String & Story Presents A Quilting Rockstar Course:
Ruler Quilting Academy
Feel confident using rulers to enhance your machine quilting
What is RQA?
Ruler Quilting Academy is all about helping you feel confident using rulers to enhance your machine quilting in just a couple months.
Whether you’ve played around with the basics of quilting with rulers to stitch in the ditch and want to grow your skills, or you always admired but never attempted quilting with rulers, Ruler Quilting Academy is here to teach you the basics of working with rulers, as well as a whole toolbox full of designs for your blocks, sashings, and borders to make your quilt shine!
New Season, New Skill
Every day is the perfect time to turn over a new leaf and start a fresh adventure.
Chances are good that you’ve thought:
“Ruler quilting looks cool, too. I’d really like to feel like a Rockstar when I quilt with rulers!”
So in the new season, will you take a new adventure with me and learn a new skill?
I’ve put together a specific, guided, step-by-step plan for incorporating ruler quilted designs into your quilting plans.
Join Our Next Cohort
Just like Free Motion Quilting Academy, I’ve designed Ruler Quilting Academy to be an adventure we take together.
At the end of Ruler Quilting Academy, you will feel confident ruler quilting your own quilts and will be ready to pair these new skills with your FMQ skills to create amazing, finished quilts!
Enrollment for our next cohort will be open November 22 - December 2, 2024.
RQA is the first course of its kind that:
Offers ongoing access to the instructor so you never feel alone or stuck. You’ll get quick help on live online Q&A sessions.
While the lessons are pre-recorded, I also believe real-time or nearly real time feedback is important. Inside the course community in Kajabi, I host live Q&A sessions during the weeks of the course so I can help you overcome any hurdles each step of the way.
Connects you to other rockstars-in-training around the world so you can help and encourage each other.
While it can be difficult to learn something new while sitting next to a stranger, it is also valuable to learn in community. The private course community allows you to get to know and share your work with RQA Rockstar alumni and your fellow Ruler Rockstars-in-Training so you never feel alone as you learn.
Is ready when you are, regardless of geography or time zone, with on demand, prerecorded video lessons.
Whether you live around the globe from me, have a day job, work nights, have kids at home that make your schedule irregular, or anything else, the meat of this course is pre-recorded, so you can watch it whenever you want! Plus, once you purchase, you have access forever, to watch and rewatch as often as you want or need.
Ruler Quilting Academy will be open for enrollment from November 22 - December 2, 2024.
A peek inside the course:
Introduction
Let’s talk housekeeping: meet me, view our course schedule, join the private community, and review the supply list.
Unit 1: Foundational Skills
Unit 2: Basic Accents
Unit 3: Grids
Unit 4: Continuous Curves
Unit 5: Geometric Block Fills
Unit 6: Borders & Sashings
The Full Ruler Quilting Academy Experience
RQA Course ($497 value)
Lifetime access teaching you all the skills you need for successful ruler quilting, from start to finish:
A handy supply list. Rulers can be a bit of an investment. Let’s make sure you know which ones are good for getting started and are the most versatile so you don’t break the bank on rulers you won’t use much
Six video units full of tips, tricks, and motifs. From stitch in the ditch to complex clamshell borders, I have a tool box of ruler techniques to teach you
Live video Q&As so you can ask questions and we can talk about how to blend FMQ with ruler quilting to create amazing finished quilts.
Private Ruler Quilting Academy Community ($197 value)
This community inside Kajabi is the super secret sauce! In the group, you get:
Live video Q&A sessions with me
The ability to ask questions and share your work in the group at any time
PLUS, a gorgeous course workbook (available as a PDF inside the course), and the option to purchase a specially curated course kit (that includes rulers!).
That’s a total value of more than $694!
This course is about the length of FMQA, so it will truly be an adventure!
But all this can be yours for the price of just $227 USD
You get the course, the community, and the LIVE Q&As.
FAQ
What exactly is included in Ruler Quilting Academy?
Lifetime access to six units of video lessons teaching you all the skills you need for successful ruler quilting from start to finish, including lessons about the supplies you need to quilt with rulers, how to handle your ruler, and a whole bunch of block, sashing, and border motifs.
Additionally, Ruler Quilting Academy includes the course workbook, the private course community so you can connect to your fellow Rockstars, and live Q&A sessions with me.
When will the videos be available?
We will release the welcome/orientation videos right away so that you know what to expect, and so your supplies can go on your holiday wish list. The course workbook and Units 1-6 will begin releasing within 2 weeks of enrollment closing.
If I don’t sign up for the course now, when is the next chance to enroll?
The next cohort of Ruler Quilting Academy will be open to everyone in 2025.
If I haven't finished Free Motion Quilting Academy, can I / should I still sign up for the Ruler Quilting Academy Course?
You absolutely can, and if you feel confident about working through two courses at once and you are interested in quilting with rulers, then I think you absolutely should!
If you’re just barely working on FMQA though, and are concerned about “shiny object syndrome,” just know that RQA will come around again. As far as the skill sets, ruler quilting and FMQ pair wonderfully together, and if you’re passionate about finishing your own quilts, especially if you like custom quilting, then you’ll love this course!
How will I access the Ruler Quilting Academy Course?
Like FMQ Academy, we will utilize Kajabi as our classroom portal. Course community will also be hosted inside Kajabi. You will have lifetime access to the course after enrollment, including free updates when we professionally film it later.
What time of day will the videos happen?
Ruler Quilting Academy videos are pre-recorded and will be released at approximately 12pm EST on the scheduled day. Q&A sessions will be hosted on Wednesdays at 11am ET.
Do I need a particular machine?
This course is filmed on my BERNINA 590 and designed for folks working on domestic/ home sewing machines and sit down longarms/ midarms. If you are on a longarm on a frame, there will be some adaptation involved to move the machine instead of the quilt (similar to the adaptations if you took FMQA on a longarm). I’m working on a bonus unit all about quilting with rulers on your longarm!
How is this different from Free Motion Quilting?
Similarly to FMQA, this course focuses on motifs for quilting. This time, however, they are all much more geometric and all of them are quilted with rulers. I highly recommend taking both courses.
Will you teach me how to do computerized designs or pantographs?
No— this class focuses on hand-guided quilting using rulers.
Am I going to need a frillion rulers?
Nope! Our class kit will include four rulers (and an optional circle pack), or if you have previously purchased Natalia Bonner’s 4-n-1 ruler, you’ll be able to complete most of the course with just that one. (Full disclosure: I’ve chosen Amanda Murphy rulers for the course instead because they are easier to find, not because I’ve changed my mind about really liking Natalia’s ruler. It’s important to me to offer a kit as well as a brand recommendation your local shop is likely to have/ be able to get).
Join Ruler Quilting Academy
I am so excited to watch you become a true Ruler Quilting Rockstar!
You need a ruler quilting class that lasts longer than a few hours, allows you to practice at your own pace and on your own time, and gives you an ongoing way to ask questions and get help when you get stuck.