Join your knowledgeable quilting instructor Colleen Tauke for Tool Time Retreat and discover the tools that will help you bring your quilt visions to life! She’ll provide in-depth demonstrations showing you a variety of tools to cut and piece four key shapes: circles, hexagons, diamonds, and triangles. With her guidance, you’ll learn how to use the tools that may be familiar to you as well as a few new ones to make your next quilting project smoother, easier, and more creative!
Class Sessions
Session 1: Introduction
1:02
Join quilting instructor Colleen Tauke to learn all about tools! Colleen will cover a range of quilting tools you may be familiar with as well as a few new ones, too. She’ll guide you through various types of piecing including circles, diamonds, hexagons, and triangles to give you the tools you’ll need to bring your quilt vision to life.
Session 2: Savvy Circles
24:14
Circles can be intimidating for many quilters, with tricky curved lines that are often a challenge to cut and stitch. Don’t be daunted! It’s time to embrace those curves with the help of a few tools and the guidance of your quilting instructor, Colleen. Follow along to learn about a few tools that will help you come full circle on your next project.
Session 3: Hello Hexagons
24:43
Hexagons are a fantastic shape that create tons of visual appeal in your quilt patterns. While highly geometric, they also can be found in nature, lending a cozy, organic quality to your designs that can’t be mistaken. In this lesson, Colleen will walk you through cutting, piecing, and arranging your hexagons in various ways and which tools will help in the process.
Session 4: Dazzling Diamonds
22:52
Diamonds are a quilter’s best friend! If you’ve ever wondered what those angled lines are for on your quilting rulers, you’re about to find out. Learn how to easily cut your diamonds so that your next quilt will really sparkle. Colleen will demonstrate a few different ways of cutting these dazzling shapes using a standard ruler and a specialty diamond ruler.
Session 5: Tackling Triangles
22:28
Triangles are the most common shape in all of quilting, making them essential to master. With their many angles, they add motion and interest to your quilts, giving the eye something special to look at. Follow along as Colleen shows you how to work with bias edges to cut your triangles using a few tools that will help you avoid distortion and frustration.
Your Instructor
Colleen Tauke
Colleen Tauke is a quilter, designer, and quilt educator with 40+ years of sewing experience. Of those, the last 17 years have been focused around quilting.
Early in her quilting endeavors, she was challenged to piece a quilt that seemed daunting. Fussy cutting, Y-seams, strip piecing, hourglass blocks, a pieced border, and appliqué—all in ONE quilt. This was her first bed sized quilt that would later become a quilt shop sample and win third-place at the Iowa State Fair in the “My First Quilt” division. Since then, she was hooked!
Bonus Material
Class Resource: Tool Time Retreat
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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