Description
Tap into the timeless beauty of solids with this exciting class from Weeks Ringle. In the sample quilt, Fun House, choose ten happy solid colors and make the quilt along with Weeks.
Like more color? Make yours from even more beautiful solids while you learn about hue, value, saturation, and the characteristics of different types of solids.
Weeks constructs the quilt column by column and teaches you how to make your piecing techniques more precise, which will help with every subsequent quilt you make.
Sew triangles, simple frames, chevrons, and easily pieced circles. The class pattern also comes with multiple variations and a coloring page so you can be inspired to create your own solids revolution!
For your convenience, this class can be purchased for online viewing or purchased on DVD.
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Weeks Ringle co-founded Modern Quilt Studio with her husband, Bill Kerr, in 1999. Bill and Weeks have coauthored numerous books on modern quilting, color for quiltmakers, and transparency quilts. They also coauthored a sewing book for children with their daughter, Sophie. In 2011, they launched Modern Quilts Illustrated, the first magazine exclusively dedicated to modern quilting. Their work has appeared in the international press including American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilts Japan, Patchwork Tsushin (Japan), Australian Quilter’s Companion, Dwell, O:The Oprah Magazine, TIME, The New York Times, and Country Living. In addition to writing books, Weeks has written extensively for American Quilter, American Quilt Retailer, and as a guest blogger on various blogs. Weeks and Bill design several lines of fabric a year and teaches in workshops worldwide.
Sheryl StGermain (verified owner) –
I thought the class would focus on using solids and talking about color. I agree with the other commenter that watching her sew was not what I thought this course was about. The information about some of the more complicated piecing techniques was useful, but that was not what the course advertised itself as being about. It would have been better to have given several small projects that invited us to use color in innovative and inspiring ways.
Beth Britt (verified owner) –
This class is great.
Shruti Dandekar (verified owner) –
Being a self aught quilter on the other side of the world, I rely a lot on tutorials and online classes. I have been struggling to achieve precision in piecing for a long time now. Week’s class helped me achieve that. All her instructions are clear, precise and easy to follow. It takes the struggle out of making the quilt top perfect. I tried making a couple of blocks from each strip and they came together absolutely easily!!! Its finally time for me to start enjoying piecing quilts!!! Thank you Weeks for a wonderful class!!!
Mary Kowalski (verified owner) –
I am a fan of the Modern Quilt Studio and Weeks’ and Bill’s quilts, so when I saw that Weeks had a new class I was eager to take it. Before diving into the piecing techniques, Weeks teaches a brief “boot camp” for students new to using solid fabrics and helps us in color selection, keeping in mind hue, value and saturation. Many of us quilt with patterned fabrics, so having the help of an expert quilter in fabric selection is invaluable. The demonstration quilt for the class is arranged in a series of columns, each with a different piecing technique. Some of the techniques are easier than others, but even the somewhat daunting circle in a square is so carefully explained that it seems mastery is right around the corner. I appreciated the assistance with quilting thread color selection and a simple design that will unify the rather complicated quilt top. One of the things that I most loved about this class was the flexibility to make the quilt my own. I can see myself making several quilts using one or more of the columns and a variety of color choices. Weeks’ attitude is that she hopes we try new things, learn new techniques, and then go forward with our own ideas to make our own quilts. I am so glad that I took this class because some of the techniques can be used on smaller quilted projects such as pillows or table runners. I’m always looking for new gift ideas for friends and family and the options in this class are numerous.