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Tina has been quilting for 32 years. She specializes in precision piecing (foundation and English paper piecing) and domestic machine quilting. She enjoys learning new techniques and has been stretching her skills to try art quilting Her website is seaside-stitches.com Location: Murphy School, Room 33717 Murphy School Rd, Durham, NC 27705 English Paper Piecing for BeginnersMarch 19, 2023 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM$35 Member – $40 non-memberEnglish Paper Piecing (EPP) is growing in popularity once again as quilters embrace slow stitching, it is portable and offers a great opportunity for fussy cutting. Instruction will include printing your own templates, basting options, and invisible hand stitching. Templates will be provided to get you started. Once you’ve learned the basics in the morning join our afternoon class: Design Your Own English Paper Pieced BlockMarch 19, 2023, 1:00PM – 5:PM$40 Member – $45 non-MemberCreate your own unique 4″ hexagonal block. Instruction includes EPP geometry, color & design basics, basting options, various hand piecing stitches, curved piecing, finishing options. Class handout includes a bonus table runner pattern. Both Classes – Members $65 – Non-Members $70 Use these links to sign up English Paper Piecing for BeginnersMember $35Non-Member $40Design Your Own BlockMember $40Non-Member $45Both ClassesMember $65Non-Member …

English Paper Piecing Workshop with Tina Craig of Seaside Stitches Read more »

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Author, teacher and fabric designer Nancy Mahoney has enjoyed making quilts for over twenty-five years. An impressive range of her beautiful quilts have been featured in many books and over 175 national and international quilt magazines, with more books and patterns in the works. She also has created over 100 quilt patterns for a number of fabric manufacturers. Nancy has designed 15 fabric collections for P&B Textiles and Clothworks. With the belief that making a quilt should be fun, Nancy’s goal is for her students to have a good time, learn something new, and make a quilt that they will enjoy for many years. Visit her website www.nancymahoney.com for more information and free patterns.

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I have been a quiltmaker since 1972 when I saw an antique quilt at a rummage sale, purchased it for $1.00, and on the way home fell in love! From that moment I wanted to learn to make quilts and sought out quiltmakers, usually elderly ladies, who could teach me the art. Ever since I’ve been collecting quilts, making quilts myself, writing books about them, designing needlework tools, and sharing my love of quilting by teaching and lecturing. I’ve written articles that have appeared in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Traditional Quiltworks, American Patchwork & Quilting, the FabShop magazine, and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts.

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A native of Culpeper, Virginia, I learned various needle crafts from my mother, grandmothers, and Sewing 4-H club. As a young girl, I remember sitting on my grandmother’s shady back steps hand piecing Four Patches in the summertime. (The basketful of Four Patches with gargantuan running stitches is my longest running UFO!) In 1976 when the U.S.A. celebrated its bicentennial, there was a resurgence of interest in colonial crafts. That’s when the quilting bug bit me! Bed quilts, baby quilts, and wall quilts–all are of interest. I find inspiration from traditional quilt blocks and settings, but I applaud the Modern Quilt Movement as well. I enjoy the challenge of designing with parameters: challenge blocks/quilts, Jelly Roll and Layer Cake quilts, stash quilts, block swaps with friends. Visit Aby’s blog at abyquilts.wordpress.com and share her joy of quilt making!

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When: Sunday, April 19, 2015 from 1:30-4:30pm Where: New Hope Volunteer Fire Department , 4012 Whitfield Rd., Chapel Hill, NC Cost: $25 (DOQ member) $40 (non-DOQ member, if space available) plus optional kit fee of $15. This quilt pattern popularly known as Log Cabin is one many American quiltmakers assume was home-grown. But the Log Cabin quilt pattern may in fact have originated on a tiny island off the coast of England! Called the Roof Tile pattern on the Isle of Man (located between Ireland and England), the pleated quilt-as-you-go block is constructed (pieced) and quilted all at the same time and does not use batting. The blocks are then joined, front to front, and the backs’ foundations whip-stitched together. The Antique English Pleated Log Cabin Block’s casual sewing is an excellent introduction to hand stitching and has the advantage of being totally portable for today’s busy quiltmakers. This pattern is a super addition to your quilting skills and one you can teach kids and do at any time and any place. Please bring to class: *Four pre-cut 8 ½” squares of soft pre-washed muslin and four pre-cut 3 ½” squares in a solid color (Coordinate the color of your 3 ½” …

April 2015 Workshop – Antique English Pleated Log Cabin Block with Pepper Cory Read more »