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| A Sampling of Jennifer Amor’s Workshops For complete workshop/lecture information, contact Jennifer Amor, 3702 Blossom St., Columbia S.C. 29205 (803) 256-0146 email: Jenniferiamor@aol.com |
| Floating Foundation Bargello Learn how to “float” bargello on a freezer paper foundation, creating all the strip sets for a four-block repeat wallhanging. In a 6-hour class, bring pre-cut strips, learn the technique and sew one of the four blocks (finish at home). Option: 2-day class includes “how-to” exercises to create your own bargello designs . |
| Fruit Cocktail 28” x 28” |
| Playing Hopscotch: Jacket or Vest (Class sample: The Hopscotch Jacket pattern) Play hopscotch on your favorite jacket or vest pattern (or the top of a jumper). Fun, fast, and really easy! Strip-piecing on a paper foundation. Fat quarters make a color splash on the front, and team with a plain back and jazzy sleeves. 6-hour class. Use your own pattern or order The Hopscotch Jacket. |
| Crayon Play for the Young at Art Learn to make fabric crayon fake “photos” of yourself, your favorite person or pet, then turn them into a fabulous wall quilt that will rock ‘n’ roll and swivel its hips like Elvis! You don’t need to be an artist—just bring your sense of fun! Make pictures in class (kit provided): sew quilt at home. 3-hour class. |
| The Blue Elvis Quilt 34” x 34” |
| Making Faces: A Crayon Quilt Remember all those school photos of your kids or grandkids? You don’t have to be an artist to copy these memories with fabric crayons for a wonderful “faces” quilt. Kit provided to create fabric portraits in class. Sew the quilt at home. 3 hours (Use your own photos of people, places or pets). |
| Jonathan’s Quilt 37” x 27” |
| The Fabulous Flavor Quilt A one-week residency for 100 elementary through high school students. Dye fabric in soft drink mix (cherry, lemon-lime etc.), use fabric paint for an autographed handprint border, color designs illustrating a curriculum-based theme with fabric crayons. Students sew the 82” x 57” wall quilt by hand, with final construction completed by the artist. Options include 2-day residency and 1-day teacher workshops. |
| The Fabulous Flavor Quilt 82” x 57” |
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| All designs copyright 2006 Jennifer Amor |
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| Flavor Quilts Book $12.95 |
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| Fourth Grade "Favorite Books" Theme Quilt |
| Middle School "Jungle Quilt" (detail) |
| The Hopscotch Jacket |
| Flavor Quilts for Kids to Make: Crayons, Fabrics & Drink-Mix Dyes. Complete instructions for teaching children to dye, decorate and sew quilts, by Jennifer Amor. This ground-breaking book based on the author's years of experience conducting school residencies has easy to follow instructions for fabric crayons, paints, powdered soft drink mix dyes and teaching children to sew by hand. Basic quiltmaking for non-quilters, lesson plans and reading lists included. Currently out of print, the book is available only from the author. Supplies are limited. Soft cover, 100 pages. $12.95 |
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| SEWING Sweaters for Knitwits Can't knit? Then SEW a sweater! Start with a couple of balls of yarn and make a knit-look sweater on your sewing machine. Today's chunky wool and synthetic yarns are fat and fabulous and they're not just for knitting! Learn this new technique while sewing a sleeveless sweater vest in a 6 hour class that will have your friends asking: "How did you DO that?" |