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Learn with Lyric

Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students posses.  She was recognized for her talents as the 2011 International Association of Professional Quilters Teacher of the Year.
With playful support and gentle encouragement she will take you through your first steps on a new path, seeing the world through the eyes of an artist. As an artist, author, and educator she transforms cloth into art in her studio and timid spirits into confident creatives in the classroom.

[If you are looking for the Your Vision, Your Voice membership/course, please go to Lyric.Art]

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DESIGN WORKSHOPS

Every work of art, no matter the medium, is created using the visual language, the elements and principles of art. Learn to understand and communicate your own unique vision.

[If you are looking for the Your Vision, Your Voice membership/course, please go to Lyric.Art.]

  • $89

The Taming of the Hues: A color play

Are you struggling to find the perfect cast of colors for your next quilt? Does all the talk of color schemes just confuse you? It honestly doesn't have to.
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  • $89

Abstract-A-Licious: exercises in abstract design

If you’ve looked with secret longing at the world of Abstract Art but have no idea where to begin, this is the class for you. Lessons consist of concrete design exercises that are clear and easily understood as well as ample encouragement from an award winning teacher.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS

Do you love working with textiles, painting, embellishing, and sewing art and beautiful quilts? Create, paint, embellish to your hearts content then learn to present your work like a true artist. 

  • $65

Playful Portraiture: making faces from photo to fabric

Learn the secrets of making quilted portraits, from whimsical and cartoon-like silly selfie postcards to accurately proportioned quilted portraits. You will discover that it isn’t nearly as hard as you imagined. Learn to choose your photo, draft a pattern, and create a fusible appliqué quilted portrait.
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  • $40

Picture It Framed: professional presentations for fiber art

UPGRADE YOUR ART by learning professional presentation options for textiles. Award winning artist, Lyric Kinard shows you a wide variety of mounting and framing options through crisp and clear video as well as written instructions. Learn which factors to consider when choosing how to present your work in the best possible light that the general public will immediately understand as "ART!"
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  • $40

Photos + Foil = FUN!

Come spend some delightful time playing with foil and photo transfer as you create little winged friends, ready to turn into lovely postcards or mini art quilts. Learn two easy techniques for transferring photocopies onto cloth and please your inner magpie with easy to apply, shiny, permanent, metallic foil. Learning a little about Thermofax screen printing is an added bonus that I’m sure you will fall in love with.
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  • $40

Bead It Like You Mean It part 1: the basics of beading on fabric

BE INSPIRED and get creative as fun-loving artist Lyric Kinard guides you through the basics of beaded embellishment on cloth. Make straight or curved solid lines, split or join them, or simply add one bead at a time. Cage a beautiful cabochon, or get silly with stacks, the perfect finish for your favorite funky flowers.
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  • $40

Bead It Like You Mean It part 2: Beyond The Basics Of Beading On Fabric

EXPAND YOUR CREATIVITY as Lyric Kinard takes you beyond the basics of bead embroidery. Build on what you learned in Bead It Like You Mean It pt. 1 and learn new dimensional beading techniques that jump right off the surface. Wrap cords or walk a line of seeds over a bugle bead bridge. Try out a beautiful Gourd stitch to attach a cabochon or go right over the edge as you add beaded borders to your cloth.
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  • $40

Appli-Punto to Go: fusible applique + trapunto

Painlessly create beautiful designs with intricate detail, perfect for quilts, wearables, borders or accents. Long flowing, curly borders or pictures with the sharpest points and thinnest lines imaginable are possible with this easy reverse appliqué method using fusible web. Give your design that extra punch with the added dimension of trapunto.... without all the slitting and stuffing!
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