Free-Form Botanical Appliqué Workshop with Jenn — Sunday, August 23

Free-Form Botanical Appliqué — a full day with Jenn
Sunday, August 23 · 10:00am–5:00pm · Only 10 spots

Spend a relaxed day learning to design and stitch your own free-form botanical appliqué — no two florals alike, all of them yours. Working from simple sketches, you'll build a bright, painterly panel of blooms, stems, and leaves using needle-turn-style appliqué techniques you can carry into any future project.

Under Jenn's guidance you'll learn how to:

• Sketch and plan a free-form floral design
• Choose and coordinate fabrics for petals, stems, and leaves
• Prep and position your appliqué pieces
• Stitch clean, secure edges by hand with the right needle and thread

Perfect for confident beginners and up — if you can thread a needle and enjoy playing with colour, you'll do beautifully. You'll leave with the skills (and a started piece) to make botanical appliqué your own.

The details

• When: Sunday, August 23, 10:00am–5:00pm (one-hour lunch break)
• Where: Mad About Patchwork
• Class size: Just 10 spots — book early to reserve yours
• Refreshments: Snacks, coffee & tea provided in our tent. We break for an hour at lunch so you can grab a bite in nearby Stittsville or bring your own.

Don't want to gather supplies? Add our ready-to-go Materials Kit ($45) — background fat quarter, a curated fat-eighth fabric selection, coordinating thread, needles and a take-home pack of appliqué pins. Just bring your basic tools. (Add it as a separate item at checkout.)

What to bring

Tools: 5–10 sheets printer/sketch paper · pencil & eraser · paper scissors · fabric scissors · thread snips · appliqué pins · milliner's needles

Thread & fabric: 60–100wt thread (Aurifil or Glide; medium grey works for almost everything) · 1 fat quarter background (solid or low-volume print) · a variety of fabric scraps for your florals — fat-eighth size works well, ideally several prints in the same colour family, with some longer pieces for stems and leaves.

Marking pens are provided in-studio. Prefer we supply the fabric, thread, needles and pins too? Add the Materials Kit.