Beginning Machine Piecing
Beginner Level
4 sessions (3 hours each) Fee: $70
Instructor: Reta Brown
Dates: Saturday, March 6, 13, 20 & 27 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Is your sewing experience a little or a lot? No matter! Here’s the place to start! Learn to use rotary cutting equipment safely and to sew a quarter-inch seam. You’ll receive individualized instruction during the 12-hour course that covers the basic quilting shapes and how to actually make them fit together. You’ll learn not only traditional construction and pressing methods but also some time-saving techniques. From blocks to borders, you’ll be a successful piecer with a wonderful sampler top ready for quilting by session’s end.
Finishing Your Quilt
Beginner Level
1 session (4 hours) Fee: $35 (includes binding kit)
Instructor: Reta Brown
Dates: Saturday, April 24 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Here’s an overview class on the steps needed to turn your top into a quilt. We’ll cover backing selection, batting options (including take-home samples), marking and basting methods and tools needed. Quilting options are discussed including a demo of our shop’s long arm quilting machine. Each student will use the kit provided in class to make a continuous, miter-cornered binding sample complete with a hanging sleeve and label.
Machine Appliqué
Beginner Level
1 session (3 hours) Fee: $18
Instructor: Susan Masters
Date: Friday, April 23 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Need to practice up on your machine appliqué skills? This is a technique class focusing on corners, points & curves. We will practice blanket, satin and invisible stitches.
Beginning Machine Quilting – Feathers or Motifs
A Newly Designed Course for the Beginner Machine Quilter
1 session (6 hours) Fee: $38
Instructor: Charlotte Hickman
Dates: Saturday, February 6 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Thursday, June 17 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sign up Here for the June class.
Skillbuilder Companion Book for Machine Quilters and a preprinted fabric sampler of traditional machine quilting motifs will be used in the class. The 44” x 35” preprinted panel of 25 quilting designs allows us to put together a layered sandwich and to begin practicing free motion quilting. We will also begin quilting motifs before the completion of the panel.
