Improv Quilting Classes
βThe liberating practice of improv quilting has the potential of changing how we show up in our creative lives and in our relationships, in more flexible, authentic and responsive ways.β
SHERRI LYNN WOOD
In-Person Improv Quilting Retreats
Piece Flow Joy / Quilting FRom The Heart
Aug 30 - Sep 6, 2025
Jurançon, Pau, SW France/ Makers Retreat
Experience a restorative week of abstract piecing at the beautiful Atelier Clos Mirabel in the French PyrΓ©nΓ©es, designed to get you out of your head and into your hands and heart. Nurture a receptive approach to improv quilting. Learn how to harness your rhythm of attention into shape, color and pattern to tell the unfolding story of being you!
Blossom / Organic Abstract Quilting
May 2-9, 2026
Jurançon, Pau, SW France/ Makers Retreat
Experience a restorative week of organic abstract piecing at the beautiful Atelier Clos Mirabel in the French PyrΓ©nΓ©es. Translate inspiration from the bloom of spring into freestyle quilts.
Learn ruler-free improv curve piecing techniques including bias-strip piecing on the curve and S-curves. Experiment and innovate original curve piecing approaches, to tell the story of your own creative blossoming.
The Practice OF MAKING DO
July 6-10, 2026
Madeline Island, WI
A Sustainable Quilting primer. Learn ruler-free piecing techniques to improvise patchwork from discarded clothing and materials scavenged at the Island Closet in La Pointe. Activate a level of receptive creativity that may only be possible when we are freed from unlimited choice.
Registration opens in October
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What is the Improv That Block Squad?
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Thank you for a wonderful class. I really needed to get out of a design rut, and you helped shift that blockage. I appreciate you immensely, Sherri.
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I was so ready for a new direction and you have truly inspired me - loved the freedom of this simple technique - takes you right back to the basics and makes you create so uniquely. Thank you for a fabulous 3 hours!
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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.
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Lots of fun and so inspiring! I'm definitely signing up for Sherri's upcoming series of these workshops!!
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I made a new quilt! Man it's been a long time. I began this one in Sherri's Rail Fence class. I love making things like that. It's what feels the most energizing.
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I loved this Rail Fence block! I love working with simple repeating patterns so I found this very exciting. The colors are inspired by my backyard fence and the colors that peek through my black fence are greens and orangey-browns.
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It's always quite humbling but also extremely empowering to participate in a group of quilters that come from so many different places in their quilting journeys. Thank you Sherri, for sharing this amazing practice with the world, it has truly given me the language I was searching for.
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This quilt started in Sherri's Improv That Block Flying Geese class. I wanted this quilt to reflect how happy and better I feel when Autum rolls around.
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I had a great time today playing with Flying Geese. Thanks Sherri Lynn for the pathway to exploration and new possibilities with this traditional pattern.
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I quickly got into the flow and thoroughly enjoyed creating my version of improv Churndash blocks. Learning from Sherri's various "pivot" suggestions helped me try new things! And I love what I made!
Online Quilt-Alongs designed for Guilds!
Bring your guild together online to discover new techniques, enhance their abstract piecing skills, and deepen their connection to each other through these playful, restorative quilt-along classes designed to get everyone flow-sewing in fresh new ways.
Quilt Classes For Beginners
Whether you are new to improv quilting or more experienced, we all have the freedom to begin where we are and continue to grow. My workshops encourage ALL participants to tap into their beginnerβs mind.
My goal as an improviser and teacher is to hand to you a range of pattern possibilities, so that you can discover YOUR way of making patterns. The beauty of improv is you canβt do it wrong!
When you sign up for any of my online improv quilting classes, you will receive access to Improvise! Creating, Quilting and Living Creatively, an introduction to improvisational process, as a foundation for your workshop experience.
Equity Pricing
Sliding Scale fees with equity and pay it forward pricing is an option incorporated on the registration page for each workshop.
Programs For Guilds
Check out my updated online quilting lectures and demos and in-person quilting classes for guilds & conferences.
The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters
Provides modern quilters with frameworks for piecing flexible patterns and creative exploration, along with practical instruction in stitching techniques and intuitive color.
Questions?
Be sure to read the Livestream FAQs. We may have already answered your questions there.
Creative Community Mentoring In the Brave Patch Groove
The Brave Patch School encourages a heart centered approach to improv quilting, and recognizes itβs restorative value as a creative life practice.
In the Brave Patch GROOVE we get your improv quilts and value the unique vision and voice that you bring. We welcome you into this space as both mentee and mentor. Find connection and inspiration with other improvisors inside the GROOVE.
