Make a beautiful, modern quilt by just using your scraps and some muslin. This quilt goes together fast with large blocks and fast piecing.

Techniques taught in class:

1. foundation paper piecing;

2. string piecing;

3. an easy trapunto technique.

Click here to purchase a printed Beads on a String pattern.

Click here to purchase an instant download PDF Beads on a String pattern.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.

Create a strikingly beautiful medallion quilt using foundation paper piecing. You can use as few or as many fabrics and colors as you wish. A Color Me page comes with the pattern so you can create your own design and color combination.

A Tree Skirt version of this pattern is available.

Techniques taught in the class: Foundation paper piecing, matching seams, binding inner and outer corners.

Click here to purchase a printed Arabesque pattern.

Click here to purchase a printed Arabesque Tree Skirt pattern.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.

Make a stunning, modern and artful quilt using a simplified stack-and-whack technique.

This is a two-day class: first day the students will cut and sew the pieces to create their blocks; the second day they will finish sewing the blocks and compose their quilts. The composition part can take longer than one expects.

By the end of the class most students will have an almost finished quilt top.

This class is super fun, every time someone in the class opens a recreated block there is a joyful moment of surprise because one never knows how the blocks will turn out.

The class features several fast sewing techniques, in addition to the stack-and-whack technique and information about value, composition, and layout.

The best fabric for this pattern needs to have a large repeat (ideally 22" to 24" but a 15" repeat can also work), fairly large and varied print (a small print will not work), a good amount of negative space and a limited number of colors.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the suitability of a particular fabric.

Click here to purchase a printed Only One pattern.

Click here to purchase an instant download PDF pattern.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.

Create a modern quilt inspired by traditional patterns. Chose on of the four patterns listed below to make in class. This class is fun, fast paced and informative. It can be taken four times as each time you could chose another pattern to make.

Fast and different piecing techniques, plus layout and design tips are part of the class.

The patterns to choose from are:

o Motherboard - inspired by the traditional Log Cabin block (top left in the composite photo)

o Patch Nine - inspired by the traditional Nine Patch block (top right)

o On the Plus Side - inspired by the traditional Nine Patch block (bottom left)

o Split Pinwheels - inspired by the traditional Pinwheel block (bottom right)

All patterns work great with precuts. The first three patterns are Jelly Roll friendly, while Split Pinwheels is Layer Cake and Charm Pack friendly.

Kits for each of these patterns will be available for purchase in class, if anyone needs one.

To purchase patterns please go to my Etsy Shop.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.

Let’s create adorable Llama blocks and then embellish them with embroidery stitches and tassels.

In this class you will learn simple sewing techniques, several embroidery stitches, and one method of making tassels using a fork (and some thread, of course).

Click here to purchase a printed pattern for Llamarama.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.

This class is a confidence builder for those of you who have been afraid to try quilting on your home sewing machine or have tried and felt that you have been unsuccessful.

A very important class requirement is that you are familiar with the sewing machine you bring to class (ideally, your own sewing machine).

In class you will learn:

- how to prepare your sewing machine for free motion quilting;

- how to make a quilt sandwich so that you will quilt with less effort;

- how to quilt without basting using Dora's No Baste Method;

- a variety of quilting designs, both traditional and modern style;

- how to address issues about technique, needles, machine speed, thread tension, various quilting/darning feet (open or closed toe, transparent or not, plastic or metal, stitch regulators and more);

- how to free motion quilt with confidence on your home sewing machine.

Click here to purchase an instant download PDF of Dora's No Baste Method. It costs $1.

Information for Quilt Guilds: My class fee is $600 per day and my lecture fee is $450. If booked together, I offer a $50 discount on the lecture fee.

Please email me at orangedotquilts@gmail.com if you wish to receive the Class Requirements file for this class.