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
Accessory Magic
with Carol Steinbrecher of Style Solutions
Great pattern and fabric – check. Garment fits just right – check. But something still missing? Don’t miss out on the world of accessory magic. Come see how accessories can pull an outfit together or pull it apart. We’ll take you from “You look good” to “Wow, you look great!”
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Create Your Own Custom Fabric with Silk Screening
with Cindy Losekamp of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.
Silk screening is a delightful way to add patterns and textures to fabric for quilt blocks and borders. When you can’t find the perfect fabric just create it using screens that fit into your quilt design. You’ll see how easy it is to create with paint, ink and discharging. See how to make custom screens to match your quilt theme using Cindy’s easy methods and become a designer in just one 30 minute seminar!
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with Karen Pharr of Karen Pharr Studios
A fast and easy fat-quarter quilt. Cut. Shuffle. Sew. No fabric waste! Add pictures from fabric or panels for even more fun! Trunk show and how-to.
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Easy Half-Square Triangles
with Karen Pharr of Karen Pharr Studios
Learn a quick and easy way to create any size half-square triangle…. then turn your triangles into wonderful quilt blocks. Trunk show and how-to.
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Embellishing With the Edge Perfect Blade
with Pattie Otto of Great Copy Patterns
Discover just how this unique rotary blade makes embellishing super quick and easy, with professional looking results every single time. See samples from her new book Embellishing with the Edge Perfect™ Blade. back to top
Fashion Finds and Trends
with Carol Steinbrecher of Style Solutions
What’s coming up in the world of fashion? How and what does it mean to you and your wardrobe or sewing choices? Adapt some of the newest runway and red carpet looks to your personal style and wardrobe. Let’s explore the choices. Whether you’re heading to a wedding or the gym, check out the possibilities to improve your style and confidence.
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Floriani Secrets for Perfect Embroidery: Home Dec Edition
with Debbie Fultz from Floriani
See astonishing quilts, pillows, numerous specialty items and even a few garments as you learn about perfecting your embroidery results. After the design itself, stabilizers, battings, fabric… all contribute to your success. Challenging for those with years of experience, while inspiring the novice to believe in her own gifts and talents.
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Jelly Roll Jackets
with Connie Spurlock of Sew Wonderful Dreams
Connie says she’ll always be doing jackets in one form or another, and this one is just too much fun! It’s so easy to complete, she almost calls this “no skills required”. Trunk show and how-to.
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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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Origami in the Closet: Jackets, Dresses, Tops
with Emma Seabrooke of SewKeysE
Take a look at all the ways a simple square can become an entire wardrobe. The secret is in the dimension an how you collect them.
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"Real Women" Wearables Fashion Show
with Barb Callahan of Barb Originals
See how Barb’s garments flatter a range of figure types and sizes when she puts them on real women at the Expo! It’s all in the cut, the fabric choice and the embellishments used (or not). You never know what you’ll discover about your OWN most flattering styles.
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with Emma Seabrooke of SewKeysE
What can you make in an hour that keeps you warm, completes an outfit and makes you feel like a princess? Don’t miss a collection of wraps.
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Sew To Look Slimmer
with Kathy Ruddy of Live Guides, Inc.
The right style and fit can take 10 or more pounds off of the way you look! Sewing can give you a high-end wardrobe that fits, is comfortable and camouflages your weak points! Watch Kathy Ruddy as she models and shows you clothes that make you look and feel good. Learn about techniques and tools to make your creative process fun and successful.
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Sewing's Next Generation: Youth Fashion & Project 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 11:30 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 3:00pm. 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, in your choice of April, July, or December, 2012. (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!
Slipcover Fashion Show
with Karen Erickson from Home Fashions U
Ottomans, dining chairs, and comfy family room pieces…. See the lastest in slipcovering trends and techniques on stage. You may be surprised just how fabulous you can make your home look!
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Troubleshooting the Fit Hot Spots
with Lorraine Henry for Conselle
Meet the ”Fit Troubleshooter” and ask any question you want about any area of the body Hips, abdomen, buttocks, bust, arms, etc. Pattern alterations will be shown for any figure variation that is discussed. We know of 88 different figure variations (we call them variations, not problems!) and each of us probably has more than one of them. Some you may have never identified so this could be an enlightening hour of fun and facts!
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Wrinkles, Folds and Crooked Seams
with Lorraine Henry of Lorraine Henry for Conselle
Looking good, feeling great in clothes that fit your figure! All of the above title words are reasons why one may not look or feel their best. Learn to read the wrinkles in clothes that don’t fit. Learn the cause of these wrinkles and how to correct the pattern to eliminate them. We will ask for willing audience participation to look at various “things that bug us” about fit! New topics every day! A study of figure variations has never been more fun.
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