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Weekender Duffel
with Katie Bartz in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
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If you thought last year’s (“Size Matters”) tote was big . . . this one is HUGE! Big enough to take you away for a weekend trip, this sturdy tote includes a sturdy zipper and can be carried over the shoulder or not. There’s a bonus: it will accommodate more ‘stuff’ than you think, when you simply unsnap the tab ends to create even more stowing space. Created with brawny fabrics and notions, this is a bag you’ll love to make, and use for years to come. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $49. Limit 24.
Thursday   12:30 – 5:00   C41X, D57 & E73

Katie's Got a Brand New Bag
with Katie Bartz in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
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Take our favorite, always-in-style, high-end denim up a notch with a faux suede top, then up another notch with a series of embroidered organza windows and embroidered button cover closure. Add leather handles, perfect topstitching, a colorful lining and you'll have a brand new bag, all ready to go. Conveniently sized for carrying a hefty load, it's a bag you'll enjoy using almost as much as you did making it! Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $38. Limit 24.
Saturday   12:30 – 4:30   S265, T281 & V297

Ambidextrous Oven Mitt
with Nora Bellows
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Make your own, personally sized, felted, ambidextrous oven mitten – it works for both right and left hands! Get step-by-step instructions, beginning with measuring your own hand all the way through knitting and felting. Focus on experimenting with color combinations, and have some fun!
Pre-requisite: Must know how to knit on double-pointed needles and in the round. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $10. Limit 30.
Friday   8:30 – 12:00   H126X & J142X

Locker Hook Clutch
with Gail Bird
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Make a clutch purse using yarn and the locker hook stitch. Explore how to add ribbon and/or fabric to the rug canvas for a textural variation, and have some fun adding new colors and textures to your purse. Includes pre-sewn rug canvas, magnetic purse closure, locker hook, all yarn and ribbons for the purse. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $40. Limit 24.
Friday   6:30 – 9:00   N197 & P213

Travel Ironing Mat
with Debra Bohn in the Husqvarna Viking Sewing Studio
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Create this useful and aesthetically pleasing ironing pad/pressing surface to take on trips or use in classes. Learn about embroidery as you stitch out a multi-color design in the hoop; learn to work with teflon fabric, how to use a quilting bar for grid quilting, to serge a finish with decorative thread and more. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $18. Limit 24.
Thursday   8:30 – 11:30   A9X & B25

Multi-Media Backgrounds
with Barb Callahan
Painted, printed, dyed and even needle felted backgrounds are a perfect canvas for embellishments. They’ll add interest to embroidery, beading, layering and can even add some glitz. Many samples, guidelines and instructions for creating your own multi-media backgrounds will be discussed and demonstrated.
Thursday   4:00 –5:00   E69

Clogs, Clogs, Clogs
with Barb Callahan
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We all wear felted clog slippers, and now you’ll be able to knit them for everyone you know. Begin this easy project in class, and share in the fascination as your knitting takes shape. Leave class with knitting well under way, and complete directions for felting. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $18. Limit 24.
Friday   2:30 – 5:00   L164 & M180

Collectible Button Bracelet
with Barb Callahan
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Vintage buttons are the inspiration for this fun bracelet, and Barb has quite a collection from which you’ll choose. Surround your feature buttons with complementary colors and shapes as you create your own bracelet in class. Learn a bit about button collecting, too! Includes all supplies. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 24.
Thursday   6:30 – 9:00   F84 & G100

Ruched, Ruffled, Fringed, Serged Bag
with Diana Cedolia in the Serger Studio
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Step over to the feminine side when you create this very pretty little handbag. The best part: it’s constructed on the serger . . . in a flash! Learn to create the lining and fashion fabric sides in a single, time-saving step – a technique used for reversible serger quilts of any size. Ruched and ruffled, trimmed at the top, all that’s left is to slip in your handles and you’re done! Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $28. Limit 20.
Saturday   12:00 – 3:00   S266X & T282

Beaded Edgings for Scarves & Garments
with Shirleen Kistner (Due to a scheduling error by Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Carol Cypher will not be with us in Cleveland, as stated in the brochure.)
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Distinguish your garments with beaded cuffs, hems, pockets or collars. In addition to sparkle and glamour, beads also provide weight to nearly weightless fabrics, enhancing the garment's drape on the body. Beads along the narrow edges of a silk scarf permit gravity to produce dramatic results. Using seed beads, needle and thread, learn stitches as simple as picot and as elaborate as the intertwined swags of a South African scallop stitch. Bring a scarf or garment to embellish with beads or work a sampler provided. Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 20.
Thursday   12:30 – 3:30   C45X & D61

Supple Bracelet
with Shirleen Kistner (Due to a scheduling error by Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Carol Cypher will not be with us in Cleveland, as stated in the brochure.)
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This quick, refined and textured bracelet is both a satisfying first beadweaving project and a valued addition to the experienced beader's repertoire. This original stitch, based on tubular peyote stitch, is accomplished with needle, thread and beads (no loom). It is supple and articulated by the strategic addition of beads in an otherwise stiff rope. Strong enough to use as handles, belts and straps, the technique is one you'll use often. Learn this versatile stitch in 3 simple steps provided in written, illustrated and hands-on instruction. Explore how you will use the same recipe with alternate bead choices to produce an endless variety of beaded bracelets, necklaces, and lariats. Finished with a sterling silver toggle clasp, most students can expect to complete their bracelet in class while acquiring a valuable beadweaving skill. Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $35. Limit 20.
Thursday   6:00 – 9:00   F93X & G109

Felted Beads, Buttons, Ropes and Frogs
with Carol Cypher
Due to a scheduling error by Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Carol Cypher will not be with us in Cleveland. The substitution for this class is Felted Ball and Bead Bracelet with Fran Steinbock, listed below:

Felted Ball and Bead Bracelet
with Fran Steinbock
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Make a bracelet of yummy soft wool felt balls and beads as you learn about "wet felting" through discussion and hands on exploration. Wool fiber + hot soapy water + agitation = Felt! Learn to select wool colors and patterns, roll a bundle of wool fibers into a wad, wet and form your ball. Explore color blending and design. Create your bracelet of felted balls and beads on beading wire, fastening with crimp beads and a clasp. Wear your new bracelet home! Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 20.
Friday   8:30 – 11:30   H125X & J141

Zipper Necklace
with Lyla Messinger
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Take a custom Swiss Riri zipper from functional to fashionable by turning it into a necklace. Walk out with a necklace to show your friends, and they might say what Lyla’s friend said when she was shown a zipper necklace for the first time: “But where’s the zipper?” Materials Fee: $25. Limit 24.
Thursday   12:30 – 2:00   C38X

Leather Logic
with Tammy O’Connell
Learn leather-sewing basics for creating marvelous garments and bags for your wardrobe. Discussion will include leather and suede and their relatives: pleather, faux suede and the new washable suede. Focus on techniques and inspiration as you consider all your options in adding the luxury and timelessness of these ‘fabrics’ to your sewing routine.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H117

Puzzle Tote
with Ellen Osten in the Sewing Spot
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Create your own custom, designer fabric and turn it into a personal treasure in just three hours. You’ll combine two completely different pieces of fabric to create your “new” fabric, embellish with beautiful threads and stitch it into a fun cosmetic bag or eyeglass case. The techniques learned can be used over and over again for accessories, home dec projects and your favorite wearables. Materials Fee: $16. Limit 12.
Thursday   10:30 – 1:30   B31 & C47

Vintage Apron #2
with Ellen Osten in the Sewing Spot
Direct from an extensive apron collection, this new design looks retro with its half-circle design, fanciful pocket and trim, but construction methods couldn’t be more current. Learn to use a few sewing machine accessory feet and new notions as you complete this ‘couldn’t-be-easier’ fun and decidedly feminine project. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $18. Limit 12.
Saturday   2:00 – 4:30   T287 & V303

Cowl Scarf and Twisted Scarf
with Emma Seabrooke in the Sewing Spot
Make a cowl scarf AND a twisted scarf and have some fun along the way. No fitting required, and you’ll work with Slinky, stretch laces and various other knits. These quick accessories can update or change an outfit in just minutes. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 12.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A15

Cuff ‘Em!
with Emma Seabrooke in the Sewing Spot
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Not even the fashion police use lace, ribbon and pretty buttons on their cuffs! Have fun making this elegant accessory, perfect for dressing up any jacket, cardigan or long-sleeved top. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 12.
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q239

$2,000 Boutique Bag
with Nancy Shriber in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
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Complete this incredible project, inspired by a high-end designer handbag and learn a thing or two in the process! Once again this long-form class offers you, the designer, a range of techniques, only the best fabrics and notions and, of course, options. Get right to your large hooped embroidery as you choose to use all or just portions of the design on your own bag. With precision machine quilting, the zippered deep, interior welt pocket, masterful cord and piping trim, shaped bias binding, boxed corners and faux leather braided handles and tabs . . . the sophisticated, up-to-the minute style is both functional and oh, so chic. Counts as 6 sessions. Materials Fee: $54. Limit 24.
Friday   12:30 – 5:00 & 6:00 – 9:00   K153X, L169 & M185 and N201X & P217

Sashiko Stitched Evening Clutch
with Nancy Shriber
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Your morning is bright and peaceful as, with needle in hand, you form these traditional, elegant stitches. Inspired by the Evening Bag featured in Nancy’s book, Sashiko Handbags 14 on 14, this spectacular clutch design is yours only at the Expo. Direction includes lining, closure and binding options from which to choose to complete your project. Choice of color story, all supplies and pattern included. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 24.
Thursday   10:30 – 12:00   B22X
Saturday   12:00 – 1:30   S260X

Introduction to Sashiko Stitching: Japanese Apron Pocket
with Nancy Shriber
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Discover the history of the humble Sashiko stitch as you fall into the rhythm with needle and thread. You’ll use these stitches to create special embellishments on clothing, gifts and accessories, as the elegant simplicity lends itself to all types of fabrics, including fine silks and linens. By the end of class you’ll have a perfectly stitched, indigo cotton pocket for a simple Japanese apron. Directions and grid for the apron included. Materials Fee: $12. Limit 24.
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q237

Karma Bag
with Kathy Stachowicz in the Baby Lock Studio
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From the unique handle and bag design to the fanciful embellishment, this one screams “Look at Me!” Techniques include easy appliqué (in the hoop), decorative borders using machine embroidery, easy flatlock on the serger and edge finishes using the wave stitch. This bag is as much fun to create as it is to sport around town! Includes bag frame, all materials and pattern. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $22. Limit 20.
Thursday   8:30 – 11:30   A7X & B23

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