Quilting: Basics & Beyond

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April 19 — May 10, 2026
Instructor: Rae Heller

Class meetings:
Sundays from 4:00 - 6:00 pm
4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10

Through this foundational quilting course, we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our artistic preferences, and build a creative practice. This class is not project based. Once you learn the quilting basics, you will decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next and we will dive deeper into whatever techniques will help push your project forward.

Although basic sewing machine skills are quite useful, if you have never sewn, this is also a class for you! If you have taken Rae’s previous class this is an opportunity for you to deepen your quilting practice, use the studio space, and make your next quilt! Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice.

We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own.

This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 2-5, some quilting and sewing machine experience is helpful.

Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.

Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.

Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced

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April 19 — May 10, 2026
Instructor: Rae Heller

Class meetings:
Sundays from 4:00 - 6:00 pm
4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10

Through this foundational quilting course, we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our artistic preferences, and build a creative practice. This class is not project based. Once you learn the quilting basics, you will decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next and we will dive deeper into whatever techniques will help push your project forward.

Although basic sewing machine skills are quite useful, if you have never sewn, this is also a class for you! If you have taken Rae’s previous class this is an opportunity for you to deepen your quilting practice, use the studio space, and make your next quilt! Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice.

We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own.

This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 2-5, some quilting and sewing machine experience is helpful.

Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.

Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.

Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced

Instructor: Rae Heller

Rae Heller (b. NYC 1988) is a visual artist primarily working in large scale quilts. Rae graduated from Simmons College with a BA in Arts Administration and Art. Rae’s work focuses on pattern, play, and process and beginning in 2021, turned toward textiles. Rae hopes to create work with sustainability in mind; using repurposed fabric, all scrap fabrics, by-products of the art making process become new ways to create. After the unresolved death of a friend in 2022, Rae's art process aims to hold the immense pain and paradoxical aliveness of grief. Celebrating and struggling with duality is held in the durable softness of quilts.

Rae has pieces in private collections across the US and in Europe, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2024).