Barbara Cline will be teaching 4 classes during Road@Home:
On Wednesday, from 8:00 – Noon: W102 – Diamond Chain Quilt
On Thursday, from 8:00 – 11:00 AM: T103 – Overlapping Stars
On Friday, from 8:00 – 11:00 AM: F103 – Cactus Star
And on Saturday, a 1 hour lecture from 8:00 – 9:00 AM: SL01 – Designing Inside Different Block Layouts
It All Began With A Family Quilt Store
Barbara Cline’s journey into quilting began when she was in the 5th grade. Her parents had bought a fabric store and it was there that Barbara’s love for quilting began. When Barbara was a teenager, she taught classes and worked as a clerk at the store. She did sewing throughout the years, but it wasn’t until her children were in grade school that she began to design and market quilt patterns. Barbara just published her sixth quilt book a few months ago, in the fall of 2020.
Instead of a quilt store for her work area, today, Barbara Cline’s sewing room is connected to her living room, which she “loves.” Barbara says that she has always loved being “right in the middle of where our 5 children would play. Yes, they would walk over my “design wall”, the floor, to get to the steps that led upstairs. But I was OK with that because the children were more important than the quilts.”
Barbara Cline is a World Renown Teacher
Barbara has been teaching sewing for the past 40 years and quilting for the past 30 years. During the years Barbara worked at her parent’s fabric store, Barbara began teaching all kinds of quilting classes. This led to Barbara teaching some of her own quilt pattern designs.
Ten years ago, Barbara Cline sent her first book proposal to C&T Publishing and they accepted her book!! Today, C&T Publishing has published 6 books written by Barbara. Those books have turned Barbara’s local teaching into national and international teaching experiences. She says that her “highlight of teaching quilting was in Dubai and Kuwait.”
What is Barbara Cline’s favorite part about teaching, no matter where she is all over the world? To “see the creativity in people come alive.”
During the COVID-19 shut down, Barbara has been working on new quilt patterns and creating quilt classes on CourseCraft. What has the Coronavirus taught Barbara these past 9 months? “Trust in the Lord at all times.”
Teaching at Road@Home
Of the four classes Barbara Cline will be teaching during Road@Home, she will be introducing her newest class, “Diamond Chain Star.”
Barbara can’t wait to interact with all her students during Road@Home. She says that she loves “questions and solving problems in the quilting world.”
The three things Barbara hopes her students will grasp during her classes are:
- To learn new techniques of an 8-pointed star;
- To see how easy and simple triangle blocks can be used to make a beautiful table runner; and
- How to make an easy split diamond and then how these simple split diamonds can create a complex looking star.
To learn more about Barbara Cline, please visit her website.
Barbara Cline: I am in awe of your designs. I tried to do a strip pieced bargello quilt when I started quilting again about 25 years ago and it was a disaster. My earlier quilts were done with embroidery and patchwork, so strip piecing was new to me and I never could get the points to match up. Thank you for the free Twirling Swirling Dance pattern download in your blog. I am looking forward to making it as my first pieced project of 2021.
I hope that Road@Home is a resounding success and that all the instructors and students are inspired and filled with joy as a result of participating in the event. Getting to California for the show was unlikely to ever be possible for me so this opportunity to participate is so exciting. Blessings to all in the New Year.