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1 ¼ hour class: Free Motion Quilting with Rulers $200

Your quilt top is finally pieced and your pattern ends with those three scary words ‘Quilt As Desired‘. Now what? Take a deep breath, drop those feed dogs and try free-motion quilting with rulers!
Up until a few years ago, quilting with rulers on your domestic machine was unheard of. Rulers were the tools of longarmers. That’s not true anymore! Now quilters are using rulers to create beautiful and precise designs, from straight lines to curves to feathers and so much more.

When ruler quilting started gaining popularity around 2017, Sue was teaching a free-motion quilting class at her local quilt shop. At that time, there wasn’t much information available about quilting with rulers on the domestic sewing machine. Thinking rulers would be a good class for the shop, she watched videos, bought a ruler foot and some rulers and started playing. That’s exactly how she describes quilting with rulers – it’s like playing because it’s so much fun!

Whether you’re a true beginner to ruler work or you’ve had some experience with rulers, you’ll learn something from this presentation. Many quilters believe that you must be an experienced free-motion quilter to use rulers. That’s not the case. Beginners seem to find working with rulers easier than doing straight free-motion work. It just takes a little practice.
Sue loves to share her quilting knowledge with others.

During the first half of her presentation, she’ll discuss the ruler foot, rulers and what to look for when purchasing rulers, and supplies needed for ruler quilting. She’ll share a lot of information and helpful tips that she’s picked up along the way.

In the second half of the presentation, Sue will demo a few rulers. She’ll show you how easy it is to stitch straight lines with the straight-edge ruler and how to stitch a perfectly round circle with a circle ruler. Time permitting, she’ll also demo a clamshell ruler.

Sue is an avid quilter who has been quilting for 36 years. She started out as a hand quilter, then moved on to machine quilting with a walking foot. Free-motion quilting quickly followed. After retiring from her computer programming job in 2008, she started teaching at her local quilt shop. Free-motion quilting and Ruler Quilting are two of her most popular classes. Sue is Zoom ready. You can reach her at shurley36 @ hotmail.com.

Be sure to tell Sue that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!