Workshops listed are especially adapted to a ½ to 2 days of instruction. Most workshops can be tailor-made to your choice of time period upon request. Longer workshops include more in depth treatment of the subject, with an opportunity for more student work under teacher direction. Supply lists will be provided for each workshop. All workshops are adaptable to all skill levels and include finishing techniques.

Sweet Treats Quilts Workshops

   In this fun collection of workshops featuring dessert inspired quilts students will learn how to work with color and create contrast using values.  All these delicious and diverse quilts use the Four Patch and the Half-Square Triangle as their main building blocks. 

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Key Lime Pie Quilt

Play with two little known but very dynamic complementary pairs, yellow-green and red-violet. Talk about a smashing combo! Use a variety of fabrics. Throw in black now and then for interest. Have fun!

Hot Fudge Sundae With A Cherry On Top Quilt

Do you like high contrast with a spark of color? If you do, this delicious quilt is for you! It features solid black, solid white, and black and white prints with an accent of red. This is a bold, but colorful high-contrast design!

Pumpkin Pie Quilt

Inspired by a wonderful palette of rusts, this Pumpkin Pie quilt from the Quilter’s Dessert Series will knock your socks off with its richness. Rust is a color seldom chosen by quilters because it is a member of that awkward orange family. But wait until you use dark orange - rust - in a quilt! It says warmth, richness and autumn in a way no other color can.

Periwinkle Cupcake Quilt

Periwinkle Cupcake is a quilt that features all periwinkle (blue-violet) and white fabrics. This quilt whispers calmness and serenity. Creating it is a beautiful way to celebrate the beginning of spring or to create some lightness and brightness in the fall and winter.

Blueberry Cobbler Quilt

Another delicious quilt and recipe in the Quilter’s Dessert Series! Blueberry Cobbler is a beautiful all-blue quilt. Using just blue (or their choice of color), students will create a eye-catching quilt while learning how to mix values of one color. They may choose to work with any combination of light, medium, or dark blue fabrics. You'll feel like having a bite of Blueberry Cobbler as you sew this mouthwatering quilt.

Apple Crisp Quilt

It's another scrumptious quilt and recipe in the Quilter's Dessert Series. Students will create contrast with all neutrals in this quilt. They may choose cool neutrals such as black, white and shades or gray or warm neutrals such as muslin and tan (with darker tans edging toward or including browns), or combine both warm and cool neutrals in the same quilt.

Caramel Sundae Quilt

Using all medium value fabrics (no lights, no darks), students will create contrast in this quilt.  Be careful when choosing fabrics!  Make sure the mediums chosen are not closer to lights or darks, but are REALLY medium in value. 

Mud Pie Quilt

This quilt in the Quilter's Dessert Series has eye-catching contrast!  Students will work with light, medium, and dark values to create this star quilt - but there are optical illusions in this quilt, too!  Play with colors. They can use just two or three colors, or more. My quilt is all stripes and plaids, but all prints or a combination of prints and plaids, or all batiks can be used! It's the values that are most important in Mud Pie.

Chocolate Decadence Quilt

Using dark red and black fabrics (or their choice of dark colored fabrics), students will create a rich-looking quilt while learning how to produce contrast with dark fabrics. You will feel like having a bite of Chocolate Decadence as you sew this luscious quilt.

Lemon Chiffon Quilt, One

Using their choice of colors, but all light values of those colors, students will create a charming quilt while learning how to produce contrast with light fabrics. The look of this quilt is reminiscent of those our grandmothers might have made. You’ll feel like having a bite of Lemon Chiffon Pie as you sew this luscious quilt!

Lemon Chiffon Quilt, Too

Using their choice of colors, but all light values of those colors, students will create a charming quilt while learning how to produce contrast with light fabrics. The look of this quilt is reminiscent of those our grandmothers might have made. You’ll feel like having a bite of Lemon Chiffon Pie as you sew this luscious quilt!

Other Workshops

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Use up those extra strips from previous projects! Students make scrappy blocks and cut them askew to create Lopsided Logs, then combine them to make a wonderfully fun and colorful quilt. Blocks will be different sizes, so techniques for fitting them together are demonstrated. Embellishments are also discussed. This workshop teaches students to be random in their fabric choices and allows them to use up the many extra strips they may have accumulated.  

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A chicken, a horse, and a dog - playing, marching, and dancing across the top of a large pieced flag.  Have fun with this whimsical piece of Americana! 

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Learn to make a quilt that includes your favorite family photographs. Students bring photographs already transferred to photo transfer paper; complete directions for this process will be provided prior to the workshop. Techniques for combining photos and patchwork effectively are discussed and demonstrated, and students create a memory quilt they will cherish.   

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