New Courses at Creative Spark Online Learning
Feb 17th 2022
Spark your imagination and creativity with Creative Spark's newest online courses! Cozy pillows, indigo dyeing, doll clothes, and more! There are plenty of ways to get inspired.
Dresden Holiday Pillow
with Candyce Grisham
This FREE mini-course shows you how to make a basic dresden that you can add to a premade pillow cover. Perfect for last minutes gifts or a change-up in your decor. Candyce uses valentine prints in the class, but you can incorporate any holiday or seasonal fabrics of your choosing. Candyce gives you a quick overview of the materials and tools used and then guides you through the process of making your dresden. She shows you how to add your center circle before adding it to a premade pillow cover. Once you’ve mastered this project, you will be ready to venture into creating other styles of dresdens.
How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns
with Chelly Wood
Chelly explains the fundamentals of pattern alteration, including how to lengthen sleeves, adjust seam allowances, and extend closures. We'll learn how to create patterns for skirts, pants, shirts, and dresses that fit your doll's unique shape -- whether we're sewing for an 18-inch doll, an 11-inch fashion doll, or even a tiny dollhouse-sized doll. Learn to combine and alter doll clothes patterns you already own. Chelly will share her trick for resizing patterns from small to large and from large to small. Follow this course with "How to Design Your Own Doll Clothes Patterns From Scratch” and "How to Digitize Your Doll Clothes Patterns on a Budget" to master doll clothes designing with Chelly.
Photographing Your Quilts
with Vicki Conley
Bringing out the beautiful detail and color can be effortless with the proper photography toolset. Having entered several juried exhibitions herself, your course instructor Vicki Conley has a strong understanding of what makes a good artwork photo. Learn five hacks for taking high-quality photos of your art quilts in this class. Vicki guides you through the process of capturing your quilt in the best possible way from start to finish. Begin with taking a photograph itself; learn about image composition, using a laser level, setting up your camera, and what makes good lighting. Easily resize your pictures in Photoshop, photo editing software, with step-by-step instructions.
Organic Indigo Vats
with Debby Maddy
Create gorgeous pieces of fabric art! In this course, you will go on a journey to learn the artistry of shibori and to use indigo dye on fabrics with ease. Shibori, from the root word "shiboru," means "to wring, squeeze and press" in Japanese. Shibori is a dyeing technique that uses one color and produces unique patterns on fabric. Learn how to set (make) an organic fructose indigo vat. Debbie walks you through all the supplies needed to make a successful vat and properly measure ingredients and mix the vat. You’ll be equipped with easy methods for identifying a ready vat, making samples to verify the vat is prime to dye in, and preparing fabrics for the best dye results.
Zen Doodle Art Quilts with Stitch Library
with Laura Wasilowski
Bring your doodles off your sketchbook and into the world of fused art quilts. You are the designer! Step by step, learn how to convert original sketches or doodles into a pattern and then into a completed fused art quilt. Learn different fusing techniques like pattern transfer, collage building, and bias fusing. Discover how to embellish the work with hand embroidery stitches that bring your artwork to life and complete your art quilt with an easy binding. Enjoy the experience of creating original fused art quilts from start to finish!
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