Quilter on Fire Workshops

Add a splash of fabric ink to a contemporary table runner taking the mystery out of screen printing. This beginner look at thermofax screening gives students a chance to add an art element to a traditional table runner and come away with a beautiful pieced project ready to quilt.

Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks STILL stuck piecing tumbling blocks by hand? This machine pieced tumbling block table topper gives vibrantly coloured fabrics the spotlight framed with a classy black border. Students challenge themselves to choose 3 distinct values for 5 different colours of fabric. The shopping for this class is so fun! This uniquely shaped quilt finishes at approximately 30” x 34” in size. Beg, borrow or buy – a 60 degree ruler is required for this class.

Flannel lovers get ready! This adorable beginner heirloom class is great for those just starting out, as well as accomplished quilters who want to create a cherished gift for that special little one. Hitting on the latest trend of modern techniques with vibrant pops of colour on white, this class starts out with modern crazy quilting with a simple sew and fold - no pattern, no piecing technique. By the afternoon you will master a simple fold over binding with a perfect mitred corner.

PIECED BACKGROUND WITH FUSIBLE APPLIQUÉ Students play with a vibrant warm colour scheme to learn the freestyle bargello technique for the pieced sunset sky. On day 2 it's a cutting and fusing frenzy as students learn the ins and outs of transferring a sketch to fusible appliqué to create the tree feature.

We will be breaking open the seams of a commercially produced t-shirt in order to add a touch of class with a poly/cotton print quilted on the surface. This class lets you design a fun and simple pattern with quilter’s tape and stitching. When turned and snipped between the lines you are left with a beautifully adorned shirt fit for any quilt or fibre art event.

Wine Bottle Bags with Fibre Art Techniques! Students learn and explore fibre art techniques completing 4 gorgeous wine bottle bags. The perfect gift for any occasion and the perfect way to explore new techniques! Techniques include the basic wine bottle bag construction and then an intro to shiva paint sticks, dissolving stabilizer, glue & foil, needle felting, couching and beads. This class is fat quarter friendly!

Join Brandy Lynn for a day of healing through stitch. We’ll explore words, phrases, or even a small poem about what you do in life that heals you most and incorporate that into a take home fibre art piece. You’ll learn couching, hand stitches, beading and how to mount a small piece as fibre art. The gentle motion and creative freedom of stitching, beading and design will leave you feeling as though you’ve had a creative healing retreat.

This is such a fun and easy intro to paper piecing! If you’ve never tried it, this is the class for you. And easy morning of cutting a prepping your fabric and fleece with an afternoon of diving into the world of paper piecing. On day two the bag assembly takes place and you walk home with a beautiful finished project to keep for yourself or give away as a gift. (Note: This class is also available with a Hexagon front flap).

Brandy Lynn is a teacher of Inklingo the patented pattern printing technology created by Linda Franz. It is so cool you’ll be hooked the first time you try it. Join her hand pice the gentle curves of the ocean and then piece the rest by machine into a gorgeous table runner.

Dive into that huge pile of scraps you never know what to do with and start exploring! In this sampler class you will be inspired to use those bits of batiks and hand dyes that you love so much to create a beautiful gallery style fibre art piece to hang in your home. We will learn the basics of colour, depth and balance in design, and master several fibre art and stitching techniques. The play time artistic element of this class is learning 6 different fabric manipulations to create a sun feature. Embellishments will include embroidery floss, wool, beads and foil - anything goes here as long as you love it and the colours make you feel warm inside.

A fun and simple beginner class, this action-packed holiday workshop features a whole bunch of great techniques to have in your quilting toolbox for years to come: simple screen printing, flange inner border, prairie points, and quilt facing.