402/502 Landscape Paintings
Judith Baker Montano
$140
All Levels
8” x 10" *

Create an unusual fabric picture using exotic fabrics and Victorian stitches. Judith will guide you through this original art form to create your own one-of-a-kind picture. Your completed landscape can then be beaded and embellished for extra detail. You must bring a matt with an 8" x 10" opening! Book Purchase Suggested: $35.95 – Fibreart Montage: Combining Quilting, Embroidery and Photography with Embellishments

417 Simply Charming
Kathy Shaker
$70

Advanced Beginning
Wall Quilt –
42" x 42" *

Are scraps taking over your sewing room? Have you fallen in love with Jelly Rolls and Charm Square packs but don’t know how to use them? Start with a wall quilt in the morning and then start another in the afternoon! These fun and easy projects will have you sewing “pedal to the metal” in no time, while making a good dent in your pile of scraps as well. Patterns Provided.

406
Old Hawaii
Sally Frey
$70
Beginning - Intermediate
40” x 48” * +

This is a great quilt to feature a fabulous focus fabric. Choose your favorite fabric first, then build your quilt from there. Accent your choice with coordinating nine-patch blocks. Sally will cover color and style to showcase your fabric’s personality. You will spend the morning doing the designing, and then sew in the afternoon.

418/518 Improvisational Patchwork
Denyse Schmidt
$140

All Levels
Design Class – Size Varies * +

This two-day workshop is a hands-on opportunity to learn Denyse’s intuitive design techniques while building a foundation for bringing your own individual style to quilts or projects from her book.

Whether you are an experienced quilter or a beginning quilter, you will create exciting, rut-breaking work that will change the way you think about color, patchwork, and your own creativity. You’ll spend two days exploring the improvisational method and learning how to integrate this technique – and the discoveries you’ll make – into your own work, whether you use traditional patterns or create your own designs.
Lab Fee: $20 – Materials

407
Hullabaloo
Karla Alexander
$70

All Levels
Size 61" x 82" * +

Choose some large-scale prints, then add some companion prints and you are ready to go! No fussing here – chill out and make blocks by designing as you go, putting your own spin on this fast and easy quilt. The pattern layout possibilities are endless!

This is a quilt you'll make again and again, AND each one will always have its own look with different block arrangements and layouts from the next. Book Purchase Suggested: $26.99 – Color Shuffle! By Karla Alexander

419 Bird & Nest Collage Tote
Bari Ackerman
$70

Intermediate
14" w x 8" h
x 3 1/2" d *

Bari loves to to create vintage inspired handbags and accessories that have a look and feel that evokes a sense of memory and history. Learn the basics of bag making from Bari, while making this simple tote pattern, and go home with an uber-cute bag featuring a bird appliqué. Pattern Provided.

408/508 Best Friends
June Jaeger
$140
All Levels
26” x 32”

Create a look-a-like wall quilt of your personal pet. Send a photo ahead of time and June will draw a pattern of your dog, cat, horse, or…? Come to class with your fabrics chosen and ready to work.

Using fusible web, you will have a great time reproducing your photo. This makes a fantastic gift for that special person in your life, or to give yourself an everyday smile. Any bird or animal that has made a difference or an impression on you can come to life in your personalized wall hanging.
Lab Fee: $10 – Custom Pattern

420 Pathway to the Stars
Colleen Blackwood
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
81" x 81" *

Traditional blocks combine in this easy to sew quilt to create a beautiful showcase for fabric combinations. This quilt is more attractive when there is a lot of contrast in color choices.

The Sawtooth Stars offer an opportunity to add a real POP to the design. The Uneven Nine Patch blocks that create a trail among the stars are an excellent location for a strong value fabric. Different methods of sewing half square triangles will be offered in class – students are encouraged to use the techniques most successful for them. More than one fabric can be used as background or in the stars if a scrappy look is desired. Varying borders can create a rectangular quilt and different block options will be discussed in class for students who want more of a challenge! Pattern Provided.

409 Paperweight
Pamela Dinndorf
$70
All Levels
50" x 68" or 70" x 87 1/2" *

Recreate the effect of peering down into an old-fashioned paperweight to see cross sections of multicolored cylinders, with strip-piecing and the use of an EZ Kite Tool. Learn to piece octagons to the background without working with a tight set-in seam, and still achieve a flat seamed top. Numerous color and design tips are also included.

Pattern Purchase Required: $9.00

421 Sew Simple Curved Attic Window
Karin Hellaby
$70
All Levels
50” x 50" *

Curved windows are a NEW “Sew Simple” method of creating unique blocks with no mitered seams. You will be shown different ways to finish the curve using top stitching, hand stitchery and beading.

(If you prefer you can make Attic Windows blocks without a curved finish.) Either way, you won't believe how quickly these blocks are made using squares and triangles! This class is crammed with tips, ideas, and examples to give you lots of help and inspiration!
Book Purchase Required: $13.95

410 Painting With Thread
Barbara Shapel
$70
Intermediate – Advanced
Approximately 36” x 56” *

By popular demand–this is the “next level” machine quilting class, intended for the quilter who is comfortable with their stitching, but would like to take it to the next level. Students will choose from a variety of images to thread “paint,” and then baste the piece in class. Topics to be covered include: what thread to use and when, the order of quilting, using a hoop, outlining, using water soluble thread, and transferring images to fabric. We will also discuss how to make the piece two-sided.

423/523
Curves and More
Hilde Morin
$140
Advanced Beginning
20” x 20" * +

Learn the art of piecing free-form curves without pinning, marking, or clipping. Add interest by incorporating multidirectional and 3-dimensional elements. Create your own lace and learn to insert it into your quilt. Finish off your work using a clean and elegant facing technique. You will piece, quilt, and face your quilt in class.

Lab Fee: $3 - Supplies

411 Floral Remix
Judy Johnson
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Design Class – Project Size Varies *

The center of this quilt was created from a single piece of fabric using layered cutting techniques. It is one of several quilts in Judy’s series that explores the possibilities of various geometric transformations using four identical squares. Sound complicated? It’s not! Judy will make the process easy and will share many examples to inspire your own creativity. A wall hanging or lap-sized quilt can easily be completed in one class session.
Pattern Provided.

425
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 Quilter’s 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

413/513
Garden Waterfalls
Jan & Lou
$140
All Levels
43” x 64” * +

Here is one of Judy Niemeyer’s newest projects! It was designed as a Jelly Roll-friendly quilt. This pattern provides a terrific opportunity to use Bali Pops or other 2-1/2” strips from your favorite fabric collection. Great for beginners … great fun for all quilters. Pattern Purchase Required: $18.50 –
Garden Waterfall
by Judy Niemeyer

427/527 Dream Landscape
Rose Hughes
$140
Intermediate
18” x 24" *

Ever see a beautiful scene that you know would make an amazing quilt? In this workshop you will learn how to capture and translate your favorite landscape photographs into colorful designs and unique fabric art. You’ll create your own dream landscape while learning and using Fast-Pieced Appliqué™ techniques and embellishments.

In just two days you'll learn the secret of how this technique uses machine piecing and appliqué in combination to simplify complicated curves and circles. Explore layering your work with a wide variety of embellishments. You’ll capture the spirit of your photos in fabric form and take home a unique art quilt designed from your original landscape photo, as well as new skills and techniques to apply in future projects.

414 Simple Strip Scramble
Rob Appell
$70
All Levels
50” x 84” *

This is a quick and easy quilt which is one of Rob’s most popular patterns. Originally known as The Dolphin Dance, this Simple Strip Pieced Scramble lends itself to a huge variety of theme fabrics for the adults or kids at heart. The quilt top is easily constructed in an day, and makes for a wonderful base for appliqué and or simple machine quilting.
Pattern Provided.

428 Concentricities
Sue McMahan
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
42” x 42” * +

This class provides a challenge to you to select fabrics with textures, designs, and colors that will result in a dynamic quilt.
(The pictured sample was done in Asian fabrics.)

The diagonal setting of the blocks provides a unique finished project. Curved piecing techniques will be demonstrated and can easily be done by machine. The curves are gentle and the resulting blocks, set on point, present numerous possibilities for a wall hanging or a bed quilt. So, be prepared to have fun and create a very special quilt inspired by your choice of fabrics. Pattern Provided.

415/515
Fabric Stamping Safari
Paula Benjaminson
$140

All Levels
Technique Class –
Samples Only *

Experiment with hand-carved wooden blocks from Africa, creating unique hand-stamped fabrics and learning how to use them.

Explore layering and texturing effects with different kinds of fabric paints in single images, multiple images, or “transparencies” on sheer fabrics. You will also do some rubbings, foiling, and emboss velvet. On Day Two, pick up directions for several projects you can make with your great fabrics, and learn how the designs in the carved blocks can inspire embellishments and quilting patterns that harmonize with the stamped elements. You will come away from class with a small project, and tons of ideas for your remaining pieces of original fabric.
(Sewing machine required on day 2.)
Lab fee: $15 - Paints and Other Materials

429
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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The Power of One Block
Janet Fogg
$140

All Levels
Design Class –
Project Size Varies *

When one enlarged traditional block becomes the design parameter for an art quilt, amazing opportunities to create interesting visuals arise. Janet will guide you through creative thinking and brainstorming exercises to help you see the possibilities. Options for rendering imagery onto or into your block will include broad stroke lines with appliqué and curved machine piecing for embedding your image into the block. Find out how fun it is to design within the framework of traditional lines.