Over the Cattails 8X10” Art Quilt
Over the Cattails 8"x10" Art Quilt - Dr. Susan Kruszynski
Instructor contact: quiltingfabricsintime@gmail.com or 231-329-0201
Class Description: Dr. Susan Kruszynski will share with you a favorite project found in her newest book, Art Quilts Made Easy - a simple, collaged landscape of a beautiful lakeside shoreline.
Pre-assembled kit contains all needed fabrics and mounting materials. After a background of sky and water is created, fabric with plant life gets chosen from a smorgasbord of possibilities, and magic happens quickly as the art quilt’s lower area of growing things come to life.
When: Friday, June 7 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Skill level: Beginner
Pattern/Kit Fee: $45
Supplies/Fabric Requirements:
Need to Bring –
Sewing machine (with an open-toe foot!)
• Large glue stick (Craft Bond Extra Strength) and Tacky Glue
• Scissors – small and sharp for fussy cutting
• Tweezers
• Rotary cutter – 28mm and cutting mat (small is okay)
• Erasable marker; (eg:Pilot Ball Frixion)
• (Optional: Sewing Gloves; Small Iron & Board)
• Thread
- light blue
- very light peach
- very light yellow
- iridescent (e.g.: Sulky-opalescent-silver metallic 8040)
- black and brown
- several greens, including olive
- white
- tan
- black bobbin thread, white bobbin thread
Further instructions regarding class preparation will be emailed by your instructor after registration.
Instructor bio:
Dr. Susan Kruszynski – lives in Muskegon, Michigan, and is an award-winning art quilt designer, teacher, author, and gallery artist. Feeding her artistic nature, Susan, at age 8, started experimenting with fabrics to produce colorful creations. She began landscape fiber art design with collage art quilts in 2014. A native of Michigan, her works, that range in sizes from 3”x3” to 40”x60”, are often inspired by the tree sand woodlands along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Susan currently divides her time between creating original collaged art quilt designs, teaching art quilting, marketing this fiber art in shows and galleries, running her Quilting Fabrics in Time business, and only just recently retired as a literacy specialist from Muskegon Community College. Susan uses her 40+ years of K-College level teaching experiences and a PhD in Education to teach this art through in-class experiences in and around the state of Michigan, through on-line instruction, and with art quilt books from Fox-Chapel Publishing.