Programs & Courses

Explore your creativity and get outside your comfort zone

Meander Quilt Guild

Meander is an international quilt guild and school where you'll master color, explore a bunch of quilt-making styles, learn to design your own quilts, and develop your own unique quilt-making style, all alongside other quilters from all around the world.

As a member, you'll enjoy a growing library of workshops taught by international teachers, live workshops, fun guild events, and our popular Color Confidence for Quilters program. We'd love to have you join this vibrant, creative community!

Scrappy Applique

Scrappy Applique is a raw-edge applique technique created by Shannon Brinkley. It is quick and simple to learn, yet allows for a lot of creative possibilities! Join thousands of other quilters and learn this fun and easy technique and make your first project!

You'll find the full Scrappy Appliqué Workshop inside Meander!

Color Confidence for Quilters

A full Color Curriculum that will take you from unsure and insecure with your color abilities to being able to confidently mix and match all the fabrics in your stash to create fabric palettes that are beautiful, unique, and look like you!

This popular and powerful online program is only available inside Meander.

Portrait Quilting

Portrait Quilting is a raw-edge appliqué technique where you focus on value to create contrast. Using a photograph of a friend, beloved pet, or family member you can create an appliqué piece that is quick and simple yet produces amazing results.

Imbue

(Natural Fabric Dyeing)

Grow a natural fabric dyeing practice, and literally Imbue your fabric and yarn with nature. Inside Meander, you will not only learn a myriad of techniques and recipes, to dye the rainbow and add pattern to your fibers, you will develop a deeper relationship with the natural world around you and your art materials, and help your students do the same.

and so much more

We have live events, classes on creativity & design, and so much more! There is also a HUGE library of fantastic workshops inside Meander.

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Dive into any of these workshops and start exploring your creativity now! We are so excited to see what you're going to create.

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Artistic Style and Development

Art School for Makers

Create a body of work that looks & feels like you

You’ve walked through life gathering experiences, emotions, and insights that no one else has, so why should your art look like everyone else’s?

What if you could weave your personality and stories into your work, creating something deeply personal and true? That’s exactly what Art School for Makers is designed to help you do.

Art isn’t just about technique. True art—the kind that takes your breath away—comes from within. But most people don’t know how to tap into that magic.

That’s where Art School for Makers comes in.

Choose your major, Applique Artistry, Color Mastery, Quilting Artistry, Natural Fabric Dyeing, or Interdisciplinary, and be guided through the journey from maker to artist

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Business Programs

Make a living doing what you love.

Meander Pro

Turn your artistry into a sustainable business — with the tools, training, and support you need every step of the way.

If you’ve mastered the stitches, built your creative style, and now want to grow visibility, income, and freedom through your craft… Meander Pro is for you.

It brings together:

✔ The artistic development of Meander Quilt Guild
✔ The guided creative journey of Art School for Makers
✔ The business training, coaching, and visibility of Meander Pro

Building a profitable craft business without a proven roadmap is like creating without a pattern—you can pour in time and energy and still end up with something that doesn’t quite fit.

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Certified Teaching Program

Are you interested in teaching one of Shannon's popular programs? Teaching and speaking at quilt guilds or quilt shops is the quickest and simplest business models in the quilt industry, and Shannon's Scrappy Applique and Color Confidence for Quilter's workshops are in high demand. We'd love to share with you more about our Certified Teacher Training Program.