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1) Minna Block
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Combine linear paper piecing and applique techniques to create a lovely, layered block featuring vibrant blooms. Modern quilter Carolyn Friedlander teaches you how to paper piece a background layer, remove the paper easily, and then applique curved flower petal shapes on top.
3) Howard Block
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Learn how to make this architectural block with paper-piecing expert, Carolyn Friedlander. This simple process makes it easy to achieve precise, linear piecing--perfect for this geometric design. Make one paper pieced block or several, playing with pattern and color to see how it changes the overall effect.
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The quilting tools aisle can be awfully daunting to newer quilters. With her no-nonsense approach, Liza tells you what you need, and what you don't need to launch into quilting. She takes you on a tour of her own tools arsenal, from pins and needles to templates and quilting rulers. The result is clear, no-fuss advice for piecing, patchwork, applique, and quilting.
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This modern quilt design uses 12 large-scale blocks that are strip-pieced, which can be assembled in different orientations to achieve a different finished design. Heather shows you how to cut and strip piece fabric and then cut them into blocks. She also talks about how to work with bias cut edges to minimize stretch. As well as nifty technique for sewing consistent (QH(B" seams. Heather teaches how to assemble the quilt top, which is an accessible...
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With funny names like "fat quarters," "honey buns," "jelly rolls," and "charm packs," fabric precuts can certainly be mysterious. In this class, Heather Jones explains what each of these classic quilting terms means and provides great ideas for using these precut fabrics in your next quilting project.
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This is a simple quilt with a strong impact. Heather achieves her clean, fresh design through strip-piecing - a shortcut where you cut and sew long strips of fabric together, then cut them into blocks. You'll also learn how to add sashing. And because this is a lap-size quilt, it's perfect for beginning quilters looking to build confidence and pick up techniques while creating a stunning modern quilt.
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The Pop Rocks Block is as fun as it sounds, using subtle and intense fabrics from your stash to create playful contrast. Anna Maria Horner's scrappy design is a modern take on a 9-patch block, with random pops of color sprinkled throughout. Round up your light and dark fabric scraps and start putting them together to create these unexpected blocks.
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This handsome quilt is a fresh take the quintessential Australian quilt - which was a utilitarian quilt born on the outback from repurposed wool suiting. Kathy shows you her modern approach, using flying geese blocks with added applique. This quilt makes a bold, graphic statement but the project has a lot of flexibility so it can be reworked in many different arrangements.
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You don't have to be an expert quilter to make this eye-catching quilt block. Modern quilter and fabric designer, Anna Maria Horner, shares how to create this folk-inspired flower block using floral print scraps. You will learn how to piece a background, fussy cut fabric, and reverse applique the flower and leaves using a sewing machine (no hand-stitching required). Make multiple Folk Flower blocks and piece them together however you'd like to make...
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Explore the time-honored tradition of paper-pieced quilting with Carolyn Friedlander. In this two-part class, Carolyn guides you through her process of designing a paper-pieced quilt from beginning to end. Not only will you see how she turns sketches into schematics for paper piecing, but you'll also learn Carolyn's techniques for quilting using free-motion and straight-stitching techniques. This fresh take on paper piecing equips you with the knowledge...
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Be dazzled while you stitch along with Justin of Keaton Quilts and make a 12 block quilt top, featuring a rainbow palette of star shapes. Sewist, author, and educator Justin Stafford walks you through the Lucky Star quilt, using rulers and a rotary cutter to make an array of traditional blocks. While the quilt top is designed for intermediate quilters, once beginners have mastered the half square triangle they'll find the video instructions thorough...
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In this short video, Liza Lucy shows you her favorite way to cut stacks of fabric precisely and efficiently to make the most common patchwork shapes. You will learn how to cut a perfect square, how to use a 60-degree ruler to create diamonds, and how to cut squares down into half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles. Along the way, she shares excellent tips for using a rotary cutter, gridded ruler, and cutting mat.
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In this gorgeous, color-filled class, Anna shows quilters how to make a vibrant quilt using half-square triangles and squares. This is a perfect class for combining scraps of fabric from your stash. Anna begins by walking quilters through the process of sorting their fabrics into color groups, and from there she demonstrates how to cut and piece the squares and half-square triangles. The real fun begins when Anna goes to the design wall to lay out...
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Now that you have machine or hand quilted your quilt, it's time to finish it. Sue shows you how to block and trim your quilt so you are working with a quilt that is square and lays perfectly flat. Then she shows you how to add straight double binding with mitered corners and join the binding for a clean join. Finish with a sleeve if you are going to hand, and add a label to document the date of your masterpiece.
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In this class, Kaffe and Liza work together to create a masterful medallion quilt in rich, warm tones. The quilt begins with a stunning medallion center that is comprised of English paper-pieced hexagon rings and hand-appliqued fussy-cut fabrics. From there, the quilt expands with several colorful borders--some patchworked, some solid--which come together to create a lush, harmonious effect. Throughout the making of this low-contrast quilt, Kaffe...
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Modern quilter Heather Jones loves to play with scale, and in this class she shows how to enlarge a traditional quilt block so that a single block becomes the entire quilt top. Heather demonstrates this technique by creating a 72-inch square version of the Fly Away quilt block, though this formula can be used to enlarge any quilt block you like. Heather takes you through the process of scaling up a traditional block design on paper, and then shows...
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Quilting designer Ashley Nickels demonstrates the traditional method for attaching binding tape to a quilt -- a fundamental technique every quilter needs to know. Step by step, you will learn how to pin the binding to the quilt sandwich, attach it using the walking foot on your sewing machine, create mitered corners, join the ends of the binding, and finish with a hand-sewn blind stitch. Watch Ashley's How to Make Binding Tapeclass for a quick lesson...
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Create a whole new topography on your quilt tops simply using whole pieces of fabric, batting and thread. Modern quilter, Carolyn Friedlander, shares eye-opening ways to approach wholecloth quilting, giving you a broad overview of hand-stitching and machine-quilting techniques. You will learn how to make modern tied quilts and combine big basting stitching in vibrant designs using Perle cotton and wool yarn. Plus Carolyn shares her tried-and-true...