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Castle Court Quilter

We cater for all your Quilting needs

Here are some examples of what we currently have on offer:

This is the ideal start for the novice quilter to learn and develop the basic skills needed to produce quality work.

There is always someone on hand to help out if you need it

· There are always experienced people on hand to help over

This course offers a great way to learn the various different disciplines within the craft or to go “back to basics” and improve on your techniques. You will learn what you do like and what you don’t. Many tips and tricks to help make life easier and often help improve on things like accuracy etc.

Beginners Courses

Sampler quilt course

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Taking you through the making of a quilt from start to finish in 11 A 10 week course starting on 7th June 2006 which will cover the basic skills needed to learn about patchwork and quilting. The meetings are every Wednesday from 6.45pm to 9pm. This course is designed for beginners and those who know something about the skill but would like to learn more. Dates can be arranged to suit most needs.

The course will cover template making, rotary cutting, appliqué work, English patchwork, foundation piecing and working with curved pieces of fabric. Information will also be given about equipment to use and help given with choice of fabrics for the project.

On 8th February we will spend the evening talking about equipment and fabric so there is no need to bring anything. However if you have some equipment and/or have chosen your fabric by then please bring it along with you. In your fabric choices please remember the patchwork is best worked with 100% cotton. Polyester fabric tends to distort and woven or upholstery fabrics are too heavy to work with.

I look forward to meeting you on Wednesday 7th June at 6.45pm.

Barbara Cox

The course covers all the basic techniques in Patchwork: Strip work (as in log cabin); Over Papers (Hexagons, Diamonds, Dresden Plate, Fan); Pieced work (often called American blocks); Hand Appliqué (3 or more methods); Celtic; Machine Appliqué (3 or more methods) and Seminole.

All this plus how to size the finished blocks, layout and assembly of a quilt, marking quilting patterns, Sandwiching the quilt, and various different methods of binding the finished quilt.