Piecing Workshops

Autograph Quilts Full Day: 5½ - 6 hours

Like the Scrap Bonanza classes, students make one quilt, saving the cut-aways to make a second quilt that is totally different. The quilts in this class are perfect for Autographs... friendship's keepsakes. Learn how to write on fabric. Charming verses for your quilt are provided.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Basket Manipulations Full Day: 5½ - 6 hours

Baskets are perhaps one of the most popular designs in patchwork, and this class will give you a wonderful collection of basket patterns. In addition to six different basket variations, the cut-aways Linda has become so well-known for are perfect for one of the baskets, giving you a total of seven patterns in all. They can be used individually to create seven different quilts, or combined into a sampler quilt, as you choose.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Best Ever Tote Bags Half Day: 3 hours

Tote bags, pocketed and lined for your every need. You will be amazed at how easy these are to construct. Left-over quilt blocks make ideal pockets. Go home with a completed tote.

Bonanza Splits Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Half scale quilts PLUS a free bonus quilt In a concept made popular in Linda's book Scrap Bonanza, this class takes you in a whole new direction by making the quilts in half-scale. It's a great way to try a new technique as well as audition a new fabric combination. Half-scale quilts finish in a jiffy and include the delightful bonus of a second quilt out of the leftover pieces. Projects for this class: Weathervane, plus a bonus of Bits and Pieces.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Civil War Reporduction Quilt Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

This quilt is a half scale reproduction of a Civil War era quilt, combining a nine patch with a hand appliqued swag border.Done in half scale, the nine patch is a charming 2¼ inch block.This is lovely in reproduction fabrics, or contemporary, as you choose.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Four Patch Frolic and Beyond Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

A brand new Retreat offering that you are sure to have tons of fun with! Start with fabric selection, great tips on how to make scraps work well together, then see what fun you can have with the fourpatch. This isn't your run of the mill fourpatch either. The way it is constructed is like magic, and the possible design arrangements are a real treat!

Proficiency: All levels.

Class Handout Fee

Hand Piecing 101: Little House on the Prairie Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Start at the very beginning with Hand Piecing Basics in this class for all ages. Using "Quilting with Laura: Quilts Inspired by the Little House on the Prairie Series" as a workbook, students start with how to make hand piecing templates, move to marking and cutting fabric, and work their way through block construction. Corn and Beans is the pattern of the day. The text book contains 13 other patterns to grow with.

Proficiency: This class is for all who want to know how to hand piece. Children 8 - 14 may attend if accompanied by an adult. Perfect for a mother-child day out.

Required book: Quilting With Laura

Hand Piecing: Civil War Style Half Day 3 hours

An 1864 Lady's Magazine told of having received a 'pleasant letter from a young lady of Rhode Island, who is forming a curious and valuable collection of autographs in an original and very womanly way: the design is to insert the names in a bedquilt.' The idea so intrigued readers that a few months later, by popular demand, the magazine offered the pattern and directions for constructing an English Paper Pieced Tumbling Block quilt. Made entirely by hand, small pieces of fabric are fit puzzle-fashion into an intriguing mosaic design.

This makes an ideal 'take-along'project to work on at meetings, Civil War Reenactments, or just in the evening when you would like some handwork to keep you busy. This program works well as a follow-up to the 'Quiltmaking in Civil War America' slide-lecture presentation.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Hand Piecing Perfection Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

In this sometimes too-fast-paced world, there is something relaxing about hand sewing. Learn the how-to's of precision hand-piecing as well as the pitfalls and how to avoid them. Learn the characteristics of a well-pieced block that judges look for, from perfect angles and points, to seam allowance treatment.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Homestead Star Quilt Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Homestead Star

The single day version of this class starts with the how-to of Fabric Selection, continuing on with precision machine piecing techniques that result in cutaways that can cleverly be used to make a second quilt out of the leftovers. When team taught with Cindy Fenster as a two day class, Cindy continues on with information on how to decide what quilting pattern goes where, as well as how to accomplish those quilting techniques.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Mystery Workshops Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Begin a quilt built on Linda's two-for-one idea for scrap quilts, using cut-aways to create a totally different second quilt. What makes this class so much fun is that the class is divided into two groups, with each working on a different set of quilts. Participants don't know which quilt they are making until the very end. Choose from five different offerings:

• Mystery Workshop 3 (Quilts E, F plus their bonuses)
• Mystery Workshop 4 (Quilts G, H plus their bonuses)
• Mystery Workshop 5 (Quilts I, J plus their bonuses)
• Mystery Workshop 6 (Quilts K, L plus their bonuses)
• Mystery Workshop 7 (Quilts M, N plus their bonuses)
• Mystery Workshop 8 (Quilts O, P plus their bonuses) NEW!

*The quilts done in Mystery 1 & 2 (A,B,C, D) are found in Linda's newest book Scrap Bonanza 2. All other Mystery Quilts are unpublished and can only be found in Linda's classes. A 'frequently asked questions' sheet on Mystery Quilts can be found here.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Nine Patch Manipulations Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Perfect for community service projects. Strip piecing techniques transform the ever-popular nine patch into a variety of wonderful designs that will warm the heart and soul of the recipient. One pattern turns into five variations, and best of all, they create the cut-aways Linda has become so well-known for, perfect for three different bonus quilts. That's a total of eight quilts in all.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Patchwork Potpourri Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Samplers no longer need be made up of same-size blocks. Play with the fun of puzzling different size blocks together in Patchwork Potpourri. An example can be seen on the cover of Linda's book Quilting with Laura: Patterns Inspired by the Little House on the Prairie Series. Students bring blocks of various sizes. Learn concepts of focal point, framing, setting segments, and sash and border proportions. Due to the nature of this class, class size is limited to 16.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Prairie Sampler Two Day; 12 hours

Let Laura Ingalls Wilder be your inspiration in this extended class where we will adapt the patterns found in my book Quilting with Laura: Patterns Inspired by the Little House on the Prairie Series to machine piecing techniques, and arrange them in a sampler. This class takes the mystery out of how to arrange blocks of varying sizes, while allowing you to step back in time, working with reproduction fabrics. Fabric kits available.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee, Optional Reproduction Fabric Kit Fee

Quilting 1-2-3 Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

An exciting new class, Quilting 1-2-3 starts with fabric selection for scrap quilts and builds from there. Learn how to achieve accurate and efficient piecing techniques that transform one quilt into a second pattern that looks totally different. And what would a Linda Halpin workshop be without a bonus quilt made with the cutaways! That is a total of three quilts in this fun filled workshop.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Seminole With A Twist Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Seminole Patchwork takes on a whole new look when it works its way into traditional patchwork for stunning results. Patterns such as Whig's Defeat, formerly only made by expert quilters because of the multitude of tiny pieces needed to execute the patterns, are now within your reach. Seminole bands curve and bend to mimic what previously took hours to stitch.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Seminole With A Twist 2 Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

Go even further with this technique invented by Linda.... Seminole banding combines with curved piecing, this time using 60 degree cuts, creating mosaic banding of pyramids to confound the viewer.

Proficiency: Intermediate

Class Handout Fee

Stacked Bricks Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

How would you answer these questions:
New to strip piecing?
Want to know the right way to use your rotary cutting tools?
Need a quick quilt that has style?
Need a great pattern for a group project?
Want to use your scraps without it looking like leftovers?
If you said yes to any of these questions, this class is perfect for you. Stacked Bricks was such a popular class that it led to the publication of my first Scrap Bonanza book, appearing on the cover. While the book is now out of print, the class is back by popular demand, complete with the bonus quilt made from the leftover pieces of the first quilt. This is a pattern you will make over and over again.

Proficiency: All levels

Class Handout Fee

Waste Not, Want Not: Scrap Bonanza 2 Full Day 5½ - 6 hours

In concepts made popular in Linda's book Scrap Bonanza, students play with speed piecing methods to create wonderful scrap quilts PLUS a second totally different quilt out of the leftovers. Working out of Linda's newest book, Scrap Bonanza 2, students will get hands-on experience with fabric selection for scrap quilts as they make quilts in the captivating 2-for-1 concept. Choose which main quilt you would like to make, and pair it up with any one of seven possible bonus quilts made out of the cutaways resulting from the construction techniques used.

Proficiency: All levels

Required book: Scrap Bonanza 2 Book contains 13 patterns, each with calculations for wallhanging through queen size