7001 – The Square Within $80
Karla Alexander www.saginawstreetquilts.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
Learn to use lots of medium to large-scale contrasting prints all within the same quilt. If you feel inspired to add an extra print or two – well you can! You’ll design your blocks as you go and will leave with a head full of ideas, possibilities and techniques that you will use over and over again. This is a fun quilt to make and easy to adjust its sizes.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BERNINA
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7002 – Quilts of a Different Color $70
Irena Bluhm www.irenabluhmscreations.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
Learn how easy it is to apply color using colored pencils to a small, already quilted piece, ready for painting. You don’t have to be an artist, just try to paint what you see. Don’t Shy away from using bold colors and stark contrast to create drama. You can learn how to do the shading in order to make your designs look dimensional. It is a lot of fun and very relaxing. Irena feels very passionate about what she is doing and loves sharing her experiences, the good along with the bad, so you don’t have to go through pain of learning the hard way!
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $35 Includes one (1) quilted sample 12”x12”, two sets of colored pencils, one set of 6 brushes, plastic cup, 2oz. textile medium, paper pattern package, CD with all the information about the coloring technique plus a CD with 367 images in color.
Supply List: Notepad and pen
7003 – Go Fetch! $70
Karen Brow www.javahousequilts.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Intermediate
Karen is widely known for her animal quilts with personality. Learn her tips and techniques for creating the humor, detail and playfulness of animals and incorporating them in your own quilts. Participants will create her “Go Fetch” wall quilt--a pet-inspired project which students customize with dogs, a cat and/or a bird. Techniques include creating depth with only two fabrics, enhancing movement, creating those amazing eyes, teeth, noses; basic appliqué preparation, and simple quilting for animals.
Sewing Machine Required Provided by VIKING
Kit Fee: $7 includes pattern, assorted appliqué templates, handouts, freezer paper, braid for collar details.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7004 – American Barn Quilt Trails $70
Eleanor Burns www.quiltinaday.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
Join Eleanor for a delightful hands on quilting class. Learn new techniques as you construct your own Gambrel Barn featuring a quilt block on the front. This class also offered as Wednesday #3002 and Saturday as #6004
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BABYLOCK
Kit Fee: $ $30 Half Rectangle Template and all fabrics for the top
Supply List: Downloadable PDF file
7005 – Photography for Quilts $80
Gregory Case www.gregorycase.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
This beginners’ class is for those of you who are either frustrated with your own photography efforts to capture the beauty and color of your quilts/textiles or for those who are thinking about starting to photograph your work. While it will be helpful to have some knowledge of your own Point & Shoot and/or SLR camera, we will cover camera basics (exposure, aperture, shutter speed, ISO settings, etc.). We will cover photographing your quilt and textiles both inside and outside using natural light and “studio” lights as well as how to process your raw, Tiff and JPEG files for print and web. This class is designed to help the beginner photographer create more consistent and efficient results in their photography efforts.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Supply List: We recommend you bring to class your camera (with fully charged batteries and memory cards), your camera’s owner’s manual, a tripod if you have one and a laptop if you have a recent version of Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements or Aperture loaded in your computer.
7006 – Perfect Points & Curves, A 2nd Helping! $80
Penny Haren www.pennyharen.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Confident Beginner - Advanced
This class focuses on different foundation blocks that are not covered in the Perfect Points and Curves Beginning Pieced Appliqué™ class. Students are welcome to take both – and will learn totally different techniques in each class. Penny Haren’s More Pieced Appliqué features 25 additional 6” blocks that combine piecing with layered appliqués to create even more intricate blocks than the first book – with minimal effort. Learn quick piecing techniques that make it possible to piece perfect nine-patches; pinwheels; kaleidoscopes; and quarter-square triangles. Then learn how to add pieced appliqué to these foundations to create blocks that you have always avoided in the past. Inset points, odd angles, and “Y” seams are no longer a problem. You won’t believe how easy it is. We will make four different 6” blocks – Spools; Purple Cross; Clay’s Choice; and Cornerstone - to learn four different techniques. All of the fabric; templates; and freezer paper will be provided so you can begin sewing immediately!
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Kit Fee: $10 (Includes pre-cut fabrics; templates, freezer paper & labels for each block and a set of templates for the entire book.)
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7007 – Star Struck $80
Bonnie Hunter www.quiltville.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
Students will bring pre-cut 2.5” strips ready to power sew into tessellating star struck blocks! This quilt goes so fast; everyone will have a pile of blocks in no time. Students can also have fun swapping strips with each other for more variety in their quilts. Focus on USING YOUR STASH encouraged!
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BROTHER
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7008 – Making Beautiful Vases & Bowls in Appliqué $70
Martha Nordstrand www.morequiltsplease.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level:Confident Beginner +
Create your own China Cupboard with dishes of all kinds to stand alone or to fill with beautiful blooms...We will make a lovely rose bowl (with roses as well.)
Your container can be made to look like an antique English or Oriental piece or a modern art glass vase, it’s all up to you!
Included will be several basic shapes as well as flower designs for our fabulous arrangements! Bring your beautiful Oriental fabrics to audition using windows to create your own special vase or bowl.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $15 includes instructions, templates, tips, master copy of the roses, bowl & vase, zip bag.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7009 –Free-Motion Quilting, Yes, You Can Stipple! $80
David Taylor www.davidtaylorquilts.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Beginner
This is a beginners’ class for learning basic free-motion machine quilting techniques on their own home machine. Students will learn how to properly adjust tension on their own machine for perfect stitching. Please have machines in clean, working order with a fresh needle installed. Machines must have free-motion quilting ability.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Kit Fee: $30 Includes Fabric and Batting ‘sandwiches’ kit and all lesson materials
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7010 – Hand Painted Hand Stamped Fabric $80
Heather Thomas www.wildheatherdesigns.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
This class is all about creating one-of-a-kind fabrics. Begin with prepared for dyeing fabric and learn several different techniques to dye paint the base. Then, design and make stamps using different methods including hand carving and foam cutting. Then learn how to finish your fabrics with design layering.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $60 includes 3 yds of PFD cotton, a large sheet of Speedy Cut, fun foam and use of all paints, cutters, etc.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7011 – Finishing School $80
Darlene Zimmerman www.feedsacklady.com
Sunday: 6 Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Skill Level: All Would you like to add some pizzazz to your quilts by adding a fancy border, but were afraid to try? Then this class is for you! Learn how to make, mark and bind all sorts of edge finishes on quilts. In class you will make bound samples of scalloped, notched and shaped edges such as hexagon edges (as in Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt), ice cream cone borders, and wavy edges. You will also learn how to make (and finish) prairie point edgings, and how to add a flange. The class will include a professional’s tips on perfect bindings and no-lump joints for a fabulous finishing touch on all your quilts! This is a no-stress class as you will only be making samples. The Quilter’s Edge book or Quilting: The Complete Guide are recommended but not required. This class is also offered on Thursday as 4010.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by PFAFF
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7012 – Practical Quilt Restoration $50
Cindy Brick www.cindybrick.com
Sunday: 3 Hours: 8:30am – 11:30am
Skill Level: All
Learn how to restore yours and others’ quilts, using modern techniques and restoration-quality materials. Class includes hands-on demo of helpful stitches, including the “Frankenstein stitch,” invisible whipstitch, and needle-turn appliqué. We’ll also explore the fascinating world of restoration-quality fusibles, an interesting technique practiced by such respected places as the Gerald R. Ford Center in Omaha, NE. Learn how to choose appropriate fabrics and batting, and discuss various ways to clean, preserve and display your quilted treasures. Bring your own quilts, tops and blocks to practice on. Handout includes stitch diagrams and a helpful list of supplies.
7013 – 4 Patch Puzzle $40
Sharyn Craig from Cozy Cottage Designs www.sharyncraig.com
Sunday: 3 Hours: 8:30am – 11:30am
Skill Level: All
Inspired by the ‘Layer ‘em Up’ series of books and quilts, this is yet another fun quilt by Sharyn that will leave you wanting to make as many as you can. The quilts are fun, fast, and very forgiving! They are also perfect for quilters of all levels.
7014 – Colorforms for Grownups $50
Mickey Depre www.mdquilts.com
Sunday: 3 Hours: 8:30am – 11:3am
Skill Level: All
Remember the original Colorforms? The fun you had playing with the simple circles, squares, triangles and bars? We will play with the fabric versions when designing your own fabric swatches Simple exercises and guidance will help your own creativity come alive. Students will create two fat quarter samples along with several smaller “tester” squares. Discussion of design impact and color placement will be covered.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $17 includes all the necessary fabric
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7015 – Felting Appliqués & Hand Embroidery $40
Debora Konchinsky www.critterpat.com
Sunday: 3 Hours: 8:30am – 11:30am
Skill Level: All Learn how to use hand felting needles to draw details and textures on appliqués, and use hand embroidery stitches to draw flowers. When you combine the two you create something magical and charming. Choose any Critter Pattern Works pattern that excites you to adapt these techniques and explore new possibilities for quilt design. Choose light weight wools for your fabrics and make a block that could become a cushion cover or the beginnings of a quilt.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: Varies. Price of Critter Pattern Works Pattern
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
7016 – Free-Motion Possibilities for the TRUE BEGINNER $110
Sue Patten www.canadianquilterschoice.com
Sunday: 4 Hours: 8:30am – 12:30pm
Skill Level: Beginner
This class is designed to inspire and assist the beginner to become confident with their ability to use free motion designs and techniques for themselves and their clients. This class is packed full of info for the beginner. While mastering the skill of free motion quilting, we will discuss threads, tension, how batting affects both, and how to offer our new found skills to our clients and how it is charged out. These designs are for everyday quilt blocks we as longarmers deal with every day. It offers a quick, easy, accurate way to increase not only your quilting skills but your client base as well. I recommend this class to anyone who has never tried free motion quilting or those who are new to the longarm-quilting world. So put away those marking tools and turn off that laser light and join us for this free motion block party!!
Longarm Machines for this class provided by HANDI QUILTER
Kit Fee: $15 includes pre-marked top, threads and handouts.
Would you like to add some pizzazz to your quilts by adding a fancy border, but were afraid to try? Then this class is for you! Learn how to make, mark and bind all sorts of edge finishes on quilts. In class you will make bound samples of scalloped, notched and shaped edges such as hexagon edges (as in Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt), ice cream cone borders, and wavy edges. You will also learn how to make (and finish) prairie point edgings, and how to add a flange. The class will include a professional’s tips on perfect bindings and no-lump joints for a fabulous finishing touch on all your quilts! This is a no-stress class as you will only be making samples. The Quilter’s Edge book or Quilting: The Complete Guide are recommended but not required. This class is also offered on Thursday as 4010.
