Explore Transparency & Large Curves Workshop

We are excited to announce our virtual workshop with Karen Bolan!

Saturday, March 25 & Sunday, March 26
1 to 4 p.m. each day

$70 plus purchase of the PDF pattern

Registration is now closed.

Are you intimidated by curves but love precision piecing? Start the Cool as a Cactus quilt in class, featuring pieced curves, a unique border treatment, and a colour palette that features transparency.

The class will begin with an exercise in creating transparency effects; then, we will work from paper templates to accurately cut and piece large-diameter curves. Learn to cut and precisely piece large-diameter curves from templates, assemble a quilt top with pieced borders, and plan a colour palette that includes a transparency effect.

Students must purchase the digital pattern at https://www.karenbolan.com/shop/p/cool-as-a-cactus-quilt-pattern. Leave class with at least one block and border complete.

Partial Seams and the Dreaded Y-Seams

This information was shared by Diane Crothers as part of the Lightbulb Night program in October 2018.

The Learn How to Quilt website has a very good video about sewing partial seams.

For sewing Y-seams, The Fat Quarter Shop has an excellent video by Edyta Sitar. Edyta doesn’t even mark her stopping points, but you can. Using your quilting ruler mark the 1/4” intersections as you see in the image below.