Registration Opens Today!

Hooray!!!  Today registration opens for Angled at Stitched in Color!  This online class begins in earnest September 1st, but students can get a jump start now at the class blog, where fabric selection tips and supplies lists are already posted for all quilts, and brief cutting directions are posted for 3 of the quilts!

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!

I'm pleased to invite you on our journey, spanning September 1st through October 31st.   It's 5 weeks of instruction spread out over 9 weeks time to give you room to grow.  All instruction is delivered via a separate password protected blog that allows you to access the lessons at your leisure, with posts delivered day to day during instruction weeks.

I've designed this new online course for the confident beginner or intermediate quilter.  Prerequisites are basic cutting and piecing skills, with experience sewing rectangles, squares and rows.  The class has 3 main elements:

• {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, with the option to donate your blocks towards collective charity quilts

This is a class for quilters.

It's for developing quilters, ready to stretch their wings beyond the basics.  It's for more experienced quilters, interested in expressing themselves in original designs or curious about liberated piecing.  It's for all lovers of traditional quilt blocks, young and old.  And I hope it will be for you!

What's Included?

With Angled at Stitched in Color our focus narrows to the quilt-making skills of piecing and design.  The class includes 5 original quilt patterns (4 throw quilts, 1 queen-sized quilt) and an additional 5 liberated, scrap-utilizing blocks.  Each lesson week begins with design/piecing information, followed by a quilt pattern that uses the week's angle in a creative way.  I'll also point out classic quilts that you can make with your new-found skills.  Each lesson week concludes with a lighthearted liberated triangle block.  We'll mess around and have some fun!

Take that, triangle scraps!

I suggest students choose 1-3 favorite quilts to make during class, but read along with all concept posts to absorb the quilting principles as we go. Don't worry about what you skip, since all students receive a pdf eBook of the entire course.  Return to Angled via the eBook to access patterns and concepts later on!

Let's take a look at the quilts of Angled Class...

Indian Blanket - a playful study in equilateral triangles.

Emerge - a really, truly easy lonestar quilt composed of 45 degree diamonds.

Starbright - an entirely machine pieced 6-point star, relying on a clever combination of triangles and diamonds

Cascade - at twist on the classic flying geese block

And today's new release, Tangential, a cumulative queen-sized quilt, utilizing all the skills we'll study during class!

Each week you can make an installment in this quilt, while practicing the week's skill.  This is your chance to make a masterpiece for your bed, a fantastic surprise for your parent's anniversary or a very special wedding gift.

More good news!  I want you to have fun with those liberated blocks without the pressure of having to make a bunch of them.  If you like, you can donate yours to our collaborative charity quilts.   I'll be collecting and finishing quilts made up of liberated blocks from our first 4 weeks of instruction.  Won't that be fun to see!

Choose your class!

Class runs on 2 distinct private blogs where I can answer questions in the comments.

• ::Angled:: includes detailed, step-by-step, picture-packed tutorials, all projects and an eBook of the class for your reference at $55/$65.

• ***SOLD OUT!  Sorry.***  Then there is a smaller, more intimate::Angled:: Camp for folks who want it all, plus lots of interaction, with the give and take encouragement you'd experience in a real in-person class.  Camp ($85) is limited to 20 campers.  We'll enjoy (5) live community chats, each an hour in length, plus a private Flickr group to help us keep up with our works-in-progress.  And, campers who complete any 2 class quilts OR the Tangential quilt by November 30th will receive a little something handmade by me as a souvenir of ::Angled:: Camp.  I hope I get to make one for each of you!

An early registration discount of $10 for ::Angled:: applies during the week of August 18 - August 24.  Prices are live and accurate at my shop.  As always, I do cap the total number of students I take in order to ensure adequate availability to be a responsive teacher.

Class runs through October 31st.  Your access to the class blog will remain open through November 30th, during which time I will continue answering questions.  After November 30th the blog will be closed and you will no longer be able to login.  This provides much-need motivation for us to get everything we can out of the class in real time, rather than leaving it open ended for "someday."

I hope that every single one of you who are interested in refining your relationship with angles will find a class that meets your needs.  You're sure to learn a bundle!

So, Ta Da!   Please join in.  I've said it before and I'll say it again... we're going to have a blast!