Classes start every weekend between New Years and the end of October. Most classes are offered twice a year, although beginner classes are offered more frequently. Registration opens five weeks before a class starts.
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Tip: Curious how classes relate to each other? Can't tell which class comes first when you are exploring a new technique? Find your answer in the Quilt U Road Map.
Appliqué
- Baltimore Basics. [August 30] Nancy Chong. Learn the 5 basic appliqué shapes and Nancy's stress-free method for hand appliqué. (5) $51
- Drunkard's Flowers. Joan Waldman. Learn a shortcut to the Drunkard's Path block and add appliqué embellishments. (4) $41 *
- Give and Take Appliqué. [June 7] Susan Purney-Mark. Learn to make graphic appliqué designs with NO fabric waste. (4) $40
- Hawaiian Quilting 101. [July 26] Nancy Chong. Beginner class using traditional needleturn appliqué. (4) $41
- Layered Machine Appliqué. [June 28] Ruth Blanchet. Add depth, dimension and perspective with layers of fabrics and sculptural quilting. (4) $41 *
- Make Your Own Hawaiian Quilt. [September 27] Nancy Chong. Learn to design your own, plus perfect needleturn instructions. (5) $51
- Stack-n-Whack™ Fan Quilt. Bethany Reynolds. New appliqué approach to her trademark technique. (3) $30 *
- Stress-free Celtic Tablerunner. [June 7] Nancy Chong. Use custom bias to create intricate knotwork. (3) $31
- Too Easy Stained Glass. [June 7] Daphne Greig. Super simple method for adding stained glass leading to the top of a landscape fabric. (3) $30 *
- 2 Fabric Appliqué. [July 5] Nancy Chong. Learn the needleturn technique while creating one of these original wall quilts. (3) $30
- Triple Treat Tulips. Susan Brittingham. Learn three methods of machine appliqué. (3) $30 *
- Upside-Down Appliqué. [September 13] Susan Brittingham. Create floral designs working from the back. (3) $30
Computer-Aided Quilt Design
Electric Quilt Series of classes help you get the most out of your software.
- EQ7 Sampler. [July 19] Fran Gonzalez. Learn the fundamentals of EQ7 software. Skill level: Beginner. (4) $40
- EQ7 Building Blocks. [May 24] [August 23] Fran Gonzalez. Learn to draw blocks in both PatchDraw and EasyDraw and to create quilting motifs. Level: Intermediate. (4) $40
- EQ7 Advanced Layouts. [September 20] Fran Gonzalez. Explore layers, color tools and complex layouts. (4) $40
- EQ Appliqué Design. [June 28] Patti Anderson. Learn to use the advanced tools on the PatchDraw drawing board. (3) $30
Design
- Art for Quilters. [September 6] Marilyn Belford. Learn basic art principles you can apply to fabric compositions. (4) $40
- Artist's Toolbox. [August 23] Lyric Kinard. Explore art principles through exercises, creating your own sketchbook as a permanent reference. (4) $40
- Attic Windows. [July 5] Daphne Greig. Learn to draft your own realistic windows. Sew starter project. (3) $30
- Color Companions. Carol Miller. Color study based on color wheel, includes mini-project for each lesson. (5) $51
- Crazy and Sane. Cindy Thury Smith. Mix crazy pieces with blocks and sashing for an innovative look. (3) $30 *
- Crystal Quilts. Dena Crain. Use the symmetry tools of reflection and tessellation to make original innovative quilt designs, each one a unique jewel. Quilt design and construction. (4) $40 *
- Darned Quilts. [September 6] Dena Crain. Piece and embellish a strip set, then cut and darn circles to create your quilt. (4) $40
- Designer Pinwheels. Dena Crain. Divide a typical pinwheel in atypical ways, then learn new ways stitch it up. (4) $40
- Dyeing to Design. [July 19] Elizabeth Barton. Combine one dyeing process and one principle of art as you design a small quilt in each lesson (5) $51
- Exploring Log Cabin. Carol Miller. Piece four types of LC, learn to design your own. (4) $40 *
- Fractal Fragments. [August 30] Lily Kerns. Use computer generated repeating images to create quilt designs. (4) $40
- Goodbye to the Grid. [August 9] Dena Crain. Step away from traditional blocks and learn the principles of design while creating your own art quilt. (4) $40
- Gradations & Transparencies. Carol Miller. Advanced color class, lots of sewing using gradated strips. (4) $41
- Inspired to Design. [August 23] Elizabeth Barton. Learn to recognize and use inspiration in the world around you. (4) $40
- Journal Quilts. [June 14] Lily Kerns. Learn to express yourself in these small-format quilts. (4) $40 *
- Multiple Magic. Carol Miller. Quilt design with basic shapes. Use paper, computer graphics and fabric. (3) $31 *
- Reflections. Dena Crain. Learn to design, critique and construct an original quilt using artists' principles. (4) $40
- Structured Fabrics. Dena Crain. Cut, sew, layer and stitch your way to an original wall hanging. (4) $40 *
- Using Fusing to Express Yourself. Michele Scott. Turn thoughts, emotions or places into small expressive works with fused figures and embellishments. (3) $30
- Watercolor Wizardry. Carol Miller. Painting pictures with squares of fabric. (4) $42 *
- Working in Series. [June 14] [September 20] Elizabeth Barton. Experienced art quilters learn to dig deeper by exploring one subject in a series.. (4) $41
Dyeing and Painting
- Batik It! [September 20] Marjie McWilliams. Learn the art of using hot wax to create designs on fabric. (4) $40 *
- Cotton Dyeing Basics. [June 21] Marjie McWilliams. Introduction to fabric dyeing. (5) $50
- Dyeing with Tea and Spices. [July 12] Marjie McWilliams. Learn to use natural ingredients to stain fabric. (3) $30
- Freeform Screen Printing. [September 27] Lyric Kinard. Use common household supplies to make stencils or resists, then push your paint through the screen for unique designs. (4) $41.
- Fabric Painting. [August 2] Marjie McWilliams. Learn to paint your own panels. (5) $50
- Fun with Paintstiks. [September 27] Daphne Greig. Experiment with Paintstiks on a variety of fabrics with assorted stamps, stencils and rubbing surfaces. (4) $40
- Gutta Resist on Silk. Marjie McWilliams. Use washable gutta to separate colored areas and create pictures on silk. (4) $40 *
- Painted Landscapes. [September 20] Michele Scott. Add paint to cloth background for impressionist landscapes. (3) $31
- Playing with Paint. [July 19] Lyric Kinard. You don't have to use commercial stamps or stencils when you can create your own from items found around the house. (4) $40
- Quilter's Palette. [September 6] Marjie McWilliams. Create fabrics perfect for landscape, portrait and other realistic quilt or craft projects. (5) $50.
- Shibori. Marjie McWilliams. Japanese method of dyeing by folding, pleating and sewing fabric to create patterns. (4) $40 *
- Silk Dyeing. [August 16] Marjie McWilliams. Dip, splatter or mottle luscious colors on the most fabulous fabric in the world. (4) $40 *
- Thick and Thin. [May 31] [October 18] Marjie McWilliams. Use sodium alginate to turn dye into fabric paint. (5) $50
- Three Unconventional Ways to Dye. [October 4] Marjie McWilliams. Spritzing, discharging & resisting. (4) $40 *
- Wool Dyeing. [July 26] Marjie McWilliams. Learn to use acid dyes to create unique colors for your wool yarns and fabrics. (4) $40
Embroidery Modules
- Beginning Machine Embroidery. [May 24] Joanne Winn. Learn to use your embroidery module, including downloading designs and saving. (3) $30
- Beyond Basic Digitizing. [September 13] Joanne Winn. Learn to turn your own pictures into digitized embroidery by completing several examples set out in the lessons. (4) $40
- Digitized Quilting. [August 9] Joanne Winn. Use your embroidery module to quilt small items. Not for beginners. (4) $40
- Digitizing Feathers and Flowers. [October 4] Joanne Winn. How to draw your own floral or feather designs using Bernina's built-in Art Canvas tool. (5) $50
- Embroidered Appliqué. [June 7] Joanne Winn. Use decorative stitching to attach appliqué shapes. Eight designs provided in multiple formats. (4) $40
- Embroidery on Patchwork. [July 12] Joanne Winn. Learn to embellish your patchwork using an embroidery module. (3) $30
Garments and Accessories
- Designing Your Perfect Purse. [August 2] Lily Kerns. Stop buying purses that do not meet your needs. Learn to design and construct just what you want.. (4) $40
- InVestigations. Carol Miller. Size, sew, embellish and design your own vests. (4) $40 *
- Mermaid Lagoon Jacket. Linda Schmidt. Highly embellished pictorial garment. (4) $40 *
- Tote That Mat. Ruth Blanchet. Create a beautiful bag to carry your oversize mat, ruler and other supplies. (3) $30 *
- Victorian Sewing Box. Barbara Dieges. Keep your sewing things or your jewelry in this lovely padded box. (3) $30
Foundation Piecing
- Elegant Angel. [October 18] Lily Kerns. Sophisticated paper pieced original design. (2) $20 *
- Firm Foundations. [July 26] Jane Hall. Learn to get absolutely accurate results using foundations. (4) $40
- Ozark Garden. [May 31] Lily Kerns. Award-winning paper pieced floral quilt. (7) $70 *
- Paper Pieced Paradise. Daphne Greig. Fundamentals of paper piecing. (4) $40
- Ripless Paper Piecing. [August 2] Daphne Greig. Learn the precision of paper piecing without the tedious paper removal afterwards. (3) $30
- Strip Mine. [October 18] Patti Anderson. Easy, strip pieced project. (3) $30
Patchwork and Piecing
- Carol Miller's Anatomy of a Block. [September 6] Ruth Blanchet. Learn the hidden magic behind block design and techniques for fast, accurate construction. (4) $41.
- Bargello Blues. August 23] Ruth Blanchet. An advanced class for quilters who want to learn to create their own design. (4) $41
- Bargello Seasons. [June 14] Ruth Blanchet. In this starter class, learn four different bargello techniques. (4) $43
- Bargello Twist. [May 31] Ruth Blanchet. This advanced class breaks away from the horizontal design and explodes from the center. (4) $40 *
- Border Workshop. Carol Miller. Experiment with different borders, exploring the effect of size, color and placement. (4) $40 *
- Crazy Quilt Piecing. [October 25] Cindy Thury Smith. Intro to piecing several different types for CQ blocks; embellishments discussed only. (3) $30
- Curved Piecing Made Easy. [August 2] Michele Scott. Tricks for designing your own softly curving blocks. Small project. (4) $40
- Fast, Fun, Fabulous. Carol Miller. Design and construction tips for quick-pieced quilts. (3) $30 *
- Hand Piecing. [May 24] [October 25] Susan Purney-Mark. Learn everything you need to hand piece your blocks: template making, marking, sewing the seams and assembly. (3) $31
- Jane Was Nuts. Carol Miller. More than 100 4" blocks used in a sampler or small wall quilts. Construction tricks. (3) $30 *
- Reversible Quilts. Leslie Lacika. Learn to match pieces front and back, with the batting already in place, to create a two-sided quilt. (4) $40
- Seminole Piecing. Daphne Greig. Create the illusion of intricate piecing by sewing strips, segmenting, and resewing the units. (3) $30 *
- Sewfasst. [June 21] Barbara Dieges. No waste shortcuts for common units using only squares and rectangles. (3) $30 *
- Shattered Angles. [October 11] Susan Purney-Mark. Turn conventional strip sets into eye-catching quilts with angled cuts. (3) $30
- Stack-n-Whack™ Hexagon Stars. Bethany Reynolds. Six-sided star quilt from her best-selling book. (3) $30
- Carol Miller's Starting from Scratch. [September 27] Leslie Lacika. Basic beginner piecing class, from shopping to quilting. (6) $61
- Tessellating Stars. [August 16] Cindy Thury Smith. Easy strip pieced project with variations. (3) $30
- T-Shirt Quilts. [June 21] Fran Gonzalez. Turn those piles of souvenir t-shirts into memorial quilts for graduation or other events. (3) $30
- Wheel of Mystery. Helen Marshall. Curved pieces create motion across this Winding Ways quilt. (3) $31
Pictorial Quilts
- Flower Power. [June 14] Susan Brittingham. Learn multiple methods for creating flowers in fabric. (5) $51
- Home Building. Betty Alofs. Use fabric to make a portrait of your home. (4) $40 *
- Miniature Landscapes. [July 19] Susan Brittingham. Fusible shapes create small landscape. (4) $40
- On Land and Sea. [October 4] Susan Brittingham. Techniques used to create original land and seascapes. (5) $50
- Realistic Fabric Portraits. [June 28] [October 11] Marilyn Belford. Convert pictures of family members into wall hangings. (5) $51
- Still Life. Ruth Blanchet. Using a free graphics program, create the illusion of a three-dimensional object and learn how to cast shadows or reflections. (4) $40
- Viewpoints. [May 31] [October 25] Susan Brittingham. Learn to get true perspective in your pictorial quilts. (4) $40
- Waves and Waterfalls. [August 9] Linda Schmidt. Create realistic moving water with non-traditional methods and materials. (6) $61
- Winter Wonderland. [October 11] Linda Schmidt. Why wait for snow when you can learn how to make your own? (4) $40
Quilting and Surface Embellishment
- Arabesque: Embellished Trapunto. Martine House. Intricate handwork with embroidery, trapunto, appliqué & dense quilting (5) $52 *
- Bodacious Blossoms. [August 9] Leslie Lacika. Scraps of fabric and trim can become a bouquet of lush blooms. (4) $40
- Digital Fabric Printing. [July 12] Lily Kerns. Learn to create your own fabric, either by drawing designs or manipulating images in your computer. (4) $40
- Elements in Fabric. [June 21] Linda Schmidt. Get realistic effects by using non-traditional art and craft supplies in your quilts. (6) $61
- Fabric Pages. [May 24] Martine House. Capture special memories in fabric with these embellished fabric envelopes. (4) $41 *
- Filament Fantasy. [September 13] Linda Schmidt. Learn to stitch with specialty threads and yarns. (4) $40
- Fireworks. [September 6] Helen Marshall. A simple pieced background sets off your vibrant thread painting. (4) $40
- Hand Quilting. [October 25] Nancy Chong. It all starts with a needle and thread. Learn how to make magic turning three layers into one. (3) $30
- Machine Embellished Surfaces. [August 2] Susan Brittingham. Fold, pleat, scrunch and more to add raised textures to your creations. (3) $30
- Carol Miller's Machine Quilting. [October 11] Ruth Blanchet. Learn the basics of free motion and straight line quilting on a series of small samples. (4) $40
- More Machine Quilting. Carol Miller. Learn machine trapunto, thread drawing, free motion feathers and how to design your own wholecloth quilt. (4) $40 *
- Printing on Fabric. [July 26] Ruth Blanchet. Learn how to transfer photographs to fabric, then make one of four projects. (3) $30
- Quilting Designs. [July 5] Susan Purney-Mark. Help decide what to quilt and how to mark it. (3) $30
- Seed Bead Botany. [October 4] Nancy Eha. Learn to create tiny realistic flowers, leaves and berries with beads. (4) $40
- Silk Ribbon Flowers. Martine House. Learn to create realistic flowers with ribbon manipulation and embroidery. (3) $30 *
- To Bead or Not to Bead. [August 30] Susan Brittingham. Add beading to quilts, garments and accessories. (4) $40
- Whisper Felting. [June 28] Lily Kerns. Learn to blend fibers together using felting needles. (4) $40
Other
- Displaying Your Quilts. [August 30] Susan Dorchester. Instructions for hanging and ideas for other methods of showing your quilts. (3) $30
- Math for Quilters. [October 11] Dena Crain. Draft blocks, figure template sizes and yardage, calculate layouts and apply math to calculate the real cost of your quilts. (3) $30
- Getting Started Online. [September 13] Julie Neu. Decide how you would like to present yourself online and get help with the mechanics of making it happen. (3) $30
- Photographing Your Quilt. [August 16] Janice Baehr. Learn to take the best possible pictures of your quilts. (4) $40
- Super Sue. Lily Kerns. Learn to create and dress figures for interactive quilts. (4) $40 *
- Tools of the Trade. [May 24] [October 18] Chris Pascuzzi. How to use the feet that fit your machine, experiment with thread, stitches. (4) $40