Catherine Redford

Class List

Hand Embroidered Buttons

Hand Embroidered Buttons

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A virtual class with Catherine Redford Mar 31, 2:00-4:00pm CDT Make beautiful fabric-covered buttons adding your favorite embroidery stitches. Catherine will provide a variety of ideas suitable for your buttons or design your own. It's time to add a personal signature to a project with your own hand-wrought buttons.
Yorkshire Buttons

Yorkshire Buttons

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A virtual Class with Catherine Redford Apr 1, 2:00-4:00pm CDT Learn how to make basic, yet beautiful, hand-stitched Yorkshire Buttons on a circular loom. Watch your button box fill with hand-mades!
Dorset Feather Stitchery: Bands of Embroidery

Dorset Feather Stitchery: Bands of Embroidery

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A virtual class with Catherine Redford Apr 2, 2:00-4:00pm CDT More Dorset Feather Stitchery with Catherine!  Join her and enjoy slow-stitching a lovely embroidered sampler inspired by vintage English rural workers' smocks.
Dorset Buttons: A Traditional English Craft

Dorset Buttons: A Traditional English Craft

An in-person class with Catherine Redford Aug 3, 1:30-4:30pm Dating back to the late sixteenth century, Dorset buttons are a great way to embellish your quilting project and knitwear. This basic introduction to Dorset Button making uses plastic rings and yarn or embroidery thread.
Yorkshire Buttons

Yorkshire Buttons

An in-person class with Catherine Redford Aug 5, 9:00am-12:00pm Make beautiful Yorkshire buttons on a circular loom.
Introduction to Folk Art Stitching

Introduction to Folk Art Stitching

An in-person class with Catherine Redford Aug 5, 2:00-5:00pm Start by learning or reviewing some basic embroidery stitches and work on a specially designed pre-printed sampler. Then add to the fun with more more novel approaches.

About Catherine Redford

English-born Catherine Redford learned to knit and sew as a child. After moving to Illinois, she found quilting, and it became a passion. An award-winning quilter, Catherine now has two DVDs and two books, Modern Machine Quilting: Make a Perfectly Finished Quilt on Your Home Machine and Butterfly Stitches.

Five years after taking her first quilting class, she began to teach. An award-winning quilter, active member of her local guilds, and popular teacher at local and national levels, Catherine also co-founded the Naperville Modern Quilters Guild. An author, frequent magazine contributor, and guest on Quilting Arts TV, Catherine has two DVDs and a book on modern machine quilting techniques, Modern Machine Quilting: Make a Perfectly Finished Quilt on Your Home Machine, and new book on, Butterfly Stitches from C&T, coming out soon.

For more about Catherine, go to catherineredford.com.