SIX HOUR WORKSHOPS - Most of Mary's workshops emphasize color and design. There is always teacher guidance and encouragement in making individual choices. Click HERE for more lecture/workshop information.

Piece a jazzed-up version of the traditional block Circle within Circle by arranging the block units in a non-traditional way. This is a great quilt to show off special collections of fabric like dots, novelty prints, and hand-dyes. (Acrylic templates available.)

Colorway Dots
1999
19" x 19"

FOOLPROOF MACHINE QUILTING:
THE BASICS

A complete “nuts and bolts” introductory and review class for quilting with the walking foot. (Dropping the feed dogs is absolutely forbidden.) Learn about quilt prep, and needle, thread, and batting selection. Master the steps from beginning to completed quilt. Ergonomics stressed.
(Foolproof Machine Quilting, C&T 8/08)

Basket (detail)

FOOLPROOF MACHINE QUILTING:
THE FUN STUFF

Be more creative with the walking foot than just stitching in the ditch. Create your own designs for blocks and borders by paper folding simple shapes. Use Mary’s no-marking method to stitch your designs with heavy threads on top of the machine. Add decorative stitching. (Foolproof Machine Quilting, C&T 8/08)

Out-of-Sight-Circles (detail)

OPPOSITES ATTRACT!
(Confetti Quilts)

Learn how to make your favorite (or least favorite) color look better, or even great. Stretch and try using opposite colors on the color wheel (complements, extended complements, or triad). Project limited to one-piece Pinwheel block, but Mary includes a second template for a smashing border. (Acrylic templates available.)

PIZZA QUILT

Many layouts and fabric combinations are possible when you create your own pizza using Mary’s contemporary pieced block. Have fun learning about dominant and supportive areas and using a design wall. (Acrylic templates available.)

STRIPES GO CONTEMPORARY
(Confetti Quilts)

Why waste time strip piecing to make a contemporary quilt? Stripes look wonderful cut up and pieced in Serpentine Curves, Mary's two-piece block. It's easily changed, rotated, and recombined. Use commercially printed and woven stripes or even dye your own stripes. (Acrylic templates available.)

Trumpet Vine
1997
59" x 59"

WAGON WHEEL QUILT
(Cotton Candy, Confetti, and Fon's and Porter's Love of Quilting 5/6/2006)

Have it your way: make it look traditional or contemporary because you choose the kind of fabrics and decide to make a one-color or many-color background. Tips on piecing. (Acrylic templates available.)

Wheels for Mary Bozak
2003
50" x 51"

WHIRLIGIG QUILT
(Kaffe Fassett's Country Garden Quilts)

Mary has designed nine quilts for the Kaffe Fassett series from Rowan. She simplified the traditional block Airship Propellor from Confetti Quilts. Use Kaffe’s fabrics or any others for this fun project. Great for dots, stripes, florals, hand-dyes, and novelty prints. YoYos and buttons optional! (Acrylic templates available.)

THREE HOUR CLASSES - Offered at conferences only.

CREATING GREAT QUILT BORDERS WITH PIECED STRIPES

Learn four smashing borders from a stripe expert. Repeat simple shapes like squares and triangles: let stripes do the work! Easy calculations from someone who doesn't balance her check book.

Vegetable Shirt
1996
23.5" x 23.5"

CREATING QUILTING DESIGNS WITH CONTACT AND FREEZER PAPERS FOR MACHINE QUILTING WITH THE WALKING FOOT

No more marking lines that don't come out. See how easy it is to paper cut your own block and border designs. Learn to evaluate and adapt commercial templates. No sewing

New Zealand (detail)

DESIGNING WORKSPACES FOR QUILTERS

83% of dedicated quilters (those who spend at least $600/year) have a quilting room. Create a new space or evaluate and spruce up your present one. Lighting, window treatments, flooring, work areas, storage, and special furnishings discussed. (American Quilter, Fall '03)

Taylor Studio

PIECED FAN BASKET
(Cotton Candy Quilts)

Enjoy selecting vintage fabrics and stitching this fun block while learning about fabrics of the mid-twentieth century when quilts, out of necessity, were often pieced from scraps. Group fabric stash provided with fee. (Acrylic templates available.)

Red Baskets (detail)
Collection of Susan Dague

TRIANGULAR STRING QUILT
(Cotton Candy Quilts)

A great "hard times" quilt machine pieced over paper or tear-away the "old-fashioned" way. Have fun using up the scraps of scraps and learn how to feel truly frugal.

Triangular String Quilt (detail)
Collection of Susan Dague