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Carolina Oneto Improvisational Gardens Five-Day Quilting Retreat
During this five-day retreat, you will master intentional color usage. You’ll explore the relationships between hue, value, and saturation to craft fabric strips that blend seamlessly through the color spectrum. You’ll use your color-changing fabrics as parts to create unique, expressive flowers constructed through curved piecing and improvisational techniques.
From there, students will learn composition. How to:
Arrange floral elements on a background
Create balance and focal points
Use contrast and negative space effectively
During the final days, you’ll focus on constructing an improvisational dark-value background and integrating all the elements into a cohesive quilt top.
Students will leave with a completed quilt top and practical skills in color theory, curved piecing, improvisational composition, and background construction.