Cincinnati
The Original Creative Festival June 23-25, 2011

FRIDAY JUNE 24

9 am – 11 am

Sew Like A Pro
Instructor: Connie Crawford, Fashion Patterns by Coni
Classfee: $20 Kit fee: $5
Learn fashion industry sewing techniques and shortcuts that will make your sewing more professional, efficient, enjoyable and satisfying. Connie will demonstrate several sewing techniques and interfacings that are used in the fashion industry today. Topics include efficient cutting techniques, selecting interfacings for fashion sewing that do not need pre-shrinking, pin basting, using a gathering foot, crimping vs. ease stitching, bias treatments, spaghetti variations, placket techniques and zipper techniques and vest linings. This workshop will relieve your fears of the more complicated fashion details.
Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

9 am – 12 pm (Noon)

It's Simple: A Skirt
Instructor: Debbie Heck, Squiggly Twigs Designs
Hands on workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $20 Kit fee $5
Learn basic sewing skills and a few tricks while creating this cute little skirt for yourself or someone you love. Fabric for this class has been donated by FreeSpirit (Delilah by Tanya Whelan.) Elastic has been donated by Pam Erny at Fashion Sewing Supply https://fashionsewingsupply.com/. Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

Dye One On
Instructor: Cindy Losekamp Sew Artfully Yours
Hands-on without using sewing machines
Class fee $30 Kit fee: $30
Dyeing cloth is an age old passion. Even if you've tried it before or you are just the slightest bit interested in how it's done…you will love this "hands on" excursion into the world of dye. Our project is a silk scarf…beautiful in its own right but we will enhance it with color. We'll be using procion dyes for an amazing vibrancy you just can't get with other types of dye. Cindy will lead you through the processes helping you dye three scarves. Each one will be more beautiful than the last. This is a great way to experience the excitement and fulfillment dyeing fabric brings. Cindy gives you the stepping stones to dyeing your own fabric for garments and quilts. Truly Exciting! Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

Skirt Proportions
Instructor: Cynthia Guffey, Cynthia Guffey
Lecture
Class fee: $ 40 Kit Fee: $15 (no supplies needed)
Everyone can wear a skirt that is comfortable and flattering: we just have to find the right one for you, and that is what we will accomplish in this class. First is the selection of a pattern that allows you to address your fitting challenges. Then using mock ups, the perfect length and circumference will be determined for each participant. Consider bringing shoes that you would wear with a skirt ---- it will improve your visual. Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

Mixed Media Pillow
Instructor: Pam Damour, The Decorating Diva
Hands on Workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $25
Combine embroidery with couching, 3D appliqué, felting and more to make this fun pillow with a blooming flower! Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

10 am – 1 pm

NEW CLASS -- JUST ADDED!
Learn to Crochet - Scarf
Cathy Robbins - Southwest Ohio Crochet Guild
Class Fee $30.00 - Kit Fee $5.00 (includes yarn, hook, pattern)
Add crochet to your creative repertoire! Learn how to read a basic pattern and make chain, single crochet and double crochet stitches as you create a cute fashion scarf.
Sign up at at our website now, registration open for this class.

Follow the Line Machine Quilting
Instructor: Cathy Scovill, Batik Quilts
Hands on workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $35 Kit fee $35
Kit includes an 18" hand-painted batik panel of your choice, two strips 7 ½" x 18" and two strips 7 ½" x 32", batting 36" square, hand-dyed backing 36" square and variegated thread. Do you fear making a mistake in machine quilting? Practice your free form machine quilting skills by simply following the lines of a hand-painted batik panel. Learn how to quickly assemble your quilt sandwich with basting spray and begin quilting. Use a hand-dyed fabric for your backing and use variegated thread on top and bottom to create a fantastic reversible project!
Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

10:30 am - 11 am

How To Make Quilted Heirlooms
Demo Stage
Free
Presented by Darlene Miller, Clothes For You
Making treasures to be handed down to future generations is your legacy to your family. Learn how to select patterns, colors, fabrics and quilting designs to create those heirlooms. No special skills or equipment needed - just your desire to work with fabric creating beautiful quilts to be used and enjoyed as well as shared with future family members.

11:15 am – 1:15 pm

Take the Stress Out of Seamstress: A Sew Inspiring Trunk Show
Instructor: Judy Kessinger, Fit Nice
Free Handout to be given in Class.
Lecture
Class fee: $20
Join Judy Kessinger for a two hour trunk show that will both excite and inspire you to sew for yourself! You will see creative touches such as machine and serger embellishments, embroidery designs and fun with machine needles. Easy to use notions and all the tricks of gluing! You won't believe how this way of sewing will simplify your life. Two patterns – an entire wardrobe! Don't have time to sew, you will now! Please bring your cameras…..try on the clothes!

11:30 am - 12 pm (Noon)

Strata Art Quilts
Demo Stage
Free
Presented by Marilyn Doheny, Doheny Publications
Marilyn will show how simple fabric units called "strata" can be cleverly cut apart to create amazingly contemporary quilt images. All images are very powerful geometric patterns, based on traditional blocks - yet strikingly contemporary using her fabric and cutting techniques.

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

Designer Pants – Designed By You
Instructor: Darlene Miller, Clothes For You
Lecture
Class fee: $10
Learn how to design pants that fit – Guaranteed! It's all about shape – your shape and matching the design lines of your patterns to your body shape. With an understanding of this concept you will have a wardrobe of pants – all favorites!

12:30 pm – 1 pm

Trimming Secrets of a Decorator Workroom
Demo Stage
Free
Presented by Pam Damour, The Decorating Diva
What's the difference between a $25 pillow and a $250 pillow? It's all in the trimmings and most of them you can make yourself! Learn how to make knife pleats, box pleats, ruching, ruffles and more! And make them in a snap using tricks of the trade!

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Bring A Sweatshirt And Modify With Cindy!
Instructor: Cindy Losekamp Sew Artfully Yours
Hands-on without using sewing machines
Class fee: $20 Kit fee: $25
Here's your chance to bring a shirt to class and get it ready for embellishment. You will learn the proper method for finding the center, stabilizing the center front, learn how to add clear elastic to the neckline for strength, cut up the shirt and fit it, stabilize the hemline…anything and everything can be done without a sewing machine…there will be at least one in class for basic basting if needed. The purpose of this class is to give you the courage to do it yourself at home…instead of thinking about it or doing it and not being happy with the results…this will jumpstart your success and you'll be ready to go home and start creating! Join Cindy for this great class! All your stabilizers and your choice of pattern come with the class. Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

12:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Totally Trapezoid
Instructor: Bernadette Griffith, Juki America
Hands on workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $35
We are going to create a very untraditional, quilted trapezoid purse, with plenty of shape and character to spare. The techniques used in class will cover simple appliqué, simple hand-look quilt stitches, piping in a fun and incredibly decorative way and inserting a purse handle. Kit fee includes all items needed to complete the project. Please bring small (curved if possible) scissors, marking pencils, and clear ruler to class.
Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

1 pm – 4 pm

The Perfect Tote
Instructor: Pam Folberth, Sew-Ezy Sewing Studio
Hands on Workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $16
The bag looks hard, but really it's not. In fact it's so much fun to make you'll want to make more than one. The bag is perfect for so many uses. As a beach bag, it's perfect to just rinse the sand right out or as a wonderful grocery tote. This bag even make a great purse. The best part of all is the fabric Mesh- its fun to use and comes in vibrate colors. The techniques used are clever and you'll have a great time! Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

1:30 pm - 2 pm

SquigglyTwigs Designs Fashion Show
Demo Stage
Free
Be inspired as models from Squiggly Twigs Designs show some of their fun and creative collection of easy to sew patterns for Boutique styled clothing for all. If you can follow a simple recipe, you can sew any of these patterns in no time at all. See more of SquigglyTwigs on their blog http://www.squigglytwigs.blogspot.com.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

It's FREE Motion Stitching for Wearable Art
Instructor: Darlene Miller, Clothes For You
Lecture
Class fee: $10
No lines to follow, no guesswork for the stitches to use. Learn the tips to stitch like the pros to add panache' to your garments and quilts. Enhance a section, embellish a contour or create an overall design all done with the machine you have. We will discuss fabric, battings, and techniques to use when you make your masterpiece. Surprise yourself as you can learn a new skill.

Review of Fundamentals
Instructor: Cynthia Guffey, Cynthia Guffey
Lecture
Class fee: $10
First, Cynthia will address "cleaning up" the pattern pieces: adjusting and correcting grainlines, mirror images, and seam widths. The technique for straightening the fabric will be shown, and the reason for doing so will be discussed. The importance of circles versus notches will be clarified, and how to make them will be demonstrated. Methods for accurate pinning, cutting, and more will be included.

1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Piecing Is The Cornerstone
Instructor: Debbie Wendt, Wendt Quilting
Hands on workshop using sewing machines – Limit 20
Class fee: $30 Kit fee $20
A table runner of techniques. Explore how fabric choices and block placement can change the look of your piece. Become a confident quilter with trusted machine piecing techniques including four-patches, half squares, quarter squares, and flying geese. Kit includes fabric for table runner, binding, backing, thread. Email Debbie at wendt2cairo@yahoo.com for fabric color options. Supply list: 6"x24" ruler, rotary cutter, 18"x24" mat, straight pins, instructions, pencil, notepad, and camera (optional)
Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Forecast Fall/Winter 2011-12
Demo Stage
Free
Presented by Connie Crawford, Fashion Patterns By Coni
Fall/Winter 2011-12 promises to be a rather complex season, especially due to the difficult international economic situation and its effects on producers, buyers, and consumers. As people become more responsible with their lifestyles, there is a change in attitude about how they dress. Internationally experienced fashion editors who follow the runway shows in Paris, Milan, London, and New York publish a wide variety of magazines, books and color charts. Using this information, Connie Crawford will present the latest in trends in design, fashion, fabric and colors for the fall/winter 2011-2012 season.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Pants Fitting
Instructor: Cynthia Guffey, Cynthia Guffey
Lecture
Class fee: $10
For many, pants fitting is the most challenging of all sewing projects. Learn a method for measuring the body that "makes sense" and addresses fitting issues. Cynthia will demonstrate the measuring process, and the application of the measurements to the pattern. Then you can sew great fitting pants.

Righting Those Decorating Wrongs
Instructor: Pam Damour, The Decorating Diva
Lecture
Class fee: $10
Have you been doing your own decorating and trying all the new looks only to have your home still not look like the magazines? Let Pam, the Decorating Diva, share with you all the trade secrets used to elevate your decorating from "Home Made" to "Custom Made." Pam will educate on the mistakes made by the do-it-yourself home decorator and teach you shortcuts to make professional looking soft furnishings for your home.

3 pm – 4 pm

Stuffed Embroidery
Instructor: Cindy Losekamp Sew Artfully Yours
Lecture
Class fee: $10
Cindy has developed a different kind of applique embroidery that gives an amazing dimensional quality unlike any you've seen. You will use yarns, wool felts, fiber, roving…all the cool stuff you've bought but haven't gotten around to using. Since developing this technique, she has created new collections of simple and quick designs so you can be Über-creative in just a moment of time. These sew so quick you won't believe it. Add these to your other collections and do embroideries along with the new "Stuffed Embroidery" for unique creations. Join us and see what the "Stuffs" about!

3:30 pm - 4 pm

Instant Garden - Just Add Fabric!
Demo Stage
Free
Presented by Marilyn Doheny, Doheny Publications
This demonstration is filled with quilts of all sizes, made from fans that have been turned into flowers, butterflies, bumble bees, dragon flies and birds. The entire diverse fan images have been quickly and easily made using Marilyn Doheny's creative 9 Degree Circle Wedge Rulers. Simple sewing and almost no seam matching are featured!

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm

What Is a Batik & What Do You Do With It?
Free Demo Stage presented by Cathy Scovill
A brief history of batik. Step by step samples of how batik fabric paintings are made, from pencil drawing on muslin, through wax and dye techniques, removing wax, to color fast finished fabric. Includes a magnificent trunk show highlighting quilts from wall-hanging to queen size, garments and home dec ideas.

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BASIC SEWING SUPPLIES
IF YOU SIGN-UP FOR
WORKSHOPS OR
HANDS-ON CLASSES
You will need to bring the following supplies if you are taking any hands-on
classes: sharp sewing
shears, rotary cutter,
cutting mat, straight pins,
marking tool, ruler, tape
measure, #2 pencils and
notepad.
Sewing machines are
provided in the classroom.
Students should check
class descriptions for
additional items needed.

Public Show
Vendor Sales
full time position – immediate opening
As a Public Show Salesperson you will be responsible for the financial success of our public expo events. You will be responsible for selling the expo by contacting former vendors and cold calling potential new vendors as well as sponsorship and help build attendance. Your responsibility will be to foster and maintain relationships with key industry accounts to increase vendor sales and attendance by communicating the value of the event. Candidate will also assist in expanding to different markets.
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