To celebrate the 2025 Quilt National opening weekend, we invite you to join us for two exciting workshop opportunities led by Quilt National artists! Registration link and descriptions can be seen below:
To Register:
https://dairybarn.coursestorm.com/category/quilt-national
Course Descriptions:
Visible Hand Piecing with Heidi Parkes
Saturday, May 24th from 1-4pm
Course Fee: $90
For Ages 16+
Join Quilt National '25 exhibiting artist, Heidi Parkes’s presentation of a technique featured in her artwork, Nimble Nimble. This exciting and relatively fast approach to hand piecing allows your handwork to stand out. Using a thick and visible thread, you will learn to sew curves and straight lines with a visibly hand sewn approach, using large and small pieces of fabric. As time allows, we will focus on the running stitch, whip stitch, and ladder stitch, along with Korean Patchwork jogakbo/bojagi techniques. We'll explore clever and poetic solutions for ‘innie-corners,’ acute angles, and finished edge textiles like handkerchiefs and napkins.
Three-Dimensional Wholecloth Quilting with Brent McGee
Sunday, May 25th from 9:30am-2pm
Course Fee: $159
For Ages 16+
Join Quilt National ‘25 exhibiting artist, Brent McGee, for an immersive hand-sewing workshop that transforms fabric into dynamic, sculptural forms. Using techniques borrowed from couture fashion, this class explores intuitive methods for shaping fabric beyond the flat quilt surface. Empowered with needle and thread, students will create a small wall hanging while learning to coax organic, dimensional structures from within. Brandish your needle like a sword, and join the fun as you unearth new forms hiding in the fabric!
Also check out other Workshops in Athens, Arts events in Athens.
