Class #301 - Intellistitch/Intelliquilter Maintenance
Brian Hicks    $30      8:00A-10:00A
Computerized-IntelliQuilter   Lecture/Demo
This class is designed for owners of IntelliStitch equipped machines.  Trouble shooting, adjustment procedures, identification of problems, and correction.  Advance techniques of adjusting and repairs common to the machine.  IntelliQuilter troubleshooting also covered in class.

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Class #302 - Bread & Butter Quilting
Elaine Huffman    $42      8:00A-10:00A
All Skill Levels    Lecture/Demo
Increase your profit on custom jobs by working from the front of the machine!  Elaine will teach you how to give a custom look quickly and without a lot of marking or stops and starts!  Elaine will share flexible designs for borders, blocks, triangles, sashing and cornerstones, a well as tricks for Flying Geese and Lemoyne Star blocks.  These patterns are easy to learn so you can start making more money today!  The book Bread & Butter Quilting is recommended for this class but not required.  Students should bring paper and pencil for drawing.

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Class #303 - Flaunting the Feathers
Laura Lee Fritz    $42      8:00A-10:00A
All Skill Levels    Lecture/Demo
Step away from the struggle (or success) of making the Perfect Plume, just long enough to learn to see the feather as a format for design innovation rather than an end point.  Watch Laura quilt and lead you through dozens of whimsical and snappy "feathers" as you've never seen before, and see how she integrates them with pictorial ideas.  Laura will be teaching from her new book  "Creative Classics." Bring your copy to class and work along with Laura or purchase your copy before or after class. Also bring a clip board and paper for easier drawing and note taking.

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Class #304 - Triangle Tango
Pam Clarke     $47    8:00A-10:00A
All skill levels      Lecture/Demo
Half square triangles and Flying Geese will be the topic of discussion in this class. Pam Clarke will share with you her fun simple and ever so beautiful designs. Discover the secrets to free-motion continuous designs for set in triangles, flying geese and different shape blocks and borders. Some simple Designs with Lines technique will be covered along with how to use the registration lines to keep spacing even with very little marking. Discover how to work with flying geese in a continuous motion filling up the triangle and background with the least amount of stops. Leave class with loads of ideas and designs that are traditional along with fun and easy. For easier note taking and sketching bring a clipboard and colored pencils or pens, a pencil, a small sharpener and eraser. Cameras are welcome!

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Class #305 - Flowers, Flowers Everywhere
Grace Anderson    $42      8:00A-10:00A
All skill levels     Lecture/Demo
Flowers, Flowers Everywhere - Demo/Lecture  Learn the secrets of quilting designs that are so elaborate, so beautiful and oh so easy!  This class will show you how to create and combine fanciful, graceful fantasy flowers, leaves, vines, feathers, and swirley curlies into beautiful artistic quilting in a freeform create-as-you-go method.  This class will be challenging, motivating, and inspirational for any quilter with some free hand experience.  Cameras are welcome! Bring a clip board, paper, pencil, eraser for easier note taking and sketching.  There will be lots of prizes, including class drawing sample and stitched sample quilt.  An optional design workbook will be available for purchase at the end of class.

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Class #306 - Basics of Longarm Quilting and Maintenance
Dave Hudson    $45      8:00A-11:00A
All Skill Levels     Lecture
To start your quilting adventure, there will be tips on preparing your table, modifying your machine, and how to start quilting as a business.  Checking in a quilt, what to charge, and extras you can do to increase your business will also be covered.  Preparing the quilt, pinning in quilts, pattern quilting, and outlining will be covered.  We will identify and explain all the features and capabilities of your longarm, mid-arm, and short-arm.  Maintenance of your machine will be covered.  We will go through timing as well as adjusting the tensions.  I have an actual machine head made to allow you to adjust the timing and tension.  You will have the confidence to take care of your machine yourself.  I will also cover several of the tools I use in my business.

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Class #307 - Making the Most of Your Anne Bright Designs
Anne Bright     $35     8:00A-10:00A 
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Drawing
 Learn how to get more out of your Anne Bright books and CD's from Anne herself! Did you know that you can create your own blocks, borders and even pantographs? You will be surprised how easy and fun it is to be the designer! We will be sharing ideas for getting the designs onto your quilts as well. This second hour of this class will be spent in the quilt show. This will refresh and reinforce what you have learned in the class.

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Class #308 - Edge to Edge Quilting - Statler Style
Page Johnson     $30    8:00A - 10:00A
Computerized-Statler     Lecture/Demo
The Statler computerized quilting system has made it easy to quilt over all (edge to edge) designs with confidence. Enhance each quilt by choosing the right quilting design then re-sizing and re-configuring it for a variety of effects. Using both Precision Stitch and Creative Studio software, Page will cover design choice, scale, spacing, placement, and sizing. She will also demonstrate how to make your quilt top lay flat, straight and square. Amaze your clients with our quilting and keep them coming back for more – making your quilting a profitable adventure! This class is a MUST for all Statler owners both new and experienced.

This class is nearly full! Only a few spaces remain!

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Class #309 - Baker's Dozen
Kay Oft     $30     8:00A-10:00A
 All Skill Levels     Lecture
 Exploring the design possibilities and making the most of the basic patterns that come with your computerized quilting machine while developing a library of solutions for common piecing elements including pieced borders, borders & corners, sashings and cornerstones, sampler quilt blocks, etc. Bring those problem quilt tops for the group brainstorm session at the close of class. (Statler designs referenced but ALL quilters welcome because many design solutions apply to all longarmers regardless of the method of execution.)

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Class #310 - Profitable Freehand Machine Quilting
Megan Best    $43      8:00A-10:00A
All Skill Levels     Lecture
I will show you how to maximize your profits with freehand quilting that looks custom.  I will have hundreds of slides to show of actual customers quilts.  Special attention will be given to continuity in the quilting and how to proceed quickly with the quilting process.  Bring your paper/pencil/clipboard.

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Class #311 - Flower Power
Diana Phillips    $44    10:30A-12:30P
All skill levels    Lecture/Demo
Come learn this wonderful technique that is fast, forgiving, endlessly adaptable and will WOW your clients with the results. There will be samples and door prizes to complete the fun and learning.

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Class #312 - 101 Freehand Feathers
Lisa Coker    $47      10:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels        Lecture/Demo
 Well, maybe not 101, but there are too many to count.  Learn how to create your own feather.  Lisa will demonstrate the basic feathers and then work over to the fun, funky, and unique whimsical feathers.  These are not your traditional feathers.  After Lisa shows you how, you will be creating your own freehand feather designs.  If it's not moving, feather it.  You will pencil quilt along with Lisa and one lucky student will take home the class sampler and everyone takes home Lisa's designs.  Bring a clipboard, paper and pencils for
easier note taking and sketching!

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Class #313 - Longarm Effortless Appliqué
Pam Clarke    $47    10:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Demo
Learn four show-stopping technique's to jazz up your machine quilting. Learn a fast trapunto technique with mock appliqué, blank-stitch, stain glass and raggy appliqué', all done on the machine. Several background stitches along with several folk type flower designs will be covered. Pam Clarke will demonstrate using the longarm machine in designing several flowers and leaves that will be stitched onto a muslin sample then share with you a background design to compliment each appliqué' sample. This is so easy that any level of quilter whether you have been machine quilting for 30 minutes or several years will find this an enjoyable experience. For easier note taking and sketching bring a clipboard and colored pencils or pens, a pencil, a small sharpener and eraser. Cameras are welcome!

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Class #314 - Progressive Feathers
DeLoa Jones    $42      10:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels    Lecture/Demo
I call this class progressive feathers because that is exactly what we will do.  We will start with the simple basics of a free motion feather then progress to how to use it.  You will learn how to stitch a border without turning the quilt, go around corners, use feathers in swags, hearts, wreaths, and crosses.   I will show you how to use these in your quilts so that you will no longer need stencils to produce beautiful feathers.

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Class #315 - The Small and Simple Things
Anne Bright     $33     10:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Drawing
 Warm up your drawing skills! We're going to learn some small, very versatile designs! Anne's Point-to-Point designs work beautifully for sashings, posts, small borders and even amazing when added to your edge-to-edge designs. Class handouts include practice sheets plastic cover and pen so that you can practice your new designs over and over again! You will go home with over 60 designs! A great follow-up to "Basic Drawing".

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Class #316 - Sharpen your Statler Skills with the "Piece O'Grid"
Page Johnson    $30    10:30A-12:30P
Computerized-Statler      Lecture/Demo
The Statler Stitcher has taken your quilting to a whole new level, would you like to go even higher? Have you found that you struggle to fit these beautiful designs into slightly askew blocks and borders? Do you want to fill the block all the way to the edge, not just to within 1/4 Inch? this product specific class will use the youngest member of the PatternGrid Family, the "Piece O'Grid" (available from Colorado Quilting Company, LLC) to fine tune your custom work. Page will demonstrate creative techniques that will improve your accuracy, create freehand flow, and combine designs elements. All the while she will apply the laws of balance, density and scale. The accuracy you can achieve will surprise and amaze you!

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Class #317 - Freehand Freedom
Mary Nordeng    $33    1:00P-3:00P
All skill levels    Lecture/Drawing
Fretting finally finishing? Flip it, flop it, finesse it, finangle it, but foremost, finish it! Join Mary as she shares her fearless freehand techniques for an overabundance of borders, sashings, blocks, and backgrounds, all with little, or no marking. Leave class with the confidence to tackle that pile of quilt tops screaming to be finished. Discover fun, fearless, freehand finishing! This is a drawing class so bring a notebook, sketchbook or paper and a pencil.

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Class #318 - Needles - Getting To The Point
Nancy Goldsworthy     $30     10:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels     Lecture
Tired of looking at all those packages of sewing machine needles and wondering what the difference is? Join Nancy for an in depth look at the most important (and most often overlooked) part on your sewing machine. From top stitching to embroidery, denim to ball points, Nancy will be covering the needles currently being used in today's domestic sewing machines. Great handouts and lots of door prizes.

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Class #319 - Gammill Longarm Maintenance
Ron Paul    $62    9:30A-12:30P
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Demo
 Explore inside your quilting machine with close-up photography to discover how it really works. You will go home with an understanding of how easy it is to make simple adjustments including 4 part timing and 5 part tension including a variety of top thread paths. We will cover everything from daily maintenance to yearly tune-ups to ensure your machine remains your happy quilting partner. There will be lots of time for questions and answers with an instructor with 19 years experience with all quilting machine brands.

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Class #320 - Using Templates Effectively
Cindy Roth    $42        1:00P-3:00P
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Demo
Have you purchased rulers or templates? Do you know how to use them? Do you know that you can use most templates many different ways? I will show you the tips and tricks on how to use the templates and rulers that you have – or are thinking of purchasing. Learn how to do “no measure” Baptist Fan and Clamshells, both as borders and as all over patterns; Crosshatching the easy way; several Feathered Wreath designs and border options. Wipe the dust off the templates you have and use them effectively and creatively in your quilting.

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Class #321 - Just Leaf It! Freehand Leaves for
                         Borders and Setting Blocks
Kim Stotsenberg    $42    1:00P-3:00P
All skill levels    Lecture/Demo
Have you feathered everything that you can think of to the point that you’re doing feathers in your sleep? This class offers a creative alternative. What you can feather you can leaf. We will start with learning how to make the basic leaf shape. Kim will show you how to do several borders & block treatments from simple to complex.

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Class #322 - Custom Heirloom Machine Quilting
Karen McTavish     $42     1:00P-3:00P
All Skill Levels     Lecture/Demo
This class is devoted to the quilter who quilts on a machine, who wants to advance their skill level and move into Heirloom machine quilting. You will learn how to achieve the "hand-quilted" looking traditional feathers. This class will cover how to use stencils, how to achieve original quilting designs, and how to quilt them. If you are ready to start using stencils, this class will answer all your questions. Beginner Trapunto, shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto are covered in this class.

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Class #323 - Painless Customer Service
Elaine Huffman    $32      1:00P-3:00P
All Skill Levels     Lecture
Customer service is the heart of your business.  Where would we be without our customers?  Yet some of our customers and their quilts present us with challenges.  This class is all about how to avoid customer service issues through good communication, time management and organizational skills.  Elaine will walk you through consulting with the customer, how to create a design book and shop samples.  she will share with you the importance of organization and how to arrive at a system that works for you.  She will give real life examples and how to handle them.  And Elaine will cover how to handle problem quilts and how to handle mistakes that happen while quilting.

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Class #324 - Terry Twist and a Splash of Inspiration
Sally Terry     $30     1:00P-3:00P
All Skill Levels      Lecture/Drawing
Tired of the same old wobbly look? Want to add a little bling to your quilting with out the expense of time? Discover the most forgiving versatile continuous-line quilting design that creates excitement with incredibly professional results, no matter how long you have been quilting. Because this technique is based on an asymmetrical design you can dismiss painful perfection. Learn how to avoid exacting moves. The secret is in the shape as it effortlessly creates an undulating ribbon with incredible "nested" beauty. Quick, easy and simple. Get instructions on finding never ending thread paths for a blocks or the entire quilt top. Plus, get a new "Twist" on freedom and customer satisfaction eliminating time wasting designs. Bring drawing pencil and paper. Class handouts included. See you there!

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Class #325 - Discovering The Origin
Kim Diamond     $75    1:00P-5:00P  
Computerized-Statler     Lecture/Demo
 For Most of us who use CreativeStudio, we just set the Origin to the upper right corner of the table and then we get on with the job of quilting.  In this class we are going to explore the possibilities of combining patterns together and creating new designs.  We will learn how to create them once, then sew them out over and over while maintaining the precision we've come to expect from CreativeStudio.  We will design blocks for use on some popular quilt blocks:  Ohio Star, Double Wedding Ring, Irish Chain, to name a few.  We will explore medallion quilts and create some corner pieces as well as design some centers for whole cloth quilts.

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Class #326 - Extreme Make-Over: Feather Edition
Mary Nordeng    $33    1:00P-3:00P
Intermediate/Advanced     Lecture/Drawing
Sure, you may already be quilting with feathers, but now learn how to make over your personal or customer quilts by putting those feathers to work for you. Cut down your time spent quilting with little or no marking all while eliminating the need for time-consuming background fills. Follow along with Mary as she teaches you to design feathers that completely fill any shape. With this extreme feather makeover, you will complete your quilts quickly with stunning results! This is a drawing class so bring a notebook, sketchbook or paper and a pencil.

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Class #327 - The Realities of Running a Longarm Business
Megan Best    $43      1:00P-3:00P
All skill levels   Lecture
The Realities of Running a Longarm Business - Beginner/Confident Beginner  - Running a home based business can be challenging.   Learn the tricks from someone who has been running a successful business for many years.  Megan will discuss many different aspects of the day to day business process from designing your studio and an efficient workspace to building and maintaining a customer base.  Also covered will be scheduling, advertising and professional development.

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Class #328 - AutoSketch for Intermediate & Advanced Users
Kay Oft     $60    1:00P-5:00P
Computerized-AutoSketch     Lecture
 You're a confident beginner: You just need a refresher brush-up; you're ready for exploring some of the more advanced aspects of AutoSketch….This HANDS-ON guided instruction class will allow you to dig a little deeper into AutoSketch moving beyond the basic tools while exploring and personalizing your tool-bar with old favorites and adding new tools to your bag of tricks. Class requirements: a laptop loaded with AutoSketch including the basic toolbar from the Statler website and Precision Stitch/Creative Studio. Optional: Flash Drive

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Class #329 - Dazzling Doodles for the Longarm and
                          other hand guided machines
Judy Irish    $57      3:30P-5:30P
All skill levels    Lecture/Demo
Dazzling Doodle Designs for the Longarm and other hand guided quilting machines - All Skill Levels -  A fearless approach to free hand quilting with doodling.  Create your own style and original designs with doodles, variegated, metallic's and other special threads and techniques.  A creative method of quilting without marking, turning or using laser patterns or pantos....Best of all it is FUN and EASY.

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Class #330 - Walking Borders
Sally Terry     $42     3;30P-5:30P
All skill levels     Lecture/Demo
You have the body of the quilt designed but the borders and sashings are eluding you. In addition you want something that coordinates with all your choices and, fits the overall theme of the quilt keeping overall thread density the same, reducing wavy borders. Walking Borders lets you avoid resizing, eliminates drafting a corner and gets rid of marking altogether. Learn how to smoothly adapt to the overall style and feel of the quilt, plus, effortlessly fit space and margins. Turning corners actually become fun and easy again avoiding wasted time turning the quilt. You will leave the class confident in knowing you can immediately design and stitch the perfect borders, even turn them into hardworking pantos instantly. You will be happy you chose to walk with us. Handouts, patterns, class sample given away.

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Class #331 - Brilliant Borders and Sensational Sashings
DeLoa Jones    $42      3:30P-5:30P
All skill levels    Lecture/Demo
If you are tired of turning your quilts to do the borders then this class is for you.  I have developed many free motion designs to do around the quilt without taking the time to turn my quilts.  Learn 25+ designs plus many variations to take home to practice.  You will learn how to space the border so that it is evenly spaced and how to treat your corners so you can easily go around to the sides. These designs are simple and beautiful for the beginner.

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Class #332 - Whole Cloth Quilt - Design Your Own
Ione Whitney     $30     3:30P-5:30P
All Skill Levels       Lecture
This is a demonstration of a classic technique that can be used to design your own Whole Cloth Quilt. This is a great technique to use to make a special event quilt, see wedding quilt under quilt gallery website www.ionewhitney.com. It can also be used to draft a stencil for the odd shaped spaces on quilts you are custom quilting and for appliqué pattern positioning arrangements on large appliqué quilts.

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Class #333 - Couture Formal Feathers
Lisa Coker    $50      3:30P-6:30P
All Skill Levels    Lecture/Drawing
Fancy, formal, heirloom, over the top, these feathers are all the rage.  In this drawing class, you'll start by learning the basic stitching pattern and shape.  Lisa will show you how to give these feathers motion and make them come alive.  These beautiful feather plumes will give elegance to any quilt.  She will show you how to freehand or use different tools to mark the spines.  Lisa will also show you how to create a continuous swag border design.  Block designs and how to create your own feathered designs using different templates will be addressed.  She has even quilted an overall design using just formal feathers.  This class will also cover different spine embellishments and fills to make them really pop. Bring a clipboard, paper and pencils for easier note taking and sketching!

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Class #334 - The Quilter's Guide to Unusual Fabric Objects
Nancy Goldsworthy     $30    3:30P-5:30P
All Skill Levels     Lecture
One of your best customers just walked in with a "quilt top" that her (insert name of relative…) made and she would like you to finish it. It is not flat or square and smells like mildew. Now what?? Learn the tips and tricks to handle the "unique" projects our customers can bring us. We'll cover everything from tee shirts to upholstery fabrics, polar fleece to denim, even the dreaded double knits. All of these unusual fabrics can be finished with great results. Don't turn that project away.....Finish it for her! (And make some extra money while you do it!) We will cover estimating time and cost as well as documentation and completion requirements for those very unusual, but rewarding projects. Door prizes too!

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Class #335 - Tips, Tricks & Tidbits
Diana Phillips     $30     3:30P-5:30P
All Skill Levels    Lecture
Having begun my longarm journey in 1993, I've collected lots of tips & tricks covering all aspects of what we do. You're sure to come away with some new ideas, even if you've been doing this a long time, too. the "Tidbits" are some fun things to do with your machine and to get you to really begin yourself "what if?"" Be sure to bring a pad for notes and a camera to take photos of these great samples.

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Class #336 - Let's Quilt the Baptist Fan
Laura Lee Fritz    $47      4:30P-6:30P
All Skill Levels  Lecture/Demo
Keep the character in traditional forms of the Baptist Fan  quilting design.  No need to stress over a precise mechanical application of these great classic, let's see how to quilt it freehand and enjoy the line-quality of human touch.  Practice along, learning how to move randomly, quilt braided borders, and create the awesome diagonal undulation of gridded fans. Bring a clip board and paper for easier drawing and note taking.

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