501
Machine Quilting Essentials
Sue Nickels
$70

Beginning – Intermediate
Technique Class – Samples Only *

In this basic workshop, learn all aspects needed to master machine quilting.

Start with a discussion on machine quilting supplies, then progress to straight-line and free-motion machine quilting on small quilt packages.After you learn the skills to feel confident with these techniques, Sue will demonstrate how to successfully baste, package, and machine quilt the actual quilt. Go home feeling confident to quilt any size and style quilt. Many quilts will be shown for inspiration. With Sue’s patient guidance, learn all the basic skills needed to master machine quilting on your home machine.
Book Purchase Suggested: $24.95 – Machine Quilting, A Primer of Techniques

517 Art Lab: Lutradur
Kathy Shaker
$70
All Levels
Technique Class – Samples Only *

It’s paper! It’s fabric! No, it’s Lutradur, an exciting and versatile new product that can be painted, printed, layered, distorted, felted and so much more. Wear your lab coat (or artist’s apron!) as we experiment and play with a variety of art supplies and Lutradur. Use the results in art quilts, as gift tags, or let your imagination run wild!

Lab Fee: $10 – Supplies
Book Purchase Recommended: $29.95 –
Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur by Lesley Riley

503
Color with Katie
Katie Pasquini Masopust
$70
All Levels
Color Study – Samples Only *

Color and texture, warm and cool, reflective and absorbing – all the properties and moods of color in fabric will be explored using actual fabric swatches to design a color wheel and a color study wall hanging.

Learn to use color more freely, following what looks right to you, not what the text tells you it should be. This is a more emotional way to work with color. The color swatches consist of all types of fabrics, from cottons and blends, to satins and lame – everything!

519
Pretty Petals Apron
Bari Ackerman
$70

Intermediate
One Size Fits All *

It's been called a couture apron! In this apron design, rows of scalloped petals fall gently across the bottom, while the top is patchwork. This is a great project for your scraps! Or, pick a range of fat quarters for the petals and the apron top for a more controlled palette. Pattern Provided.

504
Leaf Play
Sue Spargo
$70
All Levels
12” x 16"

This is a fun hands-on wool embellishment class, studying numerous ways to create leaves. Arrive in class with your base block already appliquéd with 16 leaves, and then spend the time embellishing a one of a kind piece.

Learn many techniques including shadowing, beading, embroidery, ribbon play, and dimensional art, using different stitches, threads, and textural fabric. A kit will be mailed to you ahead of time, so come prepared to be creative.
(No sewing machine required.)
Lab Fee: $22 – Kit

520
Thicket
Colleen Blackwood
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
76" x 76" *

505
Two Color Mystery
Lawry Thorn
$70
All Levels
Double/Queen Size *

Two-Color quilts are always so dynamic in design and seem to be a favorite!

They are usually traditional in design, but so many of the new contemporary fabrics will work. Select your two favorite fabrics to work with, making sure one will be happy being the background, and after you do a bit of pre-class cutting, and maybe a bit of sewing, you will be ready to start on your double/queen size quilt top.

521 Sew Simple Pineapple
Karin Hellaby
$70
All Levels
43” x 43" *

Start with a square, and keep on adding layers till your pineapple explodes in wonderful variations of color and fabric. It's a fun idea, and with no fabric waste, it's “sew economical” too!

Can you believe there are no strange angles or special rulers? This new and unique technique has been developed by Karin and has taken the USA by storm. The class will start you off on a feast of Pineapple Chunks and Exploding Pineapple blocks for you to make into quilts and their backings!
Book Purchase Required: $13.95

506
Stars in the Garden
Sally Frey
$70
All Levels
53” x 65” * +

This quilt uses the Fast Flying Geese Ruler to make stars. Adding some great large prints, a floral background and green leaves to the stars makes this easy quilt look like a cool summer day. Sally will also go over machine appliqué in this class.

522
Cutting Edge Fabric Postcards
Karen Flamme
$70
All Levels
4” x 6" *

Ready for a vacation? Spend a day having fun, relaxing, and being creative, then send postcards about the fun to all your friends.

You'll play with fabric, fusibles, pens, embellishments, and decorative stitching to make one-of-a-kind postcards (or mini-quilts, invitations, announcements, thank-you's) ready for mailing. This class is a good time for you to try out unusual threads and decorative stitches.

507
Electric Fence
Karla Alexander
$70

All Levels
52" x 68" * +

Get ready to learn a fun and fast way to free-form cut and sew curves and design to your delight! Choose a color range – Karla chose bright summer colors – and here you go! You'll find the variations and techniques endless, as well as useful, in many of your quilts to come, plus – you'll have a blast!
Book Purchase Suggested: $26.99 – Color Shuffle! by Karla Alexander

524
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

509
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.

You will work with a pattern designed specifically for this class; which will include a lecture, trunk show, class critique, and also beginning work on a throw size quilt working with the concepts discussed. Pattern Purchase Required: $9.00 –
Glorify by Aardvark Quilts

525
Oasis
Vivienne Moore
$70

All Levels
52” x 50 1/2” *

Using strips of fabric, create a simple, yet visually dynamic wallhanging that explores the use of both color and value.

This class is fast paced, easy, and fun. You can create an abstract landscape like the class sample, or a more simple design exploring value. This is a perfect class for those who want to learn more about value in quilts.

510
The Art Of Machine Quilting
Barbara Shapel
$70

Advanced Beginning – Intermediate
Technique Class – Samples Only *

Join Barbara for a day of learning how to stitch over a dozen free-motion stitches that she uses regularly in her fiber art pieces.

She will also discuss good basting techniques, needles, thread, blocking, and what she considers when deciding on a quilting pattern. You will focus most of our time on free motion quilting.

526
Telamadera Fusion
Alma Cox
$70

All Levels
Design/Technique Class – Project Size Varies

Create a luminous work of mixed media art with a unique process called Telamadera Fusion: bringing fabric, paint and wood together.

Participants will create a one-of-a-kind art piece. Design, composition and value will be discussed, as well as paint techniques, including dimensional paint. Alma will also share ideas on how to expand the technique. This class is for those who love fabric and for those interested in learning how to layer fabric scraps with paint to create something beautiful. No sewing or drawing experience required. Alma will provide several drawing and design ideas. To see more examples, please go to www.almaart.com.
Lab Fee: $35 – Supplies (wood, paints, etc.)

511
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 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

528
Can’t Help Lovin’ ...Batiks!
Sue McMahan
$70

Advanced Beginning - Advanced
51” x 61 1/2” * +

This is a wonderful project for batiks, as their jewel tones lend themselves to this scrappy quilt. The block is an easy one and students will use cutting and piecing techniques to ensure an accurate block.

The blocks will be set diagonally with surefire instructions on how to cut and piece the corner and side-setting triangles. There is also the opportunity to use some small blocks in the centers, instead of the half-square triangle blocks, making your quilt truly unique.
Pattern Provided.

512
Dyeing 101
Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
$70

All Levels
Technique Class – Samples Only

Play with color in the dye bath and recapture the magical feeling of opening a new box of crayons on the first day of school!

This introduction to dyeing with fiber reactive dyes will include both hands-on low-water immersion dyeing experience, and insight into the chemical processes at work – opening up a world of possibilities and expanding your color confidence and palette. Lab Fee: $35 -Dyes, Fabric, & Supplies

529
Finishing Tips & Tricks
Ruth Ingham
$70
All Levels (Basic Sewing Skills Required)
Technique Class – Project Size Varies *

Learn binding techniques, including double-folded, mitered corner bindings; hidden bindings for graphic quilts; curved bindings using bias strips; the pillow-case turn technique; and other edge finishes. In addition, you will do some embellishment treatments with inserted cording, couching, and folded fabric; and you will also learn how to apply a proper sleeve. There will be demonstrations on layering a quilt, discussion on choosing the correct batting, and methods of safety pinning, spray glue, and thread basting. Bring your machine and a quilt top that you wish to finish. Book Purchase Optional: $22.95 –
Borders & Finishing Touches by Bonnie Browning

514 GO WILD!
The Endangered Species Project
Rob Appell
$70

All Levels
Approximately 34” x 44"
(Quilt size varies, depending on pattern choice) *

Rob has designed a series of art quilt patterns featuring endangered animals, in an “up close & personal” style, to help raise money to support our Endangered Species. In this class, he will help you to construct your chosen quilt using the fusible appliqué method. Current pattern choices include the Bengal Tiger, Brown Pelican, Red Wolf, Scarlet Macaw, Giant Panda, and Red-Eyed Tree Frog. $3.00 from each pattern is donated to help support these animals. There has never been a more simple and fun way to help support our Endangered Species! Pattern Purchase Required: $18.00