2026 Workshops & Classes
Adult Beginner Class: Bear Paw
Jan. 19 – Feb. 23, 2026
An in-person beginner class designed for adults ages 18+ who are interested in learning the basics of quilting or who are looking to increase their skills while creating something new!
This is a 6-night class, meeting at the National Quilt Museum on Monday evenings from 5:30 – 8pm. All materials and instructions are provided to help you confidently create your own quilt!
Taught by NQM’s Director of Learning & Engagement Becky Glasby. This Bear Paw quilt will cover rotary cutting, machine piecing, half square triangles, adding borders, basting, machine quilting, and machine binding.
All 6 class dates for your calendar:
Jan. 19
Jan. 26
Feb. 2
Feb. 9
Feb. 16
Feb. 23
$112 NQM Member/$140 Non-Member
All skill levels
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Charles Cameron: Crooked Crosses & Bent Boxes
March 12 – 14, 2026
The workshop will kick off with a detailed overview of the pattern to orient the participants. Hands-on instruction will be provided for each step of the Crooked Crosses and Bent Boxes quilt pattern and classroom time will be allowed for participants to progress toward making a 60” x 50” throw size quilt.
‘Semi-improv’ is a technique for those who want the look and feel of improv, but who aren’t quite ready to give up their rulers. The pattern uses efficient, traditional piecing techniques like strip piecing and nested seams.
$396 NQM Member/$495 Non-Member
All skill levels
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Latifah Saafir Workshop: Half Rectangle Triangle Design School
July 23 – 25, 2026
Take your quilting to the next level with the bold, versatile Half Rectangle Triangle (HRT)!
In this immersive three-day workshop, you’ll master the techniques for cutting, sewing, and trimming perfect HRTs — then discover just how limitless they are as a design tool.
Beyond standard shapes like chevrons, diamonds and arrows, we’ll explore whole quilt designs, radiating layouts and inventive block based designs. You’ll build a “design vocabulary” of HRT-based blocks and explore how color, scale, and proportion transform them into show-stopping quilts. With plenty of guided design play, you’ll experiment on the design wall, sketch layouts, and scale your ideas into a finished quilt top that’s uniquely your own.
$396 NQM Member/$495 Non-Member
Skill level: Intermediate & Above
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Sandra Lee Chandler Class: Quilted Blazer
August 22, 2026
In this one-day workshop, with Sandra Lee, you’ll turn old quilted fabrics into a beautiful, modern quilted blazer. The blazer will be designed to create a surprising visual moment from a quilt you love. You will learn how to carefully place your pattern pieces so that the parts of your quilt that you like best are front and center in your finished blazer. This will make sure that the motifs, colors, or blocks that you love stand out.
You will learn how to change a commercial pattern, make quilted fashion panels, stabilize old or reused quilt materials, sew together parts of a garment, and add personal touches by hand-stitching.
This workshop combines creativity, cultural storytelling, sewing clothes, and quilting skills to help you make art that you can wear that shows off your style, heritage, and artistic voice.
You don’t need to have worked with clothes before. The class is set up so that beginners who are confident can keep up, and more experienced students will still find the techniques interesting and useful.
$120 NQM Member/$150 Non-Member
Skill level: Advanced Beginner & Above
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Paula Nadelstern Workshop: THE FULL KALEIDOSCOPE: SIXTY THIRTY PLUS SUNSTAR©
October 1 -3, 2026
This workshop covers unique machine-piecing techniques, and color and fabric guidelines for creating the complex and mobile reflection of a kaleidoscope. While gaining insight into the nature of symmetry and intricately printed fabrics, students will learn to create a design that sews together successfully and renders a kaleidoscopic image filled with luminosity and dramatic impact.
This class culminates in the creation of a unique and fabulous kaleidoscope block. Often effects more wonderful than you imagine occur, making you both the one who makes the magic and the one who is surprised!
$396 NQM Member/$495 Non-Member
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner & Above
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Workshop & Class Notes
3-day Workshops (Thursday – Saturday) or 1-day classes (as scheduled) run from 9am – 4pm each day. Students must be out of the classrooms when the Museum closes at 5:00 pm.
Each student will have use of one 3’x6’ table, with a max of 20 students per workshop.
Irons and ironing boards are provided by NQM, and shared by all participants.
NQM has Janome 6700 sewing machines available for use if you are unable to bring your own. There is no charge, but please request a machine prior to the start of class.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Becky with questions or concerns at bglasby@quiltmuseum.org