Quilters Question Time Classes
The Transformation Series
Philippa Naylor has created a series of 24 monthly classes with the aim of transforming your quilting skills. The classes are available as a monthly subscription, as a season of 12 classes - or as individual classes.
Detailed video lessons
Classes typically include around 3 hours of online video lessons - divided up into shorter 5 or 10 minute videos. Classes do not expire - once you have purchased a class you can watch it again and again.
Further stand-alone classes
In addition Philippa has created several additional classes including a beginner quilters class covering everything a newbie quilter will need to know in order to make their first quilt.
Season 1: Classes 1 - 12
#1 Piping and Binding
The best possible piping with Philippa's own techniques for corners, edges, and double rows. Then finish off with perfect binding.
#2 Precision Piecing
Choosing fabrics, accurate rotary cutting, the best half square triangle and flying geese units, how to avoid chopped off points, successful pressing and more.
#3 Turned Edge Appliqué
Convex and concave curves, hearts, perfect points, embellishing appliqué with rick rack, and the smoothest turned edge circles you have seen!
#4 Free Motion Machine Quilting
Foundational techniques for free motion quilting. Threads, needles, sliders and grippers. echniques including squares, spirals, flowers, scallops, bricks, butterflies, stippling, vermicelli, and the coffee bean.
#5 Borders and Facings
Straight cut borders, multiple borders, managing patterns in borders. Facings using strips, perfect turned through corners, collars and cuff techniques.
#6 Happy Hearts Curved Piecing
The easiest curved piecing - trimmed to size so everyone can achieve great results! Practice on Philippa's central heart motif surrounded by two borders.
#7 Raw Edge Appliqué
A deep dive into satin stitch including circles, corners and points. Blanket stitch circles, smooth curves and sharp points. Free motion for raw edge appliqué.
#8 Trapunto
Everything you need to know about Trapunto inc. materials, wadding/batting, water soluble thread, machine settings, sewing machine feet. Corded Trapunto (or Yarn Trapunto) channels, curves, corners.
#9 Prairie points and Rouleau loops
Four different Prairie Point styles, and two methods of stitching-in. Making Rouleau loops, adding fullness using acrylic yarns, using Rouleaus to make medallions.
#10 Paper Piecing
English paper piecing including hand sewn and machine sewn hexagons, apple cores and clams. Foundation piecing including the pineapple block and a simple tree design with design variations
#11 Stems and Bias Strips
Skinny strips to use as stems, adding embellishments, and turning corners with a mitre. Wavy/curved bias strips using stitched and pressed methods. Yarn fillings to provide padding. Twisted strips.
#12 Free Motion Feathers
Straight feathers, curved feathers, circular wreath of feathers. Working out from the middle. Leaf and flower motif. Drafting designs. The all-over feather large, small and miniature.
Season 1 Purchase Options
Option #1: Monthly Subscription
Get monthly classes for just £12 / $15 per month.
Option #2: One annual payment
Get twelve classes for one payment of £120 / $150
Season 2: Classes 13 - 24
#13 Creative Curved Piecing
Converting a straight line design into a creative curved design. Freezer paper templates. Cutting out and joining the pieces to make the block.
#14 Further Fabulous Finishes
Hanging sleeves for quilts. Using boning to support curved edging for hanging. Binding hexagons and scalloped edges. Wavy edging. Quilt labels
#15 Whole-cloth Quilts & Embellished Trapunto
Design, composition, drawing templates. Creating a Yorkshire Rose pattern. Embellishing trapunto, trapunto on miniature quilts. Hand embroidery.
#16 Reverse Appliqué
Turned edge reverse appliqué, circles, corners and points. Raw edge reverse appliqué. Mola with Philippa's 'Colourful Cockerel' project. Creating frames using Reverse Appliqué.
#17 The Jack's Chain block and quilt
A popular block with challenging elements. Freezer paper templates, creating nine-patches from strips, sewing 'Y' seams, pressing, assembling, drafting the final edge pieces.
#18 Quilt as desired
How to approach the quilt pattern design process. Techniques including stitch-in-the-ditch, drafted straight and curved lines, free motion lines, couching of decorative threads, machine embroidery stitches.
#19 Patchwork Cushions
How to turn your beautiful blocks into perfectly executed cushions. Single sided, double sided, flanged and piped. Hidden zips and embellished with buttons. Lots of options demonstrated in detail.
#20 Miniature Quilts
Fabric, threads, needles, very accurate measuring and cutting. Miniature log cabin, half square triangles and flying geese units. Curved line and free motion quilting, machine appliqué hearts and circles. Squaring up and binding .
#21 Bargello
A project based review of the Bargello technique. Composition, fabric choices, techniques for assembly of rows, and pressing. Bargello bag project including all required techniques.
#22 Double Wedding Ring and Pickle Dish Quilts
Paper piecing techniques to create the Double Wedding Ring and Pickle Dish blocks. Drafting the pattern, cutting, sewing and assembling the melons, pressing seams, and design considerations.
#23 Dimensional Appliqué
Create a three dimensional flower basket block using various techniques to create a range of flowers and leaves. Finish with a bagged out basket using Rouleau strips to create interest.
#24 Feathered Star quilt with Le Moyne Star centre
Drafting, creating templates, cutting, assembling, pressing, all with perfect points. Finally the border is added and further options for finishing are discussed.
Season 2 Purchase Options
Option #1: Monthly Subscription
Get monthly classes for just £12 / $15 per month.
Option #2: One annual payment
Get twelve classes for one payment of £120 / $150
Beginner Quilter
Beginner Quilter Class
Everything you need to know to make your first quilt:
Equipment and materials, cutting techniques , machine settings, threads and machine needles, pressing, 'layering up', battings/waddings, quilting designs with sewing demonstrations, squaring up, binding. Over 4.5 hours of video teaching.
Other Classes
Sashing, attic windows and pieced borders
The Sashing, attic windows and pieced borders class contains over 4 hours of design ideas, techniques and inspiration to enable you to create striking and original designs for your quilts.
Price: £30 / $40
The Curtain Class
In nearly 4 hours of teaching, Philippa teaches detailed construction techniques for a standard lined curtain, pinch pleat or goblet pleat style curtain, and an interlined curtain.
Price: £30 / $40
Cathedral Windows Pincushion
Learn to make this fun and stylish pincushion with Philippa. Use up fabric from your stash. Make one for yourself, and a couple more to give to your sewing friends.
Price: £20 / $25
Sewing Machine Savvy Workshop
This is the recording of a live workshop that was held on Wed 7th February 2024. It contains nearly 2 hours of information on how to get the best from your sewing machine.
Price: £10 / $12