Class/Workshop - Heritage Arts: Quilting for Beginners

Class description
Quilting for Beginners expands the Museum of American Heritage's Heritage Arts program, which focuses on teaching traditional handicrafts using early technologies. Students are introduced to the basics of quilt making the old fashioned way plus the creation of a child-sized quilt to take home. Designed for students with no prior experience in quilting, it aims to instill confidence and enthusiasm and teaches basic skills required for more advanced classes.
The class provides hands on-training and one-on-one instruction, as well as a brief history of quilting and its role in early American life, including the definition, various quilt types including whole cloth, embroidered, pieced and applique; Amish quilts, Quilting in the 30s and the resurgence in the 70s.
Skills acquired include basic quilt making making: use of a sewing machine, sewing an accurate seam allowance, seam matching, layering and tying the quilt. Students will create a take home project similar in style to the illustration.

Age range : 8 and up

Maximum class size : 8 students

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Registration must be completed 2 weeks prior to start of class.