2025 – 2026 Virtual Workshops

Sunny Scraps

Instructor: Krista Moser
Cost: $ 62 for workshop.
Must also own or purchase the Creative Grids 60 Degree Diamond 8.5″ large ruler.
The pattern is free.
Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm (Eastern)
Location: Online via Zoom
Website: https://kristamoser.com/

Virtual Workshop Description

Krista wrote to her followers: “It’s funny how inspiration strikes sometimes. I’m always dreaming up new block ideas and just this week I thought I’d try an idea for a Sunflower. It turned out even better than in my head, and I just used scraps!! There’s a Sunflower Festival this time of year at one of the farms near my house. I’ve driven by the sign these last few weekends and that’s when this idea was born… sunflowers…hmmm (taps chin), I wonder how I could make that into a block.

Join Krista and RCQG to make one or more blocks in your favourite colours for a table topper, table runner, wall hanging or quilt.

Instructor Bio

Krista Moser is the creative force and inspiration behind Krista Moser, The Quilted Life. A sewing enthusiast and quilt pattern designer, she has published more than 30 patterns since 2016 with more in development. She is the designer of the Creative Grids 60 Degree Diamond Rulers and has been teaching sewing and quilting lessons for more than 25 years. Her work has been featured in quilting magazines, published in books, and hung in prominent quilt shops around the country. She is wild about all things quilting and loves to share her passion. 

Come learn from Krista all the tips and tricks for cutting and piecing diamonds, triangles, and hexagons in an easy, fast, and precise way. If you have been wanting to break out of the same old quilting routine and try something different, her classes will inspire confidence and equip you with new techniques.  

Custom Edge-to-Edge Walking Foot Quilting Workshop

Instructor: Melissa Marginet
Cost: $ 41
Must also own or purchase the book: Edge-to-Edge Walking Foot Quilting Designs
$30.00 CAD plus shipping
Dates: Saturday, January 31, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm [Eastern]
Location: Online via Zoom
Website: http://melissamarginet.ca/

Virtual Workshop Description

Do you dislike burying threads? By quilting from edge to edge you will not have to bury any threads (unless your bobbin runs out or your thread breaks). But just because you are quilting from edge to edge, doesn’t mean you are limited to a boring quilt design or following the same pattern throughout the quilt. Join me in this class where you will be quilting a simple pixel quilt by using my Custom Edge to Edge Walking Foot Quilting technique. (Note: You will be required to make the quilt top prior to class if not also taking Creating a Pixel Quilt. Instructions will be provided upon registration.) ​– Based on my book, Edge-to-Edge Walking Foot Quilting Designs which is required for the class.

Skill level: All levels

Instructor Bio

Melissa is a Canadian quilter, author, designer, and teacher. She is an avid quilter whose passion is to teach and inspire other quilters. She is known for quilting with a walking foot. Melissa teaches her techniques and empowers quilters to quilt their own quilts on their home sewing machines.

Using Up the Bits: How to Organize AND USE Your Scraps and Ideas into Ready-to-go Quilt Designs

Instructor: Lynn Dykstra
Cost: $ 41
No additional costs
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm [Eastern]
Location: Online via Zoom
Website: https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/

Virtual Workshop Description

Scrap quilting is a wonderful way to express your own personal sense of style and color preferences. We will be using scraps of fabrics you chose for no other reason than you have the fabric. These scraps will be from leftovers of quilts you have already made, fabric you bought because it was Wonderful! On Sale! Appealing for whatever reason! And maybe from gift fabric others gave to you that you have no clue what to do with. Add in some scraps you gather from friends and you will have gathered AND USE fabrics that reflect you more than any planned quilt would do.

Instructor Bio

Lynn Dykstra has been quilting since childhood thanks to having a mother who encouraged nurturing that creative side. An active blogger since 2015, she shares patterns and ideas and encourages others to adapt them.

She served as Illinois Quilters Inc. as  president for three terms.

Lynn is a nurse and teaches at Northern Illinois University.

She grew up on a farm in Iowa which she continues to manage with her sisters.

Lynn and her husband of 40 years are empty nesters and live in the west loop of Chicago.