PLEASE NOTE:
DOORS OPEN DAILY AT 8:15 AM FOR TICKET SALES AND WILL-CALL PICKUP. VENDOR MALL
OPENS 10:00 AM THURSDAY - SATURDAY.
Cancellation/Exchange Policy: Absolutely NO refunds will be
made for admission or class tickets—NO exceptions. However, a seminar ticket can
be exchanged at the show if your class is not sold out and has not occurred.
Lost or forgotten tickets cannot be replaced or refunded. If you are unable to
attend, please give your tickets as a gift to a friend.
*Your Admission ticket is required before entering classes. However, it
is NOT required to attend the Wednesday pre-expo workshops.
* Kit Fees are payable to the instructor in classroom, while Class Fees are paid
in advance when you register.
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Admission Ticket - $ 9.00 - Good for all 3 Days
Please note: Wednesday's Workshops do not require an Admission Ticket
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Sonja Bezuidenhout has had a passion for sewing from a very young age and her
first sewing machine was a prize won in a local competition. Born in South
Africa, she first pursued a Nursing career, but then sought a change in
direction and qualified as a Computer Programmer.
With the arrival of her
first of three girls, she decided to follow her passion and became a Dressmaker
and later established a Sewing School in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
She was introduced to the Lutterloh Pattern Making System in 1993 and was so
impressed with the beautiful fit, cut and style of the outfits created using the
system; she began teaching her students using Lutterloh patterns.
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WORKSHOP
9:00 am
- 12:30 pm
$46 - #WS-74
LIMIT 12 STUDENTS
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Skirt Designing with the Lutterloh Pattern Making System
Skill Level: All
 Sonja
will assist you to draft a simple plain Pencil-Skirt pattern from the Lutterloh
Pattern collection (our Master Pattern).
She will then show you how to apply
some simple design changes. First of all how to lengthen and shorten the skirt
and also changing the waistband (facings, elasticized, ribbing, contour waists &
hipsters).
Next we will change the skirt to an A-line, yoke, wrap & gore skirt.
Lastly we will focus on bias/flirty skirts and some interesting designs. Full
instructions to sew your Skirt and handy tips on a CD will also be provided.
Kit fee: $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom
Kits
include, Drafting paper, Lutterloh Patterns needed for the workshop, CD with
class contents and notes and cardboard rulers.
Bring to class:
Paper scissors and reading glasses
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WORKSHOP
1:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
$46 - #WS-84
LIMIT 12 STUDENTS
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T-Shirt Designing with the Lutterloh Pattern Making System
Skill Level: All
 Sonja will in this
Workshop show you how to draft a simple T-shirt pattern from the Lutterloh
Pattern collection (our Master Pattern) and then apply some simple design
changes.
She will then teach you how to change the neck-line to different
styles: V-Necklines, Round Necklines, Square Necklines, Boat Necklines, Basic
Cowl Necklines, Keyhole Necklines, Polo/turtleneck & Funnel Neck.
Full
instructions to sew your T-Shirt and handy tips on a CD will also be provided.
Kit fee: $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom
Kits
include, Drafting paper, Lutterloh Patterns needed for the workshop, CD with
class contents and notes and cardboard rulers.
Bring to class:
Paper scissors and reading glasses
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Gail is an innovator, author, lecturer, designer and teacher both nationally and
internationally. For 35 years Gail has specialized in the art of IGOLOCHKOY™
(Russian Punchneedle embroidery) and has the largest collection in the world of
punchneedle works, including many famous wearable and quilt artists.
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WORKSHOP
9:00 am
- 12:00 pm
$35 - #WS-72
LIMIT 15 STUDENTS
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French Knitted Bracelet
All levels – ages 12 and up
 This technique is easy,
intriguing and becoming very popular.
Using a NEW modern tool with 3
interchangeable heads, we will knit a bracelet that stretches so it can fit any
wrist.
Two cords are knitted together. The beads already pre-threaded on the
finest of the 2 cords are added randomly or systematically into the knit as you
go.
Kit: $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom.
Kit includes beads, cords, French knitting tool, bead mat, instructions and
clasp.
NOTE: other equipment needed will be on loan in
class.
Once you have completed your bracelet, you will be proficient enough to
make a matching necklace and more.
Samples of necklaces, head bands,
purse handles and earrings will be in Gail’s trunk show in class.
A
modern twist to knitting on a wooden sewing spool with 4 nails!
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Carol Bledsoe began sewing at an early age. She made mostly clothing and home
dec items until she started quilting in 1992. She started taking quilting
classes in 1995. From that point on she was hooked. Her mentor is her mom who is
an avid quilter. She taught Carol that it’s OK to think outside the box.
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WORKSHOP
1:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
$35 - #WS-83
LIMIT 15 STUDENTS
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Key to my Heart
 There
are four small projects available. Carol Bledsoe will guide you through the
design of your choice from the pattern. We’ll share some quality stitching time.
If you’re new to RedWork this is your chance to get some hands on experience
with a simple project. If you’re experienced, join us and create a fun project
for yourself or to give as a gift to a special friend or family member. Pattern
purchase required. Kits available and will contain supplies for all of the
projects pictured in the pattern.
Bring to class:
Fabric Requirements:
Pre-wash Background Fabric - Fat Quarter
Backing Fabric –
Fat Quarter
Batting – Fat Quarter
Other Items:
“Key to My Heart
RedWork” Pattern
DMC Size 8 Perle Cotton – #498 Turkey Red or color of your
choice
2 ½” Vintage Key
Size 4 Crewel Embroidery Needle
5” or 7” hoop
Red Glass Beads (size 6), if desired
Burgundy 1/8” Satin Ribbon
Pillow
Stuffing
Lavender Buds
Supply Fees $3.00: Instructor
to supply Sticky Fabri-Solvy with all 4 pattern designs pre-printed for your
convenience. This way you won’t have to waste class time tracing your design.
Pattern is $10.00 (paid to the teacher in the classroom)
Instructor will
supply hoops for students who need them to use in class. Students have the
option to purchase their hoop if desired.
Kit Contents: Pattern, all fabric necessary to
complete all 4 projects, Turkey Red Perle Cotton, Needle, Vintage Skeleton Key,
Satin Ribbon, and pillow stuffing. In consideration of those students in class
who may have fragrance sensitivities, Lavender Buds are not included in the kit.
This item is available for purchase for $5.00 in our booth. Optional Kit Fee:
$26.00
If you have any questions about this project, feel free to
contact me by Phone Toll Free at 866-210-1472 or by Email
Carol@sewEZquilting.com. I look forward to meeting you in class.
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Carol is an accredited Jenny Haskins Tutor.
She enjoys all aspects of
sewing and embroidery and sharing her passion with others. Her education
includes a MS from SUNY-Binghamton.
Carol has won awards for creative use of
embroidery software and Rising Star Award. www.sew-ciety.com
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9:00 am
- 10:00 am
$8 - #SS-63
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Accessory Foot Power Hour
How many feet can you
learn in one hour?
We will get busy with our feet. We will go over step by step
use of at least 6 feet. Samples of each foot used in a garment, accessory or
quilt will be there to inspire you to use your feet.
Demonstrations will include
gathering foot, ruffle, mega piping, piping, Spanish hem and many more.
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Paula has developed an International reputation for her love of
sewing, quilting and embroidery. Paula started her passion for all aspects of
sewing as a young girl growing up in Kentucky. She began teaching others the art
of embroidery in 1999 while working with Lords Sewing Centre in Lancashire,
England.
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2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
$8 - #SS-74
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Let’s talk Technique – Jenny Style!
Paula, an
Internationally Accredited Educator and Division Manager of RNK's Jenny Haskins
Division, explains Jenny’s time saving techniques that remove the stress from
embroidering and quilting.
These techniques and methods will surprise and amaze
you by how simple they are to incorporate into everyday sewing.
Learn to work
smarter and more efficiently to bring out the magic in your creations!
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Pam Clarke has been quilting since the late 1960's and
sewing for 46 years. She lives in Spokane WA and grew up
in Sacramento CA. Pam has been machine quilting and
teaching machine quilting, piecing and appliqué classes
since 1988. She is the owner of Homes Stitches a
professional machine quilting business that was started
in 1988.
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SEMI-HANDS-ON
WORKSHOP
& LECTURE
9:00 am -
12:00 pm
$60 - #WS-73
LIMIT 24 STUDENTS
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Fearless Beginnings to Free-Motion Quilting
Beginner - Techniques taught in this class can also be used on your home
free motion sewing machine as well as longarm
Discover the secrets to smooth quilting and the basic quilt designs using your
mid-arm, Longarm or home machine. This class is designed to save time and gain
confidence. If you are new to machine quilting or not comfortable with free-hand
quilting this class is for you.
This class will cover how to mark a quilt top,
several background stitches and the seven basic quilt designs to create
unlimited quilting designs to be used in blocks, borders and all-over quilting,
then using the machines provided in class practice your stitching.
 You will be
amazed how simple this is that you will be finishing those quilt tops faster
than you ever thought possible. Hands-on opportunity as time allows.
Hand out $7.00 paid to the teacher in the classroom
Bring to
class: Fine dry erase pens and pencil for notes.
* INNOVA Longarm Quilting Machines sponsor by Hunter Heirloom Quilting
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SEMI-HANDS ON
WORKSHOP
& LECTURE
1:00 pm -
4:00 pm
$60 - #WS-82
LIMIT 30 STUDENTS
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Background Designs and Shapes
All Levels - Techniques taught in this class can also be used on your home
free motion sewing machine as well as longarm
 Are you in a
stipple rut? Join Pam Clarke as she shares with you her 25 favorite free-motion
designs to be used as background or side to side quilting.
Follow along as she
draws these designs using the workbook provided with over 50 background custom
designs for the student to take home with loads of ideas. Then using the Longarm
machines provided stitch these a few of these designs.
Swirls, leaves, waves,
stars, pumpkins, holly, hearts, clamshells are just a few of the designs you’ll
learn without marking. Hands-on opportunity as time allows.
Kit
fee: $7.00 paid to the teacher in the classroom
Bring to
class:
Fine dry erase pens and pencil for notes.
* INNOVA Longarm Quilting Machines sponsor by Hunter Heirloom Quilting
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Maddie Bushman is a bi-lingual international educator. She teaches embroidery
for the beginner/intermediate, Digitizing, Quilting, home decor and crafts.
Several of her projects are featured on the internet. She has also been a
television guest several times on the Kaye Wood Show (Kaye’s Quilting Friends)
and Quilt Central TV.
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WORKSHOP
9:00 am
-12:00 pm
$35 - #WS-70
includes complete kit
LIMIT 10 STUDENTS
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Embroidered Placemat Purse: JANOME Test Drive
All Levels
 This Placemat Purse is a fun and
easy way to learn about the many new features of the Memory Craft 12000 and the
Memory Craft 9900. Experience how easy it is to navigate the many different
designs in the built in embroidery.
This project also features many of the edit
functions available such as sizing, color editing, rotating and preferred hoop
selection. In addition see how beautifully they stitch the new 9mm decorative
stitches.
 For an added bonus you will modify a button hole to accommodate those
popular large buttons. Class Fee applied to purchase of machine.
Included in Kit:
1 Placemat
2 yards of neutral color ¼”- ½” cord
Variegated thread – cotton or polyester
12” Tear away Stabilizer
Spray
adhesive or washable glue stick
Bring to class: basic sewing supplies
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WORKSHOP
1:30 pm
-4:30 pm
$35 - #WS-81
includes complete kit
LIMIT 10 STUDENTS
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Embroidered Placemat Purse: JANOME Test Drive
All Levels
This Placemat Purse is a fun and
easy way to learn about the many new features of the Memory Craft 12000 and the
Memory Craft 9900. Experience how easy it is to navigate the many different
designs in the built in embroidery.
This project also features many of the edit
functions available such as sizing, color editing, rotating and preferred hoop
selection. In addition see how beautifully they stitch the new 9mm decorative
stitches.
For an added bonus you will modify a button hole to accommodate those
popular large buttons. Class Fee applied to purchase of machine.
Included in Kit:
1 Placemat
2 yards of neutral color ¼”- ½” cord
Variegated thread – cotton or polyester
12” Tear away Stabilizer
Spray
adhesive or washable glue stick
Bring to class: basic sewing supplies
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With a vast store of self taught ribbon techniques and access to ribbons from
France and Japan, Helen's incredible talents in ribbonwork are evident
throughout the pages of her books—The Secrets of Fashioning Ribbon Flowers,
Heirloom Ribbonwork, Ribbonwork The Complete Guide, Elegant Ribbonwork and her
DVD titled Beginners Guide to Ribbonwork.
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WORKSHOP
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
$24 - #WS-80
LIMIT 25 STUDENTS
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French Ribbon Rose and Pansy
 Dress up a jacket or hat with a beautiful rose brooch or
be fashionably subtle with a cute pansy pin!
This is a fabulous ribbon flower
class for all skill levels, and especially beginners.
You'll make one lovely
rose and one sweet pansy.
Kit includes ribbons to make both flowers (use wide
ribbon for rose and narrow ribbon for the pansy), crinoline, needle and thread,
and detailed instructions.
Kit fee: $20 paid to the teacher in the
classroom
Bring to class: scissors, tape measure (or ruler)
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Clarrisa Gossett of Gilbert, AZ. is a Floriani National Education Coordinator
for RNK Distributing. Clarrisa discovered the joy of sewing as a young child. As
a young girl her mother taught her the basics of sewing and in a very short time
it became apparent that Clarrisa had a natural talent for sewing and a special
gift for creativity.
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11:00 am -
12:00 pm
$8 - #SS-67
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Software Solutions to Embroidery Challenges:
Perfect Your Designs Before Pressing Go
With so many digitizers offering so many designs, we often learn the hard way to
test before we commit to an embroidery.
But what if you could evaluate the
design without even threading your machine? Discover how to “proof” any design
and make necessary corrections before you press the start button on your
embroidery machine.
How great is that?
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Darlene Miller teacher, author and designer, has revolutionized the lives of
countless women by redefining the standards for choosing garment styles. Her
book, Your Shape, Your Clothes and You - Secrets of a Successful Wardrobe,
teaches women how to dress based on their triangle, square, circle or oval body
shape. Her unique concept fostered the development of a line of basic patterns
for each of the shapes.
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9:00 am
- 10:00 am
$8 - #SS-62
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Easy Jackets with a Couture Look
Here is a pattern you
have been asking for!
It is so easy and it a perfect blank canvas to showcase
your art work. Each art-to-wear jacket can feature a unique fabric you have
quilted, beaded or embellished.
The jacket will fit, it will be comfortable and
you will love hearing all the compliments about your “original design”.
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11:00 am
- 12:00 pm
$8 - #SS-68
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Yes, it is a Sweatshirt!
It is a transformation like no other.
You can
turn a sweatshirt into a beautiful one-of-a-kind "boutique quality" jacket by
using embellishments, quilting techniques or a favorite fabric.
With a pattern
matched to your body shape your jacket will fit. You'll shock your friends when
you say "it's a sweatshirt".
So easy and so fun.
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Connie is a teacher and designer who lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Her pattern company for 21 years, Sew Wonderful Dreams, specializes in paper
piecing and appliqué patterns.
Don’t miss Connie’s fun-filled workshops and seminars! |
9:00 am -
10:00 am
$8 - #SS-61
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Want Some Profits in Your Craft Sales?
You may be making and selling your creations but are you making any
profit?
Cash flow is easy but profit can slip through your fingers.
Let us show you the business decisions you need to make to increase the
bottom line.
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2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
$8 - #SS-73
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Do's and Don'ts at Sweatshirt University
Great
jackets are being created with an old sweatshirt, fabulous fabrics and your own
creativity.
We'll show you the "do's and most importantly the "don'ts" as well
as every shortcut we know.
Learn to embellish, iron on crystals and make hidden
pockets easily. You will love this project and it works for kids too.
Even
beginners can be successful!
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During her 29 years as owner of Needle Nook Fabrics in Wichita, KS, Anne St
Clair has had the opportunity to help thousands find comfort and success in
garment and lingerie sewing.
Specializing in knits, lingerie and stretch
wovens and has developed and taught a variety of construction techniques. This
led her to address a crucial need among women.
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11:00 am -
12:30 pm
$12 - #SS-69
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Camisoles Fit for Any Figure
Anne has designed her own patterns for chemise or
princess style camisoles.
She will show you how to make adjustments for your
unique size including a No-Nonsense Full Bust Adjustment.
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