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2026 Improv That Block Squad

$369 / Jan-June 2026 / Pay in two easy installments. Sales are final. Enjoy evergreen access to the course content so you can learn and create anytime. Registration is open through June.

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You’re Warmly Invited!

Now more than ever, it’s essential for each of us to embrace creative practices rooted in truth and love, so we can cultivate resilience, deepen connections, and celebrate joy —where we can play freely, be bold, and feel truly liberated! I warmly invite you to join me in the Improv That Block Squad in 2026.

 

January - June 2026
COMMUNITY COURSE

Discover new techniques, enhance your abstract piecing skills, and deepen your connection to your creative practice. Let go of perfection, stop overthinking and experience flow in this mindful, heart-centered approach to improv quilting.

The 2026 Improv That Block Squad includes:

  • 25+ hours of Live Demos, Guidance & Support w/video replay

  • 5 Improv That Block Quilt-Alongs

  • Improv Composition Class (NEW)

  • Live Monthly Office Hours

  • Independent Study DIY Guide (NEW)

  • Pre-recorded Technique Demos & Improv Mindset Tools

  • Illustrated Improv Pivot Points For Each Classic Block 

  • 6 months of Vibrant Community Support

  • Monthly Drawing Prompts (NEW) & Centering Exercises.

  • Evergreen Access to Course Content and live recordings.

What to Expect:

  • Improvise Classic Blocks: We’ll dive into 4 community chosen classic blocks —beginning with the FAN— to stretch your imagination and expand your technique — last Saturdays 12-3 pm et, January through April.

  • Independent Study Quilt-Along: Improvise a classic quilt block of YOUR choice YOUR way in May, or continue work on previous Quilt-Along blocks, with tailored community time for 1-on-1 guidance & demos by request. — last Saturday in May 12-3 pm et.

  • Improv Quilt Composition Class: for more in-depth guidance on how to bring your blocks together as individual quilts, or as a combined sampler of all your blocks — first Saturday in June, 12-4 pm et.

  • Guidance and Inspiration: Monthly Office Hours —3rd Tuesdays 3-4:30 pm et, Pre-recorded tutorials, Block history and pivot points, mindset tools and intuitive color tips to supplement your experience.

  • Community Connection: Engage with fellow improvisers in our vibrant online community. Share your creations, ask questions, and inspire one another — Jan 3 through June 31, 2026.

2026 Improv That Block Squad

$369 / Jan-June 2026 / Pay in two easy installments. Sales are final. Enjoy evergreen access to the course content so you can learn and create anytime. Registration is open through June.

JOIN TODAY

How you will grow:

  • Innovate Authentic Patterns: Experience abstract piecing in fresh new ways that challenge tradition while cultivating a mindful approach to quilting.

  • Cultivate Flow & Joy: Flow with me during live flow-focused demos. Access flow and hold space for joy with more ease.

  • Break Through Creative Blocks: Consciously loosen the grip of overthinking, perfectionism, yes buts, overwhelm & boredom and comparison with practical tips for reducing the restraints that hold you back.

  • Intuitive Color Work: Supplement your knowledge of color theory by choosing colors that resonate with meaning grounded in memory, mood, culture and presence. Create with what you have. No new fabric purchases required.

  • Align Intention with Intuition: Cultivate a receptive approach to creativity where meaning and narrative unfolds as truth that guides.

  • Level Up Your Improv Skills: No matter where you are on your improv quilting journey, you will leave the Squad a more flexible and confident improviser.

 

Fire up your sewjo


January - June 2026
6-Month Community Course


Enrich your quilting practice and revitalize your creative spirit. Join us in the Squad — where tradition meets innovation, with a restorative dose of radical self-acceptance.

YES PLEASE!
 
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Improvise like no one’s watching

What folks are saying & making…

  • The quilt you create will be wholly your own, unlike any quilt that’s ever been created before. It will be filled with discovery, inspiration, joy and all the moments of your life you were so very present during the making. Sherrilynn is an amazing mentor and maker.

    Arlitia Jones @getthatouttamyface / Orange Peel

  • Hour glass improvised quilt made from half square triangles set in wonky off-set way with splashes of yellow, reds, and greens.

    The Improv that Block Squad is a wonderful way to let go of classic perfection methods and embrace methods that are different but reflect the heart and hands of the quilter, which is why I love Sherri's classes. She is all heart.

    Melodye Marks @melzybabe / Hour Glass

  • Sherri Lynn Wood’s Improv That Block Squad has given me confidence in my abilities as an improv quilter. I learned new flexible pattern techniques, received authentic feedback and most importantly found a space and a community where I felt I belonged! I would highly recommend this class.

    Gilly P @gillypmakes / Bricks

  • This course changed how I think about creativity. It’s been such an empowering and freeing experience for my quiltmaking and also more generally. Even how I talk about making mistakes with my kids has changed. Whopee!!

    Rachel Yuen @rachelissowing / Snowball

  • The Block Squad class went beyond technique and involved creative expression. I enjoyed being with others developing our artistic personalties. Next year we are starting with the fan. I won’t wait, I’ll be making them next!

    Jill Stafford @jill_dreams /Orange Peel

  • What Sherri teaches goes way beyond the workshop, extends out from the quilt into the everyday life of a maker, showing us the kind of paths we might improvise for our own lives.

    Thisbe Nissen @thisbenissenquilts / Spiderweb

  • My piecing and improv skills improved immensely during this class. I’m far more confident as a quilter and and fabric artist!

    Diane Quinn / Hour Glass

 

Start where you are & Continue to Grow


January - June 2025
6-Month Community Course


Level up your Improv Skills! No matter where you are on your improv quilting journey, the Squad will help you become a more flexible and confident improviser.

All levels welcome!

I’M ALL IN
 

Join me for a season of meaningful pattern making and presence—where each stitch becomes an act of healing, protection, and restoration. Through mindful, improvisational quilting, hold a space for joy to meet you, invite flow in to nurture your well-being, allow both to spill into the communities you cherish. Embrace this journey of abstract piecing, as a powerful life practice, awakening curiosity, authenticity and connection stitch by stitch.

“Joy Has No Plan” by Sherri Lynn Wood; 2025 Squad/Orange Peel Quilt-Along.

if YOU …

✺ Are new to improv quilting or a more seasoned improvisor

✺ Want to incorporate more mindfulness, curiosity and play into your creative practice

✺ Lost your sewjo and haven't made a quilt in a while

✺ Are fascinated by abstraction and love classic quilt blocks

✺ Like to disrupt the system and make fresh patterns - hello pattern designers

✺ Desire a more authentic and meaningful connection to quilting

✺ Struggle with perfectionism and overthinking when you create

✺ Just want to have a bit of fun using up some scraps

✺ Are looking for a wonky community that let’s you do you

You belong In the Block Squad!

 

2026 Improv That Block Squad

$369 / Jan-June 2026 / Pay in two easy installments. Sales are final. Enjoy evergreen access to the course content so you can learn and create anytime.

Registration is open through June.

JOIN TODAY

✺ Frequently asked Questions ✺

  • You can use whatever fabrics you have on hand—scraps, old clothes, quilting stash. No need to buy matching fabric bundles every month—I know that’s a relief!

    Tools: sewing machine, sharp scissors or rotary cutter and mat, ironing station, pins, fabric marker.

  • You decide. Your blocks can be small sketches or practice pieces. You can make a quilt from each quilt-along or combine blocks from several into one quilt. The course ends with an Improvisation Quilt Composition to help you improve your design skills.

  • In January, we'll start the Squad with the FAN block, picked by community vote at the last 2025 Squad Quilt-Along. Three more blocks will be chosen and voted on by the community at the end of each quilt-along for the following month. In May, you get to choose your own block to improvise independently OR catch up on earlier quilt-alongs - with guidance! There will still be a community Quilt-Along in May.

  • My flow-sewing quilt-alongs emphasize restorative process over results to increase your creative flow, happiness, and motivation, while reducing stress and overthinking. Flow-sewing sessions are designed to activate not only your mind, but also your heart and hands as you make. You'll experience creative breakthroughs and make some impressive patchwork along the way.

  • Yes! You'll get simple tips for using colors in each block. You'll also learn to trust your intuitive color choices. We won't use strict color rules, but if you have a way to pick colors, bring it along! Choosing colors intuitively, will help you connect with your patchwork and the story it wants to tell.

  • YES! We love beginners, whether making a quilt for the first time or trying flexible patterns. We value the beginner's mind energy you bring to the group.

    No matter your experience, we all have the birthright to begin where we are and continue to grow.

    The Squad offers extra pre-recorded resources and a community to both support beginners and engage more experienced improvisers.

    Monthly Zoom office hours will be available for Q&A, giving you a chance to get personal guidance from Sherri Lynn and other members.

  • Yes. I won’t teach hand-piecing, but if you like sewing by hand and know how, you can still join the flow-sewing quilt-alongs and be supported by the community. It will just take more time — which is fine!

  • Yes, it’s new and based on feedback and my own sense of flow. The monthly Quilt-Along was too fast for some, but just right for others. This year, there’s an Independent Study month where you can improvise any block you want. It also helps those who work slower catch up on blocks from January to April. We’ll still have a Quilt-Along on the last Saturday of May for one-on-one help and custom demos. Instead of specific block content in May, I’ll provide an Independent Study Guide to help you improvise any block on your own.

  • Community is open January to June.

    Quilt-Alongs: Last Saturdays, 12-3 pm ET (Jan-May)
    Improv Composition Class: 1st Saturday of June, 12-4 pm ET
    Office Hours: 3rd Tuesdays, 3-4:30 pm ET

    Key Dates:

    • Jan 3, 12-2 pm: Squad Community Course opens with Improv Scrap Play (Squad & Public Square)

    • Jan 20, 3-4:30 pm: First Live Event - Office Hour Welcome & Orientation

    • Jan 31, 12-3 pm: 1st Quilt-Along (Fan block)

    • Feb 28, 12-3 pm: 2nd Quilt-Along (Block TBD)

    • Mar 28, 12-3 pm: 3rd Quilt-Along (Block TBD)

    • Apr 25, 12-3 pm: 4th Quilt-Along (Block TBD)

    • May 30, 12-3 pm: Independent Study Quilt-Along (Block Your Choice)

    • Jun 6, 12-4 pm: Improv Quilt Composition Class

    • Jun 16, 3-4:30 pm: Final Office Hours

    • Jun 30: Community Course closes; evergreen access to all content and recordings through at least Jan 5, 2027

    All times are Cincinnati Ohio, Eastern Time. Inside the Squad event times auto-adjust to your local time. For now use this time zone converter if needed.

  • Yes! All live sessions will be recorded and can be watched again in the community course. This includes Saturday Quilt-alongs, the Quilt Composition Class, and monthly Office Hours with Sherri.

  • Yes it’s included! This year, we’ll focus more on composition and storytelling in our quilts. Instead of making a sixth block in June, we’ll spend that time on composition. The class is on the first Saturday in June, from 12 to 4 pm. If you want to turn your blocks into several quilts or one big quilt, this class will teach you how to compose like a true improviser and round out your Squad experience.

  • All members paid in full will have continued evergreen access to the archived community and ALL the course content and live event recordings, for the lifetime of the course — and guaranteed access AT LEAST one year after the course completes.

  • Insider & Early Bird prices are lower than my regular rates. Sign up early to save on tuition.

    If you can, and identify as a standard or pay-it-forward participant, I welcome and appreciate your extra support. You can pay full price or add $50 as a PAY-IT-FORWARD gift at checkout.

    Your contribution helps keep prices affordable for everyone and supports my work as a creator, so I can keep sharing my skills and experience.

  • You can join the first Improv That Block (FAN) Quilt-Along on Saturday, January 31st. Registration opens in January. Signing up gives you the Zoom link and extra materials for the FAN Quilt-Along only.

    Future Quilt-Alongs won’t be sold separately. If you enjoyed this one and want more, you can use your single class fee toward buying the full Squad Community Course at the regular price.

  • All deposits and payments are non-refundable. You will have evergreen access to the Squad even if you can’t attend live.

  • If the instructor's internet goes out due to storms or other issues, the workshop may be delayed:

    • If the class starts late or is interrupted, it can be postponed up to two hours.

    • Check the course materials every half hour for updates.

    • If it can’t continue within two hours, it will be rescheduled for the next day at the same time.

    • Look in the course materials for all updates.
 

More Piece Flow Joy & Alignment in 2026


January - June 2025
6-Month Community Course


Nurture your emotional well-being through heightened experiences of creative flow as you witness your patchwork unfold in surprisingly fresh & authentic ways.

YES PLEASE!