Embellishment & Art-to-Wear: Cleveland
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Image Magic
with Katie Bartz
Discover creative magic when you learn to manipulate images on your computer – fabric prints, children’s artwork, photographs, clip art . . . anything you can scan or print qualifies. See great ways to use the images for more creative scrapbook pages, memory quilts, custom home décor projects and more artful clothing. Explore adding machine embroidery stitches to enhance or even replace the image for more incredible artistic effects.
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L162

Photoshop Elements 6.0
with Katie Bartz
You asked for it and we listened!!! Printing digital images on fabric and paper can be a big part of the creative process when you know how to manipulate them on the computer first.Your projects will stand out and look more polished when you spend a day learning Photoshop Elements 6.0 with Katie. See how the newest software can unleash your creativity and satisfy your artistic desires! It's a perfect workshop for business needs, cardmaking, art and memory quilts, digital scrapbooking, digitized and free-motion machine embroidery and all types of embellishment, which take on unlimited options when you print images exactly as you want them to appear. Make one-of-a-kind memories on the first try! Learn to whiten teeth, remove unwanted backgrounds or red-eye, enhance eye color, minimize wrinkles and lose 20 pounds if that's how you'd like your portrait to appear. Discover artistic filters, enhance images by adding text, frames, brushed edges and brighten color for printing. See a demonstration on colorizing black and white photos and removing yellow from your "older" scanned photo stash. Learn how easy it is to crop and resize images so there is no pixilation when enlarging. Practice taking an element from one photo and adding it to another. Just imagine making quilted postcards with original artwork, photos, personal messages. All this and more is just a mouse-click or pen-stroke away. Leave class with a Photoshop Elements workbook for reference, a multitude of ideas and the confidence to use all kinds of images in your fabric and paper projects. It's time to take your photos up a notch and learn what the professionals do! Must be comfortable with Windows applications and using a mouse (or Pen Pad).
Wednesday   10:00 – 4:30   MDB700
Supply List
Limit 30
Cost: $225

Enrich Your Jeans With Embroidery
with Debra Bohn in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
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Great embroidered jeans can be yours – they’ll fit, they won’t cost a fortune and they’ll have the colors you enjoy running up the leg, around the hem and on the pocket. Using embroidery and embellishment techniques, you’ll re-fashion a pair of plain jeans in class. Learn how to choose appropriate designs and prepare them for the hoop. Choose your colors and stitch away, maybe add a few crystals, too! Finally, return them to their original shape and you’ll have a pair of custom-designed jeans to wear home (plus the confidence to create more). Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $10. Limit 24.
Saturday   8:30 – 11:30   Q233X & R249

Embroidered Jeans and Jackets
with Debra Bohn
It’s with us and getting stronger – embroidered jeans and jackets, whether you make them yourself or personalize ready-to-wear, are more popular than ever. Learn the tricks for success, including how to choose the best designs (or adapt the ones you love), which hoops and stabilizers work best and more.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D51
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V291

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

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

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

Hand Felted Surface Design Techniques
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 Vessel with Fran Steinbock, listed below:

Felted Vessel
with Fran Steinbock
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Wool fiber + hot soapy water + agitation = FELT! Learn about the process of wet felting, how to manipulate wool fibers into the shape you want through discussion and hands-on exploration. In the process you’ll layer colorful wool batts and, with some fun playing, start to create your vessel. Plan and cut an opening, and further sculpt its shape as you explore color mixing, textures and decorative techniques. BE prepared for creativity, exercise (a little) and fun! Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 24.
Friday   12:30 – 3:30   K157X & L173

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

Playing for Inspiration
with Diane Gloystein
Discover the art of creating innovative effects in fiber by taking simple ideas to exciting new levels. Diane’s ability to play with fabric and fiber yields a new collection of inspirational pieces, and lots of ideas for using metallic threads, building extra dimension, dyeing stabilizers and more. The best part: no preconceived ideas about how we “should” use things. Just lots and lots of artistic, fun ideas – and a good excuse to play a little ourselves!
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D53
Friday   1:00 – 2:00   K156

It’s Never Just a Sweatshirt!
with Nancy McElhinny
Sweatshirt jackets are in and you don't want to be left out! Discover just how fast and easy it is to create an entire closet full of colorful jackets and pullovers in short order. See how hand-dyed ribbons are used to create a fabulous pullover in an evening of easy handwork; how to use your favorite fabrics to enhance design with a stencil, some sewing and a pair of scissors; how your twin needle can prepare a design pallet ready for favorite embellishment techniques and more. Includes couching, machine or hand embroidery, appliqué or thread embellishment – jackets are limited only by your imagination.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H124

Basic Sweatshirt Jacket Fitting
with Jerri McKee
Learn the best ways to prepare your sweatshirts to create flattering art-to-wear jackets. See how to cut them apart, fit them to your body, establish the correct length and create a variety of necklines for a range of jacket styles.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A12
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q236

Satin Stitch Machine Appliqué
with Jerri McKee in the Sewing Spot
Learn how to approach your satin stitch appliqué with the correct tools and machine settings and you’ll have success every time! Create your seasonal tea-towel as you master appliqué curves, points and corners at the machine. Practice makes perfect! Materials Fee: $12. Limit 12.
Friday   8:30 – 10:00   H127X

On the Edge 2008: A Fresh Approach
with Lyla Messinger
Ever been stunned by a simple detail that ‘makes the garment’? Develop a new perspective on “boutique” sewing, including what, where and how to include Lyla’s simple, yet stunning details on a variety of garments. Great details don’t need to be complicated, difficult or time consuming to be effective – simplicity is often the key to a garment’s success. See many examples and how-to visuals to elevate your fashion sewing.
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T275

Altered Fashion
with Tammy O'Connell
Refashioning, restyling, revamping . . . the words themselves give you creative license to give a garment new personality – yours! Use any embellishment, alteration, construction or de-construction technique you like to do, too. Think embroidery, adding or deleting fabric or trim, merging pieces, painting, beading, dyeing . . . focus in class on three techniques for each type of garment: skirts, jackets and pants as you learn to let imagination go, and alter your fashion.
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E75
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q235

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

Creative Sweatshirt Jackets
with Londa Rohlfing
Beyond the norm . . . these one-of-a-kind jackets created from sweatshirt bases are absolutely amazing! Gather ideas for using your ‘stash’ as you learn techniques for shaping, necklines, collars, hems, stabilizing edges, bias silk ribbon, couching…even needle felting, stenciling, and painting in texture with dyes. Having created over 200 jackets, Londa will inspire your creativity with pictures, how-tos and great NEW jackets.
Friday   1:00 – 2:00   K155
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R243

Design Principles for Creative Sewing
with Londa Rohlfing
You have your ‘stash’. You have skills. You have tools. You have ideas…too many ideas! How do you decide what to use – where and how to use it? Design Principles! Londa will walk you through good design of balance, rhythm, color, proportion and center of interest. Learn to identify the successful use of these all-important principles, enabling you to approach your own creative sewing with a newly-trained, artistic ‘eye’.
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30   B18
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T276

Silk Ribbon and Beads by Machine
with Susan Schrempf
See fanciful flowers and ribbon surprises develop quickly and easily right before your eyes! Learn to add garlands of beads, create bead and sequin motifs and more – all by machine. Whether you’re a fashion, quilt or embroidery enthusiast, you’ll enjoy using these wonderful machine embellishments on projects throughout the year.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A4
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L161
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V292

$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

Inspiration and Art Wear
with Nancy Shriber
Sharing her inspirational trunk show of art wear, Nancy discusses the big questions we all confront: “What if . . . ?” and “How do I . . . ?”. As in “how do I start,” and “what if I get stuck, how do I finish”. Discover how she stays focused, resolves problems and uses a series of proven tools and techniques to move forward on her garments. See a few of the completed garments that presented Nancy with a challenge; discuss the stumbling blocks, what she considered doing about them and how she eventually worked around or through them.
Thursday   12:30 – 2:00   C44X

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