Patchwork & Quilting Academy DVD Workshops

The Patchwork and Quilting DVD workshops provide you with the personal guidance of professional patchwork and quilting tutors in the comfort of your own home. With these one-on-one lessons, you learn how to easily master new techniques and achieve results you never thought possible. 

This series of DVD's cover various techniques ideal for building a solid foundation of patchwork and quilting skills. Each tutorial incorporates projects with easy-to-follow written workshop instructions and the original patterns used for the project.

Learn How – The Joy of Piecing with Pauline Rogers

Easily master the basics of piecing patchwork. You learn eleven different block patterns and how to layout sashing and borders in The Joy of Piecing. Pauline guides you block by block demonstrating how to achieve accurate cutting, perfect piecing, and correct pressing, so you achieve a superior result in your patchwork.

Learn How - Foundation Paper Piecing with Pauline Rogers

Discover how easy it is to achieve accuracy while creating intricately patterned quilts. The quick, stress free technique of Foundation Paper Piecing ensures perfect piecing every time. You will enjoy learning about choosing fabrics, reading and understanding patterns, the piecing process and all about the tools that make foundation piecing even easier.

Learn How - Chenilling with Pauline Rogers

Discover how to add texture to your quilts with two separate projects, each detailing a different popular Chenilling technique. Chenilling is a fun, versatile and easy process that turns 'ugly duckling' fabrics into objects of beauty. It is also therapeutic - slash and fluff is a wonderful way to de-stress.

Learn How – Stained Glass with Kay Meale

Create spectacular results with minimal effort using bias appliqué to reproduce the beauty of Stained Glass in fabric. Even for the beginner, bias appliqué is a surprisingly simple, fast and flexible technique. You learn the proper marking method, how to set down the colour base, how to apply bias strip onto curves and why you don’t need to worry about making a mistake.

Learn How - Confetti with Ruth Bloomfield

Find the freedom to create with the truly unique and extremely easy technique of Confetti. Developed by Ruth, Confetti piecing makes use of raw edges and free machine embroidery to produce a wonderfully original textile art. Throw away worries about perfect points and other patchwork rules. Confetti embraces a free form of piecing without concerns for perfection ... that produces amazingly "picture perfect" results.

Learn How - Crazy Patch with Ruth Bloomfield

Investigate the enchanting technique of Crazy Patch – the perfect method to display treasures and keepsakes from yesteryear. Turn fabric scraps into divine quilts that you can embellish with any assortment of buttons, beads, lace and sentimental trinkets. With no points to match up and no pattern to follow accuracy isn’t an issue. If you can sew a straight seam, you simply can't do it wrong. Ruth also shares some easy tips on ribbon embroidery, embroidery stitches and embellishments.

Learn How – Basic Trapunto with Bev McClune

Have fun while manipulating cloth with needle, thread and batting to add exquisite accents, with free form flowers and free form stippling, to your quilts in Basic Trapunto. You will learn exactly how you can achieve a diamond grid with corded trapunto while Bev shares her expertise, in a manageable quilt-as-you-go project. Loaded with great tips, you will discover how to set up your sewing machine for corded trapunto, which tools and products make the job easier, how to mark you pattern, join individual strips, make cover strips and add a binding.

Learn How - Machine Quilting Journey with Bev McClune

Discover what you need to know to get your quilt (and yourself) ready for domestic machine quilting in the Machine Quilting Journey. Bev encourages you to explore machine quilting and free form stippling, while sharing her secrets on the ideal tools of a domestic machine quilter, how to choose your needles and threads, selecting your backing fabric and wadding, the correct technique for pinning your quilt top and the stopping and starting of lines. You will learn all the skills needed to become a confident domestic machine quilter.

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