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Beginning
Quilt Making
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.
Two 5 hour classes $60
(includes pattern)
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Sat & Sun
10:00 – 3:30
July 24 & 25
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One Block
Wonder
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
July 31 |
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Hand
Applique
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
August 7 |
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Instant
Bargello
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Sunday
10:00 – 3:30
August 8 |
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Simple
Summer Sewing
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.
One 5 hour class $45
(includes pattern)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
August 14 |
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Open a Can
of Worms
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Sunday
10:00 – 3:30
August 15 |
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Silk Ribbon
Embroidery
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Sunday
10:00 – 3:30
August 22 |
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Mailsack
Bag
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.
One 5 hour class $45
(includes pattern)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
August 28 |
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Curved Landscape Circles
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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Sunday
10:00 – 3:30
August 29 |
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More
Machine Quilting
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
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
September 4 |
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Houses -
Under Construction
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.
One 5 hour class $35 |
Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
September 11 |
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Log Cabin
Quilt
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.
One 5 hour class $45
(includes pattern)
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Sunday
10:00 – 3:30
September 19 |
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Tile 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.
One 5 hour class $35
(must have own book)
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Saturday
10:30 – 4:00
September 25 |