Workshops & Lectures

Length: 1/2 day (3 hours)

Project: Pinwheel spiral block

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Prerequisites: None

Fee: $400

Materials Fee: $10 per student

Learn to design and sew your own original Pinwheel spiral block. Pinwheel spirals look almost identical to Nesting spirals, but they can do some cool things that Nesting spirals can't -- like sawtooth edges and steering curves. Using the techniques in RaNae's best-selling book Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts, learn to create a Pinwheel spiral in any shape, plus a variety of ways to color them and use them in a quilt. You'll have time in class to sew a Pinwheel spiral block, then either finish a single block into a pot holder or use it as the start of a larger quilt.

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

Book is recommended, but not required, and will be available for purchase at the workshop. To purchase books and materials before the workshop, click on "STORE" above.

Note to presenters: If you are scheduling this workshop with a Nesting or Baravelle spiral workshop, please schedule the Nesting or Baravelle spiral workshop before this one, so that this workshop builds on the skills learned in previous workshop(s).

[10-24-09]