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Workshops

Smashing Settings for Sampler Blocks Workshop

Description

This one-day workshop is based on the premise that there are many ways to create an innovative setting for sampler or friendship blocks, and that a quilt's border should not be a design afterthought, or something rigid to "hold the quilt in", but rather be a well designed space in which the quilt comes to a gradual visual close.

Students will go home with many design ideas on paper, which they can "flesh out" at their leisure. A simple graph paper template system and color strategies will also be covered in class, so students can begin to work with quilt blocks as soon as they get home!

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Important Notes

Smashing Settings for Sampler Blocks is offered as a one-session or two-session workshop. Make sure to check the supply list for the class you're attending.

Supplies Needed for One-Session Workshop

Supplies Needed for Two-Session Workshop

Since most of your class time will be spent designing a setting for your sampler blocks, and cutting shapes to put in place on the design wall, it is unlikely that you will do much sewing in class. However, if you border each of your blocks ( to set them off from the background or to help make them square), or if you do strip piecing or speed-pieced checkerboarding to fill some of your template shapes or background areas, you will be sewing right away.

For more on choosing a range of colors/values, see my book Blockbender Quilts, pp. 141-142, or Strips That Sizzle, pp. 77-79. In the colors chosen, remember to bring LIGHTS, MEDIUMS, AND DARKS. It is not necessary to buy ALL fabrics new; pull from your own fabric collection first!

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