Here at CraftyMonkies we love providing you with classes that will not just teach you a technique or ask you to follow a pattern, but to also help you in your creative journey. One of the questions often asked is how to put colours, ideas and themes together for your quilts, so who better to help you than fabulous Moda fabric designer Janet Clare who has to create fabric collections on a yearly basis! Janet has come up with a really interesting concept, whereby she will show you how she creates a fabric range, but also she will inspire and teach you to create your own colours & themes in your future creations. Here's Janet to tell you more!...

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Introduction by Janet:-

I’m a textile designer and artist creating two fabric collections a year for Moda and this year I will design my 26th and 27th collections! Moda don’t ask their designers to design to colour trends or trending themes, it’s entirely up to each designer to create a fabric collection based on their own interests and inspiration.

 

This is a wonderful opportunity to get creative and not feel restricted, but of course blank pages can be intimidating! So, believe me when I say that through the years I know how to gather inspiration, build a colour story and perhaps most importantly how to keep myself motivated through the long process of turning a doodle in my sketchbook into a repeat pattern in multiple colourways for the quilting market. I think there are so many things I can teach you that will help you in your future quilting endeavors! As I have worked with many students across the years, inspiration and color choices can often seem intimidating. I want to cut through all of that for you and open your world to the possibilities in front of you!

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What you will learn on this Online Interactive Workshop:-

I'm going to give you a unique insight and share every step of my creative practice, starting from the first glimpse of an idea, how I use Pinterest, to creating moodboards, building colour stories, my sketchbooks and finally working up the final designs into repeat. I'm hoping you will find this so inspirational that you begin to use sketchbooks for yourself. Its not only with an 'end game' in mind, its also an incredibly therapeutic practice I would encourage you to try. I will also share what happens after I turn in my finished collections- how my painted patterns get transformed into fabric which is sold all around the world. during this time you will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions, and also see the (top secret) collection I am currently working on. But it doesn't end there in this class. During the workshop you will also create your own moodboard and colour story, helping you become more confident with choosing colour combinations, tonal values and colour placement. I'm going to give you the instruction and tips I've learned across the year in order to be able to do this. I guarantee at the end of this workshop you will have so many new ideas and a much better idea of colour placement, along with some tips on how you can create your own fabrics to play with.

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Skill Level for this Online Interactive Workshop:-

This workshop is suitable for all skill levels: Yaaaaay!!!

 

Material requirements for this Online Interactive Workshop:-​

• Plain paper or thin card, cardboard - A3 for preference, but use what you have

• Glue suitable for paper, threads etc. Janet tends to use UHU

• Paper resources to cut up: magazines, wallpaper scraps, postcards, newspaper, etc

• Paint shade cards - posh paint shade cards (eg Farrow & Ball) are the best, but whatever you can lay hands on

• Textile resources - fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, embroidery silks, knitting yarn, etc​

 

Equipment requirements for this Online Interactive Workshop:-

• Paper Scissors

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Basically, a wide range of anything you think might help you build a Moodboard and a Colour Palette; I know this doesn’t narrow it down, but don’t buy anything specifically for this; just start gathering in what you can find!...

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Tickets for this Online Interactive Workshop (via the Zoom platform) will be limited and allocated on a first-come/first-served basis! Any free pattern and other information, relevant to this course will be forwarded to you after booking and approximately 5 days before the course date.

The ticket price of £35.00 is based on ONE person attending this crafting class.

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This CraftyMonkies online interactive workshop is being broadcast from the United Kingdom and the class time given is based on British Summer Time (BST). We advise you check via Google Search (or similar) to see corresponding start-time in YOUR location!

Here's a great world time zone reference:-

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

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Ordering MATERIALS/EQUIPMENT Online For Any Class/Workshop!

Please ensure you book your place & order any materials/fabrics/equipment online in plenty of time ahead of course dates.

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Are you not able to attend this class due to living in a different time-zone? Are you otherwise engaged on the date of this workshop? Well, we have excellent news! This class is being recorded and a link will be sent to all classmates a few days after the class, so you can watch in your own time!

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You can either attend live or wait for the RECORDING to be sent a few days after the event for you to watch for 60 days. As long as you buy a ticket you can attend or just be sent the recording!