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Get more use from your tools
Expand your skills and accuracy
Create new blocks


  • Master the use of Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design tools
    (many of which you probably already have)
  • 12 classes - one per month, in semesters of 3 classes
    Each class covers a different tool
  • Learn new techniques
    Build your library of technique sheets
  • Learn how to make a variety of units with each Deb Tucker tool, then combine them with units from the same or other classes to create new blocks. If you use the same collection of fabric throughout your 12 classes, you will have a coordinated sampler when you're finished. The creativity will be amazing, and contagious!

 

$60 PER SEMESTER (3 classes)

Design/Technique sheets and Tools (rulers) are not included in the class cost.
They are available for purchase at the store.

Class fee is non-refundable.

Semester 1



Learn how to use a Tucker Trimmer 1 to create half square triangles, quarter square triangles, and combination units. With the Tucker Trimmer 1 alone, a quilter can make three different units in 11 different sizes. These units are often what we refer to as basic units, therefore they must be precise to fit nicely with more advanced units. This is a perfect place for any quilter to begin their journey through the Studio 180 Design set of tools.

You will also learn how to expand the use of your Tucker Trimmer 1 by creating a Shaded Four Patch unit. By using Deb Tucker's method of strip piecing the construction of a shaded-four patch, the quilter eliminates the need to stitch fabrics on an unsecured bias. This method also eliminates the stretching and puckering within a unit. Quilters will use their Tucker Trimmer 1 to finalize their units and then discover a wide array of layouts that can be created with just one block.


If you are seeing stars in your future then you have just found your new best friend, the V Block. Making stars is not the only thing the V Block can do to improve your piecing techniques. Once you learn how to use the V Block, you will not go back to those plastic templates you have been tracing and slicing. Or connect a V Block with a half square triangle and watch the curves develop. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.

Push the use of your V Block a bit further by learning how to create Sidekicks and High/Low units. You will amaze your quilting friends by thinking that you made a difficult unit, when in fact the use of the V Block made your life so easy.


Put your flying geese on the right track by pointing them in the correct direction. Learn the simple secrets to creating crisp, clean units effectively and quickly. This method can be applied to any pattern that requires flying geese units. Since you usually have to make hundreds of these units at a time, why not make them perfect every time?

Expand the use of your Wing Clipper 1 by learning how to make Pickets and Quickets. Once you begin to recognize these units, you will be surprised how often they appear in patterns from your favourite magazines and designers. You will want to add Pickets and Quickets to your border options.





Semester 2




The Square Squared unit can be found within blocks as well as sashing. Since this unit is often used to connect other units, the points are extremely valuable for the design to work without interruption. You will save those points with the Square Squared tool. A secondary benefit to using Deb Tucker's method of creating Square Squared units is that you will not waste fabric. It's a win-win situation. Expand the use of your Square Squared tool by learning how to make little houses. Little houses have been disguised in borders and have shown up in some star blocks. You will be astounded where these units show up.



The Corner Beam adds even more unique options to your quilt designs. The combinations and the twists and turns makes it look as if the quilter had to work with lots of odd shaped pieces when in fact they did not. The construction of a Sliver unit advances the use of the Corner Beam and once again makes precise piecing look hard when it is easy.


Volcanos don't belong in the center of an eight-pointed star and they won't happen to you when you use the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star tool. And, by the way, there will be no y-seams! Be thoroughly stunned when you learn how to make a Lemoyne Star using a strip method. You will be able to make blocks as small as 3" all the way up to 12" with the same level of accuracy.




 Semester 3



Stop throwing away half of those squares you used to pop off a corner and start saving your fabric by using the Corner Pop. Before you know it, you will be popping off corners of every unit. It helps to add a pop of colour to any unit and can add a secondary pattern to your quilt.


Leave the plastic templates that you would have to trace at home! Learn how to make crisp, clean half rectangles with precision using the Split Rects tool.  You don’t have to worry about shaving your plastic templates anymore which will increase the accuracy of your units. And the starts you can create with this tool will have your stars twinkling with strong points!



If the Storm at Sea pattern is on your bucket list, but you don't want to paper piece it; then the Diamond Rects has just become your new best friend. Once you learn how to make Diamond Rects units using Deb’s method, you will no longer avoid what you thought was a complex technique. Don't miss the boat, jump on board now!




Semester 4

Coming this summer

Large Square Squared

Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star - Advanced 1
Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star - Advanced 2

Tucker University Rulers