Healing Garden Embroideries. April 11, 1-4pm
These redwork style embroideries are the perfect way to learn or brush up on your hand embroidery skills. Minimal materials and portability make this a fantastic spring summer stitch project for sitting outdoors with. Works super well with the Herb Garden piecing workshop. Why not take both?
Herb Garden pieced quilt. May 9 & 23.
The illusion of curves and scallops is achieved with two blocks that are simpler than you might imagine. The hand embroideries from the Healing Garden or Going Native are perfect in this setting but you need not include them. The example shown uses a six inch block and finishes at 42 inches square. Larger blocks, and thus a larger quilt are also possible. Let us know when you register so we can figure alternate yardages for you.
Threaditation Third Thursdays at 3
The monthly Threaditation sessions are a great way to find some relaxation in your life. No experience or materials needed but please do RSVP. All ages and skill levels welcome. Third Thursdays at 3, suggested donation $5.00
Not just for Beginners: Quilters need a variety of new vocabulary and skills. The very best way to learn them is to sit down with a teacher right there in person and make things. We offer you that opportunity. Our set of graded projects is designed to step you into the wonderful world of quilting in a logical way that allows your creativity to grow as your skills and confidence does. Having Diana to help you along this journey is so much better than rewinding a video. If you don’t have a machine we can arrange for a loaner till you get one, or inquire about our hand piecing projects.
Make Friends with your Machine
It doesn’t even need to be out of the box to get started. This is our bestseller!! Learn how to thread it, wind a bobbin and try out some of the stitches it can do while making a bed sized pillowcase and a reference cloth that will help you remember what your new machine can do and how to make it do what you want when you get home with it. Includes fabrics for one pillowcase, the reference cloth, and a spool of thread. Bring the machine, the manual and all accessories that you have for it, some straight pins and a some paper and a writing utensil for taking notes on your reference cloth. $50.00 schedule 3 hours.
Four Square Quilt
This introduces strip piecing and results in a twin size summer quilt. Bring your machine, pins, rotary cutter, mat and 24 inch ruler, shop at the Village Fabric Shoppe for four one yard cuts of fabric you like together. Backing fabric and floss can be chosen later. Batting is optional. Three sessions, 2 1/2 – 3 hours each. $100.00
NEW!! a lap size version is exactly the same but get four half yard cuts of fabric. !!
Painless Pineapples
This is one of my most favorite blocks. This unique construction method can be done by hand, or machine and unusually, you can switch back and forth with no complications, even in the middle of the block. My favorite version is scrappy, and you will see many of these around the Shoppe because I keep making them. I save strips of leftovers from everything and I honestly have enough scraps to make a two sided california king size project. You don’t need to be scrappy, or make something that large. A single block makes a great pillow top or side for a tote, four blocks is a nice wall hanging or table mat. In class you will learn how and begin a block so starting materials are minimal, and if you want to make yours scrappy let me know and I’ll bring my scraps to share.
A Single Scrappy Pineapple
If you want to bring your own they are cut 1 1/2 inches wide and ones as short as 2 inches are useful. It’s a perfect block if you can’t throw out even tiny bits of fabric. You need to bring, a pencil, some pins, either hand or machine sewing setup with neutral thread, rotary tools and some fabric. For your first block I will supply the foundation fabric base.
workshop takes 3 hours, $30.00
four blocks shows the secondary pattern
Machine Quilting Basics
Getting the top done is only the first part, Technically a tied quilt is a comforter, it is the sewn lines through all the layers that make it a quilt. Learn how to baste and manipulate your quilt under the needle to get the quilting done. We will concentrate on grids, plaids and channel quilting. Two sessions, 2 1/2 – 3 hours each Bring to the first: a quilt top or one yard cut of fabric in a busy print, cotton batting and backing fabric 3 inches bigger all around than your top, painters masking tape, several dozen small safety pins. For the second session bring the basted quilt, sewing machine with extra bobbins wound with the chosen thread, your walking foot. $75.00
Village Fabric Shoppe 