Experienced Sewers: Cleveland
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Looking for classes that give you credit for what you already know, classes that help to perfect what's already pretty darned good? These classes will lift your sewing or embroidery to a higher level of excellence. While these classes are not off-limits to those who are less-than-experienced, they have enough 'meat' for the most experienced among us. 

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

Knitted Quilt Blocks
with Mary Bell
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Combine your love for quilts, color and knitting in one project! Learn techniques on these small knitted blocks that can be used on other knitting projects, including two different methods for knitting with beads, creating 3-dimensional blocks and more. You’ll knit blocks resembling some of your favorite (and soon to become favorite) quilts in class – just nine of which can be put together as a table-topper or pillow top. They could also become the start to a distinctive, full-size afghan. Includes all yarn, pattern, buttons, beads, beading needle, crochet hook and project worksheet for the nine-patch project. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $75. Limit 30.
Thursday   1:00 – 5:00   C46, D62 & E78

Super Slick Serger Tricks Workshop
with Diana Cedolia in the Serger Studio
Maybe you’ve seen Diana demonstrate some of these techniques, but now you can get your hands on the serger to learn them yourself – and more. You’ll speed up your construction time when you use your serger more often. Create a notebook full of super slick tricks of specialty seams and finishes including gathered, rolled edges, mock flat-fell, crisp corners, piped edges and more. We often forget just how versatile the serger really is, and how much faster (in some cases even better), our projects can be when we really know how to make magic happen. Think apparel and home décor . . . if getting projects done is your goal, this class full of shortcuts is just what you need. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $24. Limit 20.
Wednesday   1:30 – 4:30   MDB300
Thursday   8:30 – 11:30   A10X & B26
Friday   12:30 – 3:30   K154X & L170

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

Pants: From Start to Fitted
with Cynthia Guffey
When your pants pattern really fits, pants are one of the fastest, easiest garments to sew – start to finish in an evening, pockets, zipper and all. Figures change, styles change, and suddenly what once fit doesn’t. Or maybe you’ve never had a pattern that really fits. No matter! Develop your personal pattern for perfectly fitted pants with Cynthia as your fitter. Spend the day working from the mock-up you’ve prepared before class, and transferring the changes back to your tissue pattern. When you leave, you’ll KNOW they fit and look great! To top off the perfect pants, class includes shaped and straight waistband options, pre-class workbook and detailed directions for preparing the mock-up. This class is designed for experienced fashion sewing enthusiasts.
Wednesday   9:30 – 5:00   MDB100
Supply List and Advance Prep
Limit 16
Cost: $220

Stripes, Plaids and Printed Designs
with Cynthia Guffey
What is the decision making process when choosing patterns for these fabrics? Clarify your thinking as you learn the language (even, uneven, one-way and crosswise), then discover what makes them work – or not – to help you make great choices in fabrics, patterns and clothes that flatter you and each other.
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E65

The Perfectly Fitted Sleeve
with Cynthia Guffey
The goal of great fit is to create clothing with no restrictions to physical activity but which shows off great-looking fit when standing still. Learn to reach that goal time and time again as Cynthia explores how fit, shape of the curve, depth of the cap and construction techniques all play a role in creating the perfectly fitted and set sleeve.
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L171

The Anatomy of a Collar
with Cynthia Guffey
Your collar frames your face, and you’ve already discovered some do a better job than others. Discover how the way in which a collar stands and rolls is determined by the convex, concave and straight line shaping of the neck edges of the collar and your garment. Some collars stand up at attention; others lay completely flat. Learn to adjust the degree to which your collar moves towards one or the other of these extremes when you adjust the convexity and concavity of your seam lines. Gain insight into the importance of properly stitching these two shapes together, eliminating distortion on one side and creating perfectly shaped, fitted and sewn collars.
Saturday   12:30 – 1:30   S257

Focal Point Zipper Placements
with Cynthia Guffey
Unexpected placement of an exposed zipper can become the focal point of your garment design, whether you sew the garment or add one to your purchased clothing. Visible or not, surprising zipper locations create distinctive and useful design elements. Consider a zipper neatly tucked below a pocket welt or totally exposed at the neckline or hemline (imagine a chunky zipper running upward from the ankle of your jeans). Learn to make a place for your zippers where no seams exists, and examine options such as hiding the zipper (even without a seam in which to place it), or exposing it, creating a focal point for your garment’s design.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D49

Bound Pockets, Bound Buttonholes
with Cynthia Guffey
They’re in everything from handbags to couture fashions: bound pockets and buttonholes abound as embellishment details. Both are created in the same general manner. From the same set of principles and using precut samples, you’ll choose to start with either a pocket or buttonhole to accomplish in class. Directions and pre-cut materials are provided for both, and how far you go in class is up to you. Includes discussion about sizing buttonholes to fit the buttons, and designing circular, triangular and other non-traditional shapes. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 20.
Thursday   6:30 – 9:00   F92 & G108

The Fashionable Embroiderer
with Laura Haynie
Achieving impressive, high-fashion embroidered garments is part artistry, part technique and part inspiration. See a wardrobe of samples as you discover how to choose fine details and broad strokes that work for you. Includes step-by-step fearless decorative buttonholes; creating a garment using only silk organza, lace and embroidery; fashionable placements (including hoop examples and templates); a trunk show of award-winning garments including exquisite suits, evening gowns and jackets; professional ideas and how-tos; touches of heirloom for grown-up girls and more.
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00   C35
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H115
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R242

Brainstorming for Quilt Design
with Mary Huey
Feeling creatively challenged? Join other creative but somewhat stuck quilters in a think-tank setting to release the potential of those uncut fabrics and unfinished projects you’ve been storing. Working together under Mary’s experienced eye you’ll brainstorm design solutions and come away with fresh ideas for new quilts. Supply List.
Friday   12:30 – 2:00   K148X

$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

For the Love of Silk
with Nancy Shriber
Learn the language of love . . . for silk! Explore this all-season, versatile and oh-so-wonderful-to-work-with-and-wear fiber in a meaningful conversation: silk is strong and cooperative, flattering and fantastic to work with. It actually wants to be sewn and pressed and handled. So fabulous running through your hands, silk’s subtle charms can easily become addictive. Discuss and explore the types and weights of silk and learn why four-ply silk is considered the cream of the silk crop. Includes needle and thread basics, what to look for when buying silk, how to prepare and care for the fiber before and after it is sewn, seams and seam finishes and finishing details for using silk in fashion, accessories and art-to-wear projects. Many samples and language practice in class..
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D60

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