O'Susannah's Quilting Classes
Learn something new, or enhance your quilting skills!
Don’t know how to sew? Look for the ♥.
These classes are great for beginners.
Machine Applique
More techniques on machine applique! Kathie will teach you how to make this wallhanging with great appliqués. This technique you’ll use time and time again! Enhance your quilts, totes, dresses, jackets and so much more with a little appliqué.
Date: Saturday, January 28
Time: 10:30-1:30 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $8.00
Instructor: Kathie Denson
Versatile Wave Bag – Deb Dickerson
Make a basic purse and make it so versatile with a quick cover change. It’s versatility makes it a bag you can carry all year long !
Dates: Tuesday, February 7, 6 - 9 pm OR
Saturday, March 17, 2 - 5 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $11.00
Instructor: Deb Dickerson
♥ Lil Twister
Remember the fun we had doing the twist! You’ll have just as much fun creating pinwheel projects with the twister tool. Using those great charm packs or layer cakes, you can twist your way into some awesome quilt projects!
Date: Sunday, February 12
Time: 11:30-2:30
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $12.00 includes the ruler
Instructor: Kathie Denson
♥ Quiltmaking Beginner Basics 101
This class series will teach ALL the beginner’s basics and you’ll complete a perfect quilt top, well on your way to your first quilt. You’ll learn:
Fabric selection – what goes together – what works and why
Rotary Cutting Techniques
Perfect Piecing
Squaring up your block
Border applications
Dates/Times:
Wednesday, February 22, Feb 29, March 7, March 14 6 - 9 pm OR Saturday, April 21, Apr 28, May 12, May 19, 10:30-1:30 pm
Class Fee: $75.00
Instructor: Sharon Bristol
♥ Raw Edge Applique
Designer McKenna Ryan continues to create beautiful wallhanging using batiks and her raw edge appliqué method. Her pieces look like painted pictures. We will teach you the raw edge appliqué technique she uses to create this beautiful appliqué.
Date: Friday, February 24
Time: 10:30-1:30 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $12.50
Instructor: Jean Lathrop
♥ Hand Embroidery – The Basics
You’ve seen her work time and time again! Now you can learn how she does it. Learn hand embroidery stitching the stem stitch, French knot.
Date: Sunday, February 26
Time: 11 am - 2 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $9.00
Instructor: Pat Crayton
♥ Fabric Scrapbook
Let’s take fabric, photos, do-dads, yo-yo’s and some momentos and create a fabric scrapbook. A perfect gift to remember a wedding or a child’s first year or a family reunion!
Date: Tuesday, February 28
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Instructor: Sue Knapp
♥ Potato Chip Bag
The Potato Chip Bag pattern is an easy to make small tote bag and got its name because you can't make just one! This bag is mostly made of Fat Quarters, makes up quickly, and has pockets on the outside and inside.
Date: Sunday, March 11
Time: 11:30-2:30 pm
Pattern: $9.00
Class Fee: $20.00
Instructor: Kate Lamoreaux
Colorwork Table Runner
Gentle curve piecing, cutting without rulers is the technique used for creating these runners. The project not only gives you practice cutting and sewing gentle curves, but it is an opportunity to play with color. Tiny bits of contrasting color are scattered here and there to create interest in the design.
Date: Saturday, March 17
Time: 10:30-1:30 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Pattern: $10.95
Instructor: Sue Knapp
Spicy Spiral Table Runner
Wondering what to do with a 10 degree wedge ruler, I found this awesome table runner. Learn to use this tool and make a stunning table runner or use it as a piece of wall art.
Date: Saturday, March 24
Time: 10:30 - 3 pm
Class fee: $30.00
Pattern: $10.00
Ruler: $19.99
Instructor: Jean Lathrop
♥ Paper Piecing Basics
A great technique for perfect points and teeny, tiny pieces! A tricky technique to learn but once you get it – you’re off and running!
Date: Wednesday, April 4
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Class Fee: $20.00
Instructor: Sharon Bristol
A Little Something Jacket
Breeze into Spring with a new batik jacket! This is truly a 3 hour jacket. You’ll go home wearing it!
Date: Sunday, April 15
Time: 11 am - 3 pm
Pattern: $9.00
Class Fee: $20.00
Instructor: Kate Lamoreaux
♥ The Big Three with Goose in the Pond
Accurate cutting, precision piecing, and proper pressing--you need all three! In this class you will learn to accurately cut half square triangle units and more. Then set your machine up for optimum performance and that all-important scant ¼ inch seam allowance. Think you’re done? Almost…pressing can make or break your block and ultimately your quilt top. You’ll be amazed at how much you will learn in this class!
Date: Saturday, February 18
Time: 10:30 - 5 pm
Class Fee: $40.00
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Binding 101
Binding is as important as every other step in quiltmaking, but is often neglected or hurriedly done. Find out how easy it is to do the job right while learning to cut straight-grain binding strips, miter corners, hand finish the back, and eliminate the "bump" where you started and ended. Hanging sleeves will also be covered. Sewing machine required.
Date: Saturday, March 10
Time: 11 am - 3 pm
Class Fee: $28.00
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
♥ Hand Quilting Sharon's Way
Whether you've just finished your first quilt top and are ready to learn to quilt, or simply want to improve your quilting stitch, come learn this unique way to quilt without poking your underneath fingers and without a hoop or frame. (It is not stab stitch.) Basting, marking methods, echo quilting, thread and batting are covered as well as the quilting stitch.
Date: Tuesday, April 17
Time: 10:30 - 5 pm
Class fee: $45.00 includes a prebasted quilt sandwich
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Old Time Cutwork Design
Try cutwork appliqué on a small scale as you work on a 14-inch finished block. You will learn to make the pattern, transfer it to cloth and begin the cutwork appliqué technique. We will cover points, curves and reverse appliqué. Students should be familiar with needleturn appliqué.
Date: Saturday, March 31
Time: 10:30 am - 5 pm
Class Fee: $40.00
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Mystery Weekend
This 40 x 48 inch two-color mystery quilt is just the ticket to get you through those February doldrums! Definitely a skill-builder class, we will be concentrating on rotary cutting, machine piecing and pressing. The best part? When we leave on Saturday at 5:30, we can leave everything right where we left off -- and we will be back when the shop opens on Sunday at 11:00! No packing up, no homework -- just a weekend of wonderful fun. Be sure to pick up a supply list at the shop.
Dates/Times: Saturday, February 4, 10:00-5:30 pm and Sunday, February 5, 11 - 3 pm
Class Fee: $65.00