Instructor

Hruska, Dorie
Dorie Hruska has a deep passion for color, texture, and design. She is a 4th generation quilter, author, pattern designer, APQS dealer & Educator, and Professional Longarm quilter since 2002, with a background in Business & Accounting. Although she uses a variety of quilting designs and styles, Dorie is best known for her ability to find a continuous quilting path on any quilt. She has also designed over 30 grid stencils, several grid based design books, and numerous quilt patterns. Sharing her passion of quilting and encouraging others to quilt with confidence is what she loves most about teaching. For more information, visit https://www.forever-quilting.com.

Instructor Workshops

Connecting Designs to Help You Find Your Path, #345505

Color/Design
Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Truman Room
Hruska, Dorie
All Levels
$80
Plus Kit Fee

Learn the benefits of one-start, one-stop, continuous quilting. Save time by pre-planning for less frustration and improved confidence in your quilting. This class is based on Dorie's book, Making Connections, which teaches 12 connecting designs and how to use them effectively in pieced quilts, backgrounds, sashing, and borders. Her teaching style is hands-on, beginning with foundational information and then building on the foundation. This class also covers design discussion using tops brought in by students and is for all quilters!

www.forever-quilting.com/

Designing and Drawing a Mandala, #345503

Color/Design
Thursday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Truman Room
Hruska, Dorie
All Levels
$80
Plus Kit Fee

Don’t deny it – you’ve been eyeing those beautiful circular designs for a while now! It’s the perfect time to learn to design a Mandala whole cloth quilt from the Mandala Master herself. Dorie will teach you all you need to know about designing a Mandala using stencils to provide the structure for drawing beautiful floral and row fillers that work well in circular designs. Her teaching style is informative and hands-on. Best of all, encourages quilters to think through the design processes!

www.forever-quilting.com/

Floral Confetti: Explore Freehand Designs, #348520

Quilting/Finishing-DOMESTIC MACHINE
Wednesday, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Van Buren Room
Hruska, Dorie
All Levels
$80
Plus Kit Fee

Explore a combination of natural freehand overall designs that work together to create a complex garden of quilting, based on Dorie's book, Floral Confetti. In this hands-on class, Dorie will teach you how to break down the designs, how and where to use them, and how to combine the elements to create a flowing continuous design. Dorie's hands-on teaching style is very user-friendly! Dorie will teach the foundation of the concept and builds in layers on the foundation to give you the complete concept.

www.forever-quilting.com/

Janome

Connecting Designs to Help You Find Your Path, #345505

Hruska, Dorie
Friday
Truman Room

Learn the benefits of one-start, one-stop, continuous quilting. Save time by pre-planning for less frustration and improved confidence in your quilting. This class is based on Dorie's book, Making Connections, which teaches 12 connecting designs and how to use them effectively in pieced quilts, backgrounds, sashing, and borders. Her teaching style is hands-on, beginning with foundational information and then building on the foundation. This class also covers design discussion using tops brought in by students and is for all quilters!

www.forever-quilting.com/

Designing and Drawing a Mandala, #345503

Hruska, Dorie
Thursday
Truman Room

Don’t deny it – you’ve been eyeing those beautiful circular designs for a while now! It’s the perfect time to learn to design a Mandala whole cloth quilt from the Mandala Master herself. Dorie will teach you all you need to know about designing a Mandala using stencils to provide the structure for drawing beautiful floral and row fillers that work well in circular designs. Her teaching style is informative and hands-on. Best of all, encourages quilters to think through the design processes!

www.forever-quilting.com/

Floral Confetti: Explore Freehand Designs, #348520

Hruska, Dorie
Wednesday
Van Buren Room

Explore a combination of natural freehand overall designs that work together to create a complex garden of quilting, based on Dorie's book, Floral Confetti. In this hands-on class, Dorie will teach you how to break down the designs, how and where to use them, and how to combine the elements to create a flowing continuous design. Dorie's hands-on teaching style is very user-friendly! Dorie will teach the foundation of the concept and builds in layers on the foundation to give you the complete concept.

www.forever-quilting.com/

Janome