Welcome to the Master Machine Quilting with your Walking foot class (10 Hours).
This will be hosted in TWO sessions:
Monday March 24th & Monday March 31st
The walking foot on your sewing machine can do so much more than just some straight lines on a quilt. It can be used to enhance your quilt top and showcase all your hard work in piecing. It’s uses are a wide as your imagination. This class has designs for the beginner quilter as well as the more experienced quilter. This is a class that is spaced over two evenings and is designed to give participants opportunity to practice various quilting designs using the walking foot.
What you'll learn
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· Begins with a “test drive” of each participant’s walking foot
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· Understand registration lines and other marking devices
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· Practice straight line designs with marking devices and increasing complexity of straight-line designs
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· Practice gentle curves and marked curves
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· Review decorative stitches in walking foot quilting and learn how to create unique quilting designs
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· Practice using sewing in reverse to quilt designs
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· Practice turning designs
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· Discussion on working with large quilts
Supplies:
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· Your own sewing machine with walking foot installed
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· Two muslin (or solid or light-coloured fabric) 12” X 18” and batting of the same size
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· Twenty muslin (or solid or light-coloured fabric) 8 ½” X 8 ½”
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· Ten pieces of quilt batting 8 ½” X 8 ½” (Cotton or cotton/poly blend)
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· 50 or 40 weight thread that contrasts with fabric.
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· Needles – 80 gauge for 50 weight thread, 90 gauge for 40 weight thread
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· Small ruler or hem gauge
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· Ruler that is at least 18 inches long
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· Small square ruler if you have one, 7 ½ “square is good
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· Any quilt marking tools you may have
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· Painters tape about ¾ inches wide
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· Sharpie, notebook, pen, pencil, lunch plate
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· WALK by Jacquie Gering (available for purchase at Cottage Quilting and loan from the Public Library)
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· At the end of the second session participants can bring out quilt tops for discussion on how to quilt using walking foot techniques learned in class.
