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Classes & Workshops - Saturday, July 10, 2010

Classes/Workshops for: Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday




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Complete Descriptions of Seminars and Workshops (PDF)



PLEASE NOTE:

SOME CLASSES STILL HAVE SEATS LEFT.

THE REMAINING TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASE AT THE SHOW.


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

Please note: Wednesday's Workshops do not require an Admission Ticket
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 - #WS-72

LIMIT 20
STUDENTS




MUG RUG Fabric LOCKER HOOKING

The introduction to Locker Hooking class will use strips of fabric, canvas, and string.

Class will cover the different size canvases and how to prep and finish them. Learn what fabrics work best and how to join the strips together. The string used in the eye "locks" the crochet loops in place, making the work washable and stable.

From this introduction class you then can then make purses, rugs, table runners, trivets, pillows, and place mats.

A great technique to use up "ugly" fabrics, fat quarters, and old sheets.

Kit $20.00 paid to the teacher at the beginning of the class
Kit includes prepared fabric and pre cut fabric strips.

Bring to class: Sharp fabric scissors.


Carol Bledsoe - Sew EZ Quilting, Inc.
Carol began sewing at an early age. She made mostly clothing and home dec items until she started quilting in 1994. 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


9:00 am -
12:00 pm



$35- #WS-70


LIMIT 15 STUDENTS



Quilt Cut Class
Whether you have this fabric cutting system or are thinking of purchasing one, this class is for you. Carol Bledsoe will begin by teaching you the basics in cutting and move on from there. You will learn how to use this versatile tool to its full potential. A kit is available with the basic items necessary for the class.

Kit fee $25.00 - paid at the beginning of the class to the Instructor.
Kit includes: Ruler, fabric and strip sets.

QuiltCut Owner and Prospective Buyer Class Supply Sheet
This is an opportunity for you to see the many ways that the Alto’s QuiltCut2 Fabric Cutting System can be used for both cutting and as an aid when piecing. Bring an open and inquisitive mind.

• QuiltCut or QuiltCut2 if you have one. If you don’t have one, systems will be available for you to use in class
• Rotary Cutter
• Pencil
• 6”x12”, 12” square or similar ruler. It should not be any longer than 12”
• 1 yard of 100% cotton fabric in light to medium value that you don’t mind cutting into pieces
• Cut 1 strip each of two different fabrics selvage to selvage. (Preferably one light and one dark fabric). Strips should be anywhere between 1 ½”-2 ½” wide – It is your choice.
- Cut off fold – You should have four strips – 2 lights and 2 darks
- Sew two strip sets combining a light and dark in each set (like you would to make a four patch)
- Press to dark
- Bring strip sets with you to class

Most importantly bring questions about things you don’t understand or you need help with.

You will not need a sewing machine for this class. We are focusing on cutting only in this class. I look forward to meeting you and guiding you through the many uses of the QuiltCut fabric cutting systems.

Feel free to call me between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at 866-210-1472 or send an email to Carol@sewEZquilting.com . Please include your name, phone number, the name of the class and where you’re taking the class in any phone or email messages.

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Marion Bolson - Heartfelt Traditions & Denver Doll Artisans
Marion has lived in Denver, Colorado most of her adult life. She has been making art dolls for about 15 years and has taken classes with many of the top doll makers.
Patterns for dolls she designed are being sold on line, at Piecemakers Country Store in California and at Ann's Glory Box in Australia. She has taught classes many times and had a successful teaching experience at Piecemakers in January of 2007.

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WORKSHOP

9:00 am
- 10:30 am


$18 - #WS-71


LIMIT 20
STUDENTS



Doll making 102: Face drawing, sculpting and hair

• Face drawing will be demonstrated on a flat face, and different faces expressions will be discussed. Books with good face painting instructions will be suggested and shown.

• Needle sculpting of a face will be demonstrated, and a face drawn and painted on the needle sculpting face.

• One of the best ways to add hair is with needle felting and this will be demonstrated and a head will be passed around for you to try it out. Crocheted hair can be very effective if a fuzzy yarn is used. We will also discuss beaded hair and a demo will be done showing making a wig from lambskin.

• Source lists and tips and tricks will be given.

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. Pam’s goal is to teach industry standards to consumers, and to raise the bar, in ways that the decorating industry manufactures soft furnishings.

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9:00 am
- 10:00 am


$8 - #SS-80



Sewing & Crafting for Profit

If you ever wanted to start your own business, but didn’t how, this is for you. Join Pam as she shares with you the ups & downs of owning your own sewing or crafting business.

Learn the steps in starting your business, how to market your self, and how to price your product. Having your own home-based business can be profitable and fun, if you take the right steps.




WORKSHOP

1:00 pm -
4:00 pm


$35 - #WS-81



Pam Damour’s “12 Step Program” to Exciting Windows!

Join Pam for her 12-step program to design your original window treatment.

Whether you choose to do a rod pocket or board mounted valance, whether its gathered or pleated, learn the steps!

Identifying the elements of your window treatment, how to cut the fabric, and the steps in fabrication.

Choose from one of Pam’s many template designs, or create one of your own.

Custom windows are easy, when you approach them one step at a time!

Bring to class:
Scissors, tape measure, yard stick, square and pins.



Helen Gibb - Helen Gibb Design, Inc.
Helen, of Helen Gibb Ribbonwork, a native of Australia and internationally known Ribbonwork expert, author and TV personality, teaches workshops in Colorado and across the USA.

Her four Ribbonwork books are: “Secrets of Fashioning Ribbon Flowers”, “ Heirloom Ribbonwork”, “ Ribbonwork The Complete Guide”, and “Elegant Ribbonwork” and DVD - Beginners Guide to Ribbonwork, and are sold worldwide. Helen is a regular guest on The Carol Duvall Show and makes other appearances on Denver TV and PBS.

WORKSHOP

1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm


$10 - #WS-80





Ribbonwork Dainties
 
Small ribbonwork flowers that dangle and move are wonderful elements to use in any crafting composition.

Make a fuchsia and a berry using Helen Gibb's famous ribbon techniques.

Kit fee: $12 paid to the teacher in the classroom.
Kit includes, ribbons, stamens, gimp, needle and thread and instructions.

Bring to class:
Scissors and ruler or tape measure


Cindy Losekamp - Sew Artfully Yours
Cindy Losekamp is a fun and enlightening teacher known for her incredible amount of samples and ingenious way of creating. She has written numerous books and patterns and created many beautiful embroidery design CD's. Cindy has been creating her entire life. She started learning at her Grandmother’s knee and then continued at singer sewing classes and in 4-H.

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9:00 am –
10:00 am


$8 - #SS-82


Creative Panache with Appliqué

Learn what it means to master appliqué using a myriad of techniques on quilts, clothing, sweatshirts, wallhangings and home dec samples.

You’ll see decorative stitch methods, free motion ideas, working from the wrong side with heavy bobbin threads, raw edge techniques, embroidery appliqué and more. Learn about Angelina as a fabric, the best fusible to use, interfacing for shadow through…if you want to appliqué it, there is a way…let Cindy show you how.

Join us for this new and innovative hour of power appliquéing.

11:00 am -
12:00 pm


$8 - #SS-92



A Tisket a Tasket…Enchanting New Ways with Jackets!

Come and spend a few creative moments with the queen of garment modifications. Elegance and beauty are not words often used to describe sweatshirts and T-Shirts. Not until now.

Cindy has a knack with sweatshirt and T-Shirt modification and she’s here to show you how! See a parade of beautiful new garments that have been created to give you lots of ideas for designing your own.

She will cover simple fitting, what kind and size to buy, how to make them shorter…even longer with her fun and interesting samples. If you’ve seen her before or if this is your first time…you will be enthralled as she shows a bevy of unique and different ways to modify and change our old standbys and you’ll be itchin to get stitchin!

Sue Purdy - Sue's Solar Screens
Sue started sewing at the age of 10 in 4-H. Her first project was a dress and got a white ribbon. Her mother wouldn't let her wear it out of the house. Luckily.....she's gotten better.

Embellishment has always been her passion; she is the former owner of Sue's Sparklers. Having sold that business, she got bored and started another. 'Green' is the name of the game, so she is using the sun to print fabric and to create screenprints. Join her in this new fascination.

11:00 am -
12:00 pm

$8 - #SS-91



Using the Sun to your Advantage

A mini trunk show and all the hints and techniques to help you permanently print your shirts or fabrics using the blueprinting method.

Next we will discuss how to burn your silkscreens using the sun in 25 SECONDS! What you see in ready-to-wear is now possible to do in your own home.

Then I'll show you how to use Pebeo fabric paint to sun print. So many methods, so little time and no equipment required.

Come, learn and DO!


WORKSHOP

1:00 pm -
3:00 pm


$24 - #WS-82



Silkscreens in 25 seconds!

Sue will show you how easy it is to make your own silkscreens using the Sun, a renewable resource. No fancy equipment, long lasting screens.

Use your own art, clipart, or photos. Hints and techniques to make it all a piece of cake.

Kit fee $27.00 or $40.00 + paint
(priced from $2.50 - $3.50). Depending on size of kit wanted.

The $40.00 kit has 2 large silkscreens to burn and the small $27.00 kit has 4 small silkscreens to burn.


Kit fee is paid to the teacher in the classroom.


Bring to class:
Pre-washed shirt to use silkscreen on.
Cover-up to paint in.


Londa Rohlfing - Londa’s Creative Threads
  With 13 years of owning a retail fabric and sewing machine shop behind her, Londa switched to an internet-based business to go world-wide with www.londas-sewing.com. Her personal mission is "To offer quality sewing products with passion, individual attention, and creative suggestions as a fellow avid seamstress, teacher and designer."
After 40+ years of what she calls 'normal (now boring) garment sewing', her mountain-top sewing experiences are 'artsy, creative sewing'. She delights in guiding you to create well-designed art-to-wear that make you look and feel spectacular.

9:00 am
- 10:00 am

$8 - #SS-81



Refined Embellishments for Creative Sewing

Learn tasteful embellishment of clothing to make it special, yet NOT overdone.

See numerous examples AND learn techniques for taking your clothing beyond what you normally expect in wearable art.

Special emphasis on the myriad uses of BIAS.
2:00 pm -
3:00 pm


$8 - #SS-101



THAT’S a Sweatshirt?

Explore Londa’s endless styling, necklines, creative closures, cuffs, hems and more

PLUS learn her secrets for fitting and stabilizing edges that all combine to create jackets you’d never believe started as a sweatshirt!



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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  2:00 pm -
3:00 pm


$8 - #SS-100



Yoga Pants

This class is a hands on approach to fitting these pants.

Peggy has made up all the sizes and will have them available for you to try on in this class. It will give you the opportunity to see how well they fit and then fix the pattern if you decide you want to in the size that is correct for you.

 All pant fitting problems will be discussed and answered. This is the last pant fitting class you will take.
Connie Spurlock - Sew Wonderful Dreams
Connie Spurlock Now Connie sits back and laughs at her early attempts to sew, but 30 years ago those word were uttered loudly and often as she attempted to put a zipper in a pair of shorts. The zipper had to be taken out so many times that the shorts were worn out before they were ever finished.

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11:00 am
- 12:00 pm


$8 - #SS-90



20 Quick Craft Tips

There are lots of ways to do things faster and cheaper as you work with your crafts.

We will show you quick ways to make hats, and noses for your snowmen, gather ruffles, sew perfect little miniatures every time and give you lots of ideas that will help your projects.

Working with kids? You'll enjoy our easy kid projects.

3:30 pm
-4:30 pm


$8 - SS-110



Paper Piecing for Everyone

Yes you can have fun piecing quilt blocks and have perfection as well. Paper Piecing is a technique of sewing fabric to a printed paper pattern to obtain a perfect duplication of the pattern.

It is fun, easy and doable for everyone.

Can you thread your machine and count in numerical order? You qualify!!

Join us to learn this easy technique.




 


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