Feb 11th – Mentors Workshop – simplifying borders and binding

The mentors will help  you put together a quick runner – you supply the blocks, we’ll help you put them on point and “frame” them with borders.  We all do things differently so you can pick and choose what works for you.

Cost: $25  – at Leigh Square Arts Community – park across on McAllister street – 10:45 am – 5pm
Cold lunch included

Mar 31st – Gee Bend Inspired with Paul Krampitz

This should be a fun class – Paul will walk us through making a quilt inspired by the intuitive quilting done by the Gees Bend Quilters.  No traditional patters, no rigid rules, simple cut and sew quilting.  Relax and have fun playing with color and form.

Cost: $50.00 – Port Moody Legion Auditorium – 10 am – 4 pm – lunch included

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May 5 – Sliced Circles with Ionne McCauley

Circles are among the most satisfying shapes to work with and the combination of circles and straight lines is exciting! Play with great, favourite fabrics and create a wall-hanging-sized art quilt top, while you learn about shapes and lines and designs. Quilting options are discussed for your finished project.

Cost: $40.00 – Port Moody Legion Auditorium – 10 am – 4pm lunch included

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May 6 – Colour and Value with Ionne McCauley

Do you have trouble choosing fabric colours for projects? Create your own reference book as we work through exercises using fabrics. Using plain talk and simple lessons, this one-day class introduces you to the colour wheel as a quilter’s tool.

Learn about how colours work together and how value choices affect your quilting projects. Study different colour combinations and find out why they work. Discover the difference between value and intensity and why that is important. Make your quilts sing with your very own colour choices!

Hands-on with fabrics, no sewing machines!

Cost: $40.00 – Port Moody Legion Auditorium – 10 am – 4pm Lunch included

Jun 2 – Easy Piecing with Margaret Miller

A sewing workshop which yields a quilt top plus working plans for many more; based on Margaret’s popular book. Students work with two different versions of a rotary cut and quickly sewn block, creating blocks and mirror images of the blocks at the same time. Each block contains six values (light to dark), and is composed of only two shapes (triangles and wedges) which are easy to cut (no templates). Combinations and rotations of the blocks on the design wall yield hundreds of quilt possibilities.

Check out Margaret’s Web site at: www.millerquilts.com

Cost: $50 – Port Moody Legion Auditorium – 10am – 4 pm  Lunch included

Jun 3 – Samplin’ Angle Play with Margaret Miller

In this workshop students will learn to cut with the AnglePlay™ templates, including cutting half-size and pieced triangles. They will make a number of sampler blocks, and get a glimpse of refreshing new ways of putting the blocks together.
Check out Margaret’s Web site

Cost: $50 – Port Moody Legion Auditorium – 10 am – 4pm  Lunch included