Classes

From the studio of award winning quilter Myrna Ficken...

If you want it, you can have it. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. The first step to achieving success is learning to want the right thing, then being able to visualize it. Go ahead and use your imagination

Interested in hosting classes?

Contact me for information on setting up a workshop in your studio, with your friends! Call 435-229-2703 cell, or email myrnaf@q.com for information.

• Private classes can be designed to suite your needs.
• Hands on workshop in my studio or yours.
• Demo/lecture classes available. 
• Fees are subject to length and class

This is a beginner to intermediate level class in which you will learn some fun techniques. I’ll teach you fillers, flowers, and all kinds of jazzy, funky, cool freehand designs that can be used on any quilt.  Fast and easy edge-to-edge designs to some thinking “outside of the box.”  We’ll work with border design and carry parts of the design into the sashings and blocks. We’re going to spend some time on stitching in the ditch and alternatives.  Bring quilts for discussion as time allows.  This is a busy class, loaded with lots of great ideas!!

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Creating Spaces

One of my favorite things to do is to transform a quilt by creating new spaces within it, I’ll teach you how. You can add to blocks, borders, sashings, etc.  Learn to use your imagination and allow it to help you create spaces then discover what to do in these spaces to enhance your quilt!   See how easy it is to use tools that you may already own and learn to use whatever you might have on hand!  You have permission to have FUN in this class!!

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Gotta Love Those Samplers! 

A great class for sampler quilts from start to finish.  You’ll see samplers in a whole new light!  Learn how to analyze, stabilize, and handle every block with confidence.  This call can be done as a drawing class or a combination with quilting on your blocks. You will be instructed what block you will need to bring when you register for class. They do not need to be perfect and most likely will not be usable after... but you never know you all are creative.

 

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Let’s Get It On With The Hartley Fence 

This is a beginner/intermediate level class.  I’ll show you how easy it is to use your Hartley Fence to stitch perfect circles and perfectly straight diagonals for crosshatching your quilts.  We’ll go over mounting the device to the table and go through all the basics as we discover design ideas for circles and diagonals and look at some quilts that showcase the beauty of these designs.  We’ll move on to the Cookie Cutter Stencils and I’ll show you some of the hundreds of designs that can be accomplished with the various shapes of Cookie Cutters available to us.  This is an excellent class for those who own these tools and are ready to “Get It On” and start making some $$ with these creative tools!  Also a great class for those who don’t have a Fence yet and are contemplating the purchase of a circle-making device 

**Workbook available for purchase. Please bring your book to class if you have one. 

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Fowlproof

Feathers

This is an intermediate level class, but confident beginners should accept this class as a bit of a challenge.  So many feathers….so little time!  Whether yours are long and narrow, short and wide, spiky, curvy, fluffy or flat --- everybody loves feathers and everybody has their own style!  We’re going to get started with the most simple feather designs and we’ll jazz them up until they sizzle!  I’ll show you techniques for swags and wreaths and adding decorative threads.  It’s all designed to make those feather designs blaze on your quilts!  Bring your imagination, pencil and paper along with a full dose of energy and attitude!  

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Need Ideas, How Do I Quilt This? 

Has this ever crossed your mind? What am I going to do on this quilt? Bring your tops that have you stumped and at a loss. I'll share my ideas for quilting them. You will be amazed once you see it through different eyes and get your creativity rolling. You've seen quilts hanging at shows and said, "I would have never thought of that or what a great way to do this". But you just can't see it when you are standing in front of the quilt you have to do NOW. Bring those tops; I have so many ideas to energize your imagination.