Classes 2019 - this is representative of the type of classes that will be offered in 2020.
**Teachers require your attendance in class for you to receive the class kit. Classes are non-refundable. If you cannot attend the class for whatever reason, please contact us prior to the class.
Verry Berry Finishing
Erica Michaels (Linda Stolz)
Skill Level: Beginner
Minimum 10; Maximum 25 students
Class Cost: $75
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 9:00a - 10:30a
Berries, berries, everywhere from Erica Michaels Designs! One of the easiest "smalls" to finish, we'll talk about the differences in stitching and finishing the silk versus linen berries, review basic assembly and have some show-and-tell with a variety of fun top treatments. You'll get an exclusive linen berry chart and we'll create some custom wool pins for your berry. No pre-class stitching necessary.
2nd class added
Sledding Santa Finishing Class
JBW Designs (Judy Whitman)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 10; Maximum 20 students
Class Cost: $75
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 9:00a - 11:00a
Join Judy to learn how to finish a Christmas design mounted on a wooden sled.
Judy will also teach other ornament finishes!
Kit includes:
• pattern
• mat board
• felt
• floss
• charms
• red sled
• finishing instructions for many finishes
Bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
Sold Out
Ghostly Music Sewing Set
Mani di Donna (Simona Bussiglieri)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 8; Maximum 20 students
Class Cost: $125
Friday, September 20, 2019, 12:00p - 2:00p
Presenting the perfect accessory set to complement your Halloween stitching: Ghostly Music Sewing Set! Simona will guide you in the finishing technique of the three accessories; needle book, pin cushion and scissor sheath. Your stitching pals will be amazed at your clever finish of the pin cushion with its rotating top and musical mechanism that softly plays the theme from The Adams Family.
Kit includes:
• pattern
• Weeks Dye Works linen
• 6 skeins Weeks Dye Works floss
• Weeks Dye Works Wool felt
• Mini Pom-Pom trim
• Cotton fabric
• Skirtex templates
• Halloween pin set
• Halloween scissor fob
• Music mechanism (Adams Family)
Bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
A Study In Red
Sue Hillis Designs (Sue Hillis)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 6; Maximum 20 students
Class Cost: $125
Friday, September 20, 2019, 2:00p - 5:00p
Join Sue for a Study In Red! You will zip back through time with this beauty as it is re-created using a wooden spool from the 1800's that came from a French fabric factory. You'll add bits of vintage laces and a few antique buttons. Start saving pretty pins to adorn your fabulous biscornu pin cushion. All stitches are cross stitches and backstitch. Fabric is 16/32 count, Driftwood color, from Needleworker's Delight.
After registering for class, Sue will mail out your pre-stitch kit. You will get your sampler strip and biscornu stitched and bring to class. During the class, you will complete the sampler strip and the biscornu, and attach them to the vintage spool. The prestitching kit includes fabric, threads, vintage buttons, needle and chart. Interfacing, lace, and spool with be provided at the class.
Bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
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Full Measure
The Purple Thread (Sharon Verbos)
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Maximum 15 students
Class Cost: $90
Friday, September 20, 2019, 9:00a - 11:00a
Your project is an Original Wood Measure created by Fryes Measure Mill in New Hampshire. They are one of the last artisan mills left in the USA. It is the replica of their first measure and was beautifully crafted at their mill. You have a choice of color ways for your pin cushion top. It lifts off to reveal a lined partition and divider we create in class.
Kit includes:
• Linen
• floss
• board
• needle
• Warm & Natural batting
• fabric
• trim
• templates
Please bring paper scissors....and bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
Pumpkin Patch Pouch
Summer House Stitche Workes (Beth Seal)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 8; Maximum 25 students
Class Cost: $60
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 9:00a - 12:00p
Stitch your way through the pumpkin patch with this fantastically fun wool felt appliqué pouch. Along the way, learn my favorite appliqué techniques and add a few specialty stitches to your stitch repertoire. Personalize the second side of the pouch with your cross stitched initial. When your pouch is complete, use it to store your “Pumpkins on a Roll” needlebook from Hands on Design! The perfect pumpkin compliment!
Pre-stitching is recommended but not required.
Pre-stitch kit includes:
• 32 ct Country French Golden Needle Linen
• DMC floss
• chart for cross stitch alphabet
• #26 tapestry needle
Class kit includes:
• wool felt
• fabric for handle
• patterns
• instructions
• embroidery needle
Bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
Pumpkins On A Roll
Hands On Design (Cathy Habermann)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 8; Maximum 25 students
Class Cost: $60
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 1:00p - 4:00p
Flowers Turn & Pumpkins Gleam, a Place to Rest & Stitch a Seam
Create a fun & functional tool that you can actually finish & use. A nod to the sampler age of rolled needlebooks combined with the stuffed needlerolls of the 90's, mix in a Hands On Design original verse and design, what more could you need? (take a look at the complementary class of Summer House Stitche Workes to find out - a pouch for storage!)
Kit includes:
• 32 ct Linen
• DMC floss
• woolfelt
• cotton fabric
• ribbon
• wool stuffing
Pre-stitching required if you want to finish your Pumpkins On A Roll in class.
Bring additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
Acorns and Mayflowers
Olde Colonial Designs (Pam Reed)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 8; Maximum 15 students
Class Cost: $150
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 10:00a - 12:00p
Join me in creating a Fall corner Amish Basket. Themed with Acorns and Mayflowers with an over one alphabet vine.
Learn seamless connecting of banding and a little about different types of baskets while stitching on your 27 count German Linen banding. Stitches include over one alphabet, Satin stitch and cross stitch over two.
This custom made Amish Basket is 3” deep, just the right size to toss those extra threads and tuck in a corner in your stitching room.
Kit includes:
• Amish Basket
• Banding
• Overdyed flosses
• Needles
• Lining material for padded bottom in special fabric
• Finishing instructions with photos
• Antique Spool in photo NOT included in kit
Bring paper scissors, additional light and magnification if needed and regular stitching supplies.
2nd Class Added
Pumpkin Stitchin'
Noteworthy Needle (Janis Note)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 6; Maximum 30 students
Class Cost: $60
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 2:30p - 4p
After the popularity of the pumpkin carving station at last year's Needlework Galleria, Janis has developed a class to teach you step by step how to create an elegant and personalized stitched pumpkin. A small area of the pumpkin has been left undrilled for you to personalize and practice your skills.
Kit includes:
• Small pre-drilled pumpkin
• Needle
• Floss
• "Carvin' kit" with easy to use push drill
• Exclusive chart and instructions
Please bring regular stitching supplies.
Wildflowers Scissors Safe
The Heart's Content (Maureen Sorenson)
Skill Level: All
Minimum 6; Maximum 30 students
Class Cost: $110
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 1:30p - 3:30p
Most unusual and creative scissors safe for your treasured 3.5" and 4" jeweled delights. This class kit includes our signature English Hare scissors that fits perfectly into this creation. You can certainly choose your favorite from your collection to hold the treasure.
My husband is always poking through my assemblage area and design/charting studio to see what I'm working on and match a piece of his wooden creations to one of my designs. I really think Dennis nailed it out of the park with this one; such a unique scissors safe handcrafted from a beautiful WildCherry hardwood coveted from his homestead cherry orchards in picturesque Door County - Northern Wisconsin........ The beautiful peninsula in Northeast Wisconsin that juts out into the Great Lake Michigan. He and his father worked and treasured these beautiful cherry orchards, and prided in salvaging nearly a barn full of this gorgeous wood grained WildCherry. I love to walk into his shop when he is planing some of this cherry wood. The aroma is so overwhelming you wished you had a handful of these tart Door County cherries to pop into your mouth.
We both continue in different faculties to take part each summer to continue the Sorenson Cherry harvest/tradition. I didn't say I was climbing the trees to pick the cherries and I guess it doesn't really matter that I'm the baker, and provide all the tart cherry tortes for the crew each year; it just wouldn't be the same without the delicious and delightful tart cherry torte that has been handed down from generations from great Grandma Sorenson. 😊 July is my favorite month 🍒 .
I know that you will appreciate the unique character of this WildCherry wood. Dennis has taken great pride to sand and hand smooth the entire finish with absolutely no finishing coats of ANYTHING; no chemicals just a little bit of wax in his hands and rubbed for at least an hour each. It's just the planed wood. That's all.
Once the template for the scissors safe was confirmed, I designed the basket of wildflowers to ornament the front.
Your design will be stitched on 40 count lambswool with 29 hues of DMC cotton embroidery floss. Notice the cording that surrounds the design; this is a simple twisting of the DMC floss and lightly attached in place to the wooden top.
The screw device used to attach the top to the bottom works very well to either close the safe or keep it opened. The bottom is lined with a self-adhesive felt liner.
This will be a very short class, perhaps an hour and a half.
Kit includes:
*Dennis' hand-crafted finished WildCherry ✂️ Scissors Safe.
*40-count Lambswool linens.
*26 & 28 gauge tapestry needles.
*29 DMC flosses, individually number tagged.
*Two colored photographs
*THC signature English Hare scissors.
*Easy to read graph for Wildflowers Basket design.
*Maureen's tutorial on her unique technique of creating these extremely detailed designs 1/1 thread on linen. She will walk you through each stage of the design and erase your anxieties about stitching on 40 count linen over one. Guaranteed to grab your attention right from the beginning, when you realize how easily it is to create a simple masterpiece with this fun and unique method of stitching.
Dennis and Maureen truly are gratified to present another unique creation to you. Recently married, they are honored to blend their talents again and offer you another special needlework piece.
Please bring regular stitching supplies.
Round Robin THUR1 (Exhibitors)
Skill Level: All
Maximum 50 students
Class Cost: $80
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 3:00 - 3:45pm
There's plenty of Suite hopping at the Exhibitor Round Robin. You will remain stationary while Exhibitors pop in, introduce themselves and their projects, offer a lightening-quick class and verbal tutorial and then pop out of class. Seconds later, the next Exhibitor pops in, introduces themselves and so on. You end up with six new projects and leave with a smile on your face after a speedy good time!
Kits vary by Exhibitor. There will be 26 unique kits in all if you register for all four Round Robins.
Round Robin THUR2 (Exhibitors)
Skill Level: All
Maximum 50 students
Class Cost: $80
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 3:45pm - 4:30pm
Here's the second Round Robin of the evening. You'll meet with six Exhibitors who will introduce themselves and their projects, offer a lightening-quick class and verbal tutorial and then pop out of class. Seconds later, the next Exhibitor pops in, introduces themselves and so on.
All Round Robins will have different Exhibitors teaching and no single Exhibitor will be in more than one Round Robin. We will make leftover kits available for sale after class is over, but no guarantees there will be extras.
Kits vary by Exhibitor. There will be 26 unique kits in all if you register for all four Round Robins.