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.
♥ Sew Simple Pineapple
Another quilt market find! Jean’s hooked and you will be too! Learn to make a pineapple quilt using a new, easy method which is lots of fun. Once you learn the method, you won’t want to stop making pineapple blocks. You can make them in 3 colors or 7 colors, whichever you prefer. And the best part is that ALL your blocks will be perfect. It’s so much fun!
Instructor: Jean Lathrop
Cost: $20.00
Book: $13.95
Date: Tuesday, Sept 21, 1:00-4:00 or 6:00-9:00
or Saturday, Dec 4, 10:30-1:30
♥ Beginner Quiltmaking
Barb will teach the basic skills for successful quiltmaking.
Rotary cutting, perfect piecing (four patch and half square triangles), perfect pressing, squaring your blocks, and applying borders correctly for a perfect quilt top will all be taught. This class is the perfect beginner class.
Date: Saturday, Sept 25, Oct 16, Oct 23 and Nov 6, 2010 10:30-2:00pm
Instructor: Barb Robinson
Cost: $75.00
Four Patch Stacked Posie
Back by request, we’re offering this class again because you all love it and some have not had a chance to find out what all the fuss is about. Easier than a stack n’ wack, takes less fabric and super easy to piece together. Your stunning quilt blocks are all made from just one fabric!
Date: Wednesday, Sept 25 10:30 - 1:30
Instructor: Jeanne Knapp
Cost: $20.00
Pattern: $9.00
Ring Around the Posies
Hang on to summer a bit longer with this cheerful, easy to piece quilt. Snowball blocks, made with the diagonal seam method, are combined with straight-seam Twist blocks.
Careful placement of colors in your blocks creates the illusion of interlocking rings.
Date: Saturday, Oct 2 10:30-3:30
Cost: $30.00
Instructor: Sjoukje Schipstra
Pattern: $8.00
Care and Feeding of your Featherweight
If you missed it before, Sharon is back with this essential class for all Featherweight owners. You will go home knowing how to clean and oil your machine, where to lubricate, how to do simple repairs and more. This is for the old black Singer Featherweight machine only.
Date: Sunday, October 3, 11:30-2:30
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Cost: $20.00
Twisted Attic
Similar to a traditional Attic Window block, but Sjoukje came up with a trick to make the construction even easier. Large triangles would be perfect to showcase a favorite print (one of those you hate to cut into). The (optional) sawtooth border is made quickly with thangles or triangles-on-a-roll.
Date: Tuesday, Oct 5 and Oct 12 6:00-9:00 PM
Cost: $40.00
Instructor: Sjoukje Schipstra
Pattern: $8.00
♥ Toddler’s Dress and Pants
Nothing says love like creating a special outfit for a little girl in your life! This class will help you to create a darling tiered jumper with a double bodice. Ruffled pants complement the jumper and extend the wearing season! Browse the fabric groupings and let your imagination soar! You will be guided through pattern usage, cutting and stitching to make a one-of-a-kind, very special outfit for your little girl.
Cutting class Wednesday, Oct 6 7:00-8:30
Construction class Saturday, Oct 9 10:00-2:00
Instructor: Kate Lamoreaux
Cost: $30.00
♥ Flower Garden Applique Block of the Month
Wow is the only way to describe this wallhanging! With thirteen different species of flowers, you will be able to hone your applique skills as you build your own garden of floral beauties. Presented one block per month, from easiest to hardest, you will be pleased with your progress as you watch your weed-free garden grow. Needleturn applique will be used in class; experience is helpful, but determined beginners are welcome.
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Beginning Thursday, Oct 7 and continues on first Thursday for 13 months
Time: 1:00-4:00 or 6:00-9:00
Cost: $21.00 each month – Credit card must be on file for this class or payment in full prior to first class.
Strippy Star Sampler
Add together eight different variable star blocks, on-point setting, an appliqued panel that combines both hand and machine work, borders on two sides and you have the strippy star sampler. Perfect your rotary cutting, machine piecing and pressing. Great for beginners who will get a lot of bang for the buck with this stunner. Top finishes approximately 44 x 46
inches.
Date: Thursday, Oct 14 and continues each 2nd Thursday of each month until March 2011
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Cost: $21.00 each month – Credit Card must be on file for this class or payment in full prior to first class.
♥ Smocking
Add a new talent to your repertoire! Learn to embellish baby bonnets, dresses and nightgowns. In class, you’ll make a Christmas ornament designed using the basic smocking stitches.
Date: Tuesday, Oct 26 1:00-4:00 or 6:00-9:00
Instructor: Kathie Denson
Cost: $20.00
Kit: $5.00 (includes pre-gathered fabric)
Just Dotty Vest
Dots are hot! You can create a knockout dot vest with a ready made shirt as the foundation. Start with a purchased shirt that’s one size too large, take it apart, add bright and lively fabric circles and bias binding to make a sensational vest to complement any outfit. The fabric-bound vest front overlaps the vest back and is held in place at the underarm with an attractive button.
The class sample is made using Christmas fabrics for a unique holiday vest, but any combination of fabrics is possible! You will do the cutting and prep before the class, using instructions that will be provided. The assembly of the vest will take place in class, as will the grid of quilting that secures the circles. This is an easy way to create a special wardrobe accent!
Date: Tuesday, Nov 2
Time: 10:30-3:30
Instructor: Kate Lamoreaux
Cost: $40.00
Pattern: $10.00
The Bliss of the 16 Point Mariner's Compass
A brand new Mariner's Compass design--with more points and more chances for creativity! Hand piecing brings this complicated looking 16 point design within easy reach of even a beginner! Join Sharon as she guides you through making templates, marking the fabric, piecing smooth curves and set-ins--all easy with hand piecing. And, for those of you who are "appliqué phobic", there is not a stitch of appliqué on the piece! Hand piecing is classic, portable, and achievable. Come learn how!
Date: Sunday, Nov 7 and 14
Time: 11:30-2:30
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Cost: $40.00 (fee includes oversized copy of design and extensive handouts)
♥ Four Sided Placemats
This delightfully easy placemat is full of surprises. With accurate construction, you have four placemat looks whipped up in a short class. No quilting skill required. Choose color families to match your décor or dishes. Or spice it up for a season, or theme. Grandmas, you need to learn these to be able to make them for the grandkids in the latest kiddie prints. You won’t be able to stop at one set!
Date: Saturday, Nov 20
Time: 10:30-1:30
Instructor: Barb Robinson
Cost: $20.00
♥ 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. Class fee includes a prebasted quilt sandwich.
Date: Monday, November 29
Time: 10:30-5:00
Instructor: Sharon Stroud
Cost: $40.00
♥ Friendship Triangle Exchange
Laundry Basket Quilts highlights dozen of projects in their book "Friendship Triangles" created with half square triangle blocks. We’ll begin a half square triangle exchange in January using Edyta Sitar triangle exchange paper. On display through December, Edyta’s Tree Farm quilt using her half square triangle blocks. Jump on the band wagon and join our exchange. Demonstrations will be provided for using triangle exchange paper. Half square triangles will be exchanged in March. Join us for Friendship triangle nights – an evening of sewing with friends.
Dates: Friday, January 14 and Friday, February 11
Time: 6:00-10:00 pm.
An optional weekend at The Upstairs Inn on March 18-20 will be held to begin sewing your half square triangles into dozens of possibilities. Participate in our Friendship Triangle Exchange and your cost for the weekend will be $50.00.