Sewing Studio Summer Showcase Information

EVENT ONLY SPECIALS?

• Big sale on in-stock merchandise and fabric!
• AMAZING deals and bundles on Bernina sewing machines!
• Giveaways?

• About this class: Learn the fundamentals of rulerwork in this in-depth class led by BERNINA Expert Amanda Murphy. Learn how to create intricate quilting designs using straight-line and circle templates, adding beautiful dimension and precision to your projects. While we’ll be quilting on the BERNINA Q Series, this class also covers essential techniques for achieving success with rulerwork on a domestic machine. Whether you're new to rulerwork or looking to refine your skills, this class will give you the confidence to elevate your quilting to the next level.

• About this class: Join expert instructor Gail Yellen for an exciting hands-on serger class featuring the BERNINA L 890! In this session, you’ll create a stunning 19-inch square Table Topper, constructed and embellished entirely on a combo overlock/coverstitch serger. This project showcases the versatility of serger stitching, using three fabrics on the front and one on the back, with all stitch settings tailored specifically for the BERNINA L 890. You’ll explore both Overlock and Cover/Chain stitch modes, experiment with decorative serger stitches and specialty threads, and finish your piece effortlessly with Gail’s signature Twice as Nice stitch—no binding required!

• About this class: Discover the versatility of BERNINA presser feet in this hands-on class with expert instructor Sandra Swick. Using the BERNINA 570, you'll explore a variety of presser feet and accessories while creating a one-of-a-kind wall art sampler showcasing beautiful decorative techniques.
  In this class, we'll focus on creating custom cording and piping, attach ribbon with precision, master corded satin stitching, design decorative stitch circles, and perfect decorative stitch seaming.
  
  

• About this class: TBD

In-depth Laurastar Demo with Emily Dunlap

• About this class: Join Laurastar expert, Emily Dunlap, as she takes an in depth look at the Laurastar features that bring more joy and better results to your quilting, embroidery, and crafting projects.  Whether you own a Laurastar and need tips for use and maintenance or you are considering adding Laurastar to your fleet, this session has something for everyone. 

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Amanda Murphy - BERNINA Expert, Fabric Designer, International Teacher, and much more!
Instagram: @amandamurphydesign
Facebook: @AmandaMurphyDesign

About Amanda: 

Amanda Murphy is a quilt and fabric designer whose style bridges the modern and traditional. Her quilting is known for its innovative combination of rulerwork, free-motion, and automated designs. She is a BERNINA Expert and Quilting and Longarm Spokesperson, an international teacher, pattern designer, and Benartex fabric designer. Amanda designs quilting rulers and notions for Brewer Sewing, embroidery and quilting collections for OESD, and has authored several books for C&T Publishing.

Gail Yellen - BERNINA Ambassador & Serger Expert
Instagram: @gailpatricedesign
Facebook & Youtube: @GailPatriceDesign

About Gail:
Gail teaches classes and workshops across the country including American Sewing Guild National Conferences and Chapter events, Puyallup Sewing & Stitchery Expo, Houston Quilt Festival, sewing machine dealers and Craftsy. Zoom classes keep Gail interactive with sewists around the world. She is a BERNINA Ambassador and author of two books, Serger Essentials Master the basics; beyond! and It’s All About Embellishment (digital). Gail loves teaching serger basics as well as how to use specialty feet and attachments. Creating innovative serger embellishments with decorative threads expands skills and creates beautiful surface embellishments. Her patterns include many serger skill building techniques and are available to purchase on her website, gailpatrice.com. Check out YouTube.com/GailYellen for free tutorials and free projects. Her Pinterest Board “Serge Outside the Seams is full of serger “pinspiration.”

Sandra Swick - Certified BERNINA Technician & Instructor
Instagram: @gallopinghorsesewing
Facebook: @SandraLarsonSwick

About Sandra:
Sandra Larson Swick has the unique distinction of sending one of her prize quilts into outer space! The quilt was signed by more than one hundred former students of astronaut and Teacher in Space, Barbara Morgan, and traveled with her to the International Space Station in 2007. But Sandra is equally thrilled to share her passion for sewing and textiles with earthbound students of all ages and abilities! With degrees in education from the University of Oregon, Sandra blends classic teaching skills with spunky humor to present project oriented one-day or multi-day events and retreats that send participants home with fresh enthusiasm and inspiration. She’s a master instructor in not only quilting, but embroidery, garment construction, overlockers, and specialty projects and crafts. A certified BERNINA technician and international teacher, Sandra has more than 20 years’ experience selling, sewing and teaching professionally with BERNINA machines, overlockers, and embroidery software and design. She eagerly shares her extensive knowledge and experience, providing expert and individualized sales consultations to help customers select the perfect BERNINA machine that will launch them into their next sewing orbit. Sandra loves crisscrossing the United States as a nine-year veteran of the BERNINA Event Team, but happily returns to a log home she shares with her husband, two cats and an enormous fabric collection in the woods on the edge of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho



Megann Freese- BERNINA Event Specialist & Instructor
Brand Instagram: @checkerdistibutors
Brand Facebook: @CheckerDistibutors

About Megann:
Megann grew up on a small farm in Plymouth, Nebraska, where her love for sewing began at the age of five. Megann's mother and grandmother taught her how to sew and encouraged her to practice her new skills by joining 4-H and creating garments, quilts, and crafts to be judged at the county fair. She stuck with it for twelve years. Megann continued creating and sewing as she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she graduated with a degree in Fashion Merchandising. She moved to Illinois to grow her love for sewing as an Educator for BERNINA of America. Now, as the Event Specialist for BERNINA, Megann designs education programs for domestic sewing machines, sergers, longarms, and BERNINA Q-matic. Her favorite sewing memories were having several of her pieces featured in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery and having her Quilt of Valor featured in the QOV book, A 50 State Salute, representing the great state of Nebraska. Go Huskers!

Emily Dunlap - Laurastar Expert
Instagram: @orangecatstitches
Brand Facebook: @Laurastar

About Emily:
 Emily enjoys traveling the country sharing her industry tips but she calls the Midwest home.  She can’t wait to demonstrate how she uses Laurastar in her own sewing studio, especially because it partners beautifully with her arsenal of machines.