Road to California 2018 is offering three machine quilting classes taught by Sue NIckels where students get to experiment with both<\/strong> <\/em>a Bernina domestic sewing machine and the Bernina\u00a0Q-20,<\/a> a sit down longarm machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Monday:\u00a01011C\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Machine Quilting Essentials<\/strong>\u00a0 Tuesday:\u00a02011C\u00a0\u00a0 Freemotion Focus on Fillers Sue Nickels will be traveling to Road to California from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has taught quilting\u00a0on quilting cruise to Norway (which included a stop in the Arctic Circle!) and on a cruise that had stops in South Korea, China and Japan.\u00a0 She has also taught classes for Quilts Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as well as in New Zealand and Australia. Sue and her sister,\u00a0Pat Holly, are in their 4th<\/sup>\u00a0year leading the annual Hollygirls Quilt Retreat<\/a>\u00a0each fall. They took over for Gwen Marston’s<\/a> Beaver Island Quilt Retreats when she retired in 2013.\u00a0Sue loves the history of quilts and quilting and is “very inspired” by antique quilts- especially the appliqu\u00e9 quilts of the 1800\u2019s. She is also inspired by her international travels and textiles from around the world. \n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,33],"tags":[154,156,537,706,881,1260],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-road-to-california-2018","tag-bernina","tag-bernina-q-20","tag-holly-girls-quilt-retreat","tag-machine-quilting","tag-pat-holly","tag-sue-nickels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sue-Nickels2-1024x997.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nOf course, Sue’s favorite quilting tool is her Bernina sewing machine. She says, “Having a sewing machine that allows me to do the machine appliqu\u00e9 and machine quilting I love is essential. Her other favorite quilting tool is\u00a0curved tip snips to clip threads. Why? “The curved tip snips make it easy to clip threads when machine quilting. Without them it would take much longer to do machine quilting.”\nWhat does Sue like best about teaching? Sharing her enthusiasm for machine techniques and encouraging students to become relaxed and enjoy machine techniques. She also loves quilters and enjoys being with her students. Sue hopes\u00a0every student in her Road classes, at the end of the day, will learn new skills, improve on skills they already have and most of all, enjoy the process of machine techniques.\nYou can learn more about Sue on her website<\/a>.\n \n\n\n