Online Classes
Would you like to learn some new skills? My sewing classes meet online through private blogs. Your lessons are delivered with picture-packed tutorials and videos as blog posts that you can access anywhere in the world. Students say an online class allows them to work at their pace and on their time with the benefit of a fun, supportive community. I'm available during class to answer your questions! Most class versions include a pdf eBook of your class for your permanent reference when class has closed.
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Color Intensive: A 5-week course suitable for all levels of sewing experience. Details here and more here!
This workshop is an experience, not a "do" list. I want to teach to you see what I see and to give you a rich new vocabulary for color. The language of color is critical, because what we cannot describe we cannot fully know, recreate and transform. Above all, I want you to move to a place where color expression in fabric is instinctual and joyful and personally authentic.
Color Intensive was originally released February 2014 and encored January 2016.
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The Penny Sampler: A 3-month journey developing your skills in machine-washable Applique; precise Traditional Piecing on a medium and small-scale; and Machine Paper Piecing of detailed picture blocks. See the Prelude and FAQ for more details.
The Penny Sampler is a skill-building course with Scandinavian style. It began with Scandinavian inspiration, its folk notes and modern melodies combined. That first vision became a framework of ideas - miniature pictures, small geometric piecing, intricate sashing, a pointy border.
But I wanted it to be lively, unexpected, definitely different than your everyday sampler quilt. So, I threw out regular gridwork and traditionally placed sashing. Instead blocks are a smorgesboard of sizes, sashing falls here and there for movement, layers of interest. The border is broken up and resized in a decidedly unpredictable way. All this aiming to be true to the quirky charm of modern Scandinavian style.
Penny Sampler class was originally released summer 2013.
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Curves Class: A 5-week course which caters to both the beginner and intermediate curves sewist. Weeks 1-4 cover Basic Curves, Improv Curves, Precise Curves and Advanced Improv Curves with full, detailed photo tutorials and many downloadable templates. Each week you can choose from 3 very different projects for one that really fits your experience and interests. Week 5 we'll celebrate with full on quilts.
"In the past you may have been intimidated by tight little curved seams, even downright petrified by curvy quilt blocks and more than a little skeptical that a curvy outlook could be in your stitchy future. That all ends now. No longer shall ye be limited to the straight edge. No longer shall ye look with fear upon that which inspires you..."
Curves Class was originally released February of 2012 and was offered again January 2013 and January 2015.
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Handstitched: A 9-week course - 5 weeks of instruction alternating with 4 weeks of "space", allowing you room to enjoy each stitch. Handstitched, which caters to both beginner and intermediate sewists, starts at the very beginning discussing needles, knots and threads. Each week we'll focus on one category of handwork moving from Reverse Applique through Embroidery, English Paper Piecing, Applique and Hand Quilting with full, detailed photo tutorials and many downloadable templates. Each week you can choose from 3 very different projects for one that really fits your experience and interests. Quilters will love that each week one of those projects is an installment in a handstitched masterpiece, the Modern Medallion quilt.
We are modern sewists, and we do so love that sewing machine. But, actually, there are still beautiful effects that are best realized needle in hand. There's also something simply delicious and inexplicably relaxing about the slow, steady pace of handwork. I hope you'll consider joining me for some slow stitching this summer, making beauty stitch by stitch, and developing new skills piece by beautiful piece.
Handstitched was originally released June of 2012 and was offered again January 2013 and January 2015.
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Color Intensive: A 5-week course suitable for all levels of sewing experience. Details here and more here!
This workshop is an experience, not a "do" list. I want to teach to you see what I see and to give you a rich new vocabulary for color. The language of color is critical, because what we cannot describe we cannot fully know, recreate and transform. Above all, I want you to move to a place where color expression in fabric is instinctual and joyful and personally authentic.
Color Intensive was originally released February 2014 and encored January 2016.
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The Penny Sampler: A 3-month journey developing your skills in machine-washable Applique; precise Traditional Piecing on a medium and small-scale; and Machine Paper Piecing of detailed picture blocks. See the Prelude and FAQ for more details.
The Penny Sampler is a skill-building course with Scandinavian style. It began with Scandinavian inspiration, its folk notes and modern melodies combined. That first vision became a framework of ideas - miniature pictures, small geometric piecing, intricate sashing, a pointy border.
But I wanted it to be lively, unexpected, definitely different than your everyday sampler quilt. So, I threw out regular gridwork and traditionally placed sashing. Instead blocks are a smorgesboard of sizes, sashing falls here and there for movement, layers of interest. The border is broken up and resized in a decidedly unpredictable way. All this aiming to be true to the quirky charm of modern Scandinavian style.
Penny Sampler class was originally released summer 2013.
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Curves Class: A 5-week course which caters to both the beginner and intermediate curves sewist. Weeks 1-4 cover Basic Curves, Improv Curves, Precise Curves and Advanced Improv Curves with full, detailed photo tutorials and many downloadable templates. Each week you can choose from 3 very different projects for one that really fits your experience and interests. Week 5 we'll celebrate with full on quilts.
"In the past you may have been intimidated by tight little curved seams, even downright petrified by curvy quilt blocks and more than a little skeptical that a curvy outlook could be in your stitchy future. That all ends now. No longer shall ye be limited to the straight edge. No longer shall ye look with fear upon that which inspires you..."
Curves Class was originally released February of 2012 and was offered again January 2013 and January 2015.
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Handstitched: A 9-week course - 5 weeks of instruction alternating with 4 weeks of "space", allowing you room to enjoy each stitch. Handstitched, which caters to both beginner and intermediate sewists, starts at the very beginning discussing needles, knots and threads. Each week we'll focus on one category of handwork moving from Reverse Applique through Embroidery, English Paper Piecing, Applique and Hand Quilting with full, detailed photo tutorials and many downloadable templates. Each week you can choose from 3 very different projects for one that really fits your experience and interests. Quilters will love that each week one of those projects is an installment in a handstitched masterpiece, the Modern Medallion quilt.
We are modern sewists, and we do so love that sewing machine. But, actually, there are still beautiful effects that are best realized needle in hand. There's also something simply delicious and inexplicably relaxing about the slow, steady pace of handwork. I hope you'll consider joining me for some slow stitching this summer, making beauty stitch by stitch, and developing new skills piece by beautiful piece.
Handstitched was originally released June of 2012 and was offered again January 2013 and January 2015.