Sit N Sew  – .Bring your own project and sew away

Quilt doctor Nancy Mirman will be there to provide help as needed. Do you have a project on which you are stuck?  Or maybe you have a photograph that you want to make into a quilt, and you don’t know how to start.  From how to make a quilt lie flat, how to make mitered corners, putting on a binding the correct way – Nancy can help you.  Nancy has been a member of the Guild since 1985 and taught quilting at The Country Quilter for almost 20 years.

Each participant will complete a simple Japanese Rice Bag. Then the students will choose a more complicated bag to make in the second half of the class.

This is a technique workshop where you learn a way to inset piece circles and curves and all shapes into pictures. Our picture will be MOON RIVER out of Sharon Schamber’s book, Piec-lique.  This technique can be used in several different ways in quilting.

Have you ever considered working with transparent fabrics?  Whatever your style is, adding transparent areas to your work can add magic, softness, and interest.
In this workshop we will learn different ways of creating transparent areas in your quilt.  They can be within the quilt, or at the edges.  We will create a sample piece that has an inner transparent area as well as transparent extensions.

We will learn the steps to start a portrait from a photograph that you will bring with you. No sewing machine for this class!

Learn to cut, sew and press free-form quarter circle units to compose an improv drunkard’s path quilt. We will be experimenting with multi cuts, squiggly cuts and “cogs”. A sewing machine with a knee or auto lift presser foot is required.