Embroidery Club

February 01, 2020

Embroidery Machine

Embroidery Unit

5 x7 Hoop

Power Cord

Embroidery Foot

You will receive an email letting you know what threads to bring by the Friday before class.

Kit will be provided.

Silhouette Club

Silhouette Cameo with power cord and connection cable and cutting blade

Laptop with mouse and Silhouette Studio Software

Cutting Mat Regular Hold and Light Hold (highly recommended)

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Small Quilt Club

Basic Sewing supplies as posted on website

Book - 101 Fabulous Small Quilts

Petite Plus Jeans

 

I decided to teach this class because I was tired of searching for jeans that fit. These jeans are designed especially for the full curves of the petite woman.  Now I have 4 pairs of jeans that fit me perfectly.  If you fall into the petite plus category, this class is for you.  You will learn to fit the pattern to your measurements and to cut and construct a custom fitted pair of jeans.  Don’t let the single page of sewing instructions fool you. This class is not for the beginner.  In order to be successful you should be comfortable with inserting a zipper and topstitching.

 

Supplies

Sewing machine in good working order*

Jeans or microtex sewing machine needles, size 80/12 or 90/14

Sharp scissors

Straight pins

Tape measure

Seam ripper

Marking pens

Transparent tape

Petite plus pattern #605

Fabric

½ yard of cotton for pocket lining

¾” sew through sport style elastic

Thread

Contrasting thread for topstitching

Waistband closure of your choice (button, rivet, heavy duty hook and eye)

9” heavy zipper (if longer, can be shortened)

Wonder tape

*The instructions call for serging all raw edges.  If you own a serger, bring it to class along with your sewing machine.  If you do not have a serger you can use a medium zigzag stitch or overlock stitch on your sewing machine.

 

pattern in class Sizing and fabric selection

Choose a medium to heavy weight woven or stretch-woven fabric.  Cotton denim fabrics with spandex are ideal. Compare your measurements to those on the Petite Plus measurements chart.  Choose you size according to your hip or tummy measurement, whichever is larger.  The waist and waistband can be adjusted after you select the correct size.  We will do these adjustments in class before we cut out the pattern.

 

Before class

Assemble all or your supplies, purchase the pattern (Steve’s has it), fabric, and notions.  We will cut out the pattern in class

 

Sizing and fabric selection

Choose a medium to heavy weight woven or stretch-woven fabric.  Cotton denim fabrics with spandex are ideal. Compare your measurements to those on the Petite Plus measurements chart.  Choose you size according to your hip or tummy measurement, whichever is larger.  The waist and waistband can be adjusted after you select the correct size.  We will do these adjustments in class before we cut out the pattern.

 

 

Week one

1. Adjust the pattern for the proper waist measurement.

2. Cut out the pattern.

3. Sew the back leg seam

4. Construct and add back pockets.

 

Week two

1. Construct the front pockets

2. Insert the fly front zipper and zipper guard.

 

Week three

1. Sew the inside leg and side seams.

2. Construct the waistband and belt loops.

3. Hem your jeans.

 

Now strut on out of here with your new jeans!

Regular Supply List for Quilting

Sewing Machine

Sewing Machine Foot Quarter Inch or Straight Stitch

Needles Size 80/12

Thread Snips

Fabric Scissors

Rotary Cutter & Mat

Rotary Ruler 6" x 18" or 6"x 24"

Straight Pins

Seam Ripper

Purple Thang

Mettler or Aurifil Thread

Roll of Masking Tape

Time to Quilt

This is your time to work on your chosen project! This may be a new project, or one you needed help remembering what and how you were doing, or finishing a quilt with the binding. Bring all the fabrics for the project. You may bring your sewing machine or use a store machine. If using your machine, please bring the machine instruction book, new needles, and several extra bobbins.

 

• ***Please USE Mettler silk-finish thread or Aurifil thread unless you are doing decorative stitching with specialty threads.

• Please bring your basic sewing supplies or buy them here at the store(class discount). This includes thread scissors, fabric scissors, pins, seam ripper, and any rotary cutting items you need. ​

• Please call me if you have any questions – thanks, Lee Paylor 610-889-3286

Beginning Free Motion Quilting with Lee

Machine quilting is --  straight lines, wavy lines and lines in between  ! Come and

learn machine quilting on your home machine.  Learn the joy of being as one with

your machine.  Ample practice time in class to help you practice at home.

 

Supplies :

• Sewing machine, cleaned and oiled.    must be able to cover or drop the feed dogs.

• Sewing machine instruction book

• For your machine :   free motion quilting foot

•          Walking foot

• Thread scissors

• Rotary ruler  6” x 12” (don’t have this size – then bring the size you have)

• Pencil  

• Quilting gloves (must fit snugly)

• hand gel  “Made by Hand” by Mary Ellen --   I prefer this over gloves !!!

• No. 2 curved basting safety  pins

• We will share packs of quilting machine needles and then you can see what works best for you.

 

• You will need a minimum of 4 sandwiches and then  make more as you need.

• A sandwich is a piece of fabric – right side down , a layer of batting, and a top layer of fabric- right side up.   These can be pressed together or pressed and pin-basted.

• Fabric for sandwiches – a solid, either light or dark or one on each side.

• Mettler or Aurifil  cotton thread -- the color must contrast with your fabrics !

• Batting – warm and natural cotton… you want reasonably thin

• The fabric – a 1/2 yard for each sandwich :

• keep the fold in the fabric… place the batting between, and you have a

• sandwich !!!

• A yard of batting could give you 8 sandwiches, about 18” x 20”.

• Your sandwich should be about 18” x 20” – a few inches bigger or smaller will be fine.

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Please use good quality cotton and batting --- this will make a big difference in your quilting !

Bernina Software Club

Laptop with software installed. Current version is 8.2.

Floriani & DIME PEP Software Club

Laptop with software installed.

DesignWorks

Computer with DesignWorks software installed.  Make sure you have the dongle (USB Key).  You can also elect to come with just your enthusiasm and watch the projected computer in class.