Quilters Question Time Classes

#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.

#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.

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.

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