Topic for a Quilting Class
#2
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Location: Anchorage, AK
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One thing I just enjoyed learning was the basic drafting of blocks...rule of 7/8ths, value of 1.414. It will be helpfull when I need to draft a block, enlarge or reduce the size of a block, etc.
How about the D9P, or fast half square triangles....
How about the D9P, or fast half square triangles....
#4
Depends on if it's only one class or a series along with the experience level of the students.
If you get to post your subject then wait for sign ups based on your class description, you can just about choose anything you desire to share with others.
If it's a general topics class, you could show the versitality of quilting with a range of projects...quilts, wall hangings, lap robes, walker bags, purses, wallets,etc to get someone to think outside the quilting frame...then give them the opportunity to sign up for other classes on specific topics.
If it is a series, you could do the beginning basics with each week being more difficult knowing the even the most experienced can usually learn something new or being willing to "mentor" someone less skilled.
mmmm...not very specific answer but there is a lot of variables here.
Good luck and most of all, enjoy yourself
If you get to post your subject then wait for sign ups based on your class description, you can just about choose anything you desire to share with others.
If it's a general topics class, you could show the versitality of quilting with a range of projects...quilts, wall hangings, lap robes, walker bags, purses, wallets,etc to get someone to think outside the quilting frame...then give them the opportunity to sign up for other classes on specific topics.
If it is a series, you could do the beginning basics with each week being more difficult knowing the even the most experienced can usually learn something new or being willing to "mentor" someone less skilled.
mmmm...not very specific answer but there is a lot of variables here.
Good luck and most of all, enjoy yourself
#5
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: central Indiana
Posts: 225
Originally Posted by ktbb
One thing I just enjoyed learning was the basic drafting of blocks...rule of 7/8ths, value of 1.414. It will be helpfull when I need to draft a block, enlarge or reduce the size of a block, etc.
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#9
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Bosque county, Texas
Posts: 100
I am a newbie and have never taken a class, but I would sign up as fast as I could for a class that taught a non-traditional block. One that would make a quilt that did not look like it had been constructed from square or rectangular blocks - where the construction was almost impossible to figure out. I would want instruction to make a quilt that I wouldn't find demonstrated in every LQS.
Whatever process - paper piecing, etc - this took would be find as long as the result looked unique. If others liked the blocked look, they could use sashings and fewer blocks.
I hope I'm able to explain this adequately. I wouldn't sign up for a class for a traditional type block unless it had a technique I wanted to learn to apply somewhere else, or unless I wanted the social atmosphere more than the teaching.
Whatever process - paper piecing, etc - this took would be find as long as the result looked unique. If others liked the blocked look, they could use sashings and fewer blocks.
I hope I'm able to explain this adequately. I wouldn't sign up for a class for a traditional type block unless it had a technique I wanted to learn to apply somewhere else, or unless I wanted the social atmosphere more than the teaching.
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