Follow links to register for any of Lawry's spring classes:
Quilting Classes
February 28, 2019
February 19, 2019
February 07, 2019
Meet June Jaeger ...
For more information, or to sign up for classes, follow the links below...
January 16, 2019
Teacher Profile - Shelley Tobisch
So many amazing and inspiring teachers visit Stitchin' Post and we thought you would like to get to know them a bit better.
So meet Shelley Tobisch...
Join us for Build a Better Relationship with Your Machine
and Muskrat Hollow Precision Piecing this April.
You can also find out more about Shelley and Bernie on their website.
March 16, 2016
Join The Quilt Show for an International Quilting Weekend Party!
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International Quilting Weekend: March 18-20, 2016
The 25th Anniversary of National Quilt Day is March 19, 2016, and The Stitchin' Post is helping The Quilt Show celebrate their Party for International Quilting Weekend.
To celebrate the Silver Anniversary of National Quilt Day, The Quilt Show, hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, is going INTERNATIONAL and will open Shows 100-1713 for the entire weekend!
Once you sign in (or sign up--it's free) on the Quilt Show website, you will be able to access two free shows with Jean Wells - Show # 107 and Show #1301 (through Sunday, March 20th):
Show 107: Jean Wells - Portraits from Nature
Show 1301: Jean Wells - New Directions in Quilting: Embracing the Possibilities
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From Alex & Ricky:
"This is how WE Celebrate International Quilting Weekend at The Quilt Show:
- Choose from over 220 shows FREE for the entire weekend.
- Look for shows featuring over 300 of the world’s leading quilting artists, for FREE.
- And of course, there will be prizes... "
You can find out more about this event on The Quilt Show's Website.
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Or click the photo below to go directly to the entry form for the prize drawing:
Good luck, and have fun!
February 18, 2016
Elizabeth Hartman Workshops!
Elizabeth Hartman is a quilter, pattern designer, and fan of color from Portland, Oregon. For her, quiltmaking is the perfect combination of creativity and technical challenge, all in the service of making a useful object.
Just for you! Together with Elizabeth Hartman, we've procured special pricing on her workshops: Fox & Hedgehog and Patchwork City. We have a few more spaces left so please come join us. www.StitchinPost.com
Patchwork City, March 18-20th, $210 (includes lunches)
In Patchwork City, students will learn some of Elizabeth's favorite tips and tricks for fabric selection and precision piecing, as you make blocks from her new sampler book, Patchwork City. The blocks can be combined to make a small sampler, or they can become the start of one of the larger projects in the book.
These blocks are so much fun to put together, choose from 8" x 8", 5" x 8", and 5" x 14" blocks. Mix and match, have fun and use some of those stash fabrics you've been saving for something perfect.
Or keep it all solid for a clean, bold quilt. The possibilities are endless!
It is never too late to sign up for this class. Lunches for all three days is included.
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Foxes & Hedgehogs, March 17th, $70 (includes lunch)
Use your favorite fabrics to make these fun hedgehogs and fox faces! The foxes can be made with scraps, precut strips, fat eighths, or fat quarters. Use fancy fabrics like Liberty Lawn, brightly colored solids, or your favorite print fabric collection. The hedgehog pattern uses conventional patchwork techniques (no paper piecing or templates) and can be made using precut 1½" strips, precut 10" squares, or an assortment of fabric scraps. You can use 3 coordinating pieces of fabric to make each hedgehog (as I've done here) or use the same fabrics for all of the faces and bodies with a different colorful or print fabric for each hedgehog's spines. These hedgehogs and foxes will look adorable in whatever fabrics you use.
Make a throw of Fancy Foxes and Hazel Hedgehogs, then make a few. You can also give these little critters stylish frames later on.
Once you make one block, you won't want to stop.
Sign up now online at www.StitchinPost.com or in store.
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Elizabeth is also the pattern designer of many other pattern such as Kittens, Preppy the Whale, Fancy Forest and more. Find her patterns and books here online and in our shop.
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Being self-taught, Elizabeth says that she did everything wrong at least five times before she figured out how to do it right. So, when she wrote her first book, she wrote the book that she wished she had when she was just beginning. That book, The Practical Guide to Patchwork, was published in 2010 and won the Next Generation Indie Book Award (How-To Category) in 2011.
At the end of 2009, Elizabeth quit her day job to pursue quilting full time. Since then, she has written two more books, Modern Patchwork (2012) and Patchwork City (2014). Her work has also been featured in a variety of other books, publications, and media, including: Stitch, Quilt Scene, Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, Patchwork Tsushin, and Quilting Arts TV. In 2012, Elizabeth recorded two video classes for Craftsy.com, Inspired Modern Quilts and Creative Quilt Backs. Somewhere in there she also founded the Portland Modern Quilt Guild and was a Board Member of the national Modern Quilt Guild for four years. She started selling wholesale print patterns in 2014, and her first print fabric collection for Robert Kaufman, Rhoda Ruth, shipped out last fall, and was follwed by her new line, Pacific.
January 21, 2016
There is still time..."Of The Earth" Workshop with Jean Wells in Tucson, Arizona
Of The Earth
I am very excited to be invited to teach for MISA in their Tucson program. I picked my "Of the Earth" workshop as I felt it would fit in with that part of the country. Come see me February 1 - 5, 2016 held at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona.
Registation for the workshop is through MISA at www.madelineartschool.com
Land --- stone --- wood --- water ---plants ---inspiration is anywhere you choose to look. Peaks, valleys, ancient earth, rich colors in a sunset, the possibilities are endless in this exploration of design possibilities. Nature's lines shapes, and colors are unique unto themselves. Let the magic "Of The Earth" be your beginning as you explore design possibilities in an abstract like process of simplifying what you see. Find your own voice through a series of mini assignments and move on to interpret what you feel about the earth. My books Intuitive Color and Design and Journey to Inspired Art Quilting are good references.
Jean Wells Keenan
[email protected]
www.jeanwellsquilts.com
Supply List:
The workshop will begin with some small assignments that will explore techniques that might be used in the following days. Bring pictures that inspire you in terms of line, shape, and color. You will work on a sketch combining ideas from your pictures and proceed to create a quilt. Print out pictures, do not try to work off the IPad.
To help you with you fabric choices try working from a photograph or picture from a magazine with a color palette that interests you. (It is almost easier to work with a palette different than the earth itself or to push an "earthly" palette to make it more interesting.) Objectively look at the color families and values within the photo. Look at the proportions of the colors in relationship to the total. Feel free to bring other pictures to analyze. This will help you in your selection of fabric. It is always good to throw in those zingers that you are not sure about. For a wall hanging 1/4 to 1/2 yd cuts will probably be enough. You will want a total of 4 to 6 yds. Solids, solid like textures, hand dyes all work well. Bring a much as you can. Bring neutral thread for piecing. Bring four or five spools of thread that could be used for top-stitching detail lines on the fabric during piecing.
Sewing machine in good working order, (embroidery foot or free motion quilting foot if you think you will get to the quilting), medium or large size cutting mat, medium size rotary cutter with new blade (no large cutters), 6" x 12" ruler or longer, scissors, box of pins, chalk marking pencils, 1 1/2 yd or more of flannel or quilt batting for a design wall, unlined journal style notebook at least 8” x 10” for notes and pictures, glue stick, mechanical pencil, fine tip sharpie pen, tracing paper. Consider bringing backing, batting, and basting pins if you think you will get to the quilting. Optional: digital camera and colored pencils. Contact me with questions: [email protected]
Rates for accommodations at the Ranch can be found here:
https://secure.madelineartschool.com/MISA_West_Accommodations_Rates.cfm
December 18, 2015
Elizabeth Hartman Day - Books, Patterns, and her new fabric line, Rhoda Ruth!
Today is our 9th day of Christmas in our 12 day countdown, and it just happens to be Elizabeth Hartman's day. All things Elizabeth are 20% of for 24 hours. Stop by the shop or check out the website, http://www.stitchinpost.com/12-days-2015.html It is the perfect time to stock up for her workshops which are coming up this March.
Elizabeth Hartman Workshops:
Fox & Hedgehog
Thursday, March 17, 2016
9-4 pm
1-day workshop (includes lunch)
$100
Patchwork City
Friday - Sunday, March 18 – 20, 2016
9-4 pm
3-day workshop (includes lunches)
$300
Choose from all things
Elizabeth Hartman:
Patterns and Books: Link here
Rhoda Ruth Fabric: Link Here
Watch for Elizabeth's new line, Pacific, coming soon to our website.
November 11, 2015
"Of The Earth" Workshop with Jean Wells in Tucson, Arizona
Of The Earth
I am very excited to be invited to teach for MISA in their Tucson program. I picked my "Of the Earth" workshop as I felt it would fit in with that part of the country. Come see me February 1 - 5, 2016 held at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona.
Registation for the workshop is through MISA at www.madelineartschool.com
Land --- stone --- wood --- water ---plants ---inspiration is anywhere you choose to look. Peaks, valleys, ancient earth, rich colors in a sunset, the possibilities are endless in this exploration of design possibilities. Nature's lines shapes, and colors are unique unto themselves. Let the magic "Of The Earth" be your beginning as you explore design possibilities in an abstract like process of simplifying what you see. Find your own voice through a series of mini assignments and move on to interpret what you feel about the earth. My books Intuitive Color and Design and Journey to Inspired Art Quilting are good references.
Jean Wells Keenan
[email protected], www.jeanwellsquilts.com
Supply List:
The workshop will begin with some small assignments that will explore techniques that might be used in the following days. Bring pictures that inspire you in terms of line, shape, and color. You will work on a sketch combining ideas from your pictures and proceed to create a quilt. Print out pictures, do not try to work off the IPad.
To help you with you fabric choices try working from a photograph or picture from a magazine with a color palette that interests you. (It is almost easier to work with a palette different than the earth itself or to push an "earthly" palette to make it more interesting.) Objectively look at the color families and values within the photo. Look at the proportions of the colors in relationship to the total. Feel free to bring other pictures to analyze. This will help you in your selection of fabric. It is always good to throw in those zingers that you are not sure about. For a wall hanging 1/4 to 1/2 yd cuts will probably be enough. You will want a total of 4 to 6 yds. Solids, solid like textures, hand dyes all work well. Bring a much as you can. Bring neutral thread for piecing. Bring four or five spools of thread that could be used for top-stitching detail lines on the fabric during piecing.
Sewing machine in good working order, (embroidery foot or free motion quilting foot if you think you will get to the quilting), medium or large size cutting mat, medium size rotary cutter with new blade (no large cutters), 6" x 12" ruler or longer, scissors, box of pins, chalk marking pencils, 1 1/2 yd or more of flannel or quilt batting for a design wall, unlined journal style notebook at least 8” x 10” for notes and pictures, glue stick, mechanical pencil, fine tip sharpie pen, tracing paper. Consider bringing backing, batting, and basting pins if you think you will get to the quilting. Optional: digital camera and colored pencils. Contact me with questions. [email protected]
Rates for accommodations at the Ranch can be found here : https://secure.madelineartschool.com/MISA_West_Accommodations_Rates.cfm
October 26, 2014
Inspiration with Rosalie Dace
Recently I had the pleasure of getting to ask Rosalie Dace; a wonderful and creative art quilt instructor, questions about her work and why she keeps coming back to little Ol’ Sisters Oregon.
What is it about Sisters that attracts you to come back year after year?
Rosalie: The surrounding atmosphere and creative feeling you can find at the store draws me in. Its an original store and presents a non-threatening feeling for all levels of quilters, all while being a very creative and inspiring store. The landscape draws me as well.
(Rosalie giving one on one time with a couple of students)
You use a lot of different fibers in your pieces and classes. Why is that?
Rosalie: I'm from South Africa, and there is so much influence there. But around the world there are many diverse cultures and textures. We are products of out history and environments so we use what looks best to ourselves. The contrast of mat vs. shine, or rough and smooth and many many more in all types of fabrics and fibers.
(One of Rosalie's classes "Kandinsky", her students peices all in different stages)
(June Jaeger took one of Rosalie's classes "Kandinsky" and is still putting her peice together)
Q: Your current class (Branch Out) is using trees as the subject, why trees if I may ask?
Rosalie: Trees can be interpreted in so many different ways. So a tree is a good subject to get their ideas flowing. People experiment in varying ways that are new to them, if its in color, texture, line composition, or anything else. Its a big test to see how far and how comfortable you are to step out and try new techniques. Everyone had the same steps, but each have different directions to make them they're own way. Each tree in here is different than the last. All they needed to start was some fabric and thread.
(Helen and her creation in "Branch Out")
When you put it that way it sounds easy.
Rosalie: It seems easy, because anyone can do it. I will give one on one interaction with all of my students, whether there are 9 or 20 people in the class. They also learn from each other. I am here to guide them along their own artistic path, not give step by step pieces of information.
(Rosalie's pictures used for inspiration of texture and colors)
You will be joining us next year as well, are you excited?
Rosalie: Yes I can't get enough of the creative atmosphere here, I like it. I want to bring my husband next time so see for him-self what this place (oregon) is truly like.
What do you want your students to take away from this?
Rosalie: Their own ideas. Your not walking out making a Rosalie quilt, your inspired with me to make your very own quilt.
In 2015 Rosalie Dace will be joining us again for a couple of retreats and workshops, so if you would like to learn form this amazing woman, call us at 541-549-6061 or sign up on-line at www.stitchinpost.com .
Happy Quilting!
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