Wendy Sheppard

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Wendy’s interest for quilts was born out of her love for early and colonial American history. Being from Southeast Asia, she had not had much exposure to quilts due to the fact that quilts are mainly a Western “thing”. Through reading, she became aware of and loved the look of the Baltimore quilts, but still didn’t catch the quilting bug mainly because she didn’t know how to sew.

After being repeatedly encouraged by a friend, Wendy decided to give quilting a try years later. Little did she know how much she would enjoy making her first quilt, and before she knew it, she was making her second, third, fourth, and fifth quilts!

Wendy’s work is frequently featured in Quilting magazines and publications. She designs quilting patterns, teaches machine quilting at all levels, and has 2 lines of Aurifil threads, Subtle Strings and Marmalade Meadows.

Blog: Ivory Spring

Lecture: My Two Cents on Free Motion Quilting – (cancelled)
Saturday afternoon

In this lecture and trunk show, Wendy will share her quilts quilted on her domestic machine as well as tips. She will share a PowerPoint of different principles in how she decides what to quilt on her quilts.

Class: One Block in Three Sizes = One Wall hanging – (cancelled)
(6 hours – Friday)

In this class, Wendy will select a block that will work well for creating the block in three sizes. This class will be a “sewing class” with you constructing the quilt top.

Materials and Supplies

  • 5/8 yard pieces of 6 fabrics
  • 1.5 yards of background
  • 1.25 yards of border fabric, if desired
  • Sewing machine and normal sewing equipment

Note to students: A kit for the quilt shown above is available thru Keepsake Quilting if you choose to purchase it. The class will focus of making the blocks with very accurate results.

Class: How Could I Quilt It? – (cancelled)
(3 hours – Saturday morning)

This class will explore different ways to quilt one block. The lecture portion will last about 1 hour, with hands-on work for the rest of class. Wendy will help students doodle on paper various ways you might quilt a block. And then, they would be given time to come up with how might custom quilt their block. For hands-on experience, you can make a quilt block in class, and quilt it in class.

Materials and Supplies

  • Paper and eraser
  • Small amount of fabric to make 1 block: say 4 fat quarters with varied values
  • 2 pieces of 12” by 12” backing fabric
  • 2 pieces of 12” by 12” batting pieces
  • Quilt basting pins
  • Sewing machine with Free Motion foot
  • Thread to match fabric
  • Normal sewing supplies.

Class: Calico Trail – (cancelled)
(3 hours – Sunday morning)

Students will learn to make a few blocks, and then, they will go home to make enough for the entire quilt. But this class will deal with precision in piecing and students (including some novices) will leave the class will very accurately pieced blocks.

Materials and Supplies
– for a throw pillow top

  • A variety of fabrics with 12 fat quarters
  • 2 yards of background fabric (yardage includes pillow case backing)
  • Sewing machine in good working order
  • Normal sewing and cutting equipment