September 2010

Glenwood Sew is having a big TRUCKLOAD SALE
OF VIKING SEWING MACHINES
Saturday, September 11, 11am – 3pm

And enjoy the Sewing Expo in Centennial Park!  See handiwork and demos from Garfield County and Eagle County 4H Clubs.  See projects of our prolific local quilting guilds, local high school students, kids’ classes, and other “sewists”.

Demos and projects in the park and in the store
Yards and yards of fabric on sale

Best sewing machine prices of the year!

SATURDAY SAMPLER:  “A BASKET CASE”
Would you like to make this quilt top — with patterns and lessons from the experts — for only $7.00 and 2 yards of fabric?  First you have to salivate over the colorways and select the knock-your-socks-off bright colors, or luscious rich pastels.  Or, make it easy on yourself and just do one of each!
But that’s not all! This year you can choose what size to make your quilt, from small wall-hanging size to queen size.  We’re making nine basket blocks in the program.  If you want, you can purchase the booklet and extra fabric to make additional baskets and alternate blocks for any size quilt your heart desires.
Here’s the way it works.  When you sign up you buy 1¼ yards of the gradated focal fabric (same dye lot, so all your blocks match) and ¾ yard of sashing color for the nine basket blocks.  You buy the first block kit for $7.00 and come to the mini-class meeting at 9:30am on Saturday, October 2nd.   Make the block at home and bring it finished to the next class (on the first Saturday of November).  You’ll receive the next block kit free, to make and bring in the first Saturday of the following month.  The program will run through June.*
All of the blocks are easy to accomplish with our sizzling instructions and you will learn some great new techniques.  Sign up soon, we have a limit on the number of participants that we have room for!

*Or, if you live too far away or are always busy on Saturday mornings, buy your fabrics and make this quilt as a Block of the Month!   Just buy the initial fabric and get the instructions for $7 per month plus postage.  It will still be tons of fun.

VIKING CLUB
Familiarize yourself with your Viking sewing machine’s stitches, feet, and accessories.  We’ll emphasize different techniques each session and take inspiration from the block-of-the-month project we’ve been learning from, called Stitcher’s Garden.  You don’t have to make a quilt from your completed decorative blocks; you may prefer to use these pretty floral pieces for pillows or bags or table dressing.  Gain confidence, learn useful stuff, and have fun!  Remember, as a member of Viking Club, you get a discount on Viking feet, accessories, designs, etc.  If you’re not yet a member, the cost for the remainder of the year is $38.  Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 19, Dec. 17, from 11am to 2pm

SOFTWARE CLUB: SOFTWARE TO SEWING
Join Mary Tencza and learn more about your Viking embroidery software. It is so powerful; most of us barely scratch the surface of what it can do. Each month there will be a software project that will then be sewn out. See how designs on the screen and in thread can look different! $32 per session The first Friday of the month from 11-4pm

October 1: Do everything with pumpkins except make a pie!
November 5: Explore the “encore” function and become a sweatshirt fashionista
December 3: Nature makes all her snowflakes different and so can you!

KIDS KEEP SEWING

Here are some more fun sewing projects for kids ages 9 and up who have taken Patt Jones classes or have some sewing experience.    Make a messenger bag, a drawstring skirt, and more in these three sessions.  The cost is  $60, or $25 per session plus supplies.   Join Patt Saturday mornings October 2, November 6, and December 4 from 10:30am  - 1pm

BEGINNING SEWING CLUB
This is the grown-up version of the kids’ class for beginning sewists.  Spend three satisfying Saturday afternoons sewing with Patt and learn to make fun and useful things.  You’ll start with the messenger bag, then a drawstring skirt, and move on to other cool projects. The cost is $60, or $25 per session plus supplies.  Saturday afternoons, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, and Dec. 4, 2:30-5pm

Wednesday Morning Sewing
Gather up the parts of your project and join Terry Lee and Sandy to get some guidance, get something done, and get the satisfaction of finishing a project in the company of like-minded friends.  The cost is $15 per session or $50 for all four sessions in the month.  Call ahead to make sure there’s space available.     Wednesday mornings, 10-12:30pm

Learn 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 sale fabrics, or stash fabrics that you bought with great plans that never happened.   Our team member, Angie Herrington, will teach.  $32 plus supplies   
Saturday, September 18, 12-4pm

Beginners can learn to quilt without getting frustrated and without developing bad habits, in this class with Patt Jones.  Learn to select your fabrics, measure, cut, and sew straight ¼” seams.  You can learn to quilt the three layers together, and add borders and binding to finish your first quilt.  Through making this project, you will become familiar with the basics of quiltmaking and develop into a quilt lover.  $105 plus supplies
3 Saturdays, September 25, October 9 & 16, 10:30-5pm

Make friends with your Huskylock serger – even if it seems ”unfriendly”.  You can do way more than just finish seams and sew knit garments with your wonderful overlock machine.  Join Sandy in this class for successful “sergery”  $32 or free for our recent purchasers of a Viking overlock machine.   (We’ll ask you to pay for the class and get a $32 gift certificate when you finish.)           Thursday, September 30, 11-4pm

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 haven’t been wasting our time for 30 years – we know some tricks!  Sandy will teach.   $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.)  Sunday, October 3, 10:30-5pm

This classic quilt design gets maximum impact with careful piecing and attention to color and value.  It’s not that hard, but it looks it!  Join Angie Herrington and dive right in!  This project is for intermediate quilters and experienced beginners.  $80
plus supplies
Fridays, October 8 and 29, 10:30-5pm

This is the second “Skinny Quilt Book”, featuring designs by various well-known quilters.  This project is by Lonni Rossi, one of our favorite fabric designers.  Long and skinny, this quilt could accent a narrow space between windows or beside a door in your house.  It could grace your table too, but don’t risk someone spilling on it — you might consider displaying it on your piano or credenza.  Terry Lee will show you how to showcase your creative talents in colors, fabrics, and threads with this project.    $43 plus supplies       Sunday, October 10, 10:30-5pm

This is like a simplified “Stack and Whack”, combining 3” squares carefully cut from one gorgeous large-scale print.  Each 4-patch contains identical members, but no two resulting “tiles” are the same, as you can see in the
graphic at right .  How clever is this!  Angie Herrington will teach.  Come see
her sample in the store and choose your favorite fabulous print.  $80 plus
supplies   Sundays, October 17 and November 7, 10:30-5pm

Discover the many possibilities hidden in fabrics. Learn author Judi Dains’ creative methods, and then turn batiks and hand-dyed fabrics into glorious works of art.  Be inspired by the trunk show in the store, and get creative with Terry Lee to produce unique pieces of fabric art.  $56 plus supplies 
Saturday, Oct. 23, 10:30-5pm and Sunday, Oct. 24, 1-4pm

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     Saturday, October 30, 10:30-5pm

Sassy and sensible, practical and pretty, this apron is a fashion accessory or a useful cover-up – and it adds credibility to your efforts in the kitchen!  It’s easy enough for experienced beginners to make – and fun too.  $43 plus supplies   Sunday, October 31, 10:30-5pm

Learn 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 team member, Angie Herrington, will teach.  $32 plus supplies   
Wednesday afternoon, November 17, 1-5pm

This great bag is lined, has a pocket inside, has comfy wide handles and tucks in the front and back so it can expand to accommodate all your important stuff.  Make it with soft and durable laminated fabric, or your favorite decorator fabric like the ones we love from Amy Butler.  Angie Herrington will teach this one-day class.  $43  plus supplies
Saturday, November 13, 10:30-5pm

Susan Schrempf, author of the C&T book Simple Silk Ribbon Embroidery by Machine, will be here for a book-signing, free demonstration, and hands-on workshop in November.  Wow!  Lucky us that she lives in Colorado! Susan creates realistic-looking flowers out of silk ribbon.  These gorgeous bouquets are rich and colorful, and all accomplished by machine with straight stitches and simple steps.   You have to see her technique to believe it – and you can do that right here for free!            Free Demonstration and book-signing: Saturday, November 13, 1-4pm Hands-on workshop: Watch as tropical and English gardens bloom before your eyes.  Learn how to create your own flowers and  bouquets to add elegance to clothing, pillows, bags, quilts, pincushions – you choose!    $40 plus supplies   Sunday, November 14, 1-4pm,

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, 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 20, 10:30-5pm

If you want it simple and you want it quick – it doesn’t get better than this!  Start with 9 “fat quarters” of contrasting fabric (or make it easy and use two of our coordinated “fat packs”), cut each just a couple of times and assemble the pieces into interesting blocks in this clever method.  Terry Lee will teach this class, in which you can probably finish the top and maybe even get the three layers sewn together.  No kidding.  Come select your fabrics and sign up!  $43 plus supplies
Sunday, November 21, 10:30-5pm

Why would you waste a perfectly good pair of socks on your feet, when you could turn them into adorable caterpillars, bunnies, kittens, and more.  You don’t need to be a master sewist.  They can be made entirely by hand, or by machine and finished by hand.  Roxanne Vanhartingsveldt will help you make your lovable pocket pets.  $25 plus supplies    Saturday, November 27, 1-3:30pm

Plan now for Christmas!   Using the classic hand-sewn block “cathedral window”, you can make charming little ornaments (or sachets, or pin cushions) to give as gifts.  Angie Herrington will show you how.  $32 plus supplies     Friday, December 3, noon-4pm

This potholder or trivet goes together in a jiffy, uses up scraps, and everyone will love it.  Terry Lee will lead you through the way to fold, tack, and bind, to complete this great hand-stitching project with minimal sewing by machine.  $25 plus supplies     Sunday, December 5, 1-4pm 

Assemble your favorite Christmas fabrics into quick and easy placemats.  “Stack, slice, switch and stitch” them with graceful curvy seams.  Dress them up, if you want, with elegant decorative stitches, or trim, or piping.   Terry Lee will teach.  $43 plus supplies     Saturday, December 11, 10:30-5pm       

These are pretty little projects that require only basic hand-sewing skills.  Gather up luscious fabrics and trims and spend an afternoon with Patt Jones making unique gifts for your sewing and quilting friends.  $25 plus supplies
Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1-4pm