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Appliqué - Alex Anderson's Way
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| Susan Tennison | ||
| Appliqué offers a unique way to make a design on your fabric. By layering shapes of fabric on top of background fabrics, you can create numerous designs and patterns very different from pieced designs. If you want to get started on appliqué, this class will be a good, general introduction. We will learn the preparation steps, tackle the appliqué stitch itself, and create the center of the project called "Color Sampler" in Alex Anderson's book, Hand Appliqué. This class, Part 1, will get you started on appliqué, with Part 2 helping with some of the nuances of appliqué. With this background, you will soon be stitching away! | ||
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2 sessions: Class fee $40 (Book required) |
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Beginning Quiltmaking (1 Machine) | Top |
| Darlene McCollum | ||
| This class covers everything you need to know to make your own quilt on the sewing machine. Among the many things you will learn are rotary cutting, sheeted triangles, accurate machine piecing, as well as both hand and machine quilting and binding. This class gives you the background skills you need to take our other, more advanced quilt classes. Must have basic sewing skills! | ||
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4 sessions: Class fee $100 (Book required) |
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Bento Box
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| Evelyn McRae | ||
| Looking for an easy project? Need a quick gift? Then this is the class for you. Showcase a collection of your favorite fabrics in this sophisticated but simple-to-sew quilt. Create a soft, romantic look or go for the drama with bright, bold colors. Whatever your preference, come join us! |
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1 session: Class fee $35 (Pattern required) |
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| Big Block Beauty (2 Machines) | Top | |
| Evelyn McRae | ||
| It's big. It's beautiful. It's quick. The off-center squares are perfect for showcasing a large-scale print. This quilt is easy and fun to stitch, yet it produces a bold and dramatic design. So come join us and stitch up your own version of a big block beauty! | ||
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1 session: Class Fee $35 |
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| Children's Memory Quilt (2 Machines) | Top | |
| Beth Kennedy | ||
| An easy and fun quilt to make for a very special child. Select a drawing or poem or trace around tiny hands to use as the focal block for a charming memory wall quilt, then select juvenile prints that depict their favorite things. We'll cover tracing, bonding and other methods of transferring images to cloth. To transfer drawings or other non-traceable images, bring the prepared image on cloth (using iron-transfer, etc.) We will create the top and discuss quilting designs. | ||
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1 session: Class Fee $25 |
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Falling Leaves
(2 Machines)
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| Eloise Cotugno | ||
| You'll "fall" for the beauty of the design of this quilt. But... we will simplify the instructions and use quicker techniques to create this showstopper. You'll choose the complexity of the center section with three options for construction. Instead of complicated piecing for the leaves, we'll use machine appliqué to apply them to the background. You'll prepare the background before class, and then we'll take care of the rest in class! | ||
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1 session: Class fee $45 (Pattern required) |
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| Fine Hand Quilting (1 Hand) | Top | |
| Susan Tennison | ||
| We're often in a big hurry to get our quilts finished, but hand quilting is very relaxing and you can do it anywhere - during all the waiting for the kids at the doctor's or at lessons, with the family in front of the TV, or for an afternoon you have all to yourself. Susan has some good tips and tricks to get you stitching and she won't count stitches! | ||
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1 session: Class fee $50 |
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French Braid Quilt
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| Evelyn McRae | ||
| Are you looking for a project that's easy to piece but looks complicated? Then this is the class for you. This quilt is made of strips and rectangles in a range of colors from light to dark. The construction is easy, but the results are spectacular. So, come join us as we explore possibilities of this stunning design! |
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1 session: Class fee $45 (Book required) |
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Happy Villages (2
Machines)
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| Eloise Cotugno | ||
| Create your own "Happy Village" based on the book by Karen Eckmeier. Your village might be a Greek hillside village, a Tuscan town, a tropical vacationland, or your own fantasyland. This is an easy fabric collage method that offers quick and fun results. Choose colors that characterize your village vision. Cut simple shapes for buildings, rooftops, windows, doors, and steps. Glue the shapes in a pleasing arrangement, cover with tulle, layer with batting and backing, and free motion quilt around your shapes. You may wish to add sky, trees, ocean, and other details to enhance your village. It's your village! Make it happy! | ||
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1 sessions: Class fee $50 (Book required) |
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Intermediate
Quiltmaking
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Machines)
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| Darlene McCollum | ||
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completed the Beginning Quiltmaking class, and you're wondering, "What
now?" This class is just for you. While making a lap-sized sampler
quilt, you will learn seven different piecing techniques—strip piecing, pieced triangles, matching points,
sew-and-flip squared, y-seams, and diagonal piecing. It is a great way
to add to the skills you have already conquered and make a wonderful
quilt at the same time. |
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4 sessions: Class fee $100 (Book required) |
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Comprehensive
Machine Quilting Are you noticing a growing stack of pieced but unquilted tops on the shelf? If you have more quilts to make than your hands can keep up with, why not consider machine quilting? It's easier than you think, practical, and beautiful! Learn some basics in Machine Quilting I and then apply your new skills in Machine Quilting II. |
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Machine Quilting I
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| Beth Kennedy | ||
| In this class, Beth will share her expertise as you work on a specially designed sample that will introduce you to all the basics of machine quilting: a marked design, echo quilting around a design, following a straight-lined grid, and freeform meandering (quilting without lines to follow). You'll also learn Beth's favorite method of applying and mitering binding. |
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1 session: Class fee $50 |
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Machine Quilting II
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Machines)
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| Beth Kennedy | ||
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Now that you've learned the basics of machine quilting on a block-sized
piece, apply those skills to an actual quilt. With Beth's help, you
will learn to get the feel of maneuvering a quilt under your sewing
machine needle while quilting a crib-sized quilt. Get more of Beth's
tips and gain confidence to go home and tackle the bed-sized quilt tops
you're dying to finish! |
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1 session: Class fee $25 |
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Pillowcases for Presents
(1 machine)
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| Susan Tennison | ||
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1 session: Class fee $25 |
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Rainbow Daze
(2 Machines)
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| Darlene McCullum | ||
| This block is a variation of the popular pattern, Castle Wall. It has the same octagon center, surrounded by a ring of triangles and eight diamond-shaped star points. But, unlike Castle Wall which is made with diamonds, triangles, an octagon and one odd-shape, this block is a template-free, rotary-cut design sewn entirely with straight seams - no set-ins! The center octagon is a great spot to put a fussy-cut design, surrounded by bright diamond stars. | ||
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1 session: Class fee $35 Book required |
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Round Peg in a Square Hole
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| Eloise Cotugno | ||
| The Rounds and Squares wallhanging goes together fairly quickly and the templates make the cutting fast and easy - what a deal!You will learn to stitch curves using only 2 pins and a stiletto in order to get smooth, flat seams. We'll have fun playing with color, value and design. This is a great opportunity to showcase those gorgeous batiks you love! Oriental fabrics would play well, too! Anything goes, as long as you use a range of value, from medium dark to light, to show the curves and the checkboard. | ||
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1 session: Class fee $45 (Templates required) |
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Stained Glass Posies Table Runner
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| Sheri Haner | ||
If you admire stained glass quilt projects but have been afraid to give the technique a try, you will be surprised to see how simple it is. Make the Forget-Me-Not table runner project from Brenda Henning's book, The Exquisite Table. With fusing and stitching/quilting straight line you will have a beautiful table runner whose colors sparkle, like sun shining through stained glass in a window. No glass cutting involved! |
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1 session: Class fee $50 (Book required) |
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Twisted Sister (2 Machines)
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| Evelyn McRae | ||
It's a crazy name but fun quilt that is easy, easy, easy --- with Evelyn's help, of course! Grab your rotary cutters and your fat quarters and get ready to explore all the twists and turns of this fabulous quilt. |
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1 session: Class fee $25 (Template set required) |
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What Fabulous Fabric!
(2 Machines)
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| Sheri Haner | ||
Aren't we lucky to have such fabulous fabric, exciting fabric available for our quilts? Kaffe Fasset's exuberant, colorful floral, fun-themed fabrics from Alexander Henry, stunning black and white, beautiful batiks., ---WOW! If you are puzzled about how to use these fabrics that make a big statement, Debbie Maddy's book, Modern Art With Fabric, uses simple components made up of squares and rectangles, and an occasional triangle if you like, that combine in a variety of ways to show off the fabulous fabric. You can make one of the projects in the book, or use a combination of the components to come up with your own design. Time to take a deep breath, grab a handful of fat quarters and go for it! |
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1 session: Class fee $45 (Book required) |
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Wrapped Baskets
(1 Machines)
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| Susan Tennison | ||
| Are you ready for some carefree sewing? Are you
ready to wrap clothesline to make a basket? What??? Yes, in this class we will
use clothesline, cover it with fabric, and stitch it up with a zig-zag stitch to
make a one-of-a-kind piece. This is an excellent way to do something new and
different when you are ready for a break from the usual. You can use brand-new
fabric or use up some "ugly" fabric from your stash. Whatever you choose, no two
baskets will look alike. So, bring your clothesline and let's start wrapping it
up!! |
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1 session: Class fee $45 (Book required) |
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