Making Quilts with Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession Class Plan

Soul Searching

From Making Quilts with Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession

Class Description: This quilt is all about understanding the fabrics we are drawn to when collecting fabrics. It is all about working with value, pattern and saturation of fabrics to create a stash that is interesting and well rounded. When we see what we collect we know what we don’t collect and that makes us better stash builders!!!

Special Skills – Use your stash to make a simple block design using 9 colour groupings as well as background fabric selections. Make one block at a time in one colour group. You will need 24 strips of fabrics for each colour group plus the 24 background strips. Selecting the fabrics and then placing them into interesting groupings challenges our concept of colour and expands how we see our fabrics. Don’t be fooled, this is a tricky process but one that will leave students not only understanding what fabrics they are drawn to but also what fabrics they avoid. This understanding aid us in making more interesting quilts.

Note: this is a great class to be done in a shop as customers will definitely need to shop. If there is no shop then they should be encouraged to share fabrics.

Product: In a one day class participants might finish one colour in the morning but once they get the hang of it the rest of the blocks happen more quickly.

Enjoyment Factor: this is an extremely fun class as the focus is on how the participants react to the process. It is full of “Ah Ha moments” and a growing sense of appreciation for the wonderful contemporary fabrics available to us today.