Build your quilting foundation
Learn one block at a time
Sampler Quilt Top
Build a strong quilting foundation through a series of private lessons while making a colorful sampler quilt top. Each block introduces a useful technique, giving you time to practice, ask questions and understand how accurate piecing comes together.
No quilting experience is required. A studio sewing machine and tools are provided, and the lessons move at your pace.
Learn by making
Build skills that transfer to every quilt.
The sampler gives each new technique a place to land. You’ll practice accuracy, understand why each step matters and grow more independent as the top takes shape.
- 01
Cut fabric accurately
Use a rotary cutter, ruler and mat safely while learning how careful cutting supports every stage that follows.
- 02
Piece foundational blocks
Sew a consistent quarter-inch seam, press without distortion and construct several useful block styles.
- 03
Assemble a sampler top
Check block accuracy, plan the arrangement and join the finished blocks into a cohesive quilt top.
What's Included
What to Expect
Build skills, one quilt block at a time.
Choose your palette.
Hilary will prepare a coordinated fabric kit and project plan for your sampler quilt.
Learn a range of blocks.
Practice different cutting and piecing techniques as you build a varied collection of quilt blocks.
Leave with a sampler quilt top.
Take home your completed top and guidance for the quilting and binding steps that follow.
You're in Good Hands
Patient quilting guidance from a lifelong sewist.
Hi, I’m Hilary. I learned to sew from my grandmother, studied fashion design and have spent much of my life making things with fabric. Heyday is my way of sharing that love through relaxed, one-on-one lessons in my San Diego home studio.
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Make your sampler quilt top.
Start the Sampler
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Make your sampler quilt top.
Four private 2-hour lessons • Quilt-top materials included • $620