Workshops
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Sew Together Bag
Everyone needs a great, multi-pocket bag that will keep all your sewing tools organized for sew days, workshops, or at your sewing table at home. The bag has 3 interior zippered pockets and one external zipper which forms the handles. This versatile bag works well for travel, cosmetics and other craft supplies! Packing up is easy - at the end of the day, simply zip up and everything is contained and you’re ready to go.
Instructor: Betty Kozak
Textiles have always been a part of my life as I learned to sew at a young age and since then I have made everything from blue jeans to parkas. With my first “real” paycheque, I bought a sewing machine!
Part of my educational background as a Home Economist includes textile properties, flat pattern design and construction. My sewing journey has included owning a fabric store for 15 years. While a storeowner, I taught sewing and quilting classes both locally and around Manitoba. Recent classes I’ve taught include Colour Basics, Serger 101 and Creative Serging and Sew Together Bag.
Over the last 30 years, my passion for sewing and textiles has evolved to a focus on quilt piecing techniques and long arm quilting. A quilt that I made with 2400 pieces, all in neutrals – spurred me to leap into the world of longarm quilting. I use a variety of techniques while longarm quilting; free motion, ruler work and computerized quilting.
Join me for a lively workshop making a Sew Together Bag!
Date & Time: March 29, Set Up at 8:30 Workshop begins 9:00-4:00
Location: St Mark’s Church 138 Hoylake Road West, Qualicum Beach
Cost: $40
Maximum number of Participants: 18
Online Registration begins December 10 and ends March 15. Register online using the Sew Together Bag Form.
Payment is due within five days of registration. Etransfer: treasurer@quilthouse.ca
Delve Into EQ8
This will be a hands-on computer class exploring the EQ8 software. A computer with EQ8 is required. It is recommended that you register your installed software and create an EQ account on the EQ website before the workshop. Make note of your password as we will be logging into the website during the class.
Instructor: Debbie Scheibel
Debbie is a member of our guild with 21 years of IT experience, specializing in software instruction combined with 25 years of quilting experience. Debbie has been using EQ8 for years and is happy to share tips and tricks to make this program a practical tool in your quilting tool box!
Date & Time: April 5, 2025, 9:00 – 4:00
Location: St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road West, Qualicum Beach
Cost: $30
Maximum Number of Participants: 20
Online Registration: Begins on January 21, 2025 and ends March 22, 2025. Register online using Delve Into EQ8 Form. Payment is due within 5 days of registering. Etransfer: treasurer@quilthouse.ca
Playing in the Trees
Make a wall hanging featuring one or more evergreen trees set in an ocean/shoreline landscape. The finished wall hanging is approximately 20” by 30. You will learn how to create trees. This is a free form, raw edge appliqué method which is a lot of fun. Be inspired by your own favourite tree or forest. The class instructions will guide you through the various techniques for landscape quilting and you will create a unique wall hanging. You will be encouraged to have fun with your tree. Along the way we will touch on a few design tricks, landscape composition, colour theory, and play with interesting techniques. I will demonstrate a simple painted sky. If you want to try this, paint and brushes will be provided. Bring a 21” by 14” piece of white fabric and an unfolded piece of parchment paper to paint on.
Instructor: Susan Teece
Susan is a textile artist and owner of Bent Pin Creations I love handling fabric. The colours, textures and feel help to inform my interpretation of a particular subject. Regularly dying and painting many of my own fabrics, I incorporate these into my work to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces of art. For the last 20 years, I have been designing the wall hanging creations, displaying nationally and internationally, teaching, and writing patterns. My compositions are based on the natural world and the beauty therein. Travelling with my camera in hand, it is from these captured images that I compose my landscapes. The images are realistic, but in the quilted composition they become an artistic representation. My trees are what I’m known for. My local west coast surroundings inspire me to create the intricate cedar, fir and arbutus trees regularly featured in my compositions. By adding many layers of fabric, I recreate the natural growth.
Date & Time: May 3, 2025 Set up 8:30. Workshop 9 – 4.
Location: St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road West Qualicum Beach
Cost: $90 (includes pattern)
Skill level: confident beginner - advanced
Tree fabric strips (a scrap pile) will be provided to enrich your own stash
Maximum number of participants: 15
Online Registration: Begins February 25, 2025 and ends April 19, 2025. To register online please use Playing in the Trees Form. Payment is due within 5 days of registering. Etransfer: treasurer@quilthouse.ca
Ideas for topics can be shared with anyone on the workshop committee or sent to workshops@quilthouse.ca
Roxane N. and Robin B.
Workshops Committee Chairs