Latifah Saafir Workshop: Half REctangle Triangle Design School
July 23 – 25, 2026
Class runs 9am – 4pm each day.
$495 Public/ $396 NQM Friend
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.
By the end of class, you’ll leave with:
- A full toolkit for making HRTs in all sizes and ratios with accuracy and confidence.
- A solid start to a quilt top of your own design (or series of mini compositions).
- A deeper understanding of design principles you can apply to any quilt.
Whether you love clean modern lines or even love fresh traditional shapes, HRT Design School will open up a whole new world of creative possibility.
Supply List
Fabric:
- A selection of fabric of light, medium and dark values – at least 4-6 fat quarters (or larger) of each.
- Neutral Thread
- Rotary Cutter
- Seam Roller
- Long Acrylic Ruler
- HuRTy 1, 2 and/or 3 (It’s recommended that you bring all three – find them on Latifah’s website: https://shop.latifahsaafirstudios.com/collections/the-hurty)
- Straight pins
- Sewing Machine, foot pedal, cords
- Regular sewing tools
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.