting experience is not necessary.
Experience Level: Beginners are welcomed.
Materials Needed:
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
About Lisa
Lisa Shepard Stewart is a writer and designer based in New Jersey. In her books, African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home and Global Expressions: Decorating with Fabrics from Around the World, Lisa encourages others to express themselves creatively through culturally relevant techniques and materials. She published her third book, African Accents On The Go! Designing Accessories with Cultural Style in June 2007, and in 2011 began publishing FABRIGASM magazine, for Lovers of African Textiles.
Lisa offers classes and events internationally, and travels to Ghana to source artists, fabrics and materials. She also organizes and hosts SewJourns to Ghana, Colorado, New Mexico and other fun destinations.
Lisa has written for various web sites, and trade and consumer publications. and has demonstrated several projects & techniques on HGTV , and its sister network, DIY, along with Discovery Channel and sewing & quilting programs on PBS.
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City with a Bachelors degree in Marketing and an Associate degree in Communications.
Lisa opened Cultured Expressions first studio location in downtown Rahway, NJ in December 2017. Lisa's obsession with African textiles began in 1986, during a trip to Senegal, West Africa. In addition to sewing and fabric collecting, she is a part-time vegetarian whose other interests include travel, entertaining, holistic health, and yoga. Connect with Lisa on Instagram.
Experience Level: Beginners are welcomed.
Materials Needed:
- Fabric scissors
- Low loft cotton batting (approx 18" square)
- 1/2 yard backing fabric
- Neutral all-purpose sewing thread (one light and one dark spool)
- Optional -- bring embellishments you might want to incorporate
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
About Lisa
Lisa Shepard Stewart is a writer and designer based in New Jersey. In her books, African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home and Global Expressions: Decorating with Fabrics from Around the World, Lisa encourages others to express themselves creatively through culturally relevant techniques and materials. She published her third book, African Accents On The Go! Designing Accessories with Cultural Style in June 2007, and in 2011 began publishing FABRIGASM magazine, for Lovers of African Textiles.
Lisa offers classes and events internationally, and travels to Ghana to source artists, fabrics and materials. She also organizes and hosts SewJourns to Ghana, Colorado, New Mexico and other fun destinations.
Lisa has written for various web sites, and trade and consumer publications. and has demonstrated several projects & techniques on HGTV , and its sister network, DIY, along with Discovery Channel and sewing & quilting programs on PBS.
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City with a Bachelors degree in Marketing and an Associate degree in Communications.
Lisa opened Cultured Expressions first studio location in downtown Rahway, NJ in December 2017. Lisa's obsession with African textiles began in 1986, during a trip to Senegal, West Africa. In addition to sewing and fabric collecting, she is a part-time vegetarian whose other interests include travel, entertaining, holistic health, and yoga. Connect with Lisa on Instagram.