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| Rami gives lectures and leads workshops where she teaches the various skills used in her fabric art. Contact her to learn more about participating in one of these fun and creative classes. For the most up-to-date class/workshop schedules, please go to Teaching Schedules page or check Rami's blog at www.ramikim.blogspot.com! Enjoy looking through the various examples of wearable art, quilts and bags that you can learn through one of Rami's workshops.
Lectures |
1. Folded Fabric Elegance This lecture focuses on her new book "Folded Fabric Elegance" about 3-dimensional textures. She brings most of the samples in the book and shares stories behind the creating process and publishing. You can see the real things to examine quintessence of quilts, wearables, bags and home-decor items as pillows & table runners. Perfect with Rami's 2-day workshop to cover all the techiniques in her book.
2. Two by Two This trunk show is Rami's new, fun way to show her award-winning pieces. When Rami creates an art-to-wear ensemble she makes matching quilts, bags, and dolls with the same designs and techniques. Over the years she developed so many matching pairs that she wishes to share these fun and beautiful sets, and to talk about how to apply the same techniques and designs to different projects as wearable arts, quilts, dolls and bags. 
3. Fascination This fashion show is "Fascination" to those who love wearable arts, quilts, dolls and bags. Rami, 13 times 'Best of Show' winner so far, will be showing her award winning art-to-wear garments, quilts and more created with freedom to explore every imagination. This lecture is about sharing stories, experiences, designs and techniques to be more creative without the fear of experimenting. Members of sponsoring group will be modeling.
| 4. Asian Designs in a Modern World As the current craze for Asian fabrics and techniques demonstrates needle artists everywhere are eager to adopt something that feels new. This lecture and trunk show will show many of the designs and concepts that are more than a few thousand years old from the 'Land of Morning Calm', Korea. Quilts, wearable arts, traditional costumes called 'Hanbok', bags, fans, wrapping cloth called 'Bojahgy' and many more items would be inspirational and practical projects for today's needle artists. |
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Workshops
1. Folded Fabric Elegance - 2 Day Workshop
Rami introduces her new book, " Folded Fabric Elegance" and takes you to the enchanting world of 3-dimensional textures for your quilts, wearable arts, bags and home-decorating items. You will learn how to fold lotus blossoms, Ahsheea tulip, lightning bug, mirror-imaged continuously folded prairie points, hexagon chopkey, harlequin tucks, North American smocking by hand and machine and more, so that you can create all those new projects in the book after this workshop. Rami's book contains her award-winning, inspirational pieces for your imagination.
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2. 3-Dimensional Textured 2-Day Workshop - Wearable Art Jacket
Rami loves to play with 3-D textures in her art-to-wear. In this workshop, you are going to create a jacket which is indubitably wearable and admired by spectators, using Rami's favorite 3-D texture techniques including hexagon chopkey (korean word for folding), circular tucks, straight tucks with wavy line, mirror-imaged continuously folded prairie points, lined-prairie points and harlequine tucks.
Choose your favorite color (Brown, Black, Burgundy, Hunter Green, Gold, Silver...) and bring many tone-on-tone fabrics for 3-D textures and some zinger fabrics to add exotic flavors. Let's have fun manipulating fabrics and adding fun textures.
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5. The fifth dimension
Go beyond traditional 3-D. In this technique workshop you will learn 5 of the exotic and unusual methods that are the trademark of Rami's award-winning works including hexagon and biscuit chopkey, mirror-imaged continuously folded prairie points, harlequin tucks, North American hand smoking and lined prairie points. This workshop could be the answer to those who wish to know about adding 3-dimensional textures and a lot more extra touches to art-to-wear and quilts.
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6. Free motion machine embroidery workshop
You can draw whatever your heart desires and turn them into fabulous embroidery designs. Rami will teach you how to do free-motion machine embroidery on your projects as she did in her award-winning garments and quilts. You can free-motion embroider a beautiful oriental design on a silk evening bag using a kit Rami prepared (silk dupioni fabric, a bag handle, an oriental tassel and a bag pattern) in this workshop. Click on the image for a closeup look at the detail. |
7. Koi Pond with Lotus Blossoms
Recreate an Asian koi pond with colorful blossoms on the water. You'll learn Korean choppkey (folding) techniques to make 3-D flowers, bobbinwork and free-motion threadplay techniques to depic Koi fish and ripples in the water. Beading adds sparkle to this animated quilt wallhanging. Click on the iamge for a closeup look at the detail.
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8. Machine Trapunto applique workshop...'Kittie-Kittie' quilt wallhanging
You can make your quilt wallhanging 3-dimensionally beautiful using this fun trapunto applique technique all by machine. Embellished with beads, embroideries and yarns even more.
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9. Fabric Origami Wallhanging---original flowers for quilts
Depending on the fabrics you choose, you can create oriental or contemporary 3-dimensional quilts. The designs are innovative quilt patterns inspired by Japanese sashiko and origami techniques. We will make beautiful origami blocks using Kumiko Sudo's book 'Fabled Flowers' with Rami's easier, revised techniques. Rami will also show how to assemble beautiful blocks to creast wonderful 3-D quilts or pillows. | 10. A vest with hexagon chopkey, lined prairie points & peyote beaded leaves
Rami will teach you all the techniques she used to create this elegant vest by her original pattern. Hexagon chopkey(folding), interesting strip piecing, decorative stitches with variegated threads, lined prairie points and exquisite beaded leaves by peyote stitches and the construction method of the vest will be covered in this fun workshop.
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11. Interlaced Stars with Optical Illusion
Rami designed this quilt wallhanging of interlaced star blocks with optical illusion embellished with Swarovski hot-fix crystals. She used the technique called 'paperless paperpiecing' by Beverly Rogers to construct these intricate blocks. Click on the image for a larger view.
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12. Interlocking Castle Tiles-Quilt Wallhanging
Inspired by an ancient tile wall... This exquisitely geometric pattern fits beautifully into modern quilting art. A traditional log cabin border contains the tiles and provides a perfect finishing touch.
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13. Elegant 22 square totebag with folded flowers workshop
Using 22 squares and folding techniques we will create a one of a kind beautiful totebag. Depending on the size of squares you can create bags in various sizes. This is a cute project to show off to your friends since you can carry this around. Could be perfect gifts for your loved ones.
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