Eggstravaganza 2010

Eggstravaganza
January 16, 2010
Mark your calendars to attend this “egg-citing” quilting day. Classes, projects, and vendors fill your day with fun, food and friends while hatching quilting techniques, learning new methods, visiting local quilt shops all in one place—St. Marks Lutheran Church, 675 N Mulford Rd., Rockford, IL 61107

Registration begins October 15, 2009. Sign up for a registration form today in class or email slatersewso@comcast.net
Hatched by the Feathered Nest

Programs to choose from:

Quilt Guilds, Church Groups, and Meetings——Schedule your own Hen Party !!

We are always more than happy to come to your group and “show and crow.” This old hen (and sometimes my best hen friend) lead your group in hatching new ideas and having an eggciting time. Choose from one of the following:

1. Roadblock Pattern Trunk Show—This series of patterns feature Donna’s basic “Sew, Press, and Cut” method putting you on the road to designing and creating with these basic patterns.

2. Strip Addiction—A Fix for Fabraholics. Use your stash and many different colors in the Feathered Nest’s technique of loops. Learn color secret, some nesting methods and improve your quilting techniques.

3.Scrapples Newest book using different size strips with no matching seam allowances, all in one color way with different values. Excellent class on colors, values, and building a unique design in an easy way. Scrapples is named for scraps of purple, but you can use any color you want.

Quilt 101

Quilt 101

Classes for everyone. Hancock Fabrics has partnered with The Feathered Nest to host a beginning quilt class called Quilt 101.

Have you ever asked yourself, where do I begin? What supplies do I really need? How do I pick the fabric for my project. Will I be able to finish? If you have, then Quilt 101 is the class for you. This class walks you through the steps to create a 42"x 42" wallhanging from picking the fabric to binding the finished quilt. Need to brush up on skills? Come join the fun.

$45.00 includes the pattern and three sessions. Hancock gives discount coupon for your purchases at the store.
Evening class 6:30-8pm--10/12/,10/26, and 11/2.
Daytime class 1-3PM--10/16,10/23/, and 10/30

Sign up and pay at the register of Hancock Fabrics, 5836 E. State Street, Rockford, IL 61108.

For questions call 815-275-7465 or email slatersewso@comcast.net

Scrapples

Scraps and purple! This is my newest book and sending to the printer today. It should be available in October or November.

To contact for speaking, comments, or ideas email at slatersewso@comcast.net