I teach a Beginning Piecing Workshop on a regular basis, and here is the description: Skills taught in this course include:
rotary cutting, sewing accurate 1/4” seams, quilting tools, thread, machine set-up, pressing, 4-patch, half-square-triangles, sparrow block, “twist and shout,” snowball corners, flying geese, square-in-a-square, matching points and diagonal corners, squaring-up, chain piecing, block construction, “needle down and stomp your foot,” “steering with the pin,” and borders.
I've been trying to figure out how to add color theory, but the students need to have their fabric before they come to class, so they can start cutting. Maybe the first class can be color theory, then they can buy their fabric between the first and second class.
The class is already 5 weeks, so that would take it to 6 weeks. Is 6 weeks too long? When I do 5 weeks, I expect that every one of the students will miss at least one class.
I'm interested in what others will say. I've had interest in an intermediate piecing class and am working on putting that together.