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Judy Allen Feathers School of
Feather Designing and Digitizing
Judy has created a wonderful curriculum of feather
designing and digitizing techniques that will
gradually develop your drawing skills from the very
basic to the advanced. Creating these beautiful
feather designs is as easy as tracing around a
circle, which anyone can do, and being able to draw
is not a requirement for these classes. Learning to
create the feather designs, seeing how they flow
along a centerline and how they vary in size and
height makes digitizing them so much easier. These
designing techniques are created to further your
quilting career in design and machine quilting
accuracy, as well as increase your clientele and
build your quilting confidence. If you enjoy
freehanding your feathers, these classes will give
you a greater design and placement skill to apply to
your own quilts.
The feather designing curriculum is
created from a one-day introductory class to at
least three days.
The Art and Stitch
digitizing classes can be from one to three days
also. For those wishing to learn the drawing
techniques along
with the
digitizing software,
four to five days are recommended depending on the
student's availability.
Advanced feather
designing classes are also available for those
students who have already completed the three-day
feather designing workshop. Keep in mind that
students will learn the
basics of
feather designing and digitizing techniques. To
become
accomplished in
both feather designing and digitizing, ongoing
classes are recommended to fully equip the student
in design skills and options.
Feather Designing:
Students
will learn the various feather designing exercises
and their variations, depending on the number of
days attending they include: straight lines,
undulating, circles, hearts, paisleys, swags, and
ovals just to name a few shapes included in the
design exercise handouts. She also includes her
Curved Cross Hatching, framework, and bridgework
techniques as well as design combination placement
ideas.
Curved Cross Hatching:
Judy's
trademark use of "Curved Cross Hatching" lines
within and around her beautiful feather designs has
grown since she first introduced the technique back
in 1995. As a china painter, Judy discovered a
design element of enhancing the painted design with
small sections of curved cross-hatching lines much
like a spider web and which would be enhanced with
gold paint and various curling comma strokes. Taking
this aspect into her feather designing techniques
has grown into a widely excepted design element much
enjoyed by the entire quilting industry.
Judy
has created a set of rulers for machine quilting
called
"Judalators" for
both feather quilting and curved cross-hatching as
well as machine quilting. She has also created
stencils to
aid in the accuracy of these curved, quilted lines
for both the curved cross-hatching and her newest
crossover techniques in borders and around blocks.
Students will see how useful these tools will be.
Framework and Bridgework:
Another
of Judy's original quilting styles included in the
training is her framework and bridgework techniques
that enhance a design arrangement and enlarge the
design area, delighting the viewer's eye as it
travels around the various aspects of the quilted
areas. Her use of straight and curved lines used to
enhance these areas draws attention, much like a
frame around a picture or a beautiful wall border
would.
Zoom Classes:
Judy is
providing a series of classes to allow students to
enjoy staying at home versus traveling. Check out
the dates above or send to the email below for more
information.
Class Location and Number of Students:
These feather drawing workshops are available
for individuals or groups, on-site or on locations
as well as the stay-at-home Zoom classes. The number
of students for maximum learning ability is 8-10
with a minimum of 6. These classes are very
relaxing, and fun, and students find that creating
these designs is not as hard as they thought it
would be. A three-day feather designing workshop is
highly recommended for maximum instruction
information. For those with computerized quilting
systems, consider at least a three-day drawing and
two-day digitizing class. I highly recommend at
least a two-day introduction to the digitizing
workshop. Learning the basics along with the feather
digitizing should be at least, a three-day workshop
itself. Private lessons are also available. Please
keep in mind that I try to not schedule workshops
that are close in time and location to each other
especially quilt shops to enable them to get the
most student attendance.
Class Requirements:
Class requirements for the feather designing
classes are a very
necessary design
kit. Included in the kit are three different circle
plastic templates, all drawing tools, and over 50
handouts for the drawing exercises. Students may
wish to bring a white drawing tablet from Walmart),
a pad of tracing paper, (Hobby Lobby has the best
kind) a white-out pen, and a roll of Scotch tape.
Quilting demonstrations are available if a machine
is provided.
Although Judy is very serious about her
techniques, learning the process is an enjoyable
treat. Workshops can be held onsite and any student
who wishes to host the class in their home or shop,
contact and arrange for student attendance, meal
arrangements, housing, and transportation of the
teachers will receive a workshop discount for their
participation.
Workshop fees:
$150.00 per day plus
travel. Judy lives in Northern New York about 1-1/2
hours north of the Syracuse airport where she would
fly from as it is a bigger airport. Watertown also
has an airport that participates with American
Airlines and its hub is Philadelphia, PA. She would
prefer this airport as it is closer to home.
Wintertime snow doesn't deter us but can be a factor
in our travel plans.
Judy's
patterns can be purchased at
goldenthreads.com.
or Nancy Reed of Quilts Complete:
ncreed@quiltscomplete.com
Workshop Opportunities
The Art of Feather Quilting
and Digitizing with Art and Stitch ... Workshop
opportunities with Judy Allen
Dear Quilt Shop Owners, Longarm Groups and individual
quilters: Please let me introduce myself as a
longarm quilter, trainer, feather pattern designer,
instructor and author as well as a certified teacher
for Art and Stitch, the newest, one of a kind digitizing
software for computerized quilting and embroidery systems.
I would like to offer my services especially as an Art
and Stitch instructor and feather pattern designer to
those who offer for sale the computerized quilting systems,
longarm training or just quilting classes. These two
subjects go hand in hand to educate the quilter in the
use of the software and especially the art of creating
feather patterns that are so desired in the quilting
world. I have included the information below and if there are
any questions, please call or email.
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Thank you for your attention. Judy Allen
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Judy Allen
27081 County Route 160
Watertown,
New York 13601
Phone: 315-788-7349
Cell: 315-783-9153
E-mail:
judyallenfeathers71@gmail.com
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Judy is a seasoned longarm quilter since 1991,
holding machine quilting workshops in her home and
on-site. Feather designing and quilting is her
passion and as an American Quilter's Society author
and Golden Threads pattern designer, she has much
information to share with both longarm and
non-longarm groups. She is also a certified teacher
for Art and Stitch, the newest, one-of-a-kind
digitizing software for computerized quilting and
embroidery machines. Judy has taught at all the
major longarm quilting shows, AQS shows and her
award-winning style of quilting has brought her many
teaching opportunities around the country and
abroad. She has appeared on Quilt Central TV and
Quilt It: The Longarm Quilting Show with Jodie
Davis. As a feather designer and digitizer, Judy
delights in teaching both subjects as well as
longarm quilting techniques. Her home is on the
northeast side of upstate New York near Watertown,
about 70 miles north of Syracuse, 35 miles south of
the Canadian border, and 40 miles southwest of the
Adirondack Mountains. She loves to travel and share
these wonderful techniques. Judy along with twin
sister Joanne Flood traveled to the Netherlands in
2010 for intensive instruction with the originators
of the Art and Stitch program, Loes and Theo van der
Heijden.
Available Workshops
Feather Designing:
Students will learn the many types of
feather designs available for quilting,
Judy's "Framework and Bridgework" Techniques
along with Curved Cross Hatching Techniques.
This workshop is a hands-on feather
designing on paper class.
Art and Stitch Workshops:
Beginner and Advanced Instruction along with
Feather Designing
Introduction to Longarm Quilting:
Basic loading procedures, pantograph, free
motion, feather design, and ruler work.
Batting and Thread Choices, Customer
Relations
Longarm Quilting Workshops:
6 Hours (machine work, depends on the number
of machines available and whether students
need to take turns). Individual students in
Judy's studio.
Sitdown Quilting Machine Workshops
Machine Quilting Techniques for free-motion
hoop quilting, ruler work, feather quilting,
batting, and thread choices.
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