101

Day:  Friday Morning

“Binding It All Up”

Skill Level: All

Instructor: DeLoa Jones

Method: Machine

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Skills Taught: Cutting bias binding, preparing a quilt for binding, applying a binding

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5

102

Day:  Friday Morning

“Keep It Portable”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Mary Zesiger

Method: Hand Piecing

Project Size: 6-inch blocks

Project Rating: Easy

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

103

Day:  Friday Afternoon

“Got Stencils? Use Them”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:   DeLoa Jones

Method: Hand, Design

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: Easy

Whether you hand quilt or machine quilt, stencils can be an enormous resource for design. DeLoa will show you:

• What to look for in a stencil when you buy one and how to build a stash with endless design possibilities.
• How to fit and mark your designs in blocks and borders without any math.
• How to make all those hand stencils adaptable for the machine.
• How to combine stencils, alter them, and add to them in ways to make your own original designs without having to be an artist.

If you have quilts tops that you want ideas then bring them along for an idea session.

Skills Taught: How to look at a quilt and figure out how to quilt it, how to build a versatile stencil stash, how to fit stencils in the quilt, how to mark the quilt, how to convert hand quilting stencils to machine, how to expand on the stencils you have for more design, and how to fit stencils in a border.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

104

Day:  Friday Afternoon

“Mini Sue”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Mary Zesiger

Method:  Hand

Project Size: 5-inch square

Project Rating: Moderate

Knowing how to do needle-turn appliqué on an intricate appliqué with very small pieces is a valuable tool for any quilter to pull out of her bag of tricks.  Sun Bonnet Sue is our tiny project, and she measures two inches tall when finished.

Skills Taught: Fabric selection for a miniature, needle-turn appliqué, invisible appliqué stitch

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

105

Day:  Friday

“Bermuda Sunrise”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Linda Hahn

Method: Machine

Project Size: 54-inch square

Project Rating: Easy

Let’s BASH THAT STASH!  This quilt is really quick and easy to make -- and the best part is that you’re going to be using what you already have in your stash! This class is part color confidence, part technique and part design. This block offers numerous setting options. Linda will share stash organizing tips and other ways to use up all that fabric that has been accumulating.

Skills Taught:  Use it up, make it do, or do without; quick piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees (optional): Students may pre-order a 60” throw size Quilters Dream 70/30 batting for $15

106

Day:  Friday

“Bodacious Baskets”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Didi Salvatierra

Method: Machine Piecing, Appliqué, Embellishing

Project Size: Wall Hanging

Project Rating: Moderate

Colorful and bold 14-inch basket blocks are the centerpiece of this wall quilt. This is a great way to use strips from your stash or scrap bag. The blocks are easy to piece and a two-for-one result. They lend themselves to fused embellishment plus trims and buttons, if desired. The result is a charming and contemporary version of a traditional four-block basket quilt.

Skills Taught: strip piecing, fused appliqué, regular piecing, machine embellishing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: Foundation material available for purchase in class.

107

Day:  Friday

“Chicky Make-Do Pincushion”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Diane Daniels

Method: Machine & hand sewing

Project Size: 8-9 inches tall

Project Rating: Easy

This spring chick is reminiscent of the old Victorian era sewing essentials made with things on hand or worn out.  Made from a vintage, boiled wool blanket, this little chick holds a heart emery sharpener from her beak. She will sit proudly among your other sewing collections!  Even the glass candlestick gets a special treatment to create an aged, iron-look.

Skills Taught:  Painting the glass candlestick base to create an “iron-look,” basic blanket and cross-stitches, and soft sculpture stuffing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees:  $34 for kit, which includes glass candlestick, yellow wool for chick, wool strips for tail feathers, red wool for heart, small muslin fabric square for emery bag, emery sand, pre-stamped manila tag, 2 black eye beads, 4-inch wood dowel, complete instructions, pattern, and photo 

108

Day:  Friday

“Harvest Town Apples”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Jackie Paton

Method: Stencil, painting

Project Size: 27 by 44 inches

Project Rating: Easy

A rural memory for some of us when orchards dotted the countryside.  You can almost smell the apples. The completion pattern incorporates My House on the Square and nine patches.  Appliquéd apple trees, flowers, stars and moon complete the project.

Skills Taught: How to stencil a freezer paper landscape, lots about color

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15 material fee covers art supplies and pattern

109

Day:  Friday

“Jack and the Bean Stalk”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Gyleen Fitzgerald

Method: Machine

Project Size: 12 12-inch blocks

Project Rating: Easy

Yes, it’s a Jacob’s Ladder block but, oh what fun! This one certainly has movement!  Given that it’s just four patches and half-square triangles, can you make them color blended and perfectly pieced?  Sure you can and will by the end of this workshop!  Techniques are easy to execute with precision and will include color design.  If you want to make the whole quilt, sign up for Saturday’s Squares on Point Pieced Border class. 

Skills Taught: Color theory, precision piecing. use of EZ Angle Tool

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $5 pattern fee

110

Day:  Friday

“Mariner’s Compass”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Fran Kordek

Method: Machine

Project Size: 16-inch square

Project Rating: Moderate

We will focus on using a variety of paper foundation techniques to sew precision points on a 16-point Mariner’s Compass block. The compass may be appliquéd or pieced to the background. Class project is a 14-inch compass (measured from point to point) that fits into a 16-inch background square. Fran will also present several border options for a small wall hanging.

Skills Taught: Precision piecing with freezer paper templates, sewing a circle into background

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $6

111

Day:  Friday

“Pumpkins Go Round”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Patty Prodonovich

Method: Machine

Project Size: 42-inch round

Project Rating: Moderate

This Thimbleberries pattern features a pumpkin motif on a scalloped circle for fall. This pattern can be expanded to cover other holidays and season s. The center is accented by a bias band, and you will learn how to make continuous bias binding from a square of fabric.

Skills Taught: Curved piecing, continuous bias binding

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

112

Day:  Friday

“Quilt As You Go”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:   Carol Blevins

Method:  Machine and hand

Project Size: Various

Project Rating: Moderate

Does quilting “on-the-go” appeal to you?  The quilt-as-you go approach enables today’s busy quilt maker to quilt a piece in smaller segments and then put those together to complete a quilt.  When done properly, these methods will not show from the front and can add interesting design detail to the quilt back. Quilting smaller units by hand or machine keeps the work in manageable sizes and facilitates the quilting process. The time and effort required to assemble the pre-quilted units is certainly far less than the time needed for quilting in the traditional way.

Skills Taught:  A variety of hand and machine skills

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee:  The $15 kit fee includes all fabrics, battings, and class handouts

113

Day:  Friday

“Rags to Riches: The Scrap Quilt”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Merry May

Method: Machine

Project Size: 38-inch square

Project Rating: Moderate

Our first item of business will be a fabric swap, so everyone will have a wide variety of fabrics to work with.  Next, you will learn how to sort your squares by value, and then learn how to combine them into an easy scrappy block pattern.  You'll wonder why you never tried making a scrap quilt before! 

Skills Taught:  Value and contrast; easy triangle piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

114

Day:  Friday

“Speed Bumps Ahead”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Lona Gayle Hull

Method: Machine

Project Size: 15 by 15 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

This class is for students who know how to use their sewing machines but need more instruction to feel comfortable doing their own machine quilting at home. Lona will teach you about choosing batting, marking the top, basting the quilt sandwich, and choosing quilting patterns. She will also teach how to free-motion quilt, addressing topics including sewing machine operation for quilting, balancing machine tension for different thread types, managing a large quilt. Finally she will teach you and finishing techniques, including binding.

Skills Taught: Free motion quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and handouts

115

Day:  Friday

“Spinning Triangles”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Susan Grancio

Method: Machine

Project Size: 38 by 33 inches

Project Rating: Easy

This easy project is perfect for a seasonal-themed quilted item like a table topper, wall hanging, or tree skirt.  Learn how to cut 60-degree triangles from fabric strips using a rotary cutter and the lines on the rotary ruler. Sewing the identical triangle units together accurately is quick and easy. Two fabrics, a main/focus fabric and a secondary fabric, are needed. Additional complexity can be obtained by using an additional fabric or selecting a theme fabric with a striped design. Except for optional setting/corner triangles and borders strips, if desired, all pieces are the exact same size 60-degree triangle. Directions for the basic project and several variations will be provided.

Skills Taught: Cutting 60-degree triangles with basic rotary ruler, sewing triangles, incorporating border in pieced units

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

116

Day:   Friday

“Morning Glories”

Skill Level:  Intermediate

Instructor:   Linda M. Poole

Method:  Hand/ Other

Project Size:  28” x 30” without borders

Project Rating:  Moderate

Appliquéing these glorious flowers will surely bring attention to all!  Linda gives you the creative energy and confidence to tackle any appliqué project after learning her glue stick appliqué method.  Whether you’re a beginner, new appliquér, novice or more, Linda’s class is high spirited and you’re guaranteed to go home with tips, techniques and a lot of laughs.

Skills Taught:  Appliqué techniques using freezer paper and glue sticks.

Supply List

Class Pre-Cut Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15 kit.

117

Day:  Friday

Studio

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Patsy Hartnett

Method: Student’s Choice

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: NA

Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Saturday and Sunday.

Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills.

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

204

Days: Friday All Day and Saturday Morning

"Lazy Daisy Cats"

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Kathy Schwabeland

Method: Machine

Project Size: 47 by 61 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

Cats! Cats! Cats! Whip up some lazy cats lounging among the daisies in no time flat using a variation of Stack and Whack. These cats are a breeze to make with no templates, paper piecing, or seams to worry about matching. You’ll cut out all 12 cats at the same time and then it’s on to the good stuff: the sewing! Your cats can all be blue like Kathy’s or you can choose a different color scheme. You’ll have so much fun making these cats and daisies, you’ll want to do it again! Students will need to purchase That Crazy Thing We Do from the Buggy Barn, which can be ordered from their Web site (www.buggybarnquilts.com) or from your local quilt shop.

Skills Taught: Cutting and piecing The Buggy Barn way

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep:

Additional Class Fees:

201

Days: Friday and Saturday

“Beginning Design 101”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Carol Clanton

Method:  Machine

Project Size: 14 by 14 to 18 by x 24 inches 

Project Rating: Moderate

Carol will teach you how to use a picture of your house, a favorite building, or landmark and turn it into a pictorial quilt.  The two-day class will take the student from the process of pattern design and choosing fabric to sewing it all together into a quilted piece. Students must to bring an enlarged color copy of their picture that is no smaller than 14 inches by 14 inches and no bigger than 18 inches by 24 inches.

Skills Taught:  Designing in cloth by using appliqué with a variety of stitches

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

202

Days: Friday and Saturday

“Civil War Sampler”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Karen Witt

Method: Machine and hand

Project Size: 62 by 98 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

Imagine yourself as a quilter in 1863! Listen to the music of the time and to stories of women during the Civil War who used their needlework skills to create beautiful artistic quilts, express their political and religious beliefs and supply their fighting men with essential bedding. Learn about their fabrics and the quilt blocks they used. Discuss option to make smaller, wall hanging size quilt. Then use heritage skills and 21st century techniques to make a sampler quilt, the style that an 1860’s quilter would have used to record all her ideas for future quilting!

Skills Taught: Hand and machine piecing and appliqué. Options (ex. hand appliqué vs. fused/machine appliqué) discussed, demonstrated and used, as quilters desire

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: $18 for Civil War Sampler pattern

203

Day:  Friday and Saturday

“Hot Flash: Rapid Fire Hunter’s Star”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Deb Tucker

Method: Machine

Project Size: Lap to Queen

Project Rating: Moderate

Fun, fast, and striking describe this quilt project for students who have strong rotary cutting and machine piecing skills. Students will learn to construct blocks using Deb’s patented Rapid Fire Hunter’s Star technique and ruler. The class will also include instruction on how to extend the outside edges of the traditional design to make each star complete around the edges. Deb will also conduct lessons on how to construct the border units using another of Deb’s specialty rulers, the Tucker Trimmer.

Skills Taught: Streamlined construction techniques for traditionally difficult pieced block

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: $23 for Petite Star Ruler and $15 for Tucker Trimmer

205

Days: Friday and Saturday

“LeMoyne Lilies”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Donna Ruppert

Method: Machine or hand

Project Size: 45 by 45 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

Three different techniques will be presented to piece Lily blocks -- hand piecing, English paper, and machine piecing. Students may participate in all the technique demonstrations or focus on just one favorite. Sewing machines are optional.

The appliqué portion of the class demonstrates a variety of techniques to create the different appliqué elements. Students may participate in each appliqué session thereby creating a wider body of knowledge and developing appliqué skills that can be applied to future projects or  pick and choose which technique demonstrations to participate in and focus on mastering several specific skills.

Skills Taught: Accurate piecing by machine, English paper piecing, hand piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $6 kit fee

206

Days: Friday and Saturday

“Oriental Poppy”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Maria O’Haver

Method: Machine

Project Size: 36 by 48 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

This larger than life floral wall hanging is made with the Poppy pattern by O Carol. The instructions are modified to use both freezer paper and fused machine appliqué. The flower center detail completes a really stunning quilt.

Skills Taught: machine appliqué using freezer paper and fusible web

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

207

Days: Friday and Saturday

“Sunburst Pineapple”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Nancy Bills

Method: Machine

Project Size: 79 by 79 inches

Project Rating: Challenging

No foundations, no templates, no triangles, no y-seams! Using Nancy’s “perfect strips” method, only accurately cut squares and quick-cut strips (strips that do not need to be an exact measurement) are needed to make this quilt that combines the Pineapple and Sunburst Star blocks into a 79-inch quilt. This class teaches both blocks and a number of options for each. Students can make the version shown or add simple customs changes to make their own unique design. For more information, visit Nancybills.com.

Skills Taught: Perfect strip method

Supply List - REVISED

Pre-Class Prep Work List

Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

208

Day:  Friday and Saturday

“Trellis Quilts”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Leslie Lacika

Method: Machine or Hand

Project Size: 15- to 20-inch squares or rectangles

Project Rating:  Moderate

Get ready to learn a new technique as you create a flower-covered trellis imitating the beauty of a real life garden.  First create a background trellis; pieced, quilted, and ready for a growth of vines and flowers.   Then, using my special snip and tuck method, you create vines and blooms that will weave through your trellis and grow out onto the borders, maybe right off the edge of your quilt.  By breaking the design steps down into manageable segments, everyone can learn to make design decisions.  You will create a unique and pleasing floral arrangement that mimics nature’s beauty.

Skills Taught: piecing, creating secondary design, surface appliqué, snip and tuck technique.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: none

301

Day:  Saturday Afternoon

“Wild and Wonderful Bindings”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:   Kathy Schwabeland

Method: Machine

Project Size: 10-inch sample squares

Project Rating: Easy

Not much is ever said about binding your quilt, but bindings can transform an ordinary quilt into something special. In this class Kathy will move students beyond traditional bindings, teaching them prairie point, yarn, and fused bindings.  Students will also experiment with inserting flat fold piping, rickrack, and more into bindings. 

Skills Taught: Binding

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

302

Day:  Saturday

“All Your Eggs in One Basket”

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Instructor:  Mary Zesiger

Method: Student’s Choice

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: NA

Project Size: Project Rating: object, this basket is for you. This appealing appliqué pattern will be executed using several appliqué techniques. The eggs will be prepared by building the appliqué as a unit before inserting it into the basket. Needle turn appliqué, full appliqué method, and invisible appliqué stitches will be demonstrated and practiced.

Skills Taught: Building an appliqué, needle-turn appliqué, full appliqué method, invisible appliqué stitch

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

303

Day:  Saturday

“Basic Machine Quilting”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Carol Blevins

Method: Machine

Project Size: 2 18-inch squares

Project Rating: Easy

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

304

Day:  Saturday

“Dance With Your Sewing Machine”

Skill Level: Advanced

Instructor:  Lona Gayle Hull

Method: Machine

Project Size: 15 by 15 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

This class is for students who have experience with their sewing machines to perform basic machine quilting and are willing to analyze stitches and make adjustments in tension and foot pressure on their machines. Students who feel ready to tackle some advanced patterns to create their own masterpieces will love this class. Lona will review batting, basting, and choosing quilting patterns that enhance the quilt top. Advanced free-motion techniques will include using stencils, feathers (both stencil and free hand), trapunto with a non-invasive technique to produce raised designs, straight lines, and seven different background filler patterns.

Skills Taught: Using stencils, feathers, non-invasive trapunto designs, background fillers to enhance a raised design, blocking a quilt, binding and finishing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15 for pattern and handouts

305

Day:  Saturday

“Dresden Delight”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Patty Prodonovich

Method: Machine piecing, appliqué (either machine or hand)

Project Size: 32-inch square

Project Rating: Moderate

Corner “fans” frame the central 20-point Dresden Plate and pieced borders gives a striking accent. Make a traditional block the modern way without turning raw edges. Chain stitching the wedges lets you complete this project in no time!

Skills Taught: Create plate wedges with no raw edges, make circles

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: No

306

Day:  Saturday

“Easy Curved Piecing”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Linda Hahn

Method: Machine

Project Size: Varies

Project Rating: Easy

Curves Galore - Agonize No More!  You’ll never be afraid of curved piecing again after this class. Linda will show you how to piece in curves with NO pins. Yes, you read it right, NO pins. Linda will also show you how to get the maximum design options out of the templates and to explore potential quilting designs.

Easy Skills Taught: curved piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15, which includes a set of 7” acrylic templates, numerous setting options for your blocks, and quilting suggestions

307

Day:  Saturday

“Hooked Sunflower Make-Do Pincushion”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Diane Daniels

Method: Machine and hand

Project Size: 14 inches tall

Project Rating: Easy

A collector of many vintage pincushions herself, Diane continues to find inspiration around the corner for another pincushion or make-do idea. Experienced in every aspect of wool-work, including rug hooking, she has combined rug hooking and appliqué in this seasonal make-do version. The Hooked Sunflower Make-Do is cleverly attached to a vintage textile spool “stem” that is mounted to bent, wire legs.  This class is designed so you will get a very basic introduction to rug hooking while making a decorative yet functional pincushion!

Skills Taught:  basic level rug hooking; learning basic blanket & whip stitches; and soft sculpture stuffing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee:  $40 kit fee includes the special hand-dyed and pre-cut wool for the entire sunflower head; Army blanket wool for the backing of the sunflower head, the leaves and to wrap the wood spool; an antique textile spool; wire for the legs and leaves; hand-drawn pattern on cotton monks cloth; primitive rug hook; complete instructions, paper pattern and photo

308

Day:  Saturday

“No Strings Attached: A Stash Buster Quilt”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Merry May

Method: Machine

Project Size: 45 by 54 inches

Project Rating: Easy

Start pillaging and plundering all of those spare strips that keep piling up and put them to good use! Choose a variety of light fabrics for the background like the sample or use a single fabric for a more consistent look. Makes a wonderful 45-inch by 54-inch lap-size or a 90-inch by 108-inch queen-sized quilt that everyone will be arguing over!

Skills Taught:  String piecing on a muslin foundation; many layout possibilities

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

309

Day:  Saturday

“The Not-So Square In A Square”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Didi Salvatierra

Method: :  Machine

Project Size: 38 by 38 inches

Project Rating: Easy

This wall hanging begins with squares in three color families (for example; red, blue, yellow) or three distinct fabric patterns (for example; dots, solids, stripes). Straight stitch sewing will build the blocks that are not quite perfectly square-in-a-square but are fast and easy. This machine class is for adventurous beginners and beyond. A good lesson in color, value, and pattern mixing.

Skills Taught: Color, value, and pattern mixing; raw-edge stitching

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

310

Day:  Saturday

“Rose Log Cabin”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  DeLoa Jones

Method: Machine

Project Size: 50 by 50 or Queen

Project Rating: Moderate

If DeLoa’s children want her in a good mood after she’s been traveling, they put this quilt on her bed. This stunning quilt is simple to make, but oh how elegant. The placement of background fabrics makes it seem to glow around the roses with the flying geese accenting the pattern. The entire quilt is made from two different log cabin variations. The class will finish 4 blocks of each set in class (8 total), and you will have the directions to finish either a wall hanging or queen size quilt.

Skills Taught: log cabin piecing with quick corners, piecing, pressing, and trimming techniques

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

311

Day:  Saturday

“Squares on Point Pieced Border”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Gyleen Fitzgerald

Method: Machine

Project Size: 53 by 67 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

We will spend the day putting a top together that has a perfectly pieced border.  I’m doing the math so you don’t need to sweat the numbers.  The border is “Squares On Point.”  You need to bring 12 finished blocks of your choice or use the blocks from Friday’s Jack and the Bean Stalk class.  In class, we will add sashing, cornerstones and three borders.  You will leave with a finished top ready for quilting, not another UFO!

Skills Taught: Color theory, precision piecing and use of EZ Companion Angle Tool

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: $5 pattern fee

312

Day:  Saturday

“Surface Design Experiments”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Susan Grancio

Method: Painting, fusing, layering, embellishing

Project Size: Various small pieces

Project Rating: Easy

Ready to try out some new techniques and stick your toes in the “art quilt” waters? Take the opportunity to try out several surface design techniques in a relaxed format. Bring a few pieces of fabric and some of those embellishments you’ve collected and get ready to play. Paints, inks, other mark-making supplies, fusible, and tulle will be provided.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

313

Day:  Saturday

“A Tale of Two Kitties: The Watering Can”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Jackie Paton

Method: Hand

Project Size: Wall Hanging

Project Rating: Easy

This amusing scene of two cats with a ball of yarn is taken from a new fabric line for 2010 called “A Tale of Two Kitties” starring Miss Violet A. Calico & Mr. Bumble Stripe.   There is a third cat hiding in the grass.  Perhaps it’s yours.

Skills Taught: How to select a pictorial scene using Jackie’s freezer paper technique

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees:  $15 for art supplies and pattern

314

Day:  Saturday

“The Wild Rose”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Linda M. Poole

Method: Hand/Other

Project Size: 16 by 20 inches without borders

Project Rating:  Moderate

This bold wild flower confidently stands alone and will draw everyone’s attention when they see your quilt.  Learn in one day how easy appliqué can be while Linda teaches you her glue stick appliqué technique.  Linda’s patience and humor is the secret to everyone’s successful experience in her classes. Come join in the merriment of sewing this delightfully happy floral!

Skills Taught:  Appliqué techniques using freezer paper and glue sticks.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $14 kit

315

Day:  Saturday

Studio

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Patsy Hartnett

Method: Student’s Choice

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: NA

Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Sunday.

Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills.

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

401

Days: Saturday and Sunday

“Pyrotechnics”

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Instructor:  Fran Kordek

Method: Machine

Project Size: 24 by 24 inches

Project Rating: Challenging

This is an unusual regional design that surfaced during the West Virginia Documentation Project. It’s an exciting and explosive design: a 12-point rosette surrounded by three rings of triangles. Paper piecing techniques are used to construct the triangle rings, faced appliqué is used to construct the rosette, and the resulting 21-inch circle is sewn into a 24-inch background square. Fran also presents instruction for a triangle border option.

Skills Taught: Foundation piecing without ripping paper, sewing a circle into background, faced points for appliqué

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $8

501

Day:  Sunday Morning

“Fusing 101”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Susan Grancio

Method: Cutting and fusing

Project Size: 12 by 12 inches

Project Rating: Easy

Everything you want to know about using fusibles in your quilting projects -- or wished you knew when you tried to fuse! You’ll try out a variety of commercial fusible products on a range of designs to see how each fusible performs.  Susan will also provide information on using stabilizers and options for stitching the fusible appliqué for permanence in your quilted project.

Skills Taught: Successful use of a variety of fusible products

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees: $8 for fusible products and appliqué patterns

502

Day:  Sunday Morning

“Homespun Baskets”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Merry May

Method: Machine

Project Size: 20 by 20 inches

Project Rating: Easy

Choose two basic colors, and then search through your stash for two or four different fat quarters for the baskets.  We will use easy fusible appliqué for the handles, and Merry’s clever method for quickly piecing the basket bottoms.  Makes a 20-inch square project for a table topper, small wall hanging, or pillow cover.

Skills Taught:  Easy triangle piecing; partial seam piecing; fusible appliqué

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: No

503

Day:  Sunday Afternoon

“Using Photographic Images in Quilts”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Susan Grancio

Method:

Project Size: Various

Project Rating: Easy

In this lecture and demonstration class, you’ll explore a multitude of methods for getting pictorial images onto cloth and then incorporating them into quilts. Susan will cover details of various methods, including pros and cons, such as cost, difficulty, and permanence. A variety of quilts that incorporate photographic images will be shown. You’ll receive a detailed handout of various methods.

Skills Taught: Advantages and techniques for various methods of putting photo images on fabrics

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees:

504

Day:  Sunday

“Embroidery Stitches for Quilters”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Karen Witt

Method: Hand

Project Size: Notebook of samples

Project Rating: Easy

Learn and practice embroidery stitches that can be used to effectively embellish all types of quilting projects. Practice techniques for smooth starts and finishes with no knots! Learn which threads to use when and where. Discuss the variety of opportunities to use today’s wonderful array of threads when making traditional quilts

Skills Taught: Embroidery stitches, including buttonhole, detached buttonhole, couching, stem, outline, French knots, colonial knots, circular Rhodes knot, turkey knots, and more.

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees: $18 kit includes a notebook; page protectors; variety of needles; hand-dyed and hand-painted threads of cotton, silk, and wool; and an embroidery stitches booklet

505

Day:  Sunday

“The Five Lives of Reverse Appliqué”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Mary Zesiger

Method: Hand

Project Size: One or two 6-inch squares

Project Rating: Easy

Few quilters and pattern designers understand the benefits of reverse appliqué.  Mary has identified five occasions when reverse appliqué is an easier choice than other appliqué methods.  Examples of each of these five situations will be displayed and discussed.  Mary will demonstrate how to prepare and stitch a project using reverse appliqué, and each student will use reverse appliqué to stitch either a heart or a ghost.

Skills Taught: marking, basting, needle-turn appliqué, invisible appliqué stitch

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: No

506

Day:  Sunday

“Friendship Heart”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Diane Daniels

Method: Hand

Project Size: 12-inch round

Project Rating: Easy

Here is a project that is perfect for the first-time penny rug student as well as anyone more advanced in wool appliqué.   An early American folk-craft tradition, the penny rug was popular from the late Colonial period to the post-Civil War era. These rugs were actually used as table decorations or bed coverings.  Diane will teach you her many tips and tricks, and you will learn how to evenly space your blanket stitches and anchor them around curves.  You will receive handouts on the basic stitches and a list of “heartfelt” quotations to personalize your own penny rug or one for a dear friend!

Skills Taught:  Basic blanket, stem, and primitive back stitches; how to stitch lettering on wool; how to assemble a lamb’s tongue border

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $38 kit includes pre-washed and felted wool for entire project, pattern, complete instructions, list of heartfelt quotations, color photo, and basic instructional handouts

507

Day:  Sunday

“Lancaster County Rosebuds”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:   Carol Blevins

Method: Machine

Project Size: 18 by 18 inches

Project Rating: Easy

The beautiful stained glass designs and stained glass windows that we see in churches, public institutions, and home decorating can be replicated in quilting. The glass is replaced by wonderful representative fabrics and the “leading” by bias tapes. I have developed a unique process that is simple and gives a soft, fluid quilt. This is a great way to create striking designs in fabric.

Skills Taught: New approaches to stained glass

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee:  $6 for pattern, stabilizers, Do Sew

508

Day:  Sunday

“New York Beauty”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Linda Hahn

Method: Machine

Project Size: Varies

Project Rating: Moderate

“Wow!” is the best way to describe what you’ll say when Linda shows you how easy it is to piece this New York Beauty block.  She has a very unique and out-of-the-box construction method that guarantees a perfect block every time. Your kit will provide you with several color layout options so you can make your quilt uniquely yours. Linda will also share quilting suggestions and her method of auditioning quilting designs. Please read the additional class fee note, below.

Skills Taught: Paper piecing, setting in convex and concave curves

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: Optional but recommended. By popular demand, Linda is offering a kit for this project for $18. The kit includes acrylic templates designed especially for this class, and a package of EQ Foundation Paper, arc patterns for you to copy, several color layout options, and shipping charges. Note: Please pre-order your kit so you can receive it prior to coming to class.

509

Day:  Sunday

“Paintstiks: The Happy Holidays Quilt”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Kathy Schwabeland

Method: Machine, Painting

Project Size: 30 by 30 inches

Project Rating: Easy

Remember how excited you were as a kid when you got a brand-new box of crayons and used them to create leaf rubbings with lots of beautiful colors? Well, Paintstiks are the grown-up version of crayons! Come spend the day using rubbing plates to create a beautiful holiday wall hanging. Learn how to work with Paintstiks and layer colors to create multi colored blocks. You’ll be amazed how easy it is!

Skills Taught: Paintstiks techniques use rubbing plates

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: Optional kit available for $53, includes rubbing plates, pattern, and Paintstiks. You receive enough Paintstiks in the kit to complete several projects. If you would like to purchase a kit, you must pre-order it from Kathy 2 weeks prior to MAQ.

510

Day:  Sunday

“Paper Pieced Pumpkins”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Carol Clanton

Method:  Machine

Project Size: 8 by 18 inches

Project Rating: Easy

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Pre-Class Prep: No

511

Day:  Sunday

“A Place to Quilt”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Gyleen Fitzgerald

Method: Machine

Project Size: 56 by 56 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

Illusion at its best!  But how do you get those curves? With straight lines, of course. Go figure, but it’s just that simple. You take two relatively high-contrasting colors, you alternate two pieced “quilter friendly” blocks then float segments into the border, and just like that -- you’re done!  The two colors can be from just two fabrics or you can use 10 or more fabrics that almost read the same, like 10 reds, for example. Gyleen used the same light fabric throughout her quilt but sees no reason why you can’t vary this as well. You will learn how to make pointy triangle segments with the Tri-Recs tool and how to artfully transition and color blend from one block to the next. 

Skills Taught: Precision piecing and use of Tri-Rec tool

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5 pattern fee

Day:  Sunday

“Primitive Piecing”

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Nancy Bills

Method: Machine

Project Size: Varies

Project Rating: Easy

This fun and funky technique uses only squares, rectangles, or other odd shapes along with strips or even scraps right out of the basket – with no triangles and almost no math – to make unique stars and other blocks. These can be used in a quilt, in borders, in sashings, or as part of other blocks and can be made any size using simple math. Every block is different, which makes it great for primitive or unique contemporary projects. Fussy-cut centers, square in a square, snowball blocks plus rectangular stars, and other variations will be covered.

Skills Taught: Designing and making primitive stars, both square and rectangular, and primitive square in a square and snowball blocks using only rectangles or squares and scraps or strips (no triangles)

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Pre-Class Prep List

Additional Class Fee: No

513

Day:  Sunday

“The Reshaped Log Cabin Table Runner”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Leslie Lacika

Method:  Machine

Project Size: 20 ½ by 42 inches

Project Rating: Easy

Fun and fast, and lots of fun!  Get ready to use strip piecing and quickly stitch up ten half log cabin blocks.  Next, play with the arrangement of those squares to create different designs for this unusual shaped table runner.  With a design decision made, you will finish your runner with a special no binding technique.  On to quilting, and a beautiful runner will be ready to grace the table for your next special event.  And, once you learn the method, you’ll be ready to make runners for friends and family; for holidays, special occasions, and everyday decorating.

Skills Taught:  half log cabin design; no binding finish; unusual design possibilities.

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

514

Day:  Sunday

“Reversible Quilt”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  Maria O’Haver

Method: Machine

Project Size: 6 by 6 inch blocks

Project Rating: Moderate

The Reversible Quilt is created using a quilt as you go technique and can be made to any size desired. Each square is pieced and quilted as it is made, with both front and back completed in the same series of steps. It's a fun project in which totally different fabrics can be used on front and back to make two different quilts. Blocks are sashed together with a unique joining process that can also be used on crazy quilts and other projects.

Skills Taught: Quilt as you go technique and sashing method

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

515

Day:  Sunday

“Ribbon Star”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Patty Prodonovich

Method: Machine

Project Size: 38 by 46 inches

Project Rating: Easy

This block creates a star that appears to be entwined with ribbon. We will use 12 9-inch blocks for this quilt that measures 38 inches by 47 inches. Patty will show you how to adapt this block to any size and how to square it up so piecing is a breeze. Select some coordinated fabrics and find out how easy it can be to create this wonderful quilt.

Skills Taught: Piecing accurate half-square triangles

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  No

516

Day:  Sunday

“Scrappy Stars”

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor:  DeLoa Jones

Method: Machine

Project Size: 29 by 36 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

This small Ohio Star wall hanging is packed with quick piecing techniques. DeLoa will teach you how to create an hourglass unit without sewing a triangle and with all the bias edges where they should be. The chain blocks are then strip pieced. You will also learn how to chain sew a block so you won’t turn any units the wrong way. You will also learn other quick sewing and pressing techniques that you can apply to all your quilting projects.

Skills Taught: Quick piecing techniques for hourglass units, strip piecing, pressing, and assembly

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

517

Day:  Sunday

“Signs of Autumn”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Deb Tucker

Method: Machine

Project Size: 20 by 36 inches

Project Rating: Easy

This make-it, take-it project will introduce students to one of Deb’s newest tools, the “Wing Clipper.” The techniques and tool will everyone’s project pieced to perfection with minimal effort. Deb will introduce her method of producing four Flying Geese units from five squares that are just slightly larger than necessary and then use her patented tool to quickly and accurately trip each piece to exact size. She will also introduce several construction methods for making the leaves, including traditional templates, paper foundation, or a gadget called the “Thirty Something Square Up” ruler. Beautiful project, technique-filled class, and quick and accurate end results.

Skills Taught: Fast Flying Geese with Wing Clipper tool (required)

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $18 for Wing Clipper tool

519

Day:  Sunday

“Stipple Basics – Sharon Schamber Style”

Instructor:  Lona Gayle Hull

Method: Machine

Project Size: 15 by 15 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

This class focuses on the home sewing machine and the process of stippling within a quilted piece. Lona will discuss when stippling should be used and its purpose and will teach you 12 designs for fillers. Students will use a Sharon Schamber pattern, which is included in the kit fee.

Skills Taught: Batting choices, thread choices, sewing machine adjustments, stippling design fillers

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for kit, which includes pattern and marked top

520

Day:  Sunday

“Triangle Tricks 3”

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor:  Donna Ruppert

Method: Machine

Project Size: 50 by 60 inches

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Join me for a fun day of “quick method” quilting. We will be piecing a Star block that looks complicated but will take advantage of a unique technique that eliminates cutting and piecing all the triangles in this block individually. Because all shortcut techniques depend on accuracy, the class offers lots of hands-on demonstration for improving rotary cutting, machine piecing, and pressing skills to ensure the best possible outcome for your blocks.

Skills Taught: Quick method/shortcut technique with focus on accuracy for good results, color and value theory

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Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for kit, which includes pattern and marked top

521

Day:   Sunday

“Water Lilies”

Skill Level:  Intermediate

Instructor:   Linda M. Poole

Method:  Hand/Other

Project Size: 21 by 32 inches without borders

Project Rating:  Moderate

Who can resist appliquéing the serenity of these gentle flowers?  Linda teaches you her signature appliqué technique of glue stick freezer paper appliqué to make these simple flower units before appliquéing them to the background.  This enchanting water lily pond is easier than it looks and that is a promise from 3 time author Linda M Poole.

Skills Taught:  Appliqué techniques using freezer paper and glue sticks.

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15 kit

522

Day:  Sunday

“Winter Cabin”

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor:  Jackie Paton

Method: Painting

Project Size: 24 by 30 inches

Project Rating: Easy

All is calm on this winter night. This is one of my much-requested original stencilscape projects. 

Skills Taught:  Freezer paper stencil painting

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Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee:  $15, covers all art supplies

523

Day:  Sunday

Studio

Skill Level: All

Instructor:  Patsy Hartnett

Method: Student’s Choice

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: NA

Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Saturday.

Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills.

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No