QUILTERS!
THIS yEAR IT wILL BE “STAR SPANGLED”
quilt exhibits, special displays, classes and shopping! The show creates a gallery to display your beautiful quilts and see all of the beautiful work of other talented quilters. You can learn new techniques, associate with quilting friends and be entertained with quilt trunk shows, classes and a vendor mall to satisfy every shopping desire!
Star Spangled Quilts! We want to see all of your star creations; patriotic, starry night landscapes or traditional star patterns. You and your quilts will be the stars! The quilt competition will offer more than $27,000 in prizes! Enter your wonderful quilts and see them on display. The entry information is included in this catalog. There is time to finish up the special quilt or garment project. Don’t want to enter the competition? Then the Exhibit Only category is where you can show off your quilting.
The Special Quilt Exhibit Display is a unique section of the show with exceptional quilts featuring talented national artists, guilds, and three quilt challenges. In the spotlight is our patriotic star, Al Lind, with his Quilts of Valor display. Come learn about this American quilting hero.
Take the Challenge! There are three challenges featured this year, the Riley Blake Designs Challenge & Auction, the Quilting Treasures Quilts of Valor Challenge and the SewBatik Challenge (by invitation only). A live auction on Saturday, May 12th at 12:30
p.m. of the Riley Blake Designs Challenge quilts will benefit this year’s charity, Quilts of Valor. Participation information is in included in the catalog.
Classes! Register online or fill out the registration form and mail it in! Be sure and sign up early to get your first choices of classes. There are many new classes and exceptional teachers to make your learning experience meaningful. There are a wide variety of subjects to fit all skill levels and educational needs. Classes begin Wednesday, May 9th at 8 a.m.
Shopping! The Quilt Exhibit Hall and Vendor Mall will be open Thursday, May 10th through Saturday the 12th, beginning at 10 a.m. all three days and closing Thursday, May 10th and Friday, May 11th at 5 p.m., and Saturday May 12th at 4 p.m. Our excellent vendor mall gives a onestop shopping opportunity to see, try, compare and buy all the latest quilting and sewing products. Don’t miss the Saturday Shopping Spree, May 12th from 1:004:00 p.m. Special discounts in the vendor booths on Saturday only! Don’t miss the great bargains!
Specials! Trunk shows, Awards Ceremony, Live Charity Auction, Stage Demos and don’t forget all of the drawings and door prizes. And the Make & Take Area is back by popular demand. This area will have sponsored projects going on all day long. Learn the latest techniques right there in the hall and take home a finished project! Signups are available each day when the hall opens, on a first come basis. Watch for the signup sheets to the right of the show entrance.
Thanks to all who work hard to make HMQS a reality—our management, staff /committee, sponsors, vendors, teachers, volunteers and family. Join in the Star Spangled HMQS 2012 and enjoy the world of quilting.
Sincerely,
HMQS Show Director
THIS yEAR IS GOING BE “STAR SPANGLED!”
The show theme creates visions of heavenly night skies, heroes who are stars in our lives, traditional quilt patterns that have been passed down through the generations, and patriotic enthusiasm. HMQS 2012 will have classes, booths, presentations and quilts, quilts, quilts that are Star Spangled bright!
HMQS 2012 Show Pin
DON’T MISS OUT ON ADDING THIS BEAUTIFUL
pin to your collection! HMQS 2012 Show Pin is available to order with class registration for only $5!
Show Charity & QuiltOff!
Quilts of Valor
THE MISSION OF THE QOV FOUNDATION IS TO
cover ALL those servicemembers and veterans touched by war with Wartime Quilts called Quilts of Valor. This foundation is not about politics. It’s about people.
In November of 2003, Catherine Roberts founded the Quilts of Valor Foundation. She had retired from doing active clinical midwifery and in late 2003, started QOVF as a result of her older son, Nat’s, upcoming deployment to Iraq as a gunner for his Humvee. She had this vision of a postdeployed warrior struggling with his war demons at 2 in the morning. She saw him sitting on the side of his bed wrapped in a quilt. That quilt not only comforted, but warded off his war demons. Thus QOVF was founded.
Catherine says, “All our combat warriors merit our healing and comforting Quilts of Valor. This means from any conflict. That translates into many, many more QOVs to make in the years to come.”
To date the QOVFbhas donated 45,437 quilts to men and women in military service. For more information on the Q of V Foun dation go to www.qovf.org. H elp us honor those who serve our country this year. They are our stars!
Quilts of Valor
QuiltOff!
WHEN: All 3 days of the show WHERE: Main entrance
wE ARE ExCITED! TO BENEFIT THIS yEAR’S quilting for a great cause, our military charity, Quilts of Valor. There will be a veterans! longarm machine available for attendees Thank you to our partner compa to do machine quilting. This will be lo
nies. Quilting machine provided by cated near the main entrance to the Handi Quilter, fabric by Quilting Treas
show. Our goal is to quiltoff as many
ures, and batting by the Home Machine
quilts as possible in the three days the
Quilting Association. The Quilts of Valor
show is open.
QuiltOff coordinator is Diane Jaeger, All machine quilters are invited to diane@hmqs.org, 80 17762175.
stop by this area and spend a few minutes
Donate to Quilts of Valor and You Might Win ...
A BIG THANK yOU TO ROBERTS MANUFACTURING, a local manufacturer of “fine sewing furniture,” for donating a beautiful Quilting & Embroidery Table ($899 value). All those who make a donation to Quilts of Valor with their show admission will be entered in a drawing to win!
Media
Machine Quilting Unlimited
2012 Show Sponsors
We are proud to introduce the 2012 sponsors, who contribute immensely to the success of HMQS. Thank you to the following companies for their generous support:
| GOLD | |
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| Home Machine Quilting | |
| Association | |
| SILVER | |
| Nuttalls’ | |
| Sewing | |
| Centers | |
| BRONZE | |
| MediaOne of Utah | |
| Main Stage | Attendee Tote Bags |
| Handi Quilter Inc. | American & Efird, Inc. |
Show Program Class Catalog Rocky Mountain Brother International Electric Quilters, LLC
Show Pins Awards Ceremony
Kristie’s Quilts & Crafts Daines Cotton Shops
Media
All American Crafts
“Make & Take” Area & Machines
Nuttalls’ Sewing Centers
“Make & Take” Area Thread
Sulky of America, Inc.
Teacher & Vendor Lounge
Machine Quilting Unlimited
Special Exhibits
Quilts to Honor God
A Religious Quilt Display by Mary Davis
MARy DAVIS wAS RAISED IN wAyNESBORO, GA. Her parents were Christians, and were faithful to teach her about Jesus, faithful to read the Bible, and to pray daily.
After graduating from high school, Mary worked for her parents breaking colts and showing horses until she met Warren Davis and a year later, in 1980, they were married. They live on the Crow Creek Ranch headquarters of the CS Cattle Co. of Cimarron, NM, where she works along side her husband. The have been blessed with two wonderful children; Walter, born in 1984, and Sara (19 months younger), born in 1985.
Mary began quilting shortly after the birth of her son. After she had made enough quilts for the beds, she was inspired to tithe her quilt time and talents by making quilts that would honor God. About this time, she viewed a quilt made by Dawn E. Amos of the famous painting of Jesus praying at the rock. Since then, she has made nine religious theme quilts depicting events in the life of Christ. The majority of them have been inspired by famous religious art.
Mary says, “Because I have always felt that I belong to God, I have no greater delight than to honor my Lord and Savior by doing my best to quilt for Him. I hope you can see my love and passion for the Lord, and I hope you love Jesus, too.”
View this amazing quilt display in the exhibit area of Hall 5!
Kaffe Club Quilts
FOUR yEARS AGO A CLASS STARTED AT SwEET
Lavender Quilt shop in Roy, Utah, using Kaffe Fassett Fabrics. That class continued meeting once a month on the second Friday and Saturday, making quilts with this particular fabric line. In 2010, the group embarked on an epic journey, to make a replica of one of the quilts in the book, “Museum Quilts,” quilts inspired by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Each quilter picked her own color scheme and combined fabrics, but stayed true to the antique quilt shown in the book. The class finished in October 2011 with 15 awesome quilts for all to enjoy. The quilt shown is by the class’ teacher, Kaye Evans, who chose to work in a neutral color palette. The group will be starting another Kaffe Club in 2012 and new members are welcome. For info contact Kaye Evans, (801) 4790550, quiltndog@q.com.
THANK yOU TO DAINES COTTON SHOPS FOR SPONSORING MARy DAVIS’ QUILT DISPLAy.
Honoring a Hero
Special Quilts of Valor Exhibit
yOU wON’T wANT TO MISS THIS INSPIRING
and patriot quilt display created by one of countries finest. In memoriam of Mr. Al Lind of Quincy, Washington, who was a WWII veteran and a former prisoner of war.
In just under four years Al created and donated over 400 quilts to Quilts of Valor to honor and comfort service members returning from duty overseas who were touched by war. Al Lind was lovingly referred to as a “QOV Poster Boy” and more. But this veteran told it like it was... Mr. Lind, who quilted for other vets, heartily admonished other vets to “get off their duffs” and quilt! Mr. Lind was bit by the quilting bug late in life at the age of 89. He was a true testament that it’s never too late to give back to the troops.
See video feed at HMQS 2012 of Al Lind’s piecing methods and his call to all veterans to give their support to the Quilts of Valor Foundation. Catch his enthusiasm for this worthy quilting project. The Quilts of Valor website is www.qovf.org.
THANK yOU TO FLOyD % LIzzIE’S AND SINGER SEwING MACHINES FOR SPONSORING THIS SPECIAL ExHIBIT.
Old Quilts Made New
Pam Clarke, Teacher, Quilter and Collector!
PAM HAS BEEN COLLECTING VINTAGE QUILT
tops since she started quilting in1970. She just loves the older fabrics and loves finishing quilt tops whether by hand or machine. In her collection she has tried to keep the quilting in the traditional style of that era. She uses her quilting talents and makes no changes or resets the top unless it is in really poor condition. Pam says, “I feel that every quilt deserves to be finished, and it is my goal to complete all the ones I’ve collected.”
Her favorite quilts are Log Cabins, Dresden Plates and Grandmother’s Flower Garden. She has found these tops everywhere she travels; in antique shops, on Ebay etc. Pam has a few appliqué quilts in her collection, but these are very rare to find and in good condition. She teaches a class called, “Blending the Old with the New,” and it is one of her favorites. In this class she discusses how to finish these tops, fixing any problems before quilting and cleaning, along with a slide show of over 50 quilts. Check out all of Pam’s classes on the class schedule. Be sure and stop by this special quilt display area and see Pam’s fabulous quilts! Thank you to Gammill Quilting Systems for helping us showcase such a talented Gammill quilting artist.
THANK yOU TO GAMMILL QUILTING SySTEMS FOR SPONSORING THIS SPECIAL ExHIBIT.
Special Exhibits
Special Exhibits
THANK yOU TO ANDERSONS QUILTING ELEMENTS FOR SPONSORING THIS SPECIAL ExHIBIT.
owned their own fabric shops or currently work in one. The Quilt Set includes an appliqué group, which creates beautiful masterpieces. The picture here shows the group donating a quilt to this year’s LDS Hospital Foundation Auction that will be held at the Little America hotel in November. Almost all the members of the Quilt Set group participated in crafting this donation quilt by piecing, appliqué, embroidery, quilting, binding or label making. It truly represents the quality of work the group produces. Quilt Set quilts have been featured many times in the calendar produced to commemorate the Auction Show. The members also create magnificent quilts each year for the Brigham City Museum’s annual quilt show; the Brigham City Heritage Days quilt show, and the Utah Quilt Fest. We know you will enjoy this special exhibit!
Quilt Set
Group Special Exhibit
HMQS IS PLEASED TO SHOwCASE 35 GORGEOUS
quilts in the 2012 special exhibit from the Quilt Set group. Quilt Set is a group of 52 quilters from northern Utah communities around Brigham City, started 25 years ago when a few friends decided to attend quilting classes at Mormon Handicraft in Salt Lake. For several months they commuted weekly to the classes until they felt prepared to start quilting on their own. Then they began meeting in homes, later moving to the new local quilt shop, Village Dry Goods. After a few years, the new Brigham City fire station offered out their large meeting room to community groups, and the quilting group had a new home.
The group has a great diversity of skills. Some members are experts at the traditional, allhandwork style of quilting, and some are very proficient on a longarm quilting machine. Several of the members have
THANK yOU TO APQS FOR SPONSORING THIS SPECIAL ExHIBIT.
APQS Quilting Artists Display
Featuring quilts by Myrna Ficken and Claudia Pfeil
MyRNA, AN APQS LONGARM MACHINE QUILTER
and teacher, has traveled and taught at quilt shows and events in the United States as well as international events. She has won many awards over the years, with her work also being published in books and magazines. Her quilts on exhibit show her creative expertise, and that she is definitely progressive and innovative. These fabulous quilts, Kachina, Cactus Rose and Tuesday Afternoon, feature the outstanding quilt piecing of Marilyn Badger and the creative machine quilting of Myrna.
Claudia, also an APQS machine quilter, runs a quilt shop and the APQS Showroom in Krefeld, Germany. She loves sharing her talents with students as she travels internationally. Her awardwinning quilts are well known for her opulent quilting style and her love for embellishments.
On display will be Claudia’s very first, big awardwinning quilt, Turnabout, inspired by using a single block. Other display quilts include Parrot’s Island, Fire & Ice and Cordoba, made with silk and embellished with thousands of Swarovski Crystals. You’ll want to take some time to study her unique creations.
This APQS Quilting Artists Display is a mustsee and exemplifies the height of professional quilt making. Here is a sneak peek!
Myrna Ficken’s Cactus Rose (left) and Claudia Pfeil’s Turnabout
Judges
Barbara J. Broshous
Colorado Springs, CO
BARB HAS BEEN A COMMITTED QUILTER FOR OVER 25 yEARS,
and has been an NQAcertified quilt judge since 1999. She has won numerous awards for her quilting; and she and her work have been featured in several national quilting magazines, among them American Quilter, American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilting Today, and Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine.
Barb has a passion for appliqué, especially dimensional floral work. She has developed a technique to prequilt her wall hanging backgrounds and then attaches completed dimensional flowers. Her classes are very popular with quilters of all skill levels.
Barb has judged and taught classes throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. While in Brazil she taught a threeday judging course and helped establish a quiltjudging program for their national quilting association. She cosigned the diplomas of the first 20 certified quilt judges in Brazil!” The summer of 2010, she judged the Vermont Quilt Festival, Quilt Colorado 2010, The Hoffman Challenge, Colorado State Fair, and five other Colorado county fairs.
Elizabeth Spannring
La Center, WA
ELIzABETH HAS BEEN ACTIVELy INVOLVED wITH QUILTING SINCE
1992. In 2002 she judged her first quilt show and has judged over 50 quilt competitions throughout the U.S. and Canada. She holds judging certifications with the National Quilting Association and the Canadian Quilters Association / ACC. Elizabeth feels her experience as a competition quiltmaker and an international quilt instructor have helped her to stay uptodate with the new methods and techniques of today’s quilt artists. While
Quilt Competition
Online Quilt Entry
INSTRUCTIONS & HMQS CONDITIONS
- HMQS Quilt Competition is not a juried competition. Online quilt entry only. Please go to www.hmqs.org
- For questions, contact Polly Holyoak, 8012627706, polly@hmqs.org or Patsy Shelton,8017824673, patsy@hmqs.org
Online Entries: Entrants in the Quilt Exhibit may enter 3 quilts into the Judged exhibit and 3 quilts into the Exhibit Only area (display conditional upon space availability). Each entry must fall under the definition of a quilt that consists of 3 layers, i.e., quilt top, batting, and backing. Entries must be machine quilted. No handquilted entries. Quilts older than 4 years may not be entered. Entries that are larger than 480” will not be accepted. HMQA reserves the right to place entrants’ quilts in a more appropriate category if deemed necessary.
Deadlines: Quilt entry must be submitted no later than April 13, 2012. Quilts must be received by April 27, 2012.
Photographs: Two photos MUST accompany each quilt entry for identification purposes, one picture of the entire quilt and one closeup. These photos should be uploaded during the online entry process.
Label: Each quilt must have a quilt label (sewn on by hand or machine) to a lower corner of the back of the quilt. Each label needs to include: Name of Quilt, Quilt Owner’s Name and Address.
Sleeve: Each quilt must have attached to the back a 4inch sleeve at the top of the quilt enabling the HMQA volunteers to properly hang each quilt. Art quilts must be able to be hung with minimal attention.
Show Insurance: HMQA will insure quilts up to $500 for a mandatory cost of $5. It is highly recommended that quilts over $500 in value be appraised and the owner has appropriate insurance to insure the quilt while in transit and at HMQS 2012. Quilts appraised value over $500 are the owner’s responsibility to insure.
Shipping/Drop Off: Ship or drop off quilts in clear or any transparent color plastic bags only. The number must be seen through the bag. No black bags, pillowcases or other cloth bags. Bags will not be returned.
Return Shipping and Insurance: The return shipping cost is $25, and additional quilts will cost $15 each. Insurance for quilt shipping is $1 for every $100 of the quilt value. All return shipping and insurance fees must be paid with the quilt entry form. International entries or Odd shaped/sized or tube packaging MUST enclose a PREPAID RETURN SHIPPING LABEL with the shipped quilt. Shipping fees are nonrefundable.
Quilt Return: Quilts may be picked up at the designated secure location on Saturday, May 12, 2012, 6:007:00 p.m. No quilts will be released from the exhibit floor. The quilts will be returned to owner upon proof of ownership. Picture ID will be required. All quilts shipped will be sent no later than 7 days after the show closes, unless other arrangements are made. Quilt shipments will be made by UPS or FedEx. P.O. Box addresses will be sent by USPS.
Awards: Cash prizes and awards will be given to the person submitting the Online Quilt Entry Form. It is the intention of HMQS to award ribbons only during HMQS Awards Ceremony. Otherwise, all cash prizes and awards will be sent to winners within 14 days of the show closing.
Conditions: Entrants agree that they will abide by the HMQA judges’ decisions.
By checking the box indicated on the Online Entry Form, entrants agree to the following conditions:
- HMQA reserves the right to refuse to hang any quilts that are received in poor condition, including, but not limited to: No binding, fabric is torn or stained, quilt is poorly constructed or was misrepresented in the photos, exceeds the size limitations, etc.
- HMQA reserves the right to place entrant’s quilt in a more appropriate category if deemed necessary.
- HMQA reserves the right to accept or refuse any quilt for entrance into HMQS 2012 quilt exhibit. Entrant will not hold HMQA, HMQS 2012, South Towne Expo Center, event management or any of the abovementioned employees or volunteers liable for damages or loss of quilt beyond the insurance limitations specified in this form.
Competition Categories
HMQS Quilt Categories
Best of Show: This quilt is deemed by the judges as the best quilt in all categories.
Best Combination: Quilt made by a combination of piecers, appliquérs and/or machine quilters. A group effort, more than one person worked on the quilt.
Best Rookie: This quilt was quilted by someone who has been machine quilting for one year or less.
Best Solitaire: One person pieced or appliquéd and machine quilted the quilt.
Viewers’ Choice: Ballots cast by attendees will decide this award.
Youth 14 & Younger: This award is given to an outstanding quilt made by a youth quilter 14 years old or younger. This award is sponsored to recognize youthful quilters and encourage the next generation of quilters.
Judge’s Choice: These awards will be given by the quilt judges to two quilts in the competition.
Theme “Star Spangled!”: Must be easily identifiable as representing the theme. Must have 3 layers: Quilt top, batting, and backing. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Appliqué: Quilts in this category should be predominantly appliquéd. Appliqué may be applied by hand or machine. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Art/Innovative: Quilts in this category will be judged for their artistic merit, design and detailed quilting. Addition of beads, buttons or other objects will be acceptable providing that they are securely attached and the quilt can be hung with minimal care. Perimeter 80” to 480”.
Computerized Quilting: Quilts machine quilted using a computerized quilting system. All types of quilts are permitted in this category. Perimeter 80”to 480”.
Conventional Machine: This category is for quilts quilted on a machine by the “pushthrough” method of quilting. All types of quilts are permitted in this category. Perimeter 80” to 480”.
Edge to Edge: This category is suitable for entry by a novice, less experienced or reticent quilter. The quilting on this entry must be an overall design that covers the entire quilt without any regard to the blocks or borders of the quilt. No “stitch in the ditch” quilting. No computerized quilting. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Embroidery: This is the perfect category to showcase your embroidery quilts! The predominant embroidery on these quilts may be done either by hand or machine. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Mixed Technique: Any two or more techniques in combination which can include piecing, appliqué, embroidery, photos or painting. Perimeter 80” to 480”.
Novelty Custom: Unusual and creative stitching designs, inventive, nontraditional block motifs and background fillers. Unique and nonmatching thread choices are allowed. This category is the opposite of Traditional. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Off The Bed: This category is suitable for entry by a novice, less experienced or reticent quilter. This category is for quilts that are practical, utilitarian, everyday useful quilts, consisting of three layers. No embellishments. Perimeter 270” to 480”.
Traditional Custom: Traditional patterns for blocks & construction. Quilting such as stitchintheditch, feathers, crosshatching, & echo quilting. Threads should match the fabric of the quilt as much as possible. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Utah’s Own: This category is sponsored to recognize three outstanding quilts by Utah quilt makers. All types of quilts are permitted in this category. Perimeter 80” to 480”.
Wall Hanging: Not less than 80” or more than 240”. May be pieced or appliquéd, traditional or novelty in design.
Whole Cloth: One piece of fabric, quilted to create a design. Quilt may be seamed only to join pieces of the same fabric to acquire the desired size. Perimeter 220” to 480”.
Youth 18 & Younger: Quilts in this area MUST be entirely pieced and machine quilted by the Youth 18 & under, either by long/short arm method or conventional pushthrough method. Perimeter not to exceed 480”. No computerized quilting.
Quilted Garment Categories: A limit of 3 garment entries in the categories listed below.
Quilted Garment/Wearables: Garment must have three layers, be machine quilted and can have embellishments.
Quilted Garment/Ensemble: Garment with multiple pieces, consisting of but not limited to jacket, vest, dress, shirt, skirt or pants.
Exhibit Only: A quilter may submit up to three (3) quilts for nonjudged Exhibit Only. All Exhibit Only quilts must fit the definitions of a quilt described above, and may be in any of the above categories. Display conditional on space availability. All exhibit only quilts must be machine quilted.
Where to Stay
Hotels for 2012
All eight of these sponsor hotels are just a 5 to 10minute drive from the South Towne Expo Center, and provide shuttle service to and from the Expo Center, the nearby South Towne mall and restaurants.
HOST HOTEL
Country Inn and Suites
10499 South Jordan Gateway South Jordan, UT 8015531151 2 queen beds $80 Suites $85
Code: HMQS
Best Western CottonTree
10695 South Auto Mall Drive Sandy, UT 8015238484 Room Block: #902686 $79$84 queen or king
Code: HMQS
Fairfield Inn by Marriott Draper
12117 South State Street Draper, UT 8015721200 $109
Code: HMQS
Hampton Inn
10690 Holiday Park Dr Sandy UT 8015710800 $89
Code: HMQS Hilton Garden Inn
277 West Sego Lily Drive Sandy, Utah 8013529400 $109
Code: HMQS
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites
10680 South Auto Mall Drive Sandy, UT 8014951317 $79
Code: Home Machine Quilting Show
24hours a day by calling the InterContinental Hotels Group central reservation offices at 18003152605 with the following information:
Account Name: Home Machine Quilting Show Corporate ID: 100265620 Rate Category: IP2NF
Residence Inn by Marriott
270 West 10000 South Sandy, UT 8015615005 Studio King Suite $89 One Bedroom Suite $99 Two Bedroom Suite $139
Code: HMQS
Springhill Suites
12111 So State Street Draper, UT 8015721800 $99
Code: HMQS
Shadow RV Park
13275 So Minuteman Drive Draper, UT 8015714024 Nightly Rate: $39.25 full hook up Weekly Rate: $235.50 6 nights with 7th night free 10% discount with Good Sam member and other travel memberships
Very busy RV park—book well in advance
Salt Lake City!
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DESTINATION FOR ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE % SIGHTS!
THE HOME MACHINE QUILTING SHOw AT THE
South Towne Exposition Center in Sandy is located minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics. While you’re in town, take the opportunity to explore our multifaceted community. Listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, tour historic Temple Square, enjoy the splendor of our scenic canyons and mountains and savor cuisines from many lands. All this and more awaits you in the friendly, clean and safe environment of Salt Lake City. Plan your trip to HMQS 2012 today!
HISTORIC TEMPLE SQUARE AND "AMERICA’S CHOIR"
Mormon Tabernacle Choir Rehearsal
Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle | Public welcome, free of charge
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Spoken Word | Sundays at 9:15 a.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle | Public welcome, free of charge
Historic Temple Square
Tours free of charge (including Legacy Theater, Beehive House, Lion House, Garden Tours, Museum of Church History & Art, and more)
LDS Family History Library
Take a free tour of the new library. Or look up an ancestor in the collection of over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records; 727,000 microfiche; 356,000 books, serials, and other formats; over 4,500 periodicals and 3,725 electronic resources.
www.familysearch.org/locations/sal tlakecity library
Photo Credit: Jason Mathi
MUSEUMS, MOVIES, PLANETARIUMS, GARDENS, GOLF AND MORE!
Thanksgiving Point
World’s largest manmade waterfall, beautiful gardens (tulips and roses), farm country, world’s largest dinosaur museum, golf course, movie theater, shops and dining.
Jordan Commons (across the street from the venue)
Includes Megaplex Theatres (including IMAX) and several restaurants.
www.megaplextheatres.com/show times/sandy_jordan_commons.php
The Living Planet Aquarium
1250 animals and 267 species on display including penguins, turtles, sting rays, snakes, sharks and more!
The Gateway
Openair shopping destination. Over 130 restaurants and shops. Includes a movie theater.
Clark Planetarium
Free exhibits, Star Dome theatre, IMAX theatre and cosmic light shows.
River Oaks Golf Course
Beautiful course near the venue to get out in the sunshine.
Hill Aerospace Museum
This museum hosts over 180 million visitors each year.
www.hill.af.mil/library/museum/index.asp
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
18,000 works of art—from antiquity to current.
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS & 2002 OLYMPIC VENUES
Hiking in Salt Lake Mountains
Literally hundreds of trails in the scenic canyons to enjoy.
www.utah.com/saltlake/hiking.htm http://stateparks.utah.gov/trails/
Utah Olympic Parks & Venues
Visit the historic sites of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Class Categories
118 CARMEN GEDDES | Over The Edge 208 IRENA BLUHM | Bluhming Borders and Bindings Background Designs
219 SUZANNE HYLAND | Sew Precise, Sew Fast Machine Binding
307 CARMEN GEDDES | Over The Edge Borders and Bindings
411 SUZANNE HYLAND | Sew Precise, Sew Fast Machine Binding
229 SALLY TERRY | Six Step System To Building Your Professional Quilting Business
323 SALLY TERRY | Creating Your Online Presence
232 MINDY WYLIE | TNT
325 JUDY WOODWORTH | Pattern Designing
326 JUDY WOODWORTH | Designing Medallion Quilts
413 KAREN MCTAVISH | Drawing Original Quilting Designs
423 JUDY LYON | Sometimes You Need to Draw Your Own
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Class Categories
| 101 | PEGGY GELBRICH | Freezer Paper Foundation Piecing | 109 | PAM CLARKE | Fearless Beginnings to Longarm Freemotion Quilting | 207 | IRENA BLUHM | Blocks, Borders and Sashings—Free Motion Style |
| 119 | CARMEN GEDDES | I Can’t Believe It’s Machine Appliqué | 110 | PAM CLARKE | Fearless Beginnings to Freemotion Quilting | 209 | PAM CLARKE | Block to Block FreeMotion Quilting |
| 126 | DEONN STOTT | Star Medallion Tree Skirt | 111 | DUSTINFARRELL | Bread | 210 | PAM CLARKE | Color Crayon |
| and Butter | Wall Quilt | ||||
| 202 | RENAE ALLEN | Patriot Dream Tote | 112 | MYRNA FICKEN | Creating Spaces | 211 | DUSTIN FARRELL | Radical Rulers |
113 MYRNA FICKEN | How Do I 212 DUSTIN FARRELL | Edge to
205 CAROL BLEDSOE | Sew EZ
Quilt This? Edge Elegance Dresden Table Topper
114 CATHY FRANKS | Stacked and 214 CATHY FRANKS | We’ve Only
216 PEGGY GELBRICH |The ABC
Stunning Borders Just Begun Basics of Accurate Piecing
115 CATHY FRANKS | Cut Glass 215 CATHY FRANKS | Divide and
225 DEONN STOTT | Carpenter’s Star
Plate Quilting Conquer with Doodling 226 DEONN STOTT | A Soldier’s Star
116 CATHY FRANKS | Thread Painting 217 RENAE HADDADIN | Hip 2 Be 308 CARMEN GEDDES | Hunter’s Square
117 CATHY FRANKS | Stunning
Star Thread Art Jewelry 218 SUZANNE HYLAND | Fabulous 410 CARMEN GEDDES | I Can’t Freehand Free Motion
120 RENAE HADDADIN | Throw
Believe It’s Machine Appliqué Them a Curve or Play It Straight 220 KAREN MCTAVISH | Custom
Curves Heirloom Quilting
121 KAREN MCTAVISH | How Am I Supposed to Quilt That? 221 KAREN MCTAVISH | Quilting for
Show
122 SUE PATTEN | Spines With 102 RENAE ALLEN | Feather Designs: Blocks 222 SUE PATTEN | So Many Sashings ... FUNdamentals
So Little Time
123 CLAUDIA PFEIL | Gambling 314 PAULA REID | Free Motion with Echoes 223 CLAUDIA PFEIL | Painting with Quilting on the Domestic Thread
127 GEORGIA STULL | Statler— 315 PAULA REID | Trapunto Easy Peasy Borders 227 GEORGIA STULL | Statler— Creative Studio Endless Edge to 416 PAULA REID | Free Motion 128 LINDA TAYLOR | Freehand Edge Quilting on the Domestic Quilting for Beginners 230 JAMIE WALLEN | Mystical Florals
417 PAULA REID | Trapunto 129 LINDA TAYLOR | Refining Technical Skills 231 JAMIE WALLEN | Mystical
103 PATRICIA BARRY | Statler Stitcher Borders with Style
104 PATRICIA BARRY | Statler Stitcher Point to Point Precision
108 IRENA BLUHM | What it Takes to Create a Winner
130 SALLY TERRY | Walking Borders, Sashings & Blocks With Asymmetrical Stencils and Templates
131 SALLY TERRY | Instant Fills and Meanders With Wiggle Room
132 JAMIE WALLEN | Mystical Feathers
133 JAMIE WALLEN | Mystical Allovers
Cottontracks I
233 MINDY WYLIE | Bodacious Borders
301 IRENA BLUHM | Whimsical and Funky Feathers
303 KIM BRUNNER | It’s More Than Just Edge to Edge!
304 PAM CLARKE | Quilting Inside the Lines
305 DUSTIN FARRELL | Echo Puzzle Filler
Class Categories
420 JUDY WOODWORTH | The Art of 309 RENAE HADDADIN | Show Off! Good Backfill 106 CAROL BLEDSOE | Develop a Taste for Templates 310 RENAE HADDADIN | Feather Your 421 JUDY WOODWORTH | Help with Nest Wide Borders 125 PATRICIA SIMONS | Unlocking Your Creativity (The Key is 311 SUZANNE HYLAND | Fabulous 422 MINDY WYLIE | Longarmed &
Templates)
Freehand Free Motion II Fabulous 302 KIM BRUNNER | Lions and Tigers
312 SUE PATTEN | Free Motion and Templates Oh My!
EdgetoEdge
306 DUSTIN FARRELL | Lost and 313 CLAUDIA PFEIL | Background
Found Rulers and Templates Textures Supreme
407 KIM BRUNNER | Lions and Tigers 228 RICK TAYLOR | Gammill Longarm and Templates Too!
317 GEORGIA STULL | Statler—
Maintenance Creative Studio: Custom Delight
418 PATRICIA SIMONS | Unlocking 319 RICK TAYLOR | Solve Your Tension Your Creativity II— Opening the 318 GEORGIA STULL | It’s The Little Headaches on Longarm Machines Door
Things—Tips & Tidbits to Make You a Better Quilter
403 JEN ALEXANDER | A1 Machine
320 LINDA TAYLOR | Star Gazing
321 LINDA TAYLOR | Linda’s Tricks with Cool Tools
322 LINDA TAYLOR | Is There Life After Stippling? 206 CAROL BLEDSOE | Accurate
105 BOBBIE BERGQUIST | Being
Rotary Cutting
324 SALLY TERRY | Terry Twist Guide Creative with Tsukineko Inks To Asymmetrical Continuous213 LEE FLETCHER | Fun with
203 BOBBIE BERGQUIST | How to
Curve Techniques Blendable and Specialty Threads
Color Quilts After They are Quilted 327 MINDY WYLIE | Swags Galore
204 BOBBIE BERGQUIST | Ink Work 402 MINDY WYLIE | EdgetoEdge and with Celtic Designs
Then Some!
405 BOBBIE BERGQUIST | Instant 404 PATRICIA BARRY | Statler Stitcher Stained Glass Quilts 412 KAREN MCTAVISH | Karen
Building Beautiful Blocks McTavish Trunk Show
406 IRENA BLUHM | Formal Feathers 1
415 SUE PATTEN | A Quilter’s —Basics and Beyond
Journey
408 MYRNA FICKEN | Borders and Sashings
124 MIKE & VICKI SHETTER | Photos 409 MYRNA FICKEN | Hot Curves on Fabric—Create a Wall Hanging Ahead Using Your Photo
414 SUE PATTEN | Free Motion Possibilities: For the TRUE BEGINNER
419 LINDA TAYLOR & CHERI MEINEKE-JOHNSON |Show Quilts— From Start to Finish Beautifully
224 VICKI SHETTER | Photos on Fabric—Photo Editing for Photos and Making Quilt Labels Using Elements or Photoshop
316 VICKI SHETTER | Photos on Fabric—Using Microsoft Word to Layout Photos and Create Labels
2012 Classes
Important class information is found in the headings of each class description. Please read carefully before registering for classes.
Classes held on the following days are numbered as such:
100’s Wednesday, May 9th 200’s Thursday, May 10th 300’s Friday, May 11th 400’s Saturday, May 12th
Class fees include kit/handout fee.
LA = longarm quilting machine
❋ Indicates a new HMQS class.
Thankyou ..'
GAMMILL AND HANDI QUILTER LONGARM
machines provided for all longarm handson classes by Rocky Mountain Electric Quilters, LLC and Handi Quilter, Inc.
A-1 AND INNOVA LONGARM MACHINES
for teachers in lecture/demo classes provided by Jen Alexander – Dealer, A1 Quilting Machines, Inc. and Innova / Teryl Loy Enterprises.
BERNINA, PFAFF AND HUSQVARNA VIKING
sewing machines provided for all handson piecing/sewing classes by Nuttalls’ Sewing Centers, Creative Sewing Gallery and Pfaff, and Floyd & Lizzie’s and Husqvarna Viking.
403 A1 Machine Maintenance
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $35, Maintenance
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
This class is a comprehensive overview on how to maintain your A1 quilting machine. You’ll learn everything from oiling and lubrication, timing, tension and thread breakage to tweaking electronics. You’ll go home with troubleshooting skills and know how to achieve beautiful tension. You’ll also learn lots of tips and tricks to get your machine in top running order and keep it that way! You will go home with a HANDOUT and PICTURES. Remember to bring your questions.
102 Feather FUNdamentals ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $74, includes kit fee of $24, Domestic Quilting
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Have fun and develop feather quilting confidence by learning the rhythm and motion of formal, traditional, and free form feather styles on a domestic machine. HANDSON practice using a “QuiltasYou Go” table runner will build quilting skills for both basic and enhanced feather designs. Select feather designs and experiment with different tools, transfer methods and freehand feathers.
Kit includes three practice quilt sandwiches, table runner fabric, batting, thread, blue marker and instructions.
Student Supply List: Basic sewing supplies.
102 | Feather FUNdamentals | Renae Allen
202 Patriot Dream Tote ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $82, includes $32 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Getting more comfortable with free motion quilting on a domestic machine? Jump to the next level by selecting block and border designs to quilt a Patriot Dream sampler panel. Try a variety of transfer methods, tools and freehand designs on differing blocks of various sizes. Quilted panel may be stitched into Patriot Dream Quilt n’ Tote at home.
Kit includes fabric, batting, marker, safety pins, thread and Patriot Dream Project book.
Student Supply List: Basic sewing supplies.
103 Statler Stitcher Borders With
Style ❋ 2 Hour, Level: Beginning, LECTURE/ DEMO, $40, LA
Wed, May 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Use Statler Stitcher’s Creative Studio to build and stitch perfect borders even if the quilt isn’t perfect! Use the Draw features and the Extra Edit Options to modify a block pattern, making it a repeatable border sashing or corner pattern.
2012 Classses
104 Statler Stitcher Point to Point
Precision ❋ 2 Hour, Level: Beginning, LECTURE/ DEMO, $40, LA
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The Statler Stitcher’s PointtoPoint feature prompts for a series of consecutive points on the quilt and Creative Studio will stitch a perfect line or pattern between each pair of points. See how to use this for Stitchintheditch crosshatching sashing and other areas of the quilt.
404 Statler Stitcher Building
Beautiful Blocks ❋ 2 Hour, Level: Beginning, LECTURE/DEMO, $40, LA
Sat, May 12, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Use Statler Stitcher’s Creative Studio to resize, rotate, reshape, stretch, trim or array patterns for beautiful blocks. Once positioned echo stitch around them or fill the block with a background filler. Learn many applications for converting a pattern
105 Being Creative with Tsukineko
Inks 3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $85, includes $45 kit fee, Painting
Wed, May 9, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
More than 20 techniques are shown using Tsukineko All Purpose Inks and Fabrico Pens. Tsukineko Inks can be used on both natural and manmade textiles with no special fabric preparation. Most techniques can be done in class and you will have an opportunity to try all techniques.
Student Supply List: Wear old clothing. Bring latex gloves if you don’t want to get ink on your hands. (Ink is water based and cleans up with soap & water.) 1 large Ziploc bag to transport block, trash bag, toothpicks, paper towels, can of shaving cream (lightly or unscented if possible, Dollar Store works best) plastic coffee stirrer from fast food restaurant, popsicle stick or similar tool, small paintbrushes, (small straight flat cut work well) or any other tool you would like to experiment with.
203 How to Color Quilts After
They are Quilted ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $68, includes $38 kit fee, Painting
Thurs, May 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Learn to color quilts that have previously been quilted without bleeding through into batting and backing. Great to add colors to existing quilts, repair damage, or just to get the color and shading right.
Kit fee includes: Prequilted block, Tsukineko Ink; worksheet, 6pack of fantastic applicators, and directions for Quilt As You Go Technique. Other colors can be purchased after class @ $3.45 for colors and $4.20 for gold, copper, silver, frost white, champagne mist and black pearl. There are 45 colors available. Full kits of remaining 39 colors can be ordered prior to class at the show special price of $122.
Student Supply List: Wear old clothing. Bring latex gloves if you don’t want to get ink on your hands. (Ink is water based and cleans up with soap & water.) 1 large Ziploc bag to transport block, trash bag, toothpicks, paper towels, can of shaving cream (lightly or unscented if possible, Dollar Store works best) plastic coffee stirrer from fast food restaurant, popsicle stick or similar tool, small paintbrushes, (small straight flat cut work well) or any other tool you would like to experiment with.
204 Ink Work with Celtic
Designs ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $45, includes $15 kit fee, Painting
Thurs, May 10, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Can you trace? Can you color between the lines? Would you like to create 8" 18" blocks that look like they have been pieced, yet are one piece of fabric? Create intricate Celtic Blocks with a piece of fabric and a Fabrico Ink Pen.
Kit fee includes fabric, pattern, Fabrico pen and printed directions. Email Joe@QuiltersTreasure.com with any ques tions regarding this class or class supplies.
Student Supply List: Black Sharpie, pencil, eraser, ruler (no sewing machine required).
2012 Classes
405 Instant Stained Glass Quilts ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $78, includes $38 kit fee, Painting
Sat, May 12, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Intimidated by appliqué? Learn to use leadline; sew and quilt at the same time. No raw edge, registration marks, paper piecing, reverse appliqué, satin stitching or fusible web. Reduce sewing by 50% by sewing and quilting in one simple step. Color your fabric with Tsukineko Inks for the perfect color. Instructions also given on how to modify this technique for additional projects. Fun for beginners to advanced. Picture shown is example only.
Kit fee includes quilt top, leadline, fullsize pattern and instructions, tool kit including Roxanne GlueBasteIt with applicator, Aleene’s Tacky Glue with applicator, Sixth Finger Stiletto & presser.
Fabrico Pens will be provided for use by students in class. If you wish to order additional pens prior to the class you can check www.Quilterstreasure.com to select colors. There you may order a full set of 36 Fabrico Pens with brush and fine tip prior to class at the show special price of $99.50. Please e mail Joe@quilterstreasure.com requesting these ink kits. These will not be available in class unless previously ordered. Contact Bobbie at Joe@quilterstreasure.com, if you have any questions.
Student Supply List: Small scissors, pencil or marking chalk, black Sharpie pen, and ruler.
106 Develop a Taste for
Templates ❋ 1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $11, includes $1 for handout, Design
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Learn a new approach to using templates. Did you know that templates can help improve your piecing if used correctly? Carol will dispel myths that using templates is awkward, inefficient, frustrating, and unnecessary. Learn how From Marti Michell products can make your quilting life so much simpler. See examples of how the right template can make a huge difference in the end result of a project.
107 QuiltCut Owner &
Prospective Buyer Class ❋ 3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $65, includes $25 kit fee, Tools
Wed, May 9, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Whether you have this fabric cutting system or are thinking of purchasing one this class is for you. Carol will begin by teaching you the basics in cutting and move on from there. You will learn how to use this versatile tool to its full potential.
205 SewEZDresdenTableTopper ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $46, includes $6 handout fee, Domestic Piecing
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
This project looks
difficult but is really
very easy. If you’ve
been skeptical about
attempting a Dresden
project this is the per
fect one to start with.
Carol will help you
complete most if not all of this table topper
in class. Pattern purchase required.
206 Accurate Rotary Cutting ❋
1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $11, includes $1 handout fee, Tools
Thurs, May 10, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Accurate cutting is a must in quilting. It is also one of the biggest challenges quilters face. Carol will explore various products and techniques designed to improve your accuracy.
108 What it Takes to Create a
Winner ❋ 2 Hour, Level: Beginner, LECTURE/ DEMO, $41 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Making quilts for shows became a passion for Irena ever since she started entering quilt contests in May of 2005. Join her as she shares her experience in the struggle of making awardwinning pieces. She will try to explain the best way she can, what it takes to make a winner the way she understands it. Find out what is so special about her work that is winning awards in many national and international quilt competitions and has been published in several quilting magazines. Handout fee includes 1 CD with quilt photos.
Student Supply List: Pad and pen.
207 Blocks, Borders & Sashings—
Free Motion Style ❋ 4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $118 includes $18 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Learn how to create perfectly matching designs for blocks, borders and sashings treatments. After Irena breaks down the entire process into some easy to follow steps, the rest will be falling in place, as you will understand the basic design concept. If you are tired of looking for the most appropriate designs to match your quilt theme, just create your own quilting designs on as needed basis. You will learn how to handle different design possibilities so you won’t feel challenged with any quilting job. Handout fee includes laminated workbook & dry erase pen.
Student Supply List: Drawing pad (no lines), pencils, and thread scissors.
2012 Classes
208 Bluhming Background
Designs ❋ 3 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $63 includes $18 kit fee, Design/Drawing
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Say goodbye to any conventional way of using stippling to fill in negative spaces on any quilt. This very unique, easy to execute technique will have your creative juices flowing once you learn this very simple and easy to understand design concept. You would be able to add your own twist to Irena’s ideas. From very dense to allover, this unique technique is very forgiving and the visual effects are very impressive. No planning ahead and no marking are required. Handout fee includes laminated workbook & dry erase pen.
301 Whimsical & Funky Feathers ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $63 includes $18 handout fee, Design
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Students will be presented with wide variety of unique and interesting looking feathers on the cutting edge and learn how to use them in quilting design. The best thing about these feathers is that they are easy to stitch. No backtracking, period. If you are ready to change your quilting style and wish to impress your customers or the judges, it’s time to use these easy to execute feathers. Students will be inspired and encouraged to develop their own style. Handout fee includes laminated workbook & dry erase pen.
Student Supply List: Drawing pad (no lines or grids), pencils, pins, and thread scissors.
406 Formal Feathers 1—Basics &
Beyond ❋ 4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $128 includes $18 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
If you have never tried them, it is about time! You will never regret it, once you understand the concept. The rest is just putting a little effort into trying to get them looking exactly the way you like them. The flexibility in creating quilting designs using these feathers can not be underestimated! Starting with the basics followed by little more advanced designs, you will realize that you can do anything you wish using these feathers on customers or your own quilts once you know how. Handout fee includes laminated workbook & dry erase pen.
302 Lions & Tigers & Templates
Oh My! 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 handout fee, Templates
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginning longarm and midarm machine quilters seem to share one fear; templates. Templates seem scary at first, yet no other tool makes a new quilter’s work look so professional. These tools are fabulous once you know how to effectively use them. Join us and learn how to creatively use an assortment of templates, enabling you to get the maximum bang for your template buck. Your quilts will take on a whole new professionally finished appearance!
303 It’s More Than Just Edge to
Edge! 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Beginning longarm and midarm quilters know that edge to edge work is more than scribbling on a quilt. It’s edge to edge work that teaches you how to become a good machine quilter! Learn how to do a number of different freehand designs and how to set up a pattern correctly.
Student Supply List: Notebook, pencil, colored pencils.
407 Lions & Tigers & Templates
Too! ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 handout fee, Templates
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Kim’s first template class “Lions and Tigers and Templates Oh My!” was such an overwhelming success that both students and show owners begged for a second class with even more cool designs. This is that class! If you’re a beginning level longarm or midarm quilter this class is for you!
Student Supply List: Pencil and notebook.
2012 Classes
109 Fearless Beginnings to
Longarm FreeMotion
Quilting
2 Hour, Level: Beginner, LECTURE/ DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Learn several freemotion designs to be used in borders, sashings, side to side quilting and backgrounds. Pam will break the designs down so there will be very little marking. Discover how to do leaves, hearts, feathers, clamshells, swirls and continuous curve. Experience the dramatic difference in how you approach your next quilt.
Student Supply List: Pencil and clipboard.
110 Fearless Beginnings to
Longarm FreeMotion
Quilting
4 Hour, Level: Beginner, HANDSON, $115 includes $15 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Save time and gain confidence learning the 7 basic shapes that are so important to custom quilting. Learn how to mark a quilt top, several background stitches, freehand leaves, swirls, hearts, feathers, continuous curve, borders and side to side quilting and other great designs.
Kit fee includes premarked baric with batting, backing and workbook, Student supply listpencil, thread clippers, camera welcome.
Student Supply List: Pencil and small thread clippers.
209 Block to Block FreeMotion
Quilting ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Learn Pam’s secrets to custom quilting the fast and beautiful way. Save loads of time and discover that you don’t need all those special tools to do custom designs. Valuable information and designs will be provided in a workbook for each student to keep notes; follow along with Pam as she draws continous designs from block to block using the sashing and borders to make the least amount of stops. This class is for the serious quilter who want to save serious time.
Student Supply List: Pencil and color pencils (optional).
210 Color Crayon Wall Quilt ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $115 includes $15 kit fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Discover how fun and fast this technique is using the Longarm. Learn several background designs and freehand flowers; then watch how these flowers come to life using color crayons. All levels of quilters are invited to this class. Border and sashing designs will be covered as well.
Kit fee includes all supplies needed to make a small wall hanging.
Student Supply List: Small iron and thread clippers.
304 Quilting Inside the Lines ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $115 includes $15 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Discover the easy to follow instructions to customizing and personalizing your quilt tops. Pam will share her convenient, proven and helpful methods of creating outstanding continous designs. Follow along as she draws these designs using an overhead projector and discover the effective approach to unlimited deigns using basic lines as a reference guild.
Kit fee includes prestamped fabric and workbook.
Student Supply List: Colored pencils, pen or pencil, and small thread clippers.
111 Bread and Butter ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $125 includes $25 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m
This class is packed full of everyday real life quilting designs. Dusty shares all his creative shortcuts to help you perfect easy but unique quilting designs that customers can afford, are sure to love and come back for time and time again.
211 Radical Rulers
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Master the art of using Dusty’s line of Radical Rulers. Dusty will work his one of a kind magic and teach you how to use his rulers by breaking all the rules. Who says you have to use them for what they say. Join Dusty in this funfilled class that will lead you though his great methods.
Student Supply List: Drawing pad, pen, camera.
212 Edge to Edge Elegance ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes a $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Mix match and mingle a variety of designs together with nonstop feathers in a gorgeous allover design that dresses up any quilt. Dusty will show you how to string designs together to make that plain Jane quilt sing. You will be dancing with delight and happily quilting.
2012 Classes
305 Echo Puzzle Filler ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
If you’ve ever been puzzled with what to do as a background filler then puzzle no longer. This class is full of
anything goes: flowers, leaves, vines, ferns, and feathers. Use them in conjunction with just the right amount of echo quilting and you’re on your way to wonderful quilting!
Student Supply List: Drawing pad, pen, camera.
306 Lost & Found Rulers &
Templates ❋ 3 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $5 handout fee, Templates
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Ever gone to a show and bought a ruler or template and didn’t know what to do with it when you went home? Well this is the class for you. Bring any two rulers or templates to class and Dusty will show you how to use them. Every ruler or templete has a range of possiblities.
Student Supply List: Drawing pad and pen.
112 Creating Spaces ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $40 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
One of Myrna’s favorite things to do is to transform a quilt by creating new spaces within it, Myrna teaches
you how. You can add to blocks, borders, sashings, etc. Learn to use your imagination and allow it to help you create spaces then discover what to do in these spaces to enhance your quilt! See how easy it is to use tools that you may already own and learn to use whatever you might have on hand! You have permission to have FUN in this class! This is a design class where you get to be very creative.
113 How Do I Quilt This?
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $35, LA
Wed, May 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Has this ever crossed your mind? What am I going to do on this quilt? You’ve seen quilts hanging at shows and said, “I would have never thought of that or what a great way to do this. But you just can’t see it when you are standing in front of the quilt you have to do NOW. Bring your tops that have you stumped and at a loss. Myrna will share her ideas for quilting them. You will be amazed once you see it through different eyes and get your creativity rolling. Bring those tops; she has so many ideas to energize your imagination.
408 Borders and Sashings ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $40 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This is a beginner to intermediate level class. Myrna will teach freemotion designs you can use on everyday customer quilts. Leaves, flowers, and geometric designs without turning your quilt for your side borders. Learn how to use your quilt block for spacing. Cameras welcome but you may not record the class.
Student Supply List: Sketchbook and pencils.
409 Hot Curves Ahead ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $40 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Myrna will teach you beautiful curved crosshatching for borders and blocks background fillers. We will be using Myrna’s 4.5” pinched square, Ronda’s Small Curved Crosshatch Ruler, as well as Deloa’s 6” Boomerang. Available at www.aquilters choice.com before class time or a small sup ply will be available in class.
Student Supply List: Sketchbook and pencils.
213 Fun with Blendable &
Specialty Threads ❋ 1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $15, Tools
Thurs, May 10, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
We will look at the effect that specialty threads have on your quilts and sewing projects. You will see projects with Blendable 12wt. & 30wt. threads as well as Metallic and embroidery threads. We will talk about how machines can be easily set up to run all the specialty threads.
114 Stacked & Stunning Borders
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $38, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Borders frame your quilts. See how you can use most shapes 7 different ways and combine these shapes to create stunning designs. This class is for the math phobic quilter. You will not need to resize patterns again.
115 Cut Glass Plate Quilting ❋
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $38, Design
Wed, May 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Have you noticed the wonderful designs that are on antique cut glass plate? What a wonder they are! Please let me show you how to create these circular designs to add to your quilting idea stash. Tons of tips and ideas given on how to use these designs to create beautiful quilts.
116 Thread Painting
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $38, LA
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Thread painting can give your work that WOW factor. Cathy will show you how to use thread to create line, shape, shadow and depth to your work. We will cover how simple changes in line can make stunning difference in the finished work.
2012 Classes
117 Stunning Thread Art Jewelry
4 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $120 includes $10 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Cathy has been making thread art for over 20 years and everytime she wears one of her necklaces people ask her how she makes them. Here’s your chance to find out all the secrets to creating your own masterpiece.
Kit fee includes base fabric and threads, and closures.
Student Supply List: Scissors.
214 We’ve Only Just Begun!
2 Hour, Level: Beginning, LECTURE/ DEMO, $38, LA
Thurs, May 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
We’ve only just begun—to quilt that is. That big, wonderful longarm machine is sitting in your studio and you’re thinking now what? Have no fear, help is here! Cathy will share her secrets on how to avoid the mistakes she made when she started out years ago on this quilting journey with the longarm. We will start with getting ready to quilt—from pressing, marking and quilting.
215 Divide & Conquer with
Doodling 4 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $120 includes $10 kit fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Do you like to doodle? Cathy does, and these designs will take the ordinary quilt to the extraordinary one by creating stunning background designs. Cathy will show you how to divide up the background and place different designs in the background that will create the desired results.
118 307 Over the Edge Borders
and Binding picture
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $60 includes $5 handout fee, Binding
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
In addition to easily making your binding, you will create great samples to know how to add special touches such as piping, prairie points, and more! Learn to make scallops, waves, and much more for the edges of your quilt. You will learn lots of great tricks and tips to make your borders and bindings the perfect finish to all your quilting projects.
Student Supply List: ½ yard of prequilted fabric, invisible thread, regular sewing thread, fabric marking pen, basic sewing supplies, rotary cutter and mat (there will be a few to share).
119 410 I Can’t Believe It’s Machine Appliqué!
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $70 includes $15 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Wed, May 9, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Enjoy beautiful, instant success in appliqué that will look hand done! If you have ever been overwhelmed by an appliqué project or have always wanted to try but were not quite sure about the handwork—then this class is for you! In this class you will create a beautiful 18” block. You will be so hooked on this technique you will want to create enough for a whole quilt.
Kit fee will include: Appliqué pattern and layout, Tear & Wash Stabilizer, Glue Bottle with Fine Metal Tip, Elmer’s school glue sticks, and wooden cuticle sticks.
Student Supply List: ½ yd or one fat quarter of good muslin or light background fabric, selection of small (fat quarters work well) for floral motif; flowers, stems, leaves, marking pencil or pen (air or water soluble works well, stapler and staple remover, pencil for tracing, sewing thread to match background fabric, clear monofilament thread from Sulky or Superior.
308 Hunter’s Star ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $80 includes $25 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Now imagine a new method that has no angles to measure and no templates! And imagine that this technique gives you perfect corner matching and nice flat sections. Oh yes, imagine fast and easy too! You can stop imagining and participate in this great class.
Kit fee includes: Quiltsmart Hunter’s Star Pattern and Printed Interfacing (makes aprox. 40”x50” top).
Student Supply List: Scissors, regular thread, rotary cutter and mat, cutting ruler, Fabric: One yard EACH of TWO colors (you want a light/dark contrast).
2012 Classes
101 Freezer Paper Foundation
Piecing 4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $75 includes $20 kit fee & $5 handout fee, Domestic Piecing Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
The accuracy and sharp points you get with paper piecing are fantastic but the job of tearing away the paper from the back of your project is not so fantastic. This method using freezer paper and a hot dry iron will eliminate the paper sewn into the seams.
Student Supply List: Rotary cutter and small cutting mat.
217 Hip 2 B Square
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saggy baggy quilt backs? Quilts turning out warped, with dogeared corners? Do you constantly struggle with tucks on the backs of your quilts? If so, this is the class for you! Renae will teach you how to get your frame quilting machine set up properly, quickly, and easily to eliminate some of these issues. She will load a quilt and teach you how to keep it square as you work through it, regardless of what brand of quilting frame you use. Remember—it’s hip to be square!
Student Supply List: Pencil. Cameras welcome.
310 Feather Your Nest
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Have you been a chicken about trying freehand feathers with your frame quilting machine? In this class, you will learn many feather variations and which application works best in different situations. Perhaps you have heard the terminology: formal feathers, longarm feathers, funky feathers, and feathers over the top. We will dissect them all so that you will gain the confidence to fly with your newfound feather freedom!
Student Supply List: Pencil. Cameras welcome.
216 The ABC Basics of Accurate
Piecing ❋ 2 Hour, Level: Beginning, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $15 handout fee, Domestic Piecing Thurs, May 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
This lecture/demo will cover the methods and techniques to produce perfect pieced patchwork. Starting at the beginning—covering fabrics, cutting, sewing, pressing, and piecing. Learn the tricks that make difficult patchwork much easier than it looks. Handout fee includes accurate cutting and piecing book covered in the lecture.
120 Throw Them a CURVE...or Play
It STRAIGHT! ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Learn elegant ways to use your frame quilting machine to stitch nicely spaced, curved crosshatching or traditional crosshatching in any shape or area. Renae will share tips to travel between lines without starting and stopping, while accentuating the motifs. She will demonstrate tools that are helpful and tips that work to make curved crosshatching fast and simple.
Student Supply List: Pencil. Cameras welcome.
309 Show Off!
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Learn numerous background fillers using your frame quilting machine that will show off your motifs. Watch Renae stitch her
favorites, while dis cussing the best places to use them. Distin guish why some background fillers steal the spotlight, and some highlight as they should. Renae will discuss how different threads af fect the way the filler designs look in the fin ished quilt.
Student Supply List: Thread, scissors, pencil.
218 Fabulous Freehand Free
Motion I 4 Hour, Level: Beginner, HANDSON, $100, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Can’t draw a stick figure? No worries! You don’t need to be an artist to create beautiful freehand quilting designs. Suzanne’s background is economics, not art. Her confidence to teach freehand drawing comes from her belief that drawing is a learned skill, just like reading and writing. Breaking designs into basic, recognizable shapes “the same shapes you learned in your childhood” makes freehand quilting a breeze. Walk away from class with confidence to create basic freehand backgrounds, textures, and fabulous feathers on the longarm.
Student Supply List: Pad of drawing paper, mechanical pencil with plenty of lead, pen, 3 colored pencils (any color), fabric marker, two 42” squares – white or black cotton fabric, 42” square cotton batting, and pins to pin quilt top to leaders.
2012 Classes
411 Sew Precise, Sew Fast
Machine Binding 3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $55 includes ($10) kit fee, Binding
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sat, May 12, 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
If you machine quilt, why not machine bind? After years of searching, Suzanne developed a technique to create a tight, binding by machine. Stitching is invisible on the quilt front and perfectly topstitched on the back. Discover this amazing technique to finish your quilts quickly and easily. Learn to create perfectly mitered corners and an easy lumpless finish. Bind a practice quilt in class.
Student Supply List: Small square or rectangular quilt to bind, at least 15” wide/tall. Use prequilted fabric, or create a small quilt by practicing your quilting skills on scrap fabric. Two layers of fabric with batting and a little quilting will work (this is practice), strips of binding fabric 2 1/8” wide. Do not join strips together. (To find # of strips to cut, multiply 2 x (length + width of quilt). Add 24”. Divide by 40” and round up to a whole number. Cut this # of strips.) Basic sewing supplies (scissors to cut threads, seam ripper, bobbins, etc.), small rotary ruler, pins (fineshaft suggested) and one handsewing needle, fabric marker, thread to match your binding fabric.
311 Fabulous Freehand Free Motion II
4 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $105 includes ($5) handout fee , LA
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Expand your freehand quilting beyond the basics using easy, recognizable shapes to create ANY quilting design. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the ability to create beautiful feathers, ferns, and complex, continuous line designs for backgrounds, borders, and blocks using any combination of motifs. For the confident beginner or intermediate freehand quilter.
Student Supply List: Pad of drawing paper, mechanical pencil with plenty of lead, pen, 3 colored pencils (any color), fabric marker, two 42” squares—white or black cotton fabric, 42” square cotton batting, and pins to pin quilt top to leaders.
423 Sometimes You Need to Draw Your Own ❋
2 Hour, Level: Beginner, HANDSON, $30, Design/Drawing
Sat, May 12, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Have you looked in vain for a pattern that doesn’t seem to exist? Do you have a vision of what it should be, but don’t know how to get it onto paper? Or is your brain simply overflowing with creative juices? If you have struggled with these realities—and who hasn’t?—this class is for you. We’ll explore finding motifs, planning backgrounds, converting them into “continuousline” and lining it all up.
121 How Am I Supposed To Quilt
That? 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $60, LA
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
This class is for any quilter that needs direction in designing quilting ideas for unquilted tops. Karen will take the mystery out of designing quilts tops with very simple instruction. Students will bring two unquilted quilt tops to class and you will see how the professionals figure it all out.
Student Supply List: Quilt tops, paper and pencil.
220 Custom Curves Heirloom
Quilting 2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $60, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
This lecture and demo will cover Curved Crosshatching as well as many different quilting styles and techniques that bend the traditional. Watch Karen as she quilts using tricks to achieve that “hand quilted” look.
Student Supply List: Pencil or pen.
221 Quilting for Show
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, LA
Thurs, May 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This lecture is based on competition quilting and what is involved in the judging process. This is a very causal setting where all topics relating to judging, winning awards
and competing are an swered. Take the mystery out of show com petitions and feel confident entering your quilts in judged categories.
412 Karen McTavish Trunk Show
1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $20, Trunk Show
Sat, May 12, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
This onehour trunk show provides the student with a entertaining and delightful trunk show of awardwinning quilts. Karen will come to HMQS with her funfilled stories of how she started quilting, and will take Q & A’s from the audience.
413 Drawing Original Quilting
Designs 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, Design/Drawing
Sat, May 12, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
This is a drawing class. Students will learn how to draw custom original quilting motifs and designs, then place them into a quilt using marking tecniques.
Student Supply List: Drawing paper and pencil.
2012 Classes
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
This class offers new designs concepts for full size blocks, corner stones, and triangles. It includes everything from “featherish” to feather alternatives with the added touch of new spine ideas that can be added and altered to any design you have already mastered. This is a free motion class, where students will learn how to concern those every day quilts in half the time with precision and confidence and no pre marking. We will discuss tension, floating, batting and thread color choices.
222 So Many Sashings…So Little
Time ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
There were just too many designs and not enough time to fit all Sue’s new sashing designs into one class. So this is more, wild sashing alternative designs to help create that cutting edge on your personal and client quilts. There are no repeats from the Stunning Sashing class so if you need even more sashing ideas come explore this high speed free motion class.
312 Free Motion Edge to Edge
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $5 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
NO marking, NO turning of the quilt, and NO pantos needed!!! Come learn how quick and easy those quilts can be done using free motion. This class covers design ideas, threads, batting, texture and movement to create evenly distributed quilting. In addition, students will learn how to create and quilt outside borders without having to turn the quilt!! Students will learn everything from soft flowing feather designs to all out feather alternatives. Imagine being able to complete those customer quilts in half the time, with no math, and designs that interlock and fit perfectly from the first row to the last every time. Come join in this all out edgetoedge, allover, free motion, extravaganza!
414 Free Motion Possibilities For
The True Beginner 2 Hour, Level: Beginner, LECTURE/ DEMO, $50 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
This class is designed to inspire and assist the beginner to become confident with their ability to use free motion design and techniques. This class is packed full of information for beginners. While mastering the skill of free motion, we will discuss threads, tension, how batting affects both, and how to offer your new found skills to your clients. Sue recommends this class to anyone who has never tried free motion quilting. So put away those marking tools, and join us for this free motion block party!!!
415 A Quilter’s Journey
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, Trunk Show
Sat, May 12, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Come and travel through a quilter’s journey as Sue Patten shares her quilting experiences through hilarious stories while she shares a full array of quilts. The journey starts with a few of her hand quilted pieces and takes you through time until she reveals her many award winning Thread Art Quilts of all sizes. Sue Patten started her journey 17 years ago and has gone from self taught, closet hand quilter to award winning, internationally acclaimed Longarm Quilter, Instructor, Designer and Author. She has traveled around the world teaching the art of longarm quilting, a journey that has taken her to Germany, France, England and throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her trunk show offers a variety of quilting styles as she makes her way through the years and explores all aspects offered in the Quilt Industry. If you have ever wondered how the journey begins and where it takes you when you least expect it ... Then come out and enjoy one quilter’s hilarious journey to success.
123 Gambling with Echoes ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $125 includes $15 kit fee & $10 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Gambling with echoes having a simple quilting design—you will be taught to make an opulent, spectacular looking motif out of it! Just by echoing with different spaces, fillings and lines, curved or straight, narrowed or wide opened, rolling or coltish—there is no limitation! Opulent motifs will be developed and stitched! Have fun and play with echoes!
Kit fee includes fabric, batting and thread.
223 Painting with Thread ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50 includes $10 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
How to draw motifs by structures? We will develop a landscape just with quilting structures. For example, beach, water, houses, trees and leaves, flowers and grass are easy to “draw” with the Longarm machine! Being creative playing with thread!!
Student Supply List: Notebook, pen and camera.
2012 Classes
313 Background Textures
Supreme ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $60 includes $10 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
We’ll have a great time experimenting stepbystep with simple diagonal feather techniques, then we’ll combine those feathers with bold, graphic motifs to create our intricate block designs. Claudia will teach students how to build new and original designs upon their opulent feathers (Pfun Pfeiling Pfeathers). This is a challenging and fun class!
314 416 Free Motion Quilting on the
Domestic Machine
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $70 includes $10 kit fee, Domestic Quilting
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Learn the basics and more as Paula walks you through batting choices, the different types of needles and threads, how to pin baste correctly, how to choose stencils, quilting, and moving those BIG quilts through a standardsize home sewing machine.
Student Supply List: Safety pins, watersoluble marker, scissors, and favorite sewing supplies.
315 417 Trapunto
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $70 includes $10 kit fee, Domestic Quilting
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sat, May 12, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Using techniques that were pioneered by Hari Walner, Paula teaches you how to easily attain that beautiful “raised look” without timeconsuming stuffing or cutting holes in the back of your work on the sewing machine.
Student Supply List: Bluntnose scissors (part number 7303A), safety pins, water soluble marker, regular scissors, and favorite sewing supplies.
124 Photos On Fabric—Create a Wall Hanging Using Your Photo ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $68 includes $13 kit fee, Photos on Fabric
Wed, May 9, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Learn to select photos for transfer, select complimentary fabrics and design a layout along with simple editing techniques.
We’ll give you great tips for printing on fabric to get the most out of your photos. Explore construction techniques and embellishment ideas to personalize your photos. In class we will transfer two 5” x 7” photos for each student onto inkjet printable fabric and we will design and prepare a wall hanging layout using one photo.
224 Photos On Fabric—Photo Editing for Photos & Making Quilt Labels, Using Elements or Photoshop ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, Photos on Fabric
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Learn how to transfer photos to fabric and enhance photos using Adobe Photo Shop or Adobe Elements. We will touch on basic photo editing, simple restoration, special effects, and layouts. Explore making labels using Adobe photo editing software.
316 Photos On Fabric—Using
Microsoft Word to Layout
Photos & Create Labels ❋
1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $25, Photos on Fabric
Fri, May 11, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Learn how to bring your photos into your computer and position them on a page for printing using Microsoft Word. Explore making labels using word adding photos, drawings and clip art. Also explore adding a key or a legend to the back of your photo quilts to document a person, place or event or just tell a story.
2012 Classes
125 Unlocking Your Creativity
(The Key is Templates) 2 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $20, Design /Drawing
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Would you like to create a design that is unique to YOU? Join Patricia as she shows you how to move templates to create stunning designs that look complicated but are in reality the simplest of shapes. These techniques can be used by all quilters and crafters. Questions? Email patricia@quil tersrule.com.
Student Supply List: Pen and paper.
Student Supply List: 1 yd print background, 1/3 yd each of 2 coordinating prints for center 226 | A Soldier’s Star | Deonn Stott star. Additional Supplies/Cut List sent with registration.
226 A Soldier’s Star ❋
413 Unlocking Your Creativity II
(Opening The Door) 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $20, Design/Drawing
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
You’ve got a design for the blocks, but oh those borders and sashes! Let Patricia show you how to take simple shapes to create stunning designs. Corners, Centers and everything inbetween. Best if you have taken Patricia’s first class, but not necessary. Techniques usable by all quilters and crafters. Questions? Email patricia@quil tersrule.com.
126 Star Medallion Tree Skirt ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $48 includes $18 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Wed, May 9, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
This beautiful quilted tree skirt will be a lasting addition for your holiday decor. Complete your quilt top in class with some great precision/speed piecing tips and tools. Class includes a binding demonstration on oddangle and inside/outside corners, plus a discussion of holiday motifs and ideas for quilting on your longarm or home machine.
Kit fee includes pattern and QuiltinaDay’s Triangle SquareUp ruler.
225 Carpenter’s Star ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $60 includes $20 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Thurs, May 10, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
This stunning, simple quilt is made starring Halfsquare Triangle units; no “Y seams! Learn some great (possibly lifechanging) tips and tools for precision/speed piecing. Class includes a demonstration on piecing precise mitered borders and a discussion of ideas for quilting and finishing your beautiful quilt. Fabric Supplies/Cut List will be sent will registration.
Kit fee includes pattern and QuiltinaDay’s Triangle SquareUp ruler.
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $48 includes $8 kit fee, Domestic Piecing
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
*STUDENT MACHINES PROVIDED BY SPONSOR
Symbolic of Deonn’s son serving with his military unit in Afghanistan, this quilt design was a winner in AccuQuilt’s 2011 Barn Quilt Design contest. AccuQuilt will provide Go! Cutters and dies for the class to quickly, accurately cut out quilt tops leaving time to sew them together. As always, you’ll learn some fun, fantastic tips and tricks. Class will end with a discussion of patriotic motifs and quilting ideas to finish the quilt (64” x 64”). Fabric Supply/Cut List sent with registration, or contact instructor ( deonn@quiltscapesquilting.com) to pre order a Kit (approx. $60) supplied by SewBatik.
Kit fee includes the pattern.
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2012 Classes
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9 , 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
In Creative Studio, we can quilt borders out in so many different ways! With Georgia’s method, you mark your boundaries and have a seat while you set up the patterns. You won’t need to get up again till you’re ready to push quilt. It is a quick, very accurate way to put in one or multiple borders. Her teaching style is very practical and downtoearth.
227 Statler—Creative Studio
Endless Edge to Edge ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 kit fee, LA
Thurs, May 10 , 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Edge to edge—let me count the ways I love you! We all know that E2E is our bread and butter. The good news is, Creative Studio provides many different methods of doing edgetoedge. We can use E2E mode or repeat patterns mode and we can concatenate or alternate and we can add in trims. Join Georgia for a review of methods and she’s sure you will add options to your repertoire!
317 Statler—Creative Studio:
Custom Delight 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11 , 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Creative Studio makes custom work a delight! This class will highlight awesome features such as ECHO, TRIM, CONVERT and FILL, and answer questions such as, “Should I use FILL or TRIM?” Georgia will also share methods such as recycling that make custom work easier and more efficient. Join her as she shares ideas that you can use the very next time you step up to your Statler.
318 It’s The Things—Tips &
Tidbits To Make You a Better
Quilter
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $43 includes $3 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 10:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m.
It’s The Little Things! Nothing makes Georgia’s day like a great quilting tip! This class is two hours filled with tips for longarm quilters. Georgia has done extensive research and will provide so many nuggets of information you will be amazed! Best part? We will have lots of fun along the way with laughs and prizes. You won’t even have to take notes, because all of the information will be in the detailed handout.
128 Freehand Quilting for
Beginners 4 Hour, Level: Beginner, HANDSON, $145 includes $25 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Perfect for beginners! In this awesome class you will work on a petite heirloom sampler with a variety of basic meandering and stippling techniques. Linda shows you how to fill up the sashing with easy basic designs and gives you a good basic understanding of how to do a feathered medallion. Handout includes: Doodles to Dollars Book, Drawing Pad, Pen, Scissors, Prepared quilt and thread.
129 Refining Technical Skills
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $10 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
A wellrounded longarm quilter knows as much about the technical skills as he/she knows about freehand quilting. Do not limit your abilities by neglecting these skills. By necessity, Linda is an efficiency expert on how to work a custom quilt. She will show you how to quilt the border designs without marking the quilt, how to stitch in the ditch, do 1/4” outlining, quilt diagonal lines, stitch around curves and applique, and rotate the quilt. Be sure of your skills to maintain the integrity of the piecing, whether you use patterns or do mostly freehand quilting. She will also cover some of the standards of quilting show quilts.
Kit fee includes DVD or book or handout.
320 | Star Gazing | Linda V. Taylor
320 Star Gazing ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $145 includes $25 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Best idea class ever according to students! This is a unique freehand class with lots of new ideas on how to quilt areas on your quilt of any shape and size. And what better way to practice than to quilt a variety of pieced stars. Come away from class with fresh quilting ideas and a head full of stars.
Kit fee includes: Star DVD, drawing pad, pen, scissors, prepared quilt and thread.
2012 Classes
321 Linda’s Tricks with Cool Tools
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $10 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
We all have tricky areas on the quilt that seem more difficult to master. There are really cool tools that will not just hang on your wall and look pretty, but are actually vital to your longarm quilting. Here’s your chance to give them a try and see how and where these tools can be your best friend. Each tool is also multifunctional, which makes it not only vital, but also economical. Handout fee includes DVD or book and class handout.
322 Is There Life After Stippling?
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $55 includes $10 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Once you have mastered the basic freehand designs, it’s time to expand your technique library. Getting bored with your meandering techniques? Then this is the demo/handson class for you. Linda shows you many more stippling and meandering patterns, a peacock fern medallion, additional freehand sashing ideas, and sensational new ideas from some of Linda’s latest show quilts! If she can do it, you can do it! Handout fee includes DVD or book and class handout.
419 Show Quilts—From Start To
Finish Beautifully 4 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $90, LA
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Linda and Cheri are willing and eager to share their secrets about the quilting process they go through to achieve awardwinning results. Everyone is invited! This is way more than a “trunk show.” Cheri will show all about the design process she goes through to create the quilt tops. She will demonstrate her appliqué methods and show how she squares up the quilts after they have been blocked. She will also show you how she binds the quilts and share with you what tidbits she has learned about what the judges are really looking for in quilt shows. Then Linda will share her expertise as a longarm professional. How does she go about quilting these phenomenal appliquéd quilt tops? Where does she start and when does she know it’s finished? How does she choose the kind of thread and the colors of thread to use? What technical skills are involved when doing a quilt you want to enter into a quilt show? Linda will be quilting and demonstrating these techniques in class on a brand new wallhanging designed by Cheri. You won’t want to miss this class. You will come away inspired as a longarm quilter and chomping at the bit to get to work! Door prizes galore as usual. See you there!
Student Supply List: Paper and pencil for notes.
228 Gammill Quilting Machine
Maintenance 4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $100, Maintenance
Thurs, May 10, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Rick helps you understand some of the common causes of poor tension or thread breakage. This understanding will ensure smooth operation of the longarm machine and solve any problems you may be having with tension. The back of your quilts should look just as good as the front. This class will help you understand how to maintain a well balanced, finely tuned quilting machine that will always make a great stitch and cover many of the areas for you to check and adjust on your Gammill machine. Questions are welcome. You won’t want to miss this class with Rick! Come away with renewed confidence in your ability to work with your machine to make your dreams come true. Yes, there will be door prizes! PLEASE NOTE: If you take this class, please do NOT sign up for “Solve Your Tension Headaches!”
319 Solve Your Tension Headaches
on Longarm Machines 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $50, Maintenance
Fri, May 11, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Understanding some of the common causes of poor tension or thread breakage will ensure smooth operation of the longarm machine and solve your problems with tension. Rick is able to impart his experiencebased knowledge to students with his easy going and easy to understand manner. The back of your quilts should look just as good as the front. You won’t want to miss this class with Rick! Come away with renewed confidence in your ability to work with your machine to make your dreams come true. Yes, there will be door prizes!
130 Walking Borders, Sashings &
Blocks With Asymmetrical
Stencils & Templates
4 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $125 includes $10 kit fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Quick nomark technique for endless forgiving designs. Forget resizing, transferring, tracing, or marking. Use this easy technique to create you own freemotion borders/sashings/meanders by traveling on each side of spines or seams as you come to them. Set up starts/stops, spines, corner turns, edgetoedge. New to the front of the machine? This effortless technique is for you. Have a rigorous schedule? This method will put fun and freedom back into your quilting.
Kit fee includes study guide and patterns.
Student Supply List: 2 42” x 72” muslin pieces exact, pins, fabric marker, thread scissors, 12” ruler, drawing pad, favorite drawing pencil, eraser.
2012 Classes
131 Instant Fills & Meanders With
“Wiggle” Room 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Wed, May 9, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Stitch fresh, forgiving designs using “Wiggle Room.” Learn to outline fill around trapunto, appliqué and embroidery without marking. Learn consistent spacing and sizing. Sally will discuss threads, needles, machine speeds and batting. Learn spacing and practice making quick adjustments completely filling awkward areas along with traveling block to block. Learn a double back method reducing time consuming starts and stops.
Student Supply List: Drawing pad, favorite pencil, and eraser.
229 Six Step System to Building
Your Professional Quilting
Business ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Have you been so wrapped up in your quilting profession that you have been avoiding marketing your quilting business even though you know you should because serious competition is not going away? This class delivers simple, clever, inexpensive ways to set your business apart from your competitors.
323 Creating Your Online
Presence ❋ 2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, LA
Fri, May 11, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Learn the magnets to attract customers, from minisites that take a few hours to indepth sites. Focusing on your needs from marketing services/products to attracting new customers, this class helps achieve your goal. Learn the attraction of social networking options, discuss SEO, navigation and more. From selling products and services, or informational blogs, this class will give you a do’s and don’ts checklist of design, features, templates, web hosts and more. Extensive study guide and resources.
324 Terry Twist, Guide To
Asymmetrical Continuous
Curve Techniques
4 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $125 includes $10 kit fee, LA
Fri, May 11 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You’ll love how this technique delivers visual perfection when the quilting is less than perfect, no more ripping out. Get expanded pattern combinations of block, border, sashing designs for the entire quilt top, all looking different, yet all stitched using the same TT shape.
Kit fee includes study guide and patterns.
Student Supply List: 2 42” x 72” muslin pieces exact, pins, fabric marker, thread scissors, 12” ruler, drawing pad, favorite drawing pencil, eraser.
132 Mystical Feathers ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, LA
Wed, May 9, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
We will explore all feather forms including traditional, nontraditional, and stylized. We will then discover how to use these styles in allovers, and any shapes we run into in our client quilts. This class is exclusively dedicated to feather work.
Student Supply List: Two 8 ½” x 11” newsprint pads and pens.
133 Mystical Allovers ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, LA
Wed, May 9, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
This class will focus on Jamie’s edgetoedge/allover designs from Mystical Cottontracks 1 & 2. Swirls, feathers, florals and as much as we can pack into 2 hours!
Student Supply List: Two 8 ½” x 11” newsprint pads and pens.
230 Mystical Florals ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45, LA
Thurs, May 10, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Mystical Florals covers many florals and leaves to make your quilt take root in creativity. You will learn a myriad of flower designs which will be applied to edgetoedge and it’s many variations.
Student Supply List: Two 8 ½” x 11” newsprint pads and pens.
231 Mystical Cottontracks I ❋
3 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $100, LA
Thurs, May 10, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
In this class we are going to hit the Cotton Quilting Freehand Style. Jamie will cover his original allover designs for edge to edge, including his trademark, Flurry of Angels (and its variations), Hearts Take Flight, Scrollwork, New Woodcut Feathers, and many others. We will then take these designs to the highend custom quilting level with related block and sash designs. Class fee includes quilt kit for this handson class.
Student Supply List: Two 8 ½” x 11” newsprint pads and pens.
325 Pattern Designing ❋
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $45, includes $5 handout fee, Design/Drawing
Fri, May 11, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
This award winning quilter will show you how to design your own quilting patterns, whole cloth or original pieced or appliquéd quilt. She’ll take you through all the steps to help you design original quilting patterns and quilts.
2012 Classes
326 Designing Medallion Quilts ❋
1 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $30, includes $5 handout fee, Design/ Drawing
Fri, May 11, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This international award winning quilter, author, and teacher will demonstrate how to design a medallion quilting pattern and tell you about ways that she is able to enlarge her patterns, and some information about how she quilts them.
Student Supply List: A notebook and pens/pencils to draw along with Judy on several of the demonstrations.
420 | The Art of Good Backfill | Judy Woodworth
420 The Art of Good Backfill ❋
4 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $150 includes $20 kit fee & $5 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
This will be both a lecture on the elements of good design, and a HANDSON class with quilting many different types of backfill, that have been in many of Judy’s award winning quilts. You’ll get to try as many as Judy can pack into this class. Backfill can make or break a quilt. Come join the fun.
Kit fee includes quilt top, backing, batting, and thread. Handout fee includes detailed handout.
Student Supply List: Small scissors
421 Help with Wide Borders ❋
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, LECTURE/ DEMO, $50, includes $5 handout fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Do you dread those huge borders and you can’t decide how to handle them? Judy will teach you how to break it down into chunks to create a border that is in harmony with the whole quilt. We’ll cover using a few gadgets that will help the process be a little easier.
232 TNT ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $45 includes $5 handout fee, Design/ Drawing
Thurs, May 10, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Do you love templates? You couldn’t resist buying them, but got home and didn’t know what to do with them? Let Mindy guide you through using acrylic templates to enhance your quilting skills. Circles, ovals, hearts and many more will create numerous designs. Master your templates! This drawing class will simulate using your hopping foot around the template and will teach you how to plan your designs to be stitched on your quilts.
233 Bodacious Borders ❋
2 Hour, Level: All, HANDSON, $45 includes $5 handout fee, Design
Thurs, May 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Do borders have you bogged down? Can’t keep ‘em in line? Tired of the same old border designs? Then this is the class for you! Using free motion quilting, templates and stencils, we’ll learn mark and nomark methods and use registration lines. We’ll learn how to keep the borders straight, deal with fullness, choose the best designs and learn when and how to turn the quilt.
327 Swags Galore
2 Hour, Level: Intermediate, HANDSON, $45 includes handout fee, Design
Fri, May 11, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Do you drool over gorgeous swag border designs but can’t figure out how to make them? In this class we’ll use acrylic circles ovals and swag tools to accomplish just that! We’ll also embellish them with freehand quilting too! We’ll learn when one tool is is more appropriate than another, how to make our design turn the corner and ways to make them fit your space perfectly with no math! Create your own design to make quilts totally unique and stunning.
422 Longarmed & Fabulous
2 Hour, Level: All, LECTURE/DEMO, $40, LA
Sat, May 12, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This class is for confident beginners who are ready to begin custom quilting. In this class, you will learn how to stabilize the quilt, master stitchintheditch and quarter inch outline, conquer continuous curve, learn how and when to turn a quilt, and sashay thru setting in motifs using the following tools and methods: Chalk, markers, paper, stencils and templates. We’ll also tickle your fancy with some faux trapunto and background fillers.
402 Edge to Edge & Then Some
3 hours, Level: Beginner, HANDSON, $90 includes $10 kit fee, LA
Sat, May 12, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
In this class we’ll learn that edgetoedge quilting designs are more than just meandering! This class will inspire beginners and longtime machine quilters to move away from pantographs and use freemotion techniques. We’ll learn many different freehand designs, and where and when to use them. We’ll also discuss tension and how thread and batting choices affect the quilting. So turn off those laser lights, put away the paper rolls and let your creativity flow!
Teaching Staff
The Teaching Staff for HMQS 2012 is incredible! They are experts in all areas of quilting, embroidery and sewing. Each of these talented instructors enhances the education experience. We appreciate their skills and professionalism, and their continued support of HMQS.
Bountiful, UT
Jen is an awardwinning quilter who has been professionally machine quilting since 2004. She started teaching machine quilting and
machine mainte nance in 2006 to quilters of all skill levels. Jen began selling A1 Quilting Machines in 2007. She loves what she does because of the creativity and the people she gets to work with. Jen lives in Utah with her husband, JC, and their three children, ages 717 years.
Brigham City, UT
Renae has been teaching machine quilting since 1999, and is well known for her Skillbuilder products. A Family and Consumer Science
graduate, Renae’s business, RGA Design, evolved from her pas sion for teaching and love of fabric, sewing and quilting. Renae has taught and pre sented around the country, helping new comers and old timers develop machine quilting skills. Her products are sold inter nationally and she designed the Patriot Dream fabric line for Henry Glass.
Racine, WI
Pat is a professional quilter and loves to share her knowledge with others. She teaches privately, regionally, and nationally and has been a guest quilt
artist on Linda Tay lor’s “The Quilting School.” Pat also writes books, articles and quilting manuals. She de signed the Sweet Set line of quilting ma chine templates for Creative Grids. You will see her at most major quilt