AETHER QUILT

This class is for all levels of quilters.

Make an Orange Peel quilt without any curved piecing!

Piecing the Aether Quilt is simple but color placement is what makes this quilt shine. Orange Peels move from color to color, creating a rainbow that cascades across quilt, and the ombré background pieces bring it all together.

Class begins with a short lecture on how the quilt came together and why it works. We’ll chat about color placement, scale, hue and value, as well as different appliqué techniques so any level of quilter can create this quilt.

Students will spend the majority of their time working on fabric placement and design.

This is a full day workshop.

THERAPY AND METAMORPHOSIS

This class is for confident beginners to advanced quilters.

This Best of Show quilt is made using by repeating one block!

In this class we explore color and value and how using those two tools can create a dramatic quilt with a single block.

The primary background fabric is from one piece of ombre yardage. Students learn how to cut dark, medium and light values from the fabric in a specific manner to speed up the time to make this quilt while simultaneously creating drama and interest. The pops of color come from scrap fabrics.

If you know how to paper piece, or want to brush up on your paper piecing skills, this class is for you! You’ll learn some paper piecing hacks and leave class feeling confident in paper piecing skills and color placement.

Therapy and Metamorphosis won Best of Show in the East Cobb Quilters Guild 2022 Quilt Show.

This is a full day workshop.

Fine Tune Your Patchwork

Seams bulging? Points have you prickly? Strips not straight? There’s a remedy for all of that!

Spend the day walking through the fine points of piecing. Students will learn the basics of strip piecing before moving on to make foundational blocks. Along the way we’ll talk about math and as we progress you’ll learn how to take those basic blocks to create all your favorites like a Sawtooth Star or Drunkard’s Path.

Based on the best selling book, Piecing Makeover, you’ll learn all the tricks of the trade and leave class with a great depth of knowledge regarding piecing, trouble shooting, and problem solving.

HALF DAY CLASS – In this class, we will spend 3-4 hours covering one section of my book. Depending on skill level of students, we can customize the class towards beginners through intermediate and advanced quilter.

BLUEGRASS – FULL DAY

This class is for intermediate to advanced quilters. 

Large scale fabrics are beautifully showcased in this dynamic quilt. Diamonds and stars beautifully combined to make a bold quilt. In this class students will learn how to successfully make a quilt mixing and matching fabric substrates, how scale can play an important role in piecing, how to get the perfect y-seam, how to furl your pieces and how bias can work in our favor! As shown, this quilt is a large queen, but you can make it larger or smaller depending on the desired size you want. We will discuss how to size the quilt up, or down, in class.

YES, MA’AM! – FULL DAY

This class is for confident beginners and beyond.

The perfect class to mix improv and precision!

Students learn how to piece wonky bits, leftovers and odd scraps to create fabric without using a foundation. Once the improv piecing ends, precision piecing begins and students learn how to accurately cut and piece Half-Square Triangle units to create this dramatic quilt. Students will also learn how to insert a block into the border.

Fabric choices, color and value are an important part of this class and students learn that, in this class, more is better to get movement!

Little Lone Star

n this class you’ll learn how to create the perfect Lone Star Quilt in a few short hours. Unlike the days of yore, in this class you’ll learn how you can make this darling quilt using a strip pieced method. It’s fast and fun!

You’ll leave class confident in your ability to sew seams at an angle AND you’ll have some bonus quilt ideas to use the leftovers!

trunk show

I will bring my favorite quilts and take you on a journey to discuss how I began quilting, my creative process and share quilts with you.

Information about accommodations and pricing can be found here.

Please contact me via email to discuss workshops and lectures.