Quilting 202

I will be heading east this coming Monday with the tot for a wedding. When we return on the 21st we will have a guest arrive later that night. KT is driving up from Tucson. While she is here I am going to teach her to quilt. She actually has come quilt skills already, she went through the same beginner quilt lessons I did back in high school.

That's why I'm calling her class quilting 202.

I'm going to do the normal basic accelerated quilt class I normally teach. The goal is to show each part of the process, but with me doing a big chunk of the work, so she will have a finished quilt before she gets overwhelmed or frustrated.

I have the fabrics prepped. So this is how the lessons will go...

Part 1 -square up remaining fabric, cut remaining squares.

Part 2- pinning remaining 4 patch sections together, I'll have her do 5-10 then I will finish them up.

Part 3- I'll have her chain piece the first 2 sections together, then I will show her how to press the seams.

Part 4- I'll have her pin a few of the 4 patch blocks together, then I will have her get sewing, while I pin the rest.

Part 5- sewing the blocks together, while I press and pin for her.

Part6- Piecing backing lesson

Part7- Basting lesson( but she has basted and tied a quilt before so there wont be a ton of blabbering from my mouth on the topic)

Part8- Machine quilting lesson, I'll show her once, then let her go at it.

Part 9- Binding piecing, then attaching the binding

Part 10- hand sewing the binding.

Easy right?

Day 1 will be parts 1-5

Day 2 will be parts 6 & 7

Day 3 will be part 8

Day 4 will be part 9 & 10

I actually think days 1 and 2 can be combined. So it may only be 3 days of working on this project!

So, unless I make a fabric buy in the mitten, I think I'm signing off until the 21st. See you then :)