The PEI Crafts Council was pleased to host a 3 day workshop with Gloria Loughman of Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia September 13-15, 2024. The workshops were held in the new Charlottetown Library Learning Centre in downtown Charlottetown, 97 Queen St.
Quilters came from across PEI, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Manitoba to attend the workshops.
Distinctive Doorway Workshop
12 quilters arrived at 9:30 am to set up for the first workshop, a small quilt based on a doorway. Armed with freezer paper and steam a seam we learned a construction technique that outlines the main features with a thin dark line to create a more graphic image. By 5pm everyone had a fairly assemble project to take home, quilt and finish on their own time.
Dynamic Landscapes Workshop
15 quilters took part in this 2 day workshop which taught techniques to create a beautiful landscape full of movement and direction. Gloria demonstrated with samples how diagonal lines bring energy and movement to a design and when the light is just right, commonplace subjects are transformed and become noticed. She showed how to choose fabrics using a color wheel to make complentary, analogous, split complimentary, triads, and monochromatic color shemes. We had a lesson on mixing paints to create our own colored fabric, then using translucent fabric paints we painted skies on plain fabric. As the fabrics dried we continued with tracing pattern pieces onto tracing paper, freezer paper and steam a seam. We laid out our fabrics and Gloria helped us decided which sky pieces should be cut into diagonal strips.
Day 2 continued with cutting the diagonal strips, layering and ironing the pieces to the base fabric. Gloria shared how to quilt the skies,the foreground and add a black contour line to hills and buildings. Everyone loved the process and went home enthused to finish their pieces.
Gloria was a wonderful teacher, very patient and kind. She shared much knowledge about her techniques and stories about her travels.
