Before filling out your registration form, please read the class descriptions and the daily itinerary so that you can best determine how you would like to spend your cruise time. You will be assured of being placed in two full day and one half day class sections. Class assignments and supply lists will be mailed to you along with your final confirmation. Classes are open to all levels of ability unless otherwise stated in the class description. The class choices are:

SUNDAY & TUESDAY AFTERNOON
1:00 - 4:00 PM

SURFACE QUILTING DESIGN: MORE THAN AN AFTERTHOUGHT - Alex Anderson
SUNDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Ever wonder what’s missing or get stumped when it’s time to plan your quilting design? During this class, Alex will explain her personal approach to quilting design. You will learn how to draw a class cable, feathered wreath, 8 pointed star and more. Discover how the classic designs, which have served well throughout history, will breathe new life into your quilts. This class is for anyone who has ever finished a quilt top and has asked, “Now what?”
Skill Level: All levels

LIGHTING UP YOUR QUILTS - Joen Wolfrom
SUNDAY and TUESDAY
See how easy it is to light up your quilts with color illusions.  Learn how to create your own illusions of depth, luminosity, and luster in quilts.  At day’s end, you should have a wide array of lighting ideas to use in your future quilts.
Skill Level:  All Levels

OPULENT ORNAMENT - Paula Nadelstern
SUNDAY and TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Embellish your way to a beautiful object brimming with sparkle and ready to display using a simple, non-sewing technique.  It’s stress-free, it’s satisfying, it’s creative, it’s fun -- what more can you ask! 
Skill Level:  All Levels

CLASSIC APPLIQUÉ FEATHERED STAR - Mary Sorensen
SUNDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON
This new design from Mary is the perfect take-along project for cruising. A small stylized center appliqué motif will build your confidence as you learn straight forward techniques for needleturn hand appliqué. You will receive instructions for surrounding the appliqué block with a foundation pieced Feathered Star, and additional appliqué in the borders for a great little wall quilt.
Skill Level: All Levels

HAND APPLIQUÉ MADE EASY - Laura Nownes
SUNDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON
In a relaxed setting, take the fear out of the “A” word. Learn some of the easiest ways to prepare your shapes for hand appliqué; including paper basting and needle turn. Using these preparation techniques will make hand sewing enjoyable! Making circles, vines, flowers and leaves can all be learned while making a sample piece that can be made into a wall hanging or incorporated into a larger quilt design.
Skill Level: All Levels

MYSTIC SUNFLOWERS - Christine Porter
SUNDAY and TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Accurate piecing of a pretty 19th Century floor tile design from Britain’s Lake District resembling sunflower heads interspersed with octagons and squares. Hand sew over papers and fussy cut the centres of the flowers to make a delightful small quilt. (Taken from Christine’s book Quilt Designs from Decorative Floor Tiles). Using the Grandmother’s Flower Garden and English Paper Piecing method, we will make a central Medallion sunflower and surround it with petals all within a frame.
Skill Level: All Levels

SATURDAY - ALL DAY
8:30 - 11:30 AM

FALL FOLLIES - Alex Anderson
SATURDAY ALL DAY
In this incredibly easy and stress free class, you will design a picture size, fall wall hanging using simple images designed especially for this cruise seminar by Alex. You will be using the classic blanket stitch for this fun “child’s play” (remember color forms?) project. You will go home with a wonderful memento of our fall foliage cruise!
Skill level: All levels.

A MOST FASCINATING MARRIAGE OF BLOCKS - Joen Wolfrom
SATURDAY ALL DAY
Create beautiful original traditional designs by learning how to use blending -block and exploding-block design techniques.  You will be surprised at how easy it is to create exciting new designs with many of our much-loved traditional patterns.  By the end of the class, you should have at least one new design to use in a future quilt.
Skill Level:  All Levels

THE PUZZLE QUILT - Paula Nadelstern
SATURDAY ALL DAY
Imagine a sampler quilt where each block has an identical twin sharing its structure of shapes. By piecing each pair in completely different fabric combinations, each block is perceived as a visual novelty. This non-sewing seminar explores how prints can be used to vary one and the same patchwork configuration. By understanding how color establishes a relationship between parts, fabrics can be manipulated to achieve a variety of design possibilities. This is a good class for the quiltmaker who wants to embrace the potential offered by choice rather than be overwhelmed by it.
Skill Level: All Levels

“FALL” IN LOVE WITH APPLIQUÉ - Mary Sorensen
SATURDAY ALL DAY
A new pattern designed just for our fall foliage cruise will put you in the spirit of crisp fall days and spectacular autumn colors. Improve your needleturn hand appliqué skills as you stitch leaves at the height of their color in this small wall quilt that will be a perfect remembrance of a memorable cruise.
Skill Level: All Levels

CIRCLES IN FALL COLORS - Laura Nownes
SATURDAY ALL DAY
Use an abundance of beautiful fall fabrics to design this wall hanging bursting with color and movement. Shapes will be cut in class and pinned onto a design wall for easy appliqué in class or completed at home using raw edge fusible appliqué techniques.
Skill Level: All Levels

AUTUMN LEAVES FOLK ART QUILT - Christine Porter
SATURDAY ALL DAY
Using wool felt, decorative threads and buttonhole-stitch, enjoy sewing different leaf patterns around a central medallion block. Embellishment with an array of stitches and beads gives the leaves a realistic look. This original design is easy to sew and ideal for creating a pleasing memory of your trip aboard the cruise ship.
Skill Level: All Levels

SUNDAY - ALL DAY
8:30 - 11:30 AM

SHADOW REDWORK - AUTUMN ILLUSION - Alex Anderson
HAND QUILTING - SECRETS OF SUCCESS
SUNDAY ALL DAY
In the morning you will be learning an exciting style of redwork that you can see in Alex’s book Shadow Redwork. Shadow redwork combines the classic and popular redline embroidery with subtle messages stitched in the background with ecru thread. The result is timeless and fresh. Pick a pattern from the book or use the image Alex designed especially for our East Coast adventure!

During the afternoon session you will learn to master the art of traditional hand quilting as you stitch a small whole cloth wall hanging (or extra large pillow). Whether you are left or right handed, tips and techniques will be taught to learn the “rocking stitch”. In addition , you will see how easy it is to quilt in all directions using your thumb! Once the stitch is mastered, your quilting time will double. All the basics from batting to threads will be discussed and one on one attention will be given to either learn or improve your stitch.
Skill Level: All levels

NATURE, FLOWERS, AND LANDSCAPES - Joen Wolfrom
CREATING A SCENE WITH PIZZAZZ
SUNDAY ALL DAY
This class is for nature lovers, regardless of piecing or appliqué technique! Have fun making two “cut and paste” fabric scenes while learning all of those important tidbits about creating landscape designs. You will be excited to see how easy it is to incorporate depth, luster, and luminosity in your own small fabric landscape picture. As time permits, take a delightful nature quilt trip via slides to enjoy beautiful, awesome, and whimsical nature and landscape quilts from all over the world.
Skill Level: All Levels

NEEDLE STARS - Paula Nadelstern
SUNDAY ALL DAY
This class is a simplified version of Paula’s complicated kaleidoscope techniques. It incorporates the kaleidoscope configuration, radial symmetry which allows students to explore design possibilities using bilaterally symmetrical fabric. Plus it covers the unique machine-piecing technique Paula uses (which she will demonstrate through samples) and how to make incongruent templates align. Sewing machines will be provided for this class and students will quickly learn the above, make templates, begin cutting and then sewing their own fabric.
Skill Level: Intermediate to advanced

APPLIQUÉ A HARVEST BASKET - Mary Sorensen
SUNDAY ALL DAY
Hand appliqué a basket brimming with the season’s bounty. The basic techniques you master as you stitch this charming wall quilt will take all the mystery out of achieving great-looking needleturn hand appliqué. The perfect class for appliqué enthusiasts who want to improve their technique, and for the beginning student who enjoys hand work.
Skill Level: All levels

TREE OF LIFE - Laura Nownes
SUNDAY ALL DAY
Students will design a unique family tree to proudly display their family heritage. Come to class with a pieced background and spend the day cutting and fusing roots, truck, branches and leaves which represent your various family members. Shapes can be hand blanket stitched onto the background or raw edge machine appliquéd when you return home. Border star blocks will be cut and prepared for sewing. Quick-cuting and construction tips will be covered as well as other ideas for embellishing this family heirloom. View the completed pattern online at www.dianaandlaura.com.
Skill Level: All Levels

FROM INSPIRATION TO THE QUILT: FLOOR TILE DESIGN - Christine Porter
SUNDAY ALL DAY
Christine is Britain’s acknowledged expert on creating quilts inspired by floor tile designs.  There will be an array of resource material from floors from all over Europe to inspire you including slides, books and photos.  In this class you will learn to draft patterns by converting inspirational images into diagrams and patterns to create an original quilt of your own.  Piecing methods and use of fabrics will be discussed.  Christine Porter is the author of “Quilt Designs from Decorative Floor Tiles.”
Skill Level:  All Levels