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Machine Quilting Traditions
Sue Nickels
$70

Intermediate – Advanced
Technique Class – Samples & Small Project*

Explore machine quilting using traditional quilting designs inspired by antique quilts, keeping with the traditions in quilt making. Feathers, cables and motif designs will be covered, as well as stipple quilting and cross-hatching for background areas. Discussion will include thread choices, batting selection, and handling the larger quilt project. A great choice for those who are interested in adding to their machine quilting experience. With Sue’s expert guidance, learn to become more confident with free motion machine quilting. You don’t need a lot of machine quilting experience, but free motion quilting experience is helpful.
Lab Fee: $8 – Stencil
Book Purchase Optional: $24.95 –
Machine Quilting, A Primer of Techniques

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Garden Tea Party Quilt
Bari Ackerman
$140
Intermediate
66" x 90" *

Mix a range of colors and patterns and learn to do fabric collage while making this lovely vintage-inspired quilt, which has a pieced center and cut fabric motifs collaged along the edges. Have fun free-motion quilting the top with Bari’s guidance. (Free-motion quilting experience not required.) Pattern Provided.

204/304/404 Robin Run the Hedge
Sue Spargo
$210
All Levels
39” x 56 1/2" *

In this three-day class, design a whole cloth appliqué quilt using a wonderful wool background and an overall vine, flower, and berry design. Finish with 13 different birds. Embellish with couching, heishi beads, and ribbons. You can finish your piece as a wall hanging or use it as the center of a queen size quilt. The class will cover freezer paper templates, whip stitch appliqué, and the use of cotton, wool, velvet, and silk fabrics.
Book Purchase Required: $25.95 –
Robin Run the Hedge (Available Spring 2010)

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"Home"
- Quilted Layers -
Fabric and Paper Collage
Alma de la Melena Cox
$140

All Levels
Design/Technique Class – Project Size Varies

Play with stencils, stamps, and paints (both acrylic and 3-D) on paper and fabric, then add them to your favorite fabrics to create layers that will be embellished with sewing. You will create a mixed-media artwork that will bring the spirit of "Home" to your walls at home. Alma will supply many fabrics to share as well as many supplies, but encourages you to bring some favorites of your own–perhaps considering where your artwork might hang in your home, and selecting fabrics that will compliment your decor. Please also bring favorite threads. Basic sewing skills are helpful, but not necessary to create a wonderful piece. No previous artistic experience necessary.
Lab Fee: $10 – Supplies

205 Just for Fun Mystery
Lawry Thorn
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Large Lap Size *

Select a theme that you would like to work with and follow the clues for fabric selection within this boundary–you will then be ready for just a fun day sewing, cutting, and sewing. There will be pre-class cutting to give you a head start in class. Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but some of the pieces are large–so it will be easy!

221 Sew Simple Logs
Karin Hellaby
$70

Beginning – Advanced Beginning
44” x 44" *

Nothing new about log-cabins? There is now! In Sew Simple Logs, Karin takes the traditional quilting technique you love and gives you a step-by-step guide to creating any number of beautiful log cabin designs from strip sets, quickly and easily.

You have a choice of making either a 12 or 16 log block quilt, using nine different fabrics. Once the blocks are made we will look at the different design possibilities. There will be lots of tips for accurate cutting and fast machine piecing. Book Purchase Required: $13.95

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Ring Around Rosie
Sally Frey
$140

All Levels
72” x 72” * +

Sally made this quilt after taking a wonderful trip to Ireland. One of her antique quilts was her inspiration for the blocks, and the wonderful Irish countryside provided her color palette. Start with sixteen fat quarters (plus background and borders, etc.) for the scrappy version or, if you prefer, choose just four colors for a less scrappy look.

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Shelby’s Spring Flowers
Karen Flamme
$70

Beginning – Intermediate
Wall Hanging * +

Fusing is fast and fun! Join Karen, author of Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Flowers to make her Shelby's Spring Flowers pattern. By the end of the day you'll have a vase of fabric flowers with button centers ready to hang on your wall.

The quilt goes together quickly as you learn to use simple templates, fuse, and make dimensional flowers for embellishments.
Pattern Purchase Required: $9.50

207 Serengeti
Karla Alexander
$70

All Levels
62" x 87" * +

A mix of subtle-design small to medium scale batiks creates a flowing patchwork of color in this quilt. Each block in this awesome quilt is different from the next, using gentle free-form curves as desired. (If you're uncomfortable with curves, straight line cuts will work as well.)
Book Purchase Suggested: $26.99 – Color Shuffle!

223/323 In Your Own Village
Hilde Morin
$140
Intermediate
Design Class – Project Size Varies *

Design and create your own village… Learn improvisational piecing techniques to create huts, houses, and curved landscapes. You will exercise strip and curved piecing techniques to create individual quilt elements, create your own quilt diagram, and then put it all together into a free-form landscape quilt through improvisational piecing techniques.

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Adventures in Color
Pamela Dinndorf
$70

All Levels
Throw Size Quilt *

Experience the magical powers of color through discussions of the color wheel, value and pattern considerations in fabric selection, the auditioning process, and taking risks in order to develop color confidence. Class will include a lecture, trunk show, class critique, and you will also begin work on a throw size quilt using the concepts discussed. Pattern Purchase
Required: $9.00 – Glorify by Aardvark Quilts

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For the Birds
Tonye Belinda Phillips
$70

All Levels
Size 14” x 40" *

Here is a great way to refresh your appliqué technique or learn how to appliqué by hand. This wonky birdhouse can be “painted” in many ways with the special fabrics you choose. Tonye will show you her preferred methods for hand appliqué and share her whimsical choices for fabrics and color combinations.
Book Purchase Recommended: $24.95 – Hand Appliqued Quilts – Whimsical Designs and Simple Techniques

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Blue Heron
Barbara Shapel
$140

Advanced Beginning - Intermediate
30” x 48” *

The Great Blue Heron is a classic symbol of the Pacific Northwest and this pattern celebrates this elegant, shy bird. Included in the pattern is a full-sized master drawing and step-by-step instructions. You will learn an easy freezer paper machine appliqué method and Barbara’s quilting instructions really help make this heron come to life. When completed, this fiber art piece measures 30” x 48”. Pattern Purchase Required: $14

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Memories of Sisters
Vivienne Moore
$70

Advanced Beginning - Advanced
29” x 38 1/2” * +

There is no better way to remember your visit to the Quilters’ Affair in Sisters than to make this fun wall hanging featuring snow-capped mountains, Ponderosa Pine trees, and of course, quilts! Use scraps from your favorite quilts to create your own personal quilt show in miniature. All of the blocks are easy to sew using paper foundation piecing.
Pattern Purchase Required: $11.50

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One Block – Many Pathways
Judy Johnson
$70

Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Design Class – Project Size Varies
* +

Who knew the traditional Drunkard’s Path block had a contemporary side? Come explore the various design possibilities of quarter-square circle blocks. The curved-piecing blocks in this quilt are fairly large, so the construction is easy – even for a beginner. Patterns and directions for three different up-dated Drunkard’s Path quilts will be offered in class; ranging from simple, elegant circles crafted with textural fabrics, to funky circles made with slight modifications to the basic block. Use one of the patterns provided, or create your own original design. Optional Lab Fee: $12 – Templates

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Fabric Painting:
Never Plain, Always Simple
Rose Hughes
$140

All Levels
Technique Class –
Fabric Squares Only

Open new doors for designing your own fabric! On Day One, learn how to use simple crayons and fabric paints to create new and exciting fabrics. Play all day with textures and learn how to create your own rubber stamps. On Day Two, you will take “blah” pieces of white fabric and spice them up with “fabric paint marinades.” By using Rose’s basic “recipes,” and easy to obtain and use supplies, you will be able to create a feast of large, scrumptious painted fabrics. Go home with wonderful fabrics to be used in your next quilt projects and the skills to create much, much more!
Lab Fee: $15 – Materials, Paints, etc.

213 Star Struck for Balis
Jan & Lou
$70

All Levels
60 1/2” x 72 1/2” * +

Kim Brackett’s Bali Stars sets the stage for this terrific show stopper! It was designed for 2-1/2” strips. If you are as “star struck” for Balis as we are, you’ll jump at the chance to play with Jelly Rolls, Bali Pops, or 2-1/2” strips from your stash! It is a great scrap quilt as well. It’s a show stopper no matter how you look at it! Great for beginners… great fun for all quilters.
Book Purchase Required: $24.99 - Scrap-Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett

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Jeans Therapy –
Folded Log Cabin Variation
Sarah Kaufman
$140

Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Design Class –
Quilt Size Varies *

Sarah calls this blended log cabin pattern Love Thy Neighbor – each block plays off another. Work on a design surface with low contrast fabrics, or go wild with high contrast! Any style–old faithfuls, traditional, or courthouse steps–can be adapted to “folded logs” with narrow folded strips, stacked onto a foundation! The result is eye-popping, handsome, and oh, so functional! Sarah will also bring a complete trunk show of Folded Log Cabin quilts, including framed pieces and unique hanging and embellishment tricks.

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Twizzle Man Project
Rob Appell
$140

Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Approximately
45” x 36” *

Take a wild ride along the “mad scientist” approach to mixing colors and shapes to create ingenious new quilting compounds.

This class offers a freestyle approach to quilt making that will focus on color, perspective and movement within the fabric choices. Students will work on a wall hanging of their own unique design following Rob’s three-step process for layout. The entire first day will be dedicated to creating our frames and backgrounds, as well as cutting all of the fusible circles to appliqué. The second day will be filled with tips and techniques on free-motion machine quilting, while the students drop their feed dogs and put the pedal to the metal. Pattern Provided.

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Fractured Images
Johanne Gibson
$70

Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Design Class –
Project Size Varies * +

Looking for a new way to use those beautiful, large scale prints you see everywhere? This is the quilt for you! This easy technique fractures and alters the image to create an interesting and unusual quilt. Use strip cutting and easy piecing to add new dimension to your fabric design. This process lends itself to almost any large scale print–floral and Asian prints are especially nice. Learn to fracture a design, reassemble it on a design wall, choose a border to enhance your quilt and then go home with your quilt at least partially completed.

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Unexpected Combinations
Janet Fogg
$140

Intermediate – Advanced
Design Class –
Project Size Varies *

This workshop explores the creation of unexpected imagery. By juxtaposing two images which do not occur in reality, we can give our quilts concept and dimension that they might not otherwise possess. Through group activities designed to make visual connections, we will formulate ideas for art quilts that are unique and visually arresting. Pattern drawing and curved machine piecing will be covered in class. Individual drawing skills are helpful, but not mandatory. Come prepared to explore and have fun.

230 - 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.

217 Surface Design Playtime
Kathy Shaker
$70
All Levels
Design Class – Project Size Varies *

Painting, stamping, and stitching – oh, my! This is your chance to explore a variety of surface design techniques and media. We will spend the day creating unique fabric that can become the background of a small art quilt or be incorporated into a contemporary pieced project. Lab Fee: $10 – Supplies
Book Purchases Recommended: Off-The-Shelf Fabric Painting by Sue Beevers, Art Quilts at Play by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston