• About My Classes
• Colour and Design Workshops
• Additional Workshops Offered
  • Beyond Beginner Workshops
  • Beginning Quilter Workshops
• Schedule

I teach all levels of students on a regular basis and like to focus on student individuality. Everyone learns differently, and I try to present my classes so the information is accessible to all students. My classes are noted for their relaxed, fun and positive atmosphere.

Maximum class size is 20 students, to allow for individual attention to all students.

All one-day classes are 6 hours and two-day classes are two six-hour sessions.

Thank you for your interest in my classes.  Please contact me for more information.

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Hands-on (with fabric) workshops, no sewing machines!

Colour for the Terrified Quilter- Colour and Value -one-day workshop -
From my book “Colour for the Terrified Quilter”.
Do you have trouble choosing fabric colours for projects? Create your own reference book as we work through exercises using fabrics. Using plain talk and simple lessons, this one-day class introduces you to the colour wheel as a quilter’s tool.

Learn about how colours work together and how value choices affect your quilting projects. Study different colour combinations and find out why they work. Discover the difference between value and intensity and why that is important. Make your quilts sing with your very own colour choices!

Hands-on with fabrics, no sewing machines!  For all levels of quilting experience.
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Colour for the Terrified Quilter- All Around the Wheel - 2 or 3 day workshops -
From my book “Colour for the Terrified Quilter”.
Are colour choices still stumping you? Want to know more about value, intensity and colour combinations? Want to know why some colours work together and others take more effort?

Put the colour wheel to use, learn how it works for you as a tool. Work with various colour combinations to learn how to put colours together to suit YOU. Then play with your new skills to create the special effects of depth and transparency. Students have a reference book when finished.
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Design Principles for Quilters - 2 or 3 day workshops
Learn about design principles – take an idea-generating workshop. Improve the visual impact of your quilts- whether they are traditional or contemporary. This class offers insights into design/composition elements and principles. Would you like to know more about the use of shape, line, colour, value, space or dimension? And about different kinds of balance? How to achieve unity and variety and balance in a design? We will make small exercise pieces (page sized- to keep for reference) using fabrics to explore these all-important elements and principles.
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Beyond Beginner Workshops:

Playing With Circles
One day class. Circles dance on shifting backgrounds...think bubbles, beach balls, planets...
A workshop on curved piecing creates a background for applique. Don't panic about the “A” word! Ionne will show you different methods of easy machine applique.
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Shape Shifter - Free Style Piecing
One day class. Free-style cut layers and gently curved piecing make a unique playful art quilt. No points to match! Add in favourite fabrics as sashing or use as a base for appliqué. Learn about colours, values and prints and how you can make them work together.
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Fantastic Free Motion Quilting- Beyond Beginner- One-day
For the quilter who has some experience with free motion quilting. More ways to doodle! Filler designs, specific fillers for specific areas, feathers (traditional and free-form), flowers, spirals, shells, leaves, and more! Echo quilting, plus various techniques for grid quilting- free-style! Experiment with trapunto by machine. Designs are provided. Produce a collection of reference samples.
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Finishing Quilts - More Than Straight Edges
One Day class.  A practical workshop covering a wide variety of ways to finish the edges of your quilts. We will be making “workbook” samples that you can refer to later. Learn different ways to make straight and bias binding to apply to curved and scalloped edges, how to make facings for unusual edges, making shark’s teeth, couched edges, different ways to join binding ends and how to add hanging sleeves. Make your masterpieces using these techniques!
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Double Decker Appliqué by Machine
One Day class.  Create layers of interest with this technique. You can plan your design or be surprised by it. Your workshop piece can be the stepping off point for embellishment, using threads, beads or both. The possibilities are endless.
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Fabric Collage Pictures
One Day class.  Make a scene - in fabric! It’s actually not that difficult- you don’t have to know how to draw. Bring a few pictures of your own and we will decide which one is the best to learn this technique. No fusing- raw-edge applique and quilting is the way this is put together. Learn about the importance of value and how your fabrics can say more than you think!
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Turn Loose the Goose
Stitch up the classic Wild Goose Chase quilt and some loose goose variations!
Quilt it in strips as you go!

Learn at least six things: How to create straight and narrow fast geese, confused geese with angled seams, how to use large scale prints to create hide-and-seek geese, how to add fabrics to your project as you work, how to quilt in strips as-you-go and how to make your quilt in the size you want!
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Orphan Blocks and Leftovers
One or Two-day Class. The purpose of this fun class is to put together leftovers and spare parts from abandoned projects into a useable one-of-a-kind quilt that may (or may not- ) be a thing of beauty, but will give you a sense of satisfaction and reflect your personality! What have you got to lose but a few leftovers?
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Colour for the Terrified Quilter - one or two days
(classes listed and described above)

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Beginning Quilter Workshops:

Beginners Basics Quilted Sampler- Six sessions
All the basics for beginners- learn rotary cutting, piecing accurate ¼” seams, foundation paper piecing, fusible appliqué, curved seam piecing, how to machine-quilt-as-you-go and much, much more. In six sessions you will be ready to put the binding on and finish your sampler quilt- a true sampler of techniques and tips! Even tips on how to fix those little “blips” we all have when we are learning! This is even a great class for refreshing your skills.
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Machine Quilting Basics – one day
Beginners Class.  Now that you can piece tops fast and they are piling up- get them out of the cupboard and into use. Learn to quilt- using straight lines, curved lines and free motion techniques. Learn about battings, needles, thread, and what design to choose for your quilt.
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Colour for the Terrified Quilter - one or two days
(classes listed and described above)
 

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The following list includes the classes I teach at my local quilt shops as well as my “away” classes. Some classes are only taught locally. Also included are exhibitions, conference and retreat dates.

Check back often for classes being added to this schedule.

You may contact the quilt shop or contact person directly for prices, supply lists and start times. I encourage you to refer to the list of workshops above for more details about each class. You can also look through the Gallery pages for examples of some of the classes.

Click here for a printable version of the schedule (PDF)

Click here for a printable version of the schedule (PDF)

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