SFMQG is pleased to present another great workshop.
Workshop: Scrap Cities
Instructor: Cathy Perlmutter
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026 Time: 11-5 EDT
Cost: $30 - 30 students max - Registration open in Store on Sat, March 7, 2026 9am EST
Workshop Description:
Learn techniques that will help you make many different types of buildings and cityscapes, based on real buildings, or fantasy, or both! You’ll wind up with at least one and maybe more buildings. A single building can become a small wall hanging; or what you make in class can be the start of a small or large quilt, for adults or children (for the latter, choose bright colors and fun characters to put in windows.)
During class time Cathy will show short prerecorded, basic technique videos, and students choose what they want to play with. Lessons include:
Log cabin architecture
Bargello buildings
“Wedding cake” and “Jenga” (cantilevered) buildings, with her unique technique for turning edges under during piecing, rather than afterwards. With this approach, you won’t need to piece the background into the building, and you can overlap buildings as much as you like. It gives you complete freedom in designing your scene
Create perspective with stripes and geometrics.
Use your orphan blocks
Put the scene together with a combination of applique and piecing
In addition, students are invited to send Cathy a photo of a building or cityscape that intrigues them. This is optional, but if there’s time, Cathy will brainstorm together ways you might represent it. (Email it to cathy.perlmutter@gmail.com
A supply list will be provided prior to the class.
About Cathy:
Author, teacher, and improvisational quilter celebrated for her humor and storytelling. Author of Spontaneous Stuffies and Stitch-a-hedron.
Find out more about Cathy at cathyperlmutter.com and follow her on Instagram @cathy.perlmutter