“I enjoyed the class very much and it was more than I expected.
The techniques learned are some I will try in the future on other projects.
The teacher was excellent! Dena was on the ball!”
Description: Fourfold rotation of a tessellated right triangle: sounds challenging, and it is!
Students receive careful instruction and direction, and begin by sketching and developing their own designs until they achieve an image they like. They can draw with straight or curved lines, or a combination of the two.
The final sketch becomes a pattern to be traced onto fusible interfacing.
Students then learn new construction methods for turning a sketch into a finished quilt top – each top the student’s own original design.
Demonstrations of piecing techniques, a little practice, and students make lovely quilt tops ready for further enhancement and completion.
Focus of Class: Design, sketching, pattern making and sewing instruction (computer drawing skills and equipment are most useful)
Number of Days: 1 or 2 days
Level of Instruction: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum Number of Students: Approx. 20
Supply List (subject to change nearer the scheduled workshop date):
1 Day Class
- Adhesives: 1/2” cellotape or masking tape (optional)
- Adhesives: Fusing agents like WonderUnder, Steam-a-Seam, Vliesofix (optional)
- Adhesives: Glue stick (optional)
- Cutting Tools: Paper scissors
- Cutting Tools: Rotary cutter
- Cutting Tools: Rotary cutting mat – 24″ x 36″
- Cutting Tools: Sharp dressmaker shears
- Cutting Tools: Thread snips (optional)
- Cutting Tools: X-acto knife, blade #11, or other seam ripper (optional)
- Feet: 1/4″ foot
- Machines: Straight stitch or zigzag sewing machine with regular foot
- Markers: HB or softer lead pencil or mechanical pencil, eraser, sharpener
- Markers: Permanent ink, medium/fine tip black felt marking pen
- Materials: 2 yards or meters light/medium weight, stiff, non-woven fusible interfacing – Pellon 911 or Vilene H250 (not Pellon batting)
- Paper: Inexpensive newsprint, sketchpad, tracing or brown wrapping paper, 24″ x 36″- 6 sheets
- Paper: Notebook (optional)
- Pins and Needles: Extra sewing machine needles to replace any you break
- Pins and Needles: Straight pins
- Rulers: Ruler, rotary or other, for drawing straight lines
- Threads: Neutral color utility thread
- Tools: Design wall (flannel or batting, 1 square yard or meter or larger)
- Tools: Electric iron and board
- Tools: French or other curve drawing tools (optional)
- Tools: Small re-useable trash bag
- Top Fabrics: 8-12 x 1/2 yard or meter pieces of solid color and/or print fabrics, loosely coordinated and in a wide range of values from very dark to very light
2 Day Class Additional Supplies
- Adhesives: Fabric glue for embellishments (optional)
- Backing Fabrics: Fabrics to back, bind and hang a 1 square yard or meter sized quilt (may be one or more of the top fabrics)
- Feet: Open toe foot (optional)
- Feet: Zipper foot
- Markers: Tailor’s chalk, soap sliver or other temporary marker
- Materials: Craft size batting, 1/4″ thick, preferably cotton
- Pins and Needles: Tacking gun and tacks, bent safety pins, or straight pins for securing quilt layers for quilting
- Rulers: Rotary ruler – 6″ x 24″
- Threads: Decorative threads (optional)
- Threads: Invisible thread – good polyester, not cheap nylon (optional)
- Threads: Matching threads
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I am interested in taking this course, but have recently enrolled in a class from
Craftsy & am having all sorts of problems with the downloads, I have even downloaded a special program to more rapidly download videos, etc. & I am still having difficulty. We live 30 miles off the grid & a 10 minute snipit might take hours to download, then there is no replay tab & I’ve lost all that time.
How are your classes done? What are the fee’s, I have been unable to find any fee structure. Thank you for your help here. BAJohnson
I sympathize. Being 200 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, means I have download issues of my own! It seems like we never catch up to the standards of other countries, either in speed or pricing.
Classes at Quilt University run simply. You register online and pay with a credit card. Before the class opens, you receive the classroom password by email. You click on the link, enter your password and you’re in.
Each class has several lessons, each new lesson appearing a week later than the previous one. You can see the lesson material online or save it onto your computer and even print it out if you like. You don’t have to download anything other than the Web site page itself.
You begin doing the work and take digital photos or make scans along the way for sharing and getting virtually immediate assistance. Our classes may have videos attached but we are aware that many of our students are on slow internet connections so we never rely completely on the videos to do the instruction for us. None of my classes have videos and it’s not likely they will; I’m shy and don’t want to make them.
Running concurrently with each class is a message board called the Discussion Forum. Introduce yourself to your classmates and get to know them better by posting quick messages there. Tell us about your learning experience, ask for help or chat with others who you might find live near you. It’s friendly and social but productive. My own Discussion Forums are where the REAL teaching takes place, so it’s worthwhile to pay attention to what’s going on there.
Additionally, each classroom has a gallery of teacher and student work for you to enjoy, and you can have your own temporary personal gallery for posting photos of the work you are doing. Send photos in for posting (low resolution, small size files are best if you have connection issues; just set your camera for the lowest quality level before you shoot), and they will appear within a matter of hours. We, your teacher and all the other students, can go there and see what you’ve been up to, but the ENTIRE classroom is password protected, so we are the only ones who can get in.
The classroom is open from the day before the first lesson appears until three weeks after the last one shows up. This gives everyone plenty of time to finish up, even if they’ve been interrupted by “life getting in the way.” Teachers are required to check their Discussion Forums at least once a day throughout the entire duration of the class, so the maximum time you would go without getting a response would be less than 24 hours, or about comparable to any student getting help on any university campus.
The price of our classes is USD $9 per lesson, so a 3-lesson class costs $27 and a 4-lesson one costs $36; very reasonable, as I’m sure you would agree.
There’s a free sample class available; it has to do with designing borders. Why not go now to Quilt University and download the sample class? If you have no download issues with that, you should have no problem with any of our classes.
Hope this helps; thanks for asking. I LOVE talking about Quilt University, and I will be on the lookout for you in Designer Pinwheels!!