Workshops, lectures, and shows

Pat is available for in-person events. Trunk shows and lectures may also be scheduled on Zoom. Pricing available upon request.

NOTE TO GUILDS AND CONFERENCE DIRECTORS: If you'd like pricing or to schedule an event, please contact me directly.

Nana’s Favorite Quilt

SEWING WORKSHOP
PAPER PIECING AND MACHINE APPLIQUE

A trip to Nana’s house was always a fun time for me. I loved her embroidered table scarves and many textiles. This little quilt is full of all those visual memories. We will play with thirties fabrics (or maybe your Nana collected Civil War prints) while assembling the center blocks. A bit of paper piecing will speed things along. Next, we’ll explore thread sketching for the embroidered flowers in each basket. The afternoon will be spent learning machine turned edge appliqué for the borders which include lots of flowers and berries. This is a full day class.

Coloring Book Quilting: Playing with stitching, designing, and coloring!

SEWING & DESIGN WORKSHOP

Join Pat as we play with quilt designs, coloring book pages and colored pencils. The latest craze in relaxation is coloring and we’ll take quilt-making to the next step by adding color with pencils to our art quilts. Choose your motif and fill with quilted designs to color. Watercolor pencils blend with water to create more colors and effects. You will get a complete kit including design, fill motifs, colored pencils, sealing medium, batting, and fabrics for the top, backing and practice. This class will give you lots of ideas for quilting designs and a whole new look for your quilts.Experience required: Some free motion quilting experience would be helpful.

Building a Visual Vocabulary

MACHINE QUILTING WORKSHOP

The quilter’s dilemma is always to choose an appropriate design to fill a space on the quilt top. It would be helpful to have a collection of usable designs at your fingertips as you begin to think about your selection. This class will stitch your way through many designs and keep them organized for you. Browsing your collection will undoubtedly inspire your next project!

Down to the Finish

SEWING WORKSHOP
FINISHING TECHNIQUES

An all day class, we will cover many techniques to perfectly finish off your quilt and make it show worthy. Starting from adding borders and making a perfect mitered corner, we’ll even learn how to add a straight, narrow binding. Some of the fine details will include making bias strips, piping and couching. Some of the work will be done by machine, the rest by hand. This is a full day class.Experience level: Intermediate/Advanced

Meet Me at the Bar: Designing Linear Motifs

SEWING WORKSHOP

This class is a great way to think about quilting the quilt. We will discuss designs that will be used for any long, narrow areas or bars such as in log cabin, spider web, courthouse step or pineapple blocks. These also work well in narrow borders and may be adapted to any width border. Besides the many designs in the handouts, we will spend time creating new motifs to work with your own quilts. Even if you are not a confident free motion quilter, you will come away with very doable designs for your quilts. This class incorporates both design work and free motion machine practice in a stress free environment. This is a full day class.Experience level: All levels

Quilt the Mini

MACHINE SEWING WORKSHOP
SEWING AND DESIGNING TECHNIQUES

Plan out fresh ideas for machine quilting by stitching out a mini, premarked wholecloth quilt. The 16” x 16” size makes a doable project to be finished as a pillowtop or wallhanging. Go beyond the usual, and refresh your ideas for traditional or modern quilts. You will find many designs to use on your next quilt-mini or full size.

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