July - October 2022 Class Newsletter
QUILTING BASICS
Beginning Quilting Day Linda Schoeppach
Five- 3 Hour Sessions $70.00 plus book & supplies
Have the desire to learn to quilt? Learn the basic skills for machine piecing in this 5-week class. Using Alex Anderson’s Start Quilting, you will learn the tools & how to use them, choosing fabrics, and you will construct a small sampler quilt. Tuesday Morning: 9:30am – 12:30pm
August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Beginning Quilting Evening Kathy Reynolds
Five – 3 Hour Sessions $70.00 plus book & supplies
Have a desire to learn to quilt? Class is based on Alex Anderson’s Book Start Quilting. You will learn basic quilting techniques: ¼” seam allowance, rotary cutting, strip piecing, half square triangles, pressing, borders, sandwiching, and binding.
Tuesday Evening: 6pm – 9pm
August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
APPLIQUE’
Fusible Machine Applique’ Kathy ReynoldsOne – 5 Hour Session $25.00
This is a technique class where you will learn how to use fusible web to make wonderful appliqué designs. Step by step instructions from tracing to fusing and finally stitching the pieces down. Several different stitches – blanket, satin and zigzag will be covered with demonstrations for each as well as lots of time to practice. Learn how to go around corners, follow curves and stitch down points. Although this is mostly a technique class, a small project will be taught as well. This is a class for anyone – no previous experience required.
Thursday August 25 10am- 3pm
Take your quilting skills to a new level all while creating a beautiful sampler quilt. Learn about analyzing quilt blocks, color placement, and improve your piecing skills.
Prep Session:
Tuesday September 20 10am – 12pm
Sessions: 2 – 6 9:30am – 12:30pm
Tuesday: September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25
FOUNDATION PIECING
Beginning Foundation Paper Piecing
Jennifer Johnson
One – 4 Hour Session $30.00
Foundation paper-piecing is a quilt block construction technique that will bring joy to your heart with its beautifully sharp points and precise seams. Many people are intimidated by the seeming complexity of paper-piecing, but I will guide you through the step-by-step process of producing three to four paper-pieced designs. We will also discuss different ways to implement paper- pieced blocks into your projects. Come give this fun technique a try! I think you will be delighted with the results.
Good for confident beginners and up.
Saturday July 9 10am - 2pm
Friday September 23 10am – 2pm
This is a one session Mystery Table Runner in a Day! You will create a beautiful Debbie Caffrey Mystery Table Runner. We will go step by step and by the end of the day you will have a completed project that looks more difficult than it is! This is a great skill builder class for a quilter
of any level.
The pattern is included in the cost of the class.
Saturday August 27 10am – 3pm
Discover the craft of locker hooking! This technique turns your scrap fabric or a single colorful print into an array of finished projects.
Bags, Placemats, Rugs, you decide.
Session 1: Thursday September 1 1pm - 4pm
Session 2: Thursday October 6 pm – 4pm
LET’S FINISH THOSE PROJECTS
BYOP $10.00/session
What’s BYOP you ask… Bring your own Project. This session we have set aside the First and Third Wednesday just for you to come and sew. Bring a project or two of your own choosing and get some serious work done on it. While these are self-guided sew days, staff may be available to assist with answering questions. Come join the fun!
Registration is required. Seating is limited to 11
First & Third Wednesday 10am – 3pm
July 6, July 20
August 3, August 17
September 7, September 21
October 5, October 19
Finish It with Karen Karen Weaver
One - 5 Hour Session $10.00
If you have a project you started in class but haven’t finished because of lack of time or the need of some help with a technique, we are providing that for you. Join Karen for a day of finishing—or continuing—a project that you started in class. She will do her best to help you through any difficulty you are having with the pattern or process. Sometimes all we need is time.
Tuesday July 12 10am – 2pm
Wednesday August 10 10am – 2pm
Sew Kind of Wonderful Finish It Kathy Reynolds
One – 4 Hour Session $10.00
Have a Sew Kind of Wonderful project that you’re “stuck on” or just need a bit of help getting finished?
Whether it’s the Quick Curve, Quick Curve mini, or the Wonder Curve ruler, come join me and get your project finished.
Saturday July 30 10am – 2pm
Quilts & MORE ~ Going Beyond the Basics
One Block Wonder Vicki WatsonTwo – 5 Hour Sessions $50.00
A One-Block Wonder quilt is traditionally made with one fabric, but you can choose to use a panel and coordinating fabric or even 7 panels to make your quilt. One-Block Wonder is not a pattern. It is a process. Start with a fabric that has a pattern which can be measured in repeats, usually no smaller than 12”. Cut six individual repeats into strips. Cut 60 degree triangles from the strips. Then those stacks of six triangles, which are identical, are sewn into half hexagons and pinned together to create kaleidoscope blocks. These blocks are then arranged on a design wall or around a panel. Other design elements can be added if wanted. This is a simplified description of the process. Sign up for this class to begin the adventure.
Session 1: Friday July 1 10am – 3pm
Session 2: Friday July 15 10am – 3pm
Session 1: Saturday September 10 10am – 3pm
Session 2: Saturday September 24 10ma – 3pm
Braided Star Linda Schoeppach
One – 5 Hour Session $40.00
A two-for-one quilt. As you create this Braided Block you will also be making a secondary block for a pieced border. You will learn to use a Deb Tucker V-Block Ruler to complete the look of the Sawtooth Border. You will also learn tricks for fitting pieced borders onto your quilts.
Tuesday July 26 10am – 3pm
Three Together Raymond Steeves
One – 6 Hour Session $45.00
This easy to create modern style quilt is much is large at 96” x 103”, but the pattern can easily be adapted to a variety of sizes and uses. Table runner, bed runner, lap quilt, baby quilt, etc.
It is easily strip pieced, and this large quilt is made using only one forty piece 2 ½” by WOF strip set, plus your background fabric. Great use of your favorite Bali Pop® or Jelly Roll®. Works great with fabrics you’re your stash. A 15° wedge ruler is required.
Thursday July 28 10am- 4pm
One – 6 Hour Session $35.00
Grab a Charm Pack or some 5 inch squares and join Joanne in making this “Done in a Flash” quilt. Easy to do colorful baby/lap quilt with a charm pack. All straight cuts and seams. Ingrid is a pattern from the book '3 Times the Charm: Book Two' by Me and My Sister Designs.
Friday July 29 10am – 4pm
Improv Raymond Steeves
One – 5 ½ - 6 Hour Session $55.00
Ray teaches this class regularly, and each class is different and unique. All classes are based on new and unpublished designs created by him. He will supply 40 -2 1/2" strips, quilt quality fabrics from his stash and the pattern for your project. Because it's an Improv class, you will not know what we are making until the day of class. Ray has successfully taught this great fun class for several years, and everyone is amazed at the great projects that can be created from stash strips. A fun and adventurous attitude is required. You will be expected to purchase 4 yards of coordinating fabric for this project. Because you are choosing your strips from the stash it is recommended to purchase the coordinating fabric the day of class. The Oasis has a great assortment of coordinating fabrics for this project.
Friday August 12 10am – 4pm
Saturday October 29 10am – 3:30pm
Box Step Joanne Rice
One – 5 Hour Session $35.00
Boxes are hot! This pattern is perfect for any collection of fat quarters. One background fabric makes the pattern come alive and the randomness of the squares add that contemporary touch. Come learn the “box” construction technique, then make as many blocks as you need to complete your project. Placemats, Table-runner, or a quilt, finished size is up to you.
Monday August 29 10am – 4pm
Three – 3 Hour Sessions $35.00
If you have wanted to make a Storm at Sea but are intimidated by what appears to be curved pieces, set those fears aside. There are no curves. You will use Deb Tucker’s Diamond Rects ruler for one of the blocks and use the Square Squared ruler for the other blocks. The Corner Pop ruler or the Folded Corner Clipper are OPTIONAL. We will break the class into 3 sessions, so each technique is mastered before moving to the next. Your quarter-inch seam is important in this quilt.
Session 1: Monday September 19 10am - 1pm
Session 2: Monday October 3 10am – 1pm
Session 3: Monday October 17 10am – 1pm
Van Got It Raymond Steeves
One – 6 Hour Session $45.00
One of Ray’s most popular quilt designs, Van Got It is fun and easy to make. Uses one forty piece 2 ½” by WOF strip set. A Jelly Roll® or Bali Pop® work great. Your choice of fabrics really changes the overall look of this fun quilt. High contract in colors makes the quilt more visually appealing.
Finishing 66” x 66” it’s a great lap quilt or decorative wall hanging. Want it bigger? Do so easily by using more 2 ½” strips.
Friday September 30 10am – 4pm
Cosmic Crush Kathy Reynolds
One – 5 Hour Session $35.00
This wonderful fun and scrappy star quilt uses the folded back corner method to achieve the star block. We will use the Folded Corner Clipper by Creative Grids to accurately make the blocks. Grab your fat quarters or ¼ yard cuts and join me on this “cosmic” adventure.
Thursday September 29 10am – 3pm
One – 6 Hour Session $30.00
This is a great quilt for anyone that has a fear of picking fabrics. It’s as easy as 1-2-3, just pick 3 – 1 yard pieces of fabrics! You’ll be constructing two different blocks that make into a quick and easy throw sized quilt. Joanne will have you piecing this quilt in no time.
Thursday October 27 10am – 4pm
Escher’s Christmas Vicki Watson
One – 5 Hour Session $35.00
This Christmas Tree wall hanging will become a keepsake to bring out every Christmas season. It is perfectly sized at 42”x43”. There are only two blocks in this quilt. The key is placing the light, medium, and dark fabrics of each color in the right place.
Kit purchase required. Purchase from www.quilt-agious.com
Saturday October 22 10am – 3pm
Scrap Tease Deb Buckley
Four - 6 Hour Sessions $45.00/4 months
They say there is no such thing as ugly fabric, you just have not cut it small enough. Well, we will be taking our scraps and creating beautiful one of
a kind quilts from the book Scrap-Basket Bounty by Kim Brackett.
Bring your scraps, we will be using the Accu-cut (cutting machine), exchanging fabrics with each other, and reducing our fabric stash.
During this 4 month semester you will be working & likely completing 2 quilt tops!
Let’s have fun and untangle our stash.
Third Thursday 10am – 4pm
July 21, August 18, September 22, October 20
BAGS, TOTES, & ORGANIZERS
Project Bag Julie Daniel
One – 5 Hour Session $30.00
Enjoy making this sturdy project bag that is large enough to hold a pattern book and quilt blocks for your next project or the latest cross stitch pattern, floss, & fabric.
Saturday July 16 10am – 3:30pm
Tuesday September 6 10am – 3:30pm
Tools of the Trade Vicki Watson
Two– 5 Hour Sessions $50.00
Carry everything you need in this sturdy organizer. The front zips open for easy access to rulers, cutting mats, sketchbook, tools, and supplies. The small portfolio holds a 12” x 18” mat; the large one holds an 18” x 24” mat.
Session 1: Saturday July 23 10am – 3pm
Session 2: Saturday August 13 10am – 3pm
Mat and Ruler Bag Linda Schoeppach
Two – 3 Hour Sessions $40.00
What a perfect traveling companion for your rulers as you take them to classes. No more juggling acts or chipped corners! This bag holds rulers inside with custom pockets to fit all your specialty rulers. Three outside pockets hold 6" wide rulers of various lengths. It's just what we've been wanting and needing and here it is: Beautiful - Easy - Useful!!
Session 1: Friday October 21 10am - 1pm
Session 2: Friday October 28 10am - 1pm
Part 1: Tuesday September 13 10am – 2:00pm
Part 2: Wednesday September 14 10am – 2:00pm
Have you ever wanted to make larger quilts on your home sewing machine but felt very confined working within the small neck and workspace? This is the class for you. We will make a small table topper in class, but the skills will be taught to move to a larger project. Make a large lap or even a bed quilt with ease by working on one block at a time and then connecting them to make a larger piece. The pattern is provided with the class and a fun time will be had by all!
Thursday September 15 10am – 2pm
$85.00
We all love Spa Days! This one is for your sewing machine. If you have a Vintage Singer 221 or 222 and you are interested in learning how to service your machine yourself, then this is the class for you! One of the best parts of a Featherweight 221 or 222 other than its portability, is the ease of maintaining it yourself! In this one-day class you will learn the proper way to clean, oil and grease your fabulous machine to keep her running for years to come! We look forward to seeing you soon.
Maintenance Kit fee additional paid to instructor
Friday September 16 10am – 3:30pm
Midnight at the Oasis
Monthly – Third Friday 5pm – 11pm
$30.00
Come sew, socialize, have a light dinner & dessert with us. Bring your current project or start a new one. This is your time for uninterrupted sewing and a fun night spent with other quilters.
Space is Limited
Pre-registration is required.
Payment is due at time of registration.
July 15, September 16, October 21
No August Session due to In-house Retreat
National Jelly Roll Day
Saturday September 17, 2022
10am – 3pm
Join us in celebration of the lovable Jelly Roll! If you ever needed a reason to unroll one of those perfect little bundles of 2.5″ strips and get to sewing, THIS is the day.
Moda Fabrics has designated the 3rd Saturday in September – September 17, 2022 – as National Sew A Jelly Roll Day to encourage collectors to tear open a Moda Jelly Roll and make something for themselves, as a gift or for charity! It can be a quilt or a tote bag, a pillowcase or something to wear, it doesn’t matter so long as we seize the day and celebrate the joy of being a maker.
Need some inspiration, free jelly roll patterns will be available for you. We will showcase several books and patterns that will be available for purchase.
Sign up and come have some fun with us as we sew up some jelly rolls!
Cost: $15.00
There will be snacks and door prizes!
Friday August 19 4pm – 10pm
Saturday August 20 10am – 8pm
Pack your sewing machine, supplies and your projects and get ready for a fun-filled time. This is a time for you to sew on your project(s), gather with friends (new & old), and spend a relaxing time doing what we all love, Quilt!
We will provide 3 home cooked meals
Dinner Friday
Lunch & Dinner Saturday
Snacks and yummy desserts as well.
Swag bag with goodies, games, and door prizes.
Space is Limited to 22
Spaces will be filled on a first come first serve basis.
Registration begins Saturday June 11
CLUBS
Simply by Hand Marion Bergstrom