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LECTURE, DEMO & TRUNK SHOW
Paula can combine just the right elements for your event...
Click on Teaching Brochure on the right for current topics, fees, etc.
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Quantum Felting
Fiberella String Theory, Chaos & the Third Dimension!
OK… This is not rocket science but these are advanced felting techniques.* Using a variety of sewing technologies, each student will explore creating unique embellished fabric and learn how to construct a 3D vessel. Advanced color and design lessons provide an essential core to this class. Traveling from station-to-station at the speed of color and light, you’ll experience fresh methods and twelve ideas for combining machine felting with serging, software, embroidery and sewing. It’s a synergy of design concepts, techniques, creativity and technology. Come take a leap! *NOTE: “advanced techniques”... newbies welcome!
Intention, Expression & the Vessel
Harmonious Color Fields
How Color Affects Shape Perception
A Conversation of Shapes… Symbols, Sequences & Scale
Selection & Arrangement of Motifs
Color Balance through Layering
The Broken Line & the Illusion of Form
Stitch as Glaze
Fiberella’s String Theory… Relativity through Color
Comets & Serger Tails
The Outer Fringe
3D Free-Form Style…. How to make your next vessel an original shape
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Elegant Evening Shawl
Textural Temptations with Machine Needle Felting
Enjoy the day as you layer, collage and machine needle felt fabulous fabrics and fibers. Create a lovely shawl with motifs or patterns that reflect your personal style; ornate-to-minimalist designs will be provided to choose from.
Learn simple and innovative embellishment techniques without the use of thread. Follow along with the patterns as you actually create new colors and build a variety of textures. You can opt to add your own creative touches along the way.
A gorgeous final color palette will emerge from the bouquet of fabrics that you bring to class combined with selections from Fiberella’s Fiber Buffet (available in class). This day and this project are truly a treat for the eye and fingertips. Make it yours!
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One day workshop
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The Art Scarf
An Introduction to Machine Needle Felting
Connect more than fiber and fabric.
Connect to your own creativity and to a community
of textile enthusiasts!
Whether you love cloth, yarn, fiber, beads or thread, it's the excitement of color and texture that draws you in. Join Paula for an adventure with the amazing new machine needle felting. Just imagine... sewing without thread... making new fabric colors without dyes. Bring along your own equipment or ask to be provided with a machine for the day. Engaging fabric and fiber supplies from Fiberella’s Stash will be ready and waiting. Go home with a wearable art scarf and a wealth of new creative techniques and ideas. This is a great introduction to a wide range of textile materials, techniques and to the art of machine needle felting.
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Four hour workshop
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Happiness Bag
Textural Temptations at Your Fingertips
Experience the adventure at an all-fun-no-stress textile party! Follow along with Paula Scaffidi, aka Fiberella, as you quickly and easily create tempting textures with machine needle felting. Select fabrics and fibers in the colors you love. You’ll layer materials and needle felt “new fabrics” to embellish a great handbag with personal pizzazz. Walk out all finished. And the best part? You will have enough embellished fabric and base fabric to create a second purse at your leisure. With your creativity turned on (you can bead it, embroider it, serge it…) you’ll want to try out more than one idea to make it your very own. It’s really the best of both worlds… one to keep, and one to give as a gift that’s sure to make someone very happy!
Kits will be presented in a range of beautiful color palettes, available the day of class.
Double Happiness
New all day version of The Happiness Bag... Double Happiness allows more time to experiment and embellish ‘til your heart’s content! Make two small bags or a large one.
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Three hour workshop
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or the ...NEW!
Double Happiness
One day workshop
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Garment Makeover Day
Transform an Old or New Garment into Designer Art-to-Wear
Do you already own machine needle felting equipment? Want to explore some useful and exciting new things to do with it? Enjoy creating a wardrobe addition that’s fresh, expressive, contemporary and highly wearable. Plain, boring, outdated or tired becomes extraordinary with machine felting. New embellishment techniques and a series of design options will get your creativity flowing. Learn to unify your design approach as you introduce colors that compliment your skin tone, hair and eyes. It’s all about personal expression and style. A luscious assortment of roving will be available from Fiberella’s Stash.
Intermediate to Advanced level workshop.
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Garment Makeover Day
Currently featuring sweaters...
One plus a half day workshop
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Fiberella Introduction to Land and Seascapes
How do textile design, needle felting and your collective memory all fit together? Easily... when you find out how wonderfully direct and simple machine needle felting is to create with! Join Paula for this playful introduction to creating Land & Seascapes with machine needle felting. Paula will share new techniques and a wealth of little gems that will stir the creative design process along. No drawing or sewing skills necessary, honest! Before you know it, your own imagination and fingertips will be enjoying the sights while taking your own travel vacation.
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Luscious Fruit
Shaded Appliqué with Machine Felting
Learn to create a convincing illusion of 3D form using shadow, highlight and gradual color blending. These fast fun techniques produce soft-to-the-touch washable imagery. Dimensional leaves add to the effect.
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Three hour workshop
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Creative Embellishment Especially for Quilts
Adding textural temptations to your quilts has never been more exciting. Delight in the natural softness of the world’s finest roving as you create an original embellished quilt block. Find out how to use fabric prints as inspiration for embellishment and “color” fabrics to piece with. You’ll learn three felting techniques for creating washable embellishments; they’re visually pleasing and alluring to the touch. And before you know it … you’ll discover your free-motion skills have improved without effort. You’ll know lots about the new needle felting... after just once around the block. Embellishing your quilts has never been this much fun before!
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Day-at-the-Beach.. Tote Bag or Wall hanging
An Adventure with Fabric, Non-Wool Fibers & Decorative Stitches
Ever wish you could create some of your own special fabrics for quilting but don’t have the time, place or willingness to deal with the mess of dyes? Want to experience the joy of making new colors and textures with machine felting... but don’t want to work with wool? This light linen and silk project is perfect for warm weather felting.
Join Paula Scaffidi, aka Fiberella to sew a playful warm weather tote just brimming with textural temptations. You will be delighted and amazed by the effects easily created with machine needle felting. Using a beach-like palette of colors, you’ll learn lots of warm-weather-friendly ideas for creating machine felt fabrics. Simple abstract shapes, colors and textural play will evoke your own memories of a soothing day at the beach. With Paula’s easy going assembly style the visual play is exciting right up until day’s end. You’ll discover ways to use needle felting for some of the “quilting” too.
Its a whole new way of quilting!
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Four hour workshop
Freely piece and design a landscape block.
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Color My World
Simply Pieced Free-Form Landscapes
Quilters sew a small landscape of their own design with Paula’s friendly piecing techniques that allow you to design-as-you-go. We’ll keep the sewing simple and discover ways to let the fabric selection do most of the work. Don’t worry if you can’t draw or have never pieced curves before ... not necessary. Paula walks you through the basic elements in a landscape as you are opening your eyes to nature’s changing palette.
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New Vistas
Fiberella’s Introduction to Land & Seascapes for Quilters
How do happy memories, quilting and needle felting all fit together? Easily! Before you know it... your imagination and fingertips will be enjoying the sights, taking you to New Vistas in quilting.
This is a playful introduction to piecing the landscape and adding machine felted embellishment. Art basics combined with friendly cutting and sewing techniques will free you up to design-as-you-go. With just a few cotton fabrics you’ll learn all you need to know to freely piece any landscape, large or small. No drawing or curved piecing skills necessary… honest!
Then enjoy the all out fun of developing your New Vista with machine needle felting. Wait ‘til you see how quickly and beautifully you can add needle felted details, light, shade and texture to your landscape. Tweaking colors has never been easier after piecing! Your fingertips will enjoy the luxurious fibers and fabrics. Exciting new felting techniques and art fundamentals will continue to stir the design process along.
The two day workshop offers additional felting techniques &/or non-felt embellishment techniques. There’s also a very useful free-motion lesson... learn perspective as a means of selecting a few highly effective free-motion lines for any landscape. Your New Vista will become fully developed, quilted ...ready for a sleeve and binding.
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The Intuitive Landscape
Suddenly an artist emerges from their work
seeing it for the very first time.
It’s a crystal clear moment,
frozen
captured from the sequence of time.
Get deeper into your intuitive mode while piecing a large landscape. This is an advanced workshop for those interested in learning to increase awareness and listen more closely to their inner voice. Emphasis is on evoking a memory through design and composition. Visualization exercises help to pave the way. Everyone is encouraged to utilize favorite techniques and are also shown demos for a variety of new ones, especially for creating texture. Additional focus is on color usage and its power in making expressive visual statements. Integrating machine felting into the work is optional.
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Machine Felting Quilts
Creating a Lush Surface
Spark your creativity. Come dive into the pure fun of machine needle felting with Paula Scaffidi, AKA Fiberella. Sharing a wealth of innovative techniques, Paula creates an effective learning environment to connect fibers and fabrics and you to your muse. Develop working techniques in a personal sample book and learn to naturally evolve a design series from a simple source of inspiration. Explore and focus your theme through mini compositions made with totally fresh approaches to quiltmaking: shaded appliqué, seamless piecing and surface design without liquids; “coloring” already pieced fabrics, 3D embellishments, tinted wholecloth and more. Expand your favorite techniques and composition in a small wall-hanging. Make it yours.
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Build a foundation in design basics while exploring fresh techniques for combining felting & quilts!
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One day workshop
Create a Mini Textile Sketchbook
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Over-the-Top ... Free-Motion Stitch & Textural Embellishment
Create a Mini Textile Sketchbook
It’s a day brimming with the joy of new found skills. Find out how to turn triangles into leaves, circles into flowers... and triangles with circles into ice-cream cones! You’ll develop confidence in free-motion stitching as you begin to discover your own freestyle without marking. A bit of machine felting is optional, adding even more fun to the day. Find out how to create 3D embellishments and “color map” for stitching. Either way, you’ll free-motion all day building skills and creating a little sample book full of ideas for your own style of quiltmaking. Take home a smile and a new sense of adventure... all bundled in a mini textile sketchbook.
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Half day workshop
Create a Small Wall-hanging
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One day workshop:
Create a Small Wallhanging
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Tinted Wholecloth
Floral Free-motion
All levels are welcome in this relaxing play day of free-motion felting and stitching. Learn several techniques to felt and “tint” your fabric, for color and as a way of marking your quilt. Find out how to balance various weights of thread and thread types for beautiful stitches. No two flowers alike... join us and stitch your own floral fantasy.
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Three hour workshop: Create Sketchbook Pages... Use beautiful, delicate shading to “color map” and simplify free-motion without marking. Choose traditional designs, abstraction or imagery. Layering felting and free-motion adds a new twist to wholecloth quilting.
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