Handi Quilter Long Arm Workshop 

Want to start finishing your quilts? Or maybe know better how to use your quilting machine? Then these series of classes are for you! While these classes are geared primarily towards those who own or would like to own a long arm, we also have classes for sit-down machines as well. 

We are holding this in our classroom at our store, but if we have too many people that want to sign up but can't due to lack of space, we will move the classes to a larger venue!  So if a class is full, please email Jay and be placed on a waiting list.

Nancy Stein's passion for textiles began with sewing lessons provided by her mother, and she quickly became proficient in clothing construction and the occasional home project. Retiring after 30 years as a dental hygienist, Nancy reconnected with the world of fabric and thread by learning to piece quilt tops.

Nancy first purchased an HQ Sixteen® and began quilting, first for herself and then for others. She currently quilts on an HQ¹⁸ Avanté equipped the HQ Pro-Stitcher®, and recently added the HQ Sweet Sixteen® sit-down machine. She teaches in local quilt shops and has a loyal customer base as an instructor and machine quilter. Her journey led her to becoming a Handi Quilter National Educator.

Nancy especially enjoys foundation paper piecing and wool applique, and has published several patterns. She consistently spends several hours a day actively designing, cutting, piecing, appliquéing, quilting, or preparing class-related materials. Her favorite motto is: “The answer is always ‘no’ until you ask the question.”

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Class List:

Thursday, October 8th 

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.      The Fun of Owning a Long Arm
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.        Computerized Quilting with the Pro-Stitcher     

 Friday, October 9th       

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.        Sixteen Tips for Sweet Success 
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.         Feathers that Amaze!

 Saturday October 10th

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.       Rule Your Quilt
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.         Creative Textures & Fills

1. The Fun of Owning a Longarm Machine (3-hour class)

Do you want a faster way to finish quilts, but not sure if a longarm is for you? This overview of Handi Quilter longarm systems covers the basics and takes the mystery out of longarm quilting. User-friendly and designed by a quilter, for quilters, Handi Quilter longarm machines make finishing quilts fun. And no more basting quilts.

Skills Featured:

• • Basic machine features
• • Loading quilts
• • Setting tension
• • Applying designs to a quilt
• • Simple machine maintenance

2.Computerized Quilting with the Pro-Stitcher® (3-hour class)

HQ Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter longarm quilting machines. You do not have to be a techie to use the step-by-step functions, designed by quil­ters just like you. Whether you’re considering a quilting business or simply want to finish your own quilts, come see what elegant and precise quilting is possible with HQ Pro-Stitcher.

Skills Featured:

• Overview of basic features and menu
• Working with built-in designs
• Resizing and repeating a design to fit a specific area
• Importing, saving and customizing designs
• Cropping and nesting edge-to-edge designs

3. Sixteen Tips for Sweet Success (3-hour class)

Do you want to quilt your own tops, but don’t have space for a longarm? Are you quilting now on a sewing machine, but frustrated with the space and uneven stitches? Learn how the features of the HQ Sweet Sixteen® solve these problems, and discover handy tools for finishing quilts – large or small – with ease.

Skills Featured:

• • Basic machine features
• • Free-motion quilting
• • Stitch regulation
• • Using rulers for designs
• • Pattern application

4. Feathers that Amaze! (3-hour class)

Quilted feathers always add style to any quilt, and you can learn to create these beautiful elements in many different styles. Learn how to draw and stitch feathers by several different paths, add fills and adjust feathers to a variety of geometric spaces.

Skills Featured:

• Drawing and tracing feathers
• Creating feather veins using rulers
• Adding echo and fills
• Making feathers fit within a variety of geometric spaces
• Using oval rulers in a rectangle boundary

5. Rule Your Quilt (3-hour class)

If you are hesitant about using rulers, you will love them after this class. Learn to handle rulers and templates safely and properly with the ruler base, as well as how to work with rulers to achieve amazing designs.

Skills Featured:

• Straight line quilting
• Fast continuous-curve method
• Right angles and echo quilting
• Crosshatching
• Piano keys and borders

6. Creative Textures and Fills (3-hour class)

Once you learn rulers, you won’t want to miss this class. Fills are creative design elements used to quilt the 
background and empty spaces of a primary quilting or block design. Whether elegant, whimsical, structured, or 
meandering, there is a style to compliment every space.

Skills Featured:

• Effects produced by variety of fill designs, in relation to primary design
• Selecting appropriate fills to compliment design style
• Scaling the fill design size appropriately
• Evenly placing and spacing fills
• Effectively using HQ Micro Handles

 

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