Classes and
Worksh ops
CalicoGals
Spring 2016
Playlist !
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Sunday - March 20
Stop in, meet the teachers, find out about the spring classes and munch on Girl Scout cookies! Yum!
Taste of Spring Open House Noon - 4 pm
Christmas Celebrations Wooly Block Adventure with Julie Burger Tree Skirt Something new for lovers of wool stitching!
Receive free patterns at wool shops
in NY, PA, DE, MD and NJ. Put them together to create a unique project. Prizes, fun and mini FabricPlates to collect! Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com
for all of the details.
Like Wooly Block Adventure on Facebook!
GO CUTTING EVENTS AT CALICO GALS Meet Pam!
Learn from the expert! Cut a block and go home with many more tips and ideas.
Wednesday, March 23 1:30 - 4:00 or 5:30 - 8:00 pm $10 fee includes refreshments, fabric for cutting and coupon for $10 off future GO Club meeting.
Workshop with Pam! Welcome Pam Heller, star of the popular AccuQuilt videos!
Take a hands-on class with Pam and create a project. Bring your sewing machine and lunch. Beverages and dessert provided. Fee: $35
Thursday, March 24 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, May 21 & 22 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Don’t get stuck rushing to make your Christmas projects! Start now to be stress-free and ready at Christmas time.
Join Julie for a two-day-in-a-row weekend class to create this elegant Christmas Tree Skirt. It is so beautiful, you will pass it down in your family! Techniques learned in this class include paper piecing the Judy Niemeyer way, using templates, creating floating points, mastering curved piecing and a variety of handy tools for paper piecing success. Come to class with everything ready to start sewing after completing the class preparation on your own or signing up for the “Cutting for Class”
option. Bring your lunch and
be ready to celebrate
your success with
this dramatic project! Fee: $90
You do NOT need to own an AccuQuilt Cutting System to attend an event. We share ours!
Cutting for Class!
NEW! Monthly GO Club at Calico Gals! If you own a GO cutting system or would just like to try it, join the club and learn a new project each month. Learn about the different options and ideas, receive fabric bonuses and die discounts. Have fun with GO BOMs and GO swaps! Fee: $20 per month
Wednesday, April 20, May 25, June 15 1:30 - 4:00 or 5:30 - 8:00 pm Hostesses: Marcia Evans, Lynn Schantz, Peggy Bass
Prep for class with Julie ahead of class time. Learn to accurately and efficiently cut and prepare the paper foundation pattern pieces and or paper templates, cut and manage your fabric. Begin all labeled and organized in bags by unit. Fee: $25
Tuesday May 3, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Visit the store in Syracuse: 3906 New Court Ave, Syracuse, NY 13206 • 315-445-0617 Visit the Gals online: www.calicogals.com - - Sign up for the email newsletter -- It’s fun!
Quilting! Spring Hopes: Machine Appliqué Class
with Beth Broadway 2 Thursdays: April 28 & May 5 5:00 – 8:00 pm Create a beautiful 14 x 56” wall hanging that celebrates the wonder of spring!
Take home a wonderful project and the lifetime skills of beautiful machine appliqué when you join this fantastic class. Learn to prepare your appliqué pieces and receive a complete lesson on different types of fusibles and stabilizers. Beth includes detailed instruction on a variety of stitches - buttonhole, satin, zig zag and straight appliqué. Fee: $35
Patchwork Pansy Table Runner from Shabby Fabrics with Patti Blanchard Wednesday, April 13 5:30 – 8:00 pm Celebrate spring with a fun and colorful table runner! Learn basic patchwork techniques combined with fusible appliqué. Create a springy table runner to welcome the season. Fee: $25
Opening Night Quilt $10 class! with Scott Beach Sunday May 15 1:00 – 3:00 pm Scott is at it again - with a quick quilt starting with 6 fat quarters. The quilt goes together quickly using coordinating fabrics. Easy and simple and no seams to match! End up with a good-size 53” x 71” quilt! Come with your pieces cut, keep going in class and go home with the top mostly finished on this fun project. Fee: $10
Calico Gals welcomes Kris Poor! Mark your calendar for a trunk show from one of America’s most popular designers!
Friday April 29
T-Shirt Quilts with Gay Silkey Mon. April 11 2:00-4:00 or 6:00 – 8:00 pm Everyone has a box of T-shirts they can’t part with, yet no longer wear. It’s the emotional attachment! Good news - these shirts make excellent quilts! Because they are knits, there are few tricks to working with them. Gay has made several Tshirt quilts and she is happy to share her techniques with you. Bring some shirts and turn them into pillows, quilts or even totes.This class will cover the basics of cutting, sewing and preparing T-shirts for a variety of projects. Basic sewing and cutting skills required. Fee: $20
Begin at the Beginning with Nina Dukette 3 Mondays: May 2, 9 and 23 5:30 – 8:30 pm New to quilting? Or, just looking for a powerful refresher? Nina teaches the tips and techniques that you’ll need to begin your next project. In three sessions, become familiar with the basic steps of quilt construction, accurate rotary cutting, machine piecing, basting, machine quilting and binding while making a decorative table topper. By the end of the class, you’ll have the confidence to start your own quilt. Class includes discussion of fabric choice and preparation, threads, needles and much more. Fee: $45
Aeroplane Bag with Kathy Barden Monday, May 9 10:30 am - 4:00 pm For those of you who LOVE Kathy’s bag classes, she has a treat for you! The Aeroplane Bag is functional and beautiful and totally wonderful! Perfect for travel, you can pack a few days worth of clothing and essentials inside! The bottom of the bag is sturdy, and the top zipper is easy to install – no hand sewing necessary! Choose from two sizes (regular and long), or make both! Fee: $40
Visit the store in Syracuse: 3906 New Court Ave, Syracuse, NY 13206 • 315-445-0617 Visit the Gals online: www.calicogals.com - - Sign up for the email newsletter -- It’s fun!
Thursday Therapy
Stitching Clubs! Bloom Sew Along
with Kathy Barden and Kathy Lupia 2nd Thursday each month all year! Choose 10 am - noon or 6:00 - 8:00 pm Our longest running club at Calico Gals has openings in the morning or evening group. Join the “social club for quilters” and enjoy a time of sharing and fun. In 2016 we will work from Lori Holt’s Farm Girl Vintage book. Create a sampler from the mix and match blocks or choose from the bushels of projects - quilts to potholders - included in the book. Fee: $36 for the year includes a 15% discount on book and fabric.
with Marcia Evans and Kathy Lupia Lori Holt’s online “sewalong” has the Calico Gals sewing along too! Join Marcia and Kathy and stitch up the Bloom blocks. Stitching together with friends is always more fun! Bring your machine and a dish to pass. The gals will share sewing tips and lots of laughs! Fee: $10 each meeting April 18, May 16, June 20
Simple What Nots Club
Add a Quarter Club for foundation piecers! with Julie Burger Tuesday April 5 Noon - 4 pm or May 3 or June 7 1:00 - 5:00 pm Foundation Piecers! Have you ever started a project you love and then another pops up, and another, and another? By now you may need a little support to get back to it! Julie has help for you! Come on in, bring your paper piecing projects to work on, share and chat with other piecers and just have fun. Stop in one time or every month. Fee: $10.00 per month.
Garden Walk with Nina Dukette Mondays: May 23, June 27 & July 18 10:30 am – 1:30 pm It's back! This is the 6 month series that has been getting so much buzz at Calico Gals. Consider it continuing education for your machine! Discover that your machine can do so much more than piecing! Use fusible machine appliqué as the basis of the blocks and follow lessons on bobbinwork, fringe foot, wing needle, couching, sewing in circles, twin needles, ruffler, mini piping and much more. Class fee: $70 includes three months of classes
10:30 am - 3:30 pm
with Marcia Evans One Tuesday each month: April 12, May 10, June 14 10 am - noon So you don't have time for a 6 month club? You spoke, we listened! All of the Kim Diehl projects can now be done on a month to month basis. Choose any month that tickles your fancy! Each mini quilt includes all fabrics, pattern and a 2 hour class with Marcia. All this for just $40.00! If you love the kit but just can't squeeze in the 2 hour class, stop in and check out the options for pick up and take out.
NEW Bento Box Swap with Lynn Schantz First swap blocks due July 1 Join the swap and use up your batik scraps! Create 5 blocks a month for 6 months, bring them in by the 1st and Lynn will swap them out by the 15th. Join Lynn on Sunday May 1, noon - 3:00 pm, for a Bento Box lunch and demo to get started on your blocks. $15 to join the swap includes the Bento Box pattern and the lunch demo class!
12 beautiful sampler blocks in a 82” x 98” quilt. $10 per month Join “A New Age” and create a wonderful quilt, one block at a time, throughout the year of 2016. Each monthly kit includes the pattern and fabric to make one block. Month one includes background fabric for all 12 months. $10 per month began February 1 - but you can catch up!
$40 registration fee includes month one and the finishing kit of pattern and fabric for the outer borders
(received with month 12). “A New Age” features fabric with the look of distressed
muslin for a vintage, yet contemporary look and feel.
Choose your New Age color collection:
❑ Evening Blues Choose your background fabric: ❑ Natural Muslin ❑ Dark Navy
❑ Dusty Morning
This quilt will make a great gift for guys or gals!
Spring is the best! Wooly 911 with Patti Blanchard Thursday, June 16 5:30 - 8:00 pm What a great table runner for gifting! Use classic piecing techniques to piece the center patchwork, then add the family script lettering and leaves to each end. The blocks feel contemporary, but would look beautiful across any table. Fee: $25
with Melonie Unger Saturday, June 11 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Have you ever taken a wool class with Melonie at Calico Gals? Did you put your project away because you have questions? Get that project out and bring it on in for some fun dedicated time working with wool. Projects can be wool appliqué or rug hooking. Melonie is bringing lunch, too! Fee: $10
Calico Gals is the home of Row by Row Experience!
And like quilt shops all over the US, Canada and now Europe, we are gearing up for a summer of fun. Collect free patterns wherever you travel between
June 21 and September 6.
We love summer, too! Mark your calendar! Summer kicks-off for quilters in Central New York at the Taste of Sumer at Calico Gals! Monday, June 13 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com for more information about participating shops and prizes!
Calico Gals is open most everyday! We will be closed this spring on Easter and on Mothers’ Day May 8th and Memorial Day, May 29th and 30th
The beauty and precision of Judy Niemeyer techniques offered at Calico Gals! Cutting for Class!
with Julie Burger
Judy Niemeyer classes have very specific cutting techniques. Choose how you want to prepare for your class:
1 -Cutting Class! Prep for class ahead of time with Julie’s support.
2 -cut and organize on your own and come to class with everything ready to sew.
Either way, come to class with all of your bags organized. Be ready to start sewing and watch your beautiful precision-cut and pieced project come together!
Start with Cutting Class and learn to accurately and efficiently cut and prepare the paper foundation pattern pieces and/or paper templates, cut and manage your fabric having it all labeled and organized in bags by unit. After taking this class, you will know how to cut any of the Judy Niemeyer patterns. Fee: $25
New York Beauty – Island Sunrise
with Julie Burger
Saturday, April 30 10:00 am – 4 pm Did you see the NY Beauty black, white and red Consortium raffle quilt that is hanging at Calico Gals! It’s amazing! Join Julie and learn to make this intriguing pattern. Spend the day and learn to organize and cut the Judy Niemeyer way. Get comfortable with paper piecing and curved piecing which will result in a stunning quilt. The shop sample is in black, white and red fabrics, but feel free to choose any color combination of contrasting fabrics. Fee: $45.00 NY Beauty – Island Paradise Cutting Class: Tuesday, April 5 5:00 – 8:00 pm ($25)
Farm House Window Table Runner
3 Class Sessions: Tuesday, May 31st 1:00 – 4:00 or 5:00 – 8:00 pm, Tuesday, June 14th & Monday, June 27th 2:00 – 4:00 or 5:00 – 7:00 pm Are you ready to learn the steps in foundation piecing a Judy Niemeyer Pattern? The Farm House Window incorporates the flying geese units along with the beautiful Compass Rose block! Try this small project and see how you like it, before you tackle a large quilt! Fee: $65 Farmhouse Window Table Runner Cutting Class: Tuesday, May 24 5:00 – 8:00 pm ($25)
Visit the store in Syracuse: 3906 New Court Ave, Syracuse, NY 13206 • 315-445-0617 Visit the Gals online: www.calicogals.com - - Sign up for the email newsletter -- It’s fun!
Sewing machine education Babylock Sergers Exclusive!
Embroidery
Using the guide pen with machine embroidery and your Babylock Destiny or Unity with Nina Dukette Tuesday March 22 1:00 - 3:30 pm Learn to use the guide pen with embroidery. Bonus lesson: Use Accuquilt dies with Embroidery Works Everyday Fee: $10
Using the Border Function on your Babylock Destiny, Unity, Journey or Ellisimo with Nina Dukette Tuesday April 19 1:00 - 4:00 pm Learn more about this fabulous feature of your machine. Stop in to watch the demo or bring your machine and get hands-on experience. Fee: $10
Sergers
with Melissa Morgante Saturday May 14, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm Tuesday May 24, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm or 2:00 - 4:30 pm Wednesday June 1, 2:00 - 4:30 pm If you own a Babylock serger - this class is just for you! Bring your serger to class to better understand all the great uses for this wonderful machine. The class will include serging curves, inside corners, outside corners, rolled hems, balanced stitches and more. Serge with confidence. Fee: $25
Baby Lock Serger Feet Relief
S.O.S. Serge on Sergers!
Wed. June 8, 2:00 - 4:30 pm Tues. June 28, 10:30 am -1:00 pm or 2:00 - 4:30 pm Sergers are such versatile machines. There are a variety of feet attachments that can produce a variety of results in your sewing. Learn with Melissa to use the spectacular feet on the BL Serger including the Clear foot, Piping, Beading, Blind hem, Lace Applicator, Elastic and Gathering Foot. Wow! Learn a lot and have fun, too! Fee: $25
with Melissa Morgante Fridays: April 8, May 13, June 10 10:00 am – 3:00 pm The 2nd Friday of each month is a day of serging! Start, continue or finish your current project. Melissa will provide encouragement and advice. Receive a 15% class discount on materials needed that day to finish your project. S.O.S. is for you if you have attended Serger Relief with Melissa or can convince her you know your serger well. Any brand of serger is welcome. Bring something to share for lunch. Fee: $10
Destiny IQ Designer with Nina Dukette Tuesday May 17 1:00 - 4:00 pm Babylock Destiny owners continue the lessons on this amazing machine! Fee: $10
Calico Gals has the new machine you are looking for!
Using the guide pen on your Babylock Destiny, Unity or Crescendo with Nina Dukette Tuesday June 21 1:00 - 4:00 pm Babylock machines come with a unique and wonderful piece of technology - the guide beam pen. It’s a little laser light that helps you to be more accurate and have more fun with your sewing. Bring your machine and join Nina in this hands-on workshop. Fabric kit provided. Fee: $10
More embroidery for any brand of machine
April is National Serger Month
Crazy Patch on your embroidery machine with Nina Dukette Saturday, April 23 10:30 am - 3:30 pm Using your embroidery machine for crazy quilting is so cool!. If your embroidery machine has at least a 5 x 7” field, you can create this fun crazy patch project. Any brand machine welcome in this class. Fee: $20
Machine Embroidery with AccuQuilt Appliqués with Nina Dukette Tuesday, April 26 1:30 - 4:00 pm or 5:30 - 8 :00 pm Learn how machine embroidery can complement the Accuquilt appliqué dies. Use the owl die and the fabric kit provided to create one appliquéd owl block. See how fun it is to use this same die to make other animals! Any brand machine welcome in this class. Fee: $20