Fiber artist, certified quilt appraiser, quilt designer, fabric lover, fabric collector and lover of quilts. That’s really just a long way of saying that she is a quilter! Lynn is active in several guilds and quilt groups. She designs her own quilts and continues to quilt outside of the box, bringing in her natural curiosity about color and how it affects quilt designs.

She is blessed with a wonderful husband, two Saluki hounds children named Phoebe, and Phinneas and a longarm named Clementine.

 Class Description

This class will create a foundation crazy quilt block.

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Project

Crazy Modern is a fresh interpretation of the crazy quilts of the early 1900’s. Learn the basics of foundation piecing, use up your scraps, and expand your stitch repertoire with decorative stitches on your sewing machine.

Duration

Full day workshop

Skills covered in class

•Foundation piecing

•Working with color and strap fabrics

•Using a variety of stitches on sewing machine

•Exploring a variety of thread types and weights for stitches

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Materials:

•41 5” squares

•3½ yd muslin for foundation piecing.

•2 yd for borders

•4½ yd backing

•3 yd of a variety of scraps and strings that coordinate with 5” squares

•Variety of threads

•Crazy Modern Pattern

Stitch tip: Gather strips and scraps in colors that coordinate with the charm pack, but don't worry about matching exactly. You are creating a color controlled scrappy quilt!

Notions:

•Standard quilting and sewing notions

•Sewing machine with variety of stitches

•Pencil

•12½” ruler