Create Gifts for Everyone on Your List!
Nov 11th 2021
Create one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on your list. You may want to make the special people in your life smile, or you may want to create a gift for yourself as an act of self-love. Either way, Creative Spark is here to help with easy-to-follow online courses!
Design Your Own Paint-By-Number Quilt
You can create impressive-looking, recognizable quilts using Kerry Foster’s process of converting a photograph into a quilt pattern. This Design Your Own Paint By Number Quilt mini-class will walk you through the steps from choosing a good photograph, to creating your pattern–either analog or digital and finally to organizing your fabric and picking the right colors to bring your quilt pattern to life. Make sure you buy this course as a bundle with Paint By Number Quilts: Dog Portraits course to learn the full process of constructing the quilt after designing the pattern.
Use Fiber, Paint, and Thread to Make Your Own Beautiful Fiber Art Map
Transform the places you love — and places you’ve always imagined or wanted to see — into one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Award-winning artist Valerie Goodwin shows you how to make quilted maps with easy fabric collage techniques and innovative designs based on maps of your favorite places in her Mapping Personal Places course. Drawing inspiration from architectural maps, plans, and blueprints, Goodwin’s combined love for architecture and art is evident through the detail and care in her works. (And you can learn how to create your own beautiful quilted map!)
Join the fun and stitch things with wings!
Soar into your next creative adventure with embellished embroidery and wool appliqué techniques! A butterfly, moth, and dragonfly meet in this folk-art style wool appliqué mini quilt where bright fabrics and intricate stitches will bring life to your quilted critters. Choose your colorful fabrics and learn step-by-step with renowned teacher Catherine Redford how to successfully complete a mini quilt or pillow in her Butterfly Stitches course. Techniques you’ll master include learning the whip stitch appliqué as well as tons of dimensional embroidery stitches that bring texture and spectacular detail to your project.
NOTE: This class is LIVE and totals 5 hours of instruction (across 3 sessions) where Catherine will start at the very beginning and include some of her favorite tips and tricks for success along the way. The recordings of the live sessions will be available afterward so you can re-visit and stitch along with Catherine as many times as needed.
Build A Village Without Leaving Your Comfy Chair
There’s no place like (a quilt) home. Join experienced instructor and bestselling author, Laura Wasilowski, in her Tiny Homes course to create your whimsical neighborhood with colorful fabrics and fanciful hand embroidery. Learn fun fusing techniques, how to create an original landscape design, and how to add hand embroidery stitches to embellish your art quilt. The result is your whimsical neighborhood placed in a colorful landscape setting.
Browse through these courses and all that Creative Spark has to offer for a craft-filled holiday season! After all, what better way to give than to make projects from the heart?
Shop Creative Spark Course: Design Your Own Paint-By-Number Quilt
Shop Creative Spark Course: Mapping Personal Places
Shop Creative Spark Course: Butterfly Stitches: Wool Appliqué with Embroidery Embellishments
