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Hand Quilting Through Appliqué

This class will explore a range of dyeing, fabric manipulation and hand-sewing techniques to ultimately end in a take home lap quilt (approximately 4’ square).  Students will be guided through a combination of group and personal activities that draw inspiration from the world around us and end with personalized whole cloth quilts. Whole cloth quilting is when we start with a piece of fabric – think, a sheet! – that we then add to, adorn, shift and manipulate to design our quilt top. Once we have a top, we will complete the quilts by hand-quilting them with a warm inner layer and cozy back, forming a three-layer quilt sandwich you can take home for yourself or as a gift. No experience needed, just the ability to hold and ideally thread a needle, though we can help each other out with that as much as we need.

General Tuition: $360
Pay-It-Forward Tuition: $385
Reduced Tuition (Limited): $310

Accessibility –
This class takes place in the San Pablo Community Classroom, located on the first floor. Please email classes@kala.org regarding any accessibility needs prior to enrolling so we can assess if we are able to accommodate you safely and efficiently. 

  • Tuition: $360
  • Location: San Pablo Community Classroom
  • Instructor: Cordy Joan
  • 6 Classes
  • Wednesday, March 11, 2026 — April 15, 2026
  • 6pm — 8pm
  • TBD Materials Fee - Payable to the instructor on the first day

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About the Instructor:

Cordy Joan is a quilter and educator based in the East Bay and originally from New Jersey. They lead a project called Transmissions: Quilts for Trans People, which is a large scale collaborative quilts project made in a network of 160 trans artists working across oral history, quilting, experimental sound, photography and more. Transmissions includes a national traveling exhibition that Cordy is curating. Outside of Transmissions, they are a youth-worker and community artist and have taught classes and workshops with Berkeley High School, Kala, Girl’s Garage, Pacific Center for Human Growth, UCBerkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute and more. They’ve curated recent shows at Pacific Northwest College of Art (Oregon) and Berkeley Public Library (California).