"Lyric is your best choice if you are seeking
an engaging and experienced live virtual teacher!"
Live Online or In-Person Classes and Lectures
Focusing on Composition and Design, Embellishment, and Surface Design
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Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students posses. 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.
"Lyric has done a great job of embracing technology and helping others to do so. Her virtual lectures and classes are well organized, beautifully paced, and truly, as good as or better than doing classes in person. Of course the personal contact is missed, but nothing else is neglected. I Love not schlepping my machine and supplies, the front row seat, and being able to learn from other’s questions."
Sally Morris
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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. At the end of class, Lyric will also demonstrate how she uses technology as a tool as you get seriously silly with your selfies.
3 or 6 hour virtual class
6 hour in-person class
Suitable for all levels
No kit required
I just wanted to let you know what an incredible 3 hours I spent in your class today. Your manner, your organization, your material, your pacing, your ease of presenting was just right for me. I would rank near or at the top of any online quilting class I have taken. Thank you so much for this and I feel I am ready to plunge into more of this work. Many thanks for this.
Connie Barber
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Add beads of all shapes and sizes to your quilts and wearable art, easily and after you are done quilting. Here’s the prize: no knots or mess on the back! Learn to embellish in a way that adds to the overall design instead of looking like an afterthought.
3 hour virtual class
3 or 6hr in-person class
suitable for all levels
Optional $30 kit available
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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.
3 hour virtual class
3 or 6 hour in-person class
Suitable for all levels
$35 Kit required
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If you’ve looked with secret longing to the world of art quilts but don’t know where to start, this is the class for you. Lyric will gently guide you through concrete exercises designed to help you create ideas for original abstract quilts.
Doodles will be scribbled, eyes and minds will be opened, and fun will be had. You will learn the basics of fused collage as you assemble your quilt top. Even students who have never created their own designs before will end the day with at least one small and uniquely original art quilt top.
3 or 6 hour virtual class
Works especially well in two blocks, with time to work on the online course exercises between sessions
3 or 6 hour in-person class
Suitable for all levels
No kit required
"Abstract-A-Licious is the class I was looking for to learn how to apply the principles of art to my quilts. It was a fun-filled day of playing with texture, shape, line, color and value to explore the what and how to take my quilts to the next level."
- Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild student, 2023
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Painlessly create beautiful designs with intricate detail, perfect for quilts, wearables, blocks, borders or accents. Long flowing, curly borders or detailed pictures with the sharpest points and thinnest lines imaginable are possible with this easy method using fusible web. Combine fabrics such as silk and wool for wearables or stick to quilting cottons tried and true. Give your design that extra punch with the added dimension of trapunto... without all the slitting and stuffing! As an added bonus, it’s super easy to create two images as the same time, one positive and one negative.
3 hour virtual-only class
Suitable for all levels
Optional $30 kit available
This live zoom class include two days of full access to online course content which often includes instructional material we don’t have time to cover in class.
" I enjoyed your class. This was my first experience with a hands-on zoom class. Your instructions were easy to follow. I appreciated that you knew how to deal with the technical aspects of teaching online. I accomplished more than I expected. I really appreciated the help in selecting fabric - that always is the hard part for me."
Sheryl Hogan, Village Square Quilters
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Kick-start your creativity and learn about the basic elements of good design through a series of short, hands-on exercises. Learn why some colors fizz while others explode, why some quilts calm and some excite. A few simple tools from the artists kit will help you take your work, whether traditional or contemporary, to the next level.
Lyric translates the language of ART into delightful and simple to understand concepts and presents them in such an entertaining and practical way that everyone goes home thinking, "I can do that!" She is on a crusade to convince everyone that they can use the principles of art in whatever kinds of quilts they love to create.
3 - 6 hour, or multi-day virtual class
Works especially well in two blocks, with time to work on the online course exercises between sessions
6 hour, or multi-day in-person class
Suitable for all levels
No kit required
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Turn a pair of leather or cloth shoes into wearable works of art.
Give new life to your favorite old pair of shoes by turning them into amazing piece of walkable art. Use leather and textile paint, sharpies, and paint pens to create your own one-of-a-kind fancy footwear that will make your toes want to dance!
3 hour virtual class, no kit or fee required
3 hour in-person class, $30 supply fee required
Suitable for all levels
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The following courses are currently only offered in-person
available for bookings in late 2024 and beyond.
"The workshop was terrific and Lyric's teaching style was very relaxed and easy to understand. Everyone in the group has said how much they enjoyed the experience.”
Sylvia Fernley
In-Person Worshops
3 hr class
Learn how easy it is to create your own screen printed cloth! In this class you will gain hands on experience with the funnest surface design technique around! Use screens with or without a frame, try out discharge, paint, and foil. Learn to layer imagery as you create your own printed art postcard. Bring your creative spirit and a willingness to play.
3 hr class
Stamp Carving, Stencils, Shiva paint Sticks, Screen Printing! Play like a kindergardener as Lyric leads you through different ways to apply paint to fabric. Focus on technique rather than projects as you create a sample book for future reference. Let Lyric bring everything for you so that you can simply explore new techniques.
3 hr class
Ready for some fast and frenetic fun with fabric? Join IAPQ 2011 Teacher of the Year, Lyric Kinard for a few fabulous hours playing design games that will lead to the creation of at least three fabric postcards. Come ready to make new friends, laugh, share, and make some ART!This class is a perfect game night event and can be easily scaled up for large crowds.
3 hr class
Come create whimsical and creative whole-cloth compositions while learning screen printing techniques such as discharge, ghost printing, masking, foiling, and layering. Design principles such as unity, repetition, and focal point will be discussed as we play around with thermofax screen printing. As an added bonus, Lyric will teach you how to mount your finished work on a gallery wrapped canvas, a fabulous technique for a professional presentation of your art.
2- 5 day class
Are you ready to exercise, challenge, and strengthen your muscle as an artist? Are you ready to delve deeply into your own voice and open wide your artists' eye? If you have a formal art education you know how deliciously valuable a basic design refresher can be. If you have discovered your love of art outside of academia, this course is an opportunity to clarify and refine the skills you have developed intuitively.
3 hr class
Both traditional and art quilters will gain valuable skills through this guided critique session. Come enjoy a day of constructive and creative learning as we explore ways to analyze artwork. We will discover techniques that allow us to objectively evaluate art and learn which questions will help solve design issues. Lyric will help you critique your own work in an emotionally safe, positive, informative, and supportive way.
6 hr class
Can’t choose which surface design technique you want most to learn? Try taste of each? Make a small art quilt or book cover while playing with paint, foil, photo-transfer, thermofax screens, and stamp carving, and beading.
3 hr class
Once you learn these methods for displaying small textiles your small scale art will never be mistaken for a potholder again! Come create a small fabric collage and learn a few stitching and beading techniques.While you mat and frame your artwork, Lyric will demonstrate a number of different framing and mounting possibilities suitable for any textile treasure you create.