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If you would like to schedule me for a guild event, please email for availability. For in person teaching, travel in the Western half of the United States is preferred. Guilds should be prepared to schedule a minimum of three events and cover all travel costs. These lectures and classes are available online as well.
Classes
Color Exploration with Scraps
Our fabric scraps offer an accessible way to play intuitively with color. In this class we mix and combine fabrics to explore value, tone, temperature and color relationships. Leave the class with broader color confidence as well as a treasure trove of improv-pieced units to bring scrap magic to your patchwork.
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Color, Scraps
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Color, Scraps
Next Level Quilting
For intermediate quilters. Learn practical skills that advanced quilters use without realizing they're using them! Integrating these tricks will help you, whatever level you are.
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Scrappy Quarter Cabins
A single quilt block to use up your scraps in style! Get instructions for color choice as well as piecing and a pattern for assembling the quilt.
Online: 3 hours, In person: 6 hours.
Focus: Scraps
Online: 3 hours, In person: 6 hours.
Focus: Scraps
Free-Motion Beginnings
Take your first steps with free-motion quilting and see what's possible! Christina guides newer quilters through must-have information and on to beginner-friendly designs. Find the confidence to quilt on your domestic machine, with a plan for how to keep improving after class is over.
In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Magic Triangle
This table topper is made with a 10 degree template (printable version included). Most students complete the project during the class time.
Online and In Person: 3 hours
Focus: Wedges
Online and In Person: 3 hours
Focus: Wedges
Free-Motion Compositions
Learn how to make attention - getting free motion compositions to enhance negative space in your quilts.
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Wedge Wonders
Using a 9 or 10 degree wedge, make a pieced wedge project. A choose your own adventure class with a modern edge.
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours.
Focus: Wedges
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours.
Focus: Wedges
Using Quilting Structures
Breaking your quilting space up with straight lines before you start free-motion quilting. This technique is great for newer and intermediate quilters!
Online and In-Person: 3 hours.
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours.
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
All are Welcome Here
Using up leftover blocks and scraps is frugal and creative - no two pieces are the same! Working with what you have, learn tricks for layout success.
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Scraps
Online: 3 hours, In-Person: 6 hours
Focus: Scraps
Free-Motion Flow
Instinctual quilting feels calming to stitch and beautiful to see. Learn to build designs fluidly and spontaneously.
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Combining Designs
Learn how to mix and match free-motion designs into one-of-a-kind combinations with Christina Cameli, author of "Free-Motion Combinations". Using simple strategies, learn to follow your intuition without getting stuck, and end up with quilting that is completely "you"! This is an intermediate quilting class for those who have already had an introduction to free-motion quilting.
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Jump Into Free Motion Quilting
Get a no-nonsense introduction to free-motion quilting.
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Online and In-Person: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Harmony and Light
Play with wedges and tap into your color intuition when you learn how to make the Harmony and Light quilt.
Textures from Nature
Come celebrate quilting designs that evoke textures found in nature - flame, water, rock, wood grain, fur and more. Bring multiple designs together in preprinted panels that Christina provides, and get firsthand experience with seeing density and scale add to or change a composition. These designs are incredibly versatile and this is a satisfying way to get comfortable with them, so you can use them alone or in combinations. MATERIALS FEE REQUIRED
In-person: 6 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
In-person: 6 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Stitch Length and Smoothness
Come work on two challenges that frequently evade free-motion quilters - producing smooth lines and getting even stitch length. Using preprinted panels provided by Christina, you'll work through exercises that build positive habits and muscle memory so you can get back to the quilting you like to do - only better! *MATERIALS FEE REQUIRED
In-Person Only: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
In-Person Only: 3 hours
Focus: Free Motion Quilting
Lectures
Color Wisdom: Beyond the color wheel
Tuning into your own color wisdom is an essential skill for an artist. Move beyond the color wheel with Christina's strategies for understanding and using color in a way that is personal and satisfying.
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
Free Motion Impact
There are specific things quilters of all levels can do to enhance the appearance of their quilting. This talk helps you see quilting choices in a new way.
Available online and in-person.
Available online and in-person.
Scraps of All Sizes
Explore approaches to making magic with whatever scraps you have at your disposal. Frugal and fabulous, scraps are for everyone!
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
The 5 Skills of Free Motion Quilting
What does it take to free-motion quilt? Hear a free-motion teacher break it all down so you know where to put your energy to improve!
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
How to Love Free-Motion Quilting
A lighthearted look at free-motion quilting and how to have a great relationship with it!
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
How Should I Quilt It?
Hear how Christina looks at a quilt top to choose a quilting design, then go through the process with guild members' quilts.
Available online and in-person.
Available online and in-person.
The Big Ideas
Christina shares the biggest "aha!" moments she's had in her years as a quilter, teacher, and pattern and fabric designer.
Available online and in-person.
Available online and in-person.
Combining Designs
Would you like to combine more than one motif in your quilting? Christina shares her strategies that even newer quilters can use.
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
The Modern Wedge
Wedges are simple shapes with unlimited potential for patchwork. See how Christina uses this simple tool for stunning results!
Available online and in-person.
Available online and in-person.
On Creativity
Explore the creative process and how we flow or struggle along the way. Learn some habits and strategies Christina has used and come away with reflections on your own process.
Available online and in-person
Available online and in-person
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