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Sashiko Quilted Mini-Wall Hanging

Welcome guests into your home with a Sashiko quilted hanging! The little bird printed fabric is cleverly embellished with flip-stitched Sashiko decorative cording. Dimensional fabric flowers, created in-the-hoop with the embroidery machine, decorate the applied branches. Glass beads dangle here and there, giving added interest and texture. This class brings out the playful side of machine embroidery; Baby Lock’s Sashiko quilting and Baby Lock’s Evolution’s cover stitch!

The kit includes everything you need to make the project as shown as well as the class designs and project instructions on a CD. The finished quilt will be approximately 14” x 18”. (Quilt colors may vary slightly from the photo shown.)

Class time: 6 - 8 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock, Inc. Sashiko and Embellisher, embroidery and sewing machine with a 4x4 and 5x7 hoop

SEW CREATIVE!

Listen, learn and play during this all day interactive seminar! The first half of the day, Evy will present her All About Embroidery lecture followed by demonstrations on the embroidery machine. Watch how easy it is to make a quilt block in-the-hoop and then try your hand at it or just enjoy examining Evy’s extensive trunk show and product line. Next, Evy will present her Sensational Sashiko and Embellisher Magic lectures followed by demonstrations on both of these very creative Baby Lock machines. Watch while she shows you how to create a masterpiece with her easy techniques and then try it yourself! Each attendee will get a chance to make fabric for two mini-projects – a Sashiko quilted and embellished eyeglass case and a sweet silk sachet created with luscious silks and fancy fibers. The sewing instructions for both of these projects are available to take home.

Discover your inner artist – come play with Evy for day!

This class includes a free gift handout containing machine embroidery designs, projects and other fun stuff. (Project fabrics may vary.)

Class time: 8 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock, Inc. Embellisher and Sashiko machine

Velvet Pansy Brooch

Make a luscious silk velvet pansy; adding silk ribbons, Angelina fibers, beads and other fancy trims to construct a beautiful brooch! The pansy petals and leaves are created in the hoop and simple hand sewing constructs the flower. Wear it on your lapel, pin it in your hair, on your hat or just use it to jazz up a purse. This brooch makes a simply stunning embellishment no matter where you put it!

The class kit contains all the fabrics, trims, beads and notions needed to make an over-sized pansy brooch as well as the class designs and instructions on a CD. The finished brooch measures approximately 3” x 4”.
(Pansy colors may vary.)

Class time: 3 hours
Requirements: Embroidery, 5x7 hoop

Sweet Lady Needle Felted Letter Holder

Combine beautiful fabrics, fancy fibers and a bit of fancy motif stitching to create this one-of-a-kind needle felted letter holder. Inside are two pockets, perfectly sized for greeting cards, stationery or even electronic gadgets! This class demonstrates how to create whole cloth from small pieces of silk fabrics to make needle felted fabric suitable for sturdy projects.

The class kit contains all the fabrics needed to create the letter holder plus the class instructions on a CD. (Fabric colors may vary.)

Class time: 4 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock, Inc Embellisher, sewing machine

Elegant Quilted Evening Purse

Quilting to wear on your arm! This soft and gorgeous evening purse is made from silk velvet, quilted and embellished with Baby Lock’s Sashiko machine. A lovely “pleated” flower – also created on the Sashiko machine – provides the finishing touch!

The class kit contains all the fabrics needed to create the purse plus a purse chain handle and the instructions on a CD. (Purse and chain handle colors may vary.)

Class time: 4 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock, Inc. Sashiko, sewing machine

Little Birdie Welcome Sign

A cheerful print, a happy greeting and a little needle magic make this mini-quilt the perfect wall decoration! A dimensional fabric flower and leaves decorate a cover-stitched bias branch. The leaves are stitched to the background with Sashiko stitching. The flower center is a covered button. Flipstitched cord, trimmed with beads at the ends, accents the Sashiko quilting here and there. A needle felted bird perches merrily on the wooden dowel hanger and a sweet bird and branch charm (complete with tiny bead eggs!) dangles from the quilt bottom.

Class Time: 8 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock’s Sashiko, Embellisher, embroidery and sewing machine with a 4x4 and 6x10 or larger hoop. (Larger hoop requires a hoop placement grid)
Note: The needle felted bird is optional. Kit fabrics and colors may not be the same as pictured here.

Links:
"Pretty Posy" embroidery
"Baby Lock, Inc.

Boudoir Beauties

Every woman deserves a beautiful place to wake up to! This elegantly fun dresser scarf and tissue box cover would make any lady’s “getting ready in the morning” a little less stressful. The padded linen dresser scarf and tissue box cover are quilted with Sashiko stitching, trimmed with fancy ribbon yarn and embellished with embroidered dimensional flowers and butterflies. The top of the tissue box cover is made from needle felted silk fabrics and adorned with additional butterflies and flowers. Tiny pearl beads decorate the bodies and flower centers, adding a bit of shine.

Class Time: 6 – 8 hours Requirements: Baby Lock’s Sashiko, Embellisher, a serger and embroidery and sewing machine with a 4x4 hoop. Links: "Applied Bugs" "Spring Blooms" "Baby Lock, Inc."

Petite Baby Apron

Perfect for a sweet little helper and exceptionally fast and fun to make, this tiny apron will delight any little girl. (Big girls like them too as a beautiful bit of home décor!) A single linen guest towel and a little grosgrain ribbon is all it takes to create this project. One of Evy’s favorite embroidery designs – a little dolly tea party – decorates the apron front. This is a great seasonal project, change the embroidery design and guest towel color and change the whole look!

Class Time: 3 hours
Requirements: Embroidery machine with a 6x10 or larger hoop.

To find the perfect linen towel for this project, visit All About Blanks www.allaboutblanks.com/

Links:
"Baby Toy Borders"
"Baby Lock, Inc."

Pretty Posy Head Band

Make this cute fabric flower headband with your embroidery machine! The plastic, fabric covered band is embellished with a dimensional fabric flower complete with a leaf and a fabric covered button for the flower center. This fun project shows off your embroidery machine’s ability to “sew” in-the-hoop!

Class Time: 3 hours
Requirements: Embroidery and sewing machine with a 4x4 hoop.

Links:
Pretty Posy

Sashiko Cosmetic Case

Sweet Sashiko stitching quilts this lovely little zippered cosmetic case and a dimensional fabric flower adds the finishing touch! This project showcases Baby Lock’s Sashiko machine quilting and fringe flip stitching techniques and teaches you how to use your embroidery machine to “sew” in-the-hoop.

Class Time: 4 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock Sashiko machine; embroidery and sewing machine with a 4x4 hoop.

Links:
Baby Lock, Inc.
Pretty Posy

Silk Organza Rose

Use your embroidery machine to "grow" a beautiful, life-like 3D rose, one that will never fade! This class will show you how to create made in-the-hoop rose petals and stitch them together into a lovely bloom, perfect for wearing on your lapel. The class kit includes all the supplies necessary to make the rose. A 4x4 hoop is required.

Embellisher Purse Class

Create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind, work of art and use it as a purse! This hands-on class will show you how to use the Baby Lock Embellisher to join silk fabrics and other fancy fibers into a whole piece of cloth, which will then be used to make a purse. A lovely silk organza flower, created with machine embroidery, adds the final elegant touch! The class kit includes everything you need to make the purse as shown except for the brooch pin in the flower center. Students are encouraged to bring their own fancy brooches or ornate buttons to class. Class kit includes the project/embroidery design CD.

Class Time: 6 – 8 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock’s Embellisher machine, embroidery machine with 4x4 hoop and sewing machine.

Other color variations are available

Needle Felted Purse Tote

Find out how easy it is to “jump-start” your needle felting creativity with simple appliqué designs! Techniques taught show you how to use appliqué to create base designs, which then can be needle-felted with roving, ribbon and other fancy trim. In this class, both the Baby Lock Embellisher and embroidery machine will be used. The class kit includes the designs/project CD.

Class Time: 6 – 8 hours
Requirements: Baby Lock’s Embellisher, embroidery machine with 4x4 hoop and sewing

Doll Making In-the-hoop

This class showcases the craftiness of the embroidery machine! Project includes two dolls, one adult sprite and one baby sprite. The clothes and 3D bloom appliqués are all made in the hoop as well. Simple hand sewing and a little bit of glue are used to construct the dolls. Color choices are peach or dark tan for the bodies and lavender or pink for the garments.

You are never too old to play with dolls! Come let Evy show you how fun it is to remember that!

The class kit contains all the fabrics needed to make two fairy dolls, the class designs and instructions on a CD.

Class time: 6 hours
Requirements: Embroidery, 4x4 & 5x7 hoop

Quilted In-the-Hoop Pillow

Fast, fun and really easy, this project is sure to delight both professional quilters and those who think they can’t quilt! The quilt square showcased in this fashionable pillow is pieced, appliquéd and stippled with batting in the hoop. The mini-corners and half blocks that join the appliquéd squares are also stippled with batting in the hoop. Rickrack trim and beads complete the look.

Class kits contain fabrics, batting, trimmings and embroidery design CD.

Class time: 6 – 8 hours
Requirements: Embroidery and sewing; 4x4 and 5x7 hoops

Other pillow variations available

Lectures

» All About Machine Embroidery Lecture and Trunk Show

What is undercover and why do I need it? (Does it come in control top?) And…what's this plastic thingy that came with my hoop? Why are my appliqué's wrinkled? What do you mean, reverse appliqué? (I don't even know how to do it forwards!) What's with all these puckers around my embroidery? You can build a quilt block in the hoop? What do you mean float my stabilizer? What is a topper and is ice cream involved?

Find out that there is no such thing as a stupid question. This lecture is perfect for machine embroidery wannabies, newbies and perfectionists. Be inspired by the creations that come out of Evy's studio and find out why and how she does what she does with machine embroidery.

After this lecture Evy will demonstrate one of her favorite techniques, "quilting in-the-hoop" and you will see some of Evy's favorite trunk show pieces for yourself!

» Sashiko & Embellisher Trunk Show & Lecture/Demo

Come see how much fun Evy has been having with two of Baby Lock's most creative machines - the Embellisher and the Sashiko! Watch her demonstrate her favorite techniques for Sashiko stitching and needle felting.

Learn how to use the Sashiko machine's sweetly simple stitch to make perfect pleats, couch creatively, apply "feather stitched" appliqués, and draw pictorial motifs, cross-stitch and more. You won't believe what that one sweetly simple stitch can do until you see it!

If you think that needle felting has to be all about wool, come let Evy prove that no naked sheep live in her studio! Watch her show you how to create beautiful fabric collages using fine silks and fancy fibers with the Embellisher. Of course, felting wool is fun too, and there is no need to be an artist to create beautiful felted wool creations. Evy will show you how to use your embroidery machine to jump-start the process.

After the presentation lecture you will have a chance to see Evy's original projects, up close and personal, made using both machines and watch her demonstrate some of her techniques on the Sashiko and Embellisher. Come be inspired and discover your own creative genius just waiting to be unleashed!

Trunk show

Includes a display of Evy’s many machine embroidery projects, a short lecture, a lengthy question and answer session and a chance to shop!
AV equipment optional