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Artful Improv Quilting – Permission to Play!

Name: Artful Improv Quilting – Permission to Play!
Brand: Creative Spark
SKU: CS0001
Price: 79.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Cindy Grisdela

Watch the art unfold before your eyes! Learn to use simple design principles to create unique quilts. Add easy piecing techniques to your improvisational toolbox—angled stripes, circles, blocks, curved strips, and inset strips.

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85 Minutes

Ability Level: Adventurous Beginner

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Start Your Improv Adventure

Improv Quilting is fun and playful with few rules. By learning to use simple design principles and key techniques, your personality will shine through your finished art quilts. Award-winning quilter and author Cindy Grisdela shares over 30 years of experience through a variety of lessons. This course is the ultimate Improv Quilting resource by combining videos, text, and a copy of her eBook, Artful Improv.

Artful Improv - Permission to Play! encourages you to take the time and space to grow your creativity. Five key improv techniques will be explained in step-by-step lessons: Improv Blocks, Angled Stripes, Improv Curves, Insets, and Curved Stripe Borders. You will learn how to make color decisions and options to quilt your improv blocks when you are finished. By the end of this course, you will be able to design and make improv quilts without a pattern, tackle curves fearlessly, and choose colors confidently.

What you will learn

Five specific improv techniques: Improv Blocks, Angled Stripes, Improv Curves, Insets, and Curved Stripe Borders
How-to create fabulous color combinations with easy to follow color recipes and fabric selection advice
The benefits of chain stitching and how to create pieced backings out of patterned fabrics
Develop a critical eye with Cindy's Design & Audition Checklist
Quilting design decision techniques using any of the five free-motion quilting motifs demonstrated
Includes access to course videos, downloads, the Creative Spark private community, and discussions with your instructor. Your course content does not expire.

Bonuses

Bonus includes a FREE downloadable, eBook: Artful Improv ($19.99 Value). This eBook compliments the course perfectly.

Course Curriculum

Welcome to Artful Improv!
1 Video 1 Text 1 Download

Chapter #1 - Getting Started
2 Videos 1 Text

Chapter #2 - Improv Techniques - Improv Blocks and Angled Stripes
2 Videos

Chapter #3 - Fearless Curves
2 Videos

Chapter #4 - More Improv Techniques
2 Videos

Chapter #5 -Tips and Tricks
1 Video 1 Text

Chapter #6 - Putting it All Together
2 Videos 1 Text

Chapter #7 - Finishing it Up
5 Videos 1 Text

Chapter #8 - Facing Demo
1 Video

Next steps
1 Video 1 Text

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Author and Teacher

Cindy Grisdela

Cindy Grisdela has been making things since she was a child. Her mother taught her to sew as soon as she was old enough for her foot to reach the pedal of the sewing machine, and some of her fondest memories are of time spent in the fabric store immersed in color and pattern.

Although she sewed, there weren’t any quilters in Cindy’s family, so she didn’t discover quilt making until she happened to read an