Bee Kind: Appliqué with Heart and Hexies (Stephanie Scott)

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Celebrate kindness and creativity in this joyful appliqué class!

”Bee Kind“ is a heartwarming project featuring cheerful flowers, whimsical embroidery, hexagon patchwork, and a buzzing bee with a message that matters.

Learn essential appliqué techniques - raw edge, hand embroidery, and stitched embellishments - while playing with colour, texture, and layout. Perfect for confident beginners and beyond, this class guides you through creating a beautiful block that can stand alone or become part of a larger quilt. Come stitch with purpose and leave with a smile - and a piece that spreads kindness, one stitch at a time.

The compulsory kit contains the pattern, appliqué paper and notes.

Student Requirements:

- Basic Sewing Supplies

- Fabric:

a) Background squares: (9) 5½” x 5½” light fabrics (tone-on-tone or low volume)

b) Variety of small scraps for appliqué flowers, leaves, bee, and hexagons (include brights, prints, and solids)

- Light fusible web (HeatnBond Lite, Appliqué paper or Steam a Seam lite)

- Medium Stitch and Tear stabiliser – at least 21 inches square

- 21-inch square iron-on batting

- Needle and thread for hand stitching (DMC embroidery floss in colour of your choice)

- Neutral sewing thread for piecing

- Pins

- Cutting mat and rotary cutter with new blade

- B4 or B6 pencil for drawing the appliqué shapes as well as placement on your background fabric. Can also use a blue water-soluble pen for drawing on your background

- Sharp Scissors- Fine tip Fabric Scissors and paper scissors

- Fabric glue stick (optional)

- Appliqué pressing sheet (recommended)

- Sewing machine in good working order; oiled, cleaned and ready to go

a) Extension Table

b) Appliqué foot or open-toe foot

c) Quarter-inch stitch presser foot

d) Free motion presser foot

e) Power cable and foot pedal

- Extension cord, 15 amp plug or adaptor, surge protector plug