Karen Bolan Workshop- Special Effects with Color

February 15th Workshop: “Special Effects with Color” 

Journey into color mastery by creating illusions and tricking the eye. Color is one of the most exciting things about quilting, and yet it’s easy to feel unsure about our choices. By understanding how we see color and then creating illusions with color, students can develop color confidence and giddy enjoyment. In this class, learn to define and use basic color theory terminology; apply the principles of additive and subtractive color as they relate to vision, light, and the physical world; create mutable color illusions; create a color palette with afterimage effects; and create transparency illusions including a complex transparency illusion with more than two overlapping shapes and textures.

Students will learn to create three different categories of color effects: mutable color, transparency, and afterimage effect. This is a six hour lecture and you will sew a sampler quilt.

Karen’s Bio; 

Karen Bolan is a quilter in Northern California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum. Learn more about Karen’s work by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com.

The Guild is paying for the lecture!

The workshop is $100 per person.

We need a minimum of 16 paid attendees to make this work. There is a maximum of 20 attendees.

Sign Up / Registration: You can sign up at the Guild meeting on August 8th (see Michele), or after the meeting online. Michele will send the sign up form link after the meeting.

September 12th – Full payment is due for the workshop by the end of the guild meeting. You can pay online (details coming soon) or by check.

There are no refunds. If you are unable to make the workshop, please work with guild members to find a replacement and work payment between yourselves.

If we do not reach the 20 maximum, we will ask you to send it to your friends, etc and at that time, non TMQG members can sign up.

Karen Bolan Trunk Show At Feb 13, 2025 TMQG Meeting

February 13th Meeting: “Engineer Your Quilts” lecture. Free to members!

Free yourself from the need to use someone else’s pattern and appoint yourself head of your own design empire. View a gallery of original quilts and learn how to apply the engineering design process to your quilts. Learn to find and use sources of inspiration, harness nifty software and manual tools, and get inspired by approachable improvisational techniques.

Karen’s Bio; 

Karen Bolan is a quilter in Northern California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum. Learn more about Karen’s work by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com.

The Guild is paying for the lecture!

Sign Up / Registration: You can sign up at the Guild meeting on August 8th (see Michele), or after the meeting online. Michele will send the sign up form link after the meeting.

Karen Bolan is coming to TMQG!

February 13th Meeting: “Engineer Your Quilts” lecture. Free to members!

Free yourself from the need to use someone else’s pattern and appoint yourself head of your own design empire. View a gallery of original quilts and learn how to apply the engineering design process to your quilts. Learn to find and use sources of inspiration, harness nifty software and manual tools, and get inspired by approachable improvisational techniques.

February 15th Workshop: “Special Effects with Color” 

Journey into color mastery by creating illusions and tricking the eye. Color is one of the most exciting things about quilting, and yet it’s easy to feel unsure about our choices. By understanding how we see color and then creating illusions with color, students can develop color confidence and giddy enjoyment. In this class, learn to define and use basic color theory terminology; apply the principles of additive and subtractive color as they relate to vision, light, and the physical world; create mutable color illusions; create a color palette with afterimage effects; and create transparency illusions including a complex transparency illusion with more than two overlapping shapes and textures.

Students will learn to create three different categories of color effects: mutable color, transparency, and afterimage effect. This is a six hour lecture and you will sew a sampler quilt.

Karen’s Bio; 

Karen Bolan is a quilter in Northern California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum. Learn more about Karen’s work by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com.

The Guild is paying for the lecture!

The workshop is $100 per person.

We need a minimum of 16 paid attendees to make this work. There is a maximum of 20 attendees.

Sign Up / Registration: You can sign up at the Guild meeting on August 8th (see Michele), or after the meeting online. Michele will send the sign up form link after the meeting.

September 12th – Full payment is due for the workshop by the end of the guild meeting. You can pay online (details coming soon) or by check.

There are no refunds. If you are unable to make the workshop, please work with guild members to find a replacement and work payment between yourselves.

If we do not reach the 20 maximum, we will ask you to send it to your friends, etc and at that time, non TMQG members can sign up.