Southwind Designs features original designs and patterns by Annette Ornelas, a German-born quilt artist, teacher and designer. Annette lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Southwind Designs, which began in 2000, was developed to offer students unique quilting patterns that were easy, fun and could be done by any level of quilter. Owner Annette Ornelas wanted to teach quilting in a way that would put her students at ease in a relaxed atmosphere and provide a new spin on traditional patterns and quilts. Since then, Annette has produced eighty patterns and two books one of which, Peeled-Back Patchwork: Curves without Piecing, was published through AQS in 2004. She also developed the Dimensional Curves technique to simplify the process of piecing curved quilt-block shapes for her students. In the last five years Southwind Designs has produced quilt patterns for Timeless Treasures Fabrics. Lecture: Dimensional Curved Piecing or Peeled-Back Patchwork – (cancelled) Friday morning The lecture will transport you into another quilting dimension. Annette will bring numerous quilts and samples so everyone can see how it actually works. Class: Turtle Tots – (cancelled) (6 hours – Friday afternoon and Saturday morning) The Turtle Tots pattern features 10.5″ turtle blocks, which are used to make a …

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Becka is both an artist and a teacher who hails from Minneapolis Minnesota. Her primary work is designing fabric with engineered and manipulated photographic prints. She uses these prints to make one-of-a-kind wearable art garments, accessories and the occasional home dec or wall art piece. One of the traditions of fiber art that inspired her was the idea of making practical and everyday things be beautiful as well as functional. In 2015, her first book was published, The Spoonflower Handbook. Becka worked with co-authors Stephen Fraser and Judi Ketteler to create the ultimate handbook to all things fabric design, Spoonflower-style. She was the tech guru for the book, putting together all the step-by-step instructions, screenshots and so on. It was a huge project and one of which she is really proud. You can find her at Spoonflower under the username beckarahn. Becka will be teaching the Spoonflower design method at Symposium! This is a first and a great opportunity for you. Website: Becka’s Project Journal Class: Design a Fabric! – (both cancelled) (2 sessions 6 hours each – all day Friday or Saturday) In this class, Becka will instruct on the Spoonflower method, assist students in designing their own fabric on their laptops, …

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Wendy’s interest for quilts was born out of her love for early and colonial American history. Being from Southeast Asia, she had not had much exposure to quilts due to the fact that quilts are mainly a Western “thing”. Through reading, she became aware of and loved the look of the Baltimore quilts, but still didn’t catch the quilting bug mainly because she didn’t know how to sew. After being repeatedly encouraged by a friend, Wendy decided to give quilting a try years later. Little did she know how much she would enjoy making her first quilt, and before she knew it, she was making her second, third, fourth, and fifth quilts! Wendy’s work is frequently featured in Quilting magazines and publications. She designs quilting patterns, teaches machine quilting at all levels, and has 2 lines of Aurifil threads, Subtle Strings and Marmalade Meadows. Blog: Ivory Spring Lecture: My Two Cents on Free Motion Quilting – (cancelled) Saturday afternoon In this lecture and trunk show, Wendy will share her quilts quilted on her domestic machine as well as tips. She will share a PowerPoint of different principles in how she decides what to quilt on her quilts. Class: One Block in …

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Karen West has been teaching at a local quilt shop and has her own pattern company For the Love of Fabric. She designed the quilt shop’s row-by-row offering for 2016 and does commission work as well. Karen says of her designing: “My goal as a designer is to create clear instructions for quilts and other fun things to make with all the great fabrics on the market. After all, most of us sew or quilt because we love fabric.” Karen also makes amazing pet portraits. Class: Design Your Room – (cancelled) (6 hours – Friday) In this class, students will use some Spoonflower furniture pieces and Karen’s expert guidance to create their own room. Pieces will be appliqued with fusible techniques. Materials and Supplies Kit fee $8 payable to the instructor day of class (cash, check or charge) ¾ yard of Wonder Under Fusible web 14” x 20” cotton batting 14” x 20” Peltex 71 or 72 (heavy single or double-sided fusible interfacing) 14” x 20” white-on-white fabric for “wallpaper” 14” x 20” print fabric for quilt backing 4” x 20” tone-on-tone fabric for “carpet” ¼ yard of a narrow stripe or other fabric for binding ½ yard of narrow ribbon …

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