Quilting Arts, LLC, publishers of Quilting Arts Magazine® and Cloth Paper Scissors®, invites you to our first Fabulous Fiber Art and Creative Embroidery Cruise to Alaska, featuring workshops; world-renowned artists; and teachers Jan Beaney, Jean Littlejohn, Beryl Taylor, and Patricia Bolton on July 14-21, 2007.
Learn tips and techniques from some of the best-known fiber arts and creative e
mbroidery experts while the majestic scenery and fascinating wildlife of Alaska surround you. Share the passion for your art with like-minded passengers while you indulge in the elegance and luxury that a Holland America Cruise Line provides. After the ship departs Vancouver (about a three-hour drive from Seattle) and you settle into your cabin (where wine and chocolate-dipped strawberries await you, compliments of Quilting Arts), the fun and creativity begin. You’ll enjoy seminars and hands-on classes (with complimentary refreshments at each class); two private cocktail parties; sumptuous meals; expert service; and breathtaking vistas on the trip through Tracy Arm, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, and Ketchikan. By the time we return to Vancouver on the 21st, you’ll have learned new techniques, made new friends, and filled your camera, sketchbook, and journal with inspiration.
Textile artists, embroidery teachers, and book authors Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn are artists in residence at the Windsor School of Textile Art, East Berkshire College, England. They are renowned for their publications and workshops that focus on using inventive ways to use soluble fabrics, hand stitching, and transfer printing to extend your creativity with fabric and thread. Most recently, they have been recognized as the Textile Teachers of the Year at the Knitting and Stitching Show in the United Kingdom.
City & Guilds-trained artist Beryl Taylor is the author of Mixed-Media Explorations, Blending Paper Fabric, and Embellishment to Create Inspired Designs. Since 2002 she has devoted herself to art full time, manipulating, dyeing, painting, stamping, embroidering, and decorating papers and fabrics to produce enriching textured effects and vibrant colors. Her detailed artistry takes paper and fabric to places they’ve never been before.
Patricia Chatham Bolton was introduced to art quilting and the related arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has been entangled in this art form and can’t envision herself free. Quilting and mixed-media arts have, quite literally, taken over her life so much so that in 2000 she left her doctoral program and full-time teaching job to found Quilting Arts Magazine. In 2004, she and her husband launched a second publication, Cloth Paper Scissors. They've since added several books to their line of publishing. Patricia has appeared twice as a guest on HGTV’s “Simply Quilts,” judged several art quilt categories, and given a number of talks, including the keynote address at Art Quilts at the Sedgwick. She loves to combine collage with creative embroidery, and when she's not attending a quilt show or meeting a magazine deadline, she can be found puttering about her fiber art studio.
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Act now as there are only 100 spots available for this once-in-a lifetime opportunity to learn from the most revered artist/teachers in the fiber arts community. Reserve your place on this special cruise now.
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