Santa Sack - piecing using your IQ
Let's go through the process of designing, piecing and quilting a ' Santa Sack' just in time for Christmas.
🎁 Unlock the Secret to Longarm Piecing: Create a Stunning Santa Sack in Time for Christmas! 🎄
Are you ready to use your Longarm and Intelliquilter system for more than just quilting?
Imagine piecing an entire project—quickly, accurately, and all on your longarm frame—to create a cherished, personalized Santa Sack for the holidays! This course goes beyond edge-to-edge quilting, showing you how to harness the power of your computer system to design, piece, and quilt a unique holiday treasure.
🌟 What You Will Learn to Master (The Key Benefits!)
This course focuses on teaching you advanced techniques that will transform how you approach all your future projects, utilizing your longarm for precision piecing and intricate detail work:
- Precision Piecing on Your Longarm:
Learn the revolutionary technique of using your longarm for accurate fabric placement and piecing, saving you time at the domestic machine. - Custom Design Mastery:
Go step-by-step through designing personalized alphabet letters and intricate framework for a truly unique gift. - Intelliquilter Power Tools:
Unlock high-level functions like Splitting Patterns, Smooth Pattern, and Transitions to handle complex designs with ease. - Advanced Threadwork:
Master decorative techniques like Threadpainting and Couching directly on the longarm for show-stopping texture and dimension. - Universal Applicability:
While demonstrated on the Intelliquilter system, the underlying techniques and design principles are 100% transferable to any computer system or longarm machine.
🛠️ Featured Tools & Techniques Covered
We'll be using and demystifying powerful features within your system, giving you confidence for any design challenge:
- Creating & Clipping Blocks
- Placing Designs & Guidelines
- Splitting Patterns & Echo Pattern
- Pantograph in Unusual Shapes
- Transitions, Line Pattern (for alphabet), and Smooth Pattern
- Couching
📋 The Course Curriculum (Detailed Roadmap to Success!)
We've restructured the curriculum to highlight the skills you gain in each section:
Module 1: Design & Preparation
- Choosing Your Supply List:
Selecting the right fabrics, threads, and tools for success. - Designing the Framework on Your Intelliquilter:
Setting up the essential structure for accurate piecing and quilting. - Designing Your Personalized Alphabet Letters:
Creating unique letters using the Line Pattern tool and preparing them for threadpainting.
Module 2: Building the Quilt Top
- Building Your Quilt Top by Piecing Using Your Longarm:
The core technique! Learn precise fabric positioning and piecing entirely on the frame. - Designing the Threadpainting in the Letters:
Adding depth and dimension to your personalization.
Module 3: Quilting & Embellishment
- Stitching the Letter Fills and Then Couching the Letters:
Master two distinct embellishment techniques for incredible texture. - Choosing a Feature Design:
Selecting a quilting motif that complements the sack. - Filling the Star with Inside Spiral Echo & Couching the Tree and Trunk:
Applying detailed quilting to feature elements.
Module 4: Finishing
- Finish with Trimming and Binding:
Professional techniques for a high-quality finished project.
BONUS VALUE!
PDF Handout: A complete set of ready-to-use letters and numbers to assist with quick digitizing, saving you hours of design time!
Course Pricing
Santa Sack - piecing using your IQ
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One time fee
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- Design the framework using IQ
- Piecing on your longarm
- Design alphabet letters to fill
- Couching your outlines
- Splitting a design to change colours
- Finishing your Santa Sack
Tracey Browning
Over 30 years being in the quilting business, Tracey has experience in so many areas that she is keen to share with you. From her early years as a quilt teacher, quilt designer, pattern designer, magazine and quilting books contributor to then moving into longarm machine quilting for customers, becoming the Australian Dealer for A1 Quilting machines and Intelliquilter computer systems. Her own customers have long applauded her dedication to mentoring and supporting them as they learn and grow.
The Intelliquilter (IQ) support and knowledge provided by Tracey Browning is first rate! Her experience as both an A1 Quilting machine & IQ dealer and award-winning machine quilter are invaluable in assisting me with any technical issues I have had over the years. I am so impressed by her knowledge that I purchased a membership to IQ Machine Quilting Academy as soon as I heard about it. Highly recommend Tracey’s skill and know how!
Carla Barrett
Longarm quilter and International quilting teacher
