Mary-Margaret will cover the basics of hand needlework. She will guide students through needles, threads, and fibers for this popular hand embroidery trend. A variety of stitch types will be covered, including chain stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, and blanket stitch and more, as students stitch along.

Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

In this class, you will learn to stitch a landscape on felt using several different hand stitches.  This is not a beginner class; students should either have already taken Creative Hand Stitching, or be familiar with all the following hand stitches: couching, running stitch, blanket stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, French knot, fly stitch, and straight stitch. The class fee includes a small felt kit for the project. Additional supplies will be listed on the supply list.

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Fee: $36.00, Includes the felt
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

In this lecture, you’ll find the answer to this question as you explore fun ways to add depth, detail, and dimension to your projects by mixing sewing with art and scrapbooking techniques. These techniques are easy to incorporate into your work and are all simple to learn–even for beginners! Included in the class is a trunk show featuring mini art quilts and other sew/art projects.

Date: Monday, September 29th, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: BrightWorks Coworking (3027 Miller Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103)
Fee: $50.00
Special Guest: Susan Beck

Susan has loved creating with fabric, needle and thread since she was a child. For 20+ years, she worked for BERNINA as an editor and educator and is the editor of the BERNINA Series of Big Books. Susan is the owner of Sewfeet.com, a website that features projects and tutorials for a variety of sewing techniques, paying particular attention to presser feet and attachments that can help you sew better, faster, and more creatively!

Many stitchers make beautiful and useful items using only an all-purpose presser foot. So why do sewing machines come with 5, 8, or even 12 presser feet? And why are there dozens of presser feet and accessories available as optional tools to make your sewing machine sing and dance? This lecture-style class answers these questions while discussing a variety of presser feet and sewing techniques that will expand your definition of sewing.

Date: Monday, September 29th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: BrightWorks Coworking (3027 Miller Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103)
Fee: $50.00
Special Guest: Susan Beck

Susan has loved creating with fabric, needle and thread since she was a child. For 20+ years, she worked for BERNINA as an editor and educator and is the editor of the BERNINA Series of Big Books. Susan is the owner of Sewfeet.com, a website that features projects and tutorials for a variety of sewing techniques, paying particular attention to presser feet and attachments that can help you sew better, faster, and more creatively!

10+ Presser Feet/Techniques

Try this fun way of sewing, embracing your creativity while learning useful techniques that can be used in a variety of sewing situations. Mini art quilts are no-stress projects that can be as simple or as complex as you want. This class explores multiple ways to create mini art quilts, and you will leave the class with your own unique quilt.

Students will bring their own machine for this hands-on class. Please check the supply list on our website for everything you need to bring to the class.

Date: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: BrightWorks Coworking (3027 Miller Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103)
Class Fee: $120.00, includes lunch
Kit Fee: $20.00, Payable in cash to Susan on the day of the class. The kit includes all fabrics, threads, batting, and stabilizers as needed for the techniques plus assorted notions such as buttons, charms, ribbons, cords, etc.
Special Guest: Susan Beck

Susan has loved creating with fabric, needle and thread since she was a child. For 20+ years, she worked for BERNINA as an editor and educator and is the editor of the BERNINA Series of Big Books. Susan is the owner of Sewfeet.com, a website that features projects and tutorials for a variety of sewing techniques, paying particular attention to presser feet and attachments that can help you sew better, faster, and more creatively!

15+ Presser Feet/Techniques

One of the most satisfying things about sewing is that you can use your own creative juices to make every project unique. Join us for a day of creativity and fun as we explore 12+ embellishment techniques using ten specialty presser feet. Learn to add color, create texture and join fabrics in decorative ways as we explore these creative and easy techniques.

Students will bring their own machine for this hands-on class. Please check the supply list on our website for everything you need to bring to the class.

Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: BrightWorks Coworking (3027 Miller Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103)
Class Fee: $120.00, includes lunch
Kit Fee: $20.00, Payable in cash to Susan on the day of the class. The kit includes all fabrics, threads, batting, and stabilizers as needed for the techniques plus assorted notions such as buttons, charms, ribbons, cords, etc.
Special Guest: Susan Beck

Susan has loved creating with fabric, needle and thread since she was a child. For 20+ years, she worked for BERNINA as an editor and educator and is the editor of the BERNINA Series of Big Books. Susan is the owner of Sewfeet.com, a website that features projects and tutorials for a variety of sewing techniques, paying particular attention to presser feet and attachments that can help you sew better, faster, and more creatively!

Postcard Views Workshop:

Create a trio of wall hanging-sized quilts inspired by some of my favorite beautiful scenery across the country. These quilts are made using raw-edge fusible applique techniques, built on a muslin base. Come to this workshop with the pieces for at least one quilt already traced, fused to fabric and cut out, and we’ll work on assembling them during class time. We’ll also talk machine quilting options, and I’ll share the tips and best practices for creating landscape quilts that I’ve learned along the way. 

Lisa was bitten by the craft bug early on in life, and have dabble in drawing, beading, photography and fabric. She learned to sew as a young girl, making clothes for her Cabbage Patch Kid, and then got into quilting around 2000 and never looked back. Modern quilting is her style of choice, and she particularly loves improv piecing. She currently freelance in the quilting industry; She designs, writes and tech edit patterns for a variety of clients. She also designs fabric for Benartex and designs and sells her own quilt patterns. Outside of work, she spends time hanging with her husband and three boys, ideally outside or playing sports, and yes, her boys quilt too!

Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Class Fee: $115.00 includes the pattern and kits to make all three quilts!

Special Guest Instructor: Lisa Ruble

In this class, students will learn to machine quilt using rulers on the home sewing machine. Start with straight line framework, continue with circles and arcs. Complement your ruler work with feathers and fillers. A kit will be required and your kit will include a small project, thread and rulers. Sue has developed rulers specific for this project. This class is intended for advanced Beginner-Intermediate.

Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fee: $75.00
Kit fee: $40.00* (Kit includes project, thread and Sue’s straight line ruler). Kit fee is due to Sue the day of class.

Sue’s Circle Wedge Rulers will be available to try in class and can be purchased, if desired. Circle Wedge Ruler Set-class price is $50.00.

Instructor: Sue Nickels, Special Guest

Everyone is crazy about these beautiful and totally unique collage patterns by Laura Heine. Join Lisa for this comprehensive lecture/demo where she will teach you everything you need to know such as the supplies needed, choosing and prepping your fabrics, assembling your quilt, and even how to quilt it. Lisa has made well over 30 of these collage quilts and will bring many of hers for you to study. You will come away excited and confident to begin your own collage quilt journey.

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm OR 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Fee: $29.00
Instructor: Lisa B.

Learn how to create the striking Hunter’s Star quilt using the Creative Grids ruler! This class will walk you through cutting and piecing techniques that take the guesswork out of angles and points. You'll master the block layout, sewing tips for precision, and creative design options. Use just two fabrics for a bold, traditional look or mix multiple colors for a modern twist!

Date: Wednesday, October 22nd
Time: 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Fee: $65.00, includes ruler*
*Each student must have a ruler to take this class. If you already have the Creative Grids ruler, the class price is $39.00.
Instructor: Rose M

Mary-Margaret will cover the basics of hand needlework. She will guide students through needles, threads, and fibers for this popular hand embroidery trend. A variety of stitch types will be covered, including chain stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, and blanket stitch and more, as students stitch along.

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

In this class, you will learn to stitch a landscape on felt using several different hand stitches.  This is not a beginner class; students should either have already taken Creative Hand Stitching, or be familiar with all the following hand stitches: couching, running stitch, blanket stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, French knot, fly stitch, and straight stitch. The class fee includes a small felt kit for the project. Additional supplies will be listed on the supply list.

Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Fee: $36.00, Includes the felt
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

Learn to Machine Quilt and Love it! Sue will teach you the fundamentals of machine quilting on the home sewing machine. Start with a discussion on thread, needles and notions. Next, practice the basic techniques of straight line and free motion machine quilting on small quilt packages. Stipple quilting and marked designs will be covered. With Sue’s patient guidance learn all the basic skills needed to machine quilt on your home sewing machine. Please note- Students will stitch using pre-printed squares provided by Sue.

Date: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fee: $75.00
Kit fee: $12.00 (six pre-printed practice squares). Kit fee is due to Sue the day of class.

Instructor: Sue Nickels, Special Guest

Special Guest Christine Schulte: Join us in November to learn from pattern designer and quilter Christine Schulte. She’s an expert in free motion machine quilting and invisible appliqué that looks just like hand appliqué. Christine will be joining us all the way from Tennessee! 

This class is dedicated to all of those quilters that say they can't do machine quilting. Well we want to tell you... YES YOU CAN! Learn the basics of free motion quilting on your domestic machine. Come and join Chris Schulte, professional quilter, and discover free motion machine quilting. Chris will teach you the basics of machine set up and technique. You will go on to learn how to transfer designs, tension control and more! Beginners welcome.

Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Fee: $39.00

Special Guest Christine Schulte: Join us in September to learn from pattern designer and quilter Christine Schulte. She’s an expert in free motion machine quilting and invisible appliqué that looks just like hand appliqué. Christine will be joining us all the way from Tennessee! 

Who doesn’t love free motion feathers? Come and join Chris Schulte, professional quilter, and learn all about free motion feathers. You will learn the mechanics of quilting a basic feather, continuous feathers, directional feathers, circular feathers and more! Beginners welcome, but some free motion experience is helpful.

Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fee: $39.00

Special Guest Christine Schulte: Join us in November to learn from pattern designer and quilter Christine Schulte. She’s an expert in free motion machine quilting and invisible appliqué that looks just like hand appliqué. Christine will be joining us all the way from Tennessee! 

Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Fee: $69.00

Special Guest Christine Schulte: Join us in November to learn from pattern designer and quilter Christine Schulte. She’s an expert in free motion machine quilting and invisible appliqué that looks just like hand appliqué. Christine will be joining us all the way from Tennessee! 

Come and join Chris Schulte, professional quilter, and learn all about free motion fillers. You will get to practice some different designs, and learn how the designs function best in a quilt. So, drop your feed dogs and come for some free motion fun! Beginners welcome, but some free motion experience is helpful.

Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Fee: $39.00

Mary-Margaret will cover the basics of hand needlework. She will guide students through needles, threads, and fibers for this popular hand embroidery trend. A variety of stitch types will be covered, including chain stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, and blanket stitch and more, as students stitch along.

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

Dr. Susan Kruszynski, professional educator and author of two books on art quilting, will share with you tips and techniques she uses to make her one of a kind art quilts.

You can chose which kit your would like to make prior to the class. Winter Morning features evergreens with a red border or Blues of Winter features blue tones for the trees and a blue border. The kit contains all materials needed to create a beautiful art quilt of a winter scene; directions, fabrics backed with an iron-on adhesive, and a stretched art canvas for hanging. You supply basic sewing tools.  The wooden frame of the fabric-covered stretched art canvas makes the art quilt attractive and super easy to hang or to set on a shelf.

You will love this form of art and find it easier than you thought possible.

Dr. Susan Kruszynski – lives in Muskegon, Michigan, and is an award-winning art quilt designer, teacher, author, and gallery artist. Feeding her artistic nature, Susan, at age 8, started experimenting with fabrics to produce colorful creations.  She began landscape fiber art design with collage art quilts in 2014.  A native of Michigan, her works, that range in sizes from 3”x5” to 40”x60”, are often inspired by the trees and woodlands along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Susan currently divides her time between creating original collaged art quilt designs,teaching art quilting, marketing this fiber art in shows and galleries, running her Quilting Fabrics in Time business, and only just recently retired as a literacy specialist from Muskegon Community College.  Susan uses her 40+ years of K-College level teaching experiences and a PhD in Education to teach this art through in-class experiences in and around the state of Michigan, through on-line instruction, and with art quilt books from Fox-Chapel Publishing. 

Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Class Fee: $45
Kit Fee: $70, payable day of class to instructor

Instructor: Dr. Susan Kruszynski

Everyone is crazy about these beautiful and totally unique collage patterns by Laura Heine. Join Lisa for this comprehensive lecture/demo where she will teach you everything you need to know such as the supplies needed, choosing and prepping your fabrics, assembling your quilt, and even how to quilt it. Lisa has made well over 30 of these collage quilts and will bring many of hers for you to study. You will come away excited and confident to begin your own collage quilt journey.

Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Time: 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Fee: $29.00
Instructor: Lisa B.

Mary-Margaret will cover the basics of hand needlework. She will guide students through needles, threads, and fibers for this popular hand embroidery trend. A variety of stitch types will be covered, including chain stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, and blanket stitch and more, as students stitch along.

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

Join Lisa for this Introduction to Landscaping class and let your imagination take you on a virtual vacation without ever leaving your home. We will be using fabrics, yarns, beads, shells, and laces to create a beautiful wall hanging. You will learn general landscape quilt concepts that can be used to create your own designs, and can be adapted to larger quilt sizes. Come have some fun!

Date: Monday, January 5, 2026
Time: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Lisa B

Mary-Margaret will cover the basics of hand needlework. She will guide students through needles, threads, and fibers for this popular hand embroidery trend. A variety of stitch types will be covered, including chain stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, and blanket stitch and more, as students stitch along.

Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Time: 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Fee: $32.00
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M

In this class, you will learn to stitch a landscape on felt using several different hand stitches.  This is not a beginner class; students should either have already taken Creative Hand Stitching, or be familiar with all the following hand stitches: couching, running stitch, blanket stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, French knot, fly stitch, and straight stitch. The class fee includes a small felt kit for the project. Additional supplies will be listed on the supply list.

Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Time: 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Fee: $36.00, Includes the felt
Instructor: Mary-Margaret M