Road to California prides itself on offering a variety of quilt classes to a variety of quilting levels, all taught by the best quilt teachers from around the world.

Scheduling quilt classes for Road 2019 began right after Road 2018 closed its doors on January 21, 2018. First, we reviewed class surveys for responses to classes just concluded. We also spent time going to other nationally known quilt shows to visit their quilt classes and meet prospective new teachers. A tentative schedule was put together in late Spring and was fine tuned before announcing class offerings in late May. In July, when registration began, we got to see right away how our planning turned out. Almost immediately, it was easy to tell which quilt classes were most popular, which were gaining interest, and which didn’t resonate well with our guests. We usually give classes 2-3 months to see how their registration is panning out before any changes are made to the schedule.  Our Show Owner, Matt Reese, makes the final decision of whether a class will be dropped or if additional units need to be added. So far, we have had to drop a few quilt classes where attendance was lacking and replace them with other quilt classes. Some of the quilt classes that were added were already being offered and the instructor agreed to teach another unit of the same class: Diane Kirkhart has added two more Millefiori technique classes.

Monday: 1019C – Millefiori, La Passacagila (This class was also offered on Thursday)

Tuesday: 2019C – Tule Nova English Paper Piecing Quilt (This class was also offered on Friday)

Modern Quilter, Mel Beach, will be teaching another of her Improvisational Piecing Classes

Friday: 5020C – Slice of Improv (This class was also offered on Wednesday)

In a few cases, we added totally new quilt classes to an existing teacher’s schedule like with Gillian Travis who is now also teaching

Friday: 5073G – Using your iPad as a Design Tool

Students will be shown simple exercises to learn how to

Enlarge or reduce a single shape or simple line drawing;

Print large images as in a design for a wall hanging;

Fun games to play;

Turn a photo into a line drawing;

Turn a photo into a water color painting;

Capture colors to help with choosing fabric;

Designing color schemes;

Turning an iPad into a light box and more.

We also had the chance to add a totally new teacher with new classes. Christina Dolinar, from Pineapple Fabrics, is offering two classes on how to use Pineapple Packs in a quilt pattern designed by Pineapple Fabrics

Monday: 1020C – Spinner using a Fran Pineapple Pack

Tuesday: 2020C – Easy Breezy using an Ellie Pineapple Pack

All of these changes have been made to ensure that our guests—and our teachers– have the best quilt class experience possible.

Have you signed up to take a quilt class yet? Do you have room in your schedule to add one of these new classes?    ]]>

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