Classes start every weekend between New Years and the end of October. Most classes are offered twice a year, although
beginner classes are offered more frequently. Registration opens five weeks before a class starts.
Any class that is currently open for registration has a link to the Registration page. Number of lessons is shown
in parenthesis. Start dates (subject to change) are in brackets. Classes marked with a red asterisk (*)
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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. [May
14] 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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Hand Appliqué Basics.
Nyla Morrison. Introductory class for those who want to learn hand appliqué.
(3) $27
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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.
[March 26] 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.
[April 9] Nancy Chong. Use custom bias to create intricate knotwork. (3) $28
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Too Easy Stained Glass.
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.
[March 19] 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
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Designing
Quilts with CorelDraw. [March
26] Lily Kerns. Using the graphics program to make quilt blocks and layouts. (4) $36
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Electric Quilt Series of classes help you
get the most out of your software.
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EQ6 Sampler.
[March 12] Fran Gonzalez. Learn
the fundamentals of EQ6 software. Skill level: Beginner. (4) $36
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EQ6 Building Blocks.
[May
7] 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.
[April 2] 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.
[April 16] Patti Anderson.
Learn to use the advanced tools on the PatchDraw drawing board. (3) $27
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Art
for Quilters.
Marilyn Belford. Learn basic art principles you can apply to fabric compositions. (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.
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.
[May 28] 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.
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.
[April 16] 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.
[April 16] 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.
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.
Dena Crain. Learn to
design, critique and construct an original quilt using artists' principles. (4) $36
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Structured
Fabrics.
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
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Batik It!
[May 21] Marjie McWilliams. Learn the art of using hot wax to create designs on fabric. (4) $36 *
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Cotton
Dyeing Basics.
[April 30] 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. [May 7] 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.
Marjie McWilliams. [March 26] Learn to paint your own panels. (5) $45
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Gutta Resist
on Silk.
[April 23] 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.
[April 9] Marjie McWilliams. Create fabrics perfect for landscape, portrait and other realistic quilt or
craft projects. (5) $45.
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Shibori.
[May 14] 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.
[April 2] 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
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Bargello
Blues.
[April 2] 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. [May 28] Ruth Blanchet. This advanced class
breaks away from the horizontal design and explodes from the center. (4) $36
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Border
Workshop.
[May 21] 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.
[March 12] 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.
[April 23] 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. [May 14] Carol Miller. Over 100 4" blocks as sampler
or used in small wall quilt. Construction tricks. (3) $27
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Patchwork Illusions Series. Karen Combs. Two classes. Optical
illusions with 60° diamond.
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.
[April 9] Daphne Greig. Create the illusion of intricate piecing by sewing strips, segmenting, and resewing
the units. (3) $27
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Sewfasst.
[March 26] Barbara Dieges. No waste shortcuts for common units using only squares and rectangles. (3) $27
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Shattered Angles.
[May 28] 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.
[May 28] Bethany Reynolds. Six-sided star quilt from
her best-selling book. (3) $28
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Starting from Scratch. Carol Miller.
[March
26] Basic beginner
piecing class, from shopping to quilting. (6) $55
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Tessellating
Stars.
[April 2] 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 *
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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. [March
12] Susan Brittingham. Fusible shapes create small landscape. (4) $36
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On Land
and Sea.
[March 19] 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. [March
12] Marilyn Belford. Convert pictures of family members into wall hangings. (5)
$46
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Viewpoints.
Susan Brittingham. Learn to get true perspective in your pictorial quilts. (4) $36
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Waves and
Waterfalls.
[April 9] Linda Schmidt.
Create realistic moving water with non-traditional methods and materials. (6)
$55
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Winter
Wonderland.
[May 21] Linda Schmidt.
Why wait for snow when you can learn how to make your own? (4)
$36
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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.
[May 7] Leslie Lacika.
Scraps of fabric and trim can become a bouquet of lush blooms.
(4) $36
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Digital
Fabric Printing.
[April 30] 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.
[May 21] Linda Schmidt. Get realistic effects by using non-traditional art and craft supplies in your quilts. (6)
$55
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Fabric
Pages. [May 7] 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
Helen Marshall. A simple pieced background sets off your vibrant thread painting. (4) $36 *
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Hand Quilting.
[April 23] 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. [April
30] Susan Brittingham.
Fold, pleat, scrunch and more to add raised textures to your creations. (3) $27
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Machine
Quilting. [April 30] 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. [March
12] 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.
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.
[March 12] Lily Kerns. Learn to blend fibers together using felting needles. (4) $36
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