Boise Basin Quilters

EPP vs FPP: The Showdown by Tina Craig 03/18/27
2027-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Boise) | Boise Church of Christ, 2000 Eldorado Street, Boise, ID, 83704, United States
English Paper Piecing or Foundation Paper Piecing? What’s the difference? What are the pros and cons of each technique? Which technique is your favorite?
We will try to answer these questions as Tina shares dozens of quilts. One quilt from each technique will battle head-to-head and you will vote for your favorites in each round. At the end, we will tally up the votes and declare a winner!
Tina Craig enrolled in a beginner sampler quilt class at a Connecticut quilt shop in 1990 and was instantly hooked. Before that first Christmas wall hanging was completed, she already had several other projects started! She encourages her students to try new techniques, as those new skills can open up a world of possibilities. Her favorite classes to teach are English Paper Piecing and Domestic Machine Quilting. Tina was featured in Quiltfolk magazine issue 25, Rhode Island. Watch her demos on TheQuiltShow.com episode 3705 and listen to her conversation with Brandy Maslowski on the Quilter on Fire podcast episode 259. When not in her sewing room, she and her husband enjoy bird watching and traveling to visit their children and grandsons. Tina’s website is https://seaside-stitches.com/

Curve Confidence Schoolhouse by Roberta Parsons 04/17/27
2027-04-17 10:00 - 16:00 | Boise Rigging Supply, 6750 West Victory Road, Boise, ID, 83709, United States
Quiltmaker, pattern designer, and barn quilt painter Roberta Parsons grew up on a multi-generational rural egg-ranch with three older brothers, a rugmaking/quilt teacher mother and a model airplane builder/pilot father. Their unspoken family philosophy was that creativity was a given! Roberta retired from the corporate world in 2019 after a long career in the retail catalog production, magazine and printing industry. She now happily resides in Payette, Idaho.
Roberta says, “This workshop is intended for all the people who see quilts or blocks with curves and decide they can’t do it because for whatever reason, someone once told them that curves are HARD unless they plan to learn applique. Curves are not hard! They’re bias, so they can get stretched out of whack and not behave if you don’t handle them tenderly. But they’re NOT HARD.
Once people are comfortable with improv curves and understand the geometry of how curves work, they can move on to the more rigid, template-based, seam- allowance-added curves without the fear of a block that ends up lumpy and misshapen.
Probably one of the most BASIC things that I’ll demonstrate and teach in this workshop is how I don’t pin, glue, clip or add seam allowance (for improv) to my curves. I’ll teach you how to recognize when you do need to make adjustments for seam allowance or use templates and WHY. From that initial demonstration sequence, we will move into exercises that you can complete at your own pace.”
The photos show a quilt made by Roberta (“Improv with Curves”), and a small table-topper made by a participant during a 2-hour workshop that Roberta taught for the Treasure Valley Quiltmakers.
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