Workshops & Lectures

Length: 1/2 day (3 hours)

Project: Nesting Spiral block

Skill Level: All levels

Prerequisites: Basic sewing skills

Fee: Click on "Booking/Registration" at left

Materials Fee: $5 per student

Learn to design and sew your own original Nesting spiral block. Nesting spirals are the simplest type of the four Simply Amazing Spirals. They are similar to a Twisted Log Cabin block, but we'll take the idea much further. Using the techniques in RaNae's best-selling book Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts, learn to create a Nesting spiral in any shape, plus a variety of ways to color them. You'll have time in class to sew one spiral block. The materials list includes enough fabric for two blocks, and a pattern is provided for finishing them into a pair of pot holders.

Class kit includes preprinted foundations for Nesting spiral blocks, sewing instructions, a pattern and batting for two pot holders.

Click on "Materials & Prep List" at left for detailed materials list. RaNae's book Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts is recommended, and will be available for purchase at the workshop. (The basic information covered in this class is also contained in her second book Magnificent Spiral Mandala Quilts.) To purchase books and materials before the workshop, click on "STORE" above.

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Fabrics for class: (Enough for two potholders) Light color for spiral block (at least one color): ¼ yard. Dark color for spiral block (at least one color): ¼ yard. (One or both spiral fabrics should be solids, textures, tone-on-tones or small prints. If you use a print for one fabric, the other must be a solid.) Fabric for fussy-cut center (optional): two 2½" squares with fussy-cut design in center. Back of pot holder and binding (if this is one of fabrics in spiral, ¼ yard listed above is not needed in addition to this): ⅝ yard (See mat’ls list at www.ranaemerrillquilts.com/teaching/116 for details.)

Tools: Basic sewing supplies; scissors for paper; rotary cutter, ruler and mat; Add-a-Quarter tool*; iron or seam roller*; masking or painter’s tape; permanent double-sided tape; Scotch tape; pencil; fine-point permanent black pen; white paper; 2 highlighter pens in different colors.
* = Available for purchase in class.

Sewing machine set-up: Straight stitch; 75/11 or 80/12 needle; open-toe or clear center-groove foot; neutral or matching thread for sewing.

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