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