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Showroom Location:
713 Center Drive
San Marcos, CA 92069

Phone: 760-739-8222

(MB) Handi Quilter 3-Day Quilting Retreat - Mission Bay



Does longarm quilting interest you, and you’d like to learn more about it? Or do you just want a review of longarm quilting basics? Join Handi Quilter's top educators for this 3-day hands-on event,

Day 1 - All Day Class: Long Arm Machine Quilting Basics: This class removes the mystery of longarm quilting by explaining machine and frame elements and features, how to load a quilt, and vital facts about thread, needles, and tension. Handi Quilter longarm machine and frame systems come in various sizes for every budget and are user-friendly because they are designed by a quilter, for quilters – just like you.

  • • Basic machine and frame elements and features
  • • Bobbins, tension, needles, and thread
  • • How to load a quilt onto a frame
  • • Quilting with Groovy Boards and pantographs
  • • Rulers, Adjustable and Micro Handles, and basic free-motion.

 Day 2: Morning Class: Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Free-Motion Quilting: Quilters everywhere LOVE the excitement and fun of free-motion quilting – and it’s easier than you think! Create flowing designs by connecting simple design elements with continuous lines, traveling across the quilt, or filling in a specific area. Learn how drawing and muscle memory contribute to beautiful free-motion quilting, and how you can create stunning designs.

  • • How to develop an inventory of free-motion designs
  • • Proper scaling and spacing of design elements
  • • Edge-to-edge free-motion quilting
  • • Adjusting your quilting path to create your own new designs
  • • Using Micro Handles and adjustable handlebars for free-motion control. 

Day 2: Afternoon Class: Ruler Essentials: If you love precision and consistency in your quilting designs, you will love using design rulers and templates! These handy tools assist in placing designs accurately and stitching them out precisely. Learn to handle rulers and templates safely with the ruler base and Sure Foot, and how to achieve accuracy with the markings. The wide variety of Handi Quilter rulers will inspire you to new design heights.

  • • Handle rulers safely
  • • Understand and use ruler markings for precision and accuracy
  • • Use piecing lines and marking tools to build ruler design confidence
  • • VersaTool quilting: stitch-in-the-ditch, cross-hatch, piano keys, clamshells, and arcs
  • • Apply binding with the HQ VersaTool

Day 3: All Day Class: Exploring Pro-Stitcher Hands-on: Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter longarm quilting machines. User-friendly and simple to operate, the step-by-step process for each function is easy and fun. Whether finishing your own 7 quilts or considering a quilting business, come see the elegant and precise quilting you can accomplish with Pro-Stitcher. New owners – start here!

  • • Basic overview of how to use Pro-Stitcher
  • • Create an area and place a block using Skew, Resize, Xform or Align
  • • Use the modify tools to make a design fit in any space
  • • Set up an edge-to-edge design three ways
  • • Cropping the bottom of an edge-to-edge design
  • • Basic repositioning and advancing an e2e design
  • • Moving your start and endpoints
  • • Manage sashing’s, border, and corners
  • • Cropping, rotating and resizing designs for customization
  • • Use Mark and Record to create your own designs
  • • Combining designs

 
And more. Lunch is provided each day so bring your friends and sign up today. Space is limited!!

 

Skill Level:
beginner
Skill Details:
Open to all students. No Long-Arm experience needed
Materials Included:
COVID-19 Guidelines: Please be aware that SMP wants to keep our staff and students healthy. During this time, SMP will not be supplying classrooms with cutting mats, rulers, irons, ironing boards or rotary cutters so please bring your own to use during class. Current Covid guidelines for masking and social distancing for San Diego County will be observed.
Instructor Name:
Handi Quilter Educators
Instructor Bio:
Kaye Collins : www.ohkayequilting.com
www.instagram.com/ohkayequilting/
www.facebook.com/OhKayeQuilting
Megan Best: www.bestquilter.com/
www.instagram.com/bestquilter

(MB) Handi Quilter 3-Day Quilting Retreat - Mission Bay

Cost:
$ 199.00
Early Bird Pricing. Price goes up to $299 after March 1st so sign up early and save $100