Cutting Loose
with Susan Carlson
www.susancarlson.com
All Levels

Emphasis placed on Susan’s simple and effective style of collage piecing gives you a comfortable approach to one of many personal design opportunities, all developed on foundation fabric and best of all, without precise patterns or templates. Instead, develop your own painterly style using Susan’s popular technique of adding one fabric to another. Playfulness amid serendipity makes the perfect opportunity to “cut loose” and develop your original wall quilt size piece or several smaller units.

Serendipity Sampler
with Kim Diehl
www.kimdiehl.com
All Levels

Skill in rich tradition, from the basics of assembling patchwork foundation blocks to easily mastered invisible machine appliqué is Kim’s goal of her relaxed, yet productive week. Working through all aspects of her techniques, you will learn her usage of template, pattern piece and appliqué preparation, then move into simple tips and tricks for design layout, appliquéing flawlessly curved vines on the machine in ways that give your quilt the hand-stitched look.

Mariner's Compass Celebration
with Brenda Henning
www.bearpawproductions.com
Intermediate to Advanced

Learn the magic of styling multiple compass blocks and their various construction techniques, all highlighted in a saturation of paper piecing. After completing a single compass, you can select from Brenda’s vast collection and continue to sew to expand your skill. Due to the individual nature of the compass selections, imagination is the only limitation to what might be started in class. Consider one compass or many… it is in your imagination.

Dream Landscapes
with Rose Hughes
www.rosehughes.com
All Levels

Ever see a beautiful scene that you know would make an amazing quilt? You will learn how to capture and translate your favorite landscape photographs into colorful designs and unique fabric art while learning and using Fast-Pieced Appliqué™ techniques and embellishments. Learn the secrets of how this method uses machine piecing and appliqué in combination to simplify complicated curves and circles. Additionally, explore layering your work by adding beads, bangles or other types of embellishments. You will take home unique pieces designed from your original landscape photos and new skills to apply in future projects.

Curve It - Quilt It!
with Philippa Naylor
www.philippanaylor.com
Intermediate to Advanced

Learn Philippa’s unique award winning curved piecing method, and then finish it off with beautiful free-motion machine quilting. After extensive discussion on creating dramatic quilts, you will create an individual design and learn how to draft a master pattern for a small curved quilt. Based on Philippa’s methods, learn to sew a quilt top together using her precise techniques sure to give wonderful results. When the small quilt top is completed, continue to explore a range of free-motion machine quilting styles including trapunto to further enhance the quilt top. A great opportunity to learn an entirely different way of creating a beautifully crafted contemporary quilt!

Picture This!
with Marcia Stein
www.marciastein.com
Intermediate to Advanced

Have you the perfect photo or picture that deserves to be a small quilt? Marcia’s delightful photo essay quilts become your designs in simple machine appliqué techniques. Using your own photo for inspiration, she will guide you from simplifying your photo to fabric selections and techniques that achieve imagery and depth, to showing you when and how to add design elements. Finishing possibilities include choices between methods of stitching a narrow zigzag over raw, fused, and turned-under edges. What fun to use memories from a favorite photo on fabric to make a treasured quilt top without sacrificing its essence. No drawing skills required.