Workshops and Lectures

Thank you for your interest in booking a Sweet Potato Quilts lecture or workshop. All offerings, listed below, are available in person or virtual unless otherwise noted. Half-day workshops are up to 4 hours. Full-day workshops are up to 7 hours.

Now booking for 2026-2027. Please send an inquiry to contact@sweetpotatoquilts.com

Christina specializes in block-based quilt design, creative structure, and practical quilt math with the goal of helping quilters design with freedom and sew with confidence.

Beginner Block Confidence: Build Your First 12" Block

Half Day Workshop | In person only

If you can sew a straight line, you can make a quilt block.

This beginner-friendly workshop walks students through constructing a 12" block from our BOM Party, using traditional rotary cutting techniques. Christina focuses on:

• Helpful habits for beginners
• Accurate quarter-inch seams
• Matching seams and sewing order
• A featured piecing technique in the block
• Trimming for precision

Students leave with a completed block and the confidence to continue quilting at home.

Perfect for:
• Beginners
• Shops offering beginner programming
• Guilds wanting an approachable skill-building class

Mix & Match Blocks: Designing Together

Full Day Workshop (1 or 2 days) | In person or Zoom

Design blocks. Swap ideas. Build something uniquely yours.

In this collaborative workshop, students design 6" sub-blocks and combine them into a 9-patch 18" block. Using guided prompts and creative constraints, participants explore rotation, reflection, variation, inversion, scaling, and color play.

Students will:
• Design multiple 6" sub-blocks
• Remix another student’s design
• Build an 18" 9-patch block
• Learn sewing logic and construction order
• Create a piece count list for their block
• Explore simple quilt math concepts

At the end of class, students have the option to swap block designs and take home a collaborative keepsake quilt plan.

Class options:
• 1 day: Design + remix + build block
• 2 days: Design, build block, and begin fabric planning or layout exploration

Perfect for confident beginners and beyond.

Transforming Traditional Piecing Techniques

60-75 min Lecture | Half or Full Day Workshop | In person or Zoom

What if your HSTs and Flying Geese could do more?

This innovative lecture and workshop explores how traditional piecing methods can be transformed by substituting pieced units in place of solid squares. Christina demonstrates how 2-, 4-, and 8-at-a-time HST methods and 4-at-a-time Flying Geese methods can create unexpected dimensional effects.

Students will learn:
• How to substitute pieced units into HST and FG methods
• The structural logic behind these transformations
• Trimming strategy for accurate results
• How different symmetry yields different unit outcomes
• How to use sizing charts confidently

Workshop option includes hands-on practice creating transformed units.

Ideal for adventurous quilters ready to expand their design vocabulary.

From Math to Masterpiece: Designing with Confidence

Lecture | 60–75 minutes | In person or Zoom

In this inspiring and practical lecture, Christina walks through her signature design loop that transforms a simple block idea into a fully realized quilt. You’ll learn how to:

• Develop block designs from scratch
• Use structure to guide creativity
• Break blocks down into elements
• Create a clear piece count list
• Resize blocks with confidence
• Plan fabric efficiently using 42" width-of-fabric logic

Through real quilt examples and step-by-step visuals, Christina shows how quilt math becomes a supportive tool rather than a barrier. This lecture is perfect for quilters who want to tweak patterns, design their own blocks, or finally understand how structure builds confidence.