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APPLIQUÉ
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Baltimore Basics. Nancy Chong. Learn
the 5 basic appliqué shapes and Nancy's stress-free method for hand appliqué. (5) $46
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Broderie Perse. [October
22] Susan Dorchester. Historic
appliqué technique is really a 21st century time-saver. (3) $27
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Drunkard's Flowers. Joan Waldman. Learn a
shortcut to the Drunkard's Path block and add appliqué embellishments.
(4) $37 *
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Hawaiian Quilting 101. Nancy Chong. Beginner
class using traditional needleturn appliqué. (4) $37
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Layered Machine Appliqué.
Ruth Blanchet. Add depth,
dimension and perspective with layers of fabrics and sculptural quilting. (4) $37 *
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Make Your Own Hawaiian Quilt.
Nancy
Chong. Learn to design your own, plus perfect needleturn instructions. (5) $46
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Quilt the Zodiac. Ruth Blanchet. Use machine
appliqué and these elegant designs to create Zodiac-themed items. (4) $36
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Stack-n-Whack™Fan Quilt.
Bethany Reynolds. New appliqué approach to her trademark technique. (3) $28
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Stress-free Celtic Tablerunner. Nancy Chong. Use
custom bias to create intricate knotwork. (3) $28
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Too Easy Stained Glass.
[September 24] Daphne Greig. Super
simple method for adding stained glass leading to the top of a landscape fabric. (3) $27
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2 Fabric Appliqué.
Nancy Chong. Learn
the needleturn technique while creating one of these original wall quilts. (3) $27
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Trellis Quilts. Leslie Lacika. Piece
the straight-line trellis, then tuck the appliquéd vines in place for a natural look. (4) $36
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Triple Treat Tulips. Susan Brittingham. Learn
three methods of machine appliqué. (3) $27
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Upside-Down Appliqué. Susan Brittingham. Create
floral designs working from the back. (3) $27
COMPUTER-AIDED QUILT DESIGN
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Designing Quilts with CorelDraw.
Lily Kerns. Using the graphics program to make quilt blocks and layouts. (4) $36
Electric Quilt Series of classes help you get the most out of your software.
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EQ6 Sampler. [September 3] Fran Gonzalez. Learn the fundamentals of EQ6 software. Skill level: Beginner. (4) $36
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EQ6 Building Blocks.
[October 15] Fran Gonzalez. Learn
how to draw blocks in both PatchDraw and EasyDraw and to create quilting motifs. Level: Intermediate. (4) $36
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EQ6 Advanced Layouts.
Fran Gonzalez. Learn on-point, strip and Custom Set layouts, along with color and multiple borders. (4) $36
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EQ6 Appliqué Design.
[September 10]
Patti Anderson. Learn to use the advanced tools on the PatchDraw drawing board. (3) $27
DESIGN AND COLOR
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Art for Quilters. [October
15] Marilyn Belford. Learn
basic art principles you can apply to fabric compositions. (4) $36
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Artist's Toolbox. [September
3] [October
22] Lyric Kinard. Explore art principles through exercises, creating your
own sketchbook as a permanent reference. (4) $36
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Attic Windows.
Daphne Greig. Learn
to draft your own realistic windows. Sew starter project. (3) $27
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Color Companions.
[September 17] Carol Miller. Color study
based on color wheel, includes mini-project for each lesson. (5) $46
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Crazy & Sane. Cindy Thury Smith. Mix crazy
pieces with blocks and sashing for an innovative look. (3) $27 *
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Creative Color. [October
15] Lily Kerns. Exploring
color through experimentation. No sewing. (4) $36
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Crystal Quilts.
Dena Crain. Reflection
and tessellation for innovative quilts. An updated version of Dena's Ladders & Crystals design class. (4) $36
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Darned Quilts. [October 1] Dena Crain. Piece
and embellish a strip set, then cut and darn circles to create your quilt. (4) $36
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Designer Pinwheels.
Dena Crain. Divide
a typical pinwheel in atypical ways, then learn new ways stitch it up. (4) $36
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Exploring Log Cabin. Carol Miller.
Piece four types of LC, learn to design your own. (4) $36
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Fifteen Lines and a Squiggle. Lily Kerns. Intermediate
class in creating freeform designs. Playing with Lines and Shapes is the prerequisite. (4) $36
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Fractal Fragments.
[September 3] Lily Kerns. Use computer
generated repeating images to create quilt designs. (4) $36
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Goodbye to the Grid. Dena Crain. Step
away from traditional blocks and learn the principles of design while creating your own art quilt. (4) $36
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Gradations & Transparencies.
Carol Miller. Advanced
color class, lots of sewing using gradated strips. (4) $37
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Inspired to Design.
[September 17] Elizabeth Barton. Learn
to recognize and use inspiration in the world around you. (4) $36
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Journal Quilts.
Lily Kerns. Learn
to express yourself in these small-format quilts. (4) $36
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Multiple Magic. Carol Miller. Quilt design
with basic shapes. Use paper, computer graphics and fabric. (3) $28
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Playing with Lines and Shapes. Lily Kerns. Beginner design
class. (4) $36
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Reflections. [October
15] Dena Crain. Learn to design, critique and construct an original quilt using artists' principles. (4) $36
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Structured Fabrics.
[September 17] Dena Crain. Cut, sew,
layer and stitch your way to an original wall hanging. (4) $36
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Super Sue. Lily Kerns. Learn
to create and dress figures for interactive quilts. (4) $36
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Using Fusing to Express Yourself. Michele Scott. Turn
thoughts, emotions or places into small expressive works with fused figures and embellishments. (3) $27
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Watercolor Wizardry.
Carol Miller. Painting pictures
with squares of fabric. (4) $38
DYEING AND PAINTING
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Batik It! Marjie McWilliams. Learn
the art of using hot wax to create designs on fabric. (4) $36 *
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Cotton Dyeing Basics.
[October
8] Marjie McWilliams. Introduction
to fabric dyeing. (5) $45
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Dyeing with Tea and Spices.
Marjie McWilliams. Learn to
use natural ingredients to stain fabric. (3) $27
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Freeform Screen Printing.
Lyric Kinard. Use
common household supplies to make stencils or resists, then push your paint through the screen for unique designs. (4) $37.
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Fabric Painting.
[September 17] Marjie McWilliams. Learn
to paint your own panels. (5) $45
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Fun with Paintstiks.
[October
8]
Daphne Greig. Experiment with Paintstiks on a variety of fabrics with
assorted stamps, stencils and rubbing surfaces. (4) $36
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Gutta Resist on Silk.
[October
1] Marjie McWilliams. Use
washable gutta to separate colored areas and create pictures on silk. (4) $36
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Painted Landscapes. Michele Scott. Add
paint to cloth background for impressionist landscapes. (3) $28
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Playing with Paint.
Lyric Kinard. You don't
have to use commercial stamps or stencils when you can create your own from items found around the house. (4) $36
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Quilter's Palette.
[September 3] Marjie McWilliams. Create
fabrics perfect for landscape, portrait and other realistic quilt or craft projects. (5) $45.
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Shibori. Marjie McWilliams. Japanese
method of dyeing by folding, pleating and sewing fabric to create patterns. (4) $36
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Silk Dyeing. Marjie McWilliams. Dip, splatter
or mottle luscious colors on the most fabulous fabric in the world. (4) $36
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Thick and Thin. Marjie McWilliams.
Use sodium alginate to turn dye into fabric paint. (5) $45
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Three Unconventional Ways to Dye.
Marjie McWilliams. Spritzing,
discharging & resisting. (4) $36 *
EMBROIDERY MODULES
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Beginning Machine Embroidery. [September 17] Joanne Winn. Learn to use your embroidery module, including downloading
designs and saving. (3) $27
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Beyond Basic Digitizing. [October
1] Joanne Winn. Learn to turn your own pictures into
digitized embroidery by completing several examples set out in the lessons. (4) $36
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Digitized Quilting. [October
22] Joanne Winn. Use
your embroidery module to quilt small items. Not for beginners. (4) $36
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Embroidered Appliqué. Joanne Winn. Use decorative
stitching to attach appliqué shapes. Eight designs provided in multiple formats. (4) $36
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Embroidery on Patchwork. Joanne Winn. Learn
to embellish your patchwork using an embroidery module. (3) $27
GARMENTS & ACCESSORIES
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InVestigations. [October
15] Carol Miller. Size,
sew, embellish and design your own vests. (4) $36
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Mermaid Lagoon Jacket. Linda Schmidt. Highly
embellished pictorial garment. (4) $36 *
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Tote That Mat. Ruth Blanchet. Create
a beautiful bag to carry your oversize mat, ruler and other supplies. (3) $27
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Victorian Sewing Box.
[October 29] Barbara Dieges. Keep
your sewing things or your jewelry in this lovely padded box. (3) $27
PAPER AND FOUNDATION PIECING
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Elegant Angel. [October
29] Lily Kerns. Sophisticated
paper pieced original design. (2) $18
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Firm Foundations.
Jane Hall. Learn to get absolutely accurate
results using foundations. (4) $36
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Ozark Garden.
Lily Kerns. Award-winning
paper pieced floral quilt. (7) $64
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Paper Pieced Paradise. Daphne Greig. Fundamentals
of paper piecing. (4) $36
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Pineapples Plus.
Jane Hall. Discover
the infinite variety of pineapple designs and the perfect points of foundation piecing. (4) $36
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Ripless Paper Piecing.
[October
29] Daphne Greig. Learn
the precision of paper piecing without the tedious paper removal afterwards. (3) $27
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Strip Mine!
[October 8] Patti Anderson. Easy,
strip pieced project. (3) $27
PATCHWORK & PIECING
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Bargello Blues. Ruth
Blanchet. An advanced class for quilters who want to learn to create their own design. (4) $37
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Bargello Seasons. Ruth Blanchet. In this
starter class, learn four different bargello techniques. (4) $39
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Bargello
Twist. Ruth Blanchet. This
advanced class breaks away from the horizontal design and explodes from the center. (4) $36
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Border Workshop. Carol Miller. Experiment
with different borders, exploring the effect of size, color and placement. (4) $36
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Buttons & Bows. Patti Anderson. Traditional
block with a very contemporary twist. Rotary cut. (3) $27
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Chinese Lattice. Carol Miller. Simple
sewing project for graphic results. (3) $27
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Combing Through Your Scraps. Karen Combs. Learn
techniques for making quilts by value while using up some of your stash. (4) $36
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Crazy Quilt Piecing.
[September 10] Cindy Thury Smith. Intro
to piecing several different types for CQ blocks; embellishments discussed only. (3) $27
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Curved Piecing Made Easy. Michele Scott. Tricks
for designing your own softly curving blocks. Small project. (4) $36
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Fast, Fun, Fabulous.
Carol Miller. Design
and construction tips for quick-pieced quilts. (3) $27
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Feathered Star Medallion. Patti Anderson. Surround
a star with little half square triangles. Intermediate or above. (5) $45 *
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Hand Piecing.
Susan Purney-Mark. Learn
everything you need to hand piece your blocks: template making, marking, sewing the seams and assembly. (3) $28
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Jane Was Nuts. [October
8] Carol Miller. Over
100 4" blocks as sampler or used in small wall quilt. Construction tricks. (3) $27
Patchwork Illusions Series. Karen Combs. Two classes. Optical
illusions with 60° diamond.
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Patchwork Illusions (3) $27 *
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More Patchwork Illusions (4) $36 *
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Pieced Celtic Magic. Karen Combs. Create
the intricate look of knotwork with simple pieced units. (4) $36 *
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Reversible Quilts.
Leslie Lacika. Learn
to match pieces front and back, with the batting already in place, to create a two-sided quilt. (4) $36
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Seminole Piecing. Daphne Greig. Create
the illusion of intricate piecing by sewing strips, segmenting, and resewing the units. (3) $27
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Sewfasst. Barbara Dieges. No waste
shortcuts for common units using only squares and rectangles. (3) $27 *
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Shattered Angles. [October
15] Susan Purney-Mark. Turn
conventional strip sets into eye-catching quilts with angled cuts. (3) $27
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Stack-n-Whack™ Hexagon Stars.
[September 10] Bethany Reynolds. Six-sided
star quilt from her best-selling book. (3) $28
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Starting from Scratch. Carol Miller. [September
10] Basic beginner piecing class, from shopping to quilting. (6) $55
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Tessellating Stars.
Cindy Thury Smith. Easy
strip pieced project with variations. (3) $27
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Treasure Boxes. Karen Combs. Optical
illusion quilt. You fill the boxes with your favorite theme fabrics. (3) $27 *
PICTORIAL QUILTS
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Artists Revisited.
Marilyn Belford. Filter
famous works of art through your mind's eye and your fabric stash to create anything from Gotta Be Gauguin to DayGlo Degas. (5) $46
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Flower Power. Susan Brittingham. Learn
multiple methods for creating flowers in fabric. (5) $46
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Home Building. Betty Alofs. Use fabric
to make a portrait of your home. (4) $36 *
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Miniature Landscapes. [October 22] Susan Brittingham. Fusible
shapes create small landscape. (4) $36
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On Land and Sea.
[September 10] Susan Brittingham. Techniques
used to create original land and seascapes. (5) $45
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People in Places. Linda Schmidt. Turn
a favorite picture into a fabric work of art. Intermediate and above. (6) $54
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Realistic Fabric Portraits.
[October 1]
Marilyn Belford. Convert
pictures of family members into wall hangings. (5) $46
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Still Life. [October
1] Ruth Blanchet. Using a free graphics program, create
the illusion of a three-dimensional object and learn how to cast shadows or
relfections. (4) $36
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Viewpoints.
[September 24] Susan Brittingham. Learn
to get true perspective in your pictorial quilts. (4) $36
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Waves and Waterfalls.
[September 24] Linda Schmidt. Create
realistic moving water with non-traditional methods and materials. (6) $55
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Winter Wonderland.
[October
22] Linda Schmidt. Why
wait for snow when you can learn how to make your own? (4) $36
QUILTING & SURFACE EMBELLISHMENT
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Arabesque: Embellished Trapunto.
Martine House. Intricate
handwork with embroidery, trapunto, appliqué & dense quilting (5) $47
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Bodacious Blossoms.
[October
22] Leslie Lacika. Scraps
of fabric and trim can become a bouquet of lush blooms. (4) $36
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Digital Fabric Printing.
Lily Kerns. Learn
to create your own fabric, either by drawing designs or manipulating images in your computer. (4) $36
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Elements in Fabric.
[September 3] Linda Schmidt. Get
realistic effects by using non-traditional art and craft supplies in your quilts. (6) $55
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Fabric Pages. [October
1] Martine House. Capture
special memories in fabric with these embellished fabric envelopes. (4) $37
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Filament Fantasy.
Linda Schmidt. Learn
to stitch with specialty threads and yarns. (4) $34
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Fireworks. [September 24] Helen Marshall. A simple
pieced background sets off your vibrant thread painting. (4) $36
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Hand Quilting. [September 17] Nancy Chong. It all
starts with a needle and thread. Learn how to make magic turning three layers into one. (3) $27
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Machine Embellished Surfaces.
Susan Brittingham. Fold,
pleat, scrunch and more to add raised textures to your creations. (3) $27
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Machine Quilting. Carol Miller. Learn
the basics of free motion and straight line quilting on a series of small samples. (4) $36
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More Machine Quilting. Carol Miller. Learn
machine trapunto, thread drawing, free motion feathers and how to design your own wholecloth quilt. (4) $36
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Printing on Fabric.
Ruth Blanchet. Learn how
to transfer photographs to fabric, then make one of four projects. (3) $27
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Quilting Designs. Susan Purney-Mark. Help decide
what to quilt and how to mark it. (3) $27
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Silk Ribbon Flowers. [October
29] Martine House. Learn to
create realistic flowers with ribbon manipulation and embroidery. (3) $27
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To Bead or Not to Bead.
Susan Brittingham. Add
beading to quilts, garments and accessories. (4) $36
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Whisper Felting. [September 24]
Lily Kerns. Learn
to blend fibers together using felting needles. (4) $36
OTHER
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Displaying Your Quilts.
Susan Dorchester.
Instructions for hanging and ideas for other methods of showing your quilts. (3) $27
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Math for Quilters.
[October
29] Dena Crain. Draft
blocks, figure template sizes and yardage, calculate layouts and apply math to calculate the real cost of your quilts. (3) $27
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Getting Started Online.
[September 24] Julie Neu. Decide
how you would like to present yourself online and get help with the mechanics of making it happen. (3) $27
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Photographing Your Quilt. Janice Baehr. Learn
to take the best possible pictures of your quilts. (4) $36
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Tools of the Trade.
[October
29] Chris Pascuzzi. How
to use the feet that fit your machine, experiment with thread, stitches. (4) $36
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