February 25-27
February 25 - 9:30AM - Getting Started with your Longarm.
Topics Include:
•The basics of machine and frame maintenance
•Tensioning bobbins and longarm quilting machines
•How to load a quilt onto a frame
•Quilting pantographs, Groovy boards, and stencils
•Rulers, basic free motion, and Handi Gadgets
February 25 - 1:30PM - Free Motion Quilting. You Can Do It!
Topics Include:
•Drawing basic free-motion designs in a continuous line
•Scaling fills for backgrounds
•Creating your own edge-to-edge designs
•How to fill borders evenly
•Micro quilting and using different feet
February 26 - 9:30am - Can't Have Enough Rulers!
Topics Include:
•Ruler basics: the right foot, ruler base and ruler
•Point to point quilting using the markings on the rulers
•Using a ruler for a design base on an entire quilt
•HQ VersaTool®: stitch-in-the-ditch, cross-hatch, piano keys, clamshells, and arcs
•Quilting around applique or embroidery with rulers
February 26 - 1:30pm - Introduction to Pro-Stitcher
Part 1 Topics Include:
•Overview of support resources available on-line
•Overview of menu and basic functions and design catalog
•Place a block design using Skew, Resize, XForm and Align
•Demonstration of the Pro-Stitcher Simulator
•Overview of PS Designer ™
February 27 - 8:30am - Pro-Stitcher, Let's Quilt
Topics Include:
•What’s the difference between Reposition, Nudge, and Drag and Drop
•The many ways to describe an Area on your quilt
•Using Skew vs Border Skew & Triangle Skew
•Set up, crop, wrap and advance edge to edge designs
•Quilt straight lines the easy way with Move or Channel Locks
February 27 - 12:30pm - Moving on with Pro-Stitcher * Advanced
Topics Include:
•Managing sashing, borders and corners
•Skewing into any size or shape•Quilting areas larger than the throat-space of your machine
•Cropping, rotating and resizing for customization
•Creating your own designs with Record and Mark
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