No-Mark Machine Quilting

Join art quilter Joyce Robinson for an all-day workshop covering the many possibilities of no-mark, machine quilting. Techniques covered will include making your first quilting decisions, keeping it continuous, “no-mark” methods, grids, adapting and using a design, and discovering your own signature “doodling” style. The workshop will be tailored for beginners and emphasis will be on the fun of drawing with your sewing machine. Students will need to do some homework before class including sandwiching/pin basting a small quilt top with border for quilting. If you want to make a quilt top especially for this class, a pattern including recommendations for beginners is offered. A free-motion foot and a walking foot are required.

 

Design Your Dream Quilt

Do you have a picture, sketch or idea of a quilt you'd love to make? But you need help with where do you start? You can design it yourself… in your colors and size.

Learn how to:

• Draft your block (adapting as necessary for ease of sewing)
• Choose your cutting technique
• Plan your sewing technique
• Consider sashing, borders or special quilting
• Make color and fabric selections
• Do a basic yardage

Each class will be tailored to the group's creativity and desires and the hope is that everyone will learn a little about the other's designs as well as their own. Some ideas may need to be simplified or may be too complex for your skill level, so be open to having more than one possible direction for your creativity to go. Depending on your idea, basic paper-piecing skills may be required. We will create "rough cuts", then sew a sample block (or get started on your technique if it is an overall design). Intermediate level quilting skills required.