Master Machine Quilting with your Walking Foot Class 1

SKU: WFCLASS

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Description

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

  • ·        Begins with a “test drive” of each participant’s walking foot
  • ·        Understand registration lines and other marking devices
  • ·        Practice straight line designs with marking devices and increasing complexity of straight-line designs
  • ·        Practice gentle curves and marked curves
  • ·        Review decorative stitches in walking foot quilting and learn how to create unique quilting designs
  • ·        Practice using sewing in reverse to quilt designs
  • ·        Practice turning designs
  • ·        Discussion on working with large quilts

Supplies:

  • ·        Your own sewing machine with walking foot installed
  • ·        Two muslin (or solid or light-coloured fabric) 12” X 18” and batting of the same size
  • ·        Twenty muslin (or solid or light-coloured fabric) 8 ½” X 8 ½”
  • ·        Ten pieces of quilt batting 8 ½” X 8 ½” (Cotton or cotton/poly blend)
  • ·        50 or 40 weight thread that contrasts with fabric.
  • ·        Needles – 80 gauge for 50 weight thread, 90 gauge for 40 weight thread
  • ·        Small ruler or hem gauge
  • ·        Ruler that is at least 18 inches long
  • ·        Small square ruler if you have one, 7 ½ “square is good
  • ·        Any quilt marking tools you may have
  • ·        Painters tape about ¾ inches wide
  • ·        Sharpie, notebook, pen, pencil, lunch plate
  • ·        WALK by Jacquie Gering (available for purchase at Cottage Quilting and loan from the Public Library)
  • ·        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.

Teacher:

Phyllis Janzen