Your Custom Text Here
I’ll be showing and selling my artwork and quilts at this year’s A Fair In The Park event! Always a gentle, delightful afternoon, A Fair In The Park showcases regional and national artists in a lush, green, peaceful setting right in the middle of the city! Read more here, and hope to see you then!
In this three-part class, we will make a Lone Star quilt block, one of the most admired traditional designs in quilting! This block features many advanced patchwork techniques, including strip piecing, angled cutting and piecing, and sewing y-seams. It is also a wonderful exercise for playing with fabric and color palettes and experimenting with color layout.
Our block will finish at 30”, which you can repeat on your own to make a larger quilt, or you can add an optional border to a single block to create a 40” baby or wall hanging quilt. These options are noted in the fabric requirements. This is an advanced technique NOT suitable for beginners.
Visit Cut & Sew Studio for booking and info!
Who even has space in their house to baste a whole quilt?! And isn’t it just the worst task? Come bring your quilts to baste on the big tables at the studio, save your back and knees, and have company while you get it done! Let’s baste together!
If you would like to bring a quilt to work on, the group will help get it done! BUT! The deal is that you must also commit to helping the others as well. Everyone will lend a hand and get those pins in place, and we’ll get all the quilts done in one day – together!
This is a trial run to see how this idea works, so the goal will be to baste 8 quilts. Closer to the date, Julie will get in touch to check the size of the quilts you want to work on and will make a plan to make best use of table space.
Please make sure that your quilt top is fully complete, your back is assembled, your batting is prepped, and that you have enough pins to complete your project!
*This event is free but has a suggested donation of $20 which will be donated to the Women’s Shelter of Pittsburgh. Any donation is accepted, and all money will go to the shelter :) Please bring cash the day of the event.
Register a quilt to baste here!
For students who are familiar with at least the basics of quilting, embroidery, hand-piecing, or English Paper Piecing, but have a project they need a little guidance on. Perhaps you need a reminder on how to sew binding to a quilt, need help getting the perfect French Knot, want to achieve better points on your quilt blocks or need help understanding a quilt pattern – or just want to work on your quilt / needlework project with a teacher on hand!
(Beginners to these crafts should wait for the related full courses to learn the basics, this class is for guidance on existing projects / skills.)
Please visit https://cutandsewstudio.com for more info and booking!
Join me in my signature class, The Basic Quilt. Learn all the steps to make a lap quilt from start to finish in this series – from cutting, to piecing, to quilting and binding. This is a great introductory quilting class and perfect for anyone comfortable on a sewing machine who wants to learn how to quilt and learn the fundamentals of patchwork design and piecing. (Some homework may be necessary between sessions!)
This class is six sessions, 2.5 hours each, in person at Cut & Sew Studio.
Please visit Cut & Sew Studio for more information, supplies lists, and booking!
In this second Quilt Skill Builder Series, we’ll continue fine-tuning the skills we learned in The Basic Quilt and the previous skill builder series, and focus on blocks that offer endless variation. In each lesson, we will make one version of a block, and discuss the options it offers. (This class will produce four quilt blocks to use as you see fit, but not a finished project.)
Please note that you do not have to take Series I of this class prior to taking Series II, but you should be familiar with beginner patchwork terms and skills. Ask if you’re not sure!
Please visit https://cutandsewstudio.com for more info and booking!
For students who are familiar with at least the basics of quilting, but have a project they need a little guidance on. Perhaps you need a reminder on how to sew binding to a quilt, want to achieve better points on your quilt blocks or need help understanding a quilt pattern – or just want to work on your quilt with a teacher on hand!
(Beginners to these crafts should wait for the related full courses to learn the basics, this class is for guidance on existing projects / skills.)
Please visit https://cutandsewstudio.com for more info and booking!
In this first Quilt Skill Builder Series, we’ll begin fine-tuning the skills we learned in The Basic Quilt and learn new piecing techniques each week. In each lesson, we will make one block and focus on one technique. (This class will produce four quilt blocks to use as you see fit, but not a finished project.)
Please note that you do not have to taken The Basic Quilt prior to taking the Skill Builder series, but you should at least equivalent beginner patchwork skills. Ask if you’re not sure!
(Note: no class on Nov 14)
Please visit https://cutandsewstudio.com for more info and booking!
Looking for something social to do this summer – a grown-up summer camp, if you will? Join Julie for a summer quilt-along – equal parts social sewing circle and guided class time! Sew at your own pace with friends, or use this project and instruction to fine-tune your piecing skills … or both!
Week-by-week, we’ll sew this quilt top together, and use the opportunity to learn about accurately piecing and designing medallion quilts (a quilt created in rounds, with a central motif) and Julie will be on hand to help you take the framework of this design and make it your own! Replace elements, change layout, experiment with color placement, or simply sew the pattern as is – use this quilt-along in whatever way you want!
This class is currently full - please visit https://cutandsewstudio.com to find out more or email the studio to be added to a wait list!
Join in a discussion of quilts and quilting, protest quilts, and the role of this artform in various aspects of women's history. Julie will discuss how quilters and needleworkers have long used their work to protest social issues, including the AIDS quilt, Suffragette banners, and projects documenting gun violence today.
Book a spot online at the Mt. Lebanon Library website.
Learn the fundamentals of EPP, a relaxing and fun hand sewn form of quilting that allows you to piece together unusual shapes and get perfect results. In the 2nd class we will turn your beautiful artwork into a pillow you can proudly display!
Find out more and book your seat at cutandsewstudio.com !
