Improv That Block Squad
An Improv focused Block of the Month Practice (club)
January 1 – June 30, 2025
2nd Saturdays, 12-3 PM ET Quilt-Alongs
3rd Tuesdays, 3-5 PM ET Q&A
Live on Zoom w/video replay + Interactive Community w/supplementary prerecorded content
The Improv That Block Squad is a 6-month block of the month practice designed to get you flow-sewing with authenticity, from your head, heart and hands — along with a supportive community of wonky makers!
Discover new techniques, enhance your abstract piecing skills, and deepen your connection to your creative practice. Let go of perfection, stop overthinking and experience flow in this mindful, heart centered approach to improv quilting.
What to Expect:
Monthly Blocks: We’ll dive into a different classic block each month to stretch your imagination and expand your technique.
Innovative Patterns: Experience abstract piecing in fresh new ways that challenge tradition while cultivating a mindful approach to quilting.
Ruler-free Technique Demos: Let go of perfection and enjoy the freedom of piecing without a ruler.
Community Connection: Engage with fellow improvisers in our vibrant online community. Share your creations, ask questions, and inspire one another.
Guidance and Inspiration: Video tutorials, tips, and tricks to help you improvise classic quilt blocks YOUR way.
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Why I’m excited about the Squad!
Enjoy more piece Flow Joy in 2025
Nurture your emotional well-being through heightened experiences of creative flow as you witness your patchwork unfold in surprisingly fresh ways.
Access color intuitively and harness your emotional energy by tapping into the present moment, using the materials and scraps you have on hand. No new fabric purchases required.
Enrich your quilting practice and revitalize your creative spirit. Join us in the Squad — where tradition meets innovation, with a restorative dose of radical acceptance!
Improvise like no one’s watching
What’s Inside THE Squad
Improvise a classic quilt block each month selected by community vote, beginning with TUMBLER.
Six flow-sewing quilt-alongs, live on Zoom, 2nd Saturdays, 12-3 PM ET.
Monthly Q&A, show & tell, and quilt-along prep via Zoom on 3rd Tuesdays, 3-4:30 PM ET.
A community space to share and connect with other wonky makers.
Block-specific prerecorded technique demos.
Prerecorded talks on color and improvisation to enhance live sessions.
A list of key "Pivot Points" for each block and ideas for improvising the pattern.
Centering meditations to connect your personal experience with the abstract block du jour.
Video replays of the monthly quilt-alongs and Q&A sessions, if you can't attend live.
Opportunity to advocate and vote on monthly blocks.
Classic quilt block histories and resources.
Evergreen access to ALL course content after the membership ends, and more.
Reclaim your SEWJO!
Signup for the squad
BEST DEAL: $259 Early Bird registration through November 30
MONTHLY PLAN: $293 / $59 at sign up + $39/month January to June
Early Bird Sale. The paid-in-full option is on sale now through the end of November, 2024.
**NOTE: No refunds or transfers after purchase.
Monthly Plan: $59 at sign up + $39/month January to June 2025 / $293 total.
**NOTE: No refunds or transfers on the deposit. You can cancel your subscription anytime.
What folks are saying & making…
Give the Gift of Creativity!
Celebrate your favorite quilter, with the gift of improv. Just in in time for the holidays, the 2025 Improv That Block Squad, a six-month community focused experience, launches in January.
Early Bird Special
$259 pays for the full class if you purchase by November 30.
*After November 30, the price goes to $293
✺ Frequently asked Questions ✺
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My flow-sewing quilt-alongs emphasize restorative process over results to increase your creative flow, happiness, and motivation, while reducing stress and overthinking. Flow-sewing sessions are designed to activate not only your mind, but also your heart and hands as you make. You'll experience creative breakthroughs and make some impressive patchwork along the way.
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Yes! You will get key tips for using colors in each block. You'll also learn to connect with your true and instinctive use of color. We won't follow strict rules to pick colors beforehand, but if you have a method for choosing colors, feel free to bring it! Working with color intuitively will improve your understanding.
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YES! We love beginners, whether making a quilt for the first time or trying flexible patterns. We value the beginner's mind energy you bring to the group.
No matter your experience, we all have the birthright to begin where we are and continue to grow.
The Squad offers extra pre-recorded resources and a community to both support beginners and engage more experienced improvisers.
Monthly Zoom office hours will be available for Q&A, giving you a chance to get personal guidance from Sherri Lynn and other members.
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We will work intuitively with pattern and color using the materials you have at hand —quilting stash, scraps, discarded clothing — SORRY! You aren’t required to purchase color coordinated fabric bundles each month - I know you’re sad about that ;-)
Tools: sewing machine, sharp scissors or rotary cutter and mat, ironing station, pins, fabric marker.
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In January, we will start the Squad with the Tumbler block, selected by community vote at the Improv That Block Churn Dash in October 2024. Five more blocks will be nominated and voted on by the community. You can suggest and advocate for the classic blocks you'd like to explore.
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Yes. I will not be teaching hand-piecing technique, but if you prefer to piece by hand, and you have the skills to do so, you can still benefit from the flow-sewing practices and the community. It will just take you longer — which isn’t a bad thing!
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That’s entirely up to you. Some may choose to make a quilt from blocks each month, others may choose to combine all of the blocks into one quilt. What you make with your blocks will be your choice.
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The Squad community opens in late December. Until then, you can access your bonus Improv That Block: Flying Geese on the Squad resource page right after you register.
Our first live Improv That Block Quilt-along is Saturday, January 11.
Subsequent Quilt-alongs will be on 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 pm eastern time.
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YES! All live sessions will be recorded and available to replay inside the community course. This includes both the 2nd Saturday quilt-alongs and the 3rd Tuesday Q&A office hours with Sherri.
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All members paid in full will have continued evergreen access to the archived community and ALL the course content and live event recordings, for the lifetime of the course — and guaranteed access AT LEAST one year after the course completes.
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This community course is priced lower than my per/hour equity levels to be affordable for most.
If you are a standard and pay-it-forward participant I welcome and greatly appreciate your additional support through my donation link here.
Your gift of money directly supports the creation of new work, which allows me to thrive, grow and pass my learning and experience to others.
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Individual purchases are unlikely and will not be open for registration before January 1. If drop in access to the livestream quilt-along is offered at a premium price, it will NOT include access to the community course or its supplementary content and online community.
Joining the community course is a better value. It includes video replays of all live events, prerecorded demos, a bonus class, evergreen access to the all the content once the course completes, and access to the community. I hope you’ll join us for the whole enchilada!
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No refunds or transfers are available after purchase of the Paid-In-Full option. You will receive evergreen access to all the content indefinitely for the life of the course archive.
If you choose the monthly membership plan, you can leave the Squad anytime and cancel your membership. Access to the course content and community will end at the completion of the billing cycle in which you cancel and you will forfeit evergreen access to the archived course community. No refunds or transfers are available after you purchase and pay the $59 deposit, but you may cancel and discontinue monthly payments at anytime.
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Reach out to June Dudley, our community course host and tech guru at Productions@sherrilynnwood.com It’s her role to trouble shoot and she’s your quickest route to resolution.