Not Your Grandma's Doily Quilt Workshop
Schedule
Sat Feb 22 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach-Mahaska County | Oskaloosa, IA
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$20.00 for members of Mahaska Stitch N Quilt Guild$30.00 for non-members
payment due by Feb 13 - send message to this Facebook page if you wish to enroll.
Workshop Instructor: Marilyn Rowley, Albia
This workshop provides guidance for participants to create a wall hanging, pillow top, or table runner using doilies and/or a variety of other textile pieces. Participants will need to provide their own doilies, hankies, linens, recycled quilt blocks, and other textile items as well as background fabrics and sewing supplies. Samples of projects will be shown.
For supplies you will need the following:
Sewing machine in good working order, with needles and threads (some of you may want to applique pieces by machines; others will be sewing blocks together)
Hand sewing supplies (needles, thread, thimble if you use one)
Pins and pin cushion/container: flat top pins work best but quilting pins will be fine
Scissors: small, sharp scissors will work best
Rotary cutter, mat, and rulers (any size will work but most helpful will be at least a 6 x 12 to cut pieces and a 12 ½ inch square to square up blocks)
A good supply of the doilies, vintage linens, embroidered pieces and/or orphan blocks with which you would like to work. For these first projects, you may want to use items found at estate sales, flea markets, or antique stores rather than a family heirloom.
Fabrics to use as foundations for the doilies, vintage linens, embroidered pieces and/or orphan blocks.
Color is your choice but solids, tone-on-tones, small ditsy prints, or small vintage florals work best. The amount needed will depend on how many pieces you wish to work with and the size of your project.
This is a good time to use leftover yardage pieces.
Other items for foundations that might work for your project: These projects can be framed in a variety of ways, including vintage frames and embroidery hoops. Using a premade stretched canvas frame or a mounting board are other possibilities.
Many patterns can be adapted for this technique, including blocks with large center squares or patterns using Dresden plates or hexagons.
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Where is it happening?
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach-Mahaska County, 212 N I St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577-2021, United States,Oskaloosa, IowaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
