Quilting 101 - Mackenna's Marvelous Quilting Class

Cost:

• Non-members: $50
• Members: $25

Member pricing is for current, dues-paying members of Tampa Hackerspace.
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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.

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!

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.