Cincinnati Original Creative Festival
Cincinnati, OH June 24 - 26, 2010
Irena Bluhm has been a longarm quilter since November 2004. She is teaching at all major venues in the United States, including American Quilter’s Society shows and International Quilt Festival in Houston, along with private workshops nationwide and abroad. Irena is internationally acclaimed award winning longarm quilter, instructor, author and pattern designer. With 18 years of garment making/design and 12 years of doing fine art for a hobby she applies her experience on to making quilts for exhibits exclusively. Irena is an author of eight books and a winner of 60 awards in national and international quilt competitions. Some awards were won at the most prestigious quilt competitions nationwide: AQS Show in Paducah and Nashville, IQF in Houston, Road to California, PIQF, MAQF, DNQF, MQS, HMQS, NQA, RMQF, and Innovations, to name just a few. Irena started teaching just after a little over one year into longarm quilting. Her passion and enthusiasm for quilting is contagious. She loves and enjoys sharing her knowledge with others.
ORIGINAL CREATIVE FESTIVAL CLASSES:
Bluhming Background Designs
Hands-on Design Drawing Workshop, 3 Hours, Thursday 12:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Suitable for All Levels
Instructor: Irena Bluhm, Irena Bluhm Designs
Say goodbye to any conventional way of using stippling to fill in negative spaces on any quilt. This very unique, easy to understand and easy to execute technique will have your creative juices flowing, as you can add your own twist to Irena’s ideas. From very dense to allover, this technique is very forgiving and the visual effects are very impressive. No planning ahead and no marking of the background designs are required.
Bring to class: drawing pad with no lines or grid and pen or soft pencil
Kit fee $15 (Kit includes 14 pages double wire bound laminated design practice diagrams package plus dry erase pen.) The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.
Class fee $35
Quilts of a Different Color
Hands-on Coloring Workshop, 3 Hours, Friday 11:15 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Suitable for All Levels
Instructor: Irena Bluhm, Irena Bluhm Designs
Learn how easy it is to apply color using colored pencils to a small, already quilted piece, ready for painting. You don’t have to be an artist, just try to paint what you see. Don’t shy away from using bold colors and stark contrast to create a drama. You can learn how to do the shading in order to make your designs look dimensional. It is a lot of fun and very relaxing. Irena feels very passionate about what she is doing and loves sharing her experiences, the good along with the bad, so you don’t have to go through the pain of learning the lessons the hard way like she did.
Kit fee $35 (Kit includes one quilted sample (12” x 12”), ready for color application, two sets of 12 colored pencils, one set of six brushes, plastic dispenser cup, 2 oz. textile medium, paper pattern package, CD with all information about the coloring technique, plus another CD with 367 images in color.) The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.
Class fee $35
Whole Cloth Design for Everyone
Hands-on Workshop, 4 Hours, Saturday 12:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Irena Bluhm, Irena Bluhm Designs
What does it take to create a winner? Listen to Irena’s own take on this subject, as she is going to share her own experiences in contest quilt creation and preparations for shows. During the first hour students are going to view her entire quilt collection, as it will be on display during this presentation. After viewing of her entire quilt collection on the show floor and back in the classroom Irena will discuss many aspects of an overall quilt design and what mistakes to avoid. Listen to Irena’s own take about what really gets the judges’ attention! No reason to feel intimidated by the competition. There are just a few simple rules to follow in order to create an eye catching showpiece! All you need is to understand what is the most important in the entire process of creating a competition piece and face the challenge head on. In this hands-on experience students will learn quilt design basics, leave with many design ideas and at least one “blue print” design ready to be transferred to your quilt top.
Bring to class: notepad and pen
Kit fee $15 (Kit includes pattern package, design tutorial on CD, transfer paper, pencil.) The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.
Class fee $40
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