September 2008

Save gas – save energy – soothe your soul – stay home in our gorgeous valley and sew with us!
“SEWING ADVENTURE”
WITH CHRIS DOLINAR
         She’s back!  We begged and plotted and really scored!  Chris is one of the most in-demand of the talented Viking Educators  (you’ve probably seen her on TV) — so we got lucky!
         Chris will have something creative and useful for sewers of ANY interest and with ANY machine.  She will have a very heavy suitcase full of samples of clothing, home dec, quilting, embroidery, and felting projects to show us.  And did we mention she’s smart and funny and really good at all aspects of our sport?  This will be a whole-day adventure including lunch. 
         Chris has been here before, so many of us know how entertaining and inspiring she is.  We’ll have a lot of fun and fill our brains to overflowing with new ideas!  $50 includes lunch.  
Saturday, September 20, 10:30-5pm 

We welcome The Yarn Garden Fabric junkies and yarn junkies unite! Elizabeth Yates’ wonderful yarn shop previously in Carbondale has set up shop in our downstairs. For details, call us or Elizabeth at 456- 5327

         On Friday, September 19, Chris will have other great classes for us
that are as yet to be unveiled!  Mark your calendars

Sign up now — space is limited!

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“CHOCOLATE FOR DESSERT” MYSTERY QUILT BLOCK OF THE MONTH
          Do you love a good mystery?  Do like suspense and intrigue and a surprise package every month, either in your own mailbox or here at the store?
           Roxanne and Sandy have sleuthed and investigated and found a great mystery quilt program for you.  This is a traditional style pattern that can have a contemporary or classic flavor, depending on your choice between the two fabric selections.
           The cost of the total program will be $100 for a throw size quilt and $175 for queen size, including fabric and patterns.  Shipping charges are extra.  You will receive 8 “clues,” one per month beginning in October.
          Come see the fabrics and sign up fast!            

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Click to Enlarge SATURDAY SAMPLER How can you make a whole sampler wall hanging for  just a couple yards of fabric and $7.00?  Join us at Saturday Sampler! Come at 9:30 Saturday morning October 4, and buy your basic fabric and initial block kit. Learn how to make it, and with the block completed, come back the first Saturday morning of the next month, and get that month’s block free!  Then do the same drill for seven more months.  It’s such a great deal that you need to sign up really fast, as we have to limit the size of the group to fit us all in!

       

 

 

 DON’T MISS
 “QUILTERS”
 
THE MUSICAL BY
 THUNDER RIVER THEATER

“Quilters” is the story of the lives of pioneer women as told through their quilts.  Performances will begin Sept. 25 at the theatre in downtown Carbondale.  Terry Lee, our talented, art-quilting new team member, is the Musical Director.  Call 963-8200 for information.

 

 

 

 

 NORTH AMERICAN MYSTERY SERIES

           Travel along with one of our Ambassadors each month  to a North American state or country and learn about its history, quilting traditions, food and recipes.  We’ll have a party at each stop and a kit for a quilt with local flavor, in your choice of three colorways.  The quilts are all “throw” size (make them larger if you want, or buy one of each color) and are easy enough for seasoned beginners to make. The Ambassador will give a demo on making the quilt.  What’s mysterious?  You won’t know what the quilt looks like till the unveiling at the party!
           Your ticket for each trip is $20 plus your kit for $35.  Or you can buy a “season pass” for $50.  Reservations are recommended, as space is limited.   Our talented Ambassadors Desha Bone Bierbaum, Sara Jaramillo, Julie Schuller-Brown, Robin Dillon Zupancic and Myra Tobias, are making quilts and taste-testing recipes now!
           North American Mystery parties happen right after Saturday Sampler at 11:00am, beginning October 4.  The other months will be November, and January, February, and March of 2009.  And maybe more!
  

VIKING EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE CLUB
Stay and play the first Saturday of each month and explore some software features with
Mary Tencza/ Sandy/ Bob.  This is fun for current or beginning software users. 
Each month we’ll have a topic and a short project, with plenty of time for questions on
it or other projects you may be working on.  October’s project will be uploading, downloading, updating, and more.  Stop hesitating and get creating!  $28 plus supplies. 
We will meet the first Saturdays of the month, 2-4:30pm, after Saturday Sampler and Mystery Series.  Whew!  We’re having way too much fun!

FYI:  “Beginning Sewing” and “Beginning Quilting” are two evening classes offered through CMC and held at Glenwood Sew this fall.  They will be taught by Sandy Boyd and Robin Dillon Zupancic.  “Beginning Sewing” starts September 25, and “Beginning Quilting” starts October 22.  To sign up call CMC or call us at Glenwood Sew for information.

 

VIKING CLUB
$85 is money well spent for a year in Viking Club!  (We’ll pro-rate for the remaining months of the year if there is space.)  Get a 10% discount on all your Viking stuff all year –including designs and software!  We have a class/meeting the fourth Friday of each month, where we work on a project that teaches you something about your wonderful Husqvarna Viking sewing machine.  We have Show & Tell for inspiration, and we have a lot of fun.  Do the math –$85 for 12 classes is $7.08 for each class -– even if you come to only three of the classes, you’ve gotten your money’s worth!  Sign up and reserve your spot, because Viking Club has a maximum number of members. Remaining clubs this year are September 26, October 24, November 28, December 19 or 26. Viking Club 2009 begins on January 23.

EMBROIDERY CLUB:  “ROSES IN BLOOM”
“Roses In Bloom” is an appliqué quilt designed for your embroidery machine.   Pictured here are some of the pretty embroidered elements in the quilt.  Bring your Viking embroidery machine and learn and laugh in the company of friends.  Gain skill and confidence as we embroider and appliqué (in the hoop) these gorgeous designs.  And then we’ll incorporate the embroideries into a large lap quilt that we’ll help you finish.  Beginning embroiderers welcome.  Hands-on learning is the best!
“Roses in Bloom” embroidery club will be held the second Friday of the month, October 10, November 14, and December 12, 2-4:30pm. The cost of the program, including the design software, is $110 plus fabric and stabilizer.

 

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME CLASSES?

 

Join Kathleen Molitor or Sandy Boyd for a morning of sewing, camaraderie, learning, and problem solving.  Bring in the project you’re working on and make some progress!   We meet the first four Wednesdays of each month.  Please call ahead to see if there’s space available.
Classes are held Wednesday mornings, 10-12:30.  $15 per session or $50 for each month   

Jump into sewing machine embroidery!  Learn how to correctly hoop the fabric or garment, select the appropriate stabilizer, position the embroidery, choose bobbin and top threads, and get going!  This is for folks new to machine embroidery or just timid about going forth.  Bring your embroidery machine and any threads, stabilizers and designs you already own – but don’t buy anything yet.  $28, or free for new owners of Husqvarna Viking embroidery machines. 
Saturday, September 13, 10:30-1:00pm

CLASS SALE!  Get $10 off if you sign up by September 27 for two classes

Here’s an old-fashioned technique to make wonderful accent rugs that last practically forever. (Sandy has one still in good shape after over 20 years!)  Toothbrush rugs are similar to braided rugs but they’re easier to make and they won’t come apart.  Use up stash fabrics that you bought with great plans that never happened.   Our new team member, Angie Herrington, will teach.  $25 plus supplies  
Sunday, September 21, 1-4:00pm

Traditional quilters love this block quilt – and contemporary quilters love the graphic design!  Join B.Anne Greene and make a sassy classic Pineapple Quilt.  Select scrappy or coordinated colors, start it small and make it grow.  It can look very classic or quite contemporary, and it’s fun to make.  Just wait till you see B.Anne’s huge and beautiful sample! $76 plus supplies 
Thursdays, September 18 and October 2 and 16, 10:30-5pm

VIKING CLUB – don’t forget your Show ‘n’ Tell!
Friday, September 26, 2-4:30pm

Choose one of our new skirt-weight fabrics by young designers like Amy Butler, Denyse Schmidt, Valori Wells, Joel Dewberry,  and make your new favorite skirt.  It’s easy to make, easy to fit, easy to wear.  You’ll get started sewing in this class with Sandy Boyd.  $43 plus supplies  Saturday September 27, 10:30-5pm

“Warm Windows” save your energy, save you money, keep you warm.  And they’re  easy to make.  We’ve got the stuff – just ask us! ?

 

 

 

Get to know your amazing Husqvarna Viking sewing machine better, whether it’s new to you or has been your friend for a while.  We’ll learn about seams and edge finishes, buttons and buttonholes, hems, stretchy seams, sewing on heavy fabrics, accessory feet – and tons more surprising things we can show you.  We haven’t been wasting our time for 30 years – we know some tricks!  We promise to teach you something new or we buy the ice cream!  $43 or free if you’ve purchased your Viking from us within the past year.  (We’ll ask you to pay for the class and get a $43 gift certificate when you finish.)   
Friday, October 3, 10:30-5pm

Spiral off into a quilting adventure with Terry Lee!  Combine wildly different fabrics that as a “fabric junkie” you have accumulated, and learn to do circular couching.  We’ll make a table runner in class.   When you find out how fun and easy this is, you’ll be addicted!  $43 plus supplies
Sunday, September 28, 10:30-5pm

 

SATURDAY SAMPLER, NORTH AMERICAN MYSTERY SERIES, AND VIKING EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE CLUB all begin Saturday, October 4!  Talk about a fun day!

Quilting by machine is beautiful, efficient, modern, practical, and satisfying to do.  Tips, techniques, and tools will make your machine quilting more enjoyable and prettier.  Learn about walking feet and free motion stitching, layering and pinning or spray basting, choices of threads, battings, and designs.  Join Sandy for a fun day that will improve your quilting life forever!    $43 plus kit   Sunday, October 5, 10:30-5pm

Hand sewers arise!  This quilt has gratified generations of quilters, using bits of fabric and bits of time to produce heirlooms.  (It’s amazing what you can produce with just a few minutes spent every day!)  Angie Herrington will teach you this classic technique.  $28 plus supplies  Wednesday afternoon, October 8, 2-4:30pm

This class is for previous students of Patt Jones, or kids ages 9 and up with some sewing experience.   New skills will be introduced and used in a little more complex projects.  Sewing is fun and you can make cool stuff!  $50 plus supplies
Thursdays October 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 4-5:30pm

“ROSES IN BLOOM”  EMBROIDERY CLUB 
Friday, October 10, 2-4:30pm

Learn correct quilting techniques from Kathleen Molitor in this three-day class.  It includes rotary cutting, precision seaming, block assembly and squaring up, basic machine quilting, and binding.   Learn the whole system and banish bad habits!  This great class has launched many a competent quilter!  $106 plus supplies 
Week end sessions:  Saturdays, October 11, 25, and November 8, 10:30-5pm
Week day sessions:  Wednesdays, October 22, 29, November 5, 12, and 19, 2-5pm

Traditionally, building block quilts were full of daunting “Y-seams.”   Join Kathleen Molitor, and ditch the “y’s” as you make this old-time design in a fun new way.  Your color selection makes the blocks amazingly 3-dimensional, and Kathleen will help you choose colors  too.  $43 plus supplies
Sunday, October 12, 10:30-5pm

 

“Warm Windows” are green, are easy, save energy, save money.  Check them out!

Make a warm and comfy top for yourself and all your friends – this is that fast and easy!  Bring your Huskylock serger, or sew it with our regular machines.  Learn to use your serger for great results, how to combine serging and regular sewing, and how to make this top with regular machine stitching.  Maybe you can wear it home and dazzle your family!  Sandy will teach.  $43 plus supplies
Friday, October 17, 10:30-5pm

Using the new book Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustino, join Sandy and learn to create dazzling quilts with this amazingly easy fabric weaving technique.  Make gorgeous backgrounds for appliqué, embellishments, or embroidery, or use the created “fabric” alone for other items.  This is really unique and hard to describe, so come take a look.  $43 plus supplies
Saturday, October 18, 10:30-5pm

Here’s a wonderful and unusual table runner you can easily make in this class with Kathleen Molitor.  The rings are applied using turned edges or fusible web.  Give this table runner a holiday feel, or choose colors to match your dishes or dining room. 
$43 plus supplies   
Sunday, October 19, 10:30-5pm

 

VIKING CLUB    Bring something for Show ‘n’ Tell!  
Friday, October 24, 2-4:30pm

Raid your stash for a variety of gorgeous fabrics, or come choose new ones.  You could use a collection of batiks or florals, orientals, brights, or geometrics.  Cut them up, border them with a striking coordinating color, and you’ve got a striking quilt top!  Have fun with Kathleen with this project.    $68 plus supplies   
Sundays November 2, 1-4pm & November 16, 11-4pm

 

You’ve been asking for this class and here it is!   Robin Dillon Zupancic will teach you to make this modern classic quilt, using the book by Bethany Reynolds, Magic Stack ‘n’ Whack.  You will select a large print multi-colored fabric and make hexagonal blocks of all the same fabric.  The fun part is that no two blocks will look alike, and you never quite know how each will turn out.  The suspense is crazy!  $76 plus supplies   
Sundays October 26 and November 9, 10:30-5pm

EMBROIDERY CLUB
Friday November 14, 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 and you don’t have to be “artistic.”  What’s more – you’ll take home at least one little landscape ready to frame or bind – great for gifts!     Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, come ready to play!    $43 plus supplies   
Saturday, November 15, 10:30-5pm

Yarn with no knitting needles, no crochet hooks, no kidding!  Terry Lee, our new team member, will show you how to couch gorgeous yarns, ribbons, and fibers onto water-soluble stabilizer.  When you rinse out the stabilizer, all that is left is the lacy interlocking pattern of the yarn.   You’ll ,have gorgeous gifts for all your friends, and they’ll think you’re oh so clever.  (Well, that can’t hurt!)  $43 plus supplies  Friday November 21, 10:30-5pm

Being “green” may not be that hard after all. Make “Warm Windows” for your home.  You save energy, keep warm, save money – and they look great!

This new pattern line from Bigfork Bay is getting rave reviews.  Using a furry range of fabrics, cut and fuse the pieces onto a background, and little by little, see your elegant beast emerge.  Robin Dillon Zupancic will help you with your fabric art.  $68 plus supplies  
Saturday November 22, 10:30-1pm
and Saturday December 6, 10:30-5pm

Join Angie Herrington and make an elegant ornament for all your friends.  These little beauties are made by hand with pretty holiday fabrics, and embellished with ribbon or cord, buttons, and tassels.  There’s still time for hand-made gifts!  $28 plus supplies
Friday, December 5, 2-4:30pm

Make simple and elegant placemats to give as a gift or brighten up your dinner table.  A girl’s holiday décor needs sparking up sometimes!  You only need to choose two fabrics – a focal print and an accent.  Then you can piece and quilt at the same time.  How easy is that!  Kathleen Molitor will teach.  $43 plus supplies
Saturday, December 7, 10:30-5pm
          Please respect us by buying your class supplies from Glenwood Sew.  You get a discount, and you get quality consistent with your class project.  Plan to use our classroom sewing machines.  You don’t have to lug yours around, and our teachers are already familiar with our machines.
          Please pay the class fee when you sign up.  It’s refundable if you cancel 3 days before a weekday class, or 7 days before a weekend class, or if we can fill your spot.

 

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