Free Pattern Demos

Saturday 10:30 and 2:00

by Gail Abeloe

July 17
Aug 21
Sept 18
Nov 20
Dec 11


 

* Free Quilt Pattern
* Demo how to sew the pattern
* Door Prize at both sessions
* Show and Tell

No need to sign up, just show up and enjoy the fun.

When you attend four Demos and bring back three Quilts from the patterns, you will earn a gift certificate for a free class!

Spend a weekend learning beginning quiltmaking skills. You will make a small quilt as your class project. Gail Abeloe will teach you fast rotary cutting and easy piecing techniques on Saturday. Then you will return on Sunday to machine quilt and bind your project.

One great fabric + one block = one stunning quilt. Sharon Winter will show you how to turn this intriguing idea into a stunning quilt. You make half-hexagon blocks and then design a stunning quilt. Easy cutting and sewing, no set-in seams.

Learn Maggie Wenzel easy needle-turn way to hand applique. You will practice sewing points, curves, bias stems and circles as you hand applique a Heart and Flowers block from Alex Anderson’s new book. Applique is a great take-along handwork project.

Learn the easy way to sew a Bargello quilt. Sharon Winter will show you the fun way to make a beautiful Bargello Landscape project. Let your fabric do the work! Once you’ve tried the Instant Bargello technique, you will look at fabric a whole new way.

Choose lots of batiks. Then sew 4-patch and 9-patch blocks and whip up a stunning quilt. Sharon Winter will share her tips and tricks for simple summer sewing.

Discover how to sew 2½" strips into fabulous quilts. Gail Abeloe will help you make one of three choices in this fun workshop. You choose: Four-Patch and Friends, Buzz Saw or Braid quilt. This is the book by Debbie Caffery that Gail demonstrated at the MPQG Quilt Show and Shop Hop in June.

Learn techniques to create beautiful silk ribbon embroidery. Join Maggie Wenzel’s and learn how to stitch with ribbon. Practice making stitches and then work on your class project, Iris from Ann Cox’s Handbook of Silk ribbon Embroidery. You’ll want to try stitching all the ideas in this well illustrated book.

Another great bag to make and use. Janet Taillon will help you construct this fabulous cross-body bag. Dr. Oz recommends this style bag to ease stress on our back and shoulders and improve your posture. Learn the easy way to make a zippered pocket. Janet will show you how to make her embellished flap.

Have fun with Jean Dunn. Learn gentle curved piecing as you sew landscape strips. Then cut large circles and applique them to background blocks. Stunning and easy! This class is from a fabulous design in Valori Wells’ Simple Start, Stunning Finish book.

Improve your machine quilting skills in this workshop with Sharon Winter. You know how to use a walking-foot and a darning foot, now learn a variety of intermediate machine quilting techniques as you stitch a whole-cloth banner. Sharon will demonstrate some of her professional machine skills.

Previous machine quilting experience required

No blueprints are needed to make these houses. Using a no-rules, play with your fabric approach, Karen Flamme will show you how to piece and fuse free-form, whimsical houses. We’ll emphasize the individuality of each house through fabric choices, shapes and level of detail, and then look for places to add fused and dimensional embellishments.

Turn Fat Quarters into a great Log Cabin quilt. Let Sharon Winter show you the fast way to assembly-line piece this all-time favorite design. Cut strips before class. Spend class time sewing blocks for any size quilt.

Learn the easy method for making a Tile Quilt. Join Maggie Wenzel on this new applique adventure. You don’t have to worry about seam allowances, reverse images or where to place parts on the background.
A great project for your large scale fabrics.