Do you love the look of Stained Glass? Are you intimidated by appliqué? Now you can learn a quick, easy and fun way to make stained glass quilts! You no longer have to use raw edge, registration marks, paper piecing, reverse appliqué, satin stitching, fusible web, etc. Your quilts will be soft, not stiff. This requires no piecing, just add black leading to your top, stitch and quilt at the same time reducing your stitching by 50%!, this workshop is fun for everyone, and appropriate for all levels. This is only a sample of your project. You will be able to choose from one of Quilters Treasure patterns at the class.SATURDAY SEMINARS |
20 Sewing Myths –CORRECTED!
Peggy Sagers/Silhouette Patterns
415CS - Room 107-- Class fee $8
9 a.m.-10 a.m.
Simplify your concepts. Designing, fitting, and sewing have taken place for thousands of years and it is all simple. You can do this. This is not highly technical. Come learn why some of the sewing tricks we have learned over the years did not work and why they were not tricks at all. Gain some new insight as to why and how you can now do some great things with patterns and learn how to tell fact from fiction.
Be a Style Spy
Barb Callahan/Barb Originals
420CS - Room 109 -- Class fee $8
9 a.m.-10 a.m.
Where can we find inspiration for color, style, and design for our garments? Barb will inspire you with her techniques and teach you how to find new ones and adapt them.
Needle Felting
Barbara Crawford / Crawford Designs
423CS - Room 107 -- Class fee $8
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
You will be working with different fibers to create different effects and you get to experience techniques such as flat surfaced designs, dimensionals for berries, animal characters and more. Blending, shading, outlining, just go wild with a needle. Included will be recipes for hand dying wool to create your own color palette using household products.
Make That Sweatshirt Jacket FIT & Flatter, Londa’s Way
Londa Rohlfing/Londa’s Creative Threads
425CS - Room 109 -- Class fee $8
10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Never again spend all that time and waste your “stash” on a great sweatshirt jacket – only to be disappointed in the fit! Londa will teach you her techniques for fitting the sweatshirt FIRST….seeing the sweatshirt as just “fabric and matching ribbing.” Stabilization of edges is equally important and covered thoroughly in this class.
Applique To Go
Cindy Casciato/Best Friends Quilt Shoppe
427CS - Room 110 - Kit fee $10, Class fee $8
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Explore the world of fast fusible applique and enjoy creating beautiful flowers to be used on quilts or garments. You will make a poppy flower in class to take home for a quilt block or put on a garment.
(This class also available on Thursday and Friday)
Binding - A World of Options
Debbie Wendt / Wendt Quilting
Stage Presentation -- Price: No-Charge
258CT - THURSDAY 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
358CF - FRIDAY 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
458CS - SATURDAY 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m .
This stage show will also be presented on Thursday and Friday.
Secrets for Successful Sewing with Linen
Barb Callahan/Barb Originals
430CS - Room 107-- Class fee $8
12 p.m.-1 p.m.
It’s comfortable to wear. Now Barb will make it easy to sew. Learn to choose patterns, prepare for sewing, cut and create easy seam finishes, beautiful hems, and more.
Silk Ribbon & Bead Embroidery
Sherrill Lewis/Bead Ranch
435CS - Room 110 -- Class fee $35 & Kit fee $25
12 p.m.-3 p.m.
Beginner/Intermediate Level
This design incorporates several basic bead embroidery and silk ribbon embroidery stitches. Beading backstitch, picot, tiny flower and daisy ribbon stitches.
Kit includes Size 11/o seed beads: assorted flower and leaf colors (pinks, white, blues, greens), Size #3 bugle beads, brown iris and green iris, Butterfly sequin, 4mm silk ribbon in flower colors and green, 7mm green, #11 straw needles, silk ribbon needles, Silamide thread, medium weight sturdy fabric, color of choice, about 8” x 8”. Bring scissors.
Creative Sweatshirt Jackets - Londa's Way
Londa Rohlfing/Londa's Creative Threads
Stage Presentation -- Price: No-Charge
224CT - THURSDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
324CF - FRIDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
424CS - SATURDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
You're kidding me: "THAT'S a SWEATSHIRT? This is what your friends will say when you learn Londa's endless creative jackets and techniques. Let Londa show you how to endlessly give your 'collection' of fabrics to creative use with her amazing techniques for embellishment with good design principles behind them. You'll see endless styling, necklines, creative closures, sleeve and cuff treatments, hems and more. You'll never again look for a sweatshirt without a bottom band when you learn how Londa transforms that band into different collars. Having created hundreds of different jackets from sweatshirts, Londa will inspire your creativity with pictures, samples, and techniques galore. EVERY YEAR, Londa amazes you with her new design concepts, taking her niche to even more exciting levels.
A Dozen of Our Best Patterns & Why?
Peggy Sagers/Silhouette Patterns
445CS - Room 107-- Class fee $8
1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Silhouette Patterns, the largest independent pattern company in the U.S., will show its 12 best patterns. Come see what the “Top 12 best selling Silhouette Patterns” are and why you like them. Ideas for fabric changes, time-saving shortcuts and easy sewing methods will be shown. You’ll learn all the reasons you can sew them quickly and how to really broaden your wardrobe by including them over and over. Don’t miss out! A trunk show of samples will be shown.
From Frumpy…to WOW!
Londa Rohlfing/Londa's Creative Threads
450CS - Room 108-- Class fee $8
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
You have your “stash.” You have skills. You have tools. You have ideas … too many ideas! How do you decide what to use – where and how to use it? Design Principles! Londa will walk you through good design of balance, rhythm, color, proportion and center of interest. Using her creative sweatshirt jackets as teaching samples, you will learn to identify the successful use of these all-important principles enabling you to approach your own creative sewing with a newly-trained, artistic “eye.”
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6/19-09
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