Stash Busters 2025--NEW!
Alice's Wonderland Sampler Quilt is our book for 2025. Available at Quilting Mayhem.
Join us for 2025's NEW and IMPROVED Stash Busters!
Learn the techniques you've always wanted to master OR polish your current skills.
Our book this year encourages--but not requires!--us to try new methods and learn techniques that'll guide us to success. Lori and several guest instructors will cover a new technique each month.
Join our inclusive, social, creative community. We are -- and we welcome -- all skill levels.
So go ahead -- Bust your Stash with us in 2025!
So go ahead -- Bust your Stash with us in 2025!
More about Stash Busters 2025:
Stash Busters 2025 is part skill-building, part exploring color/value, and part sharing tips and ideas.
Stash Busters 2025 is part skill-building, part exploring color/value, and part sharing tips and ideas.
Work at your own pace or follow the class outline (see below).
Come get out of your comfort zone . . . but only in ways you want to. No stress allowed!
If you want input on your project, we'll help you make it in your own style and color scheme. Give it the vibe you're looking for!
If you want input on your project, we'll help you make it in your own style and color scheme. Give it the vibe you're looking for!
Some Stash Busters attendees bring their machine and supplies to sew after the technique discussion and (optional) Show and Tell. Other members bring just their fabric and cutting tools -- along with ziploc bags -- to plan, cut, and organize their fabric to sew later at home. You do you!
Class Outline
Tips, ideas, various methods, discovering what works for you:
January 11:
Fabric discussion: prints, solids, reads-as-solids, color and value
Getting to know the book and what it offers
Perfecting your scant 1/4" seam (when needed)
Standard Piecing; Strip Piecing
February 8:
Half-Square Triangles (HSTs): Finetune your technique
March 8:
Quarter-Square Triangles (QSTs): Going beyond HSTs
Split Quarter-Square Triangles (Split QSTs): Discovering how fun these are
April 12:
Diamond in a Square: Mastering perfect points
May 10:
Flying Geese: Alternate ways you might not have tried yet
June 14:
Piecing with Templates: Straight lines
July 12:
Piecing with Templates: Gentle curves
August 9:
English Paper Piecing (EPP): Discover how fun this can be!
September 13:
English Paper Piecing with a Hand Running Stitching: Easier than it might look
October 11:
Raw Edge Applique (by machine and/or by hand)
Alternate methods of Applique by machine
November 8:
Setting, Sashing, Borders: Let's discuss the huge variety of options
December 13:
Various binding methods
Finishing your masterpiece!
Feel free to join any time during the year. Lori and other Stash Busters will bring you up to speed on topics you might have missed and want to learn.
CLICK HERE to see what you'll need. All supplies available at Quilting Mayhem. Be sure to get your 15% class discount!
Our class book offers patterns for 100 blocks using a variety of techniques, along with excellent tips and illustrations. The author chose a more vintage vibe for her sampler quilt. What will you choose?
Pictured below are Alice's Wonderland blocks made from various fabric collections at Quilting Mayhem. These are examples. You do you!
"Grand Haven" by Minick & Simpson for Moda Fabrics:
"Laguna Sunrise" by Sherri & Chelsi:
"A Walk on the Prairie" by Melissa Gilbert for Modern Prairie:
What's in YOUR fabric stash?
What are you itching to work with?
Will you use a tried-and-true colorway?
Something that matches your home decor?
Challenge yourself to try a new color combination?
Maybe it will evolve as you make your blocks. This happens more often than you think!
We can't wait to see what you'll create!
Email Lori@QuiltingMayhem.com if you have questions. Remember, you can join any time during the year.
| Materials Included: | Tips, fun, learning, socializing -- and a sense of accomplishment! |
| Requirements: | All levels of sewists are welcome and regularly attend. If you're on the beginner side of quilting, please make sure you're comfortable with rotary cutting tools. If you're more of an expert, you'll still find challenges here! |
| Instructor: | Lori Stevens |
| Instructor Bio: | While she was quite pregnant with her first, and living in a shed while building her dream home, Lori took up quilting. A nesting instinct, perhaps?! Thirty years later, she's still quilting, sewing, and machine embroidering with friends and students across the continent. Join her at Quilting Mayhem the second Saturday of the month for Stash Busters. |
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15% off class supplies when purchased in the store. Come for just the lecture or stay to sew with us. Join any time during the year.
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This class cannot be purchased online. Please contact the store for more information.