September
2006
You
have probably noticed our building is for sale. Not
the business. Retirement sounds great, but we
have this ongoing need for income. You can
probably identify with that! Our fate is
somewhat in limbo – we could rent back from a new owner, move our business, be
involved in a remodeling . . . Who knows? Rest assured, we plan to be here for you one way
or another, including Saturday Sampler and Block of the Month, and sewing machine and
computer support.
The
beautiful Aspen Chapel (the one with the tall steeple at Aspen’s first roundabout) is
a wonderful place for our talented local quilters to display recent works. Cynthia DeFrancia, Susan Dodington, Adele Plantec,
Sheila Wright, Kathleen Molitor, B’Anne Greene, Maureen Rogers, and Sandy Boyd will
be displaying and selling quilts from November 15 through December, 2006. Please put this on your calendar! The opening reception will be November 15, 5-7pm.
Every
day we will have a different bolt of fabric on sale at 50% off! It could be gorgeous, outrageous, senior, brand
new, adorable, or . . . . ? Come early, so we’re
not sold out!
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notion from our goody basket!
Roosters
with attitude! You have to love these
colorful cocky guys to appliqué by hand, by machine, or with fusible web. Each month you will get pattern, fabric, and
directions to make this quirky wall hanging. You
can pick it up or we will mail it to you. Come
see! $60 per quarter
Viking
Club meets the fourth Friday afternoon of the month from 2-4:30pm. We do a fun project each time, designed to explore
the capabilities of our Viking sewing machines. Come
talk to us about enrolling in this ongoing program -– we have limited spaces
available.
Friday, September 22; Friday, October 27, Friday, November 24; Friday, December 29
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO US –In
honor of our birthday we’re having a
big sewing machine sale!
Great
prices! Some are classroom machines! Come see!
This
is not your average sampler quilt! Show
up bright and early at 9:30am sharp the first Saturday morning of October, and receive
your kit and instructions for the first block. Go
home and make the block, and come back on time the next month with your finished block,
and get the next block and instruction free! If
you never miss coming with a finished block, and you’re always on time and stay to
enjoy the mini-class from expert instructors Kathleen Molitor or Sandy Boyd, you can make
nine blocks with sashing for just the entry fee. You
can’t beat that! If you miss a session
(we meet the first Saturday of each month), the cost of the kit will be $7.00. (Even if you had to pay for each block, the
instruction you get would make the program worthwhile!)
We’re doing something different this year – so prepare for fun and
expanding your quilting horizons! This year
the entry fee will be $22 – which includes 2 yards of our focal fabric (you’ll
have a choice to make) to be used in the quilt. Come
sign up soon, as we have a maximum number of participants we can handle.
Stretch
your machine embroidery skills. Bring your Husqvarna Viking embroidery machine and learn
to embroider on different fabrics, to place designs exactly where you want them. Pick up
some tips while you play in the company of other enthusiastic embroiderers. We’ll do a three-part embroidery project. The Embroidery Club meets the second Friday
afternoon of the month from 2-4:30pm. $18
per session plus supplies
Friday,
October 13; Friday, November 10; Friday, December 8
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ARE
YOU READY FOR SOME CLASSES?
Bring your project (quilt-related, or talk first with instructors Kathleen Molitor or Sandy Boyd), have some fun and camaraderie, and get some guidance on your project. Class meets the first four Wednesdays of the month from 10:00 to 12:30pm. Please reserve space ahead of time -- we get full! It costs $40 for the whole month, or $12 per session.
Give
yourself an advantage and learn to quilt the right way from beginning to end, in this
three-day class with Kathleen Molitor and Sandy Boyd.
Start with accurate cutting and piecing to assemble the quilt top. Add borders, layer, and quilt by machine, then
finish with a nice smooth binding. You’ll begin your long quilting career with good
skills and habits. $95 plus supplies
Saturdays,
September 16, 30, and October 14, 10:30-5pm
Learn
the wonderful technique of paper piecing while you make four cute animals. Choose farm or jungle or wild animals, you decide. Kids love these and we all love to make them! Kathleen Molitor will teach. $38 plus supplies
Sunday,
September 17, 10:30-5pm
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Every
day we will have a different bolt of fabric on sale at 50% off! It could be gorgeous, outrageous, senior, brand
new, adorable, or . . . . ? Come early, so we’re
not sold out!
3. VIKING CLUB
Don’t
forget your Show and Tell! Friday,
September 22, 2-4:30pm
4. APPLIQUE: A SMORGASBORD OF TECHNIQUESLearn
the techniques of fusible appliqué by machine, reverse appliqué, interfaced appliqué,
needle turn appliqué by hand, appliquéd bias strips for stems, and more. So much fun, so little time! $38 plus kit
Saturday,
September 23, 10:30-5pm
From
a pattern from Four Corner Designs, make a clever and highly functional fabric bag. This is a really great bag -- why didn’t we
think of it? Everybody, yourself
included, needs one of these! $32 plus
supplies
Sunday,
September 24, 11-4pm
6.
Don’t
be boggled by your Husqvarna Viking embroidery software!
Shorten the learning curve and really learn to use it. Bob and Sandy Boyd will teach you to combine,
rotate, and resize designs, then add lettering and maybe even frames and borders. Get new ideas for quilt labels and personalized
gifts, put messages and embellishment in your quilts, and more. Who knew how much fun this could be? Alumnae of this class welcome – it will be
different from previous classes. $25
Friday,
September 29, 2-4:30pm
7. VIKING
OWNER’S HANDBOOKMake
friends with your Viking sewing machine. Learn
how to use more of its potential, (like, what to do with all these stitches!) and amplify your sewing and quilting life. We promise you your money back if you don’t
learn something new – even if you’ve had your machine a long time! The cost is $38 plus book if one is available for
your machine. $38
Sunday,
October 1, 10:30-5pm
Join
Sandy and Bob Boyd for a day that will plump up the neurons in your brain! In the morning we’ll design a simple
embroidery project on the computer, using your Husqvarna software. Then, we’ll sew it out and learn about
stabilizers, bobbin threads, decorative threads, etc.
We’ll put the embroidery into a project to finish up. $38 plus supplies
Saturday,
October 7, 10:30-5pm
Confused
by composition, placement, proportion, and other art-y sounding terms? Carole O’Brien, prize-winning local art
quilter, will enlighten us. With hands-on
exercises from Katie Pasquini-Masopust’s book, Color and Composition for the
Creative Quilter, Carole will show us how to begin to see our projects with a
different eye. $75 plus supplies
Sundays,
October 8 & 15, 10:30-5
We’ll begin our three-part project and work on it again in November and December. (Think holiday gift giving?) If you have to miss this session, you can still jump in later. $18 plus supplies
Friday,
October 13, 2-4:30pm
Come
play and practice and explore the new 3D Sketch software.
Convert your writing or drawing to stitches, add texture, shading and
emphasis to photos on fabric. Create custom
quilt designs and design appliqués for use in your embroidery machine. This is way fun!
$25 (or free if you buy it from us) plus supplies
Friday,
October 20, 2-4:30pm
12. BEGINNING SEWING AND OPTIONAL SERGING
Make
a pair of warm comfy flannel pants –- you deserve them after a long hard day! (Even
quilters who don’t sew for themselves need a pair of these pants!) Make them on our classroom machines, and use a
Huskylock serger if you like. Learn to pin patterns on your fabric, cut, sew, finish raw
edges, and sew hems and a casing for elastic or drawstring.
$38 plus Saturday, October 28, 10:30-5pm
Hand
quilting is beautiful and pleasurable to do. Learn
how to do it well, as you get information about hoops, needles, thimbles, threads (and
spoons?). Expert quilter Ella Bindley will
teach. $25 plus kit
Sunday,
October 22, 1-3:30pm
Friday,
October 27, 2-4:30pm
15. CIRCLING AROUNDCircles
and curves are showing up in quilts everywhere these days.
Kathy Schattleitner will show you a variety of ways to construct and use
them effectively. Just wait till you
see
what great things you can do to enhance your quilts!
Come see Kathy’s sample in the store.
$38 plus supplies
Saturday,
October 21, 10:30-5pm
Why
is it that fabric costs more at quilt shops than in the chains? First, the chains buy in larger quantities –
the fabric quilt shops buy may not ever exist in such large quantities, so you don’t
see the same fabrics coming and going. Mostly
though, it’s because the goods are significantly different.
Fabric manufacturing begins with gray
(greige) goods, the blank material that designs are printed onto. The better the gray goods – threads per inch,
quality of threads, etc. – the better the finished product and the higher the cost. As for the design, the more intricate the design,
the more colors (screens) they are printed with, the more exacting the work, the higher
the price. Companies can buy prints off the
‘print market’ and print them on any gray goods, using any methods they like.
Cheaper fabrics are stiff or ‘board-y’
to the touch, because they haven’t had the benefits of the finishing processes that
make good fabric feel so silky. The major
manufacturers sell their first run first quality fabrics only to quilt shops. If too much of a particular fabric is printed,
occasionally some ‘good’ fabric might end up in the chains.
Your
time and your money are hard to come by. Make
sure your quilts will withstand use and laundering. Don’t
risk your time on fabric that won’t hold up, or whose dyes bleed or fade too fast. Here’s a case where quality really counts -- your time and talents deserve the best!
Choose
one of two sizes, use pre-quilted fabric, add handle, straps, flap, and carry home your
gear! The flap could be monogrammed or
embellished for personalization. This
backpack bears a striking resemblance to expensive ones you see around! Cindy Backer will teach. This class is easy, and suitable for beginners. $38 plus supplies
Sunday,
October 29, 10:30-5pm
Georgina
Chapman, our friend and international quilting teacher from Scotland (she comes to see her
sister, Kathy Schattleitner, and attend Art Quilt Tahoe – but we get her attention
too!) sold her original artistic “quilt let” piece for over $1500 and now has
more wonderful ideas for us. Come see! You won’t get many opportunities for such
international input – so don’t miss this! $45
plus supplies
Saturday,
November 4, 10:30-5pm
Continue
working on your three-part project begun last month, or start now! $18 November
10, 2-4:30pm
19. MAKE A
FUNKY FIFTIES APRONOur
1950’s cooks and homemakers knew the score! An
apron can be fashionable and functional and fun to wear.
Make one for yourself or a friend and everyone will think your macaroni and
cheese is way better! $38 plus supplies
Saturday,
November 11, 10:30-5pm
Come
see this dramatic wall hanging by Kathleen Molitor. In
this class, Kathleen will teach you how to achieve the gently curved lines without piecing
or appliqué. The gentle curves soften a
geometric design and add a touch of elegance. $38
plus supplies
Saturday,
November 18 and Saturday December 2, 10:30-5pm
Friday,
November 24, 2-4:30pm
Join Sandy in a play day with fabrics! Learn to create landscapes with bits of fabric and stitching. This is low stress, highly creative, productive, and entertaining. What’s more – you’ll take home at least one little landscape ready to frame or bind. These make great gifts! $38 plus supplies
Saturday,
December 2, 10:30-5pm
$18
Friday, December 8, 2-4:30pm
24. VIKING CLUB
Friday,
December 22 or 29, 2-4:30pm
Please pay the class fee when you enroll in a class. It’s refundable if you cancel at least 3 days – 7 days in the case of weekend classes – before the class, or if we can fill your space.
Please respect us by buying your class supplies from Glenwood Sew. We gladly give you a discount and we’re all assured that the materials are of appropriate quality for the project. We love children, pets, and visitors, but please don’t bring them to class.
Out of respect for our teachers, please use the sewing machines in our classroom when they are available.