Hargrave Harriet - Quilters Academy: Sophomore Year: A Skill-Building Course In Quiltmaking (Volume 2)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hargrave, Harriet.

Quilters Academy Vol 1.- Freshman Year : a skill-building course in quiltmaking / by Harriet Hargrave and Carrie Hargrave.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-57120-594-0 (softcover)

1. Patchwork. 2. Quilting. I. Hargrave, Carrie, 1976- II. Title.

TT835.H3384 2009

746.46--dc22

2009008787

Printed in China

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

A Course in Quilting

A fresh new approach to uncovering the details that make quilting fun and rewarding for the beginner.

Quilting 201Sophomore Year

Continuing with strips and squares, but now jazzing them up by putting them on-point in a diagonal set, adding sashing and window-paning, and working in wonderful pieced frames and borders to continue your journey into quiltmaking skills.

Dedication

We would like to dedicate this book to Mary Ellen Hopkins, who has been a tremendous influence on both of us. Mary Ellen brought machine piecing to the forefront in the early 1980s. She made it okay for us to get our quilt tops done quickly and have fun doing it. Creativity and free thinking were her strong points. The borders that are designed through the diagonal-set piecing in this book were the brainchild of Mary Ellen. She called them Incorporated Borders, meaning they are designed using a block on-point to create the piecing of a straight-appearing border. They have also been called Painless Borders by Sally Schneider, but they originated in a Summer Camp seminar with Mary Ellen.

Harriet participated in Mary Ellens Its Okay if You Sit on My Quilt seminars for several years before she started to teach at them with Mary Ellen throughout the 1980s. Carrie met Mary Ellen when she was a young girl and had her impression of quilters changed forever. There is never a better time to be had by all than in the presence of Mary Ellen. Her methods and designs have influenced both of us for years. Thank you for the fun and inspiration!

Last, but certainly not least, to all the thousands of Harriets students who have influenced her desire to be the very best teacher she could be during the past 32 years. We hope that the passion runs as deep in them as it does in us.

Contents

Combining It All TogetherReading a pattern to come up with all the elements and dividing them into units for easy sewingWorksheets to formulate your own sizes, grids, and yardage

Preface

You are holding the second in a series of six books. The purpose of the series is to build your quiltmaking skills on a firm foundation from beginner to advanced. Volume 1 laid the foundation for all the rest of the books. If you have not worked through Volume 1 entirely, we strongly suggest that you do so first. These books are not all-inclusive. This second volume is to be used as a workbook. It contains a complete sequence of classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next. We highly recommend that you make the quilts in the order presented, as we have placed them in order of complexity. Each quilt offers new challenges and techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. We have chosen designs that are timeless and very adaptable to traditional fabrics, as well as to more upbeat fabric and color choices. Use these quilts to explore your color and style preferences.

This volume and the first in the series deal with quilts made up of strips and squares. By mastering the techniques in these first two books, you are laying a foundation for precise, high-quality piecing. There are hundreds of quilts based on strips and squares, so you can spend a long time exploring these stunning quilts before you jump into the more complex piecing in the following books.

Introduction

We hope you are as excited about what is in this bookyour sophomore yearas we are. We had a great time coming up with the quilts, and especially developing the designing tools in . We have tried to make it easy for you to develop your own ideas with worksheets, graph paper, and drop-in linking blocks. You will find it amazing how many awesome quilts you can make while still working with strips and squares, but changing the setting and design elements.

This book takes you from basic, fairly easy quilts to more and more complex designs. As you progress through the classes, the actual how-to instructions for each quilt will become less detailed. We are confident that your skills are getting to where you do not need as much hand-holding as you progress. The skills are building on themselves, and the basic sewing methods repeat over and over. If you have not gone through Quilters Academy Volume 1, we strongly suggest that you do so before moving on to this book. You are likely to find some areas where you might not understand what is going on if you havent been building your skills with us from the beginning. This is truly a college course in quiltmaking, not a pattern book.