classes

"Spa Day for your Singer Featherweight 221™” is a comprehensive workshop in which all aspects of routine mechanical maintenance for your beloved Featherweight are addressed, including motor and foot controller. Also offered as 500 on Friday. Do not enroll for both. www.novamontgomery.com

If you are a beginner quilter or an experienced quilter who would like to brush up on the basics, this class if for you! Cover all the essentials to machine piece a quilt—use of basic quilting tools, accurate cutting of fabric using a rotary cutter and mat, sewing an accurate ¼ inch seam on your sewing machine, matching seams, ironing vs. pressing, adding borders and binding, etc. Then use your new skills to make a small simple wallhanging. The Tucker Trimmer I and Quilter's Magic Wand are highly recommended for this class. These tools are available from the instructor during class or are available at your local quilt shop. www.kathiebeltz.com

Use your favorite fabrics to make this fast and easy quilt that looks hard. Only one block, really. Neutrals or bright fabrics, you decide. A Stash Buster and Skill Builder quilt. Be amazed how fast this comes together. The perfect gift quilt. www.bbquiltmaker.blogspot.com

Have you been longing to design your own patterns? Or would you like to create a plan for how you will quilt your newest project? Explore the ease and flexibility of digital drawing using Inkscape, a free design program for both Windows and MacOS X. Work along side Davis as she teaches how to use Inkscape's many tools to reproduce a pattern from start to finish, design a quilt, and then tweak that design to make it your own. www.loopytulips.com

 In this practice class for confident beginners/intermediate level machine quilters, stitch interesting texture and divide spaces to create a stunning background, transforming a simple quilt into a masterpiece. www.fabiadiniz.com

This ageless design is created using special strip-piecing techniques. Discuss color and value as you arrange your fabrics. Then learn precision cutting, pinning, and piecing while making a small quilt (about 36 inch square). Discover how painless set-in seams and mitered borders can be! www.helenfrostquilts.com

Have fun working on a modern colorful cat or dog portrait using one of Haworth's three patterns. Learn this raw-edge fabric collage technique that uses no fusible or pattern pieces, only glue. Discuss how to make your own pattern using a photo for your own pet portrait. www.janehaworth.com

Create and customize your own face quilt! With the kit specially prepared for this class, assemble your own version of a face image! Have fun while learning about image composition and framing. www.marinalandi.com.br

Learn and/or refine needleturn appliqué techniques during this all-day class while making this charming Christmas pillow. Class will include preparing an overlay, preparing and appliquéing various pieces, as well as techniques to add embroidery to complete and enhance the design. www.cherilefflerdesigns.net

“That Perfect Stitch” is a world renowned class that has helped tens of thousands of quilters re-discover the joys of hand quilting! McElroy will break it down into very specific movements in a step-by-step process. Her orthopedically correct methods will make the act of hand quilting rapid, completely painless, and fun to do. Learn more in this class than you can possibly imagine! www.thatperfectstitch.net

Want to learn to do free-motion quilting but don't know where to start? Can you do a few simple patterns but want to expand your creativity? Have you taken other classes and failed? Are you afraid you'll ruin that beautiful top you spent weeks piecing? This is the class for you! Merrill's unique teaching system and specialized tools guide you step-by-step through simple exercises that will get you moving comfortably at the sewing machine and build your quilting skills as you quilt one block at a time. Make a quantum leap in your free-motion quilting skills during the class and go home with a practice plan to continue building your skills. Leave class saying "I can DO this!" www.ranaemerrillquilts.com

Have you ever wondered what to quilt in unusual shapes? Murphy will guide you through creating several designs that work in hexagon and diamond shapes using ruler work to create structure and free-motion to add texture. A perfect way to augment your quilting skills without having to piece a time-consuming quilt top! https://blog.amandamurphydesign.com

Are you looking for a fun and easy way to add unique elements to your quilts, bags, and garments? Use Oleson's techniques to create your own reverse appliqué that can be used in a quilt or a bag. Working with fabric paint, airbrushing, and hand stitching, be amazed how easy and addictive this technique can be! www.quiltaholicsanonymous.com

Learn Pfeil´s method for creating Art Quilts using unique circles of silk. Craft your own individual designs on circles. Prepare appliqué after coloring with ink pens and Ecco pigment pens. Finished circles can be appliquéd at home by hand or machine. https://claudiapfeil.de

Bring the beauty of mosaics to your quiltmaking. Proffetty will break down each step to create a mosaic quilt including working from a photograph, how to draw shapes, recognizing values in photos and translating them to the correct colors, and how to choose just the right fabrics. She'll share traditional and innovative designs and cutting techniques, plus show you how to perform her NEWEST technique of putting the mosaic design together without needing a light box, stencils, or fabric marking tools. To finish the project, layer the quilt, do some simple free-motion quilting, apply a pretty accent binding, and add just a touch of fairy dust glitter. www.heidiproffetty.com

Designed for beginning machine quilters, but guaranteed to teach even skilled quilters a thing or two about successfully quilting your quilts. Threads, needles, batting, walking foot quilting, extensive free-motion quilting, three types of feathers, stippling, and most importantly, how to handle large quilts on your domestic sewing machine will be covered. www.quintessentialquilting.com

Let's face it, making stuff up is fun. The pictured quilt "Starburst" was constructed improvisationally. Stone will help you find your improv wings, with just enough structure to guarantee a wonderful outcome. Let's explore some possibilities! www.karenkstonequilts.com

Dazed by pictorial quilts? You too can be an artist creating these stunning quilts. Create your own individual masterpiece using the raw-edge, fused, free-formed Snippet Sensations technique. Class gives a comprehensive overview of this technique and the steps of turning the snippet top into a quilt. A fun project for all artistic skill levels. Looks hard, but it's surprisingly easy. Optional reading: Snippet Sensations or More Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter, Krause Publications. www.cindywalter.com

Learn how Arcenegui Bono designs and quilts her whimsical forests. There is no right or wrong in this workshop. Each student will create their own forest from their imagination with a few guidelines. Practice some of her favorite quilting motifs which will later be applied in your quilts. One person per machine. www.crisarcbono.com

Ordinary colored pencils can be used to make fun, fabulous, vibrant quilts. Learn how to stabilize the fabric and discover the magic elixir that makes the color permanent. Choose from approximately twelve designs pre-printed on cotton fabric. Finish at home as a 12 inch square mini-quilt. www.laurettacrites.com

Ice-dye mandalas and more in this skill-building fabric dyeing class. Learn tips and tricks to creating pattern, mixing and blending colors, and avoiding muddy ice-dyes. Expect to dye a 5 yard collection of your own unique and amazing ice-dyed fabrics. www.dyehardsstudio.com

The versatile Coverstitch isn't just for hemming. Insert a zipper, create an amazing faux flat fell seam, and finish "stitching in the round" without losing a stitch. When you hem knit garments and cross the side seams, do your stitches become wonky and microscopic? Learn an easy solution for perfect "over the hump" Coverstitching. Yellen also discusses stay tapes that enhance the look of knit garments and why they're important to include in your "must have" sewing notions. www.gailpatrice.com

Have you ever wanted to make the Cathedral Window block but were intimidated by the old envelope method? If so, you will love learning how to make this beautiful block, which can be turned into a 20 inch square pillow, wallhanging, or quilt, using a modern easy piecing method! Join the fun and gain the confidence of mastering the Cathedral Window! www.seamssewme.com

Create a peaceful underwater ocean scene with parts of the Art Quilt floating away from the background. Colorful dimensional fish gracefully swim along the corral. Designing floating aspects to this Art Quilt give the impression of being a moveable underwater scene. Complete this Art Quilt in a three-hour class. If you have embellishments you want to add to your Art Quilt, please bring with you to class to add a special memory to your original designed Art Quilt. www.ritalynnestudio.com

Kaleidoscope designs showcase the illusion of curves with straight-line sewing. Easy for confidant beginners, but design variations tantalize even the most advanced. Cut the pieces using the multi-size Kaleido-Ruler Marti Michell designed that provides the accurate guidelines for all pieces needed. Kaleido-Rulers are supplied for use in class. www.frommarti.com

Collage without any specific pattern or design. The abstract result will be created by following organically grown lines in colors and the connections these colors can make. The class is all about grouping and blending of colors using a collage technique. Finishing options (to be done at home) will be discussed. www.carlys.net

For those who want to learn the secrets for easy steps to creating original eye-popping designs, this lecture/demo class is packed full of concepts. Gridified quilts work within the structure of a grid. LocoMotion features flowing curves that are free of straight-line seams. Includes construction techniques. www.rickytims.com

Explore the familiar basic shapes and heirloom blocks and ask how can we use this "base" as a jumping off point for more intricate or modern design work. As we approach the simple shapes, the viewer gets an idea of how a square or a circle is all we need to start a quilt pattern. Look at the mechanics of changing blocks and the aesthetic decisions that push the design in one direction or another, as we delve into the traditional blocks many quilters see in source books or traditional piecing. www.swanamity.com

Did you know your Smartphone or tablet is a fabric art tool? Learn how to take a photo on your Smartphone or tablet, manipulate it in an app, and print the image onto fabric on a home printer. See a variety of Art Quilts Thorpe created with these images as a central theme, as well as several Art Quilts using multiple photo images tiled together to create a stunning collaged quilt effect. Use an easy way to create a repeat printed fabric in four steps using your iPad. Learn the process of creating and uploading your own repeat fabric designs from photos. This lecture comes with handouts detailing apps, printer info, and fabric printing sources. See an array of beautiful fabrics Thorpe created and how she used them in her Art Quilt and clothing designs. www.lisathorpe.com

Fun, entertaining, and amusing—Pellman chronicles how quilting frames and tells the story of her real and imagined life. Fashionistas and Word Salad combine fashion and quilting to celebrate women and femininity, their lives, friendships, and romantic relationships, real and imagined. www.kathrynpellman.com

What happens when an avid amateur photographer/fiber artist starts a blog, posting one carefully-chosen photo and text each week? 14 years & over seven hundred and fifty images later, Herbort shares her musings on art, design, observing the world around us, and how your snapshots can inspire your quilts & artwork. www.dianeherbort.com

Enjoy a deep dive into Michaud's creative history and artistic process. Start with a biographical look at her artistic life, followed by behind-the-scenes photos and videos from making multiple quilts. Travel step-by-step through her entire quilt design process, from drawing, to cutting fabric, to binding. www.kestrelmichaud.com

Do you know a quilt that refuses to give you any information? Bring your quilt to Erlandson and watch as she coaxes information from even the most uncooperative subjects. Of course, you don't have to bring a quilt to enjoy the fun. A supportive audience is always needed to help the quilts reveal their secrets! www.lequilts.com

The imperfect is beautiful! Lyon will show inspiring and encouraging examples of her work as well as the work of world renowned quilters and artists that are beautiful in their IMperfection, including Best of Show winners in Houston and Paducah. She will also share her story of how she came to embrace IMperfection. Leave inspired to embrace the IMperfect. www.quiltskipper.com

Art is in all things! This lecture includes over thirty quilts and approaches the foundations of quilting as art. Discussing different representations of art and how various quilts fall into these definitions, Sheridan presents her approach with her three Cs of art (concept, color, and creativity) to show how our fiber arts have all the potential of a gallery show. www.swanamity.com

Make a small pictorial Wholecloth based on an old vintage illustration. Discover where to look for all those public domain illustrations and what to look for. First quilt and then color your small quilt. Go home with an almost finished quilt and full of ideas to make your own Wholecloth Quilts. One person per machine. www.crisarcbono.com

If you think finishing seams is all your serger can do, you're in for a surprise. A few tweaks of your serger settings can transform utility stitches into beautiful embellishments for quilts, garments, and home decor projects. If you've never serged with decorative threads, prepare to be amazed. A serger can handle thick decorative threads to create fabulous surface embellishments. Raindrops, Ladders, Blanket stitches, and the fabulous Twice as Nice stitch are just some of the specialty serger stitches to create. Your serger might just become your new favorite embellishment tool! www.gailpatrice.com

Are you new to hand appliqué or someone who would like to improve your technique? This course will break down all the steps of making the actual stitch. Recommended equipment and different styles of appliqué will be discussed. Small samples will be stitched featuring points, circles, gentle curves, and reverse appliqué. Andersen has many decades of teaching experience and is well-known for the precision of her appliqué. www.cwaquilts.com

A follow up to Redford's "Walking Foot Quilting—Beyond the Ditch" class. Elevate your technique with beautiful organic curves. Learn how to execute sharp turns and make accurate straight-line polygon spirals. Circular spirals round out the class. www.catherineredford.com

Photography is one of the best ways to develop an artistic eye. Learn to be an artist in an instant, anywhere in the world, at any time. Included in this in-depth lecture/demo class full of tips, tricks, and secrets, is a section on getting great photos of your quilts. This is vital information for competitors submitting to contests. www.rickytims.com

Mailing envelopes might become your favorite "fabric". Learn how the durable material, Tyvek, can be painted and manipulated to add dimensional embellishments to your Art Quilts. A technique Crites demonstrated on Quilting Arts TV is "up-cycling" at its best. This inspirational and informative presentation provides so much detail, it's nearly a workshop. www.laurettacrites.com