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~ QUILTING & KNITTING CLASSES AT THE STITCHIN POST ~


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SEPTEMBER 2009
QUILTING, KNITTING, & SEWING CLASSES

(Listings are in order by date of first class.)

hang in there kitty

Hang In There Kitty
Joanne Myers
Saturday, September 5,
9 - 3 pm
All Levels BSS*
$30

Make this cute and whimsical 9” kitty. Combine several kitties for a wall hanging. This class is sure to please the kitty lovers in your life.

*Pattern purchase required: Hang In There Kitty, by Nancy Ota Patterns ($8.50 Less 15% class discount).

Sorry, this class has been cancelled.


Can’t Get Enough of… Batiks
Sue McMahan
Tuesday, September 8, 9 - 3 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS
$30

cant get enough batiks by sue mcmahan

This is a wonderful project for batiks, as their jewel tones lend themselves to this scrappy quilt. The block is an easy one and students will use cutting and piecing techniques to ensure an accurate block. The blocks will be set diagonally with surefire instructions on how to cut and piece the corner and side-setting triangles. There is also the opportunity to use a small block instead of the half-square triangle block to make this quilt truly unique to its maker.

Sorry, this class
has been cancelled.

Absolutely Beginning Quilting
Lawry Thorn
Pre-Class Fabric Selection - Tuesday, September 8, 6 - 7:30
Tuesdays; September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 20, & November 3,
6 - 9 pm
Beginning BSS
$45

absolutely beginning quilting

Have you wanted to make a quilt but don’t know where to begin? This class is for people with little or no experience. Learn to rotary cut and make basic quilt blocks while making a sampler-style quilt. Lawry will take you start-to-finish through your choice of a 6-, 9-, or 12-block sampler. Join us for the Pre-Class and we will help you pick out your fabric.

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Embroidery Enthusiasts Focus Group*
Dawn Eby
2nd Wednesdays;** September 9, October 14, December 9,
January 13, and February 10, 9:30 - 3 pm
$40

embroidery

We will get together once a month to network and share ideas and new techniques. This is a great time to work on those projects you keep putting off. Let’s put some of those embroidery designs in a quilt, on a towel, or on a handbag. Just think of the Christmas gifts you can start!

*Knowledge of your embroidery machine, in good working order, required.

**Due to a scheduling conflict, we will not be meeting in November.

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Sit & Knit
Every Wednesday
Daytime: 1 - 4 pm
Evening: 5 - 8:30 pm

Silk Necktie Party
Ruth Ingham
Thursday & Friday, September 10 & 11
Thursday, September 17, 1 - 4 pm
Intermediate BSS*
$35

silk nectie party

Take your husband’s stash of old silk neckties (or check out your local thrift store), and create a gorgeous quilt, handbag, jacket, or vest. You will piece random shaped pieces of your ties to a background fabric using a string quilting or stitch-and-flip technique.

*Book purchase optional: Daddy’s Ties by Shirley Botsford ($16.95 less 15% class discount).

Sorry, this class has been cancelled.

$5 Quilt Club
2nd Saturdays – September 12, October 10, November 14,
December 12, January 9, February 13, March 13, April 10 & May 8
8:30 - 9 am

Join us for a one-of-a-kind quilt club. Each month you will get a packet of fabric and new pattern(s). In addition, you will add some of your own fabrics for backgrounds and to personalize your quilt. Arrive at each meeting with your finished blocks(s) and you will receive a new fabric packet and pattern. At the first club meeting, you will pay $5 and receive your first packet. During the subsequent months, if you do not finish the block from the prior month, you will need to pay $5 again. If you cannot attend the meeting, send a friend with your block.

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Intuitive Color and Design (Twist from Tradition)
Jean Wells
Saturday, September 12, October 17, Nov14, and December 12,
10 - 2 pm
Intermediate
$45*

colors of provence by jean wells

This is a follow-up workshop for those of you who have taken Jean’s Quilt Design Exploration classes and want to continue the journey. Each session will be devoted to a design project here the group will brainstorm
ideas then each individual will pursue a small (or larger) project depending on their interest. This is a class devoted to more in-depth quilt design study.

*Book purchase required: Intuitive Color and Design by Jean Wells ($27.95 Less 15% class discount).

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Floral Remix
Judy Johnson
Monday, September 14, 9 - 3 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS
$30

hawaiian remix

The center of this quilt was created from a single piece of fabric using layered cutting techniques. It is one of several quilts in Judy’s series that explores the possibilities of various geometric transformations using four identical squares. Sound complicated? Not! Judy will make the process easy and will share many examples to inspire your own creativity. A wall hanging or lap-sized quilt can easily be completed in one class session.

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Beginning Knitting
Debi Pryor
Monday, September 14, 21 & 28,
9 - 12 noon
Beginning*
$35

Make a knitted scarf while learning beginning knitting basics – cast on, knit stitch, purl stitch, garter stitch, stockinette stitch, reverse stockinette stitch, binding off, reading patterns, understanding gauge, joining yarns, and much more.

*Book purchase required: Stitch ‘N Bitch Knitter’s Guide by Debbie Stoller ($15.95 less 15% class discount).

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oh poncho knitting class

Oh, Poncho
Susan Cobb
Mondays, September 14, 21, and October 5,
1 - 4 pm
Advanced Beginning
$35

This knitted poncho is sized for an adult and may be made with a variety of yarns or with one yarn. Two rectangular panels are seamed together and enhanced at the yoke and outside edges for style and comfort.

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Beyond Beginning
Lawry Thorn
Tuesday, September 15, 22, October 6, 20, and 27,
9 - 12 noon
Advanced Beginning BSS*
$45

Learn new techniques that will decrease your cutting time and help your piecing be more accurate, while making a combination of 6” and 12” blocks. Learn how to plan, graph, and create an interesting setting for your quilt blocks. We will be working with quarter- and half-square triangle rulers.

*Purchase recommended: Quick & Easy Block Tool from
C&T will be used in class as a resource. ($16.95 less 15% class discount).

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Absolutely Beginning Quilting
Lawry Thorn
(See entry above for Pre-Class Fabric Selection)
Tuesdays; September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 20, & November 3,
6 - 9 pm
Beginning BSS
$45

absolutely beginning quilting

Have you wanted to make a quilt but don’t know where to begin? This class is for people with little or no experience. Learn to rotary cut and make basic quilt blocks while making a sampler-style quilt. Lawry will take you start-to-finish through your choice of a 6-, 9-, or 12-block sampler. Join us for the Pre-Class and we will help you pick out your fabric.

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beginning crochet scarf

Beginning Crochet
Debi Pryor
Tuesday,
September 15, 22, & 29,
9 - 12 noon
Beginning*
$35

Make a scarf using basic crochet stitches. Learn to chain, single crochet, double crochet, shell, and granny square stitch. Also, learn to join new colors, finishing, pattern and gauge reading, and more.

*Book purchase required: The Happy Hooker: Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet by Debbie Stoller ($15.95 less 15% class discount).

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Crochet Block of the Month
Debi Pryor
3rd Wednesdays: September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16, January 20, and February 17
9 - 12 noon
All Levels
$25

Learn a new stitch each month. We will use that stitch to create a 12”x12” block. At the end of our six sessions, you will have enough blocks to assemble an afghan.

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Wednesday Demos
9-10 am
1st & 3rd Wednesdays* of each month, starting September 16
( *No demo on October 21)

Followed by Sit & Stitch from 10 - 2 pm
1st & 3rd Wednesdays* of each month, starting September 16
( *No Sit & Stitch on October 21)

Machine Quilting
Lawry Thorn
Thursday, September 17 and October 1st, 6 - 9 pm
Beginning
$30

machine quilting

Learn all of the “ins” and “outs” of machine quilting, including tips, quilting ideas, and the right threads and needles to use. Practice time is given, as well as time to start quilting on a larger project. You’ll be a pro before you know it!

(Please note new date
for second class.)

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Felted Gifts
Paula Johnson
Thursday, September 17 & 24, 10 - 12 noon
Advanced Beginner
$25

felted gifts

Make your own Christmas gifts this season. During the first class, we will explore the felted possibilities of simple knitted shapes, such as coasters and hot pads, and then knit a few. The second class will focus on "felting" and finishing the assorted "gifts".

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Log Cabin Quilts
Sue McMahan
Friday, September 18, 9 - 3 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS*
$30

log cabin quilts

Come explore Log Cabin blocks and all the possibilities for the design, settings, and fabric. Using examples of completed log cabin quilts, several design options will be provided. Learn all the cutting and sewing techniques for accurate blocks and information on setting diagonal block quilts. Border ideas and quilt completion information will also be furnished.

*Book purchase recommended: Patchwork Quilts Made Easy, Revised, 2nd Edition, Jean Wells ($29.95 Less 15% class discount).

Sorry, this class has been cancelled.

Fall Mini-Mystery Club
Lawry Thorn
3rd Saturday, September 19, October 24*,
November 21, & December 19, 8:30 - 9:15 am
Advanced Beginning***
$5 (or $5 Mail Order**)

Do you love mystery quilt projects so much that you wish they would never end? Well, here are two different opportunities to make two different quilts that will keep you guessing! After each meeting you will go away with sewing tasks, then come back the next month for the next clue. In the last session, Lawry will “unveil” the finished quilt and you also get to share your quilt with your own creative touch.

*Mini-Mystery will be held on the 4th Saturday in October.

**If you live out of town or can’t get to our monthly classes, you can still participate using mail order. Just let us know and Lawry will mail you the directions each month.

***Supply list will be provided at the first class

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Collaborative Chicks
Saturdays; September 19, October 17, November 21,
December 19, January 16, February 20 (note new date)
10 - 4 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS*
$40 each class or $200 for all six classes (includes lunches)

Six Stitchin’ Post quilt instructors (the collaborative chicks) have joined together to explore quilts in Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs, by Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran. Six months, one Saturday each month, will be devoted to a workshop with a different instructor. Each instructor has chosen a quilt from the book and will interpret it in their own color and fabric style palette, adding their personal flair and expertise. In March, when Freddy and Gwen return to teach a workshop, we will host an evening Show and Tell event with the class/club quilts. The finished quilts will also be in a special exhibit at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show’s 35th anniversary.

The classes will be limited to 24 students and will include a light lunch. Sign up for all six classes and receive one class free or take what you like. If you are a six-month member you are also invited to create a “self portrait chick” that will be added to the Collaborative Chicks banner for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show special exhibit.

freddy & gwen's lone star

Collaborative Chicks - Lone Star
Saturday,
September 19,
10 - 4 pm
Vickie Anast

This is a scrappy version of the traditional Lone Star – the diamonds mingle freely creating a party in full swing!

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*Book Purchase Required: Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston ($24.95 less 15% class discount)

Outside the Lines
Jean Wells & Tonye Phillips
Sunday, September 20,
10:30 - 4:30 pm
Monday, September 21, 9 - 3 pm
Intermediate BSS
$45

log cabin revisited

The quilts from Gee’s Bend fascinate Tonye and Jean. In this workshop, they will present some basic shapes that are used in quilt design. Students will play with design concepts, then choose one or more to pursue in the workshop. An example is the “house top” design where you begin with a square and keep adding borders, interrupting them at times with fabrics pieced into the strips. A medallion design is created using this technique. Piecing will be very intuitive as will color choices.

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Let’s Get Technical!
Every second and fourth Wednesday at the Stitchin’ Post from 9-12
noon, we will have a mini class focused on specific knitting and crochet
techniques. Debi Pryor will walk you through these focused classes.

Crochet Afghan/Tuscany Stitch
Advanced Beginning - September 23
9 - 12 noon
Each session costs $10.

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Asian Blue Stars
Sue McMahan
Thursday, September 24, 9 - 3 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS
$30

Asian Blue Stars is a quilt that features an easy Saw-Tooth Star, accurately pieced using the Eleanor Burns Large Flying Geese Ruler. (The flying geese ruler will take all of the work out of making flying geese units for any project.) It can be a wall quilt or a bed quilt. The featured quilt uses multiple medium, medium-dark and dark blue Asian prints with a Marsha McCloskey blue and white background from her Staples series of fabrics. Cutting and piecing techniques will provide guidelines for accurate blocks and successful results. Borders, backing and binding
will be determined by the size of the quilt.

Sorry, this class has been cancelled.

Quilt Expo Bus Tour
Friday, September 25, 2009
$75* for bus fare and snacks

Join Joyce Boyd and Sue McMahan on this exciting bus adventure to the Portland Quilter’s Expo. Jean will have a booth and would love to see you there. A side trip to one or two shops will be included in this fun-filled day.

*Price is subject to change due to gas and/or bus cost increases. Admission to Portland Quilter’s Expo and meals not included.

Sorry, this trip has been cancelled--not enough people signed up.

Fall Yarn Tasting
Friday, September 25
5-8 pm

Come by and enjoy an evening of sampling our yarns. Bring some knitting needles with you, pick out the yarns that suit you and sit and knit! We will provide a large assortment of yarns for your knitting pleasure plus lots of food and beverages to sustain you while you knit.

ArtLab: Lutradur
Kathy Shaker
Saturday, September 26, 10 - 4 pm
Advanced Beginning
$30*
artlab lutradur class

It’s paper! It’s fabric! No, it’s Lutradur, an exciting and versatile new product that can be painted, printed, layered, distorted, felted, and so much more. Wear your lab coat (or artist’s apron) as we experiment and play with a variety of art supplies and Lutradur.

*$10 lab fee payable to instructor at class.

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Let’s Make Pincushions
Candy Wood
Sunday, September 27,
11 - 4 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS
$30

lets make pincushions

Make two or three of your very own unique pincushions. Candy will provide several charming patterns. Simple paper piecing will be covered.

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2009 Sisters Art Quilt Symposium

unexpected Combinations by janet fogg

Unexpected Combinations Retreat
With Janet Fogg
At FivePine Lodge & Conference Center
Monday - Friday, September 28 - October 2, 2009
$575 (includes instruction and meals,
Friday's instruction ends at noon.)

In this workshop, Janet will help you explore the creation of unexpected imagery. Compositions form this class involve unusual juxtapositions of subject matter which do not occur in reality, giving your quilts concept and dimension that might not otherwise be achieved. Exercises in creative thinking will generate ideas for individual quilt projects to be designed and sewn in class. Janet will demonstrate how to combine images into a drawing for projection, pattern drawing, and curved machine piecing. Come prepared to unleash your creativity and design a quilt that is not only beautiful, but conceptual as well.

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2009 Sisters Art Quilt Symposium

carol taylor

carol taylor sunset

The Value of Value Retreat
With Carol Taylor
At FivePine Lodge & Conference Center
Monday - Friday, September 28 - October 2, 2009
$575 (includes instruction and meals)

Want to learn how to use value to make your quilt stand out and "flow" from light to dark, while making a vertical or horizontal quilt? This retreat emphasizes a simple, hands-on method of learning to use fuse patchwork with couched circles. Here is a chance to use some of those fancy and unusual fabrics that you've been attracted to, but didn't know how to use. We will tame them by fusing, and learn to mix them with other textured-looking fabrics. See http://www.caroltaylorquilts.com/ for more information on Carol.

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any theme throw

Any Theme Throw
Janice Demers
Wednesday, September 30, October 7, and 14,
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Advanced Beginning BSS
$35

Starting with a theme fabric (Christmas, Halloween,
Juvenile, outdoors…just about anything), we will create a row throw quilt. These are fun, easy, and quick to put together.

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How do I rate my Skill Level?

(Sewing)
Beginning: I have little or no experience with quilt making
Advanced Beginning: I have experience with rotary cutter and piecing
Intermediate: I am comfortable with interpreting patterns and designs
Advanced: I am comfortable with all levels of designing, sewing,
and creating quilts

What are my Basic Sewing Supplies (BSS)?
BSS includes sewing machine in good working order, rotary cutter, cutting mat, ruler, scissors, tape measure, pencil, pins, and seam ripper.

(Knitting/Crochet)
Beginning: Little or no experience knitting or crocheting.
Advanced Beginning: Experience with the following: knit and purl, cast on and bind off, increase/decrease stitches, and knitting in the round. Ability to read simple patterns and an understanding of making and
calculating gauge samples. Knowledge of simple pattern stitches is very helpful. Use of double pointed needles and basic finishing techniques are also helpful.
Intermediate: Ability to read and understand moderately complex patterns – such as garments – and experience with simple color changes. Knowledge of cable stitches, beginning lace stitches, the ability to short row and experience with a three needle bind-off are recommended.
Advanced: Experience with adjusting and adapting patterns, gauge, and size. Also an understanding of knitting and crocheting terminology (abbreviations), and interpreting stitch charts. Experience with Fairisle, Intarsia, Entrelac, Aran, and Kitchner stitches is also recommended.

Be sure to read and understand our Class Registration Policies and
Procedures
on our Class Directory page.

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