Creative Quilting Design Course

Description Joanie Zeier Poole shows how to create elegant quilting with her easy-to-use paper template system. With just a few simple tools, you will learn how to confidently approach borders, minimize and enlarge quilting motifs to fit your quilt measurements, and how to divide the spaces on your quilt top to add those beautiful quilting stitches that make quilts so very special. Joanie shares how to find quilting inspiration from stencils, patterns, or 3-D objects and use them to fill squares, triangles, and more. Play with the size of designs and minimize or maximize them for optimal visual advantage. Transfer quilt patterns onto your quilt tops with ease. A great class for beginners! For your convenience, this class can be purchased for online viewing or purchased on DVD. Click here for full curriculum, supply lists, and more.    Joanie Zeier Poole is an award-winning quilter who uses innovative appliqué and thread illustrations to create original quilts that express her personal stories. She enjoys sharing her skills and experience in lectures and workshops. Her encouraging teaching style appeals to students and puts them in the best frame of mind to learn. She is an author and pattern designer who recently earned a degree in graphic design. Her educational background enables her to blend her passion for quiltmaking with twenty-first century technology to create unique quilting design collections in a sophisticated and elegant style.