| Academy 2009 |
| Third Annual The Chicago Sewing, Embroidery, and Quilting Academy November 5 - November 7, 2009 |
Academy includes:
- Great Projects and Fantastic Teachers
- Most fabrics, some threads, and great embroidery designs for all your projects
- Tons of information on YOUR sewing machine
- Martini / WIne and Nibbles plus trunk shows Thursday night
- Continental breakfast, and lunch on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Dinner on Friday evening, optional
- After Hours Sewing on Friday night - catch up time!
- EmbroidaBlock Quilt show - bring your EmbroidaBlock projects!
Academy Classes:
- Join Lynda Remmers and Annie Moody from Hoopsisters.com plus Patti Dockus from Quilter's Destination for
almost 3 days of embroidery and sewing. - Spend Saturday with Angie Steveson from Lunch Box Quilts
- Class Descriptions below.
- Some classroom machines provided
- Finish most of your projects in class! We hope!!
| Academy Schedule |
| This academy is sponsored by Sewing Concepts of Woodstock and Carpentersville (815) 338-7754 or (847) 836-7800 and Quilter's Destination of Arlington Heights (847) 506-6410 Academy will be held in Woodstock Illinois at the Woodstock Square Mall. A block of rooms are available at the Holiday Inn Express in Woodstock. Book your room by October 5th to get the group rate of $89.99 for a double room. Mention "The Academy" to get the group rate. Holiday Inn Express 1785 S. Eastwood Ave. Woodstock, IL. 60098 (815) 334-9600 Cost will be the same as last year! $379 will cover all fabrics, and most other supplies. You will need to bring your own sewing machine and sewing supplies. A list of supplies will be sent after registration. |
|
Angie Steveson
Angie began sewing as a young girl
thru the 4-H program. As an adult she
rediscovered sewing and began her
appreciation for quilting in 1990. Angie
enjoys many of the aspects of quilting,
but mostly design and color.
After the purchase of her first
embroidery machine she became
fascinated with incorporating the
embroidery function of the machine
with quilting. "I have developed
beautiful machine appliqués with the
machine doing all the work".
Angie has been instructing others in
quilting since 2004. She started
teaching with her original quilt “Merry
Christmas” and have loved every
moment. Her two goals for students
are for them to learn something new
and to have fun in class.
The Sunflower Quilt Design received
the "Viewers Choice Award" at the
Bernina University 2006.
Angie will teach "Students Choice"
at the Academy this year. Choose
from 5 of her fabulous designs to
stitch in class. We don't expect you
to complete a quilt in just one day,
but you will leave with an
understanding of Angie's methods
and a great start on a fun new
project.
Date: Saturday November 7th
www.lunchboxquilts.com
I met Angie at Janome Institute this
last Summer and found her to be
delightful to talk to, lots of fun, and her
designs are amazing! She will be a
great addition to our Academy.
Lynda
Angie began sewing as a young girl
thru the 4-H program. As an adult she
rediscovered sewing and began her
appreciation for quilting in 1990. Angie
enjoys many of the aspects of quilting,
but mostly design and color.
After the purchase of her first
embroidery machine she became
fascinated with incorporating the
embroidery function of the machine
with quilting. "I have developed
beautiful machine appliqués with the
machine doing all the work".
Angie has been instructing others in
quilting since 2004. She started
teaching with her original quilt “Merry
Christmas” and have loved every
moment. Her two goals for students
are for them to learn something new
and to have fun in class.
The Sunflower Quilt Design received
the "Viewers Choice Award" at the
Bernina University 2006.
Angie will teach "Students Choice"
at the Academy this year. Choose
from 5 of her fabulous designs to
stitch in class. We don't expect you
to complete a quilt in just one day,
but you will leave with an
understanding of Angie's methods
and a great start on a fun new
project.
Date: Saturday November 7th
www.lunchboxquilts.com
I met Angie at Janome Institute this
last Summer and found her to be
delightful to talk to, lots of fun, and her
designs are amazing! She will be a
great addition to our Academy.
Lynda
Lynda Remmers and Annie Moody
Over five years ago, sisters Lynda
Remmers and Annie Moody were at a
sewing getaway with friends. While
Lynda digitized a wall hanging for her
family room, Annie worked on a crazy
quilt pattern. Some late nights were
spent discussing the possibilities of
this new quilt technique. Lynda went
home and began teaching the
technique to her customers at Sewing
Concepts in Woodstock Illinois and
Annie, an Educator with Janome
America, Inc. began teaching it across
the United States. Everywhere Annie
went her students wanted to know
where they can get more patterns and
Lynda’s customers couldn't wait to see
what she came up with next. Lynda
and Annie decided these patterns
needed to be shared with everybody
and they were inspired to design more.
Lynda and Annie will teach a
Holiday Table Runner class using
your choice of Hoopsisters blocks.
Learn two great ways to join our
quilt as you go blocks. You'll
complete this project in class and
take it home just in time to
decorate for the holidays. A
special block will be created just
for Academy students!
Date: Friday November 6th
www.hoopsisters.com
My little sister Annie, has been with us
at each of our Academy's. It just
wouldn't be the same without her.
We've come a long way since the first
Academy, when she worked for
Janome and we both dreamed of
starting our own company. Well, our
dream has become reality, we will have
just returned home from introducing
our products in Australia, and we're
having the time of our lives!
Lynda
Over five years ago, sisters Lynda
Remmers and Annie Moody were at a
sewing getaway with friends. While
Lynda digitized a wall hanging for her
family room, Annie worked on a crazy
quilt pattern. Some late nights were
spent discussing the possibilities of
this new quilt technique. Lynda went
home and began teaching the
technique to her customers at Sewing
Concepts in Woodstock Illinois and
Annie, an Educator with Janome
America, Inc. began teaching it across
the United States. Everywhere Annie
went her students wanted to know
where they can get more patterns and
Lynda’s customers couldn't wait to see
what she came up with next. Lynda
and Annie decided these patterns
needed to be shared with everybody
and they were inspired to design more.
Lynda and Annie will teach a
Holiday Table Runner class using
your choice of Hoopsisters blocks.
Learn two great ways to join our
quilt as you go blocks. You'll
complete this project in class and
take it home just in time to
decorate for the holidays. A
special block will be created just
for Academy students!
Date: Friday November 6th
www.hoopsisters.com
My little sister Annie, has been with us
at each of our Academy's. It just
wouldn't be the same without her.
We've come a long way since the first
Academy, when she worked for
Janome and we both dreamed of
starting our own company. Well, our
dream has become reality, we will have
just returned home from introducing
our products in Australia, and we're
having the time of our lives!
Lynda
Patti Dockus
Patti opened Quilter’s Destination in
Arlington Heights, IL in September,
2006 after a long career in Corporate
America as an information technology
manager. She began sewing in third
grade by hand, making her own Barbie
clothes and by machine when her
girlfriend taught her in 6th grade. She
has experience in tailored sewing
(think suits and coats), as well as
home décor and fashion sewing. Her
love in more recent years has been
quilting. She can’t think of a more
fulfilling job than being a full time fabric
buyer and seller!
Patti will teach Embroidery
Goes 3-D!
Discover how to use threads to
turn an ordinary outline design
into an extraordinary one! See
how different a design can look
when you go 3-D! A new way of
embroidering that you have not
seen or thought about will be
introduced. You don’t even
need special 3D glasses to attend
this class!
After lunch it's All about Blanks
with Patti!
Does trying to figure out what to
do with a “blank” cause you a
blankety-blank moment? Come to
this class and let us fill you up with
ideas! Complete a fun
personalized “blank” project using
provided software. Never be blank
again!
Date: Thursday November 5th
Patti and I got to know each other
when she first became a sewing
machine dealer. She is full of great
ideas and I look forward to her joining
us this year.
Lynda
Also available on Thursday
November 5th,
Digitizing and EQ6 with Lynda
Remmers and Annie Moody: Lynda
and Annie from Hoopsisters will
take you thru Digitizer MB and
Digitizer Jr. by Janome. Get the
basics of this amazing software!
The Hoopsisters use this, and
other brands of digitizing software
PLUS Electric Quilt 6 to create
EmbroidaBlock designs. Learn how
to create your embroidery design
in EQ, then how to digitize it using
Digitizer MB and Digitizer Jr.!
Patti opened Quilter’s Destination in
Arlington Heights, IL in September,
2006 after a long career in Corporate
America as an information technology
manager. She began sewing in third
grade by hand, making her own Barbie
clothes and by machine when her
girlfriend taught her in 6th grade. She
has experience in tailored sewing
(think suits and coats), as well as
home décor and fashion sewing. Her
love in more recent years has been
quilting. She can’t think of a more
fulfilling job than being a full time fabric
buyer and seller!
Patti will teach Embroidery
Goes 3-D!
Discover how to use threads to
turn an ordinary outline design
into an extraordinary one! See
how different a design can look
when you go 3-D! A new way of
embroidering that you have not
seen or thought about will be
introduced. You don’t even
need special 3D glasses to attend
this class!
After lunch it's All about Blanks
with Patti!
Does trying to figure out what to
do with a “blank” cause you a
blankety-blank moment? Come to
this class and let us fill you up with
ideas! Complete a fun
personalized “blank” project using
provided software. Never be blank
again!
Date: Thursday November 5th
Patti and I got to know each other
when she first became a sewing
machine dealer. She is full of great
ideas and I look forward to her joining
us this year.
Lynda
Also available on Thursday
November 5th,
Digitizing and EQ6 with Lynda
Remmers and Annie Moody: Lynda
and Annie from Hoopsisters will
take you thru Digitizer MB and
Digitizer Jr. by Janome. Get the
basics of this amazing software!
The Hoopsisters use this, and
other brands of digitizing software
PLUS Electric Quilt 6 to create
EmbroidaBlock designs. Learn how
to create your embroidery design
in EQ, then how to digitize it using
Digitizer MB and Digitizer Jr.!
