Quilting is a hobby that can provide you with:

• A sense of accomplishment
• Something to provide warmth, like a bed or lap quilt
• Something decorative for your home, like a wall hanging
• Something utilitarian, like pot holders and place mats
• A way to keep your hands out of the snack bowl
• A way to take advantage of all those quilting magazines on sale at the newsstands

How easy is it?

Quilting is easy to learn - as long as you start with little quilts!

If you are going to make a bed quilt as your first quilting project, you may experience significant frustration, due to the time required to make one.

There are three basic building blocks in learning to Quilt.

• The quilt sandwich - how to sew the top, batting, and backing together, and put a nice binding around the edges to finish it off.
• Patchwork - creating the top of the quilt by cutting fabric into small pieces (triangles, squares, rectangles, and others), and sewing these pieces together to make a bigger piece of fabric.
• Applique - creating the top of the quilt by cutting fabric into small shapes and sewing (applying) them to a base fabric.

How much time does it take to learn these skills?

The Crocus Needle Art School offers 3-hour private classes, each of which features just one aspect of quilting. You will be making complete projects (little quilts) during these classes.

1. Learn To Quilt - The Quilt Sandwich
2. Learn To Patchwork - Squares and Rectangles and Strip Piecing
3. Learn To Patchwork - Triangles
4. Learn To Applique

Do you want to learn at your own pace?

Have you ever taken a course where the instructor went too fast or too slow for you? That will not happen at the Crocus Needle Arts School, because classes are private.

Where else can you get such personalized instruction? Contact the Crocus Needle Arts School to register for the next class.

Do you want to protect your privacy?

Have you ever had to provide your credit card number and pre-pay for a course? Are you concerned about that loss of privacy? At Crocus Needle Arts School, all you need to do is e-mail to pre-register. You can pay (cash or cheque) when you arrive. We trust you.

It is so simple to pre-register. It just takes e-mail. Contact us now.

BONUS: On-going support

If you take a Crocus Needle Arts School class for beginner Quilters, there is a huge BONUS for you.

In fact, I think that it is the BEST part about taking this beginner class in Quilting.

From that point on, you have FREE email-based or phone-based support.

Let us say that you have gone home from the beginner’s class, and you have decided to stretch yourself a bit, and you bought a pattern and some fabric, but you are not sure how to proceed.

Just email the Quilting instructor with your question, and you will get the answer that you need to continue working on the project.

Even if you need help with each line in the pattern, you can still ask the instructor for assistance, and it will not cost you a cent!

And you do not have to travel to get this assistance. Your paid attendance at the Quilting class includes the help.

You will not be left to struggle alone with Quilting problems. Register for a Quilting class now.