Laura Heine Sewing Scissor- Tustin

One of Laura Heine’s newest collage patterns, “Sewing Scissors”, is a fun addition to your sewing room décor. This pattern uses both Laura’s overlay and painterly techniques. It is a great project for those new to collage, and a quicker project for experienced collage students. As a Certified Laura Heine teacher, I have put together a kit in red, blue, black, and green that has a little bit of a retro vibe. Kits will be available for purchase the day of class for $35 paid to the teacher. Students can also source their own fabrics to make this project uniquely theirs. Class will cover prepping your fabric for the collage, cutting out decorative motifs, constructing the scissors and background of the collage, and finishing the project by quilting and either binding or mounting will be discussed.

Please read the supply list carefully and only bring the recommended supplies.

***Please note that most students will not start quilting their project in class. Most students will just work on their collage all day. You may not need your machine in class. ***

Supplies:

Sewing Scissors Collage Pattern by Laura Heine (Each student must have their own pattern. Patterns can be purchased from Mel’s.) **

Purchase a Kit for the pattern or collect the following fabrics:

Background:

6”x 22” of a pastel hexi fabric or sewing motif fabric

6”x 11” of a darker shade of hexi fabric or sewing motif fabric

(11) 6” x 11” of background fabrics

Scissor Blades:

(7) 4”x 6” different floral fabrics with tiny prints from dark to light shades

(4) 6”x 6” different floral fabrics in tiny prints and dark backgrounds for edge of blades

Handles:

(2) 5”x 11” of different medium to small scale coordinating fabrics

(2) 6” x 6” of different cuttable coordinating fabrics to embellish handles.  

Cuttable Fabrics to embellish the background and edge of your collage. You can use flowers or other sewing notions. I used about (3) 11”x 11” pieces.

8 yards of 12” Steam-A-Seam 2* (only Steam-A-Seam 2) or 6 yards of 18"

Pattern ease cut exactly at 18”x24” (if you are going to bind your collage) OR 21” x 27” (if you are going to mount your collage on a stretched canvas.) *

Backing Fabric and Batting (either 22” x 28” or 25” x 32” depending on how you are going to display your finished collage)*

18” x 24” Canvas for framing or fabric for binding

17” x 24” Precision Fusing Mat*

Pressing Sheet*

Paper Plates

Parchment paper

Scentless Dryer Sheets

Travel Sized Iron/ Mat*

Olfa Rotary Cutter*/Mat/ 6”x 12” Creative Grids Ruler*

5 - #2 pencils

Karen Kay Buckley Medium Perfect Scissors (either purple or blue handles) *

40wt or 50wt Cotton Thread for quilting finished collage*

Non-Stick Needles 90/14 *

Sewer’s Aid or Bernina Lubrication Unit*

Sewing Machine with slide-on table, in good working order

#1D foot for machines with dual feed or Walking Foot

*available at Mel’s

**Special order from Mel’s

Prep work to be finished before class:

Collect all fabrics and supplies. Only bring the needed fabric requirements to class. This will be more than enough to complete the project.

***Please note that most students will not start quilting their project in class. Most students will just collage all day. You may not need your machine in class. ***