International Quilt Day Weekend – Featuring a Special Guest Instructor from Bernina Canada Event Description Get ready to celebrate quilting this weekend, in the best way possible! We are having numerous sales on products in the store and 2 days of courses about Free Motion Quilting on your domestic machine…
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Introduction to Mosaic Crochet – The Mountain Trail Cowl
Mosaic crochet is a colorwork technique used to create intricate graphic patterns using only one colour per row, and alternating colours every 1-2 rows. Designs are created by placing stitches in created spaces to make an overlay of the colours. This type of stitching adds colour movement as well as…
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Improv Your Scraps – Piece by Piece and Shape by Shape Description Dive right in to improv piecing with your scraps. In this class, you will create your favourite quilt shapes with scraps, add them to other pieces and create your own original modern quilt top. Break the rules, play…
Continue ReadingNot Your Grandmother’s Flower Garden – An Introduction to Modern Traditionalism
Description Take your quilts to the next level with this modern traditionalism faux English Paper Pieced (EPP) hexi. What is modern traditionalism? Modern Traditionalism is the use of an identifiable traditional block, modernized in some way, using design techniques like colour, scale, symmetry, and grid placement. The faux EPP hexies…
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