Saturday, April 24, 2021
1:00 - 3:00 Central (US & Canada)
Expand Your Design Portfolio
Ready to expand your design portfolio?
Join HQ Educator Allison Spence in this 2-hour virtual event (April 24, 2021) with Fox Country Quilts!
Course Description
Are you wanting to expand your design portfolio but don’t know where to start? Beginning with meandering and moving on to other classic fills, we’ll spend time drawing and quilting these great textures in this class. Learning how to make all these fills continuously stitched gives you a usable selection of go-to designs for all your projects. Using large and small grids, learn how to scale your designs to give your quilts the perfect design every time.
Topics Include
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How to choose a design style and pick the right fills
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Use crosshatching and other fills to create special effects
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Explore using designs at different scales – micro to large
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How to create a consistent design using grids and other methods
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Explore using designs at different scales –Effectively use HQ Micro Handles and adjustable handle bars
Allison Spence
Handi Quilter National Educator
Allison Spence has a long association with crafting in the form of knitting, sewing and quilting. Her introduction to quilting was a tied quilt given to her newborn daughter by her sister-in-law over 30 years ago. Allison enjoys all areas of quilting but prefers simple piecing designs, so she can get to the quilting part!
After quilting many large quilts on a domestic sewing machine, Allison purchased
an HQ Sweet Sixteen® sit down machine which was well used for many years. She now owns an HQ Avanté® and loves the freedom of quilting both smaller and larger projects with ease.
Allison has an education degree from the University of Manitoba and many years experience teaching aquatics. She began teaching sewing and quilting while working at a sewing machine dealer in Calgary, Alberta. She owned her own fabric store and sewing school. She now has a studio and classroom in her home and does customer quilts, as well as longarm machine rentals, and offers a variety of sewing and quilting classes.
Taking great pleasure in teaching the basic and intermediate skills in all areas of
quilting, Allison encourages students to go further and see what they can do on their own. She especially loves to quilt and teach feathers!
Allison currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and has a very very supportive
husband, 2 daughters and a granddaughter close by.
Visit her website at www.meadowrosequilts.com and her facebook page at
meadowrosequilting