Cedar Ridge Quilting

Cyndi is available for trunk shows, lectures and workshops for your quilt guild or club! 

Currently Cyndi is offering the following trunk shows and lectures:



LECTURES

Reheated Leftovers

In this one hour presentation Cyndi shows you how to organize your stash so you can see what you really have and where you might need to fill in colors or essentials and how to use all the leftover "stuff" from extra strips, snippets and trimmings from other projects to create a stash of useable and functional building blocks for more quilts! Create something from nothing!

Panel Palooza

As seen on TheQuiltShow.com, explore panels in ways you never imagined. Cyndi will guide you how to work best with panels, how to insert panel sections into existing blocks, adding pieced borders, and doing the graphing and math to create unique quilts that all began with a panel.

Math for Quilters

Most quilters perceive of math as a four letter word! Explore how math can be your friend in changing the size of a published pattern, making blocks, borders and fillers fit a quilt you've designed, figure yardages for borders, backing, binding and more!

WORKSHOPS

Lone Star **New**

Lone Star quilts are usually reserved for advanced quilters, but never fear, there are ways to simplify this complicated quilt! In this one-hour trunk show and lecture Cyndi shares a wide variety of Lone Star and Lone Star inspired quilts, settings and variations. Get inspired to takle one of these beauties! 

Reheated Leftovers – Pick Up Stix 

What quilter wouldn't like free fabric to make more quilts? Discover how to use your leftovers to create beautiful quilts without a trip to the quilt store! Create something from nothing!

Three hour workshop - begin to organize your stash, sort and create useable units from all your leftovers.  Once the participants have created useable units, Cyndi will then teach you how to let lose and create a fun and funky quilt from various sizes of strips and squares!

Supply List available upon request



Reheated Leftovers – Four Square

Three hour workshop  - use true leftovers to create this whimsical quilt set with traditional sashing and corner stones, finished with a funky, scrappy border.

Supply List available upon request

Combine the two workshops for a full day of Reheated Leftovers where we will create blocks for both quilts - 5 hours.

Panel Palooza

Bring a panel or two, explore how to square up your panel sections, add interesting block treatments, borders and fill the open spaces with patchwork or applique to create a truly unique quilt. Basic graphing will be addressed in this workshop.

Supply List available upon request

Math for Quilters

Explore math for the creative quilter who wants to know how to figure yardages, enlarge or decrease the size of a block, a quilt or other quilting project from an existing pattern, learn to calculate borders, bindings and backings. Dscover the fun of drafting quilt blocks to several sizes as well as figuring the best way to economize on fabric.

Supply List avaible upon request.

Increasing Color in Your Stash

*** New for 2018 ***

Explore the basics of color theory, paired with the psychology of color to increase the colors in your stash. Take inventory and work through a series of exercises to learn what and how to add more color to your quilt making stash!

Beautiful and Creative Borders

Discover ways to add interest and excitement to your quilts by enchansing the borders! Discover simple techniques from two-color borders to complex borders with creative patchwork. Learn how to make borders fit in creative ways and how to work with "disappearing borders."

Beyond Basic Bindings 

There are many ways to complete the edge of your quilt from basic straight grain double-fold bindings, to bias bindings, bindings with faux piping, decorative stich bindings and much more!

Drafting 

Learn how to analize, disect and draft quilt blocks you've found in antique quilts and draft them into a variety of sizes! A must have skill for all quilters!

Jelly Roll Sew-In

Grab a Jelly Roll and work through one of the many patterns available today. Enjoy learning Cyndi's many short cuts, tips and tricks for making most Jelly Roll patters faster, easier and more fun!

Studio Organization

Cyndi has dozens of ideas she'd love to share with you to help you create and organized, functional and fun studio. Let's find ways together to make your studio more efficient and comfortable to work in!

Designing Successful Row Quilts

Row quilts are especially popular right now and adding quilt blocks of various sizes and designs will bring out your creative side, making these quilts more exciting and fun! Learn about the importance of scale, complimentary designs and what to watch for when designing a successful row quilt.

Details, details, details…….

Workshop Fees

3 hour workshop                           $300 

5 hour workshop             $500 

6 hour workshop                           $650 

Lecture and trunk show     $225

Travel by car: Actual round-trip mileage billed at the current IRS rate

Travel by air: All round trip expenses, including ground transportation, baggage fees etc.

Cyndi prefers to book her own travel arrangements, seeks the most reasonable airfare possible, and will verify costs with your group before booking. Sponsoring group will arrange for ground transportation to include transportation from airport to lodging, from lodging to workshop/lecture venue and airport return.

Meals: Provided where appropriate or reimbursed

Lodging: Lodging is necessary if venue is more than 100 miles (one-way) and is provided by the host group. Cyndi prefers to stay in a safe, reasonably-priced hotel in a single, non-smoking room.  

Contact Cyndi by email:

cyndi@cedarridgequilting.com

telephone:

(719) 289-4928

or postal mail:

324 Cedar Ridge Dr.,

Canon City, CO 81212