Program:
Making Quilts with Panels
Duration: 1 hour
- Design tips: coordinating fabric color and scale of motifs
- Panel considerations
- My process as a designer
- My process as a quilter
- The math
- Straight borders vs. Pieced Borders
- Trunk Show
Workshops
Quilts
Zen Life Quilt
Quilt size: 73¾” x 83½”
Block: 9”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- Fabric selection and placement in blocks and borders for the most visual and pleasing impact
- Make as many of the blocks with personal instruction and feedback
- List of resources
Flights of Whimsy
Quilt size: 70” x 82”
Block sizes: 3”, 6”, 12”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- Fabric selection and placement in blocks and borders for the most visual and pleasing impact
- Raw Edge Appliqué: machine appliqué using blanket or zigzag and decorative stitches.
- Discussion and demonstration: straight stitch, free motion appliqué, and trapunto.
- Discussion and demonstration: light appliqué over dark background
- Beginning Paper piecing (trees)
- List of resources
Fall Beauty
Quilt size: 87¾” x 104”
Block: 16¼”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- How to use color value to emphasize parts of the quilt design
- How fabric changes quilt designs
- Options for fabric placement
- Making the blocks
- List of resources
Give it a Twirl
Quilt size: 75-1/2” x 90-1/2”
Block: 15”
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- What makes a quilt ‘modern’
- Borders or no borders?
- Quilting motifs for a modern quilt
- Making the blocks: color placement choices
- List of resources
Skills
English Paper Piecing
- Glue basting: types of glue
- Paper and templates – options and uses
- Making ‘fabric’
- Threads for each desired look
- Creating quilt projects
- List of resources
- Duration: 4 hours
Quilting projects using your domestic machine
(walking foot, free-motion quilting)
One-day workshop (6 hours):
- How to set up your machine and chair
- Must-have and optional supplies
- How to mark the quilt for quilting
- Selecting quilting motifs
- Quilting with the Walking Presser Foot (beyond straight lines)
- Free motion quilting – tips and tricks
- Practice using quilt sandwiches or small quilt projects
- List of resources