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
Amazing Embroidery Projects: Jenny Haskins Trunk Show
with Jeannie Miller of Learn Sew Simple
Find inspiration in this assortment of quilts, pillow, garments and home decorations created using Jenny Haskins designs and techniques. Discover just how simple it is to complete complex projects following her simple steps and techniques. Magnificent!
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Amazing Sweatshirt Jackets and Embellished Tees
with Londa Rohlfing of Londa’s Creative Threads
Well, yes, they ARE sweatshirts –at least they start out that way. See Londa’s latest incarnations along with a new collection of embellished tees – and take home enough ideas and know-how to last the year!
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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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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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Fearless Fabric Painting
with Karen Pharr of Karen Pharr Studios
Create your own fabric using easy water-based paints. Stencil, stamp or screen for quick and easy prints. Great for quilters, sewers and mixed media enthusiasts
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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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How to be a Charm-ing Stripper!
with Colleen Casey from Some Art Fabric
You love to buy charm packs, here's how to turn them into quilts! Trunk show and easy how-to.
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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 Sandy Miller
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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No More Knit Knightmares
with Judy Kessinger
Take plain cotton knit tee-shirt fabric, use fusible interfacing and change the look from ‘limp’ to ‘tailored’. Use the same interfacing when doing embroidery work and the outcome is beautiful. Not your Grandma’s knits, no more knit knightmares!
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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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Right Pattern! Right Fabric! Right Fit!
with Kathy Ruddy of Live Guides, Inc.
Learn to pick patterns and fabrics that make fitting an sewing easier, tricks to help the fabric move over the uneven parts of your body and camouflage figure irregularities. See Kathy model her wardrobe, and show you clothes to make you look and feel great. She’s got all the tips to make your creative process fun and successful, too.
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Secrets of Dynamic Dimensional Applique
with Barbara Soumar of Flamingo Island Designs
Learn to make dimensional leaves, flowers, waves and seafoam for your landscape quilting projects. Lots of samples! Trunk show and how to.
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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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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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Snip It, Stitch It, Wear It!
with Cindy Losekamp of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.
Discover all the best techniques as Cindy takes a plain sweatshirt and readies it for creating a jacket. Whether you’ve tried a sweatshirt conversion or not, you’ll leave confident and full of creative ideas, too, from her most recent sweatshirt-to-jacket modifications.
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Stretch Your Elastic Imagination
with Judy Kessinger
Three of my favorite elastic applications---how to measure, how to sew and how to create looks by using elastic!
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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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What’s New With Sulky
with Eric Drexler from Sulky of America
This fast paced trunk show includes highlights of the newest things going on in the exciting world of Sulky of America: projects with new threads, books, stabilizers…..oh my!
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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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