Come learn with me in person!
I’ll be teaching at Bolt Fabric Boutique this winter. If you are in the Portland area, I’d love to see you!
Bolt Fabric Boutique
2904 Alberta St NE
Portland, OR
During this three-session class, students will be guided through the entire process of creating a quilt from start to finish while making the beatiful and simple Between the Lines quilt. Student can choose between making a wall hanging or a baby quilt.
Skills covered include how to prepare and cut fabric, techniques for accurate and efficient piecing, constructing a quilt (including how to assemble the quilt sandwich and baste), and how to quilt and bind your quilt for a beautiful finish.
No quilting experience is required; however, it will be helpful to have basic knowledge of how to operate a sewing machine and to be able to sew a straight stitch.
This class is suitable for beginning sewists and above. Ages 18 and up.
Introduction to Quilting
During this two-session class, students will learn a variety of techniques to create perfect triangle blocks in their quilts. We will cover four of the most common triangle blocks: half square triangles, flying geese, square in a square, and half rectangle triangles, while working on two quilt tops: the Manifest wall hanging and a throw pillow sized star quilt block.
Skills covered included how to create four common triangle blocks (half-square triangles, flying geese, square in a square, and half rectangle triangles), techniques for efficiently cutting and constructing multiple triangle blocks at a time, trimming triangle blocks with accuracy, and matching seams.
The focus of this class is piecing quilt tops and will not cover finishing the quilt (quilt sandwich, quilting, and binding). If you want a step-by-step class on quilt making, check out our Intro to Quilting class here!
This class is suitable for confident beginner sewists and above. Ages 18 and up.
Quilt Skills: Mastering Triangles
What others are saying:
“Juli is such an engaging teacher, and her pace, clarity and detail is excellent. This class helped me to create a quilt mockup using my own fabric collection and was thrilling to do! I will be following up with any classes Juli creates in the future for sure!” - T.S.
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“A wonderful course! Well organized, informative and with clear instruction. Whether you're a surface pattern designer or quilter (or both!) you will walk away with all of the tools needed for designing your own quilt mockups. Thanks, Juli!” -N.H.
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“Wonderful class! I did the first part as well, and because of that class and this class, I was able to complete my first quilt. I referred back to this class multiple times during my quilt's construction, the videos and explanations were extremely helpful. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in creating a quilt..” - N.B.
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“I downloaded Adobe Illustrator and then did a Google search to find some lessons on how to make a quilt in Illustrator and found this class. I had never opened Illustrator before this class. I now have a library of quilt block shapes that I can use to start dreaming up quilts of my own and even my own mock-up. The instructor is super responsive and answers questions in a very detailed and easy to follow way. As the description states, this class focuses on the mockup of the quilt, but not how to then turn that into a pattern. I highly recommend this course.” - Tasha