Our Use It Up! Classes are listed here with our Electric Needle (Machine Sewing) classes. Find a project or two that will
help you use up your stash!

Use It Up! Classes are only $10, or FREE
with a Use It Up! pass. Earn a Use It Up! pass for
every $20 fabric purchase.

January Classes

February Classes

March Classes

April Classes

 

Use It Up! Double Wedding Ring and Variations Level 3, Sandy Let Sandy show you how to make this challenging classic very manageable. If you’ve been wondering what to give for a son or daughter’s wedding gift, or a great anniversary project, this one steals the show. Yes, it takes a little time, but it’s still all production line sewing. You can even see how to cut your work down to about 25% of the old fashioned, traditional DWR. $Free with purchase of our DWR templates.    • Mondays, 10 AM-12 Noon: Jan 4, 18, then we will switch to the second and fourth Mondays for the rest of the year: Feb 8, 22, Mar 8, 22, Apr 12, 26 etc.

T-Shirt Quilt Level 2, Wendy Clean out the closet! Get those t-shirts made into the quilt you’ve been saving them for. We design the pattern for the t-shirts you have. Be gone sports t-shirts. Be gone work t-shirts. Now put all those collected to good use. $25    • Monday, 6-9 PM: January 11    • Monday, 6-9 PM: February 8

Use It Up! Double 4-Patch Clusters and Variations Level 2, Sandy This simple process produces many different ways to put your blocks together. It’s a “brain-dead” sewing process because it is so repetitive and simple. Mary Ellen calls this Kindergarten work. But the results are clearly the Art School Graduate look. $10 or FREE with a “UIU!” Pass    • Wednesday, 1-4 PM: January 13    • Thursday, 10 AM-1 PM: March 25

 

Use It Up! Fields and Furrows Level 2, Sandy This is a slightly controlled scrap quilt and it’s much easier than it looks. Collect your favorite blended lights (ours are almost white) and your favorite mediums (our are various teals) and put in an “odd man out” and some black to turn up the heat a bit. It’s fast and beautiful! $10 or FREE with a “UIU!” Pass    • Thursday, 1-4 PM: January 14    • Thursday, 6-9 PM: March 25

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Level 2, Eunice Do you have a few Shamrock fabrics? If not, bright greens will work just fine. It’s fast with Connector corners nibbling the squares into leaflets. It’s a wonderful gift or celebrate the holiday under this quilt watching tv with a green drink at your side. $25    • Saturday, 1-4 PM: Jan 16    • Sunday, 1-4 PM: Feb 14

 

 

One Block Wonder Level 3, Wendy This exciting quilt consists of basic hexagonal kaleidoscope blocks made from a single large print fabric. It is easy to cut and assemble. The creative part is designing the kaleidoscopes in striking arrangements. Join us to learn the short cuts and tricks, then make bunches on your own. $45    • Mondays, 6-9 PM: January 18 and 25    • Mondays, 6-9 PM: March 22 and 29

 

My First Quilt Level 2, Eunice This is such a simple quilt that it will be successful no matter what fabric collections you choose. One of our samples is a collection of Australian Aborigine fabrics. The other is bright with circus fabrics for a youngster. Try your hand at this very first quilt. $25    • Wednesday, 10 AM-1 PM: January 20    • Tuesday, 6-9 PM: April 6

 

Nine-Patch Extravaganza Day Level 2, Eunice What a great way to get together to use up your left over 9-patch blocks. Don’t have any left overs? Well no worries. Just come to class and Eunice will show you how to get started on a great 9-patch idea. $25    • Thursday, 10 AM-??: January 21

 

Marti Michell Template Day Level 2, Eunice Join Eunice for a casual stitch-in (bring a brown bag or try Subway a bit down the sidewalk). Bring in your MM template sets A, B, C and D and she’ll inspire you with ideas of what you can do with them. $25    • Friday, 10 AM-??: January 22

 

More 25-Patch Fun Level 2, Eunice While we’ve made 25 patch quilts before, this time we are putting the patches on point for a totally different look. Eunice made two – one using 1- ½” squares and the other using 2” squares. Make your blocks before coming to class or wait for class and learn about the setting. This is a great way to use up scraps that you just can’t throw away. $25    • Sunday, 1-4 PM: January 24

 

Attic Windows Level 2, Eunice Do you have a fabric that would look great framed in an Attic Window setting? We cut up little elephants for a toddler’s quilt. Even without a special window fabric, you can come learn to make the mitered corner where the window frames meet. It’s not as hard as it looks. $25    • Monday, 10 AM-1 PM: January 25

 

Marti Michell Template Day Level 2, Eunice Here is another chance to lunch with Eunice. You’ll be working with Set G, creating your own special quilt in between snacking and story telling. $25    • Friday, 10 AM-??: January 29

 

Open Sewing with Eunice Level 2, Eunice Come in and work on any project you have in process and Eunice will help you with it, if required. If you have no issues, then come in for a morning of fun sewing. Bring lunch or a snack. $5    • Monday, 10 AM-??: February 1

 

 

Open Sewing with Eunice Level 2, Eunice For the evening crowd, here is you chance to spend more time with Eunice. Bring something to work on and share stories about what’s going on. Stay only as long as you wish -- up to 9 PM. $5    • Tuesday, 6-9 PM: February 2

 

TB–Tulip Patch Level 2, Charlotte This is a fun spring quilt with bold, fast-pieced tulips. From the book Quilting a Patchwork Garden. $25    • Wed, 10 AM-1 PM -OR- 6-9 PM: February 3

 

Buzz Saw Level 2, Eunice This has been a popular block since before the Civil War. We have two samples -- positive/negative of sorts. So you can see them both and make the one you like best. $25    • Thursday, 10 AM-1 PM: Feb 4

 

 

 

Pineapple Quilt Level 2, Eunice We’ll be using foundations, but not in the sense of Foundation Paper Piecing. These foundations will keep your project going straight without stretching out of “square.” It’s a truly beautiful quilt which you can do with planned fabrics or with scraps (according to value). $25    • Tuesday, 1-4 PM: February 9

 

 

Use It Up! Lecture I--The Method Now’s the time to experience Sandy’s lecture on Scrap Control! We don’t just cut squares and put them aside, only to find that we have cut the wrong size or have to recut them again. “The Method” covers all the scrap issues a quiltmaker faces and offers solutions to organizing your stash, your sewing room and your quilt making plans. It’s a MUST for all of you who are paralyzed into inactivity when it comes to making scrap quilts or want quilts that are more than just squares. This class will get you in motion again. It’s the perfect kick-off to begin the Use It Up! classes. $ FREE    • Thursday, 2-4 PM: February 11    • Saturday, 1-3 PM: February 13    • Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 PM: March 23

 

Stained Glass 9-Patch Level 2, Eunice This quilt is so easy and so much fun. Bring nine colorful fat quarters with bright, colorful patterns. A few simple instructions and this piecing program becomes automatic. $25    • Wednesday, 1-4 PM: February 10

 

 

Use It Up! Lecture II--The Execution Once you’ve heard all about The Method, learn how to make the program work for you. Between The Method and The Execution, you will have homework to do. Return with your homework assignment completed and we will begin working out the steps of the ongoing program so that you can stay a step ahead of the scraps! $FREE    • Thursday, 2-4 PM: February 18    • Saturday, 1-3 PM: February 20    • Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 PM: March 30

 

 

Design as You Sew: Scrap Quilts Level 2, Eunice Sometimes when you finish a quilt top there are some nice pieces left. It’s a shame to just let them pile up. One of Eunice’s favorite things to do is cut them into usable squares and store them until she has a nice stack of one or two colors all the same size. Or you can use Charm Packets if you’d rather. Bring those squares or just some scraps that have a common theme to them and some coordinating fabrics from your stash and we can build a quilt from them. $25    • Friday, 1-4 PM: February 19

 

 

Twosie-Foursie Level 2, Sandy This technique is so exciting that you’ll want to use it for all your quilts. Did you ever try to sew rows of blocks together only to find that the intersections suddenly stop matching? It’s probably because all your blocks aren’t perfectly cut or your seams aren’t perfectly placed, but you do have perfectly lovely seam allowances. Well, sweetheart, there are no seam allowance police, just nitpickers who notice that your intersections don’t match. This all goes away with Twosie-Foursie. It will change the way you look at construction! $25    • Monday, 6-9 PM: Feb 22    • Tuesday, 10 AM-1 PM: Mar 23    • Thursday, 6-9 PM: April 1

 

 

Jane’s Baskets Level 2, Eunice Jane, who retired a couple of years ago from our shop, gave Eunice a stack of scraps from a project she had just finished and they seemed to want to be made into little basket blocks. Eunice says she got a little carried away and ended up with 100 of them. This quilt is the result. Bring your stack of small fabric pieces and join the fun. $25    • Wednesday, 1-4 PM: February 24

 

Use It Up! Rag Balls Quilt Level 2, Sandy Learn how to use up all those wonky shaped strips and strings left over from straightening up an edge. Sometimes, we’ll cut them even wonkier, just to have an even curvier edge. Pick a nice background and learn to do the buttonhole appliqué stitch on your machine as we stitch the edges down. $10 or Free with a Use It Up! Pass.    • Thursday, 1-4 PM: Feb 25

 

Use It Up! Solera Bow Ties Level 2, Sandy Making these sweet little shapes is a lot of fun. You can make big ones and mix them in with little ones, once you know the math. Sandy keeps a box of these going all the time so there are always ways to use up even the tiniest of fabric scraps. Like Solera wine, her bow tie quilts each use a little bit of the very first “batch” she made years ago. As a bonus, we’ll even throw in the dimensional Bow Tie for those of you who have forgotten how simple it is. $10 or FREE with Use It Up! Pass    • Friday, 1-4 PM: February 26

 

Flip Flop Quilt Level 2, Eunice This block is made using a cool new template. It is curved piecing but it’s not a sharp curve so it’s a good way to learn to piece curves. Eunice’s version has appliqué on it but the template designer makes other versions without appliqué and you are welcome to do those in the class if you prefer. But to copy Eunice’s design exactly, you need to be able to hand appliqué . It looks great in pretty batiks. $25    • Saturday, 1-4 PM: February 27

 

Double Aster Level 3, Eunice This is a beautiful Marti Michell template set quilt. Eunice made this a few years ago and it’s still stunning in Blues and Yellows. Come see how to assemble the block and then how to put the quilt together. $45    • Sundays, 1-4 PM: Feb 28 and Mar 7

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Use It Up! Intro to Easy Angle: Friendship Star Level 2, Sandy This is a great way to learn to use the Easy Angle tool. With the Easy Angle, you will produce half square triangles without fussing over 7/8” half square triangle math. Learn to use this amazing tool and take home a Friendship Star quilt top. Bring a lunch or try out Subway down the mall. $20 or 2 Use It Up! passes for a full day of fun.    • Monday, 10 AM-3 PM: March 1    • Friday, 10 AM-3 PM: March 26

 

 

Almost No Intersections Level 2, Sandy Cutting fat quarters into strips is your homework. Then you’ll sew some of these strips together, cut again and we’ll have fun making blocks that have no intersections to match. It’s fast, fun and beautiful, and it’s strip piecing! $25    • Monday, 6-9 PM: Mar 1    • Tuesday, 10 AM-1 PM: Mar 30    • Thursday, 6-9 PM: April 8

 

 

Landscapes Level 2, Wendy Moving into art quilting allows you freedom of subject matter and appliqué methods. This class will concentrate on different raw edge appliqué techniques and basic art concepts - like variety of value, color, and shapes. We will create a landscape from your photo or calendar picture using cottons and/or specialty fabrics. Sign up early so you have plenty of time to collect the supplies. $45    • Mondays, 6-9 PM: March 1 and 8

 

 

Use It Up! Pinwheel Garden Level 2, Sandy Pinwheel Garden is a beautiful way to use up 7-1/2” squares. Each pinwheel is a different fabric. It’s sort of a “charm” pinwheel quilt. The cutting and sewing is an “ah-ha” moment for almost everyone. It has unique cutting and sewing techniques. It will surely become one of your favorites. Spend two days in class to get it all sewn up for just $20 or FREE with two Use It Up! Passes    • Tuesdays, 1-4 PM: March 2 and 9

 

 

TB–Melon Patch Placemats Level 2, Charlotte Start now and get these watermelon placemats done in time for your summer picnic table. Join TB club and save 20% on nearly all your purchases! From the book Quilting a Patchwork Garden. $25    • Wed, 10 AM-1 PM -OR- 6-9 PM: March 3

 

 

A Strippy Illusion Level 2, Sandy This is a simple project where you get to use one or even two “focus fabrics.” These theme fabrics set the flavor for the rest of the quilt. You create stripsets to provide illusional “frames” for the focus fabric squares. Choose a sports theme for the boys and a colorful “little girl” theme for the sweet little princesses in your life. $25    • Monday, 6-9 PM: Mar 8    • Tuesday, 10 AM-1 PM: Apr 6    • Thursday, 6-9 PM: April 15

 

9-Patch Shaded Mountains Level 2, Eunice This is right out of Mary Ellen Hopkins’ patterns. Because the design is graphic, it makes quite a nice “guy quilt.” Put flowers on the mountains for the girls. You’ll love this simple diagonal set quilt. It has a real “ah ha!” moment in the construction. $25    • Wednesday, 1-4 PM: March 10

 

 

McGregor Stars Level 2, Eunice This is a great little quilt that is composed of delightful 6" LeMoyne stars with an Irish chain running through it. We will be using Marti Michell’s E template set for the stars. Her nibbled corners help as we use Y-seam construction to make them. If you have never done Y-seams or used Marti Michell’s templates this is a fun quilt to try them out. $25    • Friday, 1-4 PM: March 12

 

 

Kansas Troubles Level 2, Eunice The blocks in this quilt remind Eunice of a Bear’s Paw block but with a few more points. If you color this block right though, you get a fun pinwheel showing up as you put the blocks together. We are making a lot of half-square triangles in this quilt so we will be using triangle paper. If you don’t know about triangle paper, this is your chance to learn. $25    • Sunday, 1-4 PM: March 14

 

 

Easy Pieces Level 2, Sandy This is your chance to work on a diagonal set, if you have not done one. A diagonal set is where you stand your blocks on their points. That makes the seams go diagonally through the quilt. There are plenty of secrets to assure your success. We have several beautiful kits assembled for this project. $25    • Monday, 6-9 PM: Mar 15    • Tuesday, 10 AM-1 PM: Apr 13    • Thursday, 6-9 PM: April 22

 

 

Kitchen Windows Level 2, Eunice If you have a fabric with a theme on it -- like one you would see by looking out through a window or into a room, this design will lend itself to that fabric. Ours has a coffee theme, but just about anything would be great framed in this pattern. $25    • Wednesday, 10 AM-1 PM: March 17

 

 

Sunray Stars Level 2, Eunice This is a two-for-the-price-of-one class. We will be using Marti Michell’s D template set to make these long-legged stars. Once you can make those easily we will be doing some little paper pieced stars for the border. $25    • Friday, 1-4 PM: March 19

 

 

May Baskets Level 2, Eunice This beautiful quilt will be perfect for Spring and Summer. We used a happy yellow background with beautiful blue baskets. Because baskets look odd lying on their sides, we have put these blocks on point. So come learn the details of framing then sashing on-point blocks. Lots to learn in this class and you couldn’t have a better teacher! $25    • Tuesday, 6-9 PM: March 23

 

 

Use It Up! Bunkhouse Braid Level 2, Sandy This quilt is surprisingly simple to make if you follow Sandy’s tips for assembling the braids. Join us for some fast, fun sewing as you use up light and dark scraps. This class will also teach you how to put on a braided border on any quilt. $10 or FREE with a “Use It Up!” Pass    • Tuesday, 1-4: March 23

 

 

Use It Up! Scrappy 9-Patch Stars Level 2, Sandy Try your hand and these sweet stars with 9-Patch centers. Each star and center is made from just one fabric. A great way to put fun colors on a favorite background. $10 or FREE with a “Use It Up!” Pass    • Wednesday, 2-5 PM: March 24

 

Use It Up! Ohio Star Meets Courthouse Steps Level 2, Sandy This beautiful quilt is simply radiant. The light/dark contrast is marvelous. Join us to learn the techniques we used. When we made the sample we were taught more cumbersome techniques which have already been made even simpler. It’s worth the time. $10 or FREE with a “Use It Up!” Pass    • Wednesday, 10 AM-1 PM: March 24

 

 

Use It Up! Stars in the Mud Level 2, Sandy This is a wonderful place to put squares of similar dark value. That’s the mud. Then choose light yellow(s) or white(s) or tan(s) for the stars. If you already have a stash of 3-1/2” squares (or even 3” squares), you are almost there! $10 or FREE with “Use It Up!” Pass    • Thursday, 1-4 PM: March 25

 

 

Diamond Batik Level 3, Sandy This began as Jan’s Itch Camp project which means you saw it here first. Jan has published the pattern, so join us for this truly beautiful and award winning project. It takes careful sewing so your diamonds don’t stretch. $30    • Saturday, 1-5 PM: March 27

 

Radiant Lone Star Level 3, Sandy The Lone Star is such a lovely quilt, but it takes careful, exact sewing to make sure all 8 arms will fit together when the time comes. It’s easy to inherit one of these just partially made, and it’s usually inherited because it was so much work, then when it came time to turn the arms into a star, they wouldn’t fit together. The “radiant” part is a reflective ring just before you get to the “spokes” which causes the repeat of colors to be reversed. It’s a beauty and we’ll make a wallhanging out of ours. If you want a bed quilt, we’ll alter the yardage for you. Come in to pick out your fabrics while Sandy is here, so she can be sure you understand the look you are going after. $35    • Wednesdays, 6-9 PM: March 31 and April 28

 

Antique Triangles Level 2, Eunice This is a copy of an old quilt Eunice found in an old house. She loved it so she made one. The old one was full of holes and was used under the mattress on an old spring bed. It just seemed a shame to let the idea die with the quilt. It is a very comforting pattern. We will use triangle paper to speed things along. $25    • Tuesday, 10 AM-1 PM: April 6

 

Tb-My Favorite Things Level 2, Charlotte Christmas in April? If you are a quilter, it’s always time for Christmas! This cute project is pieced with appliqués all over it. From the book, At Home with Thimbleberries $25    • Wed, 10 AM-1 PM -OR- 6-9 PM: April 7

 

Southwest Carpenter Level 2, Eunice This quilt looks difficult, but it really is easy if you follow the directions Eunice wrote, step by step. She used Southwest colors, but you can choose your own color scheme. $25    • Sunday, 1-4 PM: April 11

 

Skill Levels – To ensure your success, classes have been identified as follows:

• Level 1  Has a sewing machine and knows how to operate it
  
• Level 2  Can quickly and accurately rotary cut without assistance. Maintains 1/4" seam allowance without help.
  
• Level 3  Knows most fast machine piecing techniques, strip piecing, etc.
  
• Level 4  Intermediate skills.

Use one of our Pfaff sewing machines for your class!

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