CLASSES
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Private Lessons - Private sewing and quilting lessons are available at $15/hour. If you or someone you know would like to learn the ins and outs of using a sewing machine, handling gadgets, following a pattern or having the satisfaction of constructing something beautiful, contact us at The Quilt Basket. We love getting someone started on the path to creativity.
BEGINNER CLASSES
Beginner Sampler - Learn the tools, basic cutting techniques, strip piecing, setting and quilting that will help you get started on your quilting adventures! From Alex Anderson's Start Quilting.
$60 plus supplies
Teacher-Connie Brower
Sat., Nov. 1, 8 & 15 10am-4pm
Happy Hour Quilt - Every hour spent quilting is a Happy Hour! Join us for The Quilt Basket's version of "Happy Hour" and make this fast quilt called Snapshots from fat quarters.
$20 plus book and supplies
Teacher-Linda Brzykcy
Sat., Oct. 11 1pm-4pm
LoneStar - Back by demand! This quilt is made easy using the QuiltSmart fusible interfacing. No bias edges to worry about! Time will be spent planning color order of fabrics before cutting.
$30 plus book and supplies
Teacher-Annabelle Jankowiak
Thurs., Oct.9, 16, & 23 6pm-8:30pm
T-Shirt Quilt - Turn outgrown, cast-off t-shirts into a work of art!
Now is the time to start on a gift that puts childhood school,
travel, sports and memories all in one place. Connie will lead
you through the techniques of design, cutting and stabilizing to
construct your quilt. Bring clean t-shirts (no softeners used) to
the first class.Basic sewing knowledge required.
$30 plus book and supplies
Teacher-Connie Brower
Thurs., Oct. 30 & Nov. 6 6pm-9pm
BEYOND BEGINNER CLASSES
QuiltSmart Baby Quilt - Be a "smart" quilter and learn to use QuiltSmart's Drunkard Path panel to make a border on a baby quilt. You will make a curved seam without piecing a curve! The possibilities for using this are endless-tabletoppers, wallhangings and more!
$30 plus supplies and QuiltSmart panel
Teacher-Denise Griffin
Wed., Nov. 5 1pm-4pm
Bargello Quilt - Join Annabelle in learning the ins and outs of constructing a beautiful and arty Bargello quilt.
$45 plus book and supplies
Teacher-Annabelle Jankowiak
Sat., Sept. 27, Oct. 18 & 25 10am-1pm
Carpenter's Wreath - Learn paper piecing using a tissue
pattern. In this class you will construct a wallhanging. Start now and have it hanging on your door in time for Christmas!
$25 plus pattern and supplies
Teacher-Annabelle Jankowiak
Sat., Nov. 22 10am-2pm
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED CLASSES
Sunburst - Using American Quilting and Patchwork magazine, Annabelle will show Edyta Sitar's method of making beautiful stars into a table runner. A quick project that looks stunning!
$20 plus magazine and supplies
Teacher-Annabelle Jannkowiak
Thurs., Sept. 11 6pm-8:30pm
Free Motion Quilting - In this class you will learn the basics of using your sewing machine to quilt free-hand. Practice meandering and do some simple free-hand quilting designs. Lots of help, encouragement and inspiration for a small quilt or table topper.
$35 includes kit
Teacher-Denise Griffin
Thurs., Sept. 18 6pm-8:30pm
Keyboard Kaleidoscope - Find a fabulous feature fabric and create a striking kaleidoscope quilt with simple four-patches. The secret is in choosing a fabric with a design covering most of the fabric area, so there is a lot of activity when cut up-look for florals, novelty prints, juvenile prints or whatever catches your eye! Beware, making these kaleidoscopes 4-patches is fun and addictive!
$45 plus pattern and supplies
Teacher-Denise Griffin
Wed., Oct. 8 10am-4pm
Woven Quilt - Cut, Fuse, Weave & Quilt! Create dazzling quilts with precut fabric strips and amazingly easy weaving techniques! No seams, no corners or points to match! Weaving quilts is so different from anything you may have attempted before, but the concept of weaving is easy and the results will astonish you.
$40 plus book and supplies Teacher-Denise Griffin
Wed.Dec. 3 10:30am-3:30pm
Fabric/Block Clubs
Check out our new club offerings. Join one or join them all! Come in for details or any questions.
Clever Quarters Club - Buy the book Clever Quarters Too to join this club. Each month, starting in November 2008, you will receive a light and dark fat quarter that will make 6 leaf blocks. Pay $5.50 to start and return the next month with your completed blocks to continue and not pay again. You must pick up between the hours of 10am-1pm on the second Saturday of the month. If not, then you will need to pay $5.50 for the next set of fat quarters. In 12 months you will have enough blocks to make the quilt on the cover of the book! Possibly at the cost of only $5.50!
$5.50 plus cost of book gets you started 2nd Saturday of each month:Nov. 2008-Oct.2009
More is Less Charm Club - Join us for a new 5î Charm Club starting in November 2008. With this club more is less! Each month pick up a packet of charm squares and pay less than the month before. Starting in November the first charm packet is $6.00, then decreases by 50¢ each month until pick-up for October 2009 will be $0. If you miss the day or a month the cost starts again at $6.00. Pick-up day will be the third Thursday of each month-all day.
$6.00 gets you started
3rd Thursday of the month:Nov. 2008-Oct. 2009
Please don't forget to sign up in advance so that we may plan for the number of kits needed.
Bag Lady Club - Be a Quilt Basket ìBag Ladyî! We will continue opening on Sundays with our new club-The Bag Ladies! Come to The Quilt Basket on the 2nd Sunday of odd # months (November, January, March, May, July and September). No reservations needed (but couldn't hurt!), and machines are available on a first come basis. Buy a kit and make a new bag every other month. Hopefully, these bags will get us on the eco-friendly wagon!
Cost-Bag kit
2nd Sunday of odd # months
Even More Clubs!
Frequent Buyer Program
If you haven't joined our Frequent Buyer program, check into it the next time you're in The Quilt Basket. Fill a punch card (regular priced merchandise) and receive a Quilt Basket gift card from us good for$25. Our way of saying thanks for supporting The Quilt Basket!
Tea Cup Pincushion - You've seen them in The Quilt Basket. Here's your chance to learn how to make them! Using felted wool and polar fleece, some glue and a bit of sewing, you can put one together in no time! Start your Christmas gifts early!
$20 includes kit
Teacher-Sue Pepalis
Sat., Sept. 6 10am-12pm
or
Thurs., Nov. 13 6:30pm-8:30pm
Fat Quarter Tablerunner II - Four fat quarters and you are halfway to your next tablerunner! Last minute presents or hostess gifts are covered when you use any of our great Christmas fabrics to make that special gift in just a couple of hours with a "quilt-as-you-go" method.
Teacher-Debby Williams
$20 plus pattern and supplies
Sat., Dec. 6 1pm-4:30pm
Memory Quilt - Learn how to save your photos onto fabric and preserve them in a quilt. Combines our love of quilting and scrapbooking! A great way to use those upcoming Holiday
photos!
$25 plus book and supplies
Teacher-Connie Brower
Sat., Dec. 13 11am-4pm
Monthly Table Topper and Tips Club - This club will meet monthly through Dec. 2008. Buy a pattern and kit each month and sew these charming and easy table toppers. Quilting tips offered each class. There's always something new to learn, no matter how long you've been quilting!
Teacher - Denise Griffin
$15/month $30/quarter or $54 (10% saving) if payed 6 months in advance or $96 (20% savings) if full year paid in advance.
2nd Wed. of each month starts Jan. 9
10 am - 12 pm
3 Bucks Basket Bonanza
June is the last month for the Basket Bonanza pick-up!. But don't worry, we are not leaving you out there alone with 12 blocks! On Wednesday, July 2, we will have a Basket reunion from 1pm - 3pm and go over some different possibilities for setting your basket blocks. Please join us for brainstorming and refreshments!
NEW CLUBS!
Strip Tease
Check out our new club! This club will be taking place bi-monthly on the 2nd Sunday of the month for 6 months. YES! We will be open one Sunday a month for May, July & September. Club members will join by buying the book, STRIP CLUBBING (@20% discount) and agreeing to pick up their quilt kit (@15% discount) on the 2nd Sunday as designated. Their will be a demo on the chosen quilt (this will not be revealed until the 2nd Sunday!) every half hour during the afternoon and any tips and techniques will be discussed then. At the end of the year, you will have 6 quilt tops using 2 ½” strips, the latest craze in quilting! Don’t delay in signing up – only a few extra strip kits will be cut and then they’re gone!
Eight Days a Week
Turn fat quarters into 5" charm squares and make stunning quilts the Moda way! There is a quilt pattern for each day of the week and even the Beatles 8th day! Sign up in advance so that we know how many kits to bundle at the bargain price of $2/fat quarter. The total monthly price will vary depending on the day of the week quilt!
Pick up will be from 5pm - 8pm on the designated day of the week starting with Monday, May 19. Stop in or call for more details.
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
Lennon/McCartney/Orne
Lead Vocals: Connie & Denise
Ooh, you need some charms, Girls
Guess you know it’s true
Hope you’ll join our club, Girls
We would love to have you
Cut it, piece it, stitch it, quilt it
You’ll love those quilts we’re making
Eight days a week
Quilting every day, Girls
Always on our minds
One thing we can say, Girls
Love quilting all the time
Cut it, piece it, stitch it, quilt it
Love those quilts we’re making
Eight days a week
Eight days a week
We love squares
Eight days a week
We’ve got ideas we can share
Ooh, we need the time, Girls
Guess you know it’s true
Hope you join The Quilt Basket
Where you can lose the blues
Cut it, piece it, stitch it, quilt it
Love those quilts we’re making
Eight days a week
