Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Maggie Wenzel will help you make these clever placemats and tablerunner with strip-pieced hearts. These are just too cute! This is a have fun and get it done 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.

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 Ruth B. McDowell’s piecing methods as you sew a straight seam Pea Pod and a curved seam Carrot or Bell Pepper. Jean will help you construct your own blocks. These clever piecing techniques make garden vegetables come to life.

Previous piecing experience required.

Sew a bunch of really cute cats into a small quilt. Maggie Wenzel will help you turn rotary cut squares and rectangles into lots of kitties. Side-by-side cats have interlocking tails! Spend a fun day sewing with Maggie. Try adding buttons for eyes. This one’s the cat’s meow!

Try easy Machine Quilting techniques in this beginning, informative workshop with Gail Abeloe. You will make samples of Stitch-in-the-Ditch, Cross Hatching and Stipple Quilting. Practice using a Walking Foot and a Darning Foot.

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.

Mary Ellen Parsons will introduce you to the ins and outs of successful landscape design. Bring photos you love and create your own small scene from the great outdoors. In case of “landscape block”, Mary Ellen will provide a pattern. No sewing, just design. All levels of experience welcome.

Wow, this Stardust quilt is made from just squares and rectangles. Turn Fat Quarters into a stunning project. Sharon Winter will help you as you spend a relaxing day sewing your project. Discover the easy sew and flip way to piece triangles. Check out Sharon’s beautiful model made with Kaffe Fassett’s fabrics.

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 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.

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

Enjoy machine piecing curves the easy one-pin way with Jean Dunn. If you like the look of curves but shy away because you think they are too difficult, then this is the class for you. Jean will help you create your project and take the mystery out of curves.