Virtual Classes for Quilters, Crafters, and Artists
Each of these virtual courses is scheduled to begin and end on a specific date.
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Adventures in Knitting: Fleur-Lace Flowers
with
Lisa M. Barnes
Learn how to knit a flower in just one hour! Knit this flower, in any yarn of your choice. You will learn how to make a yarnover, a simple lace pattern, and create the flower shape. We will discuss how to embellish your flower with beads, and explore options to turn your flower into a lovely accessory or gift!
Design Your Quilt: From Photo to Imagination
with
Vicki Conley
Learn how easy it is to design and build your own art quilt from a photograph as Vicki walks you through the steps.
Modern Improv Quilt Academy with
Carole Lyles Shaw
The Modern Improv Quilt Academy will be a membership program with a year-long schedule of live workshops, on demand workshops and webinars with guest speakers.
Beautiful decorative pillows are the perfect DIY home dec project for any skill level, budget or style. Lisa teaches 3 basic pillow covering styles (zippered, tuck-in, and sewn), technical and creative hacks for inner structure, and her favorite finishing touches.
Icy Delights
with
Lynda Heines
Create fabulous ice-dyed fabrics! See how 45 different dye colors split, create combos and patterns, and save money and dye by using my dye calculator.
Bead It Like You Mean It
with
Lyric Kinard
BE INSPIRED and get creative as fun-loving artist Lyric Kinard guides you through the basics of beaded embellishment on cloth. Are you a quilter? Foil the quilt police and learn to bead from the top of a finished quilt with no knots or mess on the back.
Chunky Wee Bag Class
with
Sam Hunter
Sam Hunter is here to guide you through the making of her messenger-style Chunky Wee Bag. Take all 19 lessons at your own pace.
Keep It Simple, but Pack a Punch
with
Rachel Derstine
Learn to create vitality through simplicity. Principles of art and design will be discussed and students create an improv pieced quilt. Learn how the fabrics you choose and the designs you create can make a powerful statement, even though they are quite simple.
Colorblock Love On-Demand
with
Sam Hunter
Play with color value to create the Colorblock Love Quilt. Sam walks you through every step of the creating this word quilt in 14 lessons.
Five Stars Class
with
Sam Hunter
Five Stars is a bold and dramatic quilt of nested, off-center stars. Sam walks you through making the entire quilt step-by-step.
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Material Matrix
with
Sandra Bruce
Learn how to interpret a gridded photo into a quilt using 2-inch pieced squares.
Improv Medallion Sampler Quilt
with
Sheena Roberts
"Create a unique quilt, approximately 73"" square using a variety of Improv techniques. Curved piecing, Wonky blocks, Walking foot quilting, Quilt as you go. For Improvers"
Architecture Quilt
with
Racherl Derstine
Learn to create a favorite vibrant building using fused applique technique or create a whimsical building with improv quilting techniques.
Curves and transparencies
with
Carolina Oneto
In this class you will learn various techniques! We will talk about Color Theory to create a Transparency effect with fabrics and I will teach you how to cut and sew complex shapes.
Freehand Flower and Frills: Freemotion Quilting
withDenise Rutter-Lang
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Learn the basic shapes you can use to quilt your own Freehand Flower and Frills- with minimal marking! Each lesson will start with drawing each new shape, then will move to either the longarm or domestic sewing machine.
Photographing Your Quilts
with
Vicki Conley
Learn five easy hacks for taking high-quality photos of your art quilts in your own home studio.
Mix African/Ankara prints with confidence in a classic string quilt, finish with two border and binding methods, incorporate non-traditional fabrics. Alternate project ideas, too!
Fourteen Squared Quilt Class
with
Sam Hunter
Use your fourteen favorite fat quarters to create the Fourteen Squared Quilt. Sam keeps no secrets in the 16 lesson on-demand video course.
Master improv curved piecing without patterns, templates or fear!
Love of Pets Fabric Collage
with
Jane Haworth
Learn to transform a photo of you beloved pet or animal into a fabric collage quilt, including making a pattern and stitching.
Innovative Repurposing Workshop
with
Natalya Khorover
Are you the one pausing to admire the light texture of a dryer sheet or the translucent sheen of a plastic package? Then join the club! Fourteen in depth videos await your attention.
Patchwork Illusions
with
Karen Combs
Visual depth has fascinated artists for centuries, Karen has developed a fun technique that allows you to make amazing 3-D quilts!
Color Savvy
with
Robin Rhodes
Understand the color groups and how different color combinations provoke different emotions and thoughts. This course will build your confidence in color and pattern selection of fabrics.
Celtic Pieced Illusions
with
Karen Combs
Piecework enthusiasts rejoice! Let Karen show you how to create beautiful Celtic designs with just two simple patchwork blocks.
Scrappy Quarter Cabins Quilt
with
Christina Cameli
Simple scraps can be stunning! Christina shows each step: fabric selection, piecing, and the actual quilting, so you can make your own scrappy delight.
Windswept Pine in Cheesecloth
with Mary Pal
Learn the basics of using cheesecloth, creating applique shapes to stitch to a background fabric. Included: how to color cheesecloth, paint a background, and finishing.
The Eyes Have It
with
Valerie Wilson
Learn observational skills, accurate fabric placement, and how to add detail with ink and thread. This course is DIY and includes notes and videos.
Mapping Personal Places
with
Valerie S. Goodwin
Transform the places you love and places you've always imagined or wanted to see into one-of-a-kind pieces of art through this on-demand course.
Luminous Painted Irises
with
Esterita Austin
Create luminous painted irises on fabric. Using Mistyfuse, a pattern and paint you will easily be able to transfer your iris to organza. Anyone can do it, you don't have to be an artist.. Free your creative muse with this innovative technique.
Let's Make a Selfie Portrait Quilt
with
Kena Tangi-Dorsey
Let's Make a Selfie Portrait Quilt with Kena Tangi Dorsey Learn how to make a portrait quilt by using a photograph of your favorite "selfie" as a template to design your own raw-edge appliqué pattern and art quilt.
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