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Taught by Heidi Parkes
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Indulge in a beautiful act of affection for someone special by stitching the Love Letter Quilt top with the help of professional artist and quilter Heidi Parkes. Her newest pattern features a collection of twenty unique blocks, each delicately embroidered or appliquéd to weave a tale of devotion. Designing a quilt top is an art form that allows you to express yourself creatively, choosing fabrics and colors that reflect personal preferences and experiences. With each day's prompt, you will craft a new hand-sewn artifact, culminating in a heartfelt diary of memories. You'll also learn to care for your hands with hand yoga and consider lahout and form. Whether you gift it to a loved one or save it as a treasured keepsake, the Love Letter Quilt top is a remarkably way to tell a love story.
To follow along on social media, please post your progress using the tag #LoveLetterQALLearn more about Heidi's inspirations behind the Love Letter Quilt pattern and her history of incorporating love into quilts in this live presentation, originally aired August 9, 2023.
See a beautiful compilation of quilts made in this class on our blog.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- For a finished quilt top measuring about 28" x 30", you will need twenty 8" x 6" pieces of base fabric: choose mostly light fabrics, some midtones, and a couple dark fabrics
- Additional fabric for appliqué: linen, cotton, velvet, silk, chiffon, etc.
- Embroidery floss, pearl cotton size 8, or sashiko thread
- Small to medium embroidery hoops
- Milliners' needles - Heidi recommends the Dritz multipack
- Scissors, snips and rotary cutter
- Thimbles - Heidi uses pushing and pulling/gripping thimbles
- Straight pins and safety pins
- Pen and pencil
- Air erasable marker or Hera marker
- Tracing paper and vellum
- Quilting ruler
- Needle threader (optional)
- A camera and printer may be helpful
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Downloads:
- Design a quilt top as a personal memoir for yourself or as a gift
- Sew the running, ladder, whip, seed, satin, and stem stitche
- Embroider and appliqué unique shapes and objects
- Tie a tailor's, quilter's and slip knot
- Sew a Danish and infinity knot
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Love Letter Quilt Top: A Daily Practice Reviews
109 users recommended this class to a friend
Francine Levesque
Ms Parkes is a skilled educator; her teaching is detailed and each stitch and technique well illustrated. What is even more interesting is the meaning making you can extract from each prompt as you adapt these to your own stitched storytelling. The hand stitching is not burdonned by rules other than a basic understanding of how to attach cloth together. Basic embroidery stitching is punctuated by very useful hand & arm yoga exercises. The only missing part is a better presentation of the "quilting sandwich" that is necessary before binding and quilting.
An enjoyable process led making experience.
January 12
Raquel Kohlmeyer
Thank you
January 1, 2025
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
So many ideas applicable in so many ways! Love classes like this
December 1, 2024
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