101
Build a House a Day –
The Saltbox
Tonye Phillips
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
25” X 25”

Mixin’ it up! Take a traditional style house and “redecorate” to your hearts content. Make it crazy or keep it traditional – it’s your call. This is a needle-turn hand appliqué project with a bit of wool thrown in on the tree.
**No Sewing Machine Necessary**

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

110 Garden Party
Karla Alexander
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
44” x 68” * +

Garden Party uses many different techniques all in one sweet quilt. You’ll learn a multitude of options for the center 4-patch area – you get to choose which one you like best. Learn the magic of cutting and sewing gentle curves (no pins allowed!) You can choose how many curves or… none at all! For the borders, get ready for Sketch Appliqué – relax and enjoy using your machine to appliqué leaves and vines to your heart’s content! Have tons of fun creating your own design while learning new tips and techniques. Your confidence will grow as you master this approach to designing a quilt especially for you!

Book Required: Dynamic Quilts with Easy Curves – $24.99
(available February 2012)
Optional: Straight Out Of Line ruler – $19.00
and Curved Slotted ruler by Creative Grids – $35.00

102/202 Line Dance
Rosalie Dace
$140
Intermediate
Size Varies (approximately
36” x 36”) *

Line is one of the most vital elements of design. This class offers you the opportunity to have fun with “line” and make it work for your quilts by adding movement, texture, and vitality in smooth, graceful, sharp, crisp, or fuzzy lines. Learn to explore what sensitive, subtle, or bold lines can do for your compositions.

In this hands-on class, discover the secrets of embroidery, trapunto, piping, couching, and quilting by hand or machine to give your quilts that extra zing. Students will make several small studies or one large wall quilt using line in many sensitive and exciting ways. Slides and class examples will see you “line dancing” forever!

111 Small Studies
Gwen Marston
$70
Intermediate – Advanced
Small Samples – Approximately 10” x 12” *

This class is built on the idea of exploring abstract design by making small studies. Gwen soon began to think of these small studies as sketches. Just as painters use sketches to explore possibilities, fabric sketches are for working things out – for learning new techniques, exploring color and composition.

They are your ticket to play, and provide an expedient way to develop your own aesthetics in a safe, worry free space. Making sketches is like taking a crash course in design. This class is illustrated with Gwen’s small studies from her new book 37 Sketches.

Book Optional: 37 Sketches – $29.95

103/203 Waterdance
Barbara Shapel
$140
Beginning
19” x 57” *

The sun or the moon – which will you choose? This pattern can be interpreted in either way. In any way, however, the value of the fabric will be important in making the overall results sing. By using an easy freezer paper machine appliqué method, this complex-looking design is actually quite easy to make! The pattern includes a master drawing and step-by-step instructions to complete the quilt. Workshop attendees will also learn how to place a sun on one side of the piece and a moon on the reverse, as well as quilting instructions to really help make the water come to life.

Pattern Required: $16.50

112/212 Firefly Sewing Envelope
Sue Spargo
$140
Intermediate
9” x 12” Closed
(27” x 12” Open)*

Sue’s new large format sewing case has room to hold all your general sewing and appliqué needs. She took her most favorite features from all of her needle cases and sewing kits and designed a really user friendly case. It holds everything from a cutting mat, rotary cutter, and ruler to all your appliqué supplies.

It is made from hand dyed wool and cotton fabrics, with fun textural appliqué designs which are embellished with many stitches using hand dyed fibers. It includes many pockets and zipper pouches to hold all your sewing tools.

Pattern Required: $10

104 Hot or Cold
Scott Hansen
$70
Intermediate
54” x 54” * +

From Scott’s upcoming book Inspired Elements (due out in 2013), have a blast creating your own free-flowing and wonky mandala type quilt in your choice of hot colors (reds, oranges, pinks, yellows) or cold colors (blues, greens, purples). Learn more about Scott’s first book, coming out next year, as well as creating this wild version with all your favorite scraps…the more fabrics you bring for this quilt, the merrier it will be!! Maybe even do a little fabric swapping with a friend!

Pattern Required: Hot or Cold
from Alicia’s Attic – $8.50
(available in May)

113/213 Circles & Stars
Colleen Blackwood $140
Advanced Beginning
58” x 58” * +

Stars fill colorful circles in this fun to make quilt. It can be made larger with more blocks, but it is a fun quilt to make throw or wall size. Circles are fun and easy to make! A couple of cutting tools make accurate cutting easy – Colleen will show you how.

105
Lotus Leaves Squared
Christine Barnes
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
59 3/4” x 59 3/4” * +

Classic color concepts come into play in the making of this modular quilt. You’ll sew sixteen basic blocks, then rotary cut them through the center in both directions and reconfigure the units into seemingly complex blocks.

Variations in value—light, medium, and dark—establish the design, while a variety of pattern styles and scales give the quilt a sophistication that belies its simple construction. “Spinning” borders are easy to sew and give the quilt subtle movement.

Book Required: The Quilter’s Color Club – $27.95

114 Basic Drawing
for Machine Quilters
Janet Fogg
$70
Beginning
Size N/A

In this workshop, Janet demonstrates how to draw freehand quilting motifs. From improved meanders to finely crafted feathers, learn some of Janet’s methods of traveling through continuous line designs. Learn the key to choosing motifs that coordinate and create a cohesive look.

Students will observe Janet drawing on an overhead projector and then practice drawing with pen in their own sketchbook. No actual stitching will be done in class. Each student is encouraged to bring a quilt top to class for group discussion on creating a quilting game plan based on the motifs learned in class.  
**No Sewing Machine Necessary**

106 Bird Bath
Elizabeth Hartman
$70
Advanced Beginning – Intermediate
49” x 58” * +

This project features concentric “rings” made from modified Snowball blocks. Using a neutral solid fabric as both the center and the background for each block creates a graphic, modern pattern on the quilt top. Leftover fabric from the blocks is used to make a pieced detail on the quilt back. This is a great skill-building quilt.

Book Required: The Practical Guide to Patchwork – $24.95

115 Vintage Log Cabin
Jackie Erickson
$70
Intermediate
84” x 84” * +

Vintage Log Cabin uses a variety of light and dark fabrics to create a very scrappy quilt with a vintage-era feel. Collect reproduction fabrics or any collection you fancy for this traditional quilt. Jackie’s clever cutting directions automatically create a scrappy quilt. This quilt can be made in a smaller size.

Note: This quilt is not “fat quarter friendly.”

Pattern Required: $4

107 Wavelet
Jane Hardy Miller
$70
Advanced Beginning
42” x 60” * +

With only 2 sizes of strips to cut and a lot of strip-piecing, assembling this quilt is a snap! The curvy edges seem to appeal to everyone and yes, we will talk about how to apply the binding. This is a great size for a kid quilt or just to throw some accent colors onto your couch.

Book Required: French Braid Transformation – $24.95

116/216
Your Land is My Land
June Jaeger
$140
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
18” x 24” – 24” x 36”

In this workshop, you will create a realistic landscape of your favorite place on earth. Working from any landscape photo you desire, you will start with drafting the pattern and learning June’s “paint-by-number” technique using fabric. With fusible web, you will have a great time reproducing your photo of a special place. Watch your project bloom into a quilt for that special spot on your wall or a gift for a friend.

**No Sewing Machine Necessary**

108
Surface Design Play Day
Lynn Koolish
$70
All Levels
Technique Class –
Project Sizes Vary

Come and play with an assortment of surface design products including: Liquitex acrylic paints, inks, and mediums; Inktense Ink Pencils, Lutradur, TAP (Transfer Artist Paper), Iridescent Paintstiks, and foils.

You get to play and try things out, with as much or as little instruction as you’d like. Make a project, create fabric for something you have in mind, or just experiment. If you have supplies you’ve been wanting to try, bring them along.

Lab Fee: $20 (Supplies)

117
Glorious Flowers
Sue McMahan
$70
Advanced Beginning
42 1/2” x 56 1/2”
(without borders) *

Glorious flowers is a grand floral quilt using Kaffe Fassett’s fabrics, highlighting many of his red florals, with some pink used as well. The quilt is made of two blocks that are easily pieced and set on point. The techniques used to set a quilt “on point” will be included in this class.

109 Scrappy Mystery
Lawry Thorn
$70
Advanced Beginning – Advanced
Approximately 74” x 74” *

Those of you that like to use Bali Pops and Jelly Rolls in their quilts will enjoy this class. Plan on using some kind of pre-cut strips or rolls for this quilt, plus a background fabric. Scrappy may mean a traditional quilt pattern--but you never know if Lawry might add a twist or two! There will be a bit of pre-class cutting to give you a head start in class.

130 SIT N’ STITCH
Sally Frey
$35
All Levels

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