I'm happy to announce that I will once again be teaching
the 'Hexatopia' class at The City Quilter in NYC!
We'll be English Paper Piecing Unusual Hexagonal Blocks
We'll be English Paper Piecing Unusual Hexagonal Blocks
The class will be 3 sessions this time:
Thursday nights, 5pm - 8pm,
September 4th, 11th, and 25th.
As I say in my official blurb, the class is designed to liberate and empower your English Paper Piecing adventures! We will be leaving basic store-bought shapes in the dust, and instead draw from an infinite vocabulary of polygons to create intricate hexagonal blocks!
Although we will spend time exploring traditional-style hexagonal blocks, the emphasis of the class will be on tweaking those traditional blocks to make them unique to the individual quilter, and most of all, improvising entirely new ones unlike the quiltiverse has ever seen!
Notes on experience level:
Interested students should be already confident with basic English Paper Piecing.
Luckily, it's a super-simple technique that anyone can pick up quickly.
Check out this video, and you'll see what I mean.
Students should also be comfortable working with small pieces, small stitches, and understand that (as with all hand-sewing), best results come with plenty of time and care.
The good news is that
THERE WILL BE NO MATH INVOLVED.
You won't even need to use the numbers on your ruler unless you really want to. (I don't.)
Some more specifics about what we will be doing:
On the 1st day we will warm up by drafting simple, traditional-style blocks, get comfortable with this system of working (all the things I learned the hard way), and play with fabric selection and fussycutting.
The 2nd day will be tweaking the shapes and lines of those traditional blocks to make them more unique, and most importantly, improvising entirely new ones!
We will spend most of the 3rd day exploring the Reverse Window Shopping technique that I used to design the Strawberry block from my first post, and the Montpelier Ducks block. We'll also take some time to talk about ideas for projects one might make from the finished blocks.
Deets:
Again, the class will be 3 sessions:
Thursday nights, 5pm - 8pm,
September 4th, 11th, and 25th.All sessions will be held at
The City Quilter
133 W 25th Street NYC
(btn 6th and 7th avenues)
To sign up, you can call the CQ at 212-807-0390
Or just stop by. (Hours and directions here.)
Supplies:
In the interest of including absolutely everything there is to know about the class, I thought I'd go ahead and publish the supply list here.
Most items are available at the store and can be picked up before class.
Items that the CQ does NOT carry are marked with an asterisk*
- Precut paper pieces: 3.75" Hexagons, Small Pack of 12 pieces
(If you already have hexagons in your stash, any hexagons with sides between 3" and 4.5" are great.
- Colored pencils*
- Something to use as a straight-edge - at least 7" long, but try to avoid anything longer than 15"
(The Creative Grid non-slip acrylic rulers are ideal)
- Regular ol' pencil with a good eraser*
- X-Acto knife*
- Pins
- Needles: applique sharps
- Fabric scissors (small ones are nice for this)
- Paper scissors*
- Non-fancy thread for basting (whatever you've got laying around)
- Cotton thread for piecing (we will discus thread color selection in class, but bring a selection from your stash if you've got 'em)
Fabric:
Quilting weight cotton (avoid batiks to start)
We will be using small pieces in this class, so if you've got a stash of fat quarters and scraps, go ahead and bring a whole bunch! (Look especially for blenders, tone-on-tones, solids, and small-scale prints that you'd be excited to fussy-cut.)
If you are shopping for the class, go ahead and get:
- 1/4 yrd or more of 1 or more interesting small-scale prints (for fussycutting!)
- 1/16 or more of 3 or more blenders or solids that look nice with the prints
And that's everything I can think of to tell you about the class!
Let me know if you have any questions!
As always, thanks for reading!!!
All the best,
Reyna
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