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This interesting little quilt came in as Page's Choice. She took one look and said this needs a semi-custom design to complement the light and dark areas. |
The quilting motif is designed with a curly cue half in the light areas and an open feather based design in the dark areas. The two different designs fit into the respective light and dark areas simply by placing the blocks and adjusting the orientation. It is a little more fussy to place the pattern into the computer but then it stitches over as a single row. |
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How classic is this? An Amish based design with simple squares and large borders. |
A Feather with cable and piano key fill really sets this center design of a cross hatch stitching through every other row of squares. Simple, effective, takes more time to stitch and rotate the quilt for the borders but really showcases the diamond design created by the small squares. |
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This is just a great quilt. Good graphics, simple colors, dotted fabrics that play well together. As Mary Ellen Hopkins used to say "It's just kindergarten designs....let the fabric do the work for you" .... placement is everything |
We used Vanilla Creme as our pattern. The swirls and curls complement the rotating "pinwheel" design. Very effective | |
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Over the last month we have conducted three different Intensive Hands-On classes in the studio. Each class consisted of 4 participants from around the country (Missouri to Arizona to Oregon). For 3 days they were in the studio working on projects from 8 am until 5 pm... or as late as they could handle. Although Page had an outline of what she wanted to cover, each class was tailored to the needs and skill level of the participants. They started with drawing the "blueprint" of a quilt block and selecting quilting designs that fit or maybe didn't. This is an exercise in how the quilting design fits the quilt pattern. Time is spent on their quilts to set borders, stitch in the ditch, concatenating designs, using Page Turners or like the Drunkard's Path shown above using a Custom Overall design on a complicated pattern. In three days the participants cover a lot of concepts, tools, and designs. Watch the list of In-Studio Classes for the next available series of Intensive Hands-On events. If you would like to be on a mailing list for when we offer these sessions again (Starting in January 2019) please send us an email so we can keep you up to date at: Pagej@thequiltingpage.com |
Our In-Studio classes are set up to run from 9 am to 4 pm with a break for lunch. Typically the morning is spent in a presentation style and the afternoon is spent in a hands on practice quilt. We often use Quilts of Valor for our demo quilts, or you can bring a small quilt for practice purposes. |
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********************************************** 3- Day Advanced Skills Workshop Friday February 7th through Sunday February 9th, 2020 This is an “Intense Total Immersion Hands-On” experience. Prepare to be challenged and surprised about how much you can learn in such a short time. We will be working with Creative Studio 7. Page has a wonderful storefront studio which includes 5 Statlers so each class member works on the same machine for all 3 days. You are invited to learn from Page’s vast list of topics in a 3 day; hands on workshop tailored to what you want to learn. Reserve your spot early. The workshop is limited to 5 people to ensure you get the most out of it. Each student will have their own machine and work on their own quilts. |
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2-Day Hands-on CUSTOM Quilt Your Way Class for Advanced Quilters
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3-Day Hands-on Immersion Class for New Statler Quilters
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The guidelines for the backing fabric for longarm quilting are:
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Drunkard's Path is a very old and traditional design that has a lot of applications in modern quilts. The combination of the two shapes is simple but the different rotations and placements gives you a multitude of different design options. Often the quilt was done in just two fabrics further lending to the simplicity of design. Today we frequently see this traditional design done in multiple sizes within a single quilt, a wide variety of fabrics used, and/or the sophistication of batiks enhancing the designs. Drunkard's Starburst is a fun quilting motif that fits the pie section with overlapping curved lines. The outer "setting" square has a starburst design of straight lines. If your Drunkard's Path is a layout with each block being in the same orientation, then you can use a simple repeat pattern or point to point clicking path. If the quilt uses a variety of rotations for each block, you may want to play with a concatenating design or placement of each block and then rotating or flipping of the pattern to fit the block. This is a great pattern to tinker with and fine tune your skills with concatenating designs. |