Workshops
The Waterloo County Quilters' Guild offers a diverse array of workshops each year, tailored to different skill levels and covering a wide range of quilting topics.
Whether you're a beginner eager to learn the basics or an experienced quilter looking to refine your skills, there's something for everyone. Our workshops are conducted either in-person or via Zoom, making it convenient for all members to participate. With new topics and techniques introduced annually, these workshops are a fantastic way to expand your quilting knowledge, meet fellow quilters, and get inspired.
Once you have paid for your workshop via the online store, please send an email with the following information to the workshop coordinator:
Name, Name of Workshop & Phone Number
Workshops for 2024-2025
Guild Year
Colour Courage with Jenny Kae Parks
Join us for some learning and some fun with fellow quilters via Zoom for our full day fall workshops!
Love quilting but struggle with picking fabrics? Love color but want to learn more? End your fabric frustration.Go beyond what looks “good” to what looks “WOW”! This hands-on workshop has several colour and fabric selection exercises and gives you practical techniques you can take straight to the quilt shop or shop from your stash!
Date: Saturday October 5, 2024 via Zoom
Time: 9:00am ET - 3:30pm ET with a 30 minute lunch
Cost: $55 for members
Skill Level: Beginner and above
Winter Holiday Project with Barbara Pye
Join us for some learning and some fun with fellow quilters via Zoom for our full day fall workshop where you will finish your project and get a bonus pattern to work on at home!
Date: Saturday November 2nd 2024 via Zoom
Time: 9:00am ET - 4:00pm ET with a 30 minute lunch
Cost: $45 for Members
The 1:10 Quilt with Annie Smith
This unique class will guide you in creating a truly one-of-a-kind quilt using ten fat quarters of your choice, all based on Annie's recipe for success. The magic lies in a single, unique block pattern that will help you design block patterns that cannot be duplicated. In this workshop, you'll learn how to design by fabric value rather than just color, allowing you to see your fabric in a whole new light.
Annie will introduce you to a simple yet indispensable notion that will ensure perfectly aligned seams and flawless points. As a special feature, Annie will provide email consultation to each student to confirm your fabric choices before you even cut into your fabric, ensuring you're on the right track from the start. Throughout the workshop, she'll share invaluable tips and tricks to make your quilting journey enjoyable and successful. Whether you're a seasoned quilter or a beginner, this class promises a day filled with creative design, precision sewing, and the joy of completing your unique quilt masterpiece. Join us for an unforgettable quilting experience!
Date: Saturday February 15, 2025 via Zoom
Time: 9:30am ET - 4pm ET with a 30 minute lunch
Cost: $75 for members
Skill Level: All
Template Free Appliqué In-Person Workshop with Pearl Braun-Dyck
If you enjoy holding a needle in your hand and want a relaxing pace of stitching, then this is a class that you’ll want to definitely take to learn this technique. For many stitchers the ‘A’ word – meaning appliqué – is not a very friendly one. Pearl would love to teach you the template free appliqué technique in which you will make NO paper templates, NO freezer paper templates that need to be ironed on to the fabric and then basted down so it doesn’t come off, NO plastic templates, NO drawing your design on top of the fabric and wondering ‘where do I place my fabric’ because I can’t see the pattern line and especially when several layers of fabric are already added……what now? NO tracing the pattern on to fabric before you can start stitching. SO…..NO templates period.
The technique is rather unconventional compared to the many other techniques but it is SO very accurate and as soon as you’ve transferred your pattern to the fabric you are going to start stitching!! Now doesn’t that sound inviting?
Pearl will try to make sure that you get individual attention so that she can catch where there may be difficulty. Throughout the class Pearl will demo a lot so that you can SEE what she is explaining. Kits are provided (included with class fee) so that you do not have to stress whether you have the right fabric. Again….it’s all to make you feel like you’ve got a really good handle on how to do this absolutely wonderful technique. So come and join Pearl along this wonderful template free appliqué journey.
Date: Friday April 25, 2025 and Saturday April 26, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm with a one hour lunch break
Cost: $85 (includes $15 kit)
Skill Level: All are welcome to join
Note there are just a few spots available each day. Please email evcameron@me.com if you are interested.
Design copyrighted 2024 by Pearl Braun-Dyck
Embellishing your Appliqué with Hand Embroidery In-Person Workshop with Pearl Braun-Dyck
If you enjoy holding a needle in your hand, join Pearl in this class because we are going to take your appliqué block to the next level!!! So…you’ve just completed your appliqué block and you’d really like to add something ‘special’ and you want to do this by hand. We will do this with hand embroidery stitches. There are many basic embroidery stitches, many with variations, that will accomplish this task. In class we are going to start off by learning each stitch on a ‘sample’ piece that will become your miniature stitching ‘guide’ so that you can practice some more on it and refer back to it later. Once you’re comfortable with the stitch we will then use this stitch on the COMPLETED appliqué block that you will have brought to class.
Pearl will be providing you with an appliqué pattern that you’ll need to bring to class COMPLETED. NO FUSIBLE APPLIQUÉ. Size of the required block will be forwarded with the pattern. There is no kit for this class. Pearl will provide you with an embroidery needle.
For Pearl it is important that you feel that you’ve accomplished what is set out to learn in this class. Pearl will try to make sure that you get individual attention so that she can catch where there may be difficulty. Throughout the class Pearl will demo a lot so that you can SEE what she is explaining. Join Pearl and have fun embellishing your appliqué!
Date: Sunday April 27, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm with a one hour lunch break
Cost: $70
Skill Level: All are welcome to join
Note there are just a few spots available. Please email evcameron@me.com if you are interested.
Design copyrighted 2024 by Pearl Braun-Dyck
Grey Heron Collage (In Person Workshop)
Our very own Barb Pye and Judy Pearce are teaming up to offer a full day, in-person, collage workshop. If you have not yet jumped into the amazing and fun world of collage quilting, this is your chance! Together with this creative duo, we will create a Grey Heron. All skill levels are welcome. We will use the collage method that uses Steam a Seam 2 lite and parchment paper. You will not be sewing (therefore no need to bring your sewing machine), but each participant will need to bring their own fabric and collage supplies. A detailed supply list and prep work instructions will be provided before the workshop date.
Date: Saturday May 3, 2025, at RIM Park in Waterloo
Time: 9:00am ET - 3:30pm ET with a 30 minute lunch
Cost: $65 for members (not open to non-members at this time)
Skill Level: All levels welcome