5001 – Blue Moon $80
Karla Alexander www.saginawstreetquilts.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
 This is a fun design as you go quilt! You can audition the moon colors and sizes along the way, providing the opportunity to make changes well into the project. Follow the pattern exactly or make it your own! Easy tips and techniques will inspire you along the way to create your own awesome quilt!
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BERNINA
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5002 – Machine Quilt Geometric Patterns Without Marking $80
Charlotte Warr Andersen www.cwaquilts.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
This workshop involves designs, many of them of sashiko origin, which I developed on a silk quilt that I did not want to launder – therefore marking the quilt was undesirable. Using tools and techniques practice 7 – 8 quilting patterns from Charlotte’s book, One Line at a Time. This class also offered on Saturday as 6002
Sewing Machines for this class provided by VIKING
Kit Fee: $4 includes handouts, notions
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5003 – Quilting & The Great Depression $80
Cindy Brick www.cindybrick.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
 Quilting during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s wasn’t just feed-sack scrap quilts though those bed coverings kept a desperate generation warm and comforted. It wasn’t just elaborate appliqués on white work-style backgrounds, either…nor was it just the comfort of the working classes, while the rich plied their needles elsewhere. We’ll explore this exciting and sometimes-confusing period, including viewing quilts, tops, fabrics, and patterns. We’ll also discuss favorite quilt styles, including Grandmother’s Flower Garden (or did it arrive under a different name?) and the Double Wedding Ring. We’ll talk about trends, designers and famous quilters, and try our hand at a Depression Era-inspired wall hanging to take home.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5004 – Beginning Machine Quilting 101 $80
Mickey Depre www.mdquilts.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Confident Beginner - Intermediate
A workshop for quilters who are ready to “dive into” the world of free motion machine quilting! Learn the basics of machine quilting...thread, needles, tension, and “tricks of the trade”. Then apply this knowledge to 12 simple (but effective!) free-motion quilting patterns. Patterns taught can be found in all my award winning quilts.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5005 – Fudge Factors – It’s All in the Details $80
Penny Haren www.pennyharen.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
We’ve all done it – made a sampler quilt or joined a block swap – and realized that all of those 6 ½” blocks are NOT 6 ½”. In the past, these projects have been relegated to a bottom drawer in our sewing room – never to see the light of day!
NOT ANYMORE! Learn how to take your quilting to the next level by incorporating a “fudge factor” into your next project! By looking at the WHOLE quilt, adjustments can be made so that your entire project will “fit” together beautifully! Learn the tricks that the experts know.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Kit Fee: $25 (includes the fabric to complete the table runner)
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
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5006 – Blue Ridge Beauty $80
Bonnie Hunter www.quiltville.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: Confident Beginner - Advanced
Have you always wanted to make a scrappy two color quilt? Now is the time! This is a great class for pulling scraps and fabrics in 2 specific complimentary colors. Red/White, Black/White, Blue/Cream, Pink/Brown, Blue/Yellow.... any two colors that contrast with each other! This is also a great class for learning to use the Easy Angle Ruler if so desired. I love this ruler, and use it for all my 1/2 square triangle needs. This quilt has 1/2 square triangles that finish at 3”, and if you have a method/ruler that you love, be it thangles, triangles on a roll, rulers, or the old fashioned way of “adding 7/8” to the finished measurement”.... we will go through all different ways to find the perfect triangle method that works for the way YOU sew! Extra Bonus Fun.... this block can be laid out in ANY log-cabin-style layout...come up with a layout that is uniquely YOU for a quilt that looks different than anyone else’s!
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BROTHER
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5007 – Painting Sky & Water Fabrics $80
Mickey Lawler www.skydyes.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All (particularly good for students who have little or no experience with fabric paints.)
In a relaxed atmosphere of warmth and good humor, students will spend the day painting skies and waters: blue summer skies, sunsets, oceans, waterfalls etc. with an emphasis on becoming familiar with non-toxic transparent permanent textile paints, mixing, and applying the paints to cotton fabric for use in quilts. Students generally complete about 2 - 4 yards of fabric. The designs produced are a combination of planning and serendipity and give the students a hands-on basis for future exploration in hand-coloring fabric.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Materials Fee: $12
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5008 – In Stitches $70
Martha Nordstrand www.morequiltsplease.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level:Beginner
This class will cover over 30 basic stitches of creative embroidery. Have you ever wondered how all those fancy stitches are made? This class will take away the mystery and you will be able to embellish your projects with beautiful embroidery. We will learn about threads, beadwork and wonderful variations of basic stitches to achieve a wonderful look in our quilts and projects. Embroidery is over 10,000 years old and women have always wanted to improve their surroundings with embellishments.
We will record each stitch on a sampler of the student’s own design as a reminder of how easy and fun embroidery can be.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $10 includes printed pages of the stitches we will learn in the class, samples of different sizes of threads, and directions for inspiration for using the many stitches learned in class as well as a few surprises!
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
 
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5009 – Indigo Dying $80
Heather Thomas www.wildheatherdesigns.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: ALL
Learn the ancient techniques of tying, clamping and resisting as well as how to use Pre-reduced Indigo dye as you create one of a kind Indigo dyed fabric(s) for your quilting and garment making projects. This great workshop is for any skill level and promises fabulous results for everyone even if you have never dyed fabric before.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $30 includes all supplies, dyes, chemicals, tools and 4 yards of prepared for dying fabric.
  
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5010 – The Art of Landscapes $70
Terry Waldron www.terrywaldron.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
This class is for those who truly LOVE the land and its trees and water and sky. There are no patterns because Nature is not as simple as a pattern. She LOVES variations and imperfection! In this class students will learn my own “Rough Cut” technique to chew out tree trunks and leaves and grassy hills. We’ll learn aerial perspective and 4 principles of composition that will make your landscapes sing. When you leave, you’ll be able to create an landscape that you can dream up, I promise. But be sure to bring a “crummy” paper scissors to class!!!
Sewing Machine Required: No
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5011 – Uneven Stars $70
Virginia Walton www.creativecurves.com
Friday: 6 hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
In this workshop students will learn to use the new “Multi-Angle, Wedge Ruler”. The emphasis of this class will be learning to cut and sew unusual angles and combine them to create an original star block.
Sewing Machine Provided by BABYLOCK
Kit Fee: $35 includes star and border fabrics.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5012 – A Marriage of Blocks $80
Joen Wolfrom www.joenwolfrom.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Skill Level: All
Create beautiful original traditional designs by learning how to use blending-block and exploding-block design techniques. You will be surprised at how easy it is to create exciting new designs with many of our much-loved traditional patterns. By the end of class, you should have at least one new design to use in a future quilt
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5013 – Old-Fashioned Nosegay $70
Pat Yamin www.comequiltwithme.com
Friday: 6 hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
The old fashioned Nosegay or Bride’s Quilt is a time honored pieced block that will stretch your sewing skills. The diamonds that create the flower can be fussy cut to showcase your favorite floral fabric. Pat will teach how to piece the block so all of your set-in-seams will lay flat. A great quilt to set on point to showcase your blocks.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Kit Fee: $30 includes a 5 piece acrylic template set.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5014 – Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Baskets $80
Darlene Zimmerman www.feedsacklady.com
Friday: 6 Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Skill Level: ALL
A yummy quilt in raspberry pink and chocolate brown fabrics sewn into easy basket blocks, surrounded by borders and set on point. Learn how to make interesting setting triangles for the look of an inner pieced border that will fit perfectly. Pattern is from the book Quilts from Lavender Hill Farm.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by PFAFF
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5015 – Winning Stitches $50
Elsie May Campbell www.elsiemcampbell.com
Friday: 3 Hours: 8:30am – 11:30am
Skill Level: Beginner to Experienced Hand Quilters
Improve your hand quilting stitch with Elsie Campbell’s techniques for making tiny, even stitches. Learn how Elsie marks the quilt top, her tricks for basting large and small quilts for hand quilting, and the traditional rocking stitch for quilting. Besides expert personal advice, you will receive 6 original patterns for 14” blocks suitable for quilted pillows, wall hangings or to incorporate into a full-size quilt. This class also offered on Saturday as 6017.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee $18.00 (Kit includes patterns, pre-marked top, batting, backing and instructions.)
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5016 – PhD in Feathers $100
Linda Thielfoldt www.thequiltedgoose.com
Friday: 4 Hours: 8:30am – 12:30pm
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
You have some feathering under your belt and you are ready for ‘graduate studies.’ Come explore new ways to use the versatile feather. In this hands-on class you will make a whole cloth sampler using several different freehand feather designs. The quilt can be bound and hung in your studio, like a Diploma, to show off your work.
Longarm Machines for this class provided by HANDI QUILTER
Kit Fee: $25 Includes a pre-outline-stitched Wholecloth sample to use in class.
Supply List: Basic quilting supplies, pen and paper for notes and design work |
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5017 – Good Marks for Great Quilts $50
Elsie May Campbell www.elsiemcampbell.com
Friday: 3 Hours: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Skill Level: All
Mark quilting designs without ever having to cut a stencil. Draft one-of-a-kind feathered quilting motifs, or alter commercial patterns to fit your quilt, then transfer them to freezer paper, and use the prepared marking guide to mark borders or blocks for quilting.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5018 – Tool Time – Using Tools to Improve your Quilting $100
Linda Thielfoldt www.thequiltedgoose.com
Friday: 4 Hours: 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Skill Level: All
Many of you may be looking for the quickest way to place a border or motif, how to go around appliqué or even a quicker way to handle all those BOM quilts that come in your door. If so, this class is for you. Come discover some of the really cool, timesaving and quality-quilting-producing tools on the market – some of which you may already own. Bought a tool at a show but cannot remember how to use it? Got questions on how to evenly space designs – bring them to this class and get help from one of the top longarm teachers.
Long Arm Machines for this class provided by HANDI QUILTER
Supply List: Basic quilting supplies, pen and paper for notes and design work |
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 5030 – Lakeside Mystery I $70
Cathy Farris www.CathyFarrisQuilts.com
Friday Evening: 6+ Hours: 6:00pm - Midnight
Skill Level: Confident Beginner - Advanced
Join us for a fun late night sew making this contemporary looking quilt using fun tricks and techniques. If you want a quilt that looks hard, but uses easy methods, this one is for you. The fabrics are complimentary colors on your color wheel and really make the quilt come alive.
Note: This class is held at the DoubleTree Hotel.
Sewing Machine Required: Yes
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5031 – The Flip Flop Block $40
Kathi Alyce www.waterfallquilts.com
Friday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00 – 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
Learn how easy it is to use the Flip Flop Block curved template. Make a table runner or placemet found in the Flip Flop book by AQS. This class will provide you with the skills to make a larger project at home.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by VIKING
Kit Fee: $25 Includes: FFB template and pattern.
Supply List: Downloadable PDF
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5032 – Gold Rush $40
Jodi Barrows www.squareinasquare.com
Friday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00 – 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
This is a beautiful quilt using the black, gold and red muted color theme. During class, you will learn the Square in a Square technique that eliminates the triangle hassle normally associated with cutting and sewing of multiple pieced blocks. You will also enjoy learning professional pressing and rotary cutting techniques and will be amazed at the speed and accuracy of this method. The easy grapevine appliqué is a simple yet stunning design. In class, we will only be covering the piecing of one block (no appliqué covered in class).
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BABYLOCK
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5033 – Trick or Treat! $40
Debby Busby www.woodenspooldesigns.com
Friday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00 – 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
Come learn the tricks to make these cute Halloween treats! In class we will make two stuffed pumpkins and one black cat using cottons & wool.
Sewing Machine Required: No.
Kit Fee: $35 Includes pattern and all materials to make pumpkins and cat.
Supply List: Scissors (we will be cutting through wool & paper), pins (I recommend Clover Appliqué Pins) |
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5034 – Mystery Puzzle Tote $40
Linda Simmons
Friday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
Help solve the mystery of how two completely different fabrics are combined and embellished with Sulky decorative threads to make a uniquely yours tote bag. This class also includes how to handle decorative threads and the use of stabilizers. More construction surprises along the way.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BROTHER
Kit Fee: $20 includes 1 spool 30wt Blendables, Sulky FuseN’Stitch stabilizer, tote bag fabric and lining, bobbin thread.
Supply List: Rotary cutter, cutting mat, scissors, Sulky KK2000, 14/90 Metallic or Topstitch Needle, general sewing supplies. |
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5035 – No Sweat Deco Jacket $40
Connie Spurlock www.sewwonderfuldreams.com
Friday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00 – 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
One of a kind decorator jacket – with “you” as the designer! Take one sweatshirt, new or used, child or adult, add fabric, prairie points, embellishment and some creativity and you will have an amazingly easy one of a kind jacket. We will show you the easiest way to finish the neck and to line the sleeve so you will have a finished cuff.
Sewing Machines for this class provided by BERNINA
Kit Fee: $20 includes pattern, yarns, ribbons, embellishments and Swarovski crystals. Focal Fabrics (Laurel Burch for adult and Cat panel for children.)
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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5036 – Tulip Basket Table Runner – Wool Appliqué $40
Lisa Bongean www.primitivegatherings.us
Thursday Evening: 3 Hours: 7:00 – 10:00pm
Skill Level: All
Do you love hand dyed wool but have never sewn with it? Even if you have sewn with wool, do you want to learn ALL you can about it? Join Lisa in a “working with wool” workshop. You will learn WHAT to use and HOW to use it when stitching with wool. Popular wool embroidery stitches and notions will be taught and demonstrated. You will make a simple woolen mat that will teach you all the skills you need to enjoy working with our beautiful hand dyed wools.
Sewing Machine Required: No
Kit Fee: $13 can be pre-ordered and include all wools and homespun backing
Supply List: Downloadable PDF |
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