101

Friday Morning

9 a.m. to Noon

Phatkats

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Erin Underwood

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 61” by 73” (20 Cats) or 49” by 71” (12 Cats)

Project Rating: Easy

Love Cats? Constructing this adorable fan quilt with absolutely no curved piecing or appliqué will make you love them even more! Choose “kitty” colors or select a vibrant array of fabrics to spark it up a bit. The goal for this 1/2 day class is to finish two cat blocks, one left-facing and one right-facing. And when the quilt is finished, you can cuddle with all your favorite felines and not be covered in fur!

Skills Taught: New technique for constructing fan blocks

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $10 for pattern

102

Friday Morning

9 a.m. to Noon

Stained Glass Pickup Sticks©

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Debby Kratovil

kratovil@his.com

Method: Machine Piecing

Project Size: 54” by 64” Lap Quilt

or 28” by 48” Table Runner

Project Rating: Easy

This is a “no template” quilt using only pre-cut 10-1/2” squares. (If you have a stack of 10” squares, they will also work with this particular pattern.) Beginning with stacks of squares and a rotary cutter, you will slice and shuffle your stacks, and sew them together with skinny strips to simulate stained glass. No bias edges, no funky cutting techniques – just straight cuts and easy sewing. A set of four squares will yield four blocks. Block size is approximately 10” finished.

Skills Taught: No template rotary cutting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

103

Friday Morning

Note: 4-hour Class

8 a.m. to Noon

Border Patrol

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Deloa Jones

deloa@deloasquiltshop.com

Method: Hands-On Longarm

Project Size: Not Applicable

Project Rating: Moderate

As a longarm quilter, Deloa doesn’t turn her quilts to quilt side borders -- it is too much work, bother, and time -- so she developed many simple free-motion designs that can be done in the borders and in sashings. Learn how to space your borders and turn the corners. You will learn a very simple, easy, and fast way to do your sashings continuously with very few starts and stops. There are 25+ simple designs for the beginner to help you get started in your free-motion border adventure on a longarm quilting machine.

Skills Taught: Free motion longarm quilting

Supply List - forthcoming

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $100 hands-on longarm practice

127

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

104

Friday Afternoon

1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Hand Appliqué by Machine

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Erin Underwood

Erin@ErinUnderwoodQuilts.com

Method: Machine Appliqué

Project Size: 16” by 18”

Project Rating: Moderate

Love the look of hand appliqué but just don’t have the time for handwork? Try this technique that makes your machine appliqué look as if it was done by hand but only takes a fraction of the time. Learn all about the tricks and tools you need for success. Your quilt will look like you sat for hours and needle-turned each piece.

Skills Taught: Blind hem stitch for machine appliqué, introduction to washable freezer paper

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $3 for pattern and freezer-paper templates

105

Friday Afternoon

1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Coffee Filter Fans

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Debby Kratovil

kratovil@his.com

Method: Machine, Foundation Pieced

Project Size: 6” blocks; most students opt for a 12-20 block project

Project Rating: Easy

No kidding! You really can paper piece on large coffee filters. They are just convenient circles, which we divide, mark and use as a paper foundation. The four-blade fan is finished NOT with a quarter circle base, but with an easy to sew triangle. And the best part is Debby’s EZ method for turning the curved edge of the fan under and attaching by machine. No handwork at all. Debby brings all coffee filters for students.

Skills Taught: Accurate paper piecing with Debby’s EZ method, block base finishing with triangle instead of traditional 1/4 circle, no curved sewing to finish the curved edge (honest – you use a facing technique), simple machine zig zag stitch to secure the fan block to background fabric.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Optional; if pre-cutting is done ahead of time, many blocks can be finished

Additional Class Fee: $3 for patterns and coffee filters for 16 to 20 blocks

106

Friday Afternoon

Note: 4-hour Class

1:30 to 5:30

Quilt Me a Garden

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: DeLoa Jones
deloa@deloasquiltshop.com

Method: Hands-On Longarm

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: Moderate

Finally, flowers in my house that won’t die. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, with some very simple shapes and techniques, you can quilt beautiful flowers that you can use in motifs, wreaths, and overalls. Deloa will teach you several leaf vines for borders and sashings. Your flower arrangements will only be limited by your imagination.

Skills Taught: Free motion longarm flowers

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice

128

Friday Afternoon

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

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107

Friday

9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Perfecting Patchwork

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Carol Blevins

ccblevins@verizon.net

Method: Machine piecing

Project Size: Various samples

Project Rating: Easy

Are your points pointed? Do your intersections match? Are your squares really square? Are your seams accurate? (I hear a little song!) Do you know all the latest, up-to-date methods of making patchwork? Do you want to make your patchwork better? There’s always room for improvement! Learn lots of tips and tricks from Carol to make your patchwork easier, more efficient, and better looking. Class will include lots of visuals, lecture, demos, and hands-on time at the sewing machine.

Skills Taught: Basic machine piecing techniques

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees: $5 for handouts

108

Friday

Chicky Make-Do/Pincushion

Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate

Instructor: Diane Daniels
c_seasons@hotmail.com

Method: Hand and Machine

Project Size: 8” to 9” 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: Faux finishing the glass candlestick base to create an “iron look,” machine and hand sewing, basic blanket and x-stitches, creating and stuffing a soft sculptured pincushion form

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees : $34 for kit that 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, eye beads, 4-inch wood dowel, complete instructions, pattern and photo.

109

Friday

Beading for Quilters I

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Patty Estey
pestey@att.net  

Method: Hand

Project Size: Not applicable

Project Rating: Easy/Moderate

In the morning, you will practice basic beading stitches to lay down beads and create texture. In the afternoon, you will attach a cabochon using the peyote stitch. Throughout the day, Patty will provide useful information like the quality of beads, thread types, needle size, choosing beads and respective sizes, single versus double thread, and how to “milk the thread”. If there is extra time, Patty will teach a very useful and fun bead chain.

Skills Taught: Basic beading techniques

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees $10 for beads, threads, needles, and fabrics

110

Friday

Anything Goes Star Tessellation

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Gyleen Fitzgerald

gyleen@colourfulstitches.com

Method: Machine

Project Size: 60” by 80”

Project Rating: Easy

This is an encore workshop turning a wall hanging design into a full-size bed quilt. Begin by using 2” strips for a 9” block to get you to that bed quilt in a hurry. Geometric and fun for this and that type of fabric; heck, why not use your whole fabric collection? Feel free to mix in your batiks or homespun for added sparkle. Learn the technique of using simple shapes to make an interlocking design. Easy to piece with Gyleen's map technique.

Skills Taught: Use of Easy Angle tool and mapping technique

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

111

Friday

Painted Landscapes 101

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Diane Holmes
Jasmineqlt@dejazzd.com

Method: Painting and Machine Painting and Machine Quilting

Project Size: 24”

Project Rating: Easy

First, paint a sky reflecting your mood, a sky reflecting into a pool of water, or a sky with a flowery meadow in the foreground. You’ll paint with real paint then use thread to paint trees, bushes, clouds, and ripples of water. Yes, you can really do this! Learn which paints to use, how to blend colors, how to cover mistakes, and how to stitcha  one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Move over, Monet!

Bring photos or magazine clippings of sunsets, skies, and scenes you’d like to re-create.

Skills Taught: Painting and thread painting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes, see above

Additional Class Fee: $8 pattern fee

112

Friday

Speed Bumps Ahead

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Lona Gayle Hull

lonagayle@gmail.com

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: Marking a quilting pattern, choosing a batting, basting a quilt, sewing machine operation for quilting, balancing tension for thread types, managing a large quilt, choosing quilting patterns, easy free-motion techniques, finishing techniques, and binding directions

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $10 booklet fee. Optional fabric kits will be available for $20 that include a marked top, coordinating backing, and thread OR you may bring your own fabric and mark it in class with the provided pattern

113

Friday

Snail Trail

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Kim Jalette Kim.Jalette@verizon.net

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 45” by 50”

Project Rating: Moderate

The traditional Snail Trail block is easy using the “Square in a Square” ruler. Learn how to construct a single block and then use a very simple setting to gain great results. The class sample is scrappy, but you can also use two colors for a very pleasing result. Suitable for a confident beginner; you should be able to accurately rotary cut strips and sew a consistent ¼” seam allowance. No experience with the “Square in a Square” ruler is required. Pre-class preparation includes cutting your strips at home so that you can begin sewing almost immediately in class.

Skills Taught: Use of the “Square in a Square” ruler, a specific quilter’s tool that allows quick, accurate, assembly line construction of units. The ruler is multi-use, not just for this one particular pattern, so student will be able to take skills learned and apply to making many other quilt designs

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click here

Additional Class Fee: None

114

Friday

Sunburst

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Instructor: Fran Kordek

fkordek@cebridge.net

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 18” square

Project Rating: Moderate

This block was inspired by a quilt that resides at the Pearl S. Buck birthplace and documented during the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search. It resembles the Dresden Plate but is challenging because of inserted squares between the spokes and a ring of triangles outlining the design. Strip piecing and freezer paper templates will aid in its construction. The class project is an 18” pieced block, suitable for a wall hanging, a pillow, or the start of a large quilt. Prerequisite: good rotary cutting and machine piecing skills.

Skills Taught: Freezer paper template techniques, precision piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click here

Additional Class Fee: $6 for pattern, instructions, some supplies

115

Friday

Rags to Riches: The Scrap Quilt

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Merry May
twotonsofbuttons@gmail.com

Method: Machine/ Pieced

Project Size: 38” square

Project Rating: Easy

The 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: None

116

Friday

Sunset Strip Sweatshirt Jacket

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jerri McKee
moonlightjackets@gmail.com

Method: Machine/Pieced

Project Size: Jacket 

Project Rating: Easy

This beautiful jacket uses the sweatshirt for the jacket base and the pattern pieces. If you have never made a jacket, this is the perfect beginner class, and if you are an expert, Jerri will find something a little more challenging for you to add to your jacket. We will be doing an easy flip and sew method that will sew and quilt the jacket at the same time. This jacket is great for gifts or for when you need a jacket (right away) for a special occasion, because it is so easy to do.

Skills Taught: Flip and sew method of piecing, how to fit the sweatshirt, disassembling and reassembling the sweatshirt into a jacket where the sweatshirt does not show

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5.50 for pattern (half price); optional kit available for $50, $22 for lining

117

Friday

Good Neighbors

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jackie Paton (no email)

Method: Appliqué, Pieced, Painting

Project Size: 34” square

Project Rating: Easy

Do you like scrap projects? Here’s a class to use your scraps in a folky Americana scene. The center section is painted in class and an original pattern is provided for the pieced and appliquéd borders.

Skills Taught: Stencilscape painting and integrating it into traditional quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and all paint supplies

118

Friday

Quilt Carry Bag

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jeanette Pie’
Jeanette@EasyAsPieDesigns.com

Method: Machine, Quilt As You Go

Project Size: 33” wide, stretching over 45” when full of quilts

Project Rating: Easy

This bag is deceptively spacious and holds more quilts than you would imagine. If you are off to a “Show and Tell,” it is perfect for transporting your quilts safely. This is the perfect size project to learn how to do “quilt as you go.” Jeanette also uses her bag for carrying a quilt that she’s applying binding to. As quilters, we are always toting a quilt from place to place, why not tote your quilt in style?

Skills Taught: Quilt as you go technique while applying strips, how to apply magnetic snaps, how to make a nice strong bag handle by covering cotton webbing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click here

Additional Class Fee: None

119

Friday

Elegant Hearts

Skill Level: All

Instructor: Linda M. Poole

linda@lindampoole.com 

Method: Hand/Machine/Appliqué

Project Size: 28” by 30” without borders

Project Rating: Easy

Elegant hearts can be used year round as a table runner or a skinny wall hanging. One simple basic design repeated three more times gives the elegance of old-world scrollwork. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not.

Skills Taught: Machine or hand appliqué techniques, appliqué swirls, circles, and points

Supply List

Class Pre-Cut Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $15 for full-size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, one water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, ready-to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

120

Friday

Italian Tiles

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner, Intermediate

Instructor: Patty Prodonovich p.prodonovich@myactv.net

Method: Machine

Project Size: 50” by 66”

Project Rating: Easy

Take a stack of four fabrics, whack’em with four straight cuts and end up with 36 pattern pieces (triangles, squares & rectangles) enough for four assorted blocks. Do this several times and you’ve got all the blocks for this stunning little quilt. These blocks sew up almost as easily as they are cut. Gather an assortment of fabrics and have a whack. Coordinated fabrics from a line, a color palette, or true scraps make up equally as well.

Skills Taught: Rotary cutting, machine chain piecing, squaring up the block

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: None

121

Friday

Fun-da-tion Bag

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Instructor: Mary Beth Scarborough dustyatticquilt@verizon.net

Method: Machine/Pieced

Project Size: Medium

Project Rating: Easy/Moderate

Have you ever done foundation piecing -- not paper piecing? This is done on printed muslin. Already to go. No drawing the pattern. If you like perfect points, this is the project for you.

Skills Taught: Accurate piecing, proper pressing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $9.29 pattern, $3 foundation

122

Friday

Usin’ Fusin’ (And Other Fun Stuff) to Express Yourself!

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

Instructor: Michele Scott  michele@piecefulquilter.com

Method: Appliqué

Project Size: 24” by 30”

Project Rating: Easy

Using fusing, seamless piecing, and decorator threads and yarns, you will create a small innovative quilt that you design. Raw edge appliqué with fusible web, machine quilting, and embellishment will express something important to you: A feeling, a person, a garden, the beach. The doors of creativity will open in this fast and fun class as we investigate free form cutting to build collage‐type artworks that express you. Additional focus will be placed on color and line that can translate your feeling.

Skills Taught: Fusible raw edge appliqué, machine quilting, bobbin quilting, couching, design skills, color theory

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: None

123

Friday

Star Struck

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Linda J. Hahn
Lawnquilt@aol.com

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: Not available

Project Rating: Easy

This is the virtual quilt of Linda’s new design. The pattern went to the publisher in mid-September, and Linda is almost done with the batik version.

Skills Taught: Quick piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $9 for pattern

124

Friday

Triple Stars

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Kathy Schwabeland
Spicykathy211@aol.com

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: Large lap quilt

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

These stars are a breeze to put together using a special stacking technique. You’ll stack your fabrics, cut them once, and move on to sewing the stars all together. It’s that easy. You can choose to do this quilt in two colors or opt for using more colors. Either way, your quilt will turn out splendid.

Skills Taught: Buggy Barn way of quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: None

125

Friday

Chinese Coins

Skill Level: All With Rotary Cutting Experience

Instructor: Susan Grancio
susan@susangrancio.com

Method: Machine Pieced, Quilt As You Go

Project Size: 40” by 56”

Project Rating: Easy

This quilt combines the best of strip piecing and “quilt as you go” to make a generous throw-size quilt in a day. No kidding, you’ll have everything but some machine quilting in the border and the binding completed in the class. Choose a theme, collect a little bit of lots of different fabrics, then cut strips in a variety of widths. You’ll do some strip piecing, cross-cutting, and shuffling before joining the long pieced panels. Next, you’ll layer the backing, batting, one strip and one sashing piece, sew and flip and repeat. Before you know it, you’ll be adding the borders “quilt as you go” style and have a quilt that is ready for finishing touches!

Skills Taught: Piecing random selections of a wide variety of fabrics, quilt as you go, machine quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: None

126

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

201

Days: Friday and Saturday

Mastering the Mariner’s Compass

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Paula Golden

paulacgolden@comcast.net

Method: Hand/Machine Pieced

Project Size: Varies

Project Rating: Moderate-Challenging

Learn the secrets of drafting a mariner’s compass in a circle, oval, and off-center designs with plenty of time to develop variations of your design. Become versed in a variety of hand and machine piecing techniques and convert your compass into a paper foundation pattern. Accurate piecing and proper placement of value will have you setting sail with confidence!

Skills Taught: Drafting a mariner’s compass, template use, hand and machine piecing techniques, use of color and value to emphasize design, creating mariner’s compass quilt design variations

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: None

202

Days: Friday and Saturday

Tree of Life Sampler

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Instructor: Karen Witt

karenhwitt@gmail.com

Method: Machine and/or hand appliqué and machine piecing

Project Size: Bed quilt 88” by 100” or Wall Hanging 43” by 55”

Project Rating: Moderate

Based on 18th century Palampores/bed coverings from India, this style of quilt uses large-scale chintz fabrics (think drapery fabric) to create the flowers on the center tree. Both Washington and Jefferson were fascinated with the idea of a “tree of life” on which every fruit and vegetable could be grown.   Learn hand and/or machine appliqué techniques for Broderie Perse -- an early appliqué method using large floral fabrics. Then, use rotary cutting and speed piecing to complete the outside borders. The appliqué makes a gorgeous focal point on the bed! Or, make fewer borders for a dynamic wall hanging. Also, looks great in contemporary fabrics, even batiks.
Class discussions will include period-appropriate fabric choices, quilting designs, and edge finishes.

Skills Taught: Machine appliqué with buttonhole stitch, rotary cutting, speed piecing. Hand appliqué and hand buttonhole stitch techniques will be demonstrated.

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees: $10 for pattern

301

Saturday Morning
9 a.m. to Noon

Swirly Bird

Skill Level: All

Instructor: Linda M. Poole Linda@lindampoole.com

Method: Hand/Machine Appliqué

Project Size: 21” by 21”

Project Rating: Easy

Appliquéing swirls, circles and points are easier than you could ever imagine once you learn Linda’s glue-stick freezer- paper appliqué techniques. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not.

Skills Taught: Machine and/or hand appliqué, Learning to appliqué swirls, circles and points

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, embroidery floss, ready-to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

302

Saturday Morning
9 a.m. to Noon

Doodle Quilting

Skill Level: All

Instructor: Lona Gayle Hull
lonagayle@gmail.com

Method: Lecture

Project Size: Not applicable

Project Rating: Moderate

If you can doodle on paper with a pencil then you can quilt that design motif in thread. It is as simple as writing your name. The class booklet contains more than 100 quilting designs for your home domestic sewing machine. This class lecture will cover batting choices, appropriateness of design placement, families of quilting motifs, how to handle a large quilt, as well as numerous other tips for successful machine quilting on your home sewing machine.

Skills Taught: Batting choices, thread choices, sewing machine adjustments, and over one hundred design fillers for added texture and interest to your machine quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for printed, spiral-bound booklet with more than 100 machine quilting designs 

303

Saturday Morning

Note: 4-hour Class

8 a.m. to Noon

The Basics of Feathering

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: DeLoa Jones
deloa@deloasquiltshop.com

Method: Hands-On Longarm

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: Moderate

Unlock the mystery of free-motion feathers. These feathers are simple and easy but yet elegant for any quilt. You will learn the basic feather and then how to use it in crosses, wreaths, hearts, swags, and borders. Learn how to vary the feather shape to fit into different quilt styles. Deloa offers many designs and ideas in this class.

Skills Taught: Free motion longarm feathers

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice

322

Saturday Morning

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

304

Saturday Afternoon
1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Simple Joy

Skill Level: All

Instructor: Linda M. Poole Linda@lindampoole.com

Method: Hand/Machine Appliqué

Project Size: 24” by 29”

Project Rating: Easy

Appliquéing swirls, circles and points are easier than you could ever imagine once you learn Linda’s glue-stick freezer-paper appliqué techniques. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not.

Skills Taught: Machine and/or hand appliqué, Learning to appliqué swirls, circles and points

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $15 for size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, embroidery floss, ready-to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

305

Saturday Afternoon

Note: 4-hour Class

1:30 to 5:30

Filling in the Fillers

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: DeLoa Jones
deloa@deloasquiltshop.com

Method: Hands-On Longarm

Project Size: NA

Project Rating: Moderate

These designs are not for the faint of heart. In fact, it usually takes a while for someone to figure out how you did them. DeLoa takes a background filler stencil, such as crosshatching, clamshell, or clouds, and use it as a guide for free motion quilting. It is such a cool concept. Background designs, such as interlocking circles, twists, and flaming clamshells all become easy and unique. Every time DeLoa teaches the class, her students come up with even more ideas. Let DeLoa introduce you to this technique and see what wonderful things you can imagine.

Skills Taught: Free motion longarm techniques

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice and $28 for stencils

323

Saturday Afternoon

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

306

Saturday

Friendship Heart Penny Rug

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Instructor: Diane Daniels c_seasons@hotmail.com

Method: Hand Appliqué

Project Size: 12” round including lamb’s tongue border

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Here is a moderately easy 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 earlier rugs were actually used as table decorations or bed coverings. Diane will teach you her many tips and tricks. You will learn how to evenly space your blanket stitches and anchor them around curves. Everyone will receive handouts on the basic embroidery stitches and a list of heartfelt quotations to personalize your own penny rug or one for a dear friend!

Skills Taught: Tips and tricks for tracing and ironing freezer paper patterns to wool, basic buttonhole, stem and primitive back stitches, how to evenly space and stitch lettering on wool, and how construct and assemble a lamb’s tongue border

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $34 for pre-washed and felted 100 percent wool for entire project, paper pattern, complete instructions, a list of heartfelt quotations to choose from, color photo, and basic embroidery stitching handouts

307

Saturday

Beading for Quilters I

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Patty Estey
pestey@att.net 

Method: Hand

Project Size: Not applicable

Project Rating: Easy/Moderate

In the morning, you will practice basic beading stitches to lay down beads and create texture. In the afternoon you will attach a cabochon using the peyote stitch. Throughout the day, Patty will discuss useful information like the quality of beads, thread types, needle size, choosing beads and respective sizes, single versus double thread, and how to “milk the thread. If there is time, Patty will teach a very useful and fun bead chain.

Skills Taught: Basic beading techniques

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fees $10 for beads, threads, needles and fabrics

308

Saturday

Junk to Gems

Skill Level: All

Instructor: Linda Hahn

Lawnquilt@aol.com

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: Varies

Project Rating: Easy

Another Stash Basher quilt! Learn to use it up, make it do, or do without. This quilt uses mostly 2 1/2” squares and is Accuquilt Go!, Jelly Roll and Bali Pop friendly. You can make this quilt as large or as small as you’d like, and you can choose whether to add borders or not.

Easy Skills Taught: Stash reduction, working with connector squares, color theory, design

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $9 for pattern

309

Saturday

Woven Wonders

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Diane Holmes
Jasmineqlt@dejazzd.com

Method: Painting and Machine Painting and Machine Quilting

Project Size: 24” square

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Design your own fabric? Well, sort of! Take two pre-washed fabrics and blend them into one with a weaving process that has endless uses. Use the new “designer” fabric in wall hangings, quilts, pillows, tote bags, vests, jackets and other wearables. We will create a 3-D wall hanging to get you accustomed to the feel of the method and then take off and make wonderful creations. Weaving fabric couldn’t be easier.

Skills Taught: Designing your own fabric, weaving fabrics together to create a designer look, creating 3-D images from two layers of fabric and using them to embellish a project, instruction on various fusible products and how to use them, embellishing fused items

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: None

310

Saturday

Storm at Sea

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Kim Jalette

Kim.Jalette@verizon.net

Method: Machine/Pieced

Project Size: 50” by 60”

Project Rating: Moderate

Using the “Square in a Square” ruler, make the traditional Storm at Sea pattern more easily than ever imagined without cutting any individual triangles or using a paper-piecing technique. Everyone loves this design with its optical illusions of curved piecing (no, there isn’t any!) Suitable for a confident beginner: you should be able to accurately rotary cut strips and sew a consistent ¼” seam allowance. No experience with the “Square in a Square” ruler is required. Pre-class preparation includes cutting your strips at home so that you can begin sewing almost immediately in class.

Skills Taught: Use of the “Square in a Square” ruler, a specific quilter’s tool that allows quick, accurate, assembly line construction of units. The ruler is multi-use, not just for this one particular pattern, so student will be able to take skills learned and apply to making many other quilt designs

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click Here

Additional Class Fee: None

311

Saturday

One Day Lone Star

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Debby Kratovil

kratovil@his.com

Method: Machine Piecing

Project Size: 55” by 55”

Project Rating: Moderate

This large (35”) eight-pointed star is all rotary cut and strip pieced. Each of the 45-degree diamonds is a nine patch created with five colors. It is made either with or without set-in seams. Most students finish the center 35” star in the all-day workshop if they pre-cut their strips. Debby includes her Magical Mitering lesson for the outside border to complete this dynamic 55” by 55” quilt.

Skills Taught: Accurate 1/4” seam, cutting 45-degree angles, optional set-in of side squares and triangles, setting an eight-pointed star with large triangles (instead of set-ins), working with bias edges

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: None

312

Saturday

String Pieced Table Runner

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Merry May

twotonsofbuttons@gmail.com

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 13” by 39”

Project Rating: Easy

The personality of this scrappy string-pieced table runner depends on the theme of the fabrics you choose for it. Think Christmas, country, zingy, spring, or even Halloween! The possibilities are endless, and the project is fun and easy -- what more could you ask for?

Skills Taught: Working with scraps, easy piecing on a fabric foundation

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: None

313

Saturday

Just Leaf It To Me Sweatshirt Jacket

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jerri McKee
moonlightjackets@gmail.com

Method: Machine/Pieced

Project Size: Jacket

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

This beautiful jacket uses a sweatshirt for the jacket base and the pattern pieces. If you have never made a jacket, this is the perfect beginner class. And if you are an expert, Jerri will find something a little more challenging for you to add to your jacket. We will be doing some fusible appliqué with blanket stitch around some wonderful falling leaves. This jacket also has great pieced pockets!

Skills Taught: Strip piecing, fusible appliqué and embellishments, how to fit the sweatshirt, disassembling and reassembling the sweatshirt into a jacket where the sweatshirt does not show

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $5.50 for pattern (half price); optional kit available for $50, $22 for lining

314

Saturday

Frost Farm

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jackie Paton

Method: Painting. Appliqué, Pieced

Project Size: 36” square

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Come and make your snowflakes fall with Jackie’s scrappy folk art style winter scene. The project has a stenciled center section and appliquéd and pieced borders. The painted section will be completed in class and is suitable for framing or can be bordered using Jackie’s pattern. No painting skills or sewing machine is required.

Skills Taught: Stencilscape painting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and all paint supplies

315

Saturday

Geese in the Fields

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Jeanette Pie’
Jeanette@EasyAsPieDesigns.com

Method: Machine

Project Size: 57” by 87”

Project Rating: Easy

This quilt was designed to be made with 13 fat quarters. These fabrics will make up the “geese” and the big squares. You will also need 2 ½ yards of a contrasting fabric for the background or sky pieces and the remaining pieces of the border. Jeanette uses the Fast Flying Geese technique to make her flying geese, and her sample was made out of flannels, which are known to be a little stretchy, but not with this technique -- they come out perfectly. You will want to make more than one.

Skills Taught: Fast Flying Geese technique that uses one large square for the geese and four small squares to make the background triangles (no bias edges), accurately applying binding

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click Here

Additional Class Fee: $8 for pattern

316

Saturday

Toile Stars

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Patty Prodonovich

p.prodonovich@myactv.net

Method: Machine

Project Size: 44” by 60”

Project Rating: Moderate

Using only two colors makes it easy to choose fabrics for this eye-catching quilt. Stars are constructed using the Tri-Recs tool and the quilt is assembled on the diagonal.

Skills Taught: Machine piecing, using the Tri-Recs tool, making a square within a square unit, assembling a quilt on the diagonal

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Click Here

Additional Class Fee: None

317

Saturday

Holiday Cheer

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Instructor: Mary Beth Scarborough dustyatticquilt@verizon.net

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 63” by 80”

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Mary Beth will show you this fun new technique that uses your stash of Jelly Rolls or cut strips. You will not be cutting on the bias, and making the blocks goes quickly. It’s also fun deciding block placement. You cannot do this quilt wrong -- what fun! Mary Beth will also show you how to use your leftovers in a table runner, placemats, and hot pads.

Skills Taught: Use of a new ruler, piecing, squaring up blocks, placing blocks

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $9.29 pattern, $16.99 for “Strip Tube” ruler

318

Saturday

Bobbinpalooza

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced

Instructor: Michele Scott michele@piecefulquilter.com

Method: Machine Quilting

Project Size: Not Applicable

Project Rating: Easy

Why agonize over those breaking needles and shredded threads that you’ve bought for machine quilting? Put them in the bobbin, flip over the quilt, and quilt it upside-down! In this class, you will problem solve your way through a multitude of decorative threads and yarns (yes, you’ll do lots of couching!) You’ll first try the different tips and tricks Michele’s acquired over the years to put the threads through the top. If that doesn’t work, we’ll bobbin-quilt it! Get familiar with your machine and adjusting both top and bottom tension while learning all those cool free-motion quilting patterns that don’t need marking. This is information packed class!

To be successful in this class, you’ll need:

·         A foot that gives you the capacity for free motion (darning foot) and the ability to drop or cover your feed dogs. Please test this prior to signing up for the class.

·         An extra bobbin case (you can purchase one from your dealer). You need to loosen the tension thicker threads that will not go through the top. You do not have to purchase one if you are comfortable with adjusting your machine’s bobbin case.

·         If you have a machine with a drop in bobbin case, ask your dealer if your machine model has a replaceable case that can adjust the tension. I know some machines have this option. If not, we can bypass your bobbin tension with the thick threads.

Skills Taught: Free-form machine quilting, bobbin quilting, couching

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: None

319

Saturday

Diamond Star

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Erin Underwood
Erin@ErinUnderwoodQuilts.com

Method: Machine Pieced

Project Size: 72” square or 96” square

Project Rating: Moderate

Create a sparkling medallion star with long strips instead of lots of bias-cut diamonds. And to make it even easier, the construction technique is designed to avoid set-in Y seams and bias edges. Just a little bit of precision is all that is required to achieve success with this easy-to-construct quilt. Choose from two sizes: 72” or 96” square. Great for the confident beginner. And what a quilt when you're finished!

Skills Taught: Sewing accurate ¼-inch seams, pressing seams, working with 45-degree angles

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $10 for pattern

320

Saturday

T2T Pineapple Quilt

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Gyleen Fitzgerald

gyleen@colourfulstitches.com

Method: Machine

Project Size: 40” by 40” or larger

Project Rating: Easy

Isn’t it time to clear the clutter in your life? What about using up all those bits and pieces stuff in nooks, crannies, and boxes? Let’s make an old-fashioned favorite pineapple quilt with a new and contemporary twist. Sewn with perfection, totally random, and without paper piecing, this class turns trash into a treasured one-of-a-kind pineapple quilt.

Skills Taught: Stress free sewing, clearing clutter

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: $30 for Pineapple Tool and Trash to Treasure Pineapple Book

321

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 Saturday and Sunday.

Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills.

Supply List: No

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: No

401

Saturday afternoon (1:30 to 4:30 p.m.) and All Day Sunday

It Is Easier Than You Think – Flowers by Design

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner/Intermediate

Instructor: Lona Gayle Hull

lonagayle@gmail.com

Method: Hand

Project Size: 15 by 15 inches

Project Rating: Moderate

Do you love Baltimore Album Quilts but want to design your own rather than copy the antique patterns? This class will combine the Baltimore style with design principles from floral arrangements. Lona will give suggestions for block composition, vases/containers, focus flowers, accent flowers, filler flowers, and leaves. She’ll also cover several techniques for appliqué with the construction of five dimensional flowers.

Skills Taught: Designing blocks based on the elements and principles of design as applied to floral arrangements and appliqué blocks, several methods of appliqué technique with several three-dimensional flowers

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: $15 for large booklet, drawing paper, fabric overlay, and small tools that make hand appliqué easier

402

Saturday and Sunday

Bright Beauty

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner through Advanced

Instructor: Carol Blevins

ccblevins@verizon.net

Method: Machine, Appliqué

Project Size: 24” by 29”

Project Rating: Easy

This cheerful and exuberant wall hanging features four rectangles filled with flowers and leaves. Each rectangle presents a different design arrangement of those flowers and leaves: horizontal, vertical, corner, and S curve. Appliqué techniques include invisible lined appliqué, satin stitch appliqué, and blanket stitch appliqué. Each block is machine quilted with different background styles and the four units are assembled in a quilt as you go format that requires no handwork. This entire piece will be accomplished on the sewing machine.

Skills Taught: Machine lined appliqué, some machine quilting, some quilt-as-you-go techniques

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $7 for pattern and Do Sew

403

Saturday and Sunday

Winding Ways/Wheels of Mystery

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Instructor: Fran Kordek

fkordek@cebridge.net

Method: Pieced

Project Size: 15” by 32”

Project Rating: Moderate

Learn techniques to handle gently curved pieced seams. Class project will focus on the traditional two-fabric layout (choice of table runner or start a small wall hanging), or let the creative juices flow and use this intriguing design to create an original piece. Good piecing skills are required.

Skills Taught: Freezer paper template techniques, precision piecing

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: $18 for template set

404

Saturday and Sunday

Cakes!

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Instructor: Kathy Schwabeland

Spicykathy211@aol.com

Method: Machine, Pieced

Project Size: 34” by 52” or 56” by 72”

Project Rating: Easy to Moderate

Cake marks many milestones in life -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, and retirements. Everyone has fond memories of a special cake made just for them. With this quilt, your cakes last forever. Using a special stacking technique, you’ll layer your fabrics, cut them out all at once, shuffle the pieces, and sew! No points to worry about matching with this quilt, making it easy to create for even the less-experience quilter. Students will have different size options to choose from as well as a variety of border options. Let’s get baking!

Skills taught: Buggy Barn way of quilting

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fee: None

405

Saturday and Sunday

Landscape Quilts from Photos

Skill Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Susan Grancio
susan@susangrancio.com

Method: Machine

Project Size: Wall hanging, depends on size of enlargement

Project Rating: Moderate to Challenging

Here is your chance to turn a wonderful photographic memory into any original quilt. Bring several enlargements of your photos of favorite landscapes. You will use tracing paper to create a line pattern of the elements of the picture you select. The tracing will be enlarged to a full-size pattern, which you will then use to create the freezer-paper templates for piecing your quilt. This technique allows very accurate piecing and the opportunity to audition a variety of fabrics before you sew. Choose to design a quilt that is very detailed and realistic or one that is more abstract, depending on the way you create your pattern shapes and the select your fabrics.

Skills Taught: Creating an original pattern by tracing and enlarging, working with freezer paper templates on the back of the fabrics to be sewn, making fabric choices to emphasize design

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee: Approximately $7 for the actual cost of enlarging the pattern

501

Sunday Morning
9 a.m. to Noon

Cathedral Windows

Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Instructor: Merry May

twotonsofbuttons@gmail.com

Method: Machine Pieced, Appliqué

Project Size: 15” by 30” table runner or a 12” by 12” pillow cover

Project Rating: Easy

Learn how to make this traditional project, starting out with your sewing machine and then hand finishing it with beautiful “windows." It's a great project to carry around and work on at the pool or beach.

Skills Taught: Working with scraps; easy piecing of muslin background

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: Yes

Additional Class Fees: None

522

Sunday Morning

9 a.m. to Noon

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

502

Sunday

Watermelon Pincushion

Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate

Instructor: Diane Daniels

c_seasons@hotmail.com

Method: Hand and Machine

Project Size: 3-1/2” tall by 7-1/2” wide

Project Rating: Easy

Many old-fashioned Victorian-era pincushions were fashioned after summertime fruit! You’ll be very pleased with Diane’s hand-dyed velvet and wool Watermelon version. The Army blanket and chenille rick-rack rind enhances the old-time look of this velvet watermelon. This is just a sweet pincushion that wouldn’t be complete without the accent of black, square Rochaille “seed” beads and an aged tag tied on with special ribbon and trim.

Skills Taught: Machine and hand sewing, basic ladder and whip stitches, proper way to attach bead clusters secured through an interfacing, creating a nicely shaped and weighted pincushion form using sand/sawdust filler

Supply List

Pre-Class Prep: No

Additional Class Fee:$28 for hand-dyed cotton velvet, green army blanket wool for the watermelon outer rind, soft-yellow chenille (or jumbo cotton) rickrack for inner rind, black rochaille “seed” beads, emery sand and (pre-sewn) muslin emery bag (for pin sharpener inside the watermelon), sand/sawdust weighted filler, aged pre-stamped manila tag, special ribbon and trim, black painted corsage pin, photo, pattern and instructions

503

Sunday

Beading for Quilters II

Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate

Instructor: Patty Estey
pestey@att.net