Each event is packed with tips, techniques and tools to help quilters achieve better results consistently. Lectures include:
Lectures, classes and workshop descriptions are below. Contact Geraldine if you have questions or would like to schedule a lecture, demonstration & trunk show, or workshop.
A faith that encourages and inspires.
Let's remove the fear out of free-motion quilting.
Design techniques with free-motion quilting rulers.
Free-motion quilting design strategy for beginners
A machine quilting design strategy with echoes that repeats.
Lectures, classes and workshop descriptions are below. Contact Geraldine if you have questions or would like to schedule a lecture, demonstration & trunk show, or workshop.
Demonstrations are a visual expression of a lecture “Tell and Show” event with a sewing machine. It includes all items mentioned in the lecture with the added BONUS of see tips and techniques in action. It is a good choice if Host is considering a workshop for their community.
Learn how to set up a home machine for free motion quilting success. Plus hear tips for practicing that help finish quilts.
All lectures and demonstrations are available as a virtual event on the host's Zoom account.
Available 3-hour workshops are:
Lectures, classes and workshop descriptions are below. Contact Geraldine if you have questions or would like to schedule a lecture, demonstration & trunk show, or workshop.
Workshops are hands-on events where quilters learn techniques, a quilting or sewing process and receive valuable information to achieve better and consistent results. Quilters walkway with design and finishing techniques in a streamlined process for achievable, immediate and consistent results. Workshops include:
The workshop will focus on machine setup with tools for success and optional tools for free-motion quilting. We review tension, stitch control and free-motion exercises and patterns. Kit($) - Sewing machine cover pattern and FMQ pattern booklet.
Photo: Student Work
Experienced free-motion quilters move beyond stippling and venture into continuous background filler designs. Workshop project is a Half-Lone Star wall hanging or Radiant Star quilt. Quilt pattern and FMQ pattern booklet.
Photo: Student Quilt
Learn three free-form feathers, how to make and use stencils and creatively place feathers in a quilt. Class includes a mini trunk show for inspiration. Quilt pattern and FMQ pattern sheets
Photo: Student Quilt
Confident free-motion quilters create a small thread drawing of flowers, a lady bug, tree or butterfly on a whole cloth quilt or a simply pieced two-color block. Learn thread selection solutions and painting techniques that help tell a story.
Photo: Student Work
Learn the power of using one ruler to create many designs and ruler techniques with a ruler foot and 12-inch Arc ruler. Practice and stitch a design on a pre- printed quilt panel.
Learn acrylic ruler design techniques with a circle ruler. Learn design techniques for edge-to-edge quilting, blocks, borders, sashing and more. Use learned designs and techniques to creatively stitch a pre-printed panel.
Learn how to use an Oval ruler set by exploring border, continuous designs and multiple pass designs. Use a pre-printed panel to apply a learned design. View samples showcasing patterns
Learn Serpentine ruler designs and techniques with a ruler foot. Select a learned design, quilt a pre-printed panel and make a pillow.
Lectures, classes and workshop descriptions are below. Contact Geraldine if you have questions or would like to schedule a lecture, demonstration & trunk show, or workshop.