Summer 2008
Newsletter
& Shop Classes
Quilter's Fancy
130 N. High St.
Cortland , OH 44410
330-637-3106 locally
800-484-7944 code 7673
Classes Aug-Dec 2008
- Class Registration To be in class, prepay a deposit 2 weeks in advance if possible. If you must cancel, we can transfer you to another class or refund your money. No refunds 48 hours before class. We prepare your kit, your seat & lunch just for you so please take class registration seriously. In all-day classes, bring your own lunch, order out or have our lunch buffet for $2
- Receive 10% off after class purchases
- Bring Basic Sewing Supplies to all classes: scissor for cutting paper & fabric, 6-inch ruler or other measure, pins with heads, chalk marker, strong poly thread gray is good on many colors.
Hand Quilting I A Different Method of Hand Quilting from The Thimble Lady of Australia & taught by Cindy O
11-3pm Fri Aug 1 or Sat Aug 23
or Wed Sept 17 or Mon Oct 13
The Thimble Lady's classes in Houston fill up 1 st out of 400 classes. Experience this hand quilting using a different needle, thimble, batting & way to hoop. Get tiny stitches front & back. This method is designed for NO CARPAL TUNNEL & BACK PAIN. Bring your ThimbleLady Thimble or borrow one of ours. Kit & class $15. Get the thimble only if you love it.
Guest Lecturer: Rena Antoine
Recycle, Dye, Appliqué & Embellish Wool
11-1pm Sat Aug 2
Luxurious variegated hand-dyed wool can be yours without a large investment of time or money or dangerous dyeing ways. Learn how great finds at the Good Will store turn into gorgeous hand-dyed wool. Learn the dye recipe, how to appliqué & embellish with beads & buttons not just ho-hum but gorgeously. Come & see some beautiful woolwork. Rena will bring her wool appliquéd and embellished quilt blocks to inspire you in this easy-to-do wool art. Refreshments served. Admission $5
Easy Hand Felted Flowers with Clover Molds
Mon Noon-3 Aug 4
Make a pansy & rose and get comfortable with hand felting. This class includes Clover's Pen Style Felting Tool, mold, felting brush and roving. Complete kit & class $35. If you have supplies, pay for only what you need. If you have everything in our kit, your class is just $2.
Velvet Pansy &Velvet Rose
Noon-3pm Wed Aug 6
Feel the silk velvet while making a pansy & rose on our new hand-dyed fabric strips. These flowers go great on quilt blocks, scarves or garments. $10
Silk Rummaging & Crazy Piecing
10am-2pm Sat Aug 9
This is the crazy class everyone is talking about! Learn the many ways to piece crazy quilting. Pick your own silk kit for a 10-inch block or small purse from 100s of pieces of pure silk that will be in mountainous piles about the room. Sewing machine cleaned and in good working order required. Class & kit $15.
Beginning Punch Needle
Noon 4 Wed Aug 13
There is more to punch needle than just punching. Bring your punch needles or get a set here and learn exactly how to hold the needle, manage the thread and have an enjoyable punch experience while making a beautiful new project. Experienced punchers welcome.
Guest Lecturer: Kathy Chamberlain
Turn Good Will finds into million $$$ outfits!
11-1pm Sat Aug 16
Curious about felting? Join us for this lecture demo with Kathy Chamberlain, of American Sewing Guild, who will show us her favorite tricks for turning Good Will finds into million dollar outfits with felting. See the felting machine in action and all the marvelous ways to take fiber of all sorts and felt it onto garments and purses. A fantastic parade of felted garments will be on display. Admission $5
Burnished Rose! From Hanah Silk
11am-2pm Mon Aug 18
Come in and let's burn some ribbon and unlock the beautiful colors inside the silk and then turn it into an incredible Hanah Silk Rose. Kit-class $15
Hand Quilting II Trapunto, Quilt Marking
11am-3pm Wed Aug 20 or Wed Oct 15
Trapunto is a beautiful, easy relaxing technique that makes hand quilting special. If you enjoyed Hand Quilting I and want to practice with other Thimble Lady stitchers, this class is for you. Hand Quilting I required. Bring small sharp scissors. Class & kit $15.
Dyeing Lace Vintage
11am-3pm Mon Aug 25
Create a shabby chic denim shirt or other garment by embellishing the shirt with hand-dyed lace. Easily and pleasantly dye lace in class. Class, paint fee & lunch $10. Bring your own shirt. Add your own kit made up of whatever lace motifs you choose. Lace motifs range in price from 50 cents to $1.75 & some are more. Includes free ¼ yd of silk & lunch.
ATTENTION BEAD NUTS! Let's Bead some Mark Lipinski Embellishment Fabric Together
10-3pm Wed Aug 27
Bring your own beads. Let's bead this dynamic fabric. Make patches in a crazy quilt or use in a purse or wearable. We will talk about beading string, stabilizers, technique, types of beads and the oodles of possibilities beading today provides. Bring your beading projects for show-n-tell! Your kit is your choice of whatever Mark fabric you want, stabilizer & needles at our 10 percent class discount. Bring one salad item to throw into our salad surprise for lunch.
Beginning Silk Ribbon Embroidery
10am-3pm Sat Aug 30
Embroider with silk on silk while learning how to embroider with silk ribbon. Make roses, leaves, forget-me-knots, lily of the valley, rosebuds in a bouquet tied with an embroidered ribbon using easy stitches like the spider web rose, Japanese ribbon stitch, straight stitch, stem stitch, whipped chain & knots. Finished bouquet is 3 inches square. Frame or use in a crazy quilt. $25 includes class, kit & lunch
Yearning for a little Crazy Quilt Antiquity
Wed 11am-3pm Sept 3
Make an exact replica of an embroidered moon and star from a 1800s crazy quilt. Bring crazy patchwork with a spot to applique a 4-inch motif. No patchwork? Purchase a small bit of silk here to work on. $17 class, kit & lunch included.
Roses, Roses, Roses Victorian Pincushion
10am-3pm Sat Sept 6
Encore performance of Cindy's NQA class. You will make 4 different roses spin roses on the Vintage Rose Spindle, twirl, fold and gather ribbons into roses using all sorts of different ribbons. Work in nice Victorian colors. Kit, class & lunch $25
Fall Crazy Quilt Block Club
11am-4pm Sept 8
Bring thoughts of autumn and a salad ingredient (other than lettuce) to share for salad surprise!
RETREAT WEEKEND
Embellished Victorian Purse
Fri. & Sat. Sept 12 & 13
In two days, experience many techniques. Work with silk velvet, create ribbon flowers, antique dye lace, play with charms, beads, buttons and braid a fiber handle. Kit $30 Class/day $60
Shop Owner's Night Crazy Quilter's Guild
3-7pm Sun Sept 14
Johnson Community Center , 800 Gilmer Rd , Leavittsburg $1 Admission (14 vendors! & food)
RETREAT WEEKEND
Hand Quilting III 18 th Century Quilting
Friday, Nov 7 & Sat Nov. 8
Create a hand quilted miniature wholecloth quilt. Total immersion in hand quilting The Thimble Lady method while working with unusual 1700s quilting motifs. Required: Hand Quilting I & II.
Attaching Wacky Objects To Your Stitching
11am-3pm Wed Nov 19
Learn how to apply Shisha mirrors, lamp rings and aluminum roses to embroidery. Bring some crazy patchwork to work on. $8
New Goodies
-- Buffed Aluminum Tiny Flower Buttons like those on the Piecemakers new crazy quilt.
--2009 Piecemakers Crazy Quilt Calendar $20
--NEW purse feet so the fabric bottom of your purse doesn't get soiled! $2.99
-- NEW snap shut metal curved purse handles in bronze, silver & gold very different.
--100% wool fabric in black & cream $5.50/fat ¼.
-- Tuscany wool batts in all sizes in stock at better than regular pricing
-- Australia 's best embroidery magazine Inspirations is arriving regularly at the store now
--Hand felt with needles that are contained in a slender pen very comfortable NEW from Clover
-- NEW JUMBO Yo-Yo Maker
-- 6 purse templates to make purse making easy
-- Faux leather pieces
-- New diffusion dye kits
-- Victorian purse frame in antique silver
-- Bag Structure purse bottoms $2.25
-- Extra tiny pom-pom maker just ¾ inch wide. Great for embellishing clothing! Fun! $6
-- Mark Lipinski beading fabric - 15 new bolts
--Gelato Minkee have you heard of or touched this incredible fabric. Gelato refers to the variegated purple Minkee its like buttery velvet, no, like a baby's bottom, no, like a squishy, comfy mink coat. This plush stuff used in cotton patchwork makes the cotton POP! Add it in here and there to your quilt. It gives dimension, color and texture. $4.50/fat quarter
-- Chenille-It is here! Just one layer of this bias cotton strip sewed down is needed. Wash & watch it fluff up to beautiful dimensions.
Better Than Ever After Thanksgiving Sale Nov. 28 & 29 Everything 20% Off
Cortland Quilt Show
Proceeds Benefit
Cortland Bazetta Historical Society
Featured Speaker Cindy Oravecz
``History of the Baltimore Album Quilt
Noon Saturday Sept. 20
Slide show & boxed lunch $15
Hands-on workshops $5:
11-12 Fri Sept 19Wallet On A String with Peg Designers Two
3-4pm Fri Sept 19 Silk Ribbon Pansy with Cindy O
11-12 Sat Sept 20 Redwork Embroidery with Betty Kerner
3-4pm Sat Sept 20 Hand Quilting with June Karovic
SEWING TIP:
Are your thimbles getting damaged? Did you know that the eye end of the needle can often have a very sharp point? Take a file and gently file down the eye end of the needle so your needle will not cut through your thimble! Weather! Call on bad-weather days. Call (330) 307-3272 only for weather questions the morning of class before the store opens. |
