Creative Spark Instructor Spotlight: Kerry Foster
Mar 3rd 2022
Get to know Kerry Foster as a Creative Spark Instructor, C&T author, and animal portraitist.
Kerry Foster has been teaching quilting and patchwork classes around Southern Alberta, Canada for a number of years and has a growing YouTube following, but now for the first time, she is bringing her full length, detailed classes, online for quilters everywhere to enjoy! Kerry is the author of Paint By Number Quilts (Stash Books 2018) and over 60 magazine projects and articles for publications internationally. She is also an MQX ribbon winner and has shown her work in quilt and art shows alike.
Step inside her classroom…
Design Your Own Paint By Number Quilt: Pet Portraits
Turn Your Pet Photo into a Quilt Pattern
Recreate a favorite photograph out of fabric using Kerry Foster’s paint-by-number quilt techniques. This prequel to Kerry’s Dog Portraits course focuses on how to create the design from your chosen photo so that you can customize your quilt with your pet, wild animal, or anything you desire!
You can create impressive-looking, recognizable quilts using Kerry’s process of converting a photograph into a quilt pattern. This 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.
Paint By Number Quilts: Dog Portraits
Perfect Pup Portraits with Kerry!
Paint-by-Number quilts are made using a freezer paper technique to create complex designs and then finished with turned edge machine appliqué. This process makes it easy to follow an intricate pattern with great results!
In this class, Kerry shares her signature style with you and talks you through every single step of the process. Kerry shows you how to follow her Paint-by-Number patterns that are helpfully laid out with color keys and diagrams.
She also takes out all the guesswork in fabric choice so that you can sew animal portraits with sophisticated areas of light and shadow. It’s easier than you might think - put it all together without matching points and there’s no sewing until you quilt!
