Latifah Saafir Workshop: Exploring Clamshells
July 23 – 25, 2026
Class runs 9am – 4pm each day.
$495 Public/ $396 NQM Friend
Join quilt designer and tool creator Latifah Saafir for a three-day intensive exploration of the clamshell shape using either the Glam Clam or Clam Toss quilt pattern as a creative framework. Students can experiment with several pickle dish variations while exploring color, line, movement, and form through curved piecing and thoughtful fabric placement.
Discussions and exercises will focus not only on construction, but also on design exploration – helping students better understand how fabric placement, value, scale, and repetition can completely transform the look and energy of a quilt.
This hands-on workshop includes plenty of sewing time, and some students may leave with a completed quilt top or close to completion depending on pace and quilt size. Students may pre-purchase and use any size The Clammy™ ruler for class, including the Giant 16″ and 24″ Clammy™ rulers.
Latifah Saafir
Latifah Saafir is a Professional Seam Ripper, Fabric Hoarder, and unapologetic Quilt Nerd.
Armed with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, she justifies all those calculus classes by inventing clever, multi-functional tools that make quilters wonder how they ever lived without them.
She’s on a mission to make the “scary stuff” in quilting — like curves, bias tape appliqué, and half-rectangle triangles — not only approachable but actually fun. Her Quilt Cadets line brings kids into the fold (sometimes literally), fueling the next generation of sewists one project at a time.
Latifah also happens to be one of the original instigators behind the Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild and co-founder of the Modern Quilt Guild worldwide — all in pursuit of her secret plan to fill the world with quilt-y friends.
When she’s not teaching (her first love), you’ll find her in front of a computer, furiously tinkering with patterns, chasing the elusive viral quilt design, and plotting new ways to make quilting both joyful and unapologetically creative.