Heidi has become known for her Diary Quilts at QuiltCon, Quilt National, as 2024 Artist in Residence at the Pfister Hotel, and in her current exhibition at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts: Soft Magic. Enjoy this unique opportunity to learn from her, and try your hand with this special approach to quiltmaking.

Join her this spring 2025 for Diary Quilting! This class introduces you to personal narrative, code, abstraction, logging daily life, dreaming about the future, and reframing the past. This healing practice focuses on hand piecing a quilt top, and allows you to work with any techniques that you like. Heidi will offer guidance on composition, aesthetics, storytelling, technique, and the art of diary. This class is beginner-friendly and also provides welcome challenges for skilled quilters. If you’ve studied Diary Quilting with her in years past, this iteration holds the topic at a new angle, and welcomes you back.

We will meet on an exclusive Mighty Network platform with pre-recorded instruction and live sharing times that accommodate multiple time zones:

• Saturdays noon-2pm Central: 4/12, 5/17

• Mondays 6-8pm Central : 4/14, 4/28, 5/12

• Tuesdays 11am-1pm Central: 4/22, 5/6, 7/29

Learn more and register here!

Have you ever tried to keep a paper diary? Sometimes it’s easier with cloth! Heidi will lead students in creating a Diary Quilt top in this 5-day class. Heidi will teach strategies for efficient stitching, ways to balance abstraction and precision, and will guide students in riding the line between personal and public. A Diary Quilt can reframe the past, record the present, and represent dreams for the future. Different from a memoir, diaries are tools, holders of secrets, and spaces for play. Quilt top construction will focus on hand piecing, but Heidi will also do a few sewing machine demos in class.

Students will receive a wealth of information in advance, with videos on handwork techniques, and a welcome video to spark creativity and offer guidance in collecting and packing fabrics.

Class Schedule: Monday-Friday, May 12-16, 2025
10 am - 4 pm each day

Learn more and register here!

In person at Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts

Join Heidi in St Cloud, MN for a variety of classes on piecing, quilting, and hand care!

Lecture: Hand Yoga & Body Care - Thurs, June 19, 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Classes:
—Scrap Quilting - Wed, June 18, 8:30am - 4pm
—Visible Hand Piecing - Thurs, June 19, 8:30am - 11:30am
—Framed Quilting in a Day - Fri, June 20, 8:30am - 4pm
—Improv Hand Quilting - Sat, June 21, 8:30am - 4pm

Learn more and register here!

Sometimes it’s fun to go fast! We will sew with intuition and convenience front of mind in this class focused on the exploration of shape, color, and visual movement. We’ll start with machine piecing to efficiently discover the personalities of our fabrics and will then transition into hand applique and piecing to complete our medium-sized quilt tops. Mid-week, we’ll transition to hand quilting. On our last day, we’ll explore hand binding and/or framing our quilts on a wooden frame.

Students will have access to pre-recorded technique videos before class, including my Framed Quilts On-Demand class.

Learn more about the class here.

ONE SPOT has opened as of 3/18/2025

*as needed, join the waitlist by emailing Chris via: dyecandy@gmail.com

In person at Woodland Ridge Retreat

Experience hand quilting and design inspiration in Japan with Heidi and skilled tour guide Takako Willden. Featuring sewing time with Heidi (bring a project!), hands-on workshops, arts & culture tours, admission to the Yokohama Quilt Festival, and more, this intimate tour is the perfect way to travel. We will also have several virtual sessions with Heidi prior to departure. We are excited to be traveling with the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts this year.

Learn more and register here!