Dates: Tuesdays 1 September*, 29 September, 13 October, 3 November, 24 November and 15 December

Time: 9.30am to 2.30pm each day*

Location: Kathleen’s home-studio, LE7 or a nearby venue

Take your quilting skills to the next level with Cowden Quilt School and the company of like-minded quilters.

More steps in patchwork and quilting will help you to build colour confidence, hone your patchwork piecing skills and provide an opportunity for creative play and exploration with quilting techniques. Plus you’ll create another beautiful patchwork quilt, in time for Christmas!

You’ll make a large throw-size quilt using my ‘Sweet Shop’ pattern and your personal choice of fabrics, wadding and preferred basting tools. Together we’ll learn how to make and combine two classic patchwork blocks - a ‘churn dash’ and a ‘nine-patch’ - with precision and accuracy.

*Before the course begins, we’ll meet for a short, bonus session all about colour and fabric choices, to help you plan your quilt with confidence. Then we’ll get together for five regular classes, at key points in the making process, so we can learn and sew together.

There will be piecing and quilting work to do from home in between classes. I will support you throughout with guidance, notes, resources and encouragement. Sewing machines and cutting tools are provided in class. You will need your own equipment to work on your quilt between classes at home.

This course is ideal for anyone who has learnt to quilt on one of my beginners courses and completed the ‘next steps in patchwork and quilting’ course (or an equivalent). Ideally, you’ll have made three or four quilts before taking the ‘more steps’ course. If you’re not sure whether it is the right course for you, please contact me first so that we can think it through together.