Upcoming Events

Free-Motion Quilting Quick Start

With Beth Ann Williams
September 5 & 12, 2024

Are you interested in free-motion quilting, but need a boost to get going? Join this beginner-friendly, hands-on introductory class. We’ll start with foundational patterning styles that you can use right away, and then explore how you can build on them as your confidence grows.  You can do this!
BONUS: You'll also receive a printable handout to keep for future reference.

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Greenhouse Mixed Technique Quilt

With Annie Smith
September 16, 2024

Greenhouse is a wonderful blend of piecing blocks and applique quilting. Techniques include y-seam construction, drafting a block and creating templates for piecing, an introduction to machine applique, and an option to use the pattern's borders or design your own. Instruction is presented at confident beginner level, introducing a new technique and section of the quilt each day.

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Discover the Magic of "Invisible" Machine Appliqué

With Beth Ann Williams
September 28, 2024

Once you know the secrets, it's easier than you'd ever believe to create the look of heirloom-quality hand appliqué with finished edges – all with your sewing machine! And when it comes to style and versatility, the sky is the limit.
This class is a great introduction to many of the more advanced appliqué-based classes I offer, while still including my favorite easy, practical techniques that even newcomers to invisible machine appliqué can use right away.
All skill levels welcome. BONUS: a printable PDF class handout will also be provided for future reference.
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Abstract-A-Licious: Easy Exercises for Abstract Art

With Lyric Montgomery Kinard
October 5, 2024

If you’ve looked with secret longing to the world of art quilts but don’t know where to start, this is the class for you. Lyric will gently guide you through a number of concrete exercises designed to help you create ideas for original abstract quilts. You will create numerous studies, starting points for creating a small art quilt top. Doodles will be scribbled, eyes and minds will be opened, and fun will be had.

3 hours live via Zoom. 1 - 4 pm eastern

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Quilted Sneakers

with Kim Oleson

Make your own quilted sneakers!
Come join the fun and make your own custom quilted shoes! You will make a quilt sandwich and use a variety of tools to punch holes, install eyelets and hand sew the uppers to the soles. Learn all of my tips and tricks for making this process fun and easy! Sneaker Sole kit required.

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Improv Log Cabin Quilt
Triangle Kaleidoscope Quilts

with Cathy Perlmutter

Learn my fun and relaxed approach to doing log cabin-style piecing on unmarked scrap paper triangles;, then turn your triangles into sparkling wall-hangings, pillows, table runners, or the start of a spectacular larger quilt! The class has 30+ videos to guide you through all the stages, with many design options. Because it’s on-demand you can take it at the pace that suits you!

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Quilt Your Jeans

with Radha Weaver

Deconstruct old jeans and transform them into modern quilted weaves, patchworks and checkerboards. Have fun, build your skills and help the planet!

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Waves and Shapes

with Carolina Oneto

In this recorded course you will design and make a mini quilt top (18” x 22”) learning how to draw, cut and sew curves. During the class you will explore different designs, and how to use value, hue and gradients to create interesting compositions. You will learn how to cut fabrics with complex shapes and how to sew these curved shapes by machine.
Join me in this new class, where you will love to DESIGN AND CREATE your own quilts. All skill levels.

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Paint with Thread

with Nanette Zeller

Thread painting (also known as free-motion embroidery) uses thread and a sewing machine to add color and texture to textile art. Join me in this new class, where you will love to DESIGN AND CREATE your own quilts. All skill levels.

This course is designed for beginners with step-by-step video lessons which demonstrate the basic techniques and inspire students to create their own original art.

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Photo To Appliqué

with Nanette Zeller

Create original fusible appliqué designs for your textile art and quilts using your own photographs. Detailed step-by-step video lessons designed for beginners and advanced students.

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Double Friendship Knots

with Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill

Master two essential quilt piecing techniques: Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP) on a machine and Needle Turn Applique by hand. In this class, you’ll learn expert tips and tricks, along with strategies for fabric selection, while creating a beautiful 18″ x 18″ Double Friendship Knot mini quilt. This class is geared towards quilters at all skill levels, from beginners and those with experience.

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Using Placement Guides for Fusible Appliqué

with Nanette Zeller

Placement Guides are a great tool for constructing fusible applique projects. They allow you to accurately assemble the applique motifs with minimal errors. They also allow you to audition your applique designs before fusing them to your quilt.

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Leaf, Fruit and Veggie Printing

with Gunnel Hag

Learn how to use real leaves, fruits and vegetables to create your own beautiful, colourful and unique fabric prints. Join this super easy, fun and creative workshop!

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Appli-Punto to Go

with Lyric Kinard

Painlessly create beautiful designs with intricate detail, perfect for quilts, wearables,  borders or accents. Long flowing, curly borders or pictures with the sharpest points and thinnest lines imaginable are possible with this easy reverse appliqué method using fusible web.

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Beginner Ruler Quilting

with Kellie Kaczmarek

Have you always wanted to learn to quilt with rulers, but were afraid to try? Then, this is the class for you! In this class you will learn all the basics of ruler work like how to set up your machine, how to set up your workspace, how to hold the ruler and that is only the start! Kellie will then take you down the stitching road where you will follow along and stitch all of the beautiful designs shown in the table topper. Why not jump into ruler quilting and get all those quilt tops quilted yourself!? All of the designs are made using just two rulers.

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16 Awesome Quilt Designs With Just 2 Rulers!

with Kellie Kaczmarek

In this on demand class, you will receive over 9 hours of instruction to help you create a beautiful quilt and learn some awesome quilt designs using two machine quilting rulers (templates)! We will start by showing you how to mark your blocks, carry on to detailed instructions on how to stitch 16 different quilt blocks (finished size 12 x12) and then how to assemble them all in a quilt using sashing. Each block is filmed on either a sit down longarm or on a domestic machine. In the class, Edgie 6 and Cheezie from Silly Moon Quilting Co. are used, but you can use similar rulers if you have them.

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