Classes – Saturday

Quilt Wyoming 2023
July 22, 2023.

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Thursday Classes
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30.  Lyric Montgomery-Kinard – Bead It Like You Mean It
Skill Level: All

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

HALF DAY – MORNING

Add beads of all shapes and sizes to your quilts and wearable art, easily and after you are done quilting. Here’s the prize: no knots or mess on the back? Learn to embellish in a way that adds to the overall design instead of looking like an afterthought. Students will create a small fabric flower collage on batting and learn different beading techniques such as a solid one bead embroidery, attaching bugle beads and creating a beaded bezel used to attach a cabochon to the fabric’s surface.

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31.  Laura Heine – Whatevers! Pumpkin
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – MORNING

Learn the basics of collage while making these fun 8″ collage collector blocks! Fun, fast, and easy! This class can be for everyone! Laura will give ideas for making a complete quilt, potholder, table runner and more!!
REQUIRED: $16.00 Kit (Pattern and all fabrics as shown.)

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32. Christina Cameli – Jump Into Free-Motion Quilting
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – MORNING

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33.  Lyric Montgomery-Kinard – Photos + Foil = Fun
Skill Level: All

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

HALF DAY – AFTERNOON

Come spend some delightful time playing with foil and photo transfer as you create little winged friends, ready to turn into lovely postcards or mini art quilts. Learn two easy techniques for transferring photocopies onto cloth and please your inner magpie with easy-to-apply shiny, permanent, metallic foil. Learning a little about Thermofax screen printing is an added bonus that I’m sure you will fall in love with.
REQUIRED KIT: $35.00

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34.  Laura Heine – Whatevers! Crabby
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – AFTERNOON

Learn the basics of collage while making these fun 8″ collage collector blocks! Fun, fast and easy! This class can be for everyone! Laura will give ideas for making a complete quilt, potholder, table runner and more!
REQUIRED: $16.00 Kit (Pattern and all fabrics as shown)

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35.  Christina Cameli – Next Level Quilting
Skill Level: Intermediate

HALF DAY – AFTERNOON

Learn practical skills that advanced quilters use without realizing they’re using them! Integrating these tricks will help, whatever your level.

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36.  Darlene Christensen & Carolyn Normington – Folded Star
Skill Level: All

This fun and easy folded star ornament or coaster is the perfect project for the 2023 “Quilting Stars” conference! Simply fold squares and layer to sew. Be careful though, it’s addictive. You can’t make just one!
REQUIRED: Pattern from Etsy” Becky’s Easy Folder Star Quilted Coaster pattern

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37.  Josy Daniels – Lemoyne Trails
Skill Level: Intermediate

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

With Deb Tucker’s Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star tool, it is now easier to construct this challenging block. Students will learn about making a snail trail to be used for the table topper or the quilt, with the Tucker Trimmer tool. So many beautiful quilts and patterns can be made using this Lemoyne star block.
REQUIRED: $30 Studio 180 Design Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler
$22.50 Square Squared tool
$9.00 Studio 180 Lemoyne Trail pattern
This is a reduced price when purchased from instructor in class.

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38.  Connie Dilts – Button Boats
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – MORNING

These small button boats are fun to make using a variety of different fabrics. They can be used in a sewing room, for gifts, to hold a snack or to keep things organized. They can be untied to be stored flat.
Required: $12 Pattern
Material fee if students choose to use instructor’s  supplies.

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39.  Connie Dilts – Gnomes, Gnomes, Gnones
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – AFTERNOON

Gnomes can be used all year round in your home. Make these cute gnomes using your choice of fabrics. Many supplies will be provided by the instructor in class, making it easy to finish at lease one in class.
REQUIRED: $16.00 Pattern and kit which includes fabric for beards, freezer paper, premium polyester fiber fill, pompoms for hat and nose, pearl barley small plastic sandwich bag, Scotch tape

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40.  Daenette More – Cogs
Skill Level: Intermediate

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Introducing PDD2 – Pure and Simple Designs for the Next Generation. The next generation being adult sons who love quilts — just not their mom’s quilts of florals, stripes, stars and pinwheels! They want quilts that look and act more like them; graphic, less designed, simple and clean! Cogs was named for what the block represents; a wheel with a series of projections on its edge that transfer motion by engaging on another wheel. Cogs uses only two basic quilting elements: Square-in-a-Square (SIAS) and Triangle-in-a-Square (TIAS)
REQUIRED: $10.00 Planted Seed Designs Pattern
Optional but recommended: $14.95 Planted Seed Designs Triangle-in-a-Square ruler

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41. Robin Dempsey – Sudoku
Skill Level: All

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED.

This class is suitable for beginner quilters who wish to learn/review basic successful quilting principles. We will create a fun table topper or baby quilt. The quilt measures approximately 36″ square and is based on the popular number puzzle, Sudoku. If you have never done a Sudoku puzzle, you are in for a treat! Choice of fabric is entirely up to you. The class sample was created using brightly-colored batiks for the squares, solid black quilter’s cotton for the sashing and borders, a solid violet quilter’s cotton for the backing and a fun polka dot quilter’s cotton print for the binding.

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42.  Machelle Preston – Mauna Kea
Skill Level: Intermediate

Mauna Kea means big mountains on the big island of Hawaii. I used batiks to make this beautiful quilt. We will make six different blocks in the class to put this quilt together. You will also learn tips and tricks using the ruler.
REQUIRED: $20.00 Pattern – $28.00 Creative Grid 2-peaks-in-1 ruler
OPTIONAL: $205.00 Kit

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43.  Deonn Stott – Binding Alternate Endings
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – MORNING

In a bind, when it comes to binding? This class will arm you with tips and tricks and more ideas to help you finish your quilts with flair! We’ll review binding basics to perfect those mitered corners, solve the mystery of that mystical final seam. Learn Deonn’s best tips for a pretty-close-to-perfect finish every time. We’ll take a look at scallops and prairie points, faux piping, specialty fabrics, and decorative trim. Then we’ll learn tips to conquer curvy edges, odd-angled inside and outside corners, machine binding, and more, to answer all your binding issues and questions. The class will conclude with a mini trunk show of prize-winning, fabulous finishes.

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44.  Deonn Stott – Tusuami (A Giant Storm-at-Sea Quilt)
Skill Level: All

HALF DAY – AFTERNOON

Simple, straight-seam construction, big, easy blocks create the effect of dimension and movement in this dynamic quilt design. Use fabric yardage with a range of light tones to dark shades or repurpose old denim and khaki pants for the perfect upcycled picnic quilt! Learn some of Deonn’s favorite precision and speed-piecing tips as you sew up a storm to make this quick and pretty quilt! 80″x80″ or 56″x56″
REQUIRED: $10.00 Pattern

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45.  Lauren Rogers – 3-D Table Runner
Skill Level: All

We will be making a table runner from the book Stunning 3-D Quilts Simplified. You will learn how to cut the pieces required and an easy asssembly method to create stunning results. It’s very addictive when you see the effect of choosing 3 fabrics in light, medium and dark tones.
REQUIRED: Book Stunning 3-D Quilts Simplified (Ruth Ann Berry) — May be ordered from us at Backdoor Quilt Shoppe.

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46.  Sheila Sikkenga – Fabric Coloring and Embroidery
Skill Level: All

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

Students will learn new techniques using Crayola Crayons to color their project and practice embroidery stitches. A conversion chart with Prismacolor Pencils to Crayola Crayons will be provided. We’ll use a Crabapple Hill embroidery pattern.
REQUIRED: $25 Supplies

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47.  Iris Jasperson – Parallel Universe
Skill Level: All

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Transport yourself to a parallel universe! This quick and easy pattern will introduce the strip tube technique. Grab some 2-1/2″ strips and background fabric and away we will go!

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48.  OPEN SEW
Skill Level:  All
This is an opportunity to work on your own projects at your own pace.

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See Also
Thursday Classes
Friday Classes