One-or 1 1/2-Hour

NEW Lecture! What's Weird & Wacky & New In The Sewing World...Watch Cindy pull all sorts of unusual projects from her sewing bag of tricks. The stories will be as wild and wacky as the projects. What Fun!

NEW Lecture! Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Victorian Crazy Quilting

Bring pencil & paper to take notes. We will journey through the poetry, the history, styles of yesterday and styles of today and the out-of-print references on this intriguing fancywork. Cindy will give you every bit of the how-to of piecing and stitching these quilts.

Lecture/Demo: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ruching

Hands-on class: Mastering the 3-D Folded Rose with the Vintage Rose Spindle from Australia

Create a breathtaking 3-D unfolding rose in minutes using French wire ribbon in any desired size by spinning it on this new tool from Australia.

Class: Make-It, Take-It, The 3-D Pansy

Create a realistic pansy in minutes, and then learn a fast, fun leaf. Leave class with a finished lapel pin and the ability to create pansies for crazy or album quilts, wearables and other crafts. Please bring scissors, chalk and $6 for your kit, which includes pattern, French ribbon, and lapel-pin backing. All levels.

Two-Hours

Slide Show & Lecture: History of the Baltimore Album Quilt In America

Travel back through the 1800s in this lecture and slide presentation and look at the exquisite album quilts that marked this time in history. We will examine how and why Baltimore Album quilts were made and how their influence spread across our country.

Half-day (Three hours)

NEW Workshop: Perfect Hand Quilting The Thimble Lady Method

Would you like your hand to be like a delicate butterfly gently moving across the quilt top while making perfect quilting stitches? Try a different needle, thimble, batting and way to hoop while you experience hand quilting The Thimble Lady Method. The bonus is no carpal tunnel or tendonitis pain.

NEW Workshop: Hand Quilting II - Hand Trapunto & Marking The Quilt

Trapunto is a beautiful, easy relaxing technique that can make your hand quilting breathtaking. We'll do ours with lambswool and that makes it even more wonderful. Learn to mark the top with a safe marker that puts no chemicals in the fabric. Hand Quilting I required prerequisite. Bring your Thimble Lady thimble to practice this method of quilting.

Workshop: Roses, Roses, Roses

Spin, twirl and gather silk, organza and French wire ribbon into lovely roses of all sizes. Learn to master Australia's favorite flowermaking tool -- the Vintage Rose Sindle as well as makes roses with needle, thread and ribbon. This class if from Cindy's new book Dimensional Roses for Quilts, Clothing & Accessories.

Workshop: Stained Glass Hearts

A delightfully easy class where students work with fusing fabric in interlocking rows and applying Clover Rainbow Quick Bias. Machine sewing is done with a twin-needle.  You will get this project done! Complete kits of Bali fabrics available.

Workshop: Basic Silk Ribbon Embroidery

Create a silk ribbon edging on washable velvet for a denim shirt while learning the basics of how to embroider with ribbon in the needle. Students will learn the spider web rose, lazy daisy leaves, Japanese ribbon stitch petals, Colonial knot and rose buds. The project will be completed in class.

Workshop: The 3-D Ruched Mum, Pansy and Daffodil

Learn 3-D flowers faster by the strip from fabric and/or ribbon -- whatever you enjoy working with. Create a ruched mum using one ruching pattern, learn a different ruching pattern while creating a pansy and learn the 3-D daffodil as well. Add some quick 3-D leaves and leave class with a lapel pin if you like, or add them to your next album block.

Workshop: The 3-D Bleeding Heart, Canterbury Bell and Bluebell

Learn some of Cindy's most popular small garden delights: The Bleeding heart, Canterbury Bell and Virginia Bluebell, all made from fabric and ready for your next quilt or wearable.

All Day; (Minimum 6 hours)

Flower basket quilt block or wearable embellishment

Spend a day making dimensional flowers from fabric and ribbons. Twist and fold a basket handle and fill the basket with pansies, daffodils, Bleeding Heart, roses & greenery for a 12- or 16-inch quilt block for an album quilt or wallhanging. Visit our Gallery Photos on this website for samples of students' work of this basket. You will work in the colors you prefer as you choose ribbons and build color throughout the day. All hand work. Homework instructions mailed to you when you register. Kit $12

NEW WORKSHOP: Beginner 3-D Bouquet

Fill a 3-D bouquet with ruched mums from French ribbon, ruched pansies from bias hand-dyed silk ribbon, a daffodil from silk and organza and charming beaded wheel flowers. Learn to apply silk cord for stems, leaves and a tied ribbon bow for in a 12-inch quilt block.

NEW Workshop: Silk Rummaging & Crazy Piecing

Learn the many ways to piece crazy quilting. Pick your own silk kit for a a 10-inch block or small purse from 100s of pieces of pure silk that will be in moutainous piles about the room. Sewing machine cleaned & in good working order required.

NEW WORKSHOP: The Ying & Yang of Crazy Quilt Stitches: Messy Stitching That Looks Dreamy & Perfect Stitching Without Trying

Our fastest handwork seam finishes will be yours in this class using silk ribbon, beads, buttons & leaf ribbon. And find out about a little known technique for stitching perfectly straight & evenly spaced crazy quilt stitches without any rulers or measuring.

NEW Workshop: Kumi Handle Top Ruchy Bottom Finish Tote

Braid beads into elegant cording using the foam Kumihimo Disk. Ruche flowers into a couture finish, add trim and bring it all together onto a stylin' tote bag that will knock their bobby socks off!

Workshop: Tulips In A Flash

Create a beautiful vase of stately tulips surrounded by a scallop & tear drop border for a quick wallhanging. Fused fabric tulips will come to life when surrounded by the vivid colors in 1/8-inch wide Rainbow Miniature Bias. The wallhanging will be completed, quilted and bound very quickly. Sewing machine cleaned & in good working order required. This class is from Cindy's book Flowers In A Flash

Workshop: The Rose Topiary

Learn to make dimensional roses from two sizes of French wire ribbon and create a lovely topiary rose tree in a clay pot wallhanging. The icing on the topiary is working with hand-dyed silk cording to make tendrils that wind around the stalk and feathery yarn for moss. Homework before class: Applique clay pot and stalk down to background block. This class is from Cindy's book Dimensional Roses for Quilts, Clothing & Accessories.

Workshop: Unusual, Advanced Silk Ribbon Flowermaking

Create unusual silk ribbon flowers like the Columbine, Fuchsia and the Twisty Rose. More flowers and different leaves and buds will be added as time and students abilities and needs permit.

Workshop: Miniature 3-D Flowers for a 4-Block Wallhanging

Make all the 3-D special effects for four blocks from the new book The Enchanted Garden. Taught by the author, you will learn a fun machine sewn 3-D bird's nest, along with Sunflowers, Hepatica, Mums, the Pansy, the Old-Fashioned Rose and 3-D leaves. The four blocks from the book will include "Elegant Bounty," "Love is ...," "Friendship's Bond" and "Sunshine's Joy." Master all the 3-D techniques in class and finish the appliqué behind the blocks either before or after class.

Workshop: Victorian Wreath of Wildflowers Quilt Block

Shape fabric and ribbons into colorful wildflowers that will bloom as a Victorian wreath on a 12-inch quilt block. This class will feature all-new techniques that are not from Cindy's first two books. Relaxing hand gathering stitches that do not have to be perfect will form flowers like the yellow sand Verbena, Milkwort, Prairie Acacia, Bunchberry, Camilla and the New York Ironweed. The quilt block can be part of an album quilt or trimmed with a 3-D swag border for a wallhanging.

NEW! Victorian purse

Journey with us into a world of ornate Victorian embellishment. Make a silk velvet purse in your own chosen colors with ribbon flowers, dyed lace, charms, beads & buttons. Breakfast & lunch provided. Sign up early! Call in your preferred color of variegated silk velvet for your purse by Aug. 1. Choose: sable browns, olives, dark blue-greens, light blues-pinks-greens, khaki with purple, charcoal gray-black, off-whites, yellow-red. Call for the color list as these hand-dyes can vary. Kit $30 Class/day $60.

Workshop: Three-Dimensional Appliqué In Miniature

Create three-dimensional flowers from 7 mm silk ribbon, other ribbon and fabric and leave class with four completed 6-inch blocks for a wallhanging. One block will feature a twisted basket handle from overdyed ribbon and pansies of hand dyed silk ribbon. A second block is a ring of silk mums and broderie perse fabric leaves. A third block is reverse applique hearts and a fourth is a ribbon wreath with rolled and ruched flowers and quick leaves. Instructions for finishing with a continuous ivy vine will be given so you can complete this wallhanging at home. This is your chance to learn to work with small flowers.