Dates: Thursdays 19 September, 10 October, 31 October, 21 November and 19 December 2024

Time: 9.30am to 2.30pm each day

Location: Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

Take your quilting skills to the next level with Cowden Quilt School.

This guided quilt-a-long will build colour confidence, hone your patchwork piecing skills and provide an opportunity for creative play and exploration with quilting techniques. Plus you’ll create another beautiful patchwork quilt in time for Christmas!

You’ll make your own unique quilt using my ‘Sweet Shop’ pattern which recently featured on the cover of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine. You’ll learn how to make two classic and versatile patchwork blocks: a ‘churn dash’ and a ‘nine-patch’.

You’ll make a generous throw-size quilt with your personal choice of fabrics, wadding and preferred basting tools.

This course also includes a free, bonus online session on colour and fabric choices to help you prepare.

We’ll get together for five classes, at key points in the making process, so we can learn and sew together. There will be piecing and quilting work to do from home in between classes. I will support you throughout with guidance, notes, resources and encouragement.

This course takes place in Leicester City Centre in a large ground-floor room with on-site private parking and good, accessible access. Sewing machines and cutting tools are provided in class. You will need your own equipment to work on your quilt between classes at home.

Together, we’ll make modern family heirlooms to be treasured.

*This course is ideal for anyone who has learnt to quilt on one of my beginners courses (or an equivalent) and, ideally, has gone on to make another one or two quilts. If you’re not sure whether this is the right course for you, please contact me first so that we can think it through together.