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Cindy Oravecz has been the featured speaker at major quilt
shows, most recently in Hershey, Pa. Book Cindy to speak or
teach for your guild, group or quilt shop. Available programs
range from an hour-long talk to multi-day workshops.
Lectures
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What's Weird & Wacky, Old & New In The Sewing World
Watch Cindy pull all sorts of unusual projects from her sewing bag of tricks. The stories will be as wild and wacky as the projects. What Fun! One hour to one-and-a-half hours.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Victorian Crazy Quilting
Bring pencil & paper to take notes. We will journey through the poetry, the history, styles of yesterday and styles of today and the out-of-print references on this intriguing fancywork. Cindy will give you every bit of the how-to of piecing and stitching these quilts. One hour to one-and-a-half hours.
LECTURE DEMO
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ruching
Learn everything from the history of this ancient technique to precisely how to do it (and pronounce it correctly). We will look at all the ways to vary ruching -- to change it using fabric changes, decorative thread changes, color play and size variations. We'll finish up taking a look at all the ways ruching can be used in quilts, garments and other embellishments. You'll want to bring a pencil to jot down tips and measurements. One hour to one-and-a-half hours.
Includes slide show
History of the Baltimore Album Quilt In America
Travel back through the 1800s in this lecture and slide presentation and look at the exquisite album quilts that marked this time in history. We will examine how and why Baltimore Album quilts were made and how their influence spread across our country. Two hours.
Half-day workshops
(Three hours)
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Stained Glass Hearts
A delightfully easy class where students
work with fusing fabric in interlocking rows and applying
Clover Rainbow Quick Bias. Machine sewing is done with
a twin-needle. You will get this project done! Complete
kits of Bali fabrics available.
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Make-It,
Take-It, The 3-D Pansy and Rose
Create a realistic pansy and
rose, and then learn a fast, fun leaf.
Leave class with a finished lapel pin
and the ability to create pansies and
roses for crazy or album quilts, wearables
and other crafts. Please bring scissors
and chalk marker. Kit includes pattern,
French ribbon, and lapel-pin backing.
All levels.
Mastering 3-D Folded Roses
with
the Vintage Rose Spindle from Australia
Hands on! Create a breathtaking
3-D unfolding rose and the scalloped petal
rose using French wire ribbon
by spinning it on this
tool from Australia.
Basic Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Create
a silk ribbon edging on washable velvet for a denim shirt
while learning the basics of how to embroider with ribbon
in the needle. Students will learn the spider web rose, lazy
daisy leaves, Japanese ribbon stitch petals, Colonial knot
and rose buds. The project will be completed in class.
The 3-D Ruched Mum, Pansy
and Daffodil
Learn 3-D flowers faster by the strip from fabric
and/or ribbon -- whatever you enjoy working with. Create a
ruched mum using one ruching pattern, learn a different ruching
pattern while creating a pansy and learn the 3-D daffodil
as well. Add some quick 3-D leaves and leave class with a
lapel pin if you like, or add them to your next album block.
The 3-D Bleeding Heart,
Canterbury Bell and Bluebell
Learn some of Cindy's most popular
small garden delights: The Bleeding heart, Canterbury Bell
and Virginia Bluebell, all made from fabric and ready for
your next quilt or wearable.
All Day Workshops
(Minimum 6 hours)
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Roses, Roses, Roses
Spin, twirl and gather silk, organza and French wire
ribbon into lovely roses of all sizes. Learn to master
Australia's favorite flowermaking tool -- the Vintage Rose
Spindle as well as makes roses with needle, thread and
ribbon. This class is from Cindy's book Dimensional
Roses for Quilts, Clothing & Accessories.
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Flower basket quilt block
or wearable embellishment
Spend a day making dimensional flowers
from fabric and ribbons. Twist and fold a basket
handle and fill the basket with pansies, daffodils,
Bleeding Heart, roses & greenery for a 12- or
16-inch quilt block for an album quilt or wallhanging.
Visit our Gallery Photos on this web site for samples
of students' work of this basket. You will work
in the colors you prefer as you choose ribbons and
build color throughout the day. All hand work. Homework
instructions mailed to you when you register. Kit
$12
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Beginner 3-D Bouquet
Fill a 3-D bouquet with ruched mums from French ribbon,
ruched pansies from bias hand-dyed silk ribbon, a daffodil
from silk and organza and charming beaded wheel flowers.
Learn to apply silk cord for stems, leaves and a tied ribbon
bow for in a 12-inch quilt block.
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Silk Rummaging & Crazy Piecing
Learn the many ways to piece crazy quilting. Pick your own silk kit for a a 10-inch block or small purse from 100s of pieces of pure silk that will be in mountainous piles about the room. Sewing machine cleaned & in good working order required.
The Ying & Yang of Crazy Quilt
Stitches:
Messy Stitching That Looks Dreamy & Perfect Stitching Without Trying
Our fastest handwork seam finishes will be
yours in this class using silk ribbon, beads, buttons & leaf
ribbon. And find out about a little known technique for stitching
perfectly straight & evenly spaced crazy quilt stitches
without any rulers or measuring.
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Tulips In A Flash
Create a beautiful vase of stately tulips surrounded
by a scallop & tear drop border for a quick wallhanging.
Fused fabric tulips will come to life when surrounded
by the vivid colors in 1/8-inch wide Rainbow
Miniature Bias. The wallhanging will be completed, quilted
and bound very quickly. Sewing machine cleaned & in
good working order required. This class is from Cindy's
book Flowers In A Flash.
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The Rose Topiary
Learn to make dimensional roses from two sizes of French
wire ribbon and create a lovely topiary rose
tree in a clay pot wallhanging. The icing on
the topiary is working with hand-dyed silk cording
to make tendrils that wind around the stalk and
feathery yarn for moss. Homework before class:
Applique clay pot and stalk to background block. This class
is from Cindy's book Dimensional
Roses for Quilts, Clothing & Accessories.
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Unusual, Advanced Silk
Ribbon Flowermaking
Create unusual silk ribbon flowers like
the Columbine, Fuchsia and the Twisty Rose. More flowers
and different leaves and buds will be added as time and
students abilities and needs permit.
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Victorian Wreath
of Wildflowers
Quilt Block
Shape fabric and ribbons into colorful wildflowers that
will bloom as a Victorian wreath on a 12-inch quilt block.
This class will feature all-new techniques that are not
from Cindy's first two books. Relaxing hand gathering stitches
that do not have to be perfect will form flowers like the
yellow sand Verbena, Milkwort, Prairie Acacia, Bunchberry,
Camilla and the New York Ironweed. The quilt block can
be part of an album quilt or trimmed with a 3-D swag border
for a wallhanging.
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Two-day workshops
(Larger
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Victorian purse
Journey with us into a world of ornate Victorian embellishment.
Make a silk velvet purse in your own chosen colors
with ribbon flowers, dyed lace, charms, beads & buttons.
Breakfast & lunch provided. Choose your preferred color
of variegated silk velvet for your purse. Options
are: sable browns, olives, dark blue-greens, light blues-pinks-greens,
khaki with purple, charcoal gray-black, off-whites,
yellow-red. Call for the color list as these hand-dyes
can vary.
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Miniature 3-D Flowers
for a 4-Block Wallhanging
Make all the 3-D special effects for "The Garden
Sampler", four blocks from Cindy Oravecz's second
book, The Enchanted Garden.
Taught by the author, you will learn a fun machine sewn
3-D bird's nest, along with Sunflowers, Hepatica, Mums,
the Pansy, the Old-Fashioned Rose and 3-D leaves. The four
blocks from the book include "Elegant Bounty," "Love
is ...," "Friendship's Bond" and "Sunshine's
Joy." Master all the 3-D techniques in class and finish
the appliqué behind the blocks either before or
after class.
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The 3-D Bell Basket
Create a spectacular three-dimensional basket for an album quilt block
in many pastel shades of blues, pinks, purples and yellow. Learn to make
a 3-D basket by folding long strips of French wire ribbon and applying
with hidden machine sewing. Fill the basket with 3-D flowers of bluebells,
Canterbury bells, bleeding heart and a tiny wildflower. Use both hand
and machine sewing to create this block. Students will applique stems
by machine and hand with instruction and precut strips at home before
class.
Equipment needed: Both sewing machine, iron & board are suggested
but optional. Two sewing machines and iron & board will be on premises
to share in class. Suggested reading: Into The Garden, Realistic 3-D
Flowers Faster By The Strip by the teacher.
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Weekend and Week-long Studies Available Upon Request
For information or to book a program:
Email Cindy
Call toll-free: 1-866-953-0722
Fax: 330-637-3124
Or write to: Quilter's Fancy, P.O. Box 457, Cortland, Ohio
44410
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