Taming the Tumbling Block

Men love this quilt!  Impress him and everyone!  Learn Marci Baker’s simple, timesaving methods including how-to select perfect fabrics to achieve stunning optical illusions. By eliminating inset (or Y) seams and adding strip piecing, these designs come together faster than ever, even for beginners.  Amaze your friends and only you need to know how easy it was to tame the tumbling block!   

Fabulously Easy Flower Garden

Throw away those templates and find another use for your scissors. With Marci Baker’s easy strip piecing methods you will learn how to create this beautiful quilt in a fraction of the time! Explore the creative options of working with hexagons. You learn the cutting and sewing techniques used in all the projects so you can select any of the projects from the book and create your own heirloom in a fraction of the time.  Even beginners will find these flowers within their reach!

Top Secret Bindings

You don’t have to go under cover as a secret agent to learn the ins and outs of making a perfect binding, just come to this Know Before You Sew binding class.  You’ll learn all of the causes and therefore you will avoid the common problems like rounded, pointed, and tucked in corners, lumpy finishes, and the one most often made and my personal pet peeve --- bindings that are not filled to the edge.  You will learn the basics of bindings including bias, straight-of-grain, double-fold (French binding), mitered corners for all angles, 1/4” and other finished widths, and more. If these terms don’t mean anything, they will after the class.  You will have a sample to take home for later reference.  Instead of machines we will be pinning and / or tacking with thread since there is a minimal amount of sewing.  Impress everyone with award-winning quality and spend your time creating your works of art instead of applying binding!

Everyone Foundation Pieces Easily

Everyone Foundation Pieces Easily with the Clearview of Quilting™ method.  Discover the fun and freedom of foundation piecing (commonly referred to as paper piecing).  This quick method ensures correct placement without wasted fabric.  Eliminate your frustrations and fears about foundation piecing and sew even the most detailed design.

Value-able Fabric / Color Confidence

Explore and learn what colors you like and why.  This is a value-able class for selecting fabrics for your next quilt. You’ll learn the basics of color and value and play with lots of fabric swatches for several exercises.  These exercises will train your brain and eyes for color and value!  Learn how to sort fabrics by value including the effect of large and small prints.  Next time you are picking fabric at a store, you’ll find it easier and you’ll know why you like your choices. Your color confidence will soar!

Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin

Amazingly simple techniques result in simply amazing quilts!  Take a look at log cabin designs from a whole new angle as designed by Sara Nephew.  Marci Baker’s explicit step-by-step instructions will have students constructing log cabin diamonds and triangles to create unusual and gorgeous designs.  Just cut up your scraps and paint with strips.  These are some of the subjects covered, as well as, stripping and trimming vs. cutting shaped strips individually, using unusual fabrics on a foundation, value and color, special effects, squaring up, and pressing techniques. After this class, you can produce a wealth of beautiful designs and you will want to make more than one!

Speedy 3D Quilts

Strip-piecing makes these quilts fast and value selection makes them 3-D. Bring in some of your favorite fabrics and we’ll sort them by value so your design will be spectacular!  Students begin to cut strips and speed-piece with good progress possible in one day.

Serendipity Quilts

Simply Sensational Stars

When you wish upon a star!  Now you can do more than dream about making a sensational stars quilt.  Learn how traditional designs come together using rotary cutting and strip-piecing method without set-in seams to make a dazzling star quilt!  The possibilities for this quilt are endless just by changing the layout and color selections. 
Come to the class and see how easy it is and soon you’ll be snuggling under the stars!