Quilting — Slow Stitching: Building a Creative Practice
6-Week Session
October 6 — November 10, 2024
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10
Creativity is held well through soft materials, creating something of nothing, and slow stitching. Through this foundational quilting course we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our internal patterns and preferences, and move towards what feels close. This class is not project based. We will start with quilting basics by making a very tiny quilt, and after, as we continue learning more techniques, will individually decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next. Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice!
This class will create using both hand-sewing techniques and sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are welcome to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 18+
Skill Level: 1-4, All levels welcome, though sewing machine experience is quite helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
6-Week Session
October 6 — November 10, 2024
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10
Creativity is held well through soft materials, creating something of nothing, and slow stitching. Through this foundational quilting course we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our internal patterns and preferences, and move towards what feels close. This class is not project based. We will start with quilting basics by making a very tiny quilt, and after, as we continue learning more techniques, will individually decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next. Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice!
This class will create using both hand-sewing techniques and sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are welcome to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 18+
Skill Level: 1-4, All levels welcome, though sewing machine experience is quite helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
6-Week Session
October 6 — November 10, 2024
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10
Creativity is held well through soft materials, creating something of nothing, and slow stitching. Through this foundational quilting course we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our internal patterns and preferences, and move towards what feels close. This class is not project based. We will start with quilting basics by making a very tiny quilt, and after, as we continue learning more techniques, will individually decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next. Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice!
This class will create using both hand-sewing techniques and sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are welcome to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 18+
Skill Level: 1-4, All levels welcome, though sewing machine experience is quite helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
Instructor: Rae Heller
Rae Heller (b. NYC 1988) is a visual artist primarily working in large scale quilts. Rae graduated from Simmons College with a BA in Arts Administration and Art. Rae’s work focuses on pattern, play, and process and beginning in 2021, turned toward textiles. Rae hopes to create work with sustainability in mind; using repurposed fabric, all scrap fabrics, by-products of the art making process become new ways to create. After the unresolved death of a friend in 2022, Rae's art process aims to hold the immense pain and paradoxical aliveness of grief. Celebrating and struggling with duality is held in the durable softness of quilts.
Rae has pieces in private collections across the US and in Europe, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2024).
When not making art, Rae works as an American Sign Language Interpreter, makes all natural deodorant, plays canasta and other team sports, and gardens. Rae lives and creates on the unceded land of the Abenaki people, Wantastegok, or Brattleboro, VT with Rae's partner Steve and tripod dog named Bagel.