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Creativity and Quilt Classes, Club, and Longarm Machine Rentals

Fees vary depending on the Class, Club or Machine.  The cost is located in the Description. Any required items will also be listed in the Description.

If a class is full or not being offered at a convenient time for you, please let us know. We are constantly adding to our class schedule and are also happy to provide private lessons. Contact us with your specific educational requests.

Policy on Cancellations: Since there are supplies, materials, and time involved in prepping for many of our classes, we do not refund or transfer paid classes to other classes for cancellations less than 48 hours prior to the scheduled class. Cancellations up to a week (7 days) may be transferred to another class. Cancellations within 30 days or in the event the shop cancels a class, a full refund or transfer to another class is possible. Transferred classes must be completed within 30 days. We cannot refund transactions that are more than 30 days. If an emergency arises due to illness (especially contagious), we appreciate you cancelling and will do what we can to reschedule.

If you are traveling a distance and would like to stay overnight with us at our retreat, please let us know. We are happy to also feed you!

Want to know what some of our students say about our training? See Student Reviews.

Classes, Clubs, and Longarm Rentals


Are you tired of paying to have someone else quilt your quilt tops for you? Come rent our machines! In this class, we will cover: threading, tensioning, loading a quilt, basting, and spend some time having fun learning to quilt on a longarm. You can do it!

Cost: $ 95.00
Are you new to Pro-Stitcher? Are you interested in learning how to use Pro-Stitcher Premium more effectively? This is your chance to spend time with award-winning educator, Dr. Donna Smith, to master your machine, develop new skills, and build confidence to transform your quilting with Pro-Stitcher. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
Are you tired of paying to have someone else quilt your quilt tops for you? Come rent our machines! In this class, we will cover: threading, tensioning, loading a quilt, basting, and spend some time having fun learning to quilt on a longarm. You can do it!

Cost: $ 95.00
E Stitchers Needle Work Club
- Oct 07, 2023 10:00 am

E Stitchers Needle Work Club Sew Day

Group Retreat - East Texas Tornadoes
- Oct 09, 2023 10:00 am

Group Retreat

RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Oct 13, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Project Linus Sew Day
- Oct 16, 2023 10:30 am

Join us to sew, quilt, and bind quilts to donate to Project Linus for their efforts to give children a quilt when in need. PLEASE if you plan to come sign up so that we know we have enough room for everyone to work and know how many to expect for food. Quilter?s needed this day to: Piece, Press, Make Binding, Add Binding, and help with Quilting on our Longarm machines. Even if you have stated you want to come PLEASE Sign Up here by adding to your cart and ?checking out? the cost is 0 but it is just the process we need to get a good count of people committing to attending.

Cost: $ FREE
Make a Bag Club
- Oct 17, 2023 10:00 am

Make a Bag Club is an exciting and easy way to complete a customized bag! Featuring bags that have been made by Jo Ella Bryant, each month she will provide tips and tricks to help you learn the art of bag making. Choose from several options, get started making, finish in class or at home ... or bring your project back again the next month. It's a sew-in day, but much better because you have help and friends to sew with!

Cost: $ 10.00
RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Oct 18, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Group Retreat - M Rodriguez
- Oct 19, 2023 10:30 am

Group Retreat

RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Oct 24, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Do you love the idea of free-motion quilting and need help getting started or becoming more confident? Whether you are new to longarm quilting or you've done a little and want to do more, this retreat is for you! We will start at the beginning and work our way through learning everything from cleaning, maintaining, threading, tensioning, loading your quilt, auditioning your quilt, tricks of free-motion quilting, how to use pantographs, how to use rulers, and so much more. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
Extra overnight stay for Retreaters
- Oct 29, 2023 12:00 pm

Extra overnight stay for Retreaters

Cost: $ 65.00
Are you interested in advancing your Pro-Stitcher skills? This is your chance to spend time with award-winning educator, Dr. Donna Smith, to master your machine, develop new skills, and build confidence to transform your quilting with Pro-Stitcher. Join us for a 3 days of classes at Pro-Stitcher Academy. In the Intermediate Pro-Stitcher Retreat we move from Basic quilting with Pro-Stitcher to combining designs to creating new designs. This retreat is not for the beginning user. The participants must be knowledgeable in Pro-Stitcher and efficient in edge-to-edge and basic block to block quilting. We dive into Pro-Stitcher Premium (aka Connect) to combine designs, sashings and borders to add unique elements to our quilts. We?ll learn multiple ways to quilt oversized blocks and use cropping to create fun quilts. An overview of Pro-Stitcher Designer (aka Software) and have some fun exploring the use of Designer with Premium. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Nov 02, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Are you tired of paying to have someone else quilt your quilt tops for you? Come rent our machines! In this class, we will cover: threading, tensioning, loading a quilt, basting, and spend some time having fun learning to quilt on a longarm. You can do it!

Cost: $ 95.00
E Stitchers Needle Work Club
- Nov 04, 2023 10:00 am

E Stitchers Needle Work Club Sew Day

RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 06, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 07, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 08, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 09, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 10, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
RETREAT: Retreat Open for Booking
- Nov 11, 2023 10:00 am

***This booking is for anyone who wants to retreat with us.*** If you have a group and would like to book the group, please call 903-866-7550 or email: info@foxcountryquilts.com for more information.

Cost: $ 65.00
Project Linus Sew Day
- Nov 20, 2023 10:30 am

Join us to sew, quilt, and bind quilts to donate to Project Linus for their efforts to give children a quilt when in need. PLEASE if you plan to come sign up so that we know we have enough room for everyone to work and know how many to expect for food. Quilter?s needed this day to: Piece, Press, Make Binding, Add Binding, and help with Quilting on our Longarm machines. Even if you have stated you want to come PLEASE Sign Up here by adding to your cart and ?checking out? the cost is 0 but it is just the process we need to get a good count of people committing to attending.

Cost: $ FREE
Make a Bag Club
- Nov 21, 2023 10:00 am

Make a Bag Club is an exciting and easy way to complete a customized bag! Featuring bags that have been made by Jo Ella Bryant, each month she will provide tips and tricks to help you learn the art of bag making. Choose from several options, get started making, finish in class or at home ... or bring your project back again the next month. It's a sew-in day, but much better because you have help and friends to sew with!

Cost: $ 10.00
RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Nov 27, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Are you tired of paying to have someone else quilt your quilt tops for you? Come rent our machines! In this class, we will cover: threading, tensioning, loading a quilt, basting, and spend some time having fun learning to quilt on a longarm. You can do it!

Cost: $ 95.00
RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Dec 01, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
E Stitchers Needle Work Club
- Dec 02, 2023 10:00 am

E Stitchers Needle Work Club Sew Day

Join us for a 3-day retreat and make a Christmas Celebration Tree Skirt. This Quiltworx pattern is beginner friendly, especially with guidance from the wonderful Tina Wray Lueders! The finished topper/skirt measures 60" x 60, and the techniques for the design include Foundation Paper Piecing, Floating Spikes, Floating Geese, Curved Piecing, Traditional Piecing, and Template Layout Sheets are all design elements used to create this work of art.

Cost: $ 325.00
RENTAL: Longarm Rental
- Dec 12, 2023 10:30 am

Schedule a day to quilt your quilt top on a longarm machine. If you have completed the Longarm Rental Certification Training, please select the next available date and check out to secure your time. If you have questions or do not see a convenient date, please contact Donna at 903-866-7550 or email info@foxcountryquilts.com

Cost: $ 90.00
Project Linus Sew Day
- Dec 18, 2023 10:30 am

Join us to sew, quilt, and bind quilts to donate to Project Linus for their efforts to give children a quilt when in need. PLEASE if you plan to come sign up so that we know we have enough room for everyone to work and know how many to expect for food. Quilter?s needed this day to: Piece, Press, Make Binding, Add Binding, and help with Quilting on our Longarm machines. Even if you have stated you want to come PLEASE Sign Up here by adding to your cart and ?checking out? the cost is 0 but it is just the process we need to get a good count of people committing to attending.

Cost: $ FREE
Make a Bag Club
- Dec 19, 2023 10:00 am

Make a Bag Club is an exciting and easy way to complete a customized bag! Featuring bags that have been made by Jo Ella Bryant, each month she will provide tips and tricks to help you learn the art of bag making. Choose from several options, get started making, finish in class or at home ... or bring your project back again the next month. It's a sew-in day, but much better because you have help and friends to sew with!

Cost: $ 10.00
Extra overnight stay for Retreaters
- Jan 24, 2024 12:00 pm

Extra overnight stay for Retreaters

Cost: $ 65.00
In the Advanced Pro-Stitcher Retreat we go way beyond combining designs to creating new designs for whole quilts. This retreat is not for the faint-hearted or typical quilter. The participants must be extremely knowledgeable in using intermediate to advanced Pro-Stitcher functions and quilting. We dive into Pro-Stitcher Premium (aka Connect) and Pro-Stitcher Designer and use both to create awesomeness. In the show quilting world, it's custom, custom, custom. In addition, we will explore using different textile mediums to create non-quilt quilted projects (for example, using upholstery fabric, wool, etc. to create home decor items.) May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin. Join us for a 3-days and 2-nights Pro-Stitcher Academy Retreat and enjoy the evenings, perfecting what you learn.

Cost: $ 850.00
SEWING: Crazy Quilt Class
- Feb 01, 2024 10:30 am

In this class you will learn to construct a Crazy Quilt. Crazy quilting produces fanciful designs that explode with embellishment on asymmetrical patchwork. In this class, learn how to stabilize fabrics and discover block construction methods sewn on a muslin foundation, including straight seams, curved seams, freezer paper appliqu? and free-form techniques. Let your crazy imagination run wild as you combine basic and advanced hand embroidery stitches to make fabulous seam treatments, embellishing with silk ribbon flowers, beads, buttons, couching, appliqu? and charms.

Cost: $ 75.00
Do you love the idea of free-motion quilting and need help getting started or becoming more confident? Whether you are new to longarm quilting or you've done a little and want to do more, this retreat is for you! We will start at the beginning and work our way through learning everything from cleaning, maintaining, threading, tensioning, loading your quilt, auditioning your quilt, tricks of free-motion quilting, how to use pantographs, how to use rulers, and so much more. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
Are you new to Pro-Stitcher? Are you interested in learning how to use Pro-Stitcher Premium more effectively? This is your chance to spend time with award-winning educator, Dr. Donna Smith, to master your machine, develop new skills, and build confidence to transform your quilting with Pro-Stitcher. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
Do you love free-motion quilting but want to expand your portfolio or become more confident? We will expand on and continue building a library of designs, whether it be free-motion quilting, pantographs, or rulers and get into some custom quilting activities, and so much more. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin. Room checkout is NOON on the last day of class.

Cost: $ 850.00
Extra overnight stay for Retreaters
- Aug 21, 2024 12:00 pm

Extra overnight stay for Retreaters

Cost: $ 65.00
Are you interested in advancing your Pro-Stitcher skills? This is your chance to spend time with award-winning educator, Dr. Donna Smith, to master your machine, develop new skills, and build confidence to transform your quilting with Pro-Stitcher. Join us for a 3 days of classes at Pro-Stitcher Academy. In the Intermediate Pro-Stitcher Retreat we move from Basic quilting with Pro-Stitcher to combining designs to creating new designs. This retreat is not for the beginning user. The participants must be knowledgeable in Pro-Stitcher and efficient in edge-to-edge and basic block to block quilting. We dive into Pro-Stitcher Premium (aka Connect) to combine designs, sashings and borders to add unique elements to our quilts. We?ll learn multiple ways to quilt oversized blocks and use cropping to create fun quilts. An overview of Pro-Stitcher Designer (aka Software) and have some fun exploring the use of Designer with Premium. May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin.

Cost: $ 850.00
In the Advanced Pro-Stitcher Retreat we go way beyond combining designs to creating new designs for whole quilts. This retreat is not for the faint-hearted or typical quilter. The participants must be extremely knowledgeable in using intermediate to advanced Pro-Stitcher functions and quilting. We dive into Pro-Stitcher Premium (aka Connect) and Pro-Stitcher Designer and use both to create awesomeness. In the show quilting world, it's custom, custom, custom. In addition, we will explore using different textile mediums to create non-quilt quilted projects (for example, using upholstery fabric, wool, etc. to create home decor items.) May pay for an additional night to arrive the day before classes begin. Join us for a 3-days and 2-nights Pro-Stitcher Academy Retreat and enjoy the evenings, perfecting what you learn.

Cost: $ 850.00

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