How Should I Quilt This Quilt?

Description A really beautiful quilt comes together through the selection of design, pattern, color and quilting. How we finish our quilts can make or break all of the decisions we’ve made up to that point. The way we quilt our tops can have a great effect on their visual impact; if the quilting is too simple then the quilt can be boring, if the quilting is too complex then it can overwhelm the piecing and fabric selection. In this class, art quilter, Heather Thomas will teach you how to use machine quilting to bring out the best in your quilt tops. She will help you understand the physics of quilting and how the density of stitching physically affects the quilt. Using more than a dozen quilts and tops she will help you understand what the quilting she used is doing to the quilt visually and structurally. She will then use simple sheets of Mylar and dry erase markers to show you her process of designing the quilting for her tops. This class is for anyone who is struggling with the complex decisions of “How should I Quilt this Quilt?!” In addition you will have access to a downloadable and printable PDF that includes a number of quilting designs / templates.

• Class Preview
• Session 1: Introduction
• Session 2: How Stitch Density Affects Depth
• Session 3: Motifs and When to Use Them
• Session 4: Fill: When Where Why
• Session 5: Designing the Quilting
• Session 6: Thread Selection: Color & Weight
• Meet Your Instructor