Fiber Art Sketchbook with Heather Kerley
Class | Registration opens 3/2/2026 12:00 PM EST
Fill a fabric book of your own creation with stitched experiments, just as you would a paper sketchbook. Let your creativity roam as you experiment with stitched line drawings, embellishments, fabric assemblages, color studies, mixed media experiments, and stitch samplers. Students will draw inspiration from various scrap stitching traditions such as American crazy quilts, Indian kantha, and Japanese Boro. Build a repertoire of embroidery stitches combined with other textile-based elements. Allow each page to inspire the next as you let your imagination go along with perfection and predetermined outcomes. Students will have a finished, bound fabric book with an embellished cover by the end of the class. Students will be able to take the inspiration and learned skills from their book into other projects. Some experience with quilting or embroidery is recommended.
Your instructor has provided a list of materials required to participate fully in this class.
If you have any questions about specifics or what is needed week-to-week, please reach out to your instructor via the email in your confirmation letter.
- ½ yard of light-colored linen or cotton muslin
- Scrap fabric pieces of a variety of weights, colors, and prints, pref. upcycled
- Embroidery Hoop Sized 6”
- Assorted embroidery needles size 1-5
- Assorted embroidery floss
- Floss Bobbins
- Sewing thread such as Guterman cotton thread
- Fabric scissors
- Small embroidery scissors
- Seam ripper
- Water-erasable fabric pen
- Tracing paper (for image transferring)
- Masking tape
- Black felt-tip pen
Optional:- Beads
- Lace scraps
- Ribbon scraps
- Handmade rag paper
- Assorted buttons
- Fabric -friendly mediums such as fabric paint, ink, watercolor, stamps and ink, etc.
Heather Kerley
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