Tampa Hackerspace

Please sign up for this class on our website:
https://member.tampahackerspace.com/event-6647108

Cost:

• Non-members: $50
• Members: $25

Goal: Make a quilted patchwork potholder to learn the basics of quilting.

Final Product: 6” square, quilted, potholder in the Railfence pattern.

Total Class Time: 3 hours

Prior Experience: Ideally, you should have some experience with a sewing machine and be able to sew a straight line. Otherwise, this is a beginner-friendly class!

About the Instructor:
Mackenna is a new member of the Tampa Hackerspace, but a longtime crafter. She enjoys crafts like sewing, knitting, crocheting, and more. Mackenna made her first quilt in high school and will happily geek out about quilting with you any time.

Agenda:

• Part 1: What is Quilting? (~20 minutes)
• In this part, I’m going to talk to you about quilting. Do you need to know most of this to quilt? No. But I am teaching this class, and I am a nerd about quilting and historical quilts. So I’m going to tell you some stuff before we start. We’ll also go over the quilting steps and the patterns we’ll be using. You know, the stuff you actually need to know.
• Part 2: Cutting (~20 minutes)
• We will learn how to cut material, and then everyone will cut a couple of squares. We will not be cutting out all the pieces for all the potholders, since that will take too long. Instead, we’ll cut some squares and *pull magically pre-cooked pieces out of the oven*.
• Part 3: Patchworking (~45 minutes)
• We’re gonna break out the sewing machines and make our patchwork quilt blocks with the Railfence pattern. We’ll practice sewing ¼” seams and techniques like strip piecing and nesting seams.
• ~~~ Break ~~~ (15 minutes)
• Part 4: Quilting (~30 minutes)
• In this part, you’ll turn your quilt block into a potholder. We’ll create a “quilt sandwich”, layering the face, batting, and a backing. Next, we’ll trace our quilting pattern onto the face using a water-soluble pencil or chalk. Last, we’ll use machine quilting to sew through all layers of the quilt sandwich, quilting them together.
• Part 5: Binding (~45 minutes)
• To finish up our potholders, we will add binding around the edges.

Please register for this class on our website.
https://member.tampahackerspace.com/event-6640047

Learn to solder while making a gift for someone special.

We have a lot of these "Valentine" message heart kits and it's a long way to next February, so maybe make one for mom? You can enter a custom message to scroll across the display.
You can see what they look like at the Four Bit Industries website:
https://fourbitindustries.com/?product=valentine-heart-soldering-practice-kit
No experience required, all materials are provided. Please contact us before registering anyone under 18.

Instructor:
Paul has been teaching soldering and basic electronics for more than a decade. For a time he made learn-to-solder kits.

Please visit and sign in to:
https://member.tampahackerspace.com/events
to register.

If you have any questions, please ask in the #members channel on Slack.