Angled Class is back!
I love angles, with their movement and personality and endless fascinating combinations. Getting to know them can be tricky, intimidating even. But the results are impressive! And freeing too. How many gorgeous classic quilts include angles? So many! With curiosity, time and much experimenting, I've come to know them well and to also understand how to include them in my quilt designs. I'm eager to share this with you!
This September Angled Class is back!
Tangential quilt, a queen-size project that integrates all the skills of Angled class
First launched in 2014, this class has been encored more than once by popular demand. Each time students emerge brimming with excitement for the new possibilities open to them after mastering an array of skills - both traditional and improv piecing.
Won't you join us?
ANGLED INCLUDES
5 original quilt patterns (4 throw quilts, 1 queen-sized quilt)
5 liberated, scrap-utilizing blocks
Design/sewing labs for Equilateral Triangles, Diamonds, Flying Geese, Half Square Triangles and Multi-Angle blocks
Delivered in 10 bite-sized PDF’s - delivered weekly beginning September 4th
Delivered as a comprehensive 228 page PDF Coursebook for your permanent library
This course is ideal for the confident beginner or intermediate quilter. Prerequisites are basic cutting and piecing skills, with experience sewing rectangles, squares and rows. Angled includes:
{Piecing Skills} learn to accurately piece ANY angle, from classics like the diamond to compound angular blocks, and truly any random triangle shape
{Design Skills} understand how to incorporate equilateral triangles, diamonds, half square triangles and flying geese into your own original quilts
{Scrappy Skills} enjoy using triangular scraps from our projects in playful, liberated quilt blocks
Here's a summary of the five main patchwork modules:
Main Lesson 1: Equilateral Triangles
Truly, really basic and perfect for beginners. Here we lay a strong foundation for cutting and sewing neat angles.
Featured Quilt: Indian Blanket - a playful study in equilateral triangles.
Main Lesson 2: Diamonds
Diamonds look tricky, but if you understand the principles of Angled piecing they are no more difficult to sew than the equilateral triangle. Enjoy making a stunning lone star quilt without any y-seams or unwieldy background pieces!
Featured Quilt: Emerge - a really, truly easy lonestar quilt composed of 45 degree diamonds.
Week 3: Multi-Angled
Flip those patchwork pieces right sides together and align to sew, but with angles you can get really lost about how to align the edges. No matter what kind of angle you are sewing, there is one rule that always guides proper placement. Master this and you can sew any angle - even improv ones!
Featured Quilt: Starbright - an entirely machine pieced 6-point star, relying on a clever combination of triangles and diamonds
Main Lesson 4: flying Geese
Flying geese are a classic with loads of modern potential. There are about a million ways to sew them too! We start with an overview of the best methods, with pros and cons.
Featured Quilt: Cascade - at twist on the classic flying geese block
Main Lesson 5: Half Square Triangles
Ready to up your HST game? Learn a No-Trim Method, which I used for the HST in Tangential quilt. This slightly more challenging method yields 8 identical flying geese from just 4 stitch lines. Very fast!
Featured Quilt: Tangential - a cumulative queen-sized quilt, utilizing all the skills we'll study during class!
How it Works
Angled Class is presented via weekly PDF downloads, delivered to you via email. Thus, you have access to the class at any time and from anywhere, and can simply hit “reply” to ask any questions. This 10 week course runs September 4th - November 6th.
Registration is offered today at a discounted rate for one week only!
In order to participate you do not need to be able to participate at a particular time of day. The content is there when you need it, with new content being released as the weeks go by. You can find your classmates on Instagram under hashtag #AngledClass. We’ll be sharing photos, swapping feedback and celebrating our successes from all over the world. This real time element provides much-need motivation for us to get everything we can out of the class, rather than leaving it open ended for "someday."
At the end of our journey you will receive a cumulative pdf coursebook to reference, which I am sure you will find handy in the years to come. And, of course, you can reach out to me anytime with your questions!
a Liberated Piecing project from Angled class
To those of you who have already taken this course, Thank You! To the rest, please let me know if you have any questions. Come claim your spot on September 4th!