Stage Presentations are FREE with your General Admission ticket! Usually located near concessions, these entertaining and informative presentations go really well with a cup of coffee, lunch or a snack!
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Friday
Saturday
10 Top Tips for Terrific Appliqué
with Connie Spurlock of Sew Wonderful Dreams
A trunk show of great fusible appliqué projects with all the how-to-do-it-better-and-faster information you need to get busy with confidence on your own projects.
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A Designers Point of View
with Tammy O’Connell of Peacock Patterns
Do you have a designing eye? Tiptoe into the eclectic world of designer Tammy O’Connell’s Peacock Patterns for a glimpse of charming vintage to edgy, futuristic style. Learn the concepts of what’s behind the pattern and how to apply thinking “beyond the box”. Many examples of fun and avant garde’ creations!
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Amazing Tee Transformations
with Emma Seabrooke of SewKeysE
Your tee-shirt pattern fits; now see how to make simple necklines changes for a wardrobe of tee choices. Maybe you’d love to ‘fix’ a new tee or rescue an old favorite instead. Get ideas and all the how-to info for more great tees without buying a new pattern or throwing away an almost perfect tee shirt.
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Beautiful, Easy Borders
with Shirley Hummel of Morganton Sewing
Cut no triangles, sew no triangles, but create fast and easy, detailed border designs anyway!
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Bedazzled Blanks
with Susan Schrempf from All About Blanks
Trunk show of beautiful embroideries possible with any sewing machine and a straight stitch.
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Button Biz
with Hope Yoder of Designs by Hope Yoder, Inc.
See all the clever things you can make using the Button-Ups Fabric Button cover machine and circular rotary cutting tool, including compact mirrors, eyeglass holders, key chains, zipper pulls, magnets, photo fabric buttons and much, much more. Pick up hints about starting your own monogrammed covered button business using your embroidery machine.
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Comfortable Clothes That Camouflage!
with Kathy Ruddy of Unique Patterns – Kathy Ruddy
Does your weight go up and down? Want a wardrobe that fits, is comfortable and camouflages your weak points? Watch Kathy Ruddy as she models her wardrobe and shows you how to make wonderful clothes. Learn about “Eat Cookies waistlines”, using "magic fabric" to eliminate zippers, the value of open front jackets and the fun of fusible hemlines.
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Creating a Stable Environment for Your Embroidery
with Darlene Pollard of Floriani
Pick up all kinds of tips about stabilizers, hooping and embroidery techniques, including easiest methods for all types of fabrics and a host of shortcuts. No more puckers, off-center designs or ruined garments – only perfect results from now on!
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Cut It, Shape It, Change It, Wear It!
with Cindy Losekamp of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.
Re-designing ready-to-wear using applique, quilting and embroidery. Lots of quick and new ideas for embellishing.
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Darling Doll, Infant, & Toddler Quilts
with M’liss Rae Hawley for Hancock Fabrics
What says love better than wrapping a baby or young child in a soft, cuddly, handmade quilt? Welcome little ones with quilts made from M’liss’s newest book: Fast, Fat Quarter Baby Quilts with M’Liss Rae Hawley. See projects from 10 chapters of snuggly cotton and flannel quilts for infants or toddlers, plus a bonus layette set and 2 adorable doll quilts to make from leftovers. She’ll guide you through some quiltmaking basics and hints for selecting fabrics, show how to include embroidery in your quilts and ways to creatively combine fat quarters with large-scale prints and other fabrics. These little quilts are so easy to make, you can finish one in just a day!
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Fastest Flying Geese
with Karen Grof of Happy Apple Quilts
See the fastest, easiest way to make flying geese and be inspired to make beautiful quilts with this most versatile patch. Trunk show with how-to.
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From Knock-Out to Knock-Off
with Jim Suzio
Slip into fantasy as you watch Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Rosemary Clooney, Audrey Hepburn and others model “their” gowns on the runway accompanied by commentary from Jim Suzio, knock-off and re-creation master.
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Great Copy Patterns Trunk Show
with Pattie Otto of Great Copy Patterns
Classic style in quick-to-sew and easy to mix and match for a fabulous wardrobe. Includes casual, dressy and outerwear garments, tips and hints for smooth sewing.
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Great Ideas Using the Edge Perfect Blade
with Pattie Otto of Great Copy Patterns
See just how clever you’ll look when you use this tool to embellish garments, accessories and more!
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Home Dec Runway Fashion Show
with Pam Damour of The Decorating Diva and Karen Erickson of Home Fashions U
Join this dynamic duo as they show off and ‘model’ what's new in home fashions, including an array of window treatments, pillows and more. Includes embellishment techniques, what makes custom home furnishings so wonderful and some great new decorating ideas for the holidays.
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Make a Quilt Top for 20 Bucks
with Donna Robertson of Fabric Café
Great trunk show and tips about what you can make quilt-top-wise (and how to quilt it) with just 3 yards of fabric – new or from your stash.
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Making Perfect Half Square Triangles
with Karen Pharr of Karen Pharr Studios
Learn to create half-square triangles the easy way with iron on transfer for endless quilt blocks using half-square triangles.
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More than an Embroidery Business at Home
with Jeff Miller of SewingMachine.com
Learn about transforming your embroidery hobby into a custom Printwear and Embroidery business. Discuss methods, applications, software and more. With 20 years plus experience in all aspects of the Printwear and Embroidery industry, Jeff will share with you the simple step-by-step path to convert your passion into a successful business in six months.
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New Designers Fashion Show
commentated by Peggy Sagers
See the latest designs and creative interpretations from designers exhibiting and teaching at the Expo. This runway fashion show featuring live models shows the diverse flavors of the Expo. Showing garments suited to all lifestyles and figure types from classic, closely fitted clothes to easy-flowing, sometimes whimsical garments, it's a true fashion event!
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Quickie Quilts and a Few Fast Wearables
with Cindy Losekamp of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.
Join Cindy in the fast lane! Try these quick and easy ways to satisfy that creative urge – even when you don’t have a lot of time. See small wallhangings that incorporate landscapes, florals, faux bindings, plus a few T-shirt and sweatshirt modifications. You’ll love it and be itchin to get stitchin!
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Resolve Your “Fitting Fits”
with Lorraine Henry for Conselle
Get help finding solutions to the problems that plague you when fitting the pattern to your figure. Go from “pattern panic” to “ah-ha, I can do it” understanding. Come prepared with your most perplexing questions, and consider wearing a garment that best illustrates your fitting dilemma. We’ll work on it to share your solutions with others in attendance. Informative and fun! Remember, you are not alone with these issues!
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Scrappy Elegance
with Emma Seabrooke of SewKeysE
If you had just one jacket and could wear it with most all your existing wardrobe . . . . discover the “impossible” as Emma shares her newly developed techniques for knit fabrics, incorporating elegant piecework quilt applications into your jackets. Scraps from garments you’ve sewn and are currently wearing work together for tasteful, elegant and very, very wearable (and packable) jackets, which slip easily into your wardrobe.
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Sew Me What You Made!
with Donna Babylon of More Splash Than Cash® Decorating & Pam Damour of Home Fashions U
What can you make with one yard of fabric and a sewing machine? Plenty! Find out how two zany and creative home dec designers met this challenge as they reveal their awesome creations in this fast-paced show and tell.
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Sew Sweet Youth Fashion & Trunk Show
sponsored by Kwik Sew and American Sewing Guild
commentated by Julie Aulwes
This fashion and trunk show featuring students ages 9 – 18 years of age will be SEW much fun! Get an insight into the interests and talents of our newest sewing enthusiasts as they show off their latest accomplishments. Whether it hangs in the closet, hangs on a wall or hangs out on beds and sofas, the creativity involved will inspire audiences of all ages. Don’t miss it! (If you know a young person who might like to participate, please call 800-699-6309 or click here for more information.)
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Silhouette Patterns Customer Appreciation Fashion Show
with Peggy Sagers of Silhouette Patterns
Come join the fun! Silhouette Patterns is offering an opportunity for customers to strut their stuff. We know you’ve made great Silhouette Patterns, we know you love the clothes and we want everyone to see how fabulous a Silhouettes wardrobe can make you feel. So bring your Silhouette Patterns outfit to the show, model it and your name will be entered into the drawing for . . . A Fabric Buying Trip to NYC*! It’s a $299 value, and one trip will be awarded at the conclusion of the Fashion Show.
*Here’s how it all works: On Friday, come to Original Sewing & Quilt Expo wearing a garment made from a Silhouette Patterns pattern. (You can carry additional outfits, of course!) Check in at the Silhouette Patterns booth by 10:30 am (or Thursday anytime), where you’ll be asked for some basic information (your name, pattern style, fabric, etc.). Model your outfit in the fashion show at 11:00 am. For each garment you model, you’ll get a chance to win the drawing. At the end of the fashion show, one of the models will win the chance to go to New York with Silhouette Patterns and 52 other women for a one-of-a-kind fabric buying trip on April 1 & 2, 2010 or December 2 & 3, 2010. (Winner will be responsible for getting to New York and to pay for her own fabric, but Silhouette Patterns will pay for two nights’ hotel accommodations and transportation to and from the shops.) Trip value: is $299. Don’t wait, get busy, start sewing and see you looking good at the Expo!
Six Ways to More Artistic Garments
with Barb Callahan of Barb Originals
If you have a surface design you’d like to put onto a garment, but get lost in which style garment it suits, this is your chance to explore the decision-making process. Discuss motivation from machine embroidery, your fabric and much, much more, as you learn to adapt for and carry out your design ideas.
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Stabilize Your Creativity
with Darlene Pollard of Floriani
Stabilizers are critical for machine embroidery, but they’re equally important when doing appliqué, quilting, decorative stitching and more. See fun embroidery shortcuts, quick gifts and flawless stitching techniques as you learn to put your stabilizer stash to good use!
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Sweatshirt Jackets Step by Step
with Donna Robertson of Fabric Café
A few steps at the beginning of your project (fit and cut for your figure) can help you refashion a sweatshirt into a jacket you’ll be proud to wear.
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THAT’s a Sweatshirt?
with Londa Rolfing of Londa's Creative Threads
See Londa model her amazine, inspiring collection of stylish jackets, all of which began life as a...sweatshirt! Embellishment, styling, fitting and more for the creative spirit.
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The ABC’s of “Handlook” Cross Stitch by Machine
with Becky J. McNeill of Becky J Designs
Learn about cross various fills for a hand-made look and more to create a variety of stitch designs from graphs, photos and clipart to be used on any embroidery machine.
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Tips, Tricks and Trivia for Quilters (and their friends)
with Marty Moon of Early Times Workshop
Get the results you want without stress – and with more pleasure – when you use these small but mighty tricks in your process. Packed with helpful tips and fun quilting trivia.
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What Can You Make From One Yard of Polartec®?
with Pattie Otto of Great Copy Patterns
See just how many fleece accessories you can make from just one yard of Polartec®! Fantastic too keep or gift-giving.
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