Classes & Events
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Class Information & Policies
Cancellations must be made at least one week prior to class in order to receive a full refund.
Class Information & Policies
Cancellations must be made at least one week prior to class in order to receive a full refund.
- We offer a 10% discount on all class materials and supplies purchased at the shop.
- Bring your own sewing machine, in good working order, and know how to operate it, to classes that require one.
- Most quilting and sewing classes require basic supplies and equipment such as a rotary cutter, mat, ruler, scissors, pins, thread, etc.
- Please refer to the class description and supply list for full details.
Learn more about our instructors here.
Beginning Free Motion Quilting
Step into the world of free motion quilting! In this class you'll learn to baste your quilt and use a walking foot, but the focus will be on free motion quilting. Learn several different patterns suitable for beginners. With a little practice, you'll be quilting those unfinished projects in no time. Let's start turning those tops into quilts!
Cost: $ 65.00
Step into the world of free motion quilting! In this class you'll learn to baste your quilt and use a walking foot, but the focus will be on free motion quilting. Learn several different patterns suitable for beginners. With a little practice, you'll be quilting those unfinished projects in no time. Let's start turning those tops into quilts!
Cost: $ 65.00
Beginning Quiltmaking
Learn every step of the quilt-making process in this class designed for beginning sewists. You will learn fabric selection, cutting, piecing, pressing, borders, basting, quilting, trimming, and binding. After taking this class you'll be ready to make any number of quilt projects. There's nothing like a handmade quilt - now you can make your own!
Cost: $ 150.00
Learn every step of the quilt-making process in this class designed for beginning sewists. You will learn fabric selection, cutting, piecing, pressing, borders, basting, quilting, trimming, and binding. After taking this class you'll be ready to make any number of quilt projects. There's nothing like a handmade quilt - now you can make your own!
Cost: $ 150.00
Big Stitch Hand Quilting with Birdie Bird Batting
This workshop is an introduction to the beauty and simplicity of the big stitch by hand. We will talk about, and employ the best and most affordable supplies, talk about technique, prepare the layers for stitching using flannel-backed Birdie Bird batting, and delve a little deeper into the running stitch. You will find your own rhythmic, stitch length and explore additional ways in which you can use this technique, not just in quilt making. In addition to its beauty, hand-stitching can be a practical approach to daily, mindful practice.
Cost: $ 110.00
This workshop is an introduction to the beauty and simplicity of the big stitch by hand. We will talk about, and employ the best and most affordable supplies, talk about technique, prepare the layers for stitching using flannel-backed Birdie Bird batting, and delve a little deeper into the running stitch. You will find your own rhythmic, stitch length and explore additional ways in which you can use this technique, not just in quilt making. In addition to its beauty, hand-stitching can be a practical approach to daily, mindful practice.
Cost: $ 110.00
Diary Quilts with Heidi Parkes: Documenting, Storytelling, and Intuiting with Stitch
Have you ever tried to keep a paper diary? Sometimes it?s easier with cloth! Learn about several of Heidi's diaristic quilts that tell her stories of travel, time in quarantine, and love of nature. Heidi will insert strategies for efficient stitching, and ways to balance abstraction and precision, and will guide students in riding the line between personal and public in our quilts.
Cost: $ 475.00
Have you ever tried to keep a paper diary? Sometimes it?s easier with cloth! Learn about several of Heidi's diaristic quilts that tell her stories of travel, time in quarantine, and love of nature. Heidi will insert strategies for efficient stitching, and ways to balance abstraction and precision, and will guide students in riding the line between personal and public in our quilts.
Cost: $ 475.00
Easy Abstractions: Working In A Series
The hardest part of "doing" is sometimes "starting". The primary goal of this workshop is to jump-start your needlework by discovering an easy way to begin an abstract design. No drawing skill is required as you begin a small fabric series embellished with hand embroidery. It will be unique to your fingertips, so you will be the artist! ?---- If you can make dots on paper and connect them, you can create abstract designs! In this class you will lay out your designs with bright fabrics and have time to begin to embellish them with hand stitching. As you leave class you will take home a path to use over and over in any media.
Cost: $ 52.00
The hardest part of "doing" is sometimes "starting". The primary goal of this workshop is to jump-start your needlework by discovering an easy way to begin an abstract design. No drawing skill is required as you begin a small fabric series embellished with hand embroidery. It will be unique to your fingertips, so you will be the artist! ?---- If you can make dots on paper and connect them, you can create abstract designs! In this class you will lay out your designs with bright fabrics and have time to begin to embellish them with hand stitching. As you leave class you will take home a path to use over and over in any media.
Cost: $ 52.00
Intro to Punch Needle Embroidery
Punch needle is a beautiful and meditational embroidery technique that has been around since the 1800s and is known to have originated in North America. As a slow-making technique, punch needle is perfect for our modern life; it creates a connection to generations before us and a chance to innovate for ourselves. It is portable, colorful, and rewarding. The loops created by yarn are durable and surprising. Join us!
Cost: $ 130.00
Punch needle is a beautiful and meditational embroidery technique that has been around since the 1800s and is known to have originated in North America. As a slow-making technique, punch needle is perfect for our modern life; it creates a connection to generations before us and a chance to innovate for ourselves. It is portable, colorful, and rewarding. The loops created by yarn are durable and surprising. Join us!
Cost: $ 130.00
Maday's Memory Of Stitches: Revisiting Old Cloth
My belief is that every hand-stitch is imbued with memory and that paying tribute to the materials that we use is an important part of the creative process. This hand-stitching workshop puts sustainability at the forefront; by utilizing vintage materials we create and reinforce our connection to the past and an opportunity to honor how cotton comes into existence, from seed to cloth. The texture created by applying hand-stitching becomes the superstar of sustainable, mindful practice. Seeing the work that emerges from non-commercial, non-decorative fabrics, invites us to explore what beauty can be and how it is perceived. I hope you join me in this journey as we explore and rejoice in mindful stitching together.
Cost: $ 95.00
My belief is that every hand-stitch is imbued with memory and that paying tribute to the materials that we use is an important part of the creative process. This hand-stitching workshop puts sustainability at the forefront; by utilizing vintage materials we create and reinforce our connection to the past and an opportunity to honor how cotton comes into existence, from seed to cloth. The texture created by applying hand-stitching becomes the superstar of sustainable, mindful practice. Seeing the work that emerges from non-commercial, non-decorative fabrics, invites us to explore what beauty can be and how it is perceived. I hope you join me in this journey as we explore and rejoice in mindful stitching together.
Cost: $ 95.00
Mending November with Maday
This workshop combines my love of weaving with contemporary mending. It offers the maker a unique opportunity to explore weaving on a smaller scale before venturing into larger pieces. It also makes it possible to visibly mend beloved garments or favorite home decor items. Whether you wish to learn something new, spend some time with your friends or mend items for yourself and loved ones, it will be a well-spent creative, relaxing, mindful time.
Cost: $ 95.00
This workshop combines my love of weaving with contemporary mending. It offers the maker a unique opportunity to explore weaving on a smaller scale before venturing into larger pieces. It also makes it possible to visibly mend beloved garments or favorite home decor items. Whether you wish to learn something new, spend some time with your friends or mend items for yourself and loved ones, it will be a well-spent creative, relaxing, mindful time.
Cost: $ 95.00
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