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Workshops Workshops are a great way to add skills, get inspired, and spend time with friends. Each of these workshops can be tailored to a 3-hour or 6-hour time slot, whichever works better for your group, your shop, or your show. Contact me for more information. Let's have some fun! Surface Design Wonderful Woodblock Printing Would you like to print your own fabric or focus blocks? You can do it with woodblocks and paint! You'll learn how to get clean impressions, how to plan overall designs, and how to create focus quilt blocks with single prints. Heat set the paint and use the fabric in quilts, artwork, and clothing. This technique is easy and fun, limited only by your collection of paints, fabric, and woodblocks. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 3907, airing October 4, 2026. Design and QuiltMaking Designing Meaningful Memory Quilts All quilters seem to have collections of things – linens, clothes, photographs, UFOs – that were precious to family and friends who are no longer with us. In this 3- or 6-hour class, we’ll discuss how to incorporate these treasures into an original quilt design that pays tribute to the original owners and to our memories of them. Designs will be based on individual taste and skill level. Each student will come away with ideas and usable plans to complete her own memory quilt. Click here to see some of the memory/tribute quilts I've created. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 1908. Trees Create your own tree quilt using my pattern or adapting my techniques. Let the fabric do the heavy lifting. This 3-hour workshop will concentrate on freeform rotary cutting (no rulers!), sewing curves, persuasive pressing and quick construction. Students must be comfortable with their rotary cutters. The 6-hour version of this workshop includes more detailed instruction on borders and quilting. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 3907, airing October 4, 2026. Machine Quilting QuiltWriting - Add Words to Your Quilt with Free Motion Quilting Learn different ways to add free-motion machine quilted writing to your quilts. We’ll talk about how to keep the lines straight and how to scale your words to fit the space. We’ll also discuss threads and how to choose your words and quotes. I'll include tips and tricks for controlling your quilt while you have it on the machine and how to set an atmosphere conducive to quality work. This is for intermediate machine quilters. Click here for pictures. As seen on Quilting Arts TV, Series 1700, episode 1709. This Foot was Made for Walking This introductory workshop will show you how you can quilt your own quilts without freemotion quilting. We will leave the feed dogs up and let the sewing machine determine stitch length for us. It’s easy! In this class, we will cover basic machine quilting in straight lines, quilting parallel lines, stitching in the ditch, quilting with decorative machine stitches, and my favorite “get it done” method using wavy lines and pretty threads. Never again say "I can't." Fearless Free Motion Quilting Basics This introductory workshop will introduce you to machine quilting without fear or intimidation. We will drop our feed dogs and discover how simple and fun freemotion quilting can be. It's easy! In this workshop, we will cover basic freemotion filler patterns including meander, loop-de-loop, and vines. We will discuss personal filler patterns and why it's useful to have a favorite go-to filler pattern in your back pocket. We'll also discuss threads, needles, tension, and how to match your freemotion quilting designs to your quilt. You will leave class with samples, confidence, and a brain filled with ideas. Mark Your Design and Quilt on the Line Do you want to take your free motion quilting to the next level? In this confident beginner/intermediate workshop, you'll learn multiple ways to mark designs on your quilt tops and then quilt on the lines. This method of free motion quilting is easier than you think and will open up a whole new world of designs you can now execute with confidence. As seen on Craftsy, Hitting the Mark: Perfect Quilting Every Time, with Cyndi Souder. Pricing 3-hour workshop: $500 6-hour workshop: $750 Travel expenses are additional for in-person engagements. Please contact me to discuss your group, date, and program needs.
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Workshops

Workshops are a great way to add skills, get inspired, and spend time with friends. Each of these workshops can be tailored to a 3-hour or 6-hour time slot, whichever works better for your group, your shop, or your show. Contact me for more information. Let's have some fun!

Surface Design

Wonderful Woodblock Printing
Would you like to print your own fabric or focus blocks? You can do it with woodblocks and paint! You'll learn how to get clean impressions, how to plan overall designs, and how to create focus quilt blocks with single prints. Heat set the paint and use the fabric in quilts, artwork, and clothing. This technique is easy and fun, limited only by your collection of paints, fabric, and woodblocks. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 3907, airing October 4, 2026.

Design and QuiltMaking

Designing Meaningful Memory Quilts
Too Much Soul to Control All quilters seem to have collections of things – linens, clothes, photographs, UFOs – that were precious to family and friends who are no longer with us. In this 3- or 6-hour class, we’ll discuss how to incorporate these treasures into an original quilt design that pays tribute to the original owners and to our memories of them. Designs will be based on individual taste and skill level. Each student will come away with ideas and usable plans to complete her own memory quilt. Click here to see some of the memory/tribute quilts I've created. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 1908.

Trees
Trees Quilt Create your own tree quilt using my pattern or adapting my techniques. Let the fabric do the heavy lifting. This 3-hour workshop will concentrate on freeform rotary cutting (no rulers!), sewing curves, persuasive pressing and quick construction. Students must be comfortable with their rotary cutters. The 6-hour version of this workshop includes more detailed instruction on borders and quilting. As seen on The Quilt Show, show 3907, airing October 4, 2026.

Machine Quilting

QuiltWriting - Add Words to Your Quilt with Free Motion Quilting
QuiltWriting Sample Learn different ways to add free-motion machine quilted writing to your quilts. We’ll talk about how to keep the lines straight and how to scale your words to fit the space. We’ll also discuss threads and how to choose your words and quotes. I'll include tips and tricks for controlling your quilt while you have it on the machine and how to set an atmosphere conducive to quality work. This is for intermediate machine quilters. Click here for pictures. As seen on Quilting Arts TV, Series 1700, episode 1709.

This Foot was Made for Walking
This introductory workshop will show you how you can quilt your own quilts without freemotion quilting. We will leave the feed dogs up and let the sewing machine determine stitch length for us. It’s easy! In this class, we will cover basic machine quilting in straight lines, quilting parallel lines, stitching in the ditch, quilting with decorative machine stitches, and my favorite “get it done” method using wavy lines and pretty threads. Never again say "I can't."

Fearless Free Motion Quilting Basics
This introductory workshop will introduce you to machine quilting without fear or intimidation. We will drop our feed dogs and discover how simple and fun freemotion quilting can be. It's easy! In this workshop, we will cover basic freemotion filler patterns including meander, loop-de-loop, and vines. We will discuss personal filler patterns and why it's useful to have a favorite go-to filler pattern in your back pocket. We'll also discuss threads, needles, tension, and how to match your freemotion quilting designs to your quilt. You will leave class with samples, confidence, and a brain filled with ideas.

Mark Your Design and Quilt on the Line
Do you want to take your free motion quilting to the next level? In this confident beginner/intermediate workshop, you'll learn multiple ways to mark designs on your quilt tops and then quilt on the lines. This method of free motion quilting is easier than you think and will open up a whole new world of designs you can now execute with confidence. As seen on Craftsy, Hitting the Mark: Perfect Quilting Every Time, with Cyndi Souder.

Pricing

3-hour workshop: $500
6-hour workshop: $750
Travel expenses are additional for in-person engagements. Please contact me to discuss your group, date, and program needs.