Quiltworx University – Sante Fe, 2025

Ready, Set, Plan Your Projects!

Hello everyone! We’re beyond excited about this upcoming retreat, and the beautiful design options Judy and Brad have created especially for you! We’re pleased to present your exclusive project, which features NEW blocks and layouts for the Hosta Mixer series which can be purchased for this workshop through Quiltster or the onsite shop hosted by The Quilt Works.

Quiltworx University – Santa Fe 2025

To keep up to date on what’s happening for this retreat and to communicate with fellow attendees and our hosts, please join the Quiltworx University Santa Fe Facebook Group.

PLAN YOUR PROJECT!

There are three options for selecting the pattern and your fabrics:

OPTION 1 – PURCHASE A PUBLISHED PATTERN AND PREPARE YOUR OWN PROJECT: Purchase the NEW Fire Island Hosta pattern (Coming in December 2024) through our CS The Quilt Works, Quiltworx, or the Quiltster Event Portal (must be logged into your Quiltster account). Once published, yardage charts will be available with the pattern so you can begin sourcing your fabric as well. With this option, you will be responsible for cutting your fabrics to the strip size, labeling them, and bagging them so that you are ready for class.  

OPTION 2 – CHOOSE A PRE-DESIGNED KIT: Select one of the Hosta Mixer kits, exclusive for this event!  There are several pre-designed kit options that have been created for you to choose from. You will have a Quiltster account for six months (from sign up) as part of your event and will need to use it to purchase your project if you choose one of these options. 

OPTION 3 – DESIGN YOUR OWN CUSTOM QUILT:  Create your own completely customized quilt, where you pick the combination of blocks for your quilt and your favorite fabric collections from the list offered by The Quilt Works! If you haven’t received it already, any day (or upon sign-up!) you’ll receive a 6 month subscription to Quiltster, allowing you the opportunity to mix and match blocks and fabrics in 5 different quilt sizes to achieve your perfectly unique quilt!  You may use Quiltster, or contact Judel Niemeyer for an additional design fee to help you create your perfect quilt.

NEW Fire Island Hosta Pattern | COMING DECEMBER 2024

When released, this pattern can be ordered through The Quilt Works. For this option, you will choose your own fabrics and prepare your own kit (yardage will be provided at publication). Papers will be sent upon placing your order. If you would like a kit, you can contact The Quilt Works directly to create one.

Hosta Mixer Kits

If choosing blocks and fabrics seems overwhelming, we’re also offering the following exclusive fabric kits only available to event attendees.

If you select this option, we’ll cut the kit, and prepare it for the class. We’ll bring the kits to the workshop for you so there is no preparation needed! 

To order these options, you’ll need to find the one you want in Quiltster (click on Quilt Planner from your Dashboard, then scroll down to the bottom and click the blue Enter button next to Quiltworx University Santa Fe 2025 to get started). Once you have opened the desired project (by clicking Customize) and given it a name, save it to your account.

Hang on to your projects (and endlessly tinker) until ordering is open in mid-December 2024. We’ll send out a announcement that ordering is open! At that time, you can click the Add to Cart button and it will walk you through the order submission process. All you need to do then is show up at the event!

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Firefly (Beginner Project) • 68″ Square

Free Spirit: Tula Pink

Pumpkin • 68″ Square

Moda: Grunge Basics 2021

Free Spirit: Assorted Collections

Purple Hosta • 68″ Square

Riley Blake: Sparkler

Free Spirit: Tula Pink Untamed

Spice Petals • 68″ Square

Free Spirit: Assorted Tim Holtz

Moda: Grunge Basics 2021

Ying Yang • 68″ Square

Timeless Treasures: ColorStock

Champagne Christmas • 70″ Diameter

Robert Kaufman: Calixta

Electric Orchid • 80″ Square

Timeless Treasures: ColorStock

Fire Island Hosta • 80″ Square

Timeless Treasures: ColorStock

I Walk the Line • 80″ Square

Free Spirit: Assorted Collections

The Elusive Octopus • 99″ Square

Timeless Treasures:

Assorted Mini Collections and Wallflowers

Cinnamon and Sage • 100″ Square

Free Spirit: Vintage and

Assorted Kaffe Collections

Feeling Grinchy • 100″ Square

Timeless Treasures: ColorStock

The Untamed Hosta • 100″ Square

Free Spirit: Tula Pink Untamed

Riley Blake: Sparkler

Art Gallery • 118″ Square

Riley Blake: Assorted Collection

Petals of Time King • 118″ Square

Free Spirit: Assorted

Tim Holtz Collections

Create your own completely customized quilt, by selecting a quilt size and blocks for each section of the quilt shown below along with fabrics from over 50 collections!

There are two ways to do this:

1. Use Quiltster!  Prior to this event, you’ll receive a 6 month subscription to Quiltster (as part of the fee for attending the event), allowing you the opportunity to mix and match blocks and fabrics in 5 different quilt sizes and 8 different layouts to achieve your perfectly unique quilt!  
2. We’ll Design it With You!  For an additional $40 design fee, you can work one on one with Judel Niemeyer as she uses Quiltster to mix and match blocks and fabrics to create your one of a kind quilt. For this option, click on this link to pay the Design Fee, and then email judel@quiltworx.com letting her know which blocks you want and any inspirations for design and color. You’ll have final approval before your quilt is kitted. 

Whether you use Quiltster on your own, or have us do it, your finalized quilt kit will be cut by us. We will prepare the kit by cutting the yardage down to the final strip sizes, and labeling all the strips. You will be ready to lay down your templates and start cutting! Your kit will be waiting for you at your quilting station at the event! No preparation on your end will be needed!

What You Can Expect

BLOCK AND FABRIC OPTIONS

Your options for blocks and fabrics are shown below. If you have any questions about how to use Quiltster, we strongly encourage you to visit the Quiltster Youtube Channel and watch some tutorials before you get started.

Here’s a valuable video (not directly related to this project, but related to the Quiltworx University Planning process) which gives you a great walk-through of how the program works. While the video below is in an older version of Quiltster that looks slightly different than yours, once you click into the Quilt Editor, the process works the same. Click the image below to watch the tutorial. 

QUILT LAYOUTS

8 Layouts • 5 Sizes!

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A BLOCKS

B BLOCKS

J BLOCKS

288-D BLOCK

E BLOCKS

F BLOCKS

G BLOCK

C BLOCKS

242-D BLOCKS

281-D BLOCKS

K BLOCK

Fabric Options

CS The Quilt Works is offering you fabrics from the following collections.

NOTE: Click the links below to be taken to the collections in Quiltster. Please know that in some cases the whole collection may not be available to use as part of the workshop. Only the fabrics included in the event will appear when coloring your Quiltworx University Santa Fe 2025 projects.

Free Spirit

• Abandoned 1 & 2
• Alchemy
• Cracked Shadow
• Designer Solids
• Foundations
• Grace
• Kaffe Classics
• Kaffe Classics Brassica
• Kaffe Fassett Collective February 2021
• Kaffe Fassett Collective August 2023
• Kaffe Fassett Collective August 2024
• Lineage
• Monochrome
• Moon Garden
• Palette Orange
• Palette Pink
• Palette Red
• Scalloped Hills 2
• Seeds
• True Colors April 2022
• Untamed
• Vintage
• Worn Croc

Moda

• Grunge Basics 2021

Hoffman Fabrics

• 1895
• Congo Bay – Gray
• Congo Bay – Warm
• Driftwood Dance
• Earthy Romance
• Jelly Fish Batiks
• Sweet Sandalwood

Northcott

• Stonehenge Gradations NEW Blue Planet
• Stonehenge Gradations NEW Marrakech
• Stonehenge Gradations NEW Oxidized Copper
• Stonehenge Gradations NEW Pine Ridge
• Stonehenge Multi Mixers – NEW

Riley Blake

• Expressions Batiks A Nod to Mod
• Expressions Batiks Chalk & Charcoal
• Expressions Batiks Express Yourself Color Bands
• Sparkler
• Sparkler 2022 R4

Robert Kaufman

• Calixta

Timeless Treasures

• ColorStock ~ Brush Strokes
• ColorStock ~ Dot Dot Goose
• ColorStock ~ Dot Dot Star
• ColorStock ~ Silhouettes
• Tonga Bluebell
• Tonga Cider
• Tonga Festive
• Tonga Heron
• Tonga Java Blenders
• Tonga Gulf Coast Mini Collection
• Tonga Mini Collection Sage
• Tonga Wallflowers
• Tonga Wallflowers Spring 2022
• Tonga Windsong

We’re excited to announce that sign-ups are open for this wonderful quilting adventure!

March 16 (Check-in 3 p.m.)
Classes from the 17th-21st, 2025

MISA and Quiltworx are bringing Quiltworx University to the never before host city of Santa Fe, NM, where we’ll embark on five full days of creativity, learning, and inspiration led by the renowned Judy and Judel Niemeyer, along with a team of Quiltworx Certified Instructors. This event is perfect for paper piecers of all skill levels because we’ll all be working on an exclusive project using Quiltworx mixer blocks, each of which will be demonstrated individually in small groups.

You’ll gain in-depth knowledge of planning your Quiltworx projects using Judy’s favorite tool, Quiltster. With a 6-month membership included in your event sign-up, you’ll have everything you need to bring your quilting visions to life.

Learn from the best as Judy shares her expertise on reading instructions, cutting and organizing quilt projects for foundation paper piecing, and mastering the art of foundation paper piecing itself. Discover her tips, tricks, and latest techniques that will elevate your quilting game.

Immerse yourself in creativity with nightly trunk shows featuring stunning quilts made by Judy, her instructors, and fellow students. And don’t forget to shop at our onsite Certified Shop for anything under the sun, from custom kits to fabrics to notions.

This is an event you don’t want to miss! Join us at Quiltworx University Santa Fe Workshop and unlock a world of quilting possibilities. Sign up now and let your imagination run wild!

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Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza

Located in Downtown Santa Fe, just one block from the historic Santa Fe Plaza and Canyon Road, The Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza is host to MISA West workshops and it’s easy to get to! It’s just nine miles from the Santa Fe airport and 68 miles from the Albuquerque airport. The luxury accommodations and light-filled studio space celebrate the authentic Southwestern style and culture of New Mexico. Attendees are steps away from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

Check out a few of the many exclusive patterns above designed especially for past events! The new project has not been announced yet, but you’ll be the first to make them! As mentioned, the new projects will be available to play with in Quiltster. Audition fabrics and blocks, and receive a kit cut down to the strip level ready for you when you arrive, if you want.

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Join the fun! You won’t want to miss out on this amazing experience, and springtime in Santa Fe!