301
Build a House a Day –
The Bungalow
Tonye Phillips
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
14” x 18”

This is a hand appliqué class with pizzazz! Tonye will get you going with her no fuss appliqué techniques, and then you get to do the rest. Don’t be shy when choosing your fabrics for the architectural elements and the landscaping. Make a statement if you dare!
**No Sewing Machine Necessary**

Book Optional: Hand Appliquéd Quilts-
Whimsical Designs & Simple Techniques – $24.95

316 Creative Doodling
June Jaeger
$70
Advanced Beginning
15” x 15” Sampler *

Experience a variety of quilting designs, from background stitching to vines, feathers, and more! In the morning, you will make a variety of pattern samples.

After lunch, you will work on a larger piece, combining your favorite doodles with filler doodling. You will also have a chance to do some doodling on other media.

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Word for Word
Rosalie Dace
$210
Intermediate
Size Varies
(approximately 36” x 36”) *

Make an exciting contemporary quilt top with an updated look that has personal meaning for you. Using the letters of your name or entire words and phrases, make strong designs that sing with color, line, and shape.

See how other artists use lettering to give their work visual impact, as you enjoy pictures and images in class. You may choose to fuse, appliqué, piece, stitch, and write as you make your own design. Examples and technique demonstrations will include numerous ways of working with the exciting possibilities of words and script.

317
Another Brick in the Wall
Emily Cier
$70
Advanced Beginning
60” x 80” *

Conformity will be the furthest thing from your mind as you build this flexible, dynamic pattern from just a Jelly Roll* and some solid fabric.

Pattern Required: $9.00

303
The Art of Machine Quilting
Barbara Shapel
$70
Beginning
Sample Only *

In this beginning level quilting workshop, students will learn proper basting techniques, which machine needles to use with specific thread, and the differences between the various quilting threads that are currently on the market.

We will then work on a practice sampler and learn how to stitch over a dozen free motion quilting stitches.

319
Snail’s Detour to Sisters
Jan Bressler
$70
All Levels
Size 71 1/2” x 71 1/2” * +

This quilt provides an opportunity to play with Jelly Rolls, Bali Pops, or your choice of 2 1/2” strips.* The unique alternate block creates a feathered look that’s sure to cause oohs and ahhs from your admirers! Great for beginners, great fun for all quilters.

Book Required: Scrap-Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett – $24.99

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Design Your Own 60º Quilt
Scott Hansen
$140
Intermediate
Design Class – Size Varies *

First learn some basic 60º building blocks in class, then use 60º graphing paper to design your own creation from those blocks. Explore a variety of concepts the first day and finalize your design, so that on the second day you can piece together your very own 60º Wonder! There are no Y-seams, only simple strip piecing. See some of Scott’s original one of a kind 60º quilts that have been featured at Quilt Market, and perhaps even some from his upcoming book!

Books Recommended:
Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin by Sara Nephew with Marci Baker – $29.95
or ABC 3-D Tumbling Blocks and More! by Marci Baker – $29.95

320
Gentleman’s Fancy
Sally Frey
$70
Advanced Beginning
56” X 68” * +

Are your favorite men in need of a warm, cozy quilt? Using your favorite flannels and a fun, easy pattern, you will be ready with a Christmas, birthday, or dorm quilt. Learn how to reinterpret a vintage design using modern tools, materials, and methods!

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Mod Mosaic
Floor Pillow
Elizabeth Hartman
$70
Advanced Beginning
24” x 24” Pillow *

This simple, improvisational piecing technique is unique, modern, and fun – perfect for a beautiful quilted floor pillow made with your favorite fabric scraps.

If you can sew a reasonably accurate 1/4” seam allowance, you can complete this project.

Pattern Required: Free download from www.ohfransson.com

321 Rob’s Ride
Rob Appell
$70
Advanced Beginning
Size Varies – Sample is 52” x 76” * +

This quilt block is simply a modification of the “snail’s trail” block to create a curling wave. It can work in a variety of sizes, colors, and layouts. Designed to help students understand the math needed to create pieced triangle quilts in a simple rotary cutting fashion – the goal is to understand and create the blocks. Using strip piecing, the top can be completed in a fairly short amount of time. Once the blocks are finished the variations for the quilt are limitless.

Pattern Required: Free download from
http://robappell.com/node/182

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Beginning Fast, Fun & Easy®
Fabric Dyeing
Lynn Koolish
$70
Beginning
Technique Class – Samples Only

Learn everything you need to know to create your own fabulous hand-dyed fabrics or clothing including how to mix dyes and create your own colors, basic dyeing techniques such as low-water immersion, creating gradations, and dyeing multiple colors at the same time.

Lab Fee: $15 (Dyes)
Book Required: Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing – $17.95

322
Layered Collage
Vivienne Moore
$70
All Levels
8” x 12” *

In this easy and fun class, play with non-traditional, synthetic fabrics such as lamé, satin, lace, or sheers to make a fabric collage on a base of felt. After quilting, parts of the quilt can be melted to create a lacy look as an option.

309/409 Absolutely Beginning Quilting
Lawry Thorn
$140
Beginning
38” x 38” * +

Start your quilting experience with Lawry! Make a four block sampler quilt while learning rotary cutting skills. Strip cutting and piecing, plus both half-square and quarter-square triangles will be covered. By the end of the second day you should have your quilt top together and be starting to machine quilt your quilt.

324
Jazzy Jewels
Cara Gulati
$70
All Levels
Approx. 39” x 39” *

This quilt requires no templates and no pins! At the end of class, you’ll end up with a smile and blocks that are fun to make and easy to sew. You probably won’t finish the whole quilt in class, but in case you do, you’ll be prepared!

310
Giant Rail Waves
Karla Alexander
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
49” x 66” (Block Size 16” x 16”) *

You’ll never look at curves the same way once you make this quilt! Learn techniques that will put your mind at ease, as you learn to be a fearless curvaceous quilter! Not only will you master long gentle curves, you’ll leave class with a stack of completed blocks! This is such a fun quilt and once you know the formula, you’ll find it’s a breeze to make quilts of any size.

Pattern Required: $10.00
Optional: Split Seconds ruler by Creative Grids – $33.00

325
Layered Reverse Appliqué
Ruth Ingham
$70
All Levels
18” x 22” Samples * +

In this class, Ruth will show you how to layer several sets of fat quarters together with batting and backing, and then stitch through them in different patterns. Once you have completed your stitching, you will cut through the different layers to reveal the fabrics beneath.

You may also wish to embellish your piece with couching, decorative threads, and fancy stitches after the cutting process.

311
Liberated Baskets
Gwen Marston
$70
All Levels
Technique Class – Size Varies *

Basket quilts have been popular with quilters for many years. Now Gwen shows you a new way to make Basket blocks using her Liberated methods without patterns and templates. With her sure-fire way to make bias, the handles go on smoothly in no time at all. Leave class with a little pile of blocks and a complete understanding about how to make these delightfully charming Baskets.

Book Suggested: Liberated Quiltmaking II – $28.95

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Intuitive Color & Design
Jean Wells
$140
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Design Class – Size Varies *

Do you want to explore quilt design in a more intuitive way and find new ways of working? Explore cutting without rulers to create gentle curves and some nice design lines. You can work on one design and create a small wall hanging or pillow, create four similar images and put them into a four patch setting for a wall quilt, or design a larger quilt that does not use the repeated block format.

Lab Fee: $3

Book Required: Intuitive Color & Design – $27.95

312 Circle Play–
Wool Embellishment
Sue Spargo
$70
Beginning
12” x 16”

This is a fun hands-on class studying numerous ways to create circles. Arrive in class with your base block already appliquéd, and then spend the class time embellishing a one of a kind piece. Learn many techniques including beading, embroidery, ribbon play, and dimensional art using different stitches and hand dyed threads. A kit will be mailed ahead of time, so come prepared to be creative! Kit includes all fabric, some embellishment threads and a journal.

Required: Embroidery book of your choice.
Kit Purchase Required (in advance): $38.00

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Telamadera Fusion©
Alma de la Melena Cox
$70
All Levels
12” x 12”

Telamadera Fusion brings fabric and wood together in an exciting mixed-media process, without sewing! Create a vibrant and luminescent work of art that is one-of-a-kind, while exploring color, contrast, and value in fabrics as they are applied to a wood and paint substrate. Bring texture to your work with wood burning and dimensional paint. Prepare to have fun! You will complete one of seven coats of varnish in class, and will be given instructions to complete varnishing at home.

Lab Fee: $25 (Materials – all supplies are included except for scissors & varnish)
Book Optional: Collage Fusion – $27.95

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Wild Lime
Sue McMahan
$70
Advanced Beginning
36” x 36” * +

This is a great project using the Creative Grids Double Strip ruler. Many block options are easily achieved using this ruler. The quilt has a “modern” look, using a lot of white to contrast with the “limey” greens. It can also easily be made larger.

Required: Creative Grids 4 ½” 90º Double Strip ruler – $27.00

328 Geese in a Storm
Karin Hellaby
$70
All Levels
Size 34” x 46” * +

Fast stitch this quilt in no time using Karin’s wonderful fast geese techniques. Scrappy white and cream fabrics have been used to create this swirly snowstorm on a dark night, but you can change the theme with your own fabric color choice. Think of leaves blowing around on a blustery day or a whirling sandstorm! Learn at least two of the 25 different geese techniques from Karin’s book, Fast Flying Geese Quilts.

She will also demonstrate her speed cutting techniques and suggest ideas for quilting and embellishment. Machine and hand sewing suitable for beginners, but also fun for the more experienced.

Book Required: Fast Flying Geese Quilts – $ 25.95

314
Trapunto Tips
Janet Fogg
$70
Beginning – Intermediate
Size N/A

For machine quilters using both domestic and long-arm machines. Janet will share her method of preparing quilt tops with both marking and placement of additional batting motifs, to achieve the high relief of trapunto quilting. While no stitching will be done in class, students will learn how to prepare a quilt top or sample whole cloth top to take home and stitch.
**No Sewing Machine Necessary**

329 Ribbons & Waves
Good Neighbors Make
Judy Johnson
$70
Intermediate – Advanced
Design Class – Sizes Vary *

Colors which “neighbor” each another around one half of the color wheel are the basis for the color/fabric palette of this quilted wall art project composed of “ribbon and waves” units. Learn how to make these versatile, gently curved units and begin to explore the many design options that are possible when they are combined.

The size of your finished piece will be up to you. Experience with curved piecing is not required, however, some pre-cutting is suggested.

315 Fun Patch
Jackie Erickson
$70
Advanced Beginning
42” x 56” *

One block repeated throughout the quilt makes this an easy (and fun!) quilt to sew together. Learn how to work with templates and sew angles together. This quilt can be very scrappy, but also looks great as a two-color quilt.
Note: This quilt is not “fat quarter friendly.”

Required: Fun Patch template by Come Quilt with Me – $12.00

330
SIT N’ STITCH
Colleen Blackwood
$35
All Levels

We will have a room open where you can sit and stitch on any project you like. Colleen, one of our resident experts, will be on hand to answer your questions.