Accredited Teachers

Jean Green | Pam Hill | Angela Langdon | Jan Phillips | Joy Truasheim

Jean Green

Basic Sampler Quilt for Beginners

This 8 week course of 2 hour lessons gives the novice quilter an understanding of basic patchwork and quilting techniques, enabling them to complete a small lap quilt or wall hanging.

Floral Convergence

A 1 day workshop featuring a background design of strips cut, rearranged and reinserted. Free standing leaves, machine embroidered branches and 3D flowers complete this wall hanging with mitered corners.

Bias Roses

A 2 day hand and machine workshop where we work with bias appliqué (using 3 widths of hand sewn bias strips) and long stemmed roses. The centre curved panel is set into a curved border with a corded insert. The completed wall hanging or table runner measures approx. 130x45cms. Pattern supplied by tutor.

Fibonacci meets Sudoku

A 1 day machine workshop using 10 fabrics to make a single bed quilt. A simple effective design exploring the use of the Fibonacci number series with its benefit for quilt design.

Machine Quilting

A 1 day technique workshop. Samples only will be completed in this class. The student will learn “presser foot” and “free machine quilting”. Many different quilting designs will be shown with information on needle and thread choices included in the class.

Fabric Colouring

A 1 day fun workshop with the student using fibre reactive dyes to colour their own cotton or silk fabric. Colour choices include one colour, multi colour and rainbow painted fabric. Instructions are also given on value, hue graduations and basic colour theory. Fabric dyes supplied by tutor.

Butterfly Bright

A one day workshop making a wall hanging with a raised (trapunto style) machine appliqué. Pattern supplied by tutor.

Cathedral Windows

A one day workshop featuring cathedral windows by machine (includes instruction in the Fibonacci number series).

Crazy Squares

A one day workshop using 12 fat quarters, a high light shade and matching fabric for the border to make a quick queen sized quilt highlighting the quilt as you go technique.

Jean can be contacted on 07 3480 5429
or via email jeanhgreen1@bigpond.com

Pam Hill

• Trapunto by Machine - 2 days
  In this workshop you will learn how to create beautiful raised quilted designs without making holes in the quilt. All the skills of machine quilting including stippling and other background effects will be covered in this class.
• Fine Hand Quilting & Trapunto - 1 day
  Master the mechanics of the quilting stitch and create the third dimension using stippling and trapunto.
• Sewing in Circles - 1 day
  In this workshop you will learn the simple way to make a Winding Ways or Orange Peel quilt without curved piecing.
• Broomstick Skirt - 1 day
  Make a fashionable tiered skirt using simple overlocking techniques. You will learn how to give it the broomstick texture.
• Applique Double Wedding Ring - 1 or 2 days
  No more curved piecing. Learn this appliqué approach and have your double wedding ring quilt on the bed in next to no time.
• Traditional Double Wedding Ring - 2 days
  Use Pam's laser cut templates and the paper foundation method and discover the construction secrets of this design.

For more information and other classes contact Pam
Phone/Fax 07 3396 8090
Email hillsofmanly@hotmail.com

Angela Langdon

Below are some of the one and two-day workshops which Angela teaches:

TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS

• Sampler Quilt Course (Beginners) - Learn basic patchwork and quilting techniques to make a Sampler Quilt by machine.
• Machine Quilting (Beginners) - Learn the skills to enable you to machine quilt your tops beautifully and quickly.
• Easy, No-Mark Machine Quilting (Intermediate) - Learn the skills required to quilt free-hand designs without first marking your quilt top. The only limit is your imagination.
• Magical Machine Applique (Beginners / Intermediate) - Learn a technique for making appliqué blocks entirely by machine.

PATCHWORK WORKSHOPS – using rotary-cutting and quick-piecing methods, to create the following designs:

• Cats, cats, cats
• Jewel Box Quilt
• Celestial Celebrations – a multi-fabric, two-block star quilt
• The Wind beneath My Wings – rotary-cut hearts in a variety of fabrics
• Maybe Tomorrow – a batik quilt, featured in “Australian Patchwork & Quilting Magazine”
• Birds in the Air
• Sensational String Quilts
• Attic Windows Quilt
• Country Fair – no triangles!
• Lovely Log Cabins
• North Carolina Lily
• Twist and Turn
• Bear’s Paw Quilt
• Christmas around the Twist

Please contact Angela for further information on the above and other workshops,
by phone 07 4635 7918
or via email allan.langdon@uq.net.au

Jan Phillips

Web Page: www.quilttherapy.com.au
P.O. Box 53, SHERWOOD, Qld 4075
Phone: 07 3278 4265 Mobile: 0413 944 935

From Basic Traditional and Machine Techniques through to more complex machine piecing projects, below are just some of what Jan offers in her many different classes:

• Basic samplers by hand or machine, Bindings & Finishes, Seminole, miniatures
• Angle piecing projects - Re-cut diamonds, Diamond log cabin, Slice of Tradition
• More complex designs - Migrating Geese, Piecing Curves, Slice of Tradition, Picture quilts
• Popular Two sided Quilts - Double Image, Double the Fun, Van Quilt and Quilt-as-you-Go construction class.
• Some quick quilts with easy piecing: Heather's Fancy, Cartwheels, Freedom
• Scrap quilts - Stop the Scrap Box Growing, Kaleidoscope, Spider Web, Scrap Seminole & Trapunto, Carnival of colour
• Skillbuilder classes - in several locations where students can build their skills by attending regular monthly classes, learning at their own pace and without having to wait for a particular class. Contact Jan for available places and locations.

For more information phone Jan or take a look at her web site : www.quilttherapy.com.au

Joy Truasheim

Teacher Training Programme

To assist experienced patchworkers to develop teaching skills that will enhance their ability to share the craft with others.

• Level (1) ... A General Overview ... Sharing Skills with Friends .... 3 hours
• Level (2) ... Practical Pointers for Teaching Beginners .... 3 hours
• Level (3) ... Professionalism in Workshops .... 2 x 2 ½ hour sessions

Workshops

• COAT IN A QUILT
  A lap quilt ... 95cm x 175cm ... becomes a coat
  A versatile and useful addition to the wardrobe .... 2 x 6 hours
  This may be reduced to 2 x 3 hours (with a week between for homework)
• ENGLISH CAP
  Make a 6 gore reversible cap ... crazypatch brim .... 3 hours
• MY FIRST QUILT
  Four "House" blocks made into a lap quilt
  Learn basic techniques ... A "teaser" for beginners .... 2 x 6 hours
• SUNSET LANDSCAPE
  Explore creativity in the arena of fabric art
  Strip piecing .... 2 x 6 hours
• SAND, SEA & SKY
  Strip pieced landscape .... 2 x 6 hours

Joy can be contacted on
Phone 07 3812 2416