Monthly Creative Playdate: Let's Celebrate!

December 9, 2024

with Mel Beach

Let’s Celebrate! Join me and other fun-loving creatives for December’s Creative Playdate that will celebrate YOU! Our Creativity! Our Quilting Finishes! Holidays & Special Occasions!

Scrappy Stocking Ornaments

December 10, 2024

with Beth Ann Williams

Make fun & festive, fully-lined mini-stockings to hang on your own tree or give to family and friends. These scrap-busting quilted ornaments are also perfect for presenting small gifts, gift cards, and holiday candies. And it's a great way to play with those fancy decorative stitches on your machine! 

Cozy Week Zoom Mystery

December 28, 2024

with Beth Helfter

Get off the couch, stop eating all the cheese, and join us for another LIVE Zoom Mystery Event! In four hours, using breakout rooms each containing a clue to the mystery, we'll create a scrappy 44" x 48" quilt while bonding with quilters the world (or at least the country) over! You'll move to each room as you are ready, and by the final room, the mystery will be revealed. After the event, all participants will receive all of the clues plus some finishing options as a separate pdf. You'll need two main color families, a popper color family, and a background fabric for this quilt, and you likely have all you need already in your stash! Fabric requirements, cutting homework, Zoom codes, and even some sewing homework is all on the pdf you will download when you register.

Finding Your Design Sense

January 9, 2025

with Dana Jones

Finding Your Design Sense will introduce you to the basics of design — balance, unity, variety, line, shape, value, color, pattern, texture and more — through in-class activities and at-home play. You’ll learn what appeals to you toward developing your design style. Then you'll go deeper into using these concepts to design quilts.
The class will meet once a month for six months, allowing time between classes to use what you learn. Sessions will be recorded and the YouTube link for recordings sent to you within 48 hours of each class. You'll receive a list of home-play activities after each class that will help you practice what was covered in the class.

Demystifying Design for Foundation Paper Piecing

January 12, 2025

with Dana Jones

-- Do you love foundation paper piecing?
-- Do you want to design your own FPP quilts?
-- Are you fascinated by how to create the appearance of curves with straight lines?
If you said yes to any of these questions, this class is a must for you. In just six hours, you'll learn the Insructor's Paper Police© rules that guarantee your success in designing everything from quilt blocks to complicated photographic images.  

Creative Cathedral Windows by Machine

January 14, 2025

with Beth Ann Williams

This beloved 3-dimensional technique is now easier than ever! Create a beautiful table mat, runner, hanging, or pillow front completely by machine in this hands-on class featuring Beth Ann’s invisible machine appliqué-and-quilt in 1 step method. We'll explore various design options, allowing you to create a custom look.
BONUS: Machine-sewn binding instructions AND step-by-step finishing techniques for a pillow with a concealed zipper will also be included.

Fluttering Florals

January 22, 2025

with Carol Clanton

For this workshop, choose a diamond or circular design to create your own butterfly garden. There are no small appliques to stitch down. Instead, groups of flowers, butterflies and other motifs are cut from a printed fabric. Using the motif outline as a guide, the motifs are sewn onto a background using a simple hand stitch. This is the perfect workshop to introduce you to the Broderie Perse applique technique. All Hand Sewing

Free-Motion Quilting Quick Start 1

January 23, 2025

with Beth Ann Williams

Are you interested in free-motion quilting, but need a boost to get going? Join this beginner-friendly, hands-on introductory class featuring live instruction and Q&A, up-close photography, video clips showing the techniques in action on a domestic sewing machine, and plenty of examples of finished quilts.
 We’ll start with foundational patterning styles that you can use right away, and then explore how you can build on them as your confidence grows.  You can do this!
 BONUS: You'll also receive a printable handout to keep for future reference.

Warning! Modern, Improv Curves Ahead

January 23, 2025

with Mel Beach

Buckle up for a new take on modern, improv curves! We'll experiment and play with topstitch applique curves that are Finished, Freeing, Forgiving, and FUN!

Modern Improv Piecing

January 23, 2025

with Emma Jane Powell

Improvisationally curious? Improv is a great way to break free of traditional piecing rules and challenge your creativity. Skills taught will include: color & fabric combinations, straight lines, triangles, curves, and putting together segments. Use your scraps and create a small sample for each skill, or build up to a larger final project. You will finish this class with a toolbox full of techniques to create more expressive, spontaneous work in the future.

3-D Baltimore Applique Techniques Revisited

January 24, 2025

with Carol Clanton

Have you always wanted to create those 3-D Baltimore effects we find in Baltimore Style Applique Quilts? This is a fun introductory class where you will learn several of those techniques and how to incorporate them into this 12” block. This workshop covers mainly the 3-D techniques. As time allows, Carol will cover the needleturn technique that you can use to stitch down the appliques. All sewing is done by hand.

Exploring Evolon in Your Fiber Art

January 25, 2025

with Mel Beach

Let’s experiment with Evolon, a super soft, yet strong non-woven fiber that has many art quilt applications. You’ll leave with new swatches and techniques

Preserving Our Quilt Legacy

January 25, 2025

with Ann Wasserman

Bring old quilts back to life! A deep dive into the philosophies, techniques, and supplies used in restoration and conservation of antique and vintage quilts.

Creative Free Motion Quilting - Ocean Theme

January 25, 2025

with Emma Jane Powell

Learn-ocean themed free motion quilting designs with the guidance of a seasoned instructor. Whether you are newish or a veteran free motion quilter, you will learn something new in this hands-on workshop. On a blank quilt sandwich, we will practice shells, waves, fish, boats, swirls, fillers, and more! Build confidence by having creative control over your quilting designs. Along with instruction and guidance from Emma Jane, enjoy building camaraderie with your fellow quilters as you practice and perfect free motion quilting.*It is recommended you have some experience with FMQ basics.

Warp Speed

February 4, 2025

with Dana Jones

In this fast-paced class, each student selects a quilt block then begins manipulating and warping it in a variety of ways until each has a design she/he/they like. This is done through a series of class exercises that begin with close study of the block followed by playing with various warping techniques, creating thumbnail designs, and selecting a favorite design to fine-tune into a quilt design.
The two-three hour sessions are filled with hands-on fun and discoveries that will take you from disbelief to pride in what you create.

Free-Motion Quilting Quick Start 2

February 13, 2025

with Beth Ann Williams

Are you ready to expand your free-motion quilting skills? We'll dive into the wonderful world of crescents, spirals, and swirls; and then branch into stylized organic shapes such as flowers and leaves. Beautiful!
This hands-on class for folks with domestic sewing machines is designed to build on the Free-Motion Quilting Quick Start 1 class (required prerequisite OR equivalent experience).
BONUS: You'll also receive a printable handout to keep for future reference.

Create Your Own Quilted Landscape

February 21, 2025

with Beth Ann Williams

Capture a treasured memory in fabric! Learn to create a beautiful finished-edge machine appliquéd and quilted landscape with Beth Ann's surprisingly easy methods. Create your own piece of fiber art in this hands-on class while picking up appliqué skills and embellishment techniques you'll be able to use in other projects, too.
**MUST HAVE FREEZER PAPER FOR THIS METHOD**
BONUS OFFER: This class will automatically include the 12 page full-color PDF pattern download AND line art for additional ready-to-use landscapes at no extra cost!