Workshops & Lectures
June 21 - 22, 2012
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Farmstead Inn & Conference Center
370 S Van Buren St. (SR5)
Shipshewana, IN 46565
260.768.4595 |
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Thursday June 21, 2012 |
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Morning Sessions 9:00 am - Noon |
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$55
 Would you like to add some pizzazz to your quilts by adding a fancy border, but are afraid to try? Then this class is for you! Learn how to mark and bind curvy edge finishes on quilts. In class you will make several different bound samples of scalloped or wavy edges with different corner treatments. Learn how to make a notched edge finish and also how to join the binding ends with a nearly invisible joining. The class will include a professional’s tips on perfect bindings for a fabulous finishing touch on all your quilts!
Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies required. Workshop also requires Easy Scallop tool, calculator, long ruler and purchase of fabric kit ($12). Recommended items include "The Quilter's Edge" book. All items available at the Festival Supply Kiosk. Limited to 20 participants.
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Afternoon Sessions 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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$45
Get a sneak peak at Penny’s new techniques from her upcoming book Paper-Pieced Appliqué due out late summer! Take Pieced Appliqué™ to the next level by combining your favorite technique with paper-piecing. In this class you will make three different basket blocks using new techniques making it possible to create these blocks quickly, easily AND accurately!!! You will love it! Beginners and experienced paper-piecers alike will learn tricks. Pattern provided with the fabric kit will allow you to finish your blocks into a table topper!
Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies required. Workshop also requires Creative Grids square it up and fussy cut ruler (CGRSQ6), travel iron, ironing mat and purchase of fabric kit ($12). Light Box and Mary Ellen's Best Press recommend but not required. All items available at the Festival Supply Kiosk. Limited to 32 participants.
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Evening Sessions 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
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$15
Learn how to take your quilting to the next level by incorporating a "fudge factor" into your next project! By looking at the whole quilt, adjustments can be made so that your entire project will "fit" together beautifully! Learn the tricks that the experts know and why you should have listened in those basic geometry classes!
We’ve all done it – made a sampler quilt or joined a block swap – and realized that all of those
6 ½" blocks are NOT 6 ½". In the past, these projects have been relegated to a bottom drawer in our sewing room never to see the light of day!
Not anymore! Learn settings with "fudge factors" that make it possible to combine blocks of slightly different sizes to make striking throws, queen and even queen sized quilts.
Come see how you can "fudge" your way to success and not gain a pound!
Lecture only, No sewing machine or supplies necessary.Limited to 125 participants.
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$15
How to take your quilting to the next level explores all areas of the quilting process. From your sewing machine to organizing your sewing room and many topics in between, you will learn the many ways you can make your sewing more efficient and produce more quilts every year. This lecture is ideal for beginner quilters and experienced quilters. Getting organized and plotting our course helps all quilters use up their stashes and make the quilts they have always dreamed of making.
Lecture only, No sewing machine or supplies necessary.Limited to 125 participants.
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$15
 Vintage Indiana Amish quilts (c. 1890 - 1945) from the collection of Rebecca Haarer, a life long resident of the Shipshewana area, will be presented in a "Museum on the Road" trunk show venue. These quilts were gathered from the LaGrange and Elkhart County Amish communities in the "Coming Out" years of 1970-90's. Rebecca will showcase museum quality quilts, tell their stories and discuss why Amish quilts rose to popularity during this time and how interest in American Quilt making and Collecting during the mid 1970's impacted the Amish Community and quilt makers. Questions and discussions welcomed! Photos may be taken.
Lecture only, No sewing machine or supplies necessary. Limited to 125 participants.
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Friday June 22, 2012 |
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All Day Sessions 9:00 am - Noon & 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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$85
 This workshop will use a whimsical pattern incorporating both piecing and appliqué in a wall-hanging. You may later choose to expand your project into a twin or queen size quilt. Easy strip piecing is used for the pieced blocks, and several methods of appliqué will be taught. You choose fusible, freezer paper or needle-turn method.
Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies required. Workshop also requires Oopsie Daisy pattern, paper plates, Easy Angle and Companion Angle and purchase of fabric kit ($49). Recommended items include, freezer paper, template plastic, bias bars and fusible webbing, (choose supplies for the method of appliqué you prefer). All items available at the Festival Supply Kiosk. Limited to 20 participants.
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$85
In this workshop you will use 6 half-yard cuts of your favorite collection, 30’s, batiks, brights, or country, and add a background to make this 57” x 81” quilt. Easy cutting and piecing of the 12” blocks make this a quick, striking quilt. Learning to use the Creative Grids House and Cottage Rulers makes this project (and many more) even easier.
Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies required. Workshop also requires, 6 (six) - ½ yard cuts (it is suggested that they are of the same value or intensity), 3 yard cut for background, ⅞ yard cut for the border, ¾ yard cut for the binding, Sunrise Sunset Pattern by The Quilt Branch, either Creative Grids House Ruler (CGRQB1) or Creative Grids Cottage Ruler (CGRQB2), Perfect Piecing Seam Guide and 6½” x 24” ruler. All items available at the Festival Supply Kiosk. Limited to 32 participants. Click Here for More Information on this Instructor
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$70
Come join Penny and make this fun and easy quilt, “Me and My Friends”, using the Pineapple Press Paper Dolls Pattern. You will learn how to make two different block sizes of the dolls for this adorable wallhanging. You will also be shown how to make several variations of this pattern by personalizing it to fit your individual wishes. A great pattern for a little girl or your best friend!
Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies required. Workshop also requires Pineapple Press "Paper Dolls" Pattern and purchase of fabric kit ($54). All items available at the Festival Supply Kiosk. Limited to 30 participants.
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All activities purchased require the payment of a one time $7.00 registration. |
