#E1656 Using Your AutoPilot and Mach 3 Cost Effectively Instructor: Michelle Gilbert

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1 #E1656 Using Your AutoPilot and Mach 3 Cost Effectively Instructor: Michelle Gilbert So you know how to quilt your customers quilts with AutoPilot but do you know how to use it cost effectively? Learn time management methods to price appropriately and increase your profitability. Learn to use the right pattern, use the correct scale, spacing and orientation to profitably quilt the quilt. Detailed handout will be provided. Innova Specific / AutoPilot / Business #E1657 Appliqué with the Navigator Instructor: Capri Beckman This class is a demonstration/lecture/trunk show showing finished appliqué projects and the techniques used to accomplish the appliqué technique. This class is geared toward Navigator users, but PantoVision and Autopilot users will benefit as well. You will see just how easy it is to add color, texture and more all while your project is on the frame. Innova Specific / Navigator / Computer / All Levels #E1658 Space...The Frightening Frontier Instructor: Penny Roberts CLASS CLOSED Handguided Activity / Lecture-Demo / Intermediate

2 #E1659 Mystical Illusions Instructor: Jamie Wallen Join Jamie as he teaches you how to breathe new life into your surface quilting. From adding texture, creating positive and negative space, trapunto, leather and so much more, he will fill your mind with what it takes to create those modern day illusions that will take your quilting to new heights. Kit fee: $5 - Includes handout Supplies to bring: Drawing pad and pens Handguided Activity / Lecture - Demo / All Levels #E1660 Nemeshing...The Freehand Feather Flourish Instructor: Bethanne Nemesh Learn Bethanne s award winning Nemeshing a lacy freehand feather flourish in this hands on class! This unique fill has been stopping crowds and pleasing clients since Bethanne began using it. It can be used on all types of custom work ranging from simple large scale fills to tiny show winning backgrounds, sashing, and borders. This feather looks complex, but is actually completely unmarked and improvisational. Bethanne will teach you to quilt and repeat just 5 simple shapes in an easy skill building progression until you too are confidently improvising your own feather sprays. There is no better way to learn a new skill than to practice it! Students will practice on plain fabric, but leave class with a 20 appliqué block to practice Nemeshing on their own if they choose. Kit fee: $30 - Includes 4 yards fabric (to be split at end of class), batting, chalk, a copy of the book "Nemeshing, A Freehand Feather Flourish" *An optional appliqué quilt block will be available to students to take home to practice on for $15. Supplies to Bring: Scissors/snips, Pins for loading quit top, Cone of thread Session 9 & 10 8:00 am to 12:30pm (4 hour class) Longarm Hands On Classroom / Intermediate

3 #E1661 Stacked and Stunning Borders Instructor: Cathy Franks So... you have a big honking border on that quilt and don't have a design to fill it up? Let me show you how to divide on conquer that space into manageable segments. I will also show you how to divide that border up without using math. Supplies to Bring: Large drawing pad, Fine tip Sharpie, Blue wash away marker, 2-3 stencils of your choice, Scissors to cut fabric and threads Handguided Activity / Lecture - Demo / All Levels #E1662 Quilting the Custom Quilt Instructor: Linda Hrcka Make your quilt come to life! Learn techniques for creating custom designs to fit every quilt. Linda will offer new ways to approach the design process. Get tips for tackling everything from large spaces, to appliqué...to the tiniest block design. Use designs to create amazing secondary designs within the quilt that will transform quilts into treasured masterpieces. You'll be left with an abundance of inspiration! *Bring a quilt top for design discussion if desired. Supplies to bring: Pen, Pencil, Plenty of paper or doodle pad for notes and drawing Session 9 & 10 8:00 am to 12:30 am (4 hour class) Handguided Activity / Lecture - Demo / All Levels

4 #E1663 Featherworks! Instructor: Sue Heinz You ll be saying, I ll take the works when you see the unique feather designs offered in this drawing class. Sue will inspire you with feathers that will enhance a wide variety of quilt styles from traditional to contemporary. Spiked, nautilus, occluded even feathers made from sashing designs will be presented in this fast-paced and entertaining class, as Sue serves up the works to you. Featherworks, that is! Supplies to bring: Mechanical pencil (.07mm) and a ballpoint pen each with a comfort grip, Unlined paper thin enough to be able to clearly see a line drawing placed Session 9 & 10 8:00 am to 12:30pm (4 hour class) Handguided Activity / Lecture - Demo / Intermediate #E1664 Fabulous Free Motion Spineless Feathers Machines Provided Instructor: Andrea Brokenshire Do you want to learn how to quilt fabulous feathers? In this technique building class we will go through a series of exercises to build your skill set to make a variety of beautiful free form Spineless feathers. Come join Andrea and learn just how easy and fun these feathers are to create. Free Motion experience required. Kit fee: $20 includes all supplies needed for class Supplies to bring: Sewing machine in good working order with instruction book, Free motion quilting foot for machine, Screwdriver to adjust bobbin tension, Size 80 Sharp or Topstitch sewing machine needle, Small sewing scissors, 2 contrasting threads (50wt. 2-ply for bobbin and 40wt. cotton or polyester for top), Three quilt sandwiches safety pin basted consisting of 2 pieces of 18"x24" muslin and 1 piece 18"x24" cotton batting sandwiched between the muslin, Hand sewing needle, Notebook and pen or pencil Session 9 & 10 8:00 am to 12:30 am (4 hour class) Sit Down - Domestic / Intermediate

5 #E1665 Color Me Quilted Instructor: Cynthia Cossu Try your hand at coloring a pre-quilted motif. This quick, instant gratification technique will have you excited to start incorporating these new techniques into your everyday quilts. Excellent for those of you who want to "make" something for your grandchildren. I'll show you how to shade, layer and blend to create just the right look. We will discuss the various types of mediums and brushes and why to use some and not others. Come on...try something new...let's HAVE FUN!!!! Kit fee: $55 - Includes Pre-quilted motif with binding fabric (approximately 12"x12"), textile medium, paintbrush, Inktense pencils Quilting in General / Activity / All Levels #E1666 Multiple Threads - Simple Options Instructor: Penny Roberts Thread is the medium by which we quilters creatively express ourselves. Whether quilting a pantograph, freehand, or custom quilting, using multiple threads will give you a whole new perspective. The focus of this class is just that using thread creatively! There is a cure for balancing your thread color across any quilt. Multiple threads allow you to do Redwork on your longarm, enhance an appliqué, monogram a quilt, and add to your bottom line. Multiple threads with or without a 3D Threader can create thread color variations, use disappearing thread techniques, and 3-D threadwork to make your quilting stand apart from the rest! Kit fee: $3- Includes Handout with step-by-step thread manipulation details. Product Specific / Lecture - Trunk / General

6 #E1667 Success with Innova's Robotics Simulator - Great for PV, Nav, AP, and Mach 3 Instructor: Sue Bentley What s a Simulator, why would you want it, and how does it work? Learn the ins and outs of Innova s Simulator software! Sue will demo its features, and discuss how and when to use them: Auditioning and creating patterns Resizing patterns Manipulating patterns Creating projects, including blocks and borders Planning whole cloth quilts Exporting to your Innova computer Innova Specific / AutoPilot / Lecture - Demo / All Levels #E1668 Mystical Shapes Instructor: Jamie Wallen Whether you are a traditional or modern quilter, join Jamie as he steps into the world of Mystical Shapes. Breathe new life into your surface quilting with a new twist on the common shapes found on our quilts along with taking it to the next level with paisleys, orbs, curved cross hatching, Jacobean designs, and more. These designs will have you looking at E2E, Blocks, and Borders in a whole new way. This class applies to all levels of longarm, midarm, shortarm or hand quilters. Kit fee: $5 - Includes Handout Handguided Activity - Hands On / Lecture - Demo / All Levels

7 #E1669 Focus On Feathers Instructor: Karen Sievert CLASS CLOSED Supplies to bring: Pen and paper to take notes Handguided / Lecture Demo / All Levels #E1670 Fabric Bowl-ing Instructor: Cynthia Cossu Come bowl with us for the afternoon. Learn how to construct these fabulous fabric bowls in no time! The possibilities are endless. Let's have fun! Kit fee: $8 - Includes fabric, clothesline, glue stick Supplies to bring: Sewing machine, Scissors, Thread - Just bring a few colors...don't fuss...you will be fine :) pink, red, purple, orange? Whatever! Domestic / All Levels