Learn
- Lectures and workshops are offered online through our Blue Barn Quilt Guild website.
- Classes are provided in-person at Blue Barn Quilt Co. headquarters.
Lectures
Typically occurring on the second Tuesday of each month, a lecture features an expert in the quilting field speaking for about an hour on an interesting subject.
Workshops
Occurring typically on the third Saturday of each month, our previous lecturer returns to provide a three- to six-hour online workshop. For these events, a supply list will be provided and you can source your own supplies or purchase them in kit form here on our website.
Browse and buy lecture and workshop tickets
Tutorials
Free Patterns
Here are some links to excellent free patterns on the web for making beautiful quilts!
- Bon Bini Sunset
- Moonlight Sonata
- Entwine
- Cosmos
- Elation
- Mega Pixel
- Thoughts
- Lazuli
- Stripy
- Luminance
- Soleil
- Flying Colours
- Florian
- Joyous Picnic
- Mariposas
- Mountains
- Plenum
- Upstairs Downstairs
- Butterfly
- Metropolitan
- X’s & O’s Love Story
Classes
In-person classes will begin in September 2022.
Watch this space for further developments.
Longarm Certification
Learn to Longarm Quilt Certification Class
Location: Blue Barn Quilt Co. Studio
3 hours $150
Learn to use our APQS Longarm Quilting Machine so that you can rent our machine and finish your own quilts! In this class you will learn how to:
- prepare your quilt top for longarm quilting
- load your quilt on the frame
- do basic operation of the longarm quilting machine
- line up and stitch an easy all over pantograph pattern
- advance your quilt and line up the pantograph pattern
This three-hour class is required to rent our machine. Included in the cost of this class is two hours of rental time once you have completed the certification.
This class is available anytime between Monday and Saturday and is three hours in length.