MAQ www.maqonline.org Mid-Appalachian Quilters 24rd Annual Educational Seminar July 15-17, 2011 Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD 21727

It's time for MAQ! If you’re a first-timer, welcome! If you’re a veteran MAQer, welcome back! Registration opens April 1 and closes June 1. Registering for classes is easy: By Web: Go to the MAQ Web site at www.maqonline.org, pick your classes, and follow the instructions that will lead you through the registration process. By mail: Complete the registration form on www.maqonline.org and mail it with your check to Louise Harris, MAQ Treasurer, 2514 Poffenberger, Middletown, MD 21769. Please note: Mail-in registrations may take up to 2 weeks to be processed, so you might not get a seat in the classes you want. Highlights of MAQ 2011: Friday, Saturday, Sunday – Classes, classes, classes Friday evening – Shopping at the instructor Vendor Mall and a special speaker Saturday evening– Shopping at the instructor Vendor Mall; MAQ business meeting; Show and Tell, featuring projects from this and past year’s MAQ classes; door prizes; and Lottery Block winners MAQ members will elect a new board for the 2012-2103 term at the Saturday evening business meeting. We hope to see you in July for a weekend of fun. If you have any questions, links to board members’ e-mail addresses are posted at www.maqonline.org. Toni, Betty, Louise, and Karen Your 2010-2011 MAQ Board

MAQ 2010 – The Basics Location Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD. (US Route 15 north of Frederick, MD, and south of Gettysburg, PA.) Accessibility, Security All classrooms and dorms are handicapped accessible with 24-hour campus security. Housing Rooms will be in Bicentennial Hall. All rooms are single occupancy in suites that house 2 to 4 people per suite. Suites feature a shared bathroom with a shower, toilet, and a sink; a lounge area; refrigerator; and linens (but the pillows are really puny). The building has an elevator. Porters Students will help you load and unload during arrival and departure at classrooms and Bicentennial Hall. Meals Residents --All meals are included from Friday’s dinner through Sunday’s lunch in the cafeteria.

Commuter students -- Meal cards are available for purchase during registration or students can pay cash for meals (average costs are $5 for breakfast, $7 for lunch, $10 for dinner). Classrooms Located about 200 yards from the dorms. Sidewalks between buildings enable the use of luggage carts to transport class supplies. An elevator is available in the classroom building. Lottery Block This year’s Lottery Block is “Split 9 Patch.” Turn in your blocks at MAQ to Linda August or Kim Jalette for a chance to win blocks during Saturday night’s program. Massages Massage therapists Cassie and Erika will offer on-site massage therapy. Sign-up sheets will be available in the lobby of Knott Academic Center. Bring cash or your checkbook to pay them for their services. Vendor Mall Instructors will sell fabric, patterns, books and other goodies Friday and Saturday evening. Supply Lists Supply lists for classes are posted on the MAQ Web site. Cancellations Cancellations before June 15 will receive an 80% refund. No refunds after June 15. You can find a substitute to take your place instead of forfeiting the fees. Helpful HintsFor All Students Bring a sweater just in case your classroom is chilly. Leave your iron at home. MAQ supplies them and we need to be careful not to overload the circuits. For Resident Students Bring:  A if you’re staying in the dorms. They can get a bit chilly.  Your own pillow. The ones provided aren’t all that great.  Hand soap for the bathroom. Classes Friday Morning Classes 9 a.m. to Noon 101 Friday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Phatkats Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Erin Method: Machine Pieced Underwood Erin@ErinUnderwoodQu ilts.com Project Size: 61” by 73” Project Rating: Easy (20 Cats) or 49” by 71” (12 Cats) Love Cats? Constructing this adorable fan quilt with absolutely no curved piecing or appliqué will make you love them even more! Choose “kitty” colors or

select a vibrant array of fabrics to spark it up a bit. The goal for this 1/2 day class is to finish two cat blocks, one left-facing and one right-facing. And when the quilt is finished, you can cuddle with all your favorite felines and not be covered in fur! Skills Taught: New technique for constructing fan blocks Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $10 for pattern

102 Friday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Stained Glass Pickup Skill Level: Beginner Sticks© Instructor: Debby Kratovil Method: Machine [email protected] Piecing Project Size: 54” by 64” Project Rating: Easy Lap Quilt or 28” by 48” Table Runner This is a “no template” quilt using only pre-cut 10- 1/2” squares. (If you have a stack of 10” squares, they will also work with this particular pattern.) Beginning with stacks of squares and a rotary cutter, you will slice and shuffle your stacks, and sew them together with skinny strips to simulate

stained glass. No bias edges, no funky cutting techniques – just straight cuts and easy sewing. A set of four squares will yield four blocks. Block size is approximately 10” finished. Skills Taught: No template rotary cutting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

103 Friday Morning Note: 4-hour Class 8 a.m. to Noon Border Patrol Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Deloa Jones Method: Hands-On [email protected] Longarm Project Size: Not Applicable Project Rating: Moderate As a longarm quilter, Deloa doesn’t turn her to quilt side borders -- it is too much work, bother, and time -- so she developed many simple free- motion designs that can be done in the borders and in sashings. Learn how to space your borders and turn the corners. You will learn a very simple, easy, and fast way to do your sashings continuously with very few starts and stops. There are 25+ simple designs for the beginner to help you get started in your free-motion border adventure on a longarm quilting machine. Skills Taught: Free motion longarm quilting Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $100 hands-on longarm practice

127 Friday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Saturday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Friday Afternoon Classes 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 104 Friday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Hand Appliqué by Machine Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Erin Underwood Method: Machine [email protected] Appliqué Project Size: 16” by 18” Project Rating: Moderate Love the look of hand appliqué but just don’t have the time for handwork? Try this technique that makes your machine appliqué look as if it was done by hand but only takes a fraction of the time. Learn all about the tricks and tools you need for success. Your quilt will look like you sat for hours and needle-turned each piece. Skills Taught: Blind hem stitch for machine appliqué, introduction to washable freezer paper Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $3 for pattern and freezer- paper templates

105 Friday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Coffee Filter Fans Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Debby Kratovil Method: Machine, [email protected] Foundation Pieced Project Size: 6” blocks; Project Rating: Easy most students opt for a 12-20 block project No kidding! You really can paper piece on large coffee filters. They are just convenient circles, which we divide, mark and use as a paper foundation. The four-blade fan is finished NOT with a quarter circle base, but with an easy to sew triangle. And the best part is Debby’s EZ method for turning the curved edge of the fan under and attaching by machine. No handwork at all. Debby brings all coffee filters for students. Skills Taught: Accurate paper piecing with Debby’s EZ method, block base finishing with triangle instead of traditional 1/4 circle, no curved sewing to finish the curved edge (honest – you use a facing technique), simple machine zig zag stitch to secure the fan block to background fabric. Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Optional; if pre- cutting is done ahead of time, many blocks can be finished Additional Class Fee: $3 for patterns and coffee filters for 16 to 20 blocks

106 Friday Afternoon Note: 4-hour Class 1:30 to 5:30 Quilt Me a Garden Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: DeLoa Jones Method: Hands-On [email protected] Longarm Project Size: NA Project Rating: Moderate Finally, flowers in my house that won’t die. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, with some very simple shapes and techniques, you can quilt beautiful flowers that you can use in motifs, wreaths, and overalls. Deloa will teach you several leaf vines for borders and sashings. Your flower arrangements will only be limited by your imagination. Skills Taught: Free motion longarm flowers Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice

128 Friday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Saturday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Friday All-Day Classes 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. No Image available 107 Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Perfecting Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Carol Method: Machine piecing Blevins [email protected] Project Size: Various Project Rating: Easy samples Are your points pointed? Do your intersections match? Are your squares really square? Are your seams accurate? (I hear a little song!) Do you know all the latest, up-to-date methods of making patchwork? Do you want to make your patchwork better? There’s always room for improvement! Learn lots of tips and tricks from Carol to make your patchwork easier, more efficient, and better looking. Class will include lots of visuals, lecture, demos, and hands-on time at the sewing machine. Skills Taught: Basic machine piecing techniques Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees: $5 for handouts

108 Friday Chicky Make- Skill Level: Beginner- Do/Pincushion Intermediate Instructor: Diane Daniels Method: Hand and [email protected] Machine Project Size: 8” to 9” tall Project Rating: Easy This spring chick is reminiscent of the old Victorian era sewing essentials made with things on hand or worn out. Made from a vintage, boiled wool blanket, this little chick holds a heart emery sharpener from her beak. She will sit proudly among your other sewing collections. Even the “glass” candlestick gets a special treatment to

create an aged, iron look. Skills Taught: Faux finishing the glass candlestick base to create an “iron look,” machine and hand sewing, basic blanket and x-stitches, creating and stuffing a soft sculptured pincushion form Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees : $34 for kit that includes glass candlestick, yellow wool for chick, wool strips for tail feathers, red wool for heart, small muslin fabric square for emery bag, emery sand, pre-stamped manila tag, eye beads, 4-inch wood dowel, complete instructions, pattern and photo.

109 Friday Beading for Quilters I Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Patty Estey Method: Hand [email protected]

Project Size: Not applicable Project Rating: Easy/Moderate In the morning, you will practice basic beading stitches to lay down beads and create texture. In the afternoon, you will attach a cabochon using the peyote stitch. Throughout the day, Patty will provide useful information like the quality of beads, thread types, needle size, choosing beads and respective sizes, single versus double thread, and how to “milk the thread”. If there is extra time, Patty will teach a very useful and fun bead chain. Skills Taught: Basic beading techniques Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees $10 for beads, threads, needles, and fabrics

110 Friday Anything Goes Star Skill Level: Beginner Tessellation Instructor: Gyleen Fitzgerald Method: Machine [email protected] Project Size: 60” by 80” Project Rating: Easy This is an encore workshop turning a wall hanging design into a full-size bed quilt. Begin by using 2” strips for a 9” block to get you to that bed quilt in a hurry. Geometric and fun for this and that type of fabric; heck, why not use your whole fabric collection? Feel free to mix in your batiks or homespun for added sparkle. Learn the technique of using simple shapes to make an interlocking design. Easy to piece with Gyleen's map technique. Skills Taught: Use of Easy Angle tool and mapping technique Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

111 Friday Painted Landscapes 101 Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Diane Holmes Method: Painting [email protected] and Machine Painting and Machine Quilting Project Size: 24” Project Rating: Easy First, paint a sky reflecting your mood, a sky reflecting into a pool of water, or a sky with a flowery meadow in the foreground. You’ll paint with real paint then use thread to paint trees, bushes, clouds, and ripples of water. Yes, you can really do this! Learn which paints to use, how to blend colors, how to cover mistakes, and how to stitcha one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Move over, Monet! Bring photos or magazine clippings of sunsets, skies, and scenes you’d like to re-create. Skills Taught: Painting and thread painting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes, see above Additional Class Fee: $8 pattern fee

112 Friday Speed Bumps Ahead Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Lona Gayle Method: Machine Hull [email protected] Project Size: 15” by 15” Project Rating: inches Moderate This class is for students who know how to use their sewing machines but need more instruction to feel comfortable doing their own machine quilting at home. Lona will teach you about choosing batting, marking the top, basting the quilt sandwich, and choosing quilting patterns. She will also teach how to free-motion quilt, addressing topics including sewing machine operation for quilting, balancing machine tension for different thread types, managing a large quilt. Finally she will teach you and finishing techniques, including binding. Skills Taught: Marking a quilting pattern, choosing a batting, basting a quilt, sewing machine operation for quilting, balancing tension for thread types, managing a large quilt, choosing quilting patterns, easy free-motion techniques, finishing techniques, and binding directions Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $10 booklet fee. Optional fabric kits will be available for $20 that include a marked top, coordinating backing, and thread OR you may bring your own fabric and mark it in class with the provided pattern

113 Friday Snail Trail Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Kim Jalette Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 45” by 50” Project Rating: Moderate The traditional Snail Trail block is easy using the “Square in a Square” ruler. Learn how to construct a single block and then use a very simple setting to gain great results. The class sample is scrappy, but you can also use two colors for a very pleasing result. Suitable for a confident beginner; you should be able to accurately rotary cut strips and sew a consistent ¼” seam allowance. No experience with the “Square in a Square” ruler is required. Pre-class preparation includes cutting your strips at home so that you can begin sewing almost immediately in class. Skills Taught: Use of the “Square in a Square” ruler, a specific quilter’s tool that allows quick, accurate, assembly line construction of units. The ruler is multi-use, not just for this one particular pattern, so student will be able to take skills learned and apply to making many other quilt designs Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

114 Friday Sunburst Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Instructor: Fran Kordek Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 18” square Project Rating: Moderate This block was inspired by a quilt that resides at the Pearl S. Buck birthplace and documented during the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search. It resembles the Dresden Plate but is challenging because of inserted squares between the spokes and a ring of triangles outlining the design. Strip piecing and freezer paper templates will aid in its construction. The class project is an 18” pieced block, suitable for a wall hanging, a pillow, or the start of a large quilt. Prerequisite: good rotary cutting and machine piecing skills. Skills Taught: Freezer paper template techniques, precision piecing Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $6 for pattern, instructions, some supplies

115 Friday Rags to Riches: The Scrap Skill Level: Confident Quilt Beginner Instructor: Merry May Method: Machine/ [email protected] Pieced Project Size: 38” square Project Rating: Easy The first item of business will be a fabric swap so everyone will have a wide variety of fabrics to work with. Next, you will learn how to sort your squares by value, and then learn how to combine them into an easy scrappy block pattern. You'll wonder why you never tried making a scrap quilt before! Skills Taught: Value and contrast, easy triangle piecing Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

116 Friday Sunset Strip Sweatshirt Skill Level: Beginner Jacket Instructor: Jerri McKee Method: [email protected] Machine/Pieced Project Size: Jacket Project Rating: Easy

This beautiful jacket uses the sweatshirt for the jacket base and the pattern pieces. If you have never made a jacket, this is the perfect beginner class, and if you are an expert, Jerri will find something a little more challenging for you to add to your jacket. We will be doing an easy flip and sew method that will sew and quilt the jacket at the same time. This jacket is great for gifts or for when you need a jacket (right away) for a special occasion, because it is so easy to do. Skills Taught: Flip and sew method of piecing, how to fit the sweatshirt, disassembling and reassembling the sweatshirt into a jacket where the sweatshirt does not show Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $5.50 for pattern (half price); optional kit available for $50, $22 for lining

117 Friday Good Neighbors Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jackie Paton Method: Appliqué, Pieced, Painting Project Size: 34” square Project Rating: Easy Do you like scrap projects? Here’s a class to use your scraps in a folky Americana scene. The center section is painted in class and an original pattern is provided for the pieced and appliquéd borders. Skills Taught: Stencilscape painting and integrating it into traditional quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and all paint supplies

118 Friday Quilt Carry Bag Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jeanette Pie’ Method: Machine, [email protected] Quilt As You Go Project Size: 33” wide, Project Rating: stretching over 45” when full of Easy quilts This bag is deceptively spacious and holds more quilts than you would imagine. If you are off to a “Show and Tell,” it is perfect for transporting your quilts safely. This is the perfect size project to learn how to do “quilt as you go.” Jeanette also uses her bag for carrying a quilt that she’s applying binding to. As quilters, we are always toting a quilt from place to place, why not tote your quilt in style? Skills Taught: Quilt as you go technique while applying strips, how to apply magnetic snaps, how to make a nice strong bag handle by covering cotton webbing Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

119 Friday Elegant Hearts Skill Level: All Instructor: Linda M. Poole Method: [email protected] Hand/Machine/Appliqué Project Size: 28” by 30” Project Rating: Easy without borders Elegant hearts can be used year round as a table runner or a skinny wall hanging. One simple basic design repeated three more times gives the elegance of old-world scrollwork. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not. Skills Taught: Machine or hand appliqué techniques, appliqué swirls, circles, and points Supply List: Yes Class Pre-Cut Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for full-size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, one water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, ready- to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

120 Friday Italian Tiles Skill Level: Advanced Beginner, Intermediate Instructor: Patty Method: Machine Prodonovich [email protected] Project Size: 50” by 66” Project Rating: Easy Take a stack of four fabrics, whack’em with four straight cuts and end up with 36 pattern pieces (triangles, squares & rectangles) enough for four assorted blocks. Do this several times and you’ve got all the blocks for this stunning little quilt. These blocks sew up almost as easily as they are cut. Gather an assortment of fabrics and have a whack. Coordinated fabrics from a line, a color palette, or true scraps make up equally as well. Skills Taught: Rotary cutting, machine chain piecing, squaring up the block Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

121 Friday Fun-da-tion Bag Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate Instructor: Mary Beth Method: Scarborough Machine/Pieced [email protected] Project Size: Medium Project Rating: Easy/Moderate Have you ever done -- not paper piecing? This is done on printed muslin. Already to go. No drawing the pattern. If you like perfect points, this is the project for you. Skills Taught: Accurate piecing, proper pressing Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $9.29 pattern, $3 foundation

122 Friday Usin’ Fusin’ (And Other Skill Level: Advanced Fun Stuff) to Express Beginner Yourself! Instructor: Michele Scott Method: Appliqué [email protected] / [email protected] Project Size: 24” by 30” Project Rating: Easy Using fusing, seamless piecing, and decorator threads and yarns, you will create a small innovative quilt that you design. Raw edge appliqué with fusible web, machine quilting, and embellishment will express something important to you: A feeling, a person, a garden, the beach. The doors of creativity will open in this fast and fun class as we investigate free form cutting to build collage‐type artworks that express you. Additional focus will be placed on color and line that can translate your feeling. Skills Taught: Fusible raw edge appliqué, machine quilting, bobbin quilting, couching, design skills, color theory Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

123 Friday Star Struck Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Linda J. Hahn Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: Not available Project Rating: Easy This is the virtual quilt of Linda’s new design. The pattern went to the publisher in mid-September, and Linda is almost done with the batik version. Skills Taught: Quick piecing Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $9 for pattern

124 Friday Triple Stars Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Kathy Method: Machine Schwabeland Pieced [email protected] Project Size: Large lap Project Rating: Easy to quilt Moderate These stars are a breeze to put together using a special stacking technique. You’ll stack your fabrics, cut them once, and move on to sewing the stars all together. It’s that easy. You can choose to do this quilt in two colors or opt for using more colors. Either way, your quilt will turn out splendid. Skills Taught: Buggy Barn way of quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

125 Friday Chinese Coins Skill Level: All With Rotary Cutting Experience Instructor: Susan Grancio Method: Machine [email protected] Pieced, Quilt As You Go Project Size: 40” by 56” Project Rating: Easy This quilt combines the best of strip piecing and “quilt as you go” to make a generous throw-size quilt in a day. No kidding, you’ll have everything but some machine quilting in the border and the binding completed in the class. Choose a theme, collect a little bit of lots of different fabrics, then cut strips in a variety of widths. You’ll do some strip piecing, cross-cutting, and shuffling before joining the long pieced panels. Next, you’ll layer the backing, batting, one strip and one sashing piece, sew and flip and repeat. Before you know it, you’ll be adding the borders “quilt as you go” style and have a quilt that is ready for finishing touches! Skills Taught: Piecing random selections of a wide variety of fabrics, quilt as you go, machine quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

126 Friday Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Saturday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Friday and Saturday Classes 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 201 Days: Friday and Saturday Mastering the Mariner’s Compass Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Paula Golden Method: [email protected] Hand/Machine Pieced Project Size: Varies Project Rating: Moderate- Challenging Learn the secrets of drafting a mariner’s compass in a circle, oval, and off-center designs with plenty of time to develop variations of your design. Become versed in a variety of hand and machine piecing techniques and convert your compass into a paper foundation pattern. Accurate piecing and proper placement of value will have you setting sail with confidence! Skills Taught: Drafting a mariner’s compass, template use, hand and machine piecing techniques, use of color and value to emphasize design, creating mariner’s compass quilt design variations Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

202 Days: Friday and Saturday Tree of Life Sampler Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Instructor: Karen Witt Method: Machine [email protected] and/or hand appliqué and machine piecing Project Size: Bed quilt Project Rating: 88” by 100” or Wall Moderate Hanging 43” by 55” Based on 18th century Palampores/bed coverings from India, this style of quilt uses large-scale chintz fabrics (think drapery fabric) to create the flowers on the center tree. Both Washington and Jefferson were fascinated with the idea of a “tree of life” on which every fruit and vegetable could be grown. Learn hand and/or machine appliqué techniques for -- an early appliqué method using large floral fabrics. Then, use rotary cutting and speed piecing to complete the outside borders. The appliqué makes a gorgeous focal point on the bed! Or, make fewer borders for a dynamic wall hanging. Also, looks great in contemporary fabrics, even batiks. Class discussions will include period-appropriate fabric choices, quilting designs, and edge finishes. Skills Taught: Machine appliqué with buttonhole stitch, rotary cutting, speed piecing. Hand appliqué and hand buttonhole stitch techniques will be demonstrated. Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees: $10 for pattern Saturday Morning Classes 9 a.m. to Noon 301 Saturday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Swirly Bird Skill Level: All Instructor: Linda M. Method: Hand/Machine Poole Appliqué Linda@lindampoole .com Project Size: 21” by Project Rating: Easy 21” Appliquéing swirls, circles and points are easier than you could ever imagine once you learn Linda’s glue-stick freezer- paper appliqué techniques. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué

simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not. Skills Taught: Machine and/or hand appliqué, Learning to appliqué swirls, circles and points Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $15 for size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, embroidery floss, ready-to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

302 Saturday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Doodle Quilting Skill Level: All Instructor: Lona Method: Lecture Gayle Hull [email protected] m Project Size: Not Project Rating: Moderate applicable If you can doodle on paper with a pencil then you can quilt that design motif in thread. It is as simple as writing your name. The class booklet contains more than 100 quilting designs for your home domestic sewing machine. This class lecture will cover batting choices, appropriateness of design placement, families of quilting motifs, how to handle a large quilt, as well as numerous other tips for successful machine quilting on your home sewing machine. Skills Taught: Batting choices, thread choices, sewing machine adjustments, and over one hundred design fillers for added texture and interest to your machine quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $15 for printed, spiral-bound booklet with more than 100 machine quilting designs

303 Saturday Morning Note: 4-hour Class 8 a.m. to Noon The Basics of Feathering Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: DeLoa Jones Method: Hands-On [email protected] Longarm Project Size: NA Project Rating: Moderate Unlock the mystery of free-motion feathers. These feathers are simple and easy but yet elegant for any quilt. You will learn the basic feather and then how to use it in crosses, wreaths, hearts, swags, and borders. Learn how to vary the feather shape to fit into different quilt styles. Deloa offers many designs and ideas in this class. Skills Taught: Free motion longarm feathers Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice

322 Saturday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Saturday Afternoon Classes 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. 304 Saturday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Simple Joy Skill Level: All Instructor: Linda M. Method: Hand/Machine Poole Appliqué Linda@lindampoole .com Project Size: 24” by Project Rating: Easy 29” Appliquéing swirls, circles and points are easier than you could ever imagine once you learn Linda’s glue-stick freezer-paper appliqué techniques. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not. Skills Taught: Machine and/or hand appliqué, Learning to appliqué swirls, circles and points Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $15 for size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, embroidery floss, ready-to-go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

305 Friday Afternoon Note: 4-hour Class 1:30 to 5:30 Filling in the Fillers Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: DeLoa Jones Method: Hands-On [email protected] Longarm Project Size: NA Project Rating: Moderate These designs are not for the faint of heart. In fact, it usually takes a while for someone to figure out how you did them. DeLoa takes a background filler stencil, such as crosshatching, clamshell, or clouds, and use it as a guide for free motion quilting. It is such a cool concept. Background designs, such as interlocking circles, twists, and flaming clamshells all become easy and unique. Every time DeLoa teaches the class, her students come up with even more ideas. Let DeLoa introduce you to this technique and see what wonderful things you can imagine. Skills Taught: Free motion longarm techniques Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $100 for hands-on longarm practice and $28 for stencils

323 Saturday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Saturday All-Day Classes 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 306 Saturday Friendship Heart Penny Skill Level: Beginner to Rug Intermediate Instructor: Diane Daniels Method: Hand Appliqué [email protected] Project Size: 12” round Project Rating: Easy to including lamb’s tongue Moderate border Here is a moderately easy project that is perfect for the first time penny rug student as well as anyone more advanced in wool appliqué. An early American folk-craft tradition, the penny rug was popular from the late Colonial period to the post-Civil War era.

These earlier rugs were actually used as table decorations or bed coverings. Diane will teach you her many tips and tricks. You will learn how to evenly space your blanket stitches and anchor them around curves. Everyone will receive handouts on the basic embroidery stitches and a list of heartfelt quotations to personalize your own penny rug or one for a dear friend! Skills Taught: Tips and tricks for tracing and ironing freezer paper patterns to wool, basic buttonhole, stem and primitive back stitches, how to evenly space and stitch lettering on wool, and how construct and assemble a lamb’s tongue border Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $34 for pre-washed and felted 100 percent wool for entire project, paper pattern, complete instructions, a list of heartfelt quotations to choose from, color photo, and basic embroidery stitching handouts

307 Saturday Beading for Quilters I Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Patty Estey Method: Hand [email protected]

Project Size: Not applicable Project Rating: Easy/Moderate In the morning, you will practice basic beading stitches to lay down beads and create texture. In the afternoon you will attach a cabochon using the peyote stitch. Throughout the day, Patty will discuss useful information like the quality of beads, thread types, needle size, choosing beads and respective sizes, single versus double thread, and how to “milk the thread. If there is time, Patty will teach a very useful and fun bead chain. Skills Taught: Basic beading techniques Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees $10 for beads, threads, needles and fabrics

308 Saturday Junk to Gems Skill Level: All Instructor: Linda Hahn Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: Varies Project Rating: Easy Another Stash Basher quilt! Learn to use it up, make it do, or do without. This quilt uses mostly 2 1/2” squares and is Accuquilt Go!, Jelly Roll and Bali Pop friendly. You can make this quilt as large or as small as you’d like, and you can choose whether to add borders or not. Easy Skills Taught: Stash reduction, working with connector squares, color theory, design Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $9 for pattern

309 Saturday Woven Wonders Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Diane Holmes Method: Painting [email protected] and Machine Painting and Machine Quilting Project Size: 24” square Project Rating: Easy to Moderate Design your own fabric? Well, sort of! Take two pre-washed fabrics and blend them into one with a weaving process that has endless uses. Use the new “designer” fabric in wall hangings, quilts, pillows, tote bags, vests, jackets and other wearables. We will create a 3-D wall hanging to get you accustomed to the feel of the method and then take off and make wonderful creations. Weaving fabric couldn’t be easier. Skills Taught: Designing your own fabric, weaving fabrics together to create a designer look, creating 3-D images from two layers of fabric and using them to embellish a project, instruction on various fusible products and how to use them, embellishing fused items Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

310 Saturday Storm at Sea Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Kim Jalette Method: Machine/Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 50” by 60” Project Rating: Moderate Using the “Square in a Square” ruler, make the traditional Storm at Sea pattern more easily than ever imagined without cutting any individual triangles or using a paper-piecing technique. Everyone loves this design with its optical illusions of curved piecing (no, there isn’t any!) Suitable for a confident beginner: you should be able to accurately rotary cut strips and sew a consistent ¼” seam allowance. No experience with the “Square in a Square” ruler is required. Pre-class preparation includes cutting your strips at home so that you can begin sewing almost immediately in class. Skills Taught: Use of the “Square in a Square” ruler, a specific quilter’s tool that allows quick, accurate, assembly line construction of units. The ruler is multi-use, not just for this one particular pattern, so student will be able to take skills learned and apply to making many other quilt designs Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

311 Saturday One Day Lone Star Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Debby Kratovil Method: Machine [email protected] Piecing Project Size: 55” by 55” Project Rating: Moderate This large (35”) eight-pointed star is all rotary cut and strip pieced. Each of the 45-degree diamonds is a nine patch created with five colors. It is made either with or without set-in seams. Most students finish the center 35” star in the all-day workshop if they pre-cut their strips. Debby includes her Magical Mitering lesson for the outside border to complete this dynamic 55” by 55” quilt. Skills Taught: Accurate 1/4” seam, cutting 45- degree angles, optional set-in of side squares and triangles, setting an eight-pointed star with large triangles (instead of set-ins), working with bias edges Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

312 Saturday String Pieced Table Skill Level: Confident Runner Beginner Instructor: Merry May Method: Machine [email protected] Pieced Project Size: 13” by 39” Project Rating: Easy The personality of this scrappy string-pieced table runner depends on the theme of the fabrics you choose for it. Think Christmas, country, zingy, spring, or even Halloween! The possibilities are endless, and the project is fun and easy -- what more could you ask for? Skills Taught: Working with scraps, easy piecing on a fabric foundation Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

313 Saturday Just Leaf It To Me Skill Level: Beginner Sweatshirt Jacket Instructor: Jerri McKee Method: [email protected] Machine/Pieced Project Size: Jacket Project Rating: Easy to Moderate This beautiful jacket uses a sweatshirt for the jacket base and the pattern pieces. If you have never made a jacket, this is the perfect beginner class. And if you are an expert, Jerri will find something a little more challenging for you to add to your jacket. We will be doing some fusible appliqué with blanket stitch around some wonderful falling leaves. This jacket also has great pieced pockets! Skills Taught: Strip piecing, fusible appliqué and embellishments, how to fit the sweatshirt, disassembling and reassembling the sweatshirt into a jacket where the sweatshirt does not show Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $5.50 for pattern (half price); optional kit available for $50, $22 for lining

314 Saturday Frost Farm Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jackie Paton Method: Painting. Appliqué, Pieced Project Size: 36” square Project Rating: Easy to Moderate Come and make your snowflakes fall with Jackie’s scrappy folk art style winter scene. The project has a stenciled center section and appliquéd and pieced borders. The painted section will be completed in class and is suitable for framing or can be bordered using Jackie’s pattern. No painting skills or sewing machine is required. Skills Taught: Stencilscape painting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and all paint supplies

315 Saturday Geese in the Fields Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jeanette Pie’ Method: Machine Jeanette@EasyAsPieDesign s.com Project Size: 57” by 87” Project Rating: Easy This quilt was designed to be made with 13 fat quarters. These fabrics will make up the “geese” and the big squares. You will also need 2 ½ yards of a contrasting fabric for the background or sky pieces and the remaining pieces of the border. Jeanette uses the Fast Flying Geese technique to make her flying geese, and her sample was made out of flannels, which are known to be a little stretchy, but not with this technique -- they come out perfectly. You will want to make more than one. Skills Taught: Fast Flying Geese technique that uses one large square for the geese and four small squares to make the background triangles (no bias edges), accurately applying binding Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $8 for pattern

316 Saturday Toile Stars Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Patty Method: Machine Prodonovich [email protected] Project Size: 44” by 60” Project Rating: Moderate Using only two colors makes it easy to choose fabrics for this eye-catching quilt. Stars are constructed using the Tri-Recs tool and the quilt is assembled on the diagonal. Skills Taught: Machine piecing, using the Tri-Recs tool, making a square within a square unit, assembling a quilt on the diagonal Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

317 Saturday Holiday Cheer Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate Instructor: Mary Beth Method: Machine Scarborough Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 63” by 80” Project Rating: Easy to Moderate Mary Beth will show you this fun new technique that uses your stash of Jelly Rolls or cut strips. You will not be cutting on the bias, and making the blocks goes quickly. It’s also fun deciding block placement. You cannot do this quilt wrong -- what fun! Mary Beth will also show you how to use your leftovers in a table runner, placemats, and hot pads. Skills Taught: Use of a new ruler, piecing, squaring up blocks, placing blocks Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $9.29 pattern, $16.99 for “Strip Tube” ruler

318 Saturday Bobbinpalooza Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced Instructor: Michele Scott Method: Machine [email protected] / Quilting [email protected] Project Size: Not Applicable Project Rating: Easy Why agonize over those breaking needles and shredded threads that you’ve bought for machine quilting? Put them in the bobbin, flip over the quilt, and quilt it upside-down! In this class, you will problem solve your way through a multitude of decorative threads and yarns (yes, you’ll do lots of couching!) You’ll first try the different tips and tricks Michele’s acquired over the years to put the threads through the top. If that doesn’t work, we’ll bobbin- quilt it! Get familiar with your machine and adjusting both top and bottom tension while learning all those cool free-motion quilting patterns that don’t need marking. This is information packed class! To be successful in this class, you’ll need: • A foot that gives you the capacity for free motion (darning foot) and the ability to drop or cover your feed dogs. Please test this prior to signing up for the class. • An extra bobbin case (you can purchase one from your dealer). You need to loosen the tension thicker threads that will not go through the top. You do not have to purchase one if you are comfortable with adjusting your machine’s bobbin case. • If you have a machine with a drop in bobbin case, ask your dealer if your machine model has a replaceable case that can adjust the tension. I know some machines have this option. If not, we can bypass your bobbin tension with the thick threads. Skills Taught: Free-form machine quilting, bobbin quilting, couching Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

319 Saturday Diamond Star Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Erin Method: Machine Pieced Underwood Erin@ErinUnderwoodQuilt s.com Project Size: 72” square Project Rating: Moderate or 96” square Create a sparkling medallion star with long strips instead of lots of bias-cut diamonds. And to make it even easier, the construction technique is designed to avoid set-in Y seams and bias edges. Just a little bit of precision is all that is required to achieve success with this easy-to-construct quilt. Choose from two sizes: 72” or 96” square. Great for the confident beginner. And what a quilt when you're finished! Skills Taught: Sewing accurate ¼-inch seams, pressing seams, working with 45-degree angles Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $10 for pattern

320 Saturday T2T Pineapple Quilt Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Gyleen Fitzgerald Method: Machine [email protected] Project Size: 40” by 40” or Project Rating: Easy larger Isn’t it time to clear the clutter in your life? What about using up all those bits and pieces stuff in nooks, crannies, and boxes? Let’s make an old- fashioned favorite pineapple quilt with a new and contemporary twist. Sewn with perfection, totally random, and without paper piecing, this class turns trash into a treasured one-of-a-kind pineapple quilt. Skills Taught: Stress free sewing, clearing clutter Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fees: $30 for Pineapple Tool and Trash to Treasure Pineapple Book

321 Saturday Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Sunday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Saturday and Sunday Classes 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 401 Saturday afternoon (1:30 to 4:30 p.m.) and All Day Sunday It Is Easier Than You Skill Level: Advanced Think – Flowers by Beginner/Intermediate Design Instructor: Lona Gayle Method: Hand Hull [email protected] Project Size: 15 by 15 Project Rating: Moderate inches Do you love but want to design your own rather than copy the antique patterns? This class will combine the Baltimore style with design principles from floral arrangements. Lona will give suggestions for block composition, vases/containers, focus flowers, accent flowers, filler flowers, and leaves. She’ll also cover several techniques for appliqué with the construction of five dimensional flowers. Skills Taught: Designing blocks based on the elements and principles of design as applied to floral arrangements and appliqué blocks, several methods of appliqué technique with several three-dimensional flowers Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for large booklet, drawing paper, fabric overlay, and small tools that make hand appliqué easier

402 Saturday and Sunday Bright Beauty Skill Level: Advanced Beginner through Advanced Instructor: Carol Blevins Method: Machine, [email protected] Appliqué Project Size: 24” by 29” Project Rating: Easy This cheerful and exuberant wall hanging features four rectangles filled with flowers and leaves. Each rectangle presents a different design arrangement of those flowers and leaves: horizontal, vertical, corner, and S curve. Appliqué techniques include invisible lined appliqué, satin stitch appliqué, and blanket stitch appliqué. Each block is machine quilted with different background styles and the four units are assembled in a quilt as you go format that requires no handwork. This entire piece will be accomplished on the sewing machine. Skills Taught: Machine lined appliqué, some machine quilting, some quilt-as-you-go techniques Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $7 for pattern and Do Sew

403 Saturday and Sunday Winding Skill Level: Ways/Wheels of Intermediate/Advanced Mystery Instructor: Fran Kordek Method: Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 15” by 32” Project Rating: Challenging Learn techniques to handle gently curved pieced seams. Class project will focus on the traditional two-fabric layout (choice of table runner or start a small wall hanging), or let the creative juices flow and use this intriguing design to create an original piece. Good piecing skills are required. Skills Taught: Piecing curved seams, original design Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $18 for template set

404 Saturday and Sunday Cakes! Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Instructor: Kathy Method: Machine, Schwabeland Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 34” by 52” or Project Rating: Easy to 56” by 72” Moderate Cake marks many milestones in life -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, and retirements. Everyone has fond memories of a special cake made just for them. With this quilt, your cakes last forever. Using a special stacking technique, you’ll layer your fabrics, cut them out all at once, shuffle the pieces, and sew! No points to worry about matching with this quilt, making it easy to create for even the less- experience quilter. Students will have different size options to choose from as well as a variety of border options. Let’s get baking! Skills taught: Buggy Barn way of quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

405 Saturday and Sunday Landscape Quilts from Skill Level: Photos Intermediate Instructor: Susan Grancio Method: Machine [email protected] Project Size: Wall hanging, Project Rating: depends on size of Moderate to enlargement Challenging Here is your chance to turn a wonderful photographic memory into any original quilt. Bring several enlargements of your photos of favorite landscapes. You will use tracing paper to create a line pattern of the elements of the picture you select. The tracing will be enlarged to a full-size pattern, which you will then use to create the freezer-paper templates for piecing your quilt. This technique allows very accurate piecing and the opportunity to audition a variety of fabrics before you sew. Choose to design a quilt that is very detailed and realistic or one that is more abstract, depending on the way you create your pattern shapes and the select your fabrics. Skills Taught: Creating an original pattern by tracing and enlarging, working with freezer paper templates on the back of the fabrics to be sewn, making fabric choices to emphasize design Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: Approximately $7 for the actual cost of enlarging the pattern

Sunday Morning Classes 9 a.m. to Noon

501 Sunday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Cathedral Windows Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Merry May Method: Machine [email protected] Pieced, Appliqué Project Size: 15” by 30” table Project Rating: Easy runner or a 12” by 12” pillow cover Learn how to make this traditional project, starting out with your sewing machine and then hand finishing it with beautiful “windows." It's a great project to carry around and work on at the pool or beach. Skills Taught: Working with scraps; easy piecing of muslin background Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fees: None

522 Sunday Morning 9 a.m. to Noon Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Saturday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Sunday Afternoon Classes 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

523 Sunday Afternoon 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Saturday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No

Sunday All-Day Classes 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

502 Sunday Watermelon Pincushion Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate Instructor: Diane Daniels Method: Hand and [email protected] Machine Project Size: 3-1/2” tall by Project Rating: Easy 7-1/2” wide Many old-fashioned Victorian-era pincushions were fashioned after summertime fruit! You’ll be very pleased with Diane’s hand-dyed velvet and wool Watermelon version. The Army blanket and chenille rick-rack rind enhances the old-time look of this velvet watermelon. This is just a sweet pincushion that wouldn’t be complete without the accent of black, square Rochaille “seed” beads and an aged tag tied on with special ribbon and trim. Skills Taught: Machine and hand sewing, basic ladder and whip stitches, proper way to attach bead clusters secured through an interfacing, creating a nicely shaped and weighted pincushion form using sand/sawdust filler Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee:$28 for hand-dyed cotton velvet, green army blanket wool for the watermelon outer rind, soft-yellow chenille (or jumbo cotton) rickrack for inner rind, black rochaille “seed” beads, emery sand and (pre-sewn) muslin emery bag (for pin sharpener inside the watermelon), sand/sawdust weighted filler, aged pre-stamped manila tag, special ribbon and trim, black painted corsage pin, photo, pattern and instructions

503 Sunday Beading for Quilters II Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate Instructor: Patty Estey Method: Hand [email protected]

Project Size: 6” to 10” Project Rating: square Easy/Moderate For this class you will work on a small beaded project. Patty gives you a choice of embellishing a pattern fabric or creating an entire beaded piece. You will have a choice of fabric, beads and a cabochon. You can use the stitches you learned in Beading for Quilters I, and edging stitches will be added. Patty will discuss embellishing versus creating an entire beaded piece. Skills Taught: Beading techniques Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees $15 for beads, threads, needles and fabrics

504 Sunday It Takes Seven Sisters Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Gyleen Fitzgerald Method: Machine [email protected] Project Size: 36” by 38” Project Rating: Moderate Nothing is more stunning than 20 brilliant stars made from diamonds. “Seven Sisters” is what makes this quilt sparkle. The power in the sparkle is created by using 20 great fabrics from a narrow color palette. For this class, you can choose to make either a tumbling block charm quilt or a Seven Sisters star quilt. Both quilts use the same template and technique. Come ready to relax and chat; you are not expected to finish this in class since there is no speed sewing. This beauty takes time to complete. Skills Taught: Precision piecing of diamonds and how to complete a butterfly seam Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

506 Days: Sunday Art to Mail Skill Level: All Instructor: Paula Golden Method: Machine [email protected] Project Size: 4” by 6” Project Rating: Easy Create a small “art” quilt suitable for mailing, framing, or hanging. Fast and fun, fuse or piece – the possibilities are endless! It’s hard to stop at just one! Skills Taught: Basics of design, machine quilting and embellishing, photo transfer Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: None

507 Sunday Fearless New York Skill Level: Confident Beauty Beginner Instructor: Linda Hahn Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: Varies Project Rating: Moderate Fearlessly create this complex looking block with Linda’s unique technique that uses just one pin. There’s just one word to describe it: Wow! Linda will share numerous layouts for you to choose from and some simple quilting designs for when your top is done. Please see note in additional class fee section, below, before registering for this class. Skills Taught: Paper piecing, curved piecing, color and design Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $22 for kit that includes custom made acrylic templates, pattern, layout choices, EQ Foundation Paper and shipping. Kits MUST be ordered prior to the class to enable student to copy the pattern onto the foundation paper.

508 Sunday Hunter’s Star Skill Level: All Instructor: Diane Holmes Method: Paper [email protected] Pieced Project Size: Block sizes are Project Rating: Easy 3”, 6” and 12” Quilters love this design but are sometimes intimidated by the points and difficulty of the pattern – not with this class! Learn the easy way and eliminate those hard-to-match points. Best of all, there’s no set-in seams. Use two contrasting fabrics or grab your scrap bag and stitch a color filled masterpiece. Explore color theory and value when working with scraps and two-color quilts. Diane has made many of these quilts in various color ways and has never been disappointed. Skills Taught: Making fabric pieces fit paper piecing patterns, creating cutting charts for future paper piecing projects, “check flip” method, making paper piecing work for you Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for paper piece pattern sheets for three different size stars for three different projects

509 Sunday Woven Star Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Kim Jalette Method: Machine Pieced [email protected] Project Size: 58” by 70” Project Rating: Moderate Use the “Square in a Square” ruler to make this quilt designed by Jodi Barrows, creator of the ruler. You will learn how to make two different block types. It’s the setting of those two blocks that creates the illusion of a woven ribbon throughout. Suitable for a confident beginner; you should be able to accurately rotary cut strips and sew a consistent ¼” seam allowance. No experience with the “Square in a Square” ruler is required. Pre-class preparation includes cutting your strips at home so that you can begin sewing almost immediately in class. Skills Taught: Use of the “Square in a Square” ruler, a specific quilter’s tool that allows quick, accurate, assembly line construction of units. The ruler is multi-use, not just for this one particular pattern, so student will be able to take skills learned and apply to making many other quilt designs Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

510 Sunday Snipple Quilting Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: DeLoa Jones Method: Machine deloa@deloasquiltshop. com Project Size: 18” Project Rating: Moderate Square Snipples are tiny leftovers that you usually throw away. Deloa shows you how tiny triangles that are thrown in the trash can now be used in beautiful miniatures. The fun thing about this method is that your project is halfway done as you are doing other quilts. You also never deal with a triangle even though all the patterns definitely have triangles in them. If this description has piqued your curiosity -- good! This is a fun class in which you will stitch a miniature quilt but also learn a technique you will use throughout your quilting career. Skills Taught: General piecing and trimming Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $5 for pattern

511 Sunday

Double Stars Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Debby Kratovil Method: Machine, [email protected] Foundation Pieced Project Size: 12” blocks; Project Rating: Easy 33”by 33” or 52” by 52” One traditional block, two very different quilts! In this workshop, you choose which quilt you want top photo) or Diamond Head (52” by 52,” bottom photo). You will have the choice of paper piecing or rotary cutting the blocks (no templates, honest) All instructions are included for the one project you select. You will NOT be required to buy the book to make your quilt. Skills Taught: Accurate paper piecing with the EZ method, how to make your own patterns with a master page and a stack of newsprint using “needle punch,” how fabric choices and block arrangements can create a very different outcome Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $3 for pattern and foundations to make the four blocks

512 Sunday Crazy Curves Sweatshirt Skill Level: Beginner Jacket Instructor: Jerri McKee Method: Machine [email protected] Pieced om Project Size: Jacket Project Rating: Easy

This beautiful jacket uses a sweatshirt for the jacket base and the pattern pieces. If you have never made a jacket, this is the perfect beginner class. And if you are an expert, Jerri will find something a little more challenging for you to add to your jacket. You will be cutting free-form “S” curves from the fabric and “colloguing” them onto the sweatshirt pieces. The cut edges of the pieces will be covered with decorative stitches and yarn couching. This jacket also has an optional front zipper and side seam pockets Skills Taught: Free-form cutting, “colloguing,” using decorative stitches and yarn couching, fitting the sweatshirt, disassembling and reassembling the sweatshirt into a jacket where the sweatshirt does not show Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $5.50 for pattern (half price); optional kit available for $42, $22 for lining

513 Sunday Haunted Hollow Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jackie Paton Method: Stenciling, Appliqué, Pieced Project Size: 25” x 42” Project Rating: Easy At long last, after many requests, Jackie has designed a Halloween landscape based on her newest fabric line “Haunted Hollow II: Bats, Hats, and Alley Cats.” Come paint with Jackie and welcome the characters of Haunted Hollow into your home. Skills Taught: Stencilscape painting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $15 for pattern and all paint supplies. Optional fabric kit to finish project: $30.

514 Sunday Tube Top Quilt Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Jeanette Pie’ Method: Machine Jeanette@EasyAsPieDesig ns.com Project Size: 69” by 69,” Project Rating: Easy 69”by 86,” or 103” by 103” Make dazzling quilts from 2 ½” strips with the fabulous tube technique. Use the Strip Tube Ruler to make this technique even easier and faster. Great pattern for Jelly Rolls, Bali Pops, and stash busting! Sew your strip sets into a tube, use the Tube Ruler to cut your wedges, and sew the wedges into a beautiful quilt. Jeanette’s sample was made from 2 ½” strips from her stash. You will also need wide strips cut from a background fabric to complete the pattern. This is a great stress-free quilt you will enjoy making to give away or keep for yourself. Skills Taught: Sewing strips into tubes, cutting them apart accurately with a Strip Tube Ruler, maintaining a perfect ¼” seam, pressing accurately, applying a perfect binding Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: $23 which includes $8 for the pattern that will be mailed to you and $15 for the Strip Tube Ruler that will be given to you in class.

515 Sunday Butterfly Garden Skill Level: All Instructor: Linda M. Poole Method: Machine or [email protected] Hand Appliqué Project Size: 20” by 22” Project Rating: Easy Create whimsical butterflies and flowers captured within a ribbon-swirled border. Linda teaches machine and hand appliqué simultaneously, so it is your choice to bring your machine or not. Skills Taught: Machine or hand appliqué techniques, appliqué swirls, circles, and points Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $15 kit for full-size pattern, photographic instructions, project photograph, one water soluble glue-stick, special toothpicks, ready-to- go pre-drawn patterns on freezer paper

516 Sunday Linked Squares Skill Level: Intermediate Instructor: Patty Method: Machine Prodonovich [email protected] Project Size: 73” by 96” Project Rating: Moderate This quilt is based on a 1930 Nancy Cabot design using three fabrics. A pieced border frames this quilt nicely. Sewing partial seams makes assembly very easy. Skills Taught: Machine piecing, cutting mirror images using Tri-Recs tool, partial seam allowance construction, calculating for spacer borders Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: Yes Additional Class Fee: None

517 Sunday Wow Bag Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate Instructor: Mary Beth Method: Machine Scarborough [email protected] Project Size: Large and Project Rating: Small Tote Easy/Moderate This class is for someone who likes to try something out of the box. There are two sizes to this tote. The photo shows the large tote, but there is also a small version. If you are afraid of a zipper, you need this class because Mary Beth’s zipper technique is easy. And, if you don't have a zipper foot, Mary Beth will show you how to sew without it. Every time Mary Beth teaches this class, each person had completed the project. How often can you say that about a class? Skills Taught: Using interfacing, putting in a zipper, making handles without having to turn Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $9.29 for pattern

518 Sunday Creating with Brushes Skill Level: All and Buckets: Creating Landscapes and Much, Much More! Instructor: Michele Scott Method: Fabric [email protected] / Painting [email protected] Project Size: Student Choice Project Rating: Easy Using Setacolor paint from Pēbēo, we will explore the many wonderful painting and dying techniques that this paint can produce! You will discover all of their wonderful effects using a variety of tools and methods. In the second half of the class, we will focus our efforts on creating the most beautiful watercolor-like mountain and landscapes -- no painting experience necessary. Create it using your own imagination or from a picture of your vacation! Skills Taught: Fabric dying/painting, color theory Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $10 for paints, salt to create effects, paint boards

519 Sunday

Tessellating Trees - A Skill Level: Confident Quilt-As-You-Go Beginner

Project Instructor: Erin Method: Machine Pieced, Underwood Quilt As You Go Erin@ErinUnderwoodQui lts.com Project Size: 48” by 16” Project Rating: Moderate Finish this fast and fun table topper in one day. The quilt is sewn together in long strips. Sew the strips together to make the trees tessellate. Quilt as you go or quilt as desired -- your choice. Either way, you’ll be finished in one day! Skills Taught: Quilt-As-You-Go, working with 45- degree angles, some machine quilting Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: $10 for pattern

520 Sunday Wool Appliqué Skill Level: All Instructor: Karen Witt Method: Hand [email protected] Project Size: Pumpkin Project Rating: Easy and Geranium Mats -- 18” round; Scattered Flowers Mat -- 14” by 18” Wool appliqué is the hottest trend in quilting today: No raw edges, fast, and fun! Learn basic embroidery stitches and the pros and cons of fusing. You’ll learn a wonderful secret tip for fast prep and then relax and use the threads in your kit to embellish your project. The mat will look great in your home under a candlestick holder or a vase of flowers. Skills Taught: Wool appliqué techniques, hand buttonhole stitch, and other simple embroidery stitches Supply List: Yes Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fees: $30 kit fee includes pattern, wool, homespun backing, thread, and needle

521 Sunday Studio Skill Level: All Instructor: Patsy Hartnett Method: Student’s Choice Project Size: NA Project Rating: NA Studio is designed for students who want time to do their own thing. You bring your own projects, and Patsy will be on hand to assist you with hints, tips, and techniques when you need a helping hand. Studio is also offered Friday and Saturday. Skills Taught: Assistance available in a variety of skills. Supply List: No Pre-Class Prep: No Additional Class Fee: No