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Seminars & Workshops - Thursday, February 2, 2012

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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.


Admission Ticket/Weekend Pass
 
Admission Ticket - $ 9.00 - Good for all 3 Days

Please note: Wednesday's Workshops do not require an Admission Ticket

Bobbie Bergquist - Quilters Treasure
Bobbie Bergquist is a quilt maker who strives to keep things simple quick and fun. She was the inspiration for Quilters Treasure whose goal is to give quilters an artist pallet.

She has taught in 40 states including Hawaii, and conducts workshops and seminars at many quilt shows, guilds & shops. Bobbie has judged quilts nationally for more than 5 years.

WORKSHOP

1:30 pm
- 4:30 pm


$35 - #WT-46


LIMIT 26 STUDENTS



Ink Work


Can you trace?
Can you color between the lines?

Would you like to create 8” to 18” blocks that look like they have been pieced yet are one piece of fabric?

Create intricate Celtic Blocks with a piece of fabric and a Fabrico Ink Pen. Blocks can be used for quilts, clothing, pillows, bags and more.

Bring to class:
black sharpie, pencil, eraser & ruler.

Kit fee, $15 payable to instructor in the classroom.
Kit includes fabric, pattern, Fabrico Pen and printed directions (12 different Celtic patterns to choose from).





Email Joe@QuiltersTreasure.com with any questions regarding this class or class supplies.

Pattern to make tote bag not included in kit fee and may be purchased at the Quilters Treasure booth.

Gail Bird - Igolochkoy™ / Birdhouse Ent.
Gail is an innovator, author, lecturer, designer and teacher both nationally and internationally.
For 32 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 - #WT-36


LIMIT 15 STUDENTS

Beading with a Needle and Thread 
There are many stitches using a needle and thread in beading.

Make a bracelet that includes one of these stitches - The ladder stitch.





Kit Fee $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom

Bring to class: small embroidery scissors




Barb Callahan - Barb Original's
Barb is a nationally designer, teacher and lecturer. She has designed and constructed one-of-a-kind garments, using her label, “Barb Originals,” for 25 years. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master’s degree in counseling. She is a Martha Pullen educator and a member of PACC and ASG.

In addition to producing her own newsletter, Barb has recently become a contributing author for Threads magazine and Sew Beautiful magazine. Her classes are known for their high educational content as well as their laughter. www.barborginals.com

WORKSHOP

9:00 am -
11:00 am


$24 - #WT-35


LIMIT 16 STUDENTS


Have Scarf, Will Travel

This not only a scarf but it is decorative as well as functional. There are many hidden pockets in which to carry mad money, credit cards or even a passport. You will learn an easy way to put in zippers.

Kit fee $22.00 Paid to the teacher in the classroom.

Bring to class:
sewing machine, basic sewing supplies black and beige thread.




3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm


$8 - #ST-28

Redo – Renew – Frogging

Old sweaters and tee shirts in no time can become new again.

Barb has developed a new line of garments and bags using old sweaters and tee shirts. She has also caught onto some of the newest sewing terms and techniques which go along with “renewing” such as forging.

Come to class and find out all about it.


Susan Clark - Sew-ciety / Jenny Haskins Educator
Susan Clark of Cedar Falls, IA is not your average teacher. Susan is a Certified Jenny Haskins Accredited Educator for RNK Distributing, but she has been an active part of the Home Sewing Industry since 1985, teaching sewing, quilting, embroidery and embroidery software from coast to coast.
During this time she has served not only as a teacher for consumers, but a trainer of those who teach. Susan’s extensive experience in our industry includes managing a number of dealerships or retail stores selling a multiplicity of machine makes and models.

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9:00 am
- 10:00 am


$8 - #ST-5

Taking Embroidery to the Extreme

Jenny Haskins is known for her beautiful embroideries and quilts. Now, learn more about working with different surface materials including many quilting techniques made easier and more perfect when you embroider in the hoop.

Learn how to work with materials such as window screen to velvet and knits to bath mats. You’ll even learn how to sew and embroider beautifully with metallic threads.

Let the fun begin, you never know where it will take you…

Barbara Crawford - Crawford Designs
Barbara Crawford Barbara Crawford, a nationally recognized instructor for dolls, appliqué and needle felting, and a leader in the pattern industry.

Barbara teaches at guilds, quilt shops, expos, and The Creative Living show on PBS, and is one of the leading experts in the US and Canada not just in Needle Felting but in creating jackets and coats using sweatshirts and wool felts, and has popular appliqué patterns to embellish along with her own patterns.

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9:00 am
- 10:00 am


$8 - #ST-6



Create your own Fabric:
Texturize fabric & add dimension to the surface all in one garment!
As Seen on the "It’s Sew Easy" on PBS this season with Barbara. (see sample of a vest in class)

Do you have an embellishing machine still sitting in the box? Well, you're not alone! How about the needles and hand tools, which ones are best to use? What kind of wool roving do you like? Can you dye your own wool to use with needles and machine? What else can you use the needles or machine for?

If you want to know the answers to any or all of these questions, Well then, this will be an illuminating and entertaining 60minutes. Barbara is one of the leading experts in the US in needle felting and one of the few experts in the country in needle felting fashions.

This seminar will take you through different techniques using all three tools together to create your embellishments! . Dying your wools , changing silks, an added bonus of a quick Nuno demo to include in your wonderful unique wearable.

The vest that was made for the television show, uses Nuno, needle felting, ruched silks and even grommets with Nuno felted backgrounds. Needle verses machine and what's the differences? What can you do with those machines anyway, well there will be a machine in the classroom and we will work on several projects.
 
This is a great class for beginners who have not yet tried any of these techniques!


WORKSHOP


1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$24 - #WT-45


LIMIT 20 STUDENTS



"Zip it up" Necklace Couture De Jour!

Zippers are "Haute"! They are being used in all kinds of ways, from fashions and accessories to jewelry!
 
Join Barbara in this fun workshop and make wonderful adjustable necklaces out of cool zippers, utilizing coils to make the necklace chains. Runway worthy ‘couture’ jewelry with metal teeth and coils and silk ties, along with other embellishments.

All kinds of combinations of zippers will be available to make some unique pieces. We will complete our pieces in the class. Talk about a fashion statement! I can’t wait to see what you design!

Kit $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom.

Kit includes: 2 zippers of your choice, needles, thread, beads to decorate your piece.
* (crystal zippers are available at extra charge and not part of the $20 kit price). And of course you can purchase extra zippers if you want to go big in your design!

Bring to class: craft type scissors, men's tie.


Pam Damour - The Decorating Diva
Pam has been in business since 1981. Started her Interior design business “Damour Designs”, and found a way to bridge her passions for design, sewing and power tools. Over the years, began teaching her trade, first at industry window covering expos, and then to consumers.

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WORKSHOP

9:00 am
- 12:00 pm


$35 - #WT-34


LIMIT 20 STUDENTS

Old Quilts learn new Tricks
Pam Damour is an interior designer by profession and a quilter by passion. She’s spent too much money and too much time starting quilt projects and then decided she didn’t like them enough to make the commitment to finish them. So she’d put them in a bin, store them away thinking perhaps “someday” she’d finish them . . .well FAT CHANCE!

Learn how Pam found creative ways to finish her quilts and taught her old quilts some new tricks. In this hand on techniques workshop you’ll learn valuable finishing techniques for you quilts and other UFOs!

Kit fee $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom.

Bring to class: sewing machine, all your accessory feet, basic sewing supplies and neutral thread.



2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$8 - #ST-21



Guilt Free Decorating

Custom decorating doesn’t have to mean expensive.

Learn from the Decorating Diva some of her best cost cutting secrets in giving your home a fresh new look.

Pam will actually demonstrate several sewing techniques that will have you buzzing!

Get creative inspiration for every room in your home.
Helen Gibb – Helen Gibb Design, Inc.
  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

11:30 am
- 1:00 pm

$18 - #WT-40


LIMIT 25 STUDENTS



The Fabulous Ribbon Flower

Learn how to use pleated ribbon to make flowers for use on your crazy quilts, or as wearable art pins.

Using Helen's flower techniques and pre-pleated ribbon you'll make a small flower, see how to adapt it for multiple uses and go away with a finished piece ready to use on a project of your choice.

Kit fee: $20 paid to the teacher in the classroom
Kit includes needle, thread, ribbons, and detailed instructions.

Bring to class: bring only scissors and a ruler.
 
Lorraine Henry - Lorraine Henry for Conselle
Lorraine is a specialist in sewing, fitting and pattern alteration for Conselle Institute of Image Management. She has a degree in Clothing and Textiles and was a university instructor.
With 30 years of experience as a custom dressmaker/tailor and teacher, she has a wealth of knowledge to share with you about sewing and fit. She has been called the "gentle giant of fitting" by her peers.

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11:00 am
- 12:00 pm


$8 - #ST-13


Crotchety Crotches!

Temper, temper! Can’t get those crotches to fit?

Learn the principles that relate to fitting all three of our crotches – the two arms and the leg one. Learn about the crotch figure variations that cause us to lose our cool when the patterns don’t conform to OUR contours.

Turn from being crotchety to becoming calm, cool and comfortable!




2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$8 - #ST-22


Figures Come in Combo Packs

In a perfect world, all figures would be alike – in perfect form.

In the real world, we come in all shapes and sizes. We hopefully all have one head, one truck, two arms and two legs but the various lengths and sizes are amazing!

Come and explore the world of figure combinations. Learn how to analyze and compare measurements to best adjust the patterns to fit your own unique physique!
Debra Justice - Labours Of Love Heirloom Sewing Supplies
Debra Justice is an internationally known keynote speaker, video celebrity, author and founder of Labours of Love Heirloom Sewing Supplies. Debra’s discriminating taste is reflected in her seminars and on her DVD’s that show step-by-step how easy it can be to make lovely things with easy, innovative techniques.

She blends the romance and charm of the Victorian Era with the 21st Century through her presentations and is a favorite speaker and respected sewing expert nationwide.


9:00 am
- 10:00 am


$8 - #ST-2



Sew With Your Feet and Learn How To Use Them
 
Not quite sure what to do with those feet that they look easy to use in sewing manuals, but are seldom straight forward in “real life”.

Learn to use some of the not so common feet for your machine that you should be using on your everyday sewing. Learn how to use the invisible zipper foot, overcast foot, shirring, hemmer, pintuck, piping, roller, edge stitching, blind hemming, bias tape, fringe foot and more.

Debra will go over the feet, with examples of what they do so you can learn how to use what you already own and identify the ones for your wish list.

Learn how to sew piping and bias tape perfectly and how to install a perfect invisible zipper. This is a generic seminar – fun for all machine owners. Learn lots, save time and get more out of the machine you already own.

11:00 am
- 12:00 pm


$8 - #ST-10



Needle Bootcamp

Update your needle knowledge about the various types of needles currently available for your machine that will make your sewing trouble free.

Debra will show you her favorite specialty needles - the wing, double wing, twin, triple and the double eye needle and how they work. You can use them for various types of tucks, topstitching, decorative stitching, hem stitching, joining lace, finishing hemlines, Madeira appliqué and more.

The cost of a new needle is a fraction of a new foot and the applications are endless. Threading your machine properly and troubleshooting tips will be covered for each. Stir stick lace, beading, reverse threading, pintucks in the round and mock tucks are just a few of the specialty techniques that will be featured in class.

Practical up to date information combined with neat techniques that will inspire you to sew.


2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$8 - #ST-20



Sewing With The Stars Meets Clean Sweep

Learn to design your sewing space or rearrange what you have to be more efficient and organized. See where the “Sewing Stars” sew and how they handle their creative clutter.

Sew longer with the right machine, counter and chair heights based on your body. See lots of neat storage and organizing ideas so you can get more sewing done in the time you have.

Sew smart with Debra’s favorite notions that will make your sewing faster, easier and trouble free. See what they do, why to choose one over another, and how to avoid costly mistakes for gadgets that just don’t work.

We’ll talk about everything in the sewing room from pins and scissors to rippers and rulers. Learn lots, have fun and save money!

Cindy Losekamp - Sew Artfully Yours
Cindy Losekamp has been sewing since she was three years old. Her Grandmother was her mentor for the first years of sewing. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do and there was no such thing as no. When something needed to be sewn…she could do it. Cindy has adopted that can do attitude…never taking no as the answer and always being able to find a new way to do things.

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WORKSHOP


1:00 pm –
3:00 pm


$24 - #WT-41


LIMIT 20 STUDENTS

Stuffed Embroidery

Do you have a 2 hour time frame because this really doesn't take too long?

Come and embroider an adorable little baby blankie, already created for you from fluffy Minkie fabric…you'll have fun embroidering and learning one of the hottest new techniques in embroidery.

Besides learning how to create Stuffed Embroidery, you will get tips on embroidering on fuzzy, stretchy fabrics along with hooping tips. In a short 2 hours, you’ll have a completed a gift for someone special. Fun and learning with Cindy!

Kit Fee: $28 paid to the teacher in the classroom.
Kit includes: $20.00 Design set comes in your kit. Blanket, stabilizers, fabric, batting, everything you need to make the blanket including the design set. Colors and fabrics may differ from sample due to availability.

Bring to class:
Sewing Machine that hoop embroiders. Bring at least a 5x7 embroidery hoop and some way to transfer designs to your machine. Come 30 minutes early to allow for design transfer time. Bring a hopping embroidery foot…if you have questions, please email me at cindy@sewingart.com. I can send you a picture of a hopping foot.
Sharpie Marker
embroidery threads
...look at the picture for an idea of color, needles and everything you usually use when you embroider.
Water Soluble marking pen
Air vanishing pen
12-14 inch ruler, Pins, Snipping scissors, Paper scissors


Marsha McClintock - SAF-T-POCKETS Patterns
Marsha McClintock is designer/owner of SAF-T-POCKETS Patterns where she creates patterns suited for travel or every day.

She enjoys teaching and creating classes that inspire and motivate students to try new things. Marsha uses creative samples to show techniques and supplies good handouts showing the steps to complete the project. You can count on her to have innovative ideas that will get students excited about sewing.

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11:00 am -
12:00 pm


$8 - #ST-11



Sew You're Traveling?

Is your first thought when planning a trip "What am I going to wear?"

See a wardrobe of interchangeable pieces you can wear for a week or a month. Discover styles, fabrics and colors that are the best travelers.

Learn how pockets add security, reversible clothes maximize versatility and accessories pull it together.

Then see a demonstration of packing the wardrobe in a carry-on suitcase.
Angela Mullins - RNK Distributing, representing Rocky Mountain Sew & Vac
Angela Mullins, National Education Coordinator for RNK Distributing (exclusive distributors of Floriani Products) is from Crestview, FL.

Angela is not your typical 34 year old mother of three. Better known as Angel, (after attending her class you will know why!) states her three gorgeous children are the best part of her life, but in her limited “free” time, she loves to embroider and even more to teach embroidery!

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WORKSHOP

9:00 am -
1:00 pm


$45 - #WT-37

LIMIT 20 STUDENTS



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?

Bring a pad and pencil to take notes.
Luveta Nickels - The Junks Jeans People
Luveta lives near Clark, SD and is passionate about recycling blue jeans. She owns her own company called The Junk Jeans People and depends on family to help manage the operation.

Luveta travels internationally and teaches easy, educational and fun filled classes. She has appeared many times on PBS TV and delights in meeting NEW students. Luveta loves sharing easy but professional techniques and is inspired by life on the farm.

11:00 am -
12:00 pm


$8 - #ST-15



Let Luveta Grommetize You!

Let Luveta show you a whole new level to use grommets.
They're not just for drapes anymore. You will be amazed at what she does to a $3.00 T-Shirt.

You've asked for a smaller size and Luveta has them. he best news of all is there's NO tools required! Her grommets simply snap together.

You won't find these grommets in any store. Attend her seminar and let Fashion Happen...

Sue Patten - Patten That Quilt
Sue Patten is not your typical quilters. Anyone who knows Sue knows her high energy, innovative designs and techniques and would tell you to expect the unexpected!
Always with a story to tell or a tip to give, her classes are non-stop educational and fun. Sue is an award winning longarm quilter, who has traveled throughout Canada, The United States and Europe teaching her unique and innovative styles to longarm quilters, domestic quilters and hand quilters alike.

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WORKSHOP

9:00 am
- 11:00 am


$24 - #WT-33


LIMIT 30 STUDENTS

ZenSuedled in Fabric and Thread
The art of Zentangle, Zendoodle, ZenSuedle, is sweeping the nation!! This class takes you step by step through the art of creating your own one of a kind “ZenSuedle”.

Use these three easy steps to enhance your everyday quilts with continuous lines, designs, and fillers. Or ZenSuedle your very own one of a kind whole cloth quilt. This technique combines stencils, templates, rulers and free motion fun to the max. Sue will cover, thread tension, batting and the options of using stencils and computerized designs to add that extra WOW to your master peace.

Note: $5.00 hand out fee. Paid to the teacher in the classroom
Hand outs include “one of a kind designs” that can be used to ZenSuedle.

Bring to class: paper and pen, chocolate to share with the teacher!



WORKSHOP


1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$24 - #WT-42



LIMIT 30 STUDENTS

Spines With Designs: Block Class For The True Beginner Based on Sue’s new Book “Adaptable Quilting Designs”

This class offers 20 new designs concepts for full size blocks or cornerstones. It includes everything from “featherish” to feather alternatives with the added touch of new spine ideas that can be added and altered to any design you have already mastered.

This is a free motion class, where students will learn how to concern those every day quilts in half the time with precision and confidence and no pre marking. We will discuss tension, floating, batting and thread color choices.

Note: a $5.00 hand out fee paid to the teacher in the classroom.

Bring to class: paper and pen, chocolate to share with the teacher!


Kathy Ruddy - Live Guides, Inc.
Kathy Ruddy is an international sewing celebrity, educator, pattern designer, Serger and fitting expert.

Active in the sewing industry since 1962, Kathy is the star of 10 Serger and sewing videos and author of 12 Serger and sewing booklets and her new enhanced books on CD called Three ways to Learn CD’s.

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9:00 am -
10:00 am


$8 - #ST-4



Serger 911

All Serger owners and prospective Serger owners need this information.

Kathy will teach you how the Serger operates from the inside out. Learn about burrs, how width is used to improve stitches, how to create a perfect balanced-tension control strip to use for each new fabric and thread.

Learn a sequential tension formula that works on any Serger model and all thread types and five-minute Serger pocket that can be added to any pattern.

If you have a Serger and barely use it or want to use it with greater proficiency, this is a good class!

3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm


$8 - #ST-31

20 Tips for Fast Ways to Sew Better

Obtain better results with these useful tips!

Learn about fabrics, how they can help or hinder your project, how to understand ease and fit preferences, fabric checkpoints and why and when to “fabric fit”. See how to select and use interfacing, achieve accurate cutting, marking, seaming, eliminate bulk and how to stitch and adjust darts for your unique fitting needs.

With these techniques, your sewing is bound for success!


Peggy Sagers - Silhouette Patterns by Peggy Sagers
Peggy Sagers Peggy holds a degree in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising from Brigham Young University. Peggy spends her time teaching seminars all across the United States and Canada and recently was a featured guest on the HGTV show, “Sew Much More.”
She brings a no frills approach to the home sewing world. Peggy professionally drafts patterns doing free lance for numerous manufacturers in the Dallas area.
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9:00 am - 10:00 am


$8 - #ST-1


The Jean

Fitting the jean is only half the fun….come learn all the tricks for pockets that will make you look 10 lbs lighter, slim legs, and how to get rid of the junk under your trunk in the back.

The fly front will be shown…this is the best factory method out there and you will just love it…all the great details of stitching jeans will be included and Peggy will show you how to make sure they fit really great!!!

Connie Spurlock - Sew Wonderful Dreams
Connie Spurlock
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!

WORKSHOP

9:00 am -
12:00 pm


$35 - #WT-32


LIMIT 20 STUDENTS


Jelly Roll Jackets

Got a few of those fabric bundles and rolls? Looking for a fun and easy project? You are going to love our Jelly Roll Jackets ~ a new or recycled sweatshirt is the perfect base to begin your project and the result will be one of a kind masterpiece...yours! You will learn the basics, the shortcuts, the embellishments and will soon be doing your own Jelly Roll Jive. Texture Magic will be provided to incorporate it into the jacket. Bring your prewashed sweatshirt.

Kit fee $28 paid to the teacher in the classroom.
Kit includes, pattern, Texture Magic and black fabric.

Bring to class: sweatshirt, basic sewing supplies, sewing machine and a darning foot or other foot capable of free motion quilting.

Prior to class:
Cut fabric into 1 1/2" strips (or use jelly rolls already cut).

Sew 3 strips together, (these will be 1 1/2" x 45") press well ~ bring 10 completed strips to class.

Student could use three fabrics to cut their 1 1/2" strips or 30 different fabrics, if desired.

Additionally bring 1 yard of complimentary fabric that we will Texture Magic and use to make the 9 patch.

2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$8 - #ST-24



What is Paper Piecing all About?

Paper piecing is about ease and perfection...and it is a technique that you can do.

A pattern printed on paper (so it can easily be enlarge or reduced) is used as a base to duplicate the pattern in fabric.

You can have perfect points and we'll show you a method that can allow anyone to succeed.

Never worry about the bias or removing the paper ~ we'll tell you the difference between foundation piecing, paper piecing and flip and sew.
Carol Steinbrecher - Style Solutions, LLC
  Carol is founder and CEO of Style Solutions, LLC, an image and fashion management services firm.

She specializes in tailoring, alterations of ready-to-wear, fitting techniques & fashion pattern alterations; wardrobe strategies, personal styling, closet clutter control, color consults, image branding services, as well as a line of custom tailored menswear.

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9:00 am
- 10:00 am

$8 - #ST-3


Alteration Business Know Power
 
Thinking of starting your own alteration business?

Want to know what it takes? How do you sell yourself?

We’ll go over the basic requirements, equipment and recommendations to get you going, sewing and making a profit.






11:00 am
- 12:00 pm

$8 - #ST-12



Wardrobe Basics: Ensemble Solutions
 
Take your wardrobe beyond matchey, matchey or cutsie.

Learn the basics of design to find your fabulous figure flattering best. Trigger you imagination, eliminate the anxiety, save time and money and simplify your life.

Build clusters of outfits out of 5-10 pieces that will last 1-3 seasons of the year.

Now that’s getting the most out of your fashion dollar!



Cindy Walter - Cindy Walter
  Hawaii's own Cindy Walter is an inspiring and innovative author, teacher, lecturer, TV personality and fabric designer. You'll recognize her as the hostess of the TV show Quilt Central which airs to most of the mainland PBS stations and also as a regular hostess for www.Quilterstv.com, free internet TV for quilters.

She regularly teaches quilting at shows in the USA, and around the world including in Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, France and Germany.

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11:00 am - 12:00 pm


$8 - #ST-14



Using Fabric Paints

The author of the Basic Guide to Dyeing & Painting fabric (and a new book releasing with C&T this year) will take the mystery out of using paints on cloth.

Cindy explains the difference between dyes and paints and when to use which. The only secret to painting on fabric is how to apply it; she'll show you many application methods and painted quilts.

This demonstration shows that coloring fabric is so easy you'll soon be addicted.




2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm


$8 - #ST-23



Snippet Sensations Pictorial Quilts

Learn from the author of Snippet Sensations.

Her demonstration will show you that you too can be an artist...with fabric. Snippets is the original free-form fusible appliqué technique.

Use this technique in the future to complete an easy project or a complex landscape quilt.




 
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