Class List for January 2008

General Information

• You receive a 15% discount on any supplies you purchase for the class.
• Class Fees are payable at the time of registration. 
• No refund or exchange is given on classes within 7 days of the class date. We have tried to be flexible with this in the past, but have to tighten up this rule. We try hard to accommodate hardships, but we can’t give refunds if someone just forgets to turn up. Please mark down your dates.
• A full refund is issued if the class is cancelled due to insufficient enrolment. You will be given a week’s notice if this occurs.
• Class size is a minimum of 3 people, maximum of 6 people.
• Supply lists are available when you register, but it is wise not to purchase anything new until a week before the class starts.
  
• Classroom Machines: We have a simple Janome and a lovely Pfaff available for use in class. Please mention when you register whether you need to use a class machine. You'll just need a pack of needles and a bobbin. 
  

Basic Skills (Beginner Level Classes)

1. Learn to Quilt: 7 weeks .....  Sandy or Deb /  $148.00

Embark on a great hobby and meet new people at the same time. You'll   the basics of rotary cutting, strip piecing, block setting, borders and binding, and quilting by hand and machine.  The instructor is one of the most experienced quilters and quilt teachers available, and is a treasure store of information.  You will lay a good foundation for your future quilting projects..

• Session I: Tuesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm—Jan8 to Feb 19
• Session II: Wednesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm— Jan 9 to Feb 207
• Session III: Friday mornings, 9:30 to 12:30, Jan 18 to Feb 29 
• Session IV: Tuesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm— Feb 26 - April 8 
• Session V:   

2. Stack the Deck/Buggy Barn Basics  one full day, $44.00

There's a technique in quilting that involves stacking different fabrics, making a cut through all the layers and reassembling them in different color combinations.  The Buggy Barn designers have really done a wide variety of patterns and there is also a variety of Stack 'n Slash books with great designs as well.  It's a fun techniquee, and one you will be glad you tried..

• Wednesday 9:30a.m. - 4:oo p.m (1/2 hour for lunch), Feb 27  
  

3. Ragged Flannel Quilt, Level I: 3 hours .... Wendy or Deb  /  $23.00 (includes Pattern)  

A ragged flannel quilt is very cozy, and the seams are turned into fluffy fringeon the top of the quilt.  This project is perfect for a new quilter to sample how much FUN quilting can be, or an exciting technique for experienced quilters to see progress FAST. The flannels make it a very soft cuddly quilt. Pattern included. Limit 6 per class. 

• Session I: Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00 pm—Jan 19 
• Session II: Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00 pm—Feb 2 

4. Machine Quilting: 6 hours with Sandy, all levels /  $44.00

You will learn to use your machine to add texture and depth to your projects using free motion, stippling and basic straight stitch. You’ll see how different batting and thread affect the look, and fine-tune your tension settings and needle/thread combinations to make the process as trouble-free as possible.

• Session I: Monday, 6:30 to 9:30 pm— Jan 14 and 28
• Session II: Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 pm—Jan 10 and 24 
• Session III: Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 pm—Feb 7 and 21 
• Session IV: Monday, 6:30 to 9:30 pm—Feb 11 and 25
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5. Planning Your Quilting Design .... 6 hours,   all levels  / $44.00

This is a design class to get all sorts of hints and techniques about how to decide on and execute the "quilting" part of your projects.  Usually the instructions just say, "Quilt as desired", but how helpful is that?!   Learn some of the things to consider in order to make the quilting truly the "icing on the cake".  

6.  Aprons!: 3 hours /    Deb    $22.00 (pattern included) 

Aprons are back in style, that is if they ever went out of style.  What is new is all the stylish patterns that are turning up these days, not only for adults, but for little girls too.  They are so cute!! This is a nice introduction to sewing if you are new to it. .

• Session I:  Thursday mornings 9:30 to 12:30, Jan 24
• Session II: Friday, 9:30 to 12:30, Feb 22 s

7.  Borders and Binding: 3 hours ... Sandy / $28.00 (includes kit)

Finishing the quilt!!  Measuring for borders, sandwiching the quilt and putting on the binding are important parts of the whole quilting experience. Learn these techniques and some hanging sleeve and label ideas as well.

• Session I: Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m. Jan 24
• Session II: Thursday 9:30 to 12:30, March 13

8.  Color and Texture:two 3 hour classes... Judy / $42.00 

You'll do activities that focus on the basics of color theory including the color wheel, value, why value matters, what textures exist in fabrics and how to use them.  Lots of discussion and lots of fun...

9.  Composition and Design in Quilts:  two 3 hour classes ....Judy/$42.00 

Exercises with fabric will focus on concepts such as balance, eye pathways, background and foreground, patter, borders and the central area, unity and variety   Empasis will be on individual choices, and students will better understand what is important in a coposition, and what sorts of design elements they most want to use in their own quilts.

• Thursday, 9:30 - 12:30, Feb 21 and 28 

10. Color Inside and Outside the Lines: two 3 hour classes... Judy/ $42.00 

Making a strip-pieced backgound provides a good overview of the sorts of calculations needed when beginning a project.  Then, black oulines are placed where the elements and composition come into play.  You will probaboly go home with a completed top, with your project well underway.

Not Just Quilting Classes

11.  Fabric Coil Bowls: 3 hours ... Patti /  $22.00

This is a  fun way to use fabric to make interesting and useful containers; you will take home a finished bowl from the class.

        Thursday 1- 4 p.m. Jan 10 

12. Punchneedle Embroidery

This is an easy technique that yields exquisite little pictures that look like miniature hooked rugs. You'll be surprised at how easy it is, and how quickly the project works up. You'll need to purchase a punchneedle if you haven't got one This is a really fun class.

• Wednesday, 1- 4 p.m. March 5   

13.  Sweatshirt Conversions .. one 4 hour class,... Patti/ $28.00 

Cut and alter and add to a sweatshirt to turn it into a great cardigan jacket that will be perfect for a light fall jacket or an indoor warm-up.

14. Braided Rugs, on 2-1/2 hour class... Dianne / $22.00 includes kit

Learn to braid your own rug in this timeless technique. You’ll make a small round version. You can use up all those unknown fiber fabrics in your stash to make something that is both practical and beautiful! (See also Intermediate Rug Braiding below.)

• Session I: Saturday, 1:30 to 4 pm— Jan 12
• Session II: Saturday, 1:30 to 4 p.m. — Feb 9  

15.  Intermediate Braided Rug: one 2-hour class, Dianne/ $15.00  

The focus in this class is on how to make other shapes of rugs, such as oval, square, rectangular, or adding a braided border to a hooked rug center.

      Saturday, 1:00 to 3:00 pm—  Feb 23

16. Rug Hooking: one 3-hour class ..J. Linda  ...$22.00 

This is a venerable technique of rug hooking strips of felted woven wool through a burlap or linen base cloth.  The rugs you make with this method can last for decades.

          Wednesday, 6:30 - 9:30, April 2

17. Locker Rug Hooking ..one 3-hour class  ... J.Linda  $22.00 

Yet another way to make rugs.  This one uses strips of regular cotton fabric, pulled through a mesh with a special hook, (not Latch-hook)

               Tuesday 1-4 p.m, April 29s

18.  Photo Transfer: 2 hours ... Michelle /  $22.00 (includes supplies

Learn this easy method of transferring photos and other graphics onto fabric.

• Session I: Wednesday,1-3 p.m. — Jan 23
• Session II: Wednesday, 1 to 3 p.m. - Feb 6
• Session III: Wednesday,1-3 p.m. — March 12
• Session IV: Wednesday,1-3 p.m. — April 2

19. Tote Bags: 3 hours ... Debbie /  $22.0 

Quick and satisfying to make, easy to customize for your specific wants, and fun to use.

• Session I: Thursday, 9:30 to 12:30. Jan 31
• Session II: Thursday, 9:30 to 12:30. March 6

Handwork Classes

20. Hand Appliqué Introduction: 3 hours ... Sandy, all levels /  $22.00

Learn the basic needle-turn and freezer paper techniques that may start you on a whole new way to create pattern on your quilts.

• Session I: Thursday 1 to 4 p.m. Jan 16
• Session II: Friday 1 to 4 p.m. March 13  

21. The Applique Sampler:  six 3-hourclasses  .... Sandy / $126.00, book purchase also required. 

There is a lot to learn about applique!  Lots of little tips and techniques.  This class is based on the book by Piece of Cake designers.

            Tuesdays, 9:30 to 12:30, Jan 29, Feb 5 and 19, March 4 and 18, April 1 

22.   Hand Quilting: 6 hours .... Debbie B / $44.00

Quilting by hand can be a wonderfully relaxing activity. If you would like to learn this technique, and tips on how to perfect your stitch, then this is your opportunity.

                  Tuesdays, 1 to 4 pm—Feb 12 and 19

23.   Redwork/Bluework... Debbie B / $22.00

 When you see a redwork quilt, you might be reminded of quilts from the 1930's when this style was all the rage.  You'll learn the basic embroidery stitch used, as well as how to transfer the designs to you r fabric and ideas of how to use your completed stitchery in a larger project.

Specific Technique Classes

24. Jelly Rolls, 6 hours ..... Sandy, $42.00 

A full day of fun that will get you well on the way to a completed quilt top. Sandy will present a number of patterns that all begin with STRIPS. You can cut strips from your stash, or have them readycut by purchasing one of the new "Jelly Rolls" that have 40 pre-cut 2" stripsall from the same "collection".

• Friday, 9:30 - 4 p.m. Jan 11 (1/2 hour for lunch)

25. Charm School: one 6 hour class... Sandy/ $42.00

An all-day sewing session that will be based on quilt designs that start with the use of 5" or 6" squares. Lots of opportunity to look at different designs and discuss the "what ifs" of using different fabrics or sizes.

• Friday 9:30 to 4., March 7 (1/2 hour for lunch)

26. "Layer Cakes": 6 hours ... Sandy .... $42.00

An all day sewing session that will be based on quilt designs that start with the use of 10" squares!!  This is a new format of acquiring fabric that will be available in the new year!  What to do with them? Find out from Sandy!

• Friday 9:30 to 4 p.m. April 25 (1/2 hour for lunch) 
  

27. Harmonic Convergence, ... Deb   $22.00

This strip pieceing technique is based on a Ricky Tims design. It is fun to see how colors in fabric behave when placed adjacent to other colors. You'll make a really lovely contemporary style wall hanging

28. Braided Table Runner: 3 hours ... Deb  ... $22.00, pattern purchase required 

This project class is a lot of fun, and you  may just be putting the binding on by the end of the class!! It is a sew and flip technique done right on your batting and backing, so it is quilted as you piece it!!! 

• Thursday 9:30 to 12:30, March 20 

29. Bullseye Quilts: 3 hours ... Deb S  ... $22.00

This technique is a type of raw edge appliqué combined with a nifty cutting technique that sews up quite fast. You can choose from different shapes and settings to alter this quilt's design. It's excellent opportunity to use leftover fabrics from other projects. We also have a kit for this quilt.

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30. Reversible Quilting: 6 hours ... Flora /  $42.00

In this technique you sew the front and back of the quilt at once, forming patterns on both sides of the quilt. The blocks are connected after they are sewn and quilted. You can have a lot of fun picking the fabrics for this project.

• Session I: 

31 Nine patch Pizzazz.... Wendy, two 3 hour classes.. /$42.00

 Make an "art" quilt by combining focus blocks cut from a special fabric or panel with color co-ordinated nine-patch blocks. Every quilt can be different, and you won't be able to stop sewing at "just one".

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32.  Stained Glass Quilting: 3 hours ... Deb  / $22.00

This technique emulates the look of stained glass in fabric. This is not the technique that uses the bias tape, but rather, the outlines are cut from one large piece of black fabric that overlays the colored patches

• Session I: Thursday, 9:30 to 12:30. Jan 17
• Session II: Thursday, 1-4 pm. March 20

33. Double Wedding Ring.. two 3-hour classes ... J.Linda..../$44.00

This is the applique technique by Eleanor Burns which uses the fusible interfacing technique.  This technique is also useful to make Grandmother's Flower Gardern Patterns.

• Thursday, 6:30-9:30, April 24 and May 1

34.  Beginner Bargello: two 3 hourclasses ... Sandy  / $44.00

We've always had lots of requests for a class for this technique, and have persuaded Sandy to take up the challenge of teaching it. This technique will open your mind to the possibilities of strip piecing, and the designs are fascinating.

• Session I: Saturday, 9:30 to 4:30, Feb 2 and 9 

35. Wool applique and Crazy Patch ... one 4 hourclass..Michelle../$30.00 

Wool is wonderful to work with! It is soft and squishy, and when you combine it with colored thread embroidery, the results are irresistable.  Learn several embroidery stitches. Come prepared to stitch!

• Session I: Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan 22 (1 hour for lunch)  

36. Seasonal Watercolor Wreath ...one 2 hour and one 3hourclass..Patti../$44.00

This wall hanging project will have you looking at fabric very closely. It is a wonderful exercise to hone your skills in using "value" in your fabric choices. The wreath can be a circle or heart shape, and is based on a "seasonal" theme.

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'Mostly for Fun'   

40. 'Quilt Till You Wilt' Mini-Retreat: / ... $20.00 (includes supper)

Time to get out of the house and concentrate on a project without interruptions! We'll order out for supper and have a good time! No formal instruction, but lots of informal advice or sharing of tips.

Fridays from 3:00 or 4:00 pm till ... midnight or beyond.

• Session I   Jan 18 
• Session II: Feb 8 
• Session III: March 7 
• Session IV; April 4 
• Session V:  May 2

41. Quilt all Day ... $5.00 a day

Another Time to get out of the house and concentrate on a project without interruptions! Some of you have asked for a place, a day to just get together with others to sew and socialize.  This is for you!  There's no instruction, but I'm sure you can get some informal advice.  Brown bag it, or plan a lunch out together. 

• Session I: