Welcome to Cortez Quilt Company and More

We are your premier quilt shop in the Four Corners area. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff is here to help you with all your quilting and sewing needs and wants. We have a wide selection of Southwestern fabric and patterns. We offer a wide array of classes every week. We’re an authorized BERNINA dealer and service all brands of sewing machines.



	UPCOMING CLASSES & EVENTS
	Kitchen Towel With Quilted Holder Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:00 Need your kitchen towel handy? Make these fun and easy kitchen towels with hangers. We will quilt the hanger and then attach to the kitchen towel. So easy and fast you will want to make dozens for yourself and friends. These would also make great Christmas gifts!
	BERNINA Creative Studio Technique – Free-Motion Couching Thursday, November 7, 2019 While you are here working on your kitchen towel, you will also have the chance to learn how to add free-motion couching to your quilting projects. You will explore options from the original Foot #43 to the new couching inserts for the Ruler Foot #72.
	Beyond Beginning Friday, November 8, 2019 10:00-5:00 $25.00 Skill Level: Beginner Instructor: Judith Swain Calling all quilters who are ready to advance their newly learned skills, or those who want to perfect what they know. Skills: Cutting with rotary cutter, piecing, adding borders, quilting, binding and more!
	Kimberbell’s All Roads Lead Home – Machine Embroidery Class Is Open To All Machine Brands/Models Monday, November 11, 2019 10:00-1:00 Class Free With Purchase of $29.99 Kit. (Kit includes embroidery design, fabrics, stabilizer, buttons, 1 tea towel & embellishment except for pom-poms which may be purchased separately). All Skill Levels Welcome This design should help get us all in the mood to usher in the upcoming holiday season. We will stitch out this fun design and create a fun t-towel that will be festive in your own home. Plus your kit will come with a second towel, so you will be ready to make another one to give as a gift. Have you been wondering how machine embroidery works? No problem! We will have a couple of spots available for you, along with use of one of our machines!
	Kimberbell’s All Roads Lead Home – Machine Embroidery – Evening Class Class Is Open To All Machine Brands/Models Monday, November 11, 2019 5:30 – 8:30 PM Class Free With Purchase of $29.99 Kit. (Kit includes embroidery design, fabrics, stabilizer, buttons, 1 tea towel & embellishment except for pom-poms which may be purchased separately). All Skill Levels Welcome This design should help get us all in the mood to usher in the upcoming holiday season. We will stitch out this fun design and create a fun t-towel that will be festive in your own home. Plus your kit will come with a second towel, so you will be ready to make another one to give as a gift. Have you been wondering how machine embroidery works? No problem! We will have a couple of spots available for you, along with use of one of our machines!
	BERNINA Software Club – Candy Cane Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:00 – 3:00ish Learn to turn a scanned image into an appliqué pattern to be stitched out with your embroidery machine. Makes a great table runner or wall hanging for your holiday decorating. Please RSVP to ensure that we order your pattern!
	Designer Vest Friday, November 15, 10:00 – 5:00 Saturday, November 16, 9:00-1:00 $35.00 Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Julie Ayers This vest is a great companion piece for jeans, skirts, and everything in between, depending on the fabrics you choose.
	Bee-Utiful Sunflower Table Runner – Machine Embroidery This class is open to all make and models. Saturday, November 16, 2019 1:00-4:00 $25.00 Instructor: Linda Humphreys We have been asked to add this second class… so here it is! You will learn how to embroider, applique, and quilt in the hoop + you end up with this sunny table runner!
	Twirly Batik Skirt Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Please Note Date Change 10:00-5:00 $25.00 Skill Level: Confident Beginner Instructor: Judith Swain Join us to create this fun and flirty skirt. Use fat quarters to make a colorful skirt, or looks equally beautiful with one color. Our rayon batik fabrics are an excellent choice. Easy construction using familiar quilting sewing plus tips makes this a great skirt to create… before you know it the skirt is ready to wear!
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Open Sewing: Please call ahead to check for availability OPEN SEWING: Work on any project you’d like and enjoy the company of other sewists and quilters. Bring your sewing machine or use one of our BERNINA classroom machines. Open Sewing is FREE and you’ll have plenty of space to work and the use of our cutting tables and ironing boards. Please call us to check on availability – our classroom is available for your use anytime a class/event is not being held.

Third Thursday Demo – November 21, 2019 12:30 pm Join us on November 21st at 12:30 p.m. for our monthly Third Thursday Demo. This event lasts thirty minutes – feel free to bring your lunch if you are on your break. We always have door prizes at our Third Thursday Demo’s! Bring a friend!

Art & Landscape Group – Blocks Without Borders Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:00 pm Blocks Without Borders (an Art & Landscape Society) meets on the Third Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. Prepare to exchange ideas, along with giving and receiving inspiration. Don’t forget to bring your Show-N-Tell! We will have a door prize! No RSVP necessary. Report: Our October meeting was filled with exciting learning, progress and creative ideas! Susan Madden gave us an excellent class on “Easy Curved Piecing” which is especially useful in landscape/art quilting for horizons and layered geological formations. Equally so for amusing art quilts like Janet’s piece titled “Brain Bleed” (you have to see this!) Thank you so much Susan. A fun-filled show and tell – this is a creative and talented group all still learning together. A reminder that there is a SAQA sanctioned art quilt exhibit at the Farmington Visitor Center through January 4th. A field trip is under consideration. Updates on the Historical Museum project with more beautiful and wonderful quilted interpretations of our county’s history were shown and discussed. Lou Ann Jacobson-Ball reported that if they all are completed by January as committed, we will have 20 10 x 12 blocks. If you are interested in participating in this fundraiser project for our newest local museum, please come to our next meeting on November 21st or contact Lou Ann directly. New challenge suggestions for 2020: “Bee” and “Time Flies. Perhaps a mini art quilt show at Olio in Mancos. Janet is researching Upcoming BWB meeting Thursday November 21st at 1:00 p.m. We are delighted to announce a presentation by Dee McAliney called “Creative Imagination.”. She will take us on an adventure to expose the world around us – there are “Nurturing Nature” quilt ideas in every direction. All forms of consciousness will be explored including cultural and social representations. Don’t miss this opportunity to see with fresh eyes. Historical Museum update and block reveals Decide on date for field trip to Farmington Show and tell Discussion of December meeting topics

Welcome to Cortez Quilt Company and More

UPCOMING CLASSES & EVENTS

Open Sewing: Please call ahead to check for availability