Dates: Wednesdays 4 March, 25 March, 15 April, 6 May and 3 June 2026

Time: 9.30am to 2.30pm each day

Location: Kathleen’s home-studio in East Leicestershire (LE7 9BF)

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 advance your patchwork piecing skills to master half-rectangle triangles (HRTs). Constructing HRTs is very different from the method quilters use to create half-square triangles. With Kathleen’s tuition and guidance, you’ll learn how to make these elegantly elongated fabric triangles. Plus you’ll complete another beautiful patchwork quilt!

You’ll make a large throw-size quilt using my ‘Miller’ pattern and your personal choice of fabrics, wadding and preferred basting tools. Together we’ll learn how to make and trim half-rectangle triangles (HRTs), with precision and accuracy, to create a modern twist on the classic patchwork ‘pinwheel’ block.

We’ll get together in person for five 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.