Dee Christopher's Saturday Sampler Classroom
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Star Bright
Join expert quilter Dee Christopher for a free Facebook/ YouTube Live class where you'll learn to create this stunning Lone Star quilt designed by Jackie Robinson of Animas Quilts!
Dee will guide you through the steps to cut and construct the central star, piece together the beautiful smaller star flowers, and then assemble the entire quilt top. Plus, you'll get her expert tips on finishing your quilt to perfection.
Click here for Star Bright products.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Dee Christopher's Quilting Basics
For Beginners and Intermediate quilters alike, this class offers quilting basics from Dee Christopher who has taught quilting for over 20 years and has heard the questions students most want answered.
The Spread Joy quilt has been moved to its own classroom.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Autumn Acres Halloween Quilt
Join Dee Christopher in this FREE class where she will walk you through stitching and assembling this sweet but sophisticated Halloween sampler quilt.
Finished quilt size: 62 1/2" x 64 1/2"
The printed pattern is available for purchase (8.5 x 11 inches, 13 pages). Click here.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Color My Quilt - Color Theory for Quilters
Explore color theory for quilters and become confident in your fabric choices!
Learn how to select fabric for quilts and other projects using color theory in a real world project where you put concept into action and see the immediate results.
In this free Facebook/ YouTube Live class with Dee Christopher, students will construct quilt blocks that were carefully selected to create choices in value, texture and color. You will see how changes to these elements affect your project, making your blocks stand out or recede, become exciting or subdued, and how colors can communicate your style so each project is a personal masterpiece.
When you finish, you will be able to assemble your blocks together into a finished quilt top.
Kits are now available, click here.
Dee is LIVE on Saturdays @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
These are recordings of those sessions.
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Dee Christopher's Easy Improv Class
Are you intimidated by the idea of Improv Quilting? Join Dee for a relaxed multi-week Improv Quilting class, where we'll unleash creativity and craft improv quilts together!
In this free Facebook/ YouTube Live class, students will learn about Improv Quilting--what it is, the ideas behind it, and how to do it in an easy, low pressure way. Each week Dee will tackle different styles of improv blocks using lines, curves, and free form cutting. When the class is finished, you can assemble your blocks into a beautiful quilt that will be unique to you!
Dee's Easy Improv Class takes place Live on our Facebook Page and YouTube Channel Saturdays at 1 PM EST/ 10:00 AM PST for 8 - 10 weeks starting March 23, 2024.
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Dee's Favorite Holiday Quilt Blocks
Join Dee Christopher in this FREE class where she demonstrates how to make some of her favorite holiday quilt blocks and offers creative suggestions for their versatile applications, both in quilts and as thoughtful gift ideas.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Desert Windmills
Make a Desert Windmills quilt with the expert guidance of instructor Dee Christopher in this class. Watch Dee demonstrate each step of making the quilt, answer questions, share ideas, and learn from other participants.
What will you learn while you make Desert Windmills?
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specialized techniques for stitching flying geese and half-square triangles
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how color value can affect your quilt, and
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how minor adjustments to a pattern can tailor it to your style of working
When the class is complete, you will have a quilt top ready for finishing!
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Global Quilting Techniques
Join Dee Christopher to explore 3 different Global Quilting Techniques in this FREE class.
- First, Dee will teach about Mola, a reverse applique technique from Panama and Colombia where multiple, contrasting fabrics are layered together and then cut to reveal a design.
- Next, Dee will teach about Hawaiian Quilting, which uses large radially symmetric applique patterns that are often botanical, and are made from a single cut on folded fabric.
- Finally, Dee will teach about Tivaevae, an applique style from the Cook Islands that is typically made from brightly coloured fabrics and includes geometric shapes, flower and animal designs.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Japanese "Komebukuro" Rice Bag
Join Dee Christopher in her FREE two-session Facebook & YouTube LIVE class to make a Japanese "Komebukuro" Rice Bag! This easy project is ripe for personalization through piecing, embellishment and embroidery, and everyone's bag will be wonderfully different.
In this free Facebook/ YouTube Live class, Dee will demonstrate how to cut and sew the bag (no pattern needed!) and how to embellish it with fabric scraps and surface stitching.
A fabric pack for the project will be available in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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My Flower Garden
Join Dee in making this innovative quilt designed by Mendy Sloane. It features a stairway of traditional patchwork blocks on a bold red background, complimented by appliquéd pots of flowers in vibrant batiks.
(Pdf download of pattern only)
Finished quilt measures approximately 50" x 60".
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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Sing Like There's No One Listening
Dee Christopher walks you through the creation of Sing Like There No One Listening designed by Fiona Schiffle. Learn an easy and unique way to make a stained glass quilt as you construct a beautiful 24" x 27.5" Rooster Wall Hanging.
Dee is LIVE on Saturdays @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
A kit is available for this class. Click here.
These are recordings of those sessions.
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Spread Joy
Spread Joy this Holiday Season with the warmth and beauty of a quilt. Dee loves this quilt, and the quilt blocks are right up her alley. This class will be short so this quilt is done for the holidays.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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The Handmade Quilt
Join Dee Christopher in her FREE Facebook & YouTube LIVE class The Handmade Quilt where she will walk you through constructing this beautiful skill-building sampler block by block. This wonderful quilt design by Carolyn Forster features 21 different blocks with skill-levels of easy to challenging so you can grow your skills as you go.
Additional items for this project are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store, click here.
Participants will have the option to stitch your quilt blocks by hand or machine- both methods will be covered.
This class was originally created during multiple Facebook LIVE sessions. These are recordings of those sessions.
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