Please note: Instruction time for workshops is 3 or 6 hours.
This does not include lunch time. Be sure to please add
additional time on to workshop day for lunch
so participants have full workshop instruction time.

This class will appeal to the fabric lover in all of us!

Do you have fabrics you’ve bought, can’t cut, and don’t know what to do with them? Well, now you’ll be able to create original pieces using these fabrics. The fabric dictates the design! After this class you’ll never look at fabric the same way again.

3 hour class - just design work with fabric

6 hour class - includes afternoon embellishment instruction

Two-day workshop - with sewing machines, includes all the above and more design time

Artwork: Castle View by Fern Junnila (a student) from Massachusetts

ALOHA! Come away with me and learn a beautiful style of quilt making! Hawaiian quilting is a lovely and meaningful way to make a gift of love from fabric. If you've ever been afraid of appliqué, this stress-free method of 'needle-turning' is for you. Begin a wall hanging of a traditional design in class or design your own original Hawaiian-style quilt.

3 - 6 hour class

Artwork: Peace, 1991; made by Faye Labanaris to commemorate the Peace from the first Gulf War. Little did we know then that Peace in the Middle East would be a hope and a prayer still today.

You asked for it! Learn to make LOTS of flowers. Create many different blooms from posies to roses, pansies to daisies and so many more from French wire-edged ribbon, vintage unwired French ribbon and bias silk satin. Construct on a crinoline base, use stamens and beads to enhance your blooms, create flowers using component petals and a variety of leaves to complete your ribbon creations. You can use as ribbon appliqué on a quilt or a garment or create a beautiful pin to enhance your wardrobe. Everything you’ll need is provided in a kit.

6 hour class

Artwork: Detail of wallhanging, The Gift of a Letter

Hand appliqué is not to be feared! Learn basic techniques with out stress and gadgets. After this introductory class with Faye you’ll be able to tackle any project with confidence.

3 hour class

Create a delightful woven ribbon basket full of ribbon pansies as an introduction to French ribbon flowers. Learn techniques to create a variety of pansies and leaves in wire-edged ribbon.

It’s lots of fun and you won’t be able to stop with just one.

3 hour class

Artwork: Detail of ribbon examples of pansies and baskets

This delightful heart-shaped wreath with a Ruched French ribbon rose and buds will teach you several basic Baltimore Appliqué techniques, such as needle turn appliqué, superfine stems, and perfect points and enhance your appliqué experience. Enhance this wreath with beautiful rose of French ribbon that could be worn as a corsage.

6 hour class

Artwork: Ruched Rose Wreath; wallhanging from Garden View Applique

A delightful introduction to hand applique and ribbon work. Paper cut a leafy wreath from fabric and accent with ribbon and accent with ribbon posies. Learn the basics of hand applique and ribbon work applique quickly and easily. This wreath is very easy to make and fun to vary. From Garden View Applique

3 hour class

Artwork: Wallhanging from Garden View Applique, detail

Pick a beautiful rose from your garden and present it to a special person. Now capture this beautiful gesture in fabric and you have an everlasting gift. Inspired by a prize winning quilt design from the 1850’s, this classic beauty is fun to sew. Stitch up a single stem for a lovely wall hanging or pillow. Stitch up a dozen blocks for a lap quilt or two dozen for a bed quilt. Learn basic needleturn techniques for beautiful hand appliqué bias stems and perfect pointy leaves.

Make the roses from beautiful French ribbon, broderie perse chintz work, layered fabric petals, or a ribbon rose, the choice is yours. Use ultrasuede applique for intricate bud cases, create ribbon buds and highlight with embroidered accents.

6 hour class

Artwork: Wallhanging from Applique Rose Garden

A classic Album wreath becomes good enough to eat with beaded blackberries and raspberries. Refine your hand applique techniques while creating a contemporary album block with beadwork berries.

3 hour class

Artwork: Wallhanging from Garden View Applique, detail

Roses are for wearing! Create these multi-petaled beauties from beautiful ribbons and be right in style today with these show stopper roses in your wardrobe. They are lots of fun and easy to make. In just a short time you’ll create beautiful flowers pretty as a picture and fun to wear!

3 – 6 hour class

Artwork: Detail of ribbon examples of a variety of roses

This is classic redwork embroidery with a twist! Using designs from Faye’s newest book, Applique Rose Garden, create a four-patch wallhanging of vintage album patterns from the 1800’s. Use 3 shades each of red, green and golden yellow floss to do basic as well as accent embroidery stitches. A fun, easy and very relaxing project!

3 hour class

Here’s everything you want to know about stitching beautiful fabric roses for your quilts. Learn to make simple whole cloth roses to multi-petaled layered roses. Stitch skinny stems from bias fabric, as well as a variety of materials. Work with ultra suede for delicate rosebuds. Enhance your rose appliqué with embroidered and ink work details. Custom create your own rose garden quilt.

6 hour class

Artwork: Cover of Applique Rose Garden

Almost no sewing is involved in this wonderful applique technique. Learn to do cutwork appliqué without having to needleturn! Make delicate bud cases for roses, tiny flowers petals and berries with ease. Ultrasuede is fun to work with and produces great results. Learn to enhance your ultrasuede appliqué with a few finishing touches for a wonderful addition to your stitching techniques.

3 hour class

Artwork: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, detail

Stitch a classic wreath design from a vintage floral album pattern from Faye’s newest book, Applique Rose Garden and learn needleturn techniques for beautiful hand appliqué bias stems and perfect pointy leaves. The use of ultrasuede for bud cases and dimensional rosebuds made from silk satin make this project fun, easy and quick.

3 hour class

Artwork: Wallhanging from Garden View Applique

STATE FLOWER CLASSES
All are original designs by Faye Labanaris from America’s Quilted Garden.

These designs are appropriate for all skill levels and are a wonderful introduction to Album-block appliqué, easy piecing, ribbon flower and many more techniques.  Here are a few examples...  Contact Faye for specific information about your state flower quilt.

NEW ENGLAND ALBUM WREATH
The beauty of New England is captured in ribbon and fabric blooms in this Baltimore album-style wreath block. With lily of the valley, lilacs, seaside roses, daisies, sunflowers and fall foliage, the seasons in New England are a delight to stitch. 6 hours

NEW HAMPSHIRE WREATH   
Capture springtime in the Granite State with a wreath of French ribbon lilacs. 3 hours         

Diamond Head Remembered
 A lei of dimensional Hibiscus blooms, and a landscape center of Diamond Head, represents the Islands of Hawaii. 6 hours

CALIFORNIA  WREATH
The beauty of California’s state flower, the golden poppy, is showcased in this landscape wreath block.  A border of state flower fabric is enhanced with prairie points of many shades of golden yellow fabric representing golden sunshine. 6 hours                       

COLORADO WREATH  
The majesty of the Rocky Mountains is captured with this landscape wreath block
surrounded by a garland of French Ribbon Columbine. 6 hours

KENTUCKY WREATH
A contemporary fleur-de-lis appliquéd crossed spray design is used to represent
the beautiful, but misunderstood Goldenrod wildflower. 3 hours

NEW YORK WREATH
An inked rectangular wreath with broderie perse fabric cornerstone roses  provides an elegant design for New York’s Rose State flower.

PENNSYLVANIA WREATH
This Baltimore-style block captures the beauty of springtime with a mountain laurel wreath of dimensional French ribbon blooms, bias vine against a sky blue medallion center. 3 hours

VERMONT WREATH
Red Clover stumpwork blossoms with ultra-suede clover leaves make a charming wreath for the state of Vermont. Easy to do and fun to make. 3 Hours

Please note: Lecture presentations are 45-90 minutes in length.
It is the responsibility of the hiring group to have in good working order a Kodak carousel slide projector and empty carousel for 80 slides, with someone to setup and run it, as well as a projection screen, quilt rack and 2 tables for quilt display.

This trunk show presentation pays tribute to the beauty of America’s State flowers in this collection of 55 original designed pieces by Faye Labanaris.  Over a dozen different techniques are used to create the many different flowers for the 50 state flowers of the United States, as well as, the District of Columbia and four US territories. Enjoy a travelogue of state quilts and be inspired by the many varied techniques. 75-90 minutes.  Look for the book AMERICA’S QUILTED GARDEN to be published by The American Quilters Society in 2011.

Join Faye for an exciting and entertaining presentation of Quilts With A View! . . . A trunk show of quilts all made using her intriguing and innovating way to look at the fabric’s design and create one-of-a-kind beauties. This concept will appeal to the fabric lover in all of us! After this presentation you’ll never look at fabric the same way again. No Slides, just quilts!

Learn about the history, philosophy, mystery and romance of this beautiful and unique form of quilt making in this presentation is illustrated with slides and quilts. Hawaii and their quilts are memorable and beautiful. Let Faye share this with you.

A delightful and moving lecture of a quilt, a historic personality, a garden, poetry, all tied together in a heartwarming true story. Celia Thaxter, a well known New England poet, spent most of her life on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire. Her interesting life and garden have not passed from memory. See how Faye has reflected these in her A TRIBUTE TO CELIA THAXTER quilt and lecture.

Learn about the history of the original Baltimore Album Quilt period 1850’s, as well as the present day revival. Why is this style of quilt so intriguing and still speaking to us over 150 years later? How do these beautiful quilts speak without words? Learn the answers to these questions and more, as well as how you can get started on your own Album quilt.

Do you enjoy flowers, fabric and gardens?

Create a quilt just as you create and develop a garden. Follow Faye as she travels through the English countryside of thatched cottages and beautiful gardens. Learn how she created her award winning quilt,
An English Cottage Garden. Enjoy a trunk show of quilts and a slide presentation for lots of inspiration.