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2008 Guest Artist’s Classes At Accomplish Quilting it is our
goal to provide you with opportunities to become the best machine quilter that
you can possibly be. To this end, we
offer classes on a variety of techniques taught by some of the best known and
most accomplished machine quilting artists in the world. Just another way we make it easy for you to
bring your creative dreams to life! If you
have any questions or would like to register for a class please call us at our
toll free number 1-866-556-2552.There are limited spots available so please
register early for a guaranteed spot!!! 2008 Class
Schedule Scroll down to read about the classes and instructors! January 14 Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class- Staff February 15 Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership
Class- Staff February 18-19 Two Day-New Owner- Hand Guided Class- Staff February
27 The Business of
Quilting Lecture – Linda Thiefoldt February
28 Fearless Feather I – Linda Thiefoldt February
29 Custom Sampler Supreme- Linda Thiefoldt March
1 Mystical Cottontracks- Jamie Wallen March
10
Power
Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class- Staff March
20-22 Two
Day- New Owner Statler Stitcher Class - Tammy Finkler March
29 Thread Fusion/Artistic Delights for
Every Quilter- Jamie Wallen April
7 Whimsical & Funky Feathers- Irena Bluhm April 8 Design Center- Irena Bluhm April
9-10 “Let’s try to make a Winner- Wholecloth”- Irena Bluhm April
17 Introduction
to Statler Stitcher Creative Studio *Class meets in April
18-19 Two
Day-New Owner- Hand Guided Class- Staff April
25
Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class-
Staff May
5-6 Two Day-New Owner- Hand Guided Class- Staff May 30
Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class- Staff June 2 Freehand Curlicues, Feathers and Vines-
Tammy Finkler June
16-18 Two Day- New Owner Statler Stitcher Class- Tammy Finkler June
30 Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class- Staff July
11 Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class- Staff July
14-15
Two Day- New Owner- Hand Guided Class-Staff July 21 I can do THAT on my long arm? - Cathy Franks July
22 Inks and thread painting- Cathy Franks August
6-7 Trapunto Techniques- Linda McCuean August
8 Graphic Grid Work- Linda McCuean August
9 “A
Little Bit of Bella”- Linda McCuean August
14-16
Two Day-New Owner Statler Stitcher Class -Tammy Finkler August
18 Power
Quilting 101: Pre-Ownership Class- Staff September
12 Power
Quilting 101: Pre- Ownership Class- Staff September
15-16 Two
Day-New Owner Hand Guided Class-Staff September
22 Paperless Panto- Background and Borders -Linda Thiefoldt September 22 The Business of
Quilting Lecture- Linda Thiefoldt September
23
Freehand Feathers II- Linda Thiefoldt October
16-18 Two
Day-New Owner Statler Stitcher Class -Tammy Finkler October
27
Power Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class-Staff November
10-12 Two Day-New Owner Statler Stitcher Class -Tammy Finkler November
21
Power Quilting 101: Pre- ownership Class- Staff December
5-6
Two Day- New Owner Hand Guided Class-Staff December
8 Power
Quilting 101: Pre-ownership Class-Staff At
Your Pace Online
AutoSketch Classes- Ron Olson The Artists and their
Classes
Tammy Finkler is an award winning quilter.
She started quilting 15 years ago. Tammy is a great person to ask about all
sorts of quilting machines, as she has owned many. She now finds her favorites
are her Gammill Classic Plus and her Optimum Statler Stitcher. The waiting list
for her custom quilting is about one year. She loves designing and making
whole-cloth quilts with faux trapunto, feathers, flowers and heavy stitching.
You can visit Tammy on her apple and cattle farm in Two Day New Owner-Statler Stitcher
Training- Tammy Finkler Day-1: Learn the latest; most effective and
beautiful ways to quilt with the computer guided Statler Stitcher. Among the topics covered in this class are: selecting appropriate patterns and threads,
operation of the software and machine to do borders, edge-to-edge,
stitch-in-the-ditch, basting, measuring and squaring the quilt, diagonals/sashing,
setting blocks, setting triangles, basic freehand techniques and binding. Plus loads of helpful “tips and tricks” to get
you quilting like a pro. Day-2: In this hands on class, learn to create basic
executable designs for the Statler Stitcher using AutoSketch. Some of the topics addressed on this day
are: toolbars, macros, default page
template setup, snaps, keyboard shortcuts, use of lots of tools, drawing with a
continuous line rather than numbering, creating simple block, border and corner
patterns, saving files, importing and tracing images, basics for point to point
and edge-to-edge patterns. This class
will empower you to create a pattern that is just right for any situation.
Class Fee: $500 (Free with the purchase of a long arm from Accomplish Quilting, Inc.) Freehand Curlicues, Feathers, and Vines- Tammy Finkler In this hands-on
class, everyone will complete a small quilt while learning freehand techniques
to speed up your custom as well as allover quilting jobs. These designs can be used in
borders, sashing, blocks, triangles, all-overs,
backgrounds, etc. Cost: $225 Linda Thielfoldt Linda has won a many blue ribbons for her
quilted garments in the past few years. These ribbons include the blue in
wearable art in national competition at the 2002, 2003 and 2006 Machine
Quilter's Showcase. She took a blue ribbon at MQX in 2006 and has also won
place ribbons at many other national quilt shows in the past few years. Linda
brings over 30 years sewing and quilting experience to her classes. In her
early 20's she operated a bridal sewing business making custom wedding gowns
and accessories but quilting soon took over as her passion so she closed the
bridal sewing business and opened The Quilted Goose. For more than 15 years she
successfully owned a Marketing and Advertising agency, Devlin Group Inc., and
had many corporate clients who relied on her marketing expertise. She has
taught quilting for 11 years and loves to share her knowledge of quilting and
sewing. Her classes are taught with enthusiasm in a fun, lively, no-rules
environment where you will walk out of her class with new ideas and
inspiration! Visit Linda’s website at http://www.thequiltedgoose.com Introduction
to Statler Stitcher Creative Studio- Linda Thielfoldt Learn the basics of Creative Studio
Software so you can start using this wonderful new product! Date: April 17th, 2008 Time: 9:30am-1:30pm Location: Community Center Cost: $60.00 The Business of Quilting Lecture - Linda
Thielfoldt This class
is geared to those interested in starting a quilting business as well as those
who have already done so, or who are looking to improve their profitability and
productivity. Linda has successfully applied her 25 years of business
experience and ownership to the longarm quilting industry. She has owned her
own advertising/marketing agency, owns a property management company and runs a
successful quilting business: The Quilted Goose. Lecture includes useful
handouts and examples to help you jump start or revitalize your quilting
business. Cost: $50
Have
you always wanted to learn how to sew feathers freehand? Do you cringe when a
customer asks you to do a feather in a border? Have you been quilting feathers
freehand but wish you had some more creative ideas when it comes to feathers on
quilts? Do the feathers you quilt now fall below your expectations? If so, this
class is for you! This class will take the student through all the steps
necessary to be fearless with those feathers. Using some time-tested techniques
and tricks Linda will help take the fear out of feathers. Cost: $225 Custom
Sampler Supreme - Linda
Thielfoldt Paperless Panto- Backgrounds and Borders-Linda Thielfoldt
Call
Accomplish Quilting at 1-866-556-2552 for details! Cost: $225 Freehand Feathers II –Linda Thielfoldt Fearless Feathers I is
prerequisite for this class. You
have some feathering under your belt and you are ready to explore new ways to
use the versatile feather. In this full day hands-on class you will make a
whole cloth sampler using several different freehand feather designs. The
sampler can be bound and hung in your studio to show off your work. Cost: $225 Cathy Franks Cathy Franks is an international award winning quilt artist. Cathy has
been described as being innovative, dedicated and as a person that has an energy
level that never quits! Cathy is an informative teacher and is a perfectionist
at detail, color and technique. Along with winning many awards, Cathy has
appeared on television shows, magazine covers, book covers and special
promotion publications. In Cathy’s classes, she will share her secrets on how
to avoid mistakes while quilting. Cathy has been quilting for 30 years, machine
quilting for 15 years and long arm quilting since 1993. Cathy has even made quilts for President
George W. Bush and Steven Spielberg. Visit Cathy's own website. www.cathyfranks.com to
learn more about her!! I can do THAT on my long arm? - Cathy Franks Longarms are
for more than just quilting! Beautiful textures can be created quickly with a
few simple fabrics and exciting yarns, ribbons and bits of left over
fabrics. I’ll show how to create fringing and flash and trash to cover up
raw edges. Create stunning textures by capturing bits and pieces with netting
and pleating and floral designs with silk flowers and thread. Make your
own thread appliqués fabric and needle lace to add to your list of what you can
do. She will even try to show you how to make the kitchen sink. Cost: $225 Inks and thread painting- Cathy
Franks Fabric
inks are a great way to add color and splash to your fabric. I’ll show you the
easy way to use them. But that’s not the only thing ill show you how to do in
this class! Let’s toss in a little thread painting to add details and texture
to that design. I’ll show you how to make an object look real by how you blend
thread colors and which direction you stitch the thread in. Lots of tips given
here so join in! Cost: $225 Jamie Wallen Jamie brings his background in fine arts
to the longarm world! Mystical Cottontracks: Extending Boundaries in our Freehand Quilting - Jamie Wallen In
this class we are going to hit the cotton quilting freehand style. Jamie will
cover his original all over designs for edge to edge. Included are: Flurry of
Angels, Hearts Take Flight, Scrollwork, and many others. We will then take
these designs to the high-end custom quilting level with related block and sash
designs. Cost: $225 Thread Fusion/ Artistic Delights for every quilter-Jamie Wallen Come Prepared
to experience and learn mouth watering arrays of techniques and designs that
will make your projects sing. In this class, we will uncover exciting new
textures and apply them to new set-ins, sashings and
borders. Participants will also learn outrageous fillers to showcase
these unearthly delights. Come experience the concepts of “Threadfusion!”
Cost: $225 Irena Bluhm Irena is from
rural Whimsical & Funky Feathers- Irena
Bluhm As
soon as you learn how to draw, you will know how to sew! A brand new collection
of Irena’s Whimsical and Funky Feathers is going to be used in this class to
create some really exciting and unique looking quilting designs like: blocks,
corners, swags and center medallions. Improve and expand your freehand motion
quilting skills and add some new, unique and exciting variety of quilting
designs to your repertoire. After Irena shows you how, you will be creating
your own designs, using your own creativity and imagination. If you tell
Irena that you can’t draw, she wont believe you. Even
if you never drew before, you will be drawing and stitching in this class! You
will learn very fast by following just a few easy to understand steps and start
creating your own quilting designs using those funky and unique looking
feathers. Take your quilting capabilities one notch further by learning this
easy to follow technique. Cost- $225 “Lets try to make a Winner- Wholecloth”- Irena
Bluhm Whole cloth design and execution- 2 day workshop. Irena
Bluhm is going to provide all patterns, step by step instructions and
assistance in design, marking and execution of a whole cloth quilt during this
hands-on experience. The students will have enough patterns and will be
encouraged to make a few larger quilts later if they wish. Students who finish
their class projects or complete other larger projects on their own are going
to be encouraged to enter them into competition and share photographs of there
masterpieces if they wish. Cost: $450 Linda McCuean Linda McCuean
is an award winning quilter and instructor. Linda’s quilt “Bella” was
recognized as a masterpiece quilt. The whole cloth quilt, winner
of the inaugural $100,000 Quilting Challenge, was evaluated at the National
Quilting Association’s annual show last year in Columbus, Ohio, where it was
officially awarded the status of Masterpiece Quilt – the first longarm-quilted
quilt to receive the distinction. Some other awards include “Best in Show” at
the Road to Tropunto Techniques- Linda
McCuean This
class is a two day hands on class. This class will explore a variety of
techniques to achieve the popular stuffed looks of trapunto. We will begin by
discussing how to choose effective quilting designs for trapunto and different
combinations of battings and styles of background quilting to create the most
drama with your tapunto work. Students will create a
variety of trapunto samples that will be useful for future decision making or
to show to customers. Many finished samples for viewing will be available.
There will be homework to complete in the evening between class days. Cost:
$450 Graphic Grid Work- Linda McCuean |
