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Classes

1. Turkish Flowers

Like the look of appliqué but know it is often a time consuming project? Would you like to cut the completion time in half? Stencil part of the pattern and no one will know. Really! Using patterns from Linda M. Poole’s beautiful Turkish Flowers book, we can stencil the smallest pieces and appliqué the rest. The authentic Iznik tiles in Instanbul’s Topkapi Palace captured the author’s attention and inspired her Karen of beautiful, unusual flowers. 

Karen Auer    (440) 777-1269    kauer@adelphia.net    Intermediate

2. Wearable Art Jacket

Make this remarkable quilted jacket. This is a loose fitting, lined jacket. You can select your size by trying on my prepared muslins. I can fit anyone! I will draft a pattern for you if needed. The right front has several fabrics, the sleeves, back and left front are one focus fabric. I provide instructions for you to prepare the textured focus fabric before class. In class we design the right front of the jacket, cut out and assemble the jacket and lining. The jacket edges are finished with a quilt binding. This jacket is easy to make, if you can make a quilt you can make this jacket. It is not a sweatshirt based jacket. Most will complete jacket up to the binding in class. Book: Fiber & Cloth by Debra Youngs. 

Jean Bailey    (440) 236-8860    JWBailey97@aol.com    All

3. Intermediate Domestic Machine Quilting

Improve and expand your domestic machine quilting techniques and patterns on practice sandwiches. We will go beyond “just filling the spaces” and design quilting patterns that enhance your quilt tops. Part of the class will involve quilting a small whole cloth, using a medallion center with trapunto, unique stippling patterns and elaborating simple feathers. Not for beginning machine quilters. Some experience required.

Mary Bernower    (330) 821-6428    blbernr@neo.rr.com    All

4. Fabric Oil Painting

Connie Bloom   Intermediate Yes, you can paint with fabric, but first you cry while you cut up your expensive batiks and solids into tiny pieces to make a woodland wallhanging! It’s OK though because you create a bit of magic when you start “mixing” your snippets of color together to create your
landscapes. Bring photos of your favorite garden, sunset over the mountains or forest scenes to make an original art quilt of your own design. Worry not. It’s easier than you
think. This class is different from regular snippets classes in that your pieces must be much smaller in order to create the effect of using oil paintings. And no, there’s not one bit of
glue anywhere. No fusible webbing at all.

Connie Bloom   (330) 472-0161    connie@conniebloom.com   Intermediate

5. Feathered Flowers

This is a quilt as you go pattern. As the quilt top is pieced, so is it also quilted! Each block is made,
individually, already sandwiched with the batting and backing. The top of the block features an ingenious flip and sew method that quilts the block as you go! There is a simple method to stitch the finished blocks together. And, Voila! Your quilt is done! No binding is needed! Your quilt is totally finished.

Sharon K. Chase    330-667-3158    schase73@yahoo.com    Intermediate

6. Flying South or Sunflower Illusions

AJudy Niemeyer has created marvelous paper pieced designs. Choose from “Flying South” using only straight seams or “Sunflower Illusions” containing Judy’s spectacular floating points and curves. Friday evening begins with some cutting, but also piecing the first unit. Saturday continues with additional cutting and sewing as the colorful designs appear before your eyes. There will be some pre class cutting directions. Prior foundation piecing not required. Pattern.

Karen Conley    (330) 497-9262    Kconley@neo.rr.com    Intermediate

7. Feathered Star Medallion

This is one of my most popular workshops. I teach this it using a From Marti Michell Template Set P ($22), which includes the templates for a 27” feathered star and complete instructions for piecing and settings as illustrated by the two photos. Marti has also designed a Feathered Star Medallion, which is a full size quilt (pattern $10) and students have the option of using the workshop block as the beginning of that quilt. The purpose of the workshop is to introduce students to rotary cutting templates and to help them refine the accuracy of their piecing skills. The success students have is always impressive as long as they have basic piecing skills under their belt.

Mary Huey    440-227-6391    mary@maryhueyquilts.com   Intermediate

8. Omiyage Pine Cone Pouch
The Omiyage Pine Cone pouch makes a wonderful gift for the New Year, one of the most popular holidays in Japan. A gift in this delightful little bag is a New Years wish for prosperity in the future. Also is a lovely little bag for the bride-to-be, a great cosmetic bag for your quilting or a different evening purse. Requirement for the class is the purchase of Kumiko Sudo’s book, OMIYAGE.

9. Rose of Sharon 15” x 20”

Learn how easy it is to paint your own fabric. This is not as messy or time consuming as fabric dying and provides wonderful effects of paint, water, and salt. We will paint the fabric on Friday, then start cutting applique pieces Saturday morning and quilting it by lunch on Saturday!!!. This method is a direct, raw edge, applique and quilting at the same time. Pattern $5 fee and can be modified to fit your style and level.

Make as many or few of each as you like. It’s your week end. You can work like a slave, or just relax and take it at a slower pace,doing only what you like.

11. Twinkle 84 X 98

Designed by Cheryl Wittmayer, this quilt is a great opportunity to showcase all of those large print fabrics that you own. You can use as many as 168 different prints, or as few as four fabrics as the block backgrounds. I have sewn up different styles of fabrics, and it looks good using brights, black and white, as well as country or primitive. You can see different examples of the blocks on my blog:

12. Fibonacci’s Trip

Here’s Judy’s original twist on the traditional “Trip around the World” pattern! With strips of 8 different fabrics cut in 5 different sizes, we’ll explore the world in perfect harmony and create a quilt approximately 40” square.

Judi Smith                                  440.946.2381 jkskks8291@att.net                             All

13. The Gift

Nelly has adapted this artsy, dynamic design to make a stained glass wall quilt so that she can introduce you to this appealing appliqué technique using fusible bias tape to “lead” the design. The Gift is a great design that can be constructed in any
color style.

14. Open Studio

This self-directed class gives you the opportunity to finish some UFOs or start a project you just haven’t had time to begin. There will not be a teacher assigned to this class so you’ll be on your own to use the scheduled class time to work at your own pace. Having a problem with a technique or fabric choices? Ask the class to see if someone can offer some advice. Learned a new trick? Offer to show it to the rest of the class. A great way to enjoy the fellowship of the weekend, while working on your own project.

or finish one you started last year!