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Karmen Brister
Free-Motion Quilting Techniques
Machine Quilting and More By Karmen Brister
Wednesday April 23
9:30-4:00
$40.00
In this class free-motion quilting will be explored for background areas on your quilt and for overall surface designs. Traditional stipple quilting will be covered as well as many fun alternatives. We will also cover some of the many marking utensils that are available, stencils, thread, needles, pinning etc.
Supply List
Sewing Machine with all accessories
Darning Foot (A must for free-motion quilting)
Walking foot (if you have one)
Straight Stitch Throat Plate (Bring one only if you have one)
Five- 15” squares muslin
Five- 13” squares muslin
Five- 12” squares cotton or cotton blend batting
28 weight cotton thread- dark color
Approximately 50 safety pins (size 0 or 1)
Masking tape
Sewing machine needles- 80/12 and or machine quilting
Transparent nylon thread: Clear, 004 weight (or as close as you can find)
Optional- decorative threads (rayon, metallic, variegated, etc.)
Marking pencils: blue water soluble, regular lead pencil, chalk etc.
Ruler (for marking straight lines, your quilting rulers work great)
approx. 12” in length
Copy paper for practicing (blank)
Quilting gloves, if you already have some, (I will have some for you to try, (Wyo. Sew. Center carries quilting gloves.)
I will also show you some other options
Basic sewing supplies
Small cushion: for height
Small portable light (optional)
In The Beginning Quilting By Karmen Brister
2 Sessions
Wednesdays April 9th & 16th
9:30-3:00
$50.00
Would you like to learn to “Quilt” or have taught yourself? Then this is the class for you. You will be learning all of the basic techniques from pressing your fabric, rotary cutting, sewing straight, piecing squaring, assembly, and borders. We will also cover the uses and quality of quilting supplies including thread, fabric and batting. You will be making a small quilt top in this class. The class size is limited so please sign up early!
Split rail quilt
Supply list
All 100% cotton fabric
¾ yard light colored fabric
¾ yard medium colored fabric
¾ yard dark colored fabric
1 yard background
½ yard first border
1¼ yard second border
½ yard muslin (craft muslin is fine, this will be used for our practice cutting)
Thread to match
You may want to select the border fabric first and use it as a guide in selecting the block colors.
Basic sewing supplies
Rotary cutter
At least 18” x 22” cutting mat
6” x 24” acrylic ruler
6” square acrylic ruler
Seam ripper
¼” foot (optional)
The Finish Line For Fine Bindings By Karmen Brister
1 Session
Wednesday March 19th OR Wednesday April 12th
9:30-12:00
$25.00
Do you always struggle with your bindings or want something new to give your quilt a little extra zip? In this class Karmen will be showing you how to fold and
cut bias strips for a French Bias Binding, Piping in your binding, Framed-Again Binding with Piping and much more. You will be going home with samples you have completed. So lets get to the finish line together with those bindings.
Supply list
Basic sewing supplies
Zipper Foot
12 - 15”squares of muslin
6 – 15” squares batting
6 fat quarters (all different)
Thread
#10 between needles
Rotary cutter & mat
Blue water soluble marker
Pins
Previous classes
Judy Parsons shows her recent quilted jacket project. Great Job!
Karmen and Judy Parsons enjoy a chuckle during a recent class.
