1. Class fees are required at the time of Registration. You may pay by phone with a credit card (613.989.1220, Gail Brooks) or print off the registration form and mail in with payment.

2. Class fees do not include GST.

3. Refunds will be issue only if the class is cancelled.

4. Sewing machines will be provided by Janome for class use.

5. Class fees do not include supplies. List of supplies will be posted with the class description.

6. Samples can be viewed at Giroux Sewing Centre (Cornwall) and Thimbles and Seams (Prescott).

Teacher: Gail Brooks
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
          Saturday (9:30am to 12:00pm) and (1:00pm to 4:00pm) Class is Full
Cost: $50.00
Description:
This is a really easy and fun method of piecing blocks. I will show you a quick way of cutting quantities of pieces for this project that will really speed up you project. We will be using a method developed by Donna Poster and will be using her patterns. You will just love the simplicity of this project.
Supplies:
- Foldy pattern $12.00 (available from teacher)
- I recommend three different contrasting fabrics for this runner.
- 1 meter of each allows for the odd mistake.
- 1 meter of muslin (for foundation)
- Matching cotton thread (I like to use a light and a dark thread for quilting)
- Rotary cutter, mat, and clear plastic ruler
- Good quality materials make for good quality quilts!

Teacher: Gail Brooks
Times: Sunday (9:30am to 1:30pm)
Cost: $40.00
Description:
I have been quilting for 30 years, and still love the traditional art of hand quilting. There are a few little techniques that I have picked up during my career that I would love to share with you. Hand quilting has a relaxing rhythm to hand quilting that is very soothing.
Supplies:
Kit $20.00
This quilt will supply everything you need except a thimble, and a quilting frame. I recommend you buy a small Qsnap quilting frame or wooden hoop. I am sure some of our vendors will have what you need if you can’t find one in your area.

Teacher: Shahena Fredricks
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $50.00
Description:
Are you intimidated by the process of stack and whack? Then this is a great pattern to get you started in your adventures with stacking and whacking your fabrics. This method is easy for both beginners and advanced quilters. The key to an amazing quilt is the choice of fabrics. You need to start with a fabric that has lots of colour and movement in it. Warning!!!! This form of stacking and whacking is truly an addiction that you won't be able to turn away from. Quick rotary cutting and piecing techniques will be taught that will make this project easy to make. Come join me for a day and see how each block in your quilt is transformed into a completely different design, all from the same fabric.
Supplies:
- Rotary Cutter
- Mat
- Ruler
- Thread
- Sewing machine in good working order.
Kits will be available for purchase, which will include pattern and fabric to complete the quilt top. A large selection of fabrics will be available for students to choose from.

Teacher: Linda Palaisy
Times: Saturday (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $25.00
Description:
Lose all your fears about freemotion quilting. Learn to drop the ‘dogs’ and stitch, stitch, stitch. Different techniques, ‘filling’ patterns and helpful tips will be demonstrated. Learn to create texture and design on your plain fabrics. Bring your selection of threads, fancy and plain, a water erase marker, an old needle (and new ones) and be ready to have fun. Practice pieces available from the Instructor - $2.00 a set (top fabric, batt, base fabric)
Supplies:
- A water erase fabric marker – NOT a permanent one!
- An old needle in machine to start, then sharp needles for the real stuff.
- 4 - 6 sandwiches (fabric sandwiches that is) 14” x 14” min
- (Muslin/batting/muslin) Plain fabric would work as well as muslin does.
- Thread that DOES NOT match your fabric. This is a great time to use up all the bits on your bobbins and small spools.
- Sewing kit, cutting board, rotary cutter, ruler, all the usual stuff
- Machine and manual – you must be able to drop the feed dogs on your machine to do this course.

Teacher: Elaine Quehl
Times: Saturday (10:00am to 4pm)
Cost: $50.00
Description:
Prerequisite: Some familiarity with free-motion stipple quilting by machine. (You have at least tried it, but you don’t have to be good at it!)
Are you in a stippling rut? Expand your repertoire of beautiful free-motion stitches! This course is designed for machine quilters who have some familiarity with free-motion stipple quilting, but need creative ideas to venture beyond stippling. You will learn to stitch at least 20 different free-motion motifs, and have samples to take home. Motifs include various meanderings, swirls, nested designs, leaves, flowers, and organic designs. Experiment with cotton, rayon and metallic threads. The best thing about this method of quilting is that there is no need to mark your quilt top, and nothing to wash off after.
Supplies:
- An 8-1/2” x 11” writing pad/scratch pad/notebook, or lots of scrap paper in 8-1/2” x 11” size or larger
- Pencil or pen
- Six quilt sandwiches (approximately 18” x 18”) comprised of a muslin top and bottom with your favorite batting in between. You can also use that ugly fabric that you want to get rid of, as long as it is plain enough to see your stitching. You will need about three meters of muslin and one meter of 90” wide quilt batting to prepare 6 sandwiches. I strongly recommend either 100% cotton batting or 80% cotton/20% polyester batting.
- Basting spray. For the comfort of everyone, please baste your quilt sandwiches in a well-ventilated room prior to class.
- Sewing machine needles in the following sizes: 75/11 Quilting, 75/11 Embroidery, and 80/12 Metallica (90/14 Metallica are even better IF you can find them)
- Thread: 1 spool 50 weight cotton (i.e. Mettler) in any plain or variegated colour, 1 spool 40 weight rayon (i.e. Sulky) in any plain or variegated colour, 1 spool metallic in any plain or variegated colour
- Sewing machine (in good working order) with the ability to drop or cover the feed dogs. Please bring your sewing machine manual as well.
- Free-motion quilting/embroidery foot
- Sewing machine extension table, if you have one.
- Quilting gloves, if you have them (my favorite brand is “Machingers”)
- Extension cord

Teacher: Jacquie Lecuyer
Times: Saturday (9:30am to 12:30pm), Saturday (1:30am to 4:30pm) and Sunday (9:30am to 12:30pm)
Cost: $55.00
Description:
Palin is a doll made mostly from Linda Palaisy fabrics,ribbons and threads. It includes in the directions Wired hands and fingers, Sculpted face, movable joints.
Supplies:
A complete kit will be provided by the instructor at a cost of $22.00 for each student.
- Sewing Kit - pins, needles, scissors -seam ripper both fabric and paper
- Matching threads
- Stuffing tools
- Turning tools - Hemostats
- Polyester Stuffing

Teacher: Lauraine Gagnon
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $50.00
Description:
- Pattern $10.00 (available from the teacher)
- Fabrics-
- Background (A) 1/3 yard
- Fabric B (center square, triangles) ¼ yard
- Fabric C (center border, triangles) ¼ yard
- Narrow Border 1/8 yard
- Wide Border ½ yard
- Binding 1/3 yard
- Batting 18” X 44”
- Backing ½ yards
- rotary cutter, mat and clear ruler, seam ripper, scissors and matching thread

Teacher: Anne Runtz
Times: Friday (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $25.00 plus $5.00 kit
Description:
Traditionally, cutwork is a form of needlework where portions of the background fabric are cut away and discarded with the edge worked over in buttonhole stitches. On this course you will be learning how to make cutwork in the hoop with your embroidery machine. The steps are basically the same as for traditional cutwork without being time consuming. You will be using water soluble stabilizer and a cotton type fabric. Upon completion of the course, you will have a finished cutwork label that can be sewn onto your quilt.
Supplies:
- Sharp, curved appliqué scissors
- Embroidery machines are provided

Teacher: Wendo Van Essen
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm)
Cost: $25.00
Description:
Participants will learn the art of needle felting. They will have the choice of creating one of the 4 seasons. they will take home a 5 x 7 piece of art. They can do one in the class and take the others home to complete the set.
Supplies:

Teacher: Wendo Van Essen
Times: Friday (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $25.00
Description:
Participants will learn the amazing art of needle felting with a machine. They will learn the skill of hand needle felting as well. They will also come away with a 5 x 7 piece of art.
Supplies:

Teacher: Wendo Van Essen
Times: Sunday (9:30am to 1:30pm)
Cost: $30.00
Description:
Learn the art of needle felting by creating a picture frame with needle felted roses and/or other flowers so it should read "Needle felt a picture frame".
Supplies:

Teacher: Sue Shute
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $50.00
Description:
You will have a hard time convincing people that this is just another kaleidoscope quilt! Make this quilt that is easy to see curves and circles, but all of the seams are straight. This quilt is 70”x90”
Supplies:
- Kit $ 195.98 includes the book ruler and all the fabric needed to make the 70”x90” quilt including the binding.
If not purchasing the kit:
- 8 repeats of themed fabric used for star centers. Repeats must be at least 17 ½” ; they don’t have to be continuous but must be identical. 4 yards
- ¾” yard for corners of star center blocks
- 1 ½” yards for alternate Kaleido-Angles
- ¾” yards for corners of alternate blocks
- 7/8” yard for diamond pieces in border
- 1 5/8” yards for outside edge of pieced border blocks
- ¾” yard of fabric for binding

Teacher: Sande Gunning
Times: Friday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $50.00
Description:
Working with wool is so easy and enjoyable! This class will provide participants with the opportunity to explore the properties of 100% wool flannel; to apply hand-appliqué techniques as well as basic embroidery stitches. Hand-workers who have experienced pain with other techniques will find wool a gentle alternative. Simple enough for beginners and yet interesting for those experienced quilters who have not worked with wool cloth before. Selecting appropriate woolens, preparing the wool, care of wool projects will all be discussed. The Need’l Love pattern “Midnight Garden” will be used (just in time for Spring!) and the book “Meadow Threads” will be included in the kit. The needle, freezer paper, and all wool required to complete the project will be provided in the kit. (The woolens provided in the kit will be an assortment of textures, solids, mill-dyed and hand-dyed and not exactly as shown in the picture) Kit cost $30.
Supplies:
- To complete the wool appliqué portion of the project: you will need the following colours of embroidery floss or perle cotton #5: Gold, light grey, tan, and green (if you have an assortment, bring it along as you may want to use a greater variety of colours; my preference is Presencia Finca Perle 5 or Sassa Lynne Hand-dyes)
- Pen, pencil, notepaper
- Sharp scissors for cutting wool appliqué shapes
- Embroidery scissors (if you have them)
- Appliqué pins
- 1 metre of coordinating cotton fabric (you may want to select this after your wool project is complete)
- 1 metre of lightweight interfacing
- 2 Plastic café curtain rings or a hanging sleeve

Teacher: Christine
Times: Sunday (9:30am to 1:30pm)
Cost: $30.00
Description:
Swedish Weaving is an old craft that has resurfaced with a modern twist. It was very popular in the 40's and was taut in high school years ago. The weaving is done on Monk's Cloth. The Swedish weaving technique is created by passing yarns, using a bodkin needle, under the monk's cloth thread groupings (floats). All the work is done on the top of the fabric and hardly shows on the back-side.
Supplies:
- Kit for $30.00

Teacher: Helen Couture
Times: Sunday (9:30am to 1:30pm)
Cost: $30.00
Description:
This fun scarfwill be about 5" wide by 60" long. The participants will learn how to do the basic CHENILLE technique.
Supplies:
-Very sharp scissors
-long ruler
-pencil
- optional Chenille cutter (available at Giroux Sewing Center)
-Kits will be supplied to the youth participants only.

Teacher: Anne-Marie Valois
Times: Saturday (9:30am to 12:30pm)
Cost: $25.00
Description:
Do you use the 45 and 60-degree angles on your ruler ? probably not or at least not to their full potential. Come discover the possibilities - ruler 6 x 24 or other similar sizes.
This class is a 2-hour demonstration: you will learn how to cut diamonds, hexagons, triangles. Quilts like 1000 pyramids, baby blocks, 6 and 8 pointed stars, lone star, grand-mother flower garden and so many more can easily be achieved with the ruler you already own.
This class is a great source of inspiration whether you work by machine or by hand
Supplies:
- n/a

Teacher: Laurie Swim
Times: Saturday (9:30am to 12:30pm) and (1:30pm to 4:30pm)
Cost: $100.00
Description:
This workshop is an introduction to transitioning a photograph of a landscape to a painterly representation in fabric. In this one day workshop, there will be exploration of techniques and the possibilities of the fabric medium, focusing on making original artwork. Demonstrations of techniques, discussions of approaches to solutions and suggestions on how to finish and mount fabric art will also be covered.
Supplies:
- Choose a selection of landscape photograph images you would like to work with in fabric. Print them on paper and also again on a transparency sheet. This can be done on the computer or photocopy machine. If this is a problem for you, transparencies will be available in class.
- Bring low loft batting, 2 pieces, approximately 16”x 14” and 20”x 18.
- Non-woven interfacing (also known as Pelon), the stiffer the better, will be needed the same size as the two batting pieces. They can be with or without an iron-on adhesive side.
- Tulle netting, any colour, the size of the smaller piece of batting.
- A neutral fabric for backing the finished work, larger than the larger batting.
- A selection of fabrics in the colour range of the landscape and any objects in the image. Landscape print fabrics should be used in small amounts. Batiks are better for a painterly effect. Stripes are great for fences, the siding of buildings,etc.
- white poly-satin fabric, approximately 16”x 14”.
- 10 sheets of computer printing paper.
- Scraps of green fabric for tree foliage.
- A selection of fabric other than cotton that will add texture and interest to your piece.
- Threads: nylon filament, Smokey and clear; an assortment of colours in cotton, rayon, variegated, etc.
- Sharpie pen or other like felt tip pen.
- Fabric and paper scissors.
- Glue stick.
- Rotary cutter with pinking blade and small self healing mat.
- Pins.
- If you own the following, bring it but if you don’t, no matter, there will be tools to share:
- tweezers, serger tweezers are the best choice.
- machine embroidery hoop.
- All other supplies will be provided by the instructor for a fee of $10.

Teacher: Karen
Times: Sunday (9:30am to 1:30pm)
Cost: $40.00
Description:
Are you ready for a fun day and feeling a little patriotic, come and join Denise and Danielle in our workshop where a beginner can make this beautiful tote bag. In class we will make a Maple Leaf (using fusible) and we will embellish it with either zigzag or any decorative stitches of your choice*. We'll also construct this sturdy bag and even learn a quick and easy way to put a zipper closure (optional).
Supplies:
- 1/2 m. White on White (for Maple Leaf background & letters)
- 6 Fat Quarters (or more) of various red in Medium and Dark (no lights) if you have scraps of red, this is a great way to use them, the more variation the better) 6"X2" brownish fabric for Maple Leaf tail
- 2 1/2m. Red fabric for lining, straps, inside pockets, binding 1m. of Fusible Web 1m. of thin batting (at least 60" wide) 22" coat Zipper(red) (optional) or 2" of red velcro (male and female pieces) for tab closure 22"X6" piece of Timtex (for the bottom of your bag) or cardboard red thread

Tools - All your quilting equipment, rotary cutter, ruler, mat, scissors, etc....