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!
3rd Layer Dressing
with Carol Steinbrecher for Conselle
Layers are everywhere, and we love wearing them. Learn what the best styles are for your third layers, and how to make them work for you! You’ll look like you’ve lost 20 pounds without diet or exercise.
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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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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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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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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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Quilters’ UFO Assault
with Mary Huey of Mary Huey Quilts
We all have UFOs to finish – or someone will pitch them! Discover the assault strategy and get your pile of UFOs under control . . . .sort of.
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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 Thursday, 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 noon, where you’ll be asked for some basic information (your name, pattern style, fabric, etc.). Model your outfit in the fashion show at 4:00 pm. 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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Stitch Your Vegetables
with Roseanne Papadimoulis of Anna’s Sewing Center
Make unique and interesting placemats using vegetables, fabric paints and dyeable fabrics. You won’t believe how much fun a vegetable can be!
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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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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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Ultimate Pizzazz in Fleece: A Trunk Show from Great Copy Patterns
with Pattie Otto of Great Copy Patterns
Fun and fabulous new garments and accessories, including hats, mittens, scarves, pullovers and more, along with tips for quick success.
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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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