2027 Session 1
Instructors
Sunday, February 28 – Friday, March 5, 2027
Andrea Brokenshire
Floral Painted Applique on Silk
Andrea is inspired by the natural world. Learn her technique for realistic floral imagery painted onto silk fabric. Choose between 2 workshop projects: Perfectly Pink (Calla Lily) or Busy Bee (Black Eyed Susan). Most materials will be provided (Lab Fee $140.) Andrea will also demonstrate how to create highly textural confetti backgrounds and her technique for a clean finish.
Level: All Levels
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Barbara Black
Full Circle
Make this dynamic Sampler Quilt, learning a variety of new techniques, including accurate machine piecing, freezer paper piecing, reverse applique, simple handwork, and other sewing skills. When you learn the tricks to curved piecing, it all fits together perfectly. Barbara will guide you as you create the first quadrant. Barbara, an award-winning quiltmaker and highly sought-after teacher, will inspire you to make fabulous pieced quilts. Use your favorite fabrics, bright or subdued, modern or traditional, for this treasure. Sure to be a “Skillbuilder” project that will improve all your skills. The pattern by Wendy Williams is included in the REQUIRED lab fee along with a 10-page addendum.
Level: Intermediate
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Betty Busby
Multi Media Fiber
Explore the use of various non-woven materials in fiber art. The class will include ways to produce images with them and methods to incorporate them to extend the range of expression achieved with traditional fabrics. We will explore the use of an electric cutting machine, learn how to draw a pattern from scratch, and adjust the machine settings to achieve exciting results.
Level: All Levels
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David Owen Hastings
Inspired by Art
Turn your favorite artwork into a bold, modern quilt! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how color, shape, and mood inspire abstract design. Sketch ideas, sew fearless curves (no pins needed!), and experiment with modern quilting techniques—clean lines, negative space, and textured stitching. Bring a photo of a beloved artwork and let your creativity flow as you transform classic inspiration into contemporary fiber art.
Level: All Levels
Giucy Giuce (Guiseppe Ribaudo)
Winding Ways
Winding Ways, also known as Wheel of Mystery, is a classic quilting pattern known for its dynamic movement. In this workshop, you will learn the power of Value and how you can use it to create your own kaleidoscopic rendition of this timeless quilt design. This workshop focuses heavily on simple color theory tenants that will have a big impact on how you choose color and fabric for this project, and many of your future quilts, as well. Learn to seamlessly blend as many colors as you’d like in this skill-building workshop. Gentle curves and dynamic color choices are all it takes to create a quilt that you’ll cherish for years to come.
Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate
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Jane Sassaman
Abstract Applique
Mother Nature is the supreme designer. In this class, we will be focusing on some of those amazing details to create abstract fabric compositions. Bring close-up photos of bugs, butterflies, flowers, leaves, etc. From these, we will extract patterns, colors, and shapes and mix them into exciting nonrepresentational compositions. Eventually, these compositions will be transformed into appliqued fabric and thread collages. This is a painless way to learn Jane’s very accessible applique technique and perhaps even try some of those unused stitches on your sewing machine.
Level: All Levels
Jenny Haynes
Fokus Quilt
We will be playing with circles and wedges, colour and transparency. The circular wedge blocks will be multiplied and flipped, cut down, and reassembled to create a kaleidoscope of colour. This is also a two-in-one design where the cut-offs create a second, surprise design. Amongst the many techniques and skills covered in this class are no-pin curves, seam matching, pressing, colour work, composition, and construction. Individuality is highly encouraged, and Jenny will show you how you can transform the design by altering the colours, changing the colour placement, or using prints, solids, or a mix of both.
Level: Intermediate
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Jenny K. Lyon
Joyful Free Motion!
Wouldn’t it be fabulous to free-motion your own quilts with joy and confidence? Jenny will meet you where you are, no matter your style or experience level. She will start with a solid foundation of the essentials of unmarked free motion. Each morning and afternoon will begin with a short lesson covering a variety of techniques, design strategies, and fills, striving towards the end result of “Your quilts, your way”! Bring your own project, and Jenny will provide advice, support, direction, as well as suggestions for students without a project. Her style is encouraging and light-hearted. Chocolate will be involved.
Level: All Levels
Josephine de la Cruz Keasler
Quiltworx Paper Piecing
Want to learn Judy Niemeyer’s way of organizing and creating an heirloom paper pieced quilt? Whether you’ve made several Quiltworx pattern quilts or just want to learn how to make one of her beautiful quilts, this is the class for you. We’ll go over Judy’s techniques for paper piecing, including cutting, stacking, chain piecing, curved paper-piecing, smart corners and Transition Registration Points (TRP) Lines. Choose the pattern of your choice and Josephine, a Judy Niemeyer Certified Instructor, will help you with the organization and the reading of the pattern. Prior paper piecing experience is not required. Josephine enjoys helping quilters at all levels experience the joy of making Judy Niemeyer-designed quilts.
Level: All Levels
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Mary Pal
Cheesecloth Imagery
Is cheesecloth missing from your stash? It’s indispensable! Learn how to color it, sculpt it, and stitch it for unrivaled texture and interest in pictorial art quilts. Mary’s unique method (think fingerpainting!) makes both portraits and textural landscapes or critters easy. You’ll discover how to harness value, composition, and finishing for dramatic artworks. Through slide shows and demos, Mary leads you through her easy techniques for creating with cheesecloth. Starting with a simple project to learn the fundamentals, you’ll make a working pattern from a reference photo and create your own personal composition. Student images need pre-approval by email.
Level: All Levels
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Pearl Pereira
California The Golden State
Join Pearl as she guides you through careful prep work for perfect appliqué results, and introduces her uniquely successful techniques developed over years of teaching and practice. Learn Pearl’s “Off the Block” prepared-edge freezer paper appliqué techniques and build your appliqué directly onto the pattern. Perfect the Eight Elements of beautiful appliqué: creating “any-size Perfect Bias Stems,” reverse appliqué, sharp points, perfect circles, smooth concave and convex shapes, and linking embroidery. Pearl’s workshops are always open for independent study—please feel free to work on any appliqué project of your choice.
Level: All Levels
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Sue Hanson
Midnight Rose
“Midnight Rose” is a vibrant and dynamic quilt showcasing a blend of traditional and contemporary techniques. The bold design, inspired by the vastness of the night sky with a central star motif, is reminiscent of a celestial guide. A variety of piecing techniques are used to create a captivating design, including foundation paper piecing, square-in-a-square blocks, flying geese log cabin blocks, and a lively half-square triangle chain border that adds a sense of movement and energy. Finished Size: 88″ x 88″
Level: Confident Beginner
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Vicki Conley
Improv Design from Nature
In this class, you’ll explore abstract design through improv-style paper piecing, using nature photos—plants, animals, or landscapes—as inspiration. You will learn to create unique paper pieced blocks based on rhythm, movement, and shape rather than realism. We’ll use two main colors: one for the subject, one for the background, each with 6–8 values. Hand-dyed or solid fabrics work best. You’ll design several blocks from various images, resizing and reinterpreting them to create visually interesting compositions. Then we will use them to design a larger piece, adding in some improv connecting strips.
Level: All Levels
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