Latifah Saafir Workshop: Exploring Clamshells
July 23 – 25, 2026
Class runs 9am – 4pm each day.
$495 Public/ $396 NQM Friend
In this immersive three-day workshop, you’ll master the techniques for designing & sewing with this fun shape. Explore a traditional-inspired design, play with scale and modern layouts, or try a variation of the shape in your unique creation of a clamshell quilt.
Update 5/7/2026: Change of theme for the class from Half Rectangle Triangles (HRTs) to Clamshells. Full Supply list to come shortly!
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.