In response to many requests for a class on New York Beauties, I am tossing around the notion of offering a spring quilting workshop, to be held here in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Our project for the day will be the table-topper “Maritime Beauty”.
It’s a great learning piece, as it encompasses so many techniques – curves, spikes, and making and applying bias binding to a curved edge. You also get to turn 4 inside corners with that binding!| Quilted with a walking foot |
Instead of regular foundation piecing, we will do paperless paper-piecing (also known as freezer paper piecing) which results in perfect points with no messy paper to remove afterwards.
| A variation of Maritime Beauty, featuring fussy cut centres. |
More Beauties can be viewed here.
EDIT: Update, the class is scheduled for Tuesday April 21, from 9-3, here in Amherst. Email for more info



