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Become a REAL part of America's Quilting Heritage! Learn, step  by step, one on one with me, at your OWN pace , how to master the relatively simple skills to design and build a real heritage quality quilt.  Recently, quilting has become more associated with cutesy wallhangings and "short cut" projects.  The lessons I teach, four in all, will give you the REAL skills of building blocks correctly, seam by seam, to then combine them with borders into gorgeous heirloom quality quilts made by YOU.   The first class teaches you how to choose designs and blocks, as well as to design your own on graph paper accurately, cutting templates, tracing template s on pieces of fabrics, learning about seam allowances, about the bias and straight grains of fabrics, correct matching of seamlines and corners, FEELING the pieces line up in your hands, simple running stitches, pressing seams correctly, and bordering blocks or rows of blocks.     The second class goes into more advanced blocks, setting in points, making mitre frames for blocks, piecing on the curve (for curved or round block pieces), and some on machine piecing--understandable really only when you have mastered seams felt and sewn in your hands.     The third class takes up traditional needle turn applique as well as some satin stitch applique by hand useful for detailed pictures built of fabrics.  Those skills can then be confidently applied to machine applique and embroidery by you later.    The fourth class involves putting the layers of a quilt together, backing, batting and top, to make the final product.  Includes a basic binding method as well as learning to do the "rocking" quilting stitches to sew the layers together.