Creative Piecework Class Page

Online Quiltmaking Class
Featuring the Flowering Gum pattern

Welcome to class! I’m so glad you are joining us!

This page is where you will find all the video lessons, patterns and instructions.

In this course I will teach you my whole quiltmaking process from start to finish. To do this, I will demonstrate the pattern that is included with this class - the Flowering Gum pattern. This is the perfect pattern for taking you through this process, and I can’t wait to see your completed Flowering Gum quilts.

The Flowering Gum quilt is made up of 16 blocks. Obviously, the first quilt block is going to present the steepest learning curve. I step you through this block in the video lessons. After that, you will apply what you learnt in the first block, to every other quilt block (remember to refer to the video lessons if you need reminding on anything!

Once all your quilt blocks are complete, there are some lessons which demonstrate how to assemble, quilt and bind your quilt.

Please note that we will not be completing the blocks in consecutive order. This is partly to keep things interesting, and partly so that as you get more proficient at the process, the earlier blocks (perhaps containing a few more mistakes) are scattered throughout the quilt. It also means that if you run out of a colour of fabric partway through, and need to replace it, it will not be obvious on the finished quilt.

Alright! The first thing you need to do is download the class workbook. Then, referring to the workbook for Assignment details and piecing instructions, we’ll work through the videos and assignments as listed below.

download workbook

Oh, and if you have questions, the Facebook group is a good place to ask (it’s new in October 2024, so we’re still building up the group) - if you ask there, others can benefit from it too, and you may even find that you can help each other. The group is private, for Creative Piecework students only, so you’ll need to request to join over here:

join facebook group

Printing

I just want to make a few things clear regarding the printing of the pattern:

1. The pages are formatted for landscape printing, so be sure to check that your printer app has ‘landscape’ selected. Most will probably do so automatically.

2. Double check that you have the scale set to 100% (do not ‘fit to page’ or scale up or down). Then each page of the document will fit on an A4 or US Letter page including crop marks.

3.The full block size is 40cm by 40cm.

4. The crop marks are little right angles outside the pattern area, that show where the separate pages need to match up. I usually trim the right hand side and bottom of every page (lining up exactly with the crop marks, and then sticky tape them together with regular clear tape.