Updated information 9/11/09!!!
Kate Mitchell is hosting an IQ "retreat" Oct. 19th and 20th when I
will be in the New York region for an installation.. Kate lives in the
Albany, area and has a beautiful vacation, rental home that we will be
staying at. She can only accommodate around 8 people, so please sign
up as soon as possible if you're interested.
Here are more details....
Monday
the 19th we will be meeting in the morning and starting a mystery quilt
Kate will be designing for us. To learn more about Kate and her
designs please visit http://www.berkshirequilts.com/. During
breaks we will be discussing ways to incorporate the IQ to execute the
quilting. The quilt will have a few challenging areas on it so we can
learn how to deal with them IQ wise. Hopefully by the afternoon we
will all have our quilts pieced. After dinner, there will be a short
demonstration on how to digitize with Corel Draw 12 and also a question
and answer session for some of the newer features of the IQ. During
this time, some may also want to hand sew optional applique designs
onto their mystery quilt tops to practice some of the IQ's background
features.
Tuesday the 20th we will then be moving over
to Kate's studio in town for me to demonstrate quilting this actual
quilt top. I will be demonstrating 3 different ways to fit and sew the
borders along with tips and tricks for streamlining setting up the
blocks. Included in the demonstrations will be actual stitch-outs of
background fills and creative ways to use them. If there is time, I
will also be loading a different quilt and showing how to go about
incorporating no-sew blocks within a panto and also setting up and
sewing pantos to perfection within borders.
Costs for this
retreat is $200 per student. This includes, instruction, housing and
FOOD! Please let Kate or myself know as soon as possible if you are
interested.
Thanks,
Linda Lawson
linda@longarmchat.com
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