Lectures and Workshops

Lectures:
Trunk Show
Every quilt is an Adventure and leads the way to the next quilt. Hear the behind the scenes tales of 49 Pieces of Chocolat and the Sewing Room Vortex; Bob’s Quilt a Six Year Saga; Twilight in the Bronx and the Case of the Seam Ripper.

– 60 to 90 minutes

 

Private Lessons

Please contact me: terificreations at gmail dot com. This is entirely up to you, and includes piecing, and quilting. Minimum 2 hours, not including travel time.

Workshops:

 

Beginner Free Motion Machine Quilting
Free-motion quilting on a home sewing machine is the easy, especially when you know all of the tricks and tips that the “pros” use. From thread weight and needle size, to needle and thread pairings, to tension and shoving a queen size quilt into a 6” harp we’ll cover the basics, and even feathers. If you’ve been stippling forever, are ready to take on a bit more this class shows you how.  Join the machine quilting club! – Full Day

Teri thank you so much for the wonderful class, I feel so lucky to have been in your class I can’t wait to put my five hundred hours in to be able to do a better job. I just loved the class and you – Sylvia

And Now What?! Doodle Your way to Better Quilting

Doodling is a great way to figure out how to stitch a wide variety of motifs. Using printed quilt blocks to draw on we’ll stitch feathers, swirls, arcs, and more. Doodling helps us to improve our stitching, especially when working with our dominant and non-dominant hands. Half Day or Full Day.
Full Day part of the day on sewing machines – kits available.

 

Quilted Block of the Month Style

Let’s explore what thread can do in our quilts. You’ll stitch on a small whole cloth based on a quilt block. We will use a variety of thread to explore the differences in cotton, polyester, and silk. The thread work will create the block, let us practice quilting, and try new-to-us motifs on blocks we would piece.

Kits Available – Full Day or 2 day
2 day is a retreat style, covering design.

 

The Impractical Color Wheel

Have fun with quilting motifs, thread weight, and thread color by creating a one of a kind color wheel, with a whole lotta pizzazz. With most color wheels the color, shade, and tone have a set order. and move from light to dark, or dark to light from the center out. Let’s create a color wheel using the thread we have, and add a variety of motifs to explore texture, and density of stitching.

Full or Multi Day.

Thank you so much for helping me with my quilting question. My quilting is looking so much better since I’m using your starting and stopping method. No more weird snarls or stray thread giving me a headache. Thanks again…you rock!!! – Jenice

Let Your Foot Loose be Fancy & Free

Intermediate/Advanced: Yes, that means you. The one reading this thinking, “am I an intermediate quilter?”, “do I have the skill to take on this class?” Yes! You do. Let’s move beyond stippling and stitch in the ditch to some seriously fun free-motion stitching. Let’s play with design, thread, fabric and batting to create some fun, one-of -a-kind quilts. This class is all about new-to-us motifs, using our intuition and going for it with machine quilting on a domestic sewing machine. Full or 2 day retreat style

Retreat
A retreat is a time of refreshment, direction, and renewal. A time to grow, explore, and discover more of who we are as quilt makers. The retreat can be directed making a quilt in my style (Twilight in the Bronx, or Moon Over Manhattan) or something you’ve wanted to work on in a focused way. A focus on thread, batting, and color; how they work together to create, and develop our own personal style in a quilt.

Go Mini or Go Home

A Little Log Cabin
If great things come in small packages, then miniatures quilts are the greatest! We will learn to confidently piece log cabin blocks from 3/4″ strips and take the mystery out of quilting the smallest of quilts. Go Mini or Go Home makes great use of the patchwork foot and free-hand embroidery foot (open toe quilting foot) and learning how to make simple adjustments on our machines for the greatest success.
Full Day
Two Day – Just add quilting

Go Mini or Go Home

A Little Lone Star
If great things come in small packages, then miniatures quilts are the greatest! We will learn to confidently piece log cabin blocks from 3/4″ strips and take the mystery out of quilting the smallest of quilts. Go Mini or Go Home makes great use of the patchwork foot and free-hand embroidery foot (open toe quilting foot) and learning how to make simple adjustments on our machines for the greatest success.
Full Day
Two Day – Just add quilting