2019
Fall Playlist
FIRESIDE QUILTING RETREAT With CalicoGals Cozy up to a quilting retreat with Calico Gals! Join the fun at the beautiful Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville NY. Bring your sewing supplies and spend a warm weekend stitching with your friends. Fee includes your room, five delicious meals, sewing space, and lots of fun extras. JAN 18-20, 2020 • $389 DOUBLE / $415 SINGLE SAVE $40 WHEN PLACING $100 DEPOSIT BY 11/15/19
SUGAR QUBES SAMPLER CLUB
New club at Calico Gals! Make all the blocks in a quilt for $25! Join Karen on the 2nd Saturday of each month for a mini meeting and how-to for the upcoming block. Receive all the fabric for the block for $5 or... get it for free when you complete and bring in the previous month's block. $25 registration fee includes your first month. Choose the meeting time that works best for you: 10:30, 11:30 or 12:30. Your choice of three different colorways, too. Attendees must own an Accuquilt system and Qube die set. Any size Qube will work for this project. OCT 12, NOV 16 & DEC 14 •10:30-1:30
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BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING With Nina Dukette 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. $45 • OCT 15, 22 & NOV 5 • 5:30-8:30
FOUNDATION PAPER PIECING MINI CHRISTMAS TREE With Sue Pikarsky Have you wanted to paper piece but felt intimidated? Or maybe you are a paper piecer looking for a fun, fast project? Either way, Sue welcomes you to join this fun class and learn the perfection of step- by-step foundation paper piecing. Create an adorable 14" x 17" mini Christmas Tree wall hanging to keep or give as the perfect gift! Its easy, fun and the perfect project to get your paper piecing feet wet! Great scrap- buster too!
Calico Gals is participating in the Sister Shops Program.
PURCHASE A BABY LOCK ZEST FOR ONLY $99.99 AND RECEIVE A 60-DAY TRIAL OF ONLINE SEWING CLASSES. OFFER VALID AUGUST 1 - OCTOBER 15, 2019.
$25 • OCT 23, 1–4 OR OCT 24 • 5-8PM
New Teacher Alert! IRISH CHAIN (SINGLE, DOUBLE OR TRIPLE) with Charles Johns-Lee Welcome new instructor Charles JohnsLee to Calico Gals! Newly transplanted from NYC, Charles brings years of quilting and quilting education experience to Central New York. Join Charles and make a piece of history while learning to piece the classic Irish Chain pattern. The earliest record of the Irish Chain pattern was in 1807 and by the 1820’s it became common. It continues to be popular, in part because it is a relatively easy pattern, and also because it can showcase decorative quilting. Learn to create the two different blocks and arrange them to form a secondary design. Choose your own layout: Single (two fabrics), Double (three fabrics) or Triple (four fabrics) Irish Chain. Great for Beginners, but all levels are welcome! $40 • OCT 7 & 14 • 5:30-8:30 LIL SOMETHING JACKET with Charles Johns-Lee Need a little something to add to your wardrobe, dressing up those jeans or adding some color to that little black dress? Give the Little Something Jacket a try. It is light and carefree, comfortable and stylish, and can be tailored to fit your silhouette. This is a great project to learn some basic garment construction.! $40 • DEC 2 & 9 • 5:30-8:30
INTERNATIONAL MYSTERY With Melonie Unger Do you love a good mystery? Join Melonie for a fun evening sewing through the clues provided to solve the mystery quilt. Receive a free pattern in class and a recipe, too! Mel will do the cooking so you can sample. Choose from Calico Gals beautiful fabric kits or choose your own fabrics for something original. $25 • NOV 15 • 5:30-8:30
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TWISTED TILES With Karen Cross Spinning round and round, Twisted Tiles demonstrates how a quilt can have the illusion of motion. Choose any of the 3 sizes for your quilt. Blocks are created in sections and they all come together to make this beautiful quilt. $25 • OCT 16, 5:30-8:30 & OCT 30, 5:30-8:30
CRAZY CHRISTMAS TREE TABLE RUNNER With Karen Cross Crazy or traditional, this is the table runner you have been waiting for! Choose your color combo: Green/Blue, Red/ Green, or Gold/Silver. Upside down or all standing tall, you decide as you begin laying out those trees across your project. What a fun project for all! Great for your table or as a beautiful gift (if you can give it up!). $20 • OCT 9 • 1:30-4:30 OR 5:30-8:30
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Sleep in Your Own Bed Retreat with two teachers and two days of learning the art of Dresden Plate quilt blocks!
Dresden Quilt Workshop With Melissa Morgante and Christy Blume Learn a whole new (and super fun) technique to make adorable little Dresden Plate blocks with your sewing machine. Use both the Tiny Dresden and Mini Dresden to complete a 20x20 inch little quilt with Christy and Melissa. That’s right… 2 teachers… double the fun! The bonus lesson includes a fast technique for making oodles of half square triangles in a fraction of the time. Give yourself this retreat and spend a couple of days learning and sewing. $60 • DEC 3 & 4 10:30-3:30
GIVING TREE With Sue Pikarsky Oh, Christmas Tree! This Evergreen is made with the QCR Mini Ruler. Join Sue and learn to use the ruler to cut perfect curves and trim the pieced blocks to make this stunning 28" x 35" wall hanging. And, it's fat quarter friendly! Get a solid head start on "decking the halls" with this beauty in class and leave with all the skills to finish at home. ADVANCED BEGINNER quilters are welcome to join the class. $25 • OCT 16TH, 1-4PM OR OCT 17, 5-8 PM
OPEN SERGE With Melissa Morgante Bring your serger projects to work on and Melissa will help you adjust stitches or make suggestions to keep you moving. Any brand serger is welcome as long as you can thread it, change the needles and have a manual. It’s a fun day with serger people! $15 • OCT 11, NOV 8 & DEC 13 •10:30-3:30 (2ND FRIDAY OF MONTH) QUICKEST QUICK STEP QUILT With Melissa Morgante Use your serger to make a quilt! Once it's pieced, it's quilted! Quick Step Quilts are reversible and finish in no time. Start with fat quarters and end up with a cute quilt! $30 • OCT 26 • 10:30-3:30
COLLAGE QUILTS With Peggy Bass Unleash your creativity and have fun with beautiful collage quilts!! Learn the collage technique and build your confidence in this 2-part class. In class one, learn the technique as you prepare and start cutting fabrics. In class two cut out your fused design, add background and finalize. No sewing machine needed for either class! $45 • OCT 8 & 28 • 5:30-8:30
STARRY STARRY NIGHT With Sharon Bottle-Souva
Create your own Starry Night quilt based on van Gough's popular painting. Use a little bit of everything– from free motion quilting to achieve night time texture, to random piecing while building the city scape. Finish off with raw edge fused stars, more quilting and you have your very own 16" x 24" masterpiece. Sharon's students love her classes! $65 • NOV 2 • 10:30-4:30
Handi Quilter Events
Are you ready to quilt your own quilts? Join the following classes with national educators to try long arming and see if it is for you. This is hands-on research for those interested in quilting and tips and techniques for all quilters on home machines and long arms. Class fee: $30 each, any 2 for $50.
National Educator
Waynna Kershner Waynna Kershner’s first exposure to quilts occurred many years ago, when her husband
gifted her with two quilts he found at an antique shop for her birthday. She took anon November 23 & 24! Calico Gals welcomes Waynna Kershner immediate liking to the well-loved and well-used quilts; however, never thought she would make one, let alone machine quilt one on a long arm system. Many years wentat by, her local quilt shop. She had the quilt Inand 2005 Waynna took her first quilting class in 2005 Waynna took her first quilting class at her local quilt shop. She had the quilt professionally quilted. When she finished her second quilt, Waynna knew she wanted professionally quilted. When she finished her second quilt, Waynna knew she wanted to to do her own quilting! doOneher own quilting! One day, a friend called to tell her about a quilting machine, strongly day, a friend called to tell her about a “quilting machine” she saw at a county fair, strongly suggesting Waynna take a look at it. Sheawent to theat shopit. where it waswent on display, to the shop where it was on display, and put suggesting Waynna take look She and put her hands on the handlebars of an HQ Sixteen®. It was love at first grip! She purchased the machine her hands on that theday.handlebars of an HQ Sweet Sixteen®. It was love at first grip! She has since When she heard that the Pro-Stitcher® was released, she immediately went in for a demo. retired from her career in the healthcare industry and focuses on teaching others to build That was it! Computerized quilting was the way to go for her. Waynna purchased the Pro-Stitcher that day and has not looked back. She now has a HQ Fusion® with Pro-Stitcher confidence in their quilting. and Art and Stitch software, and has been quilting professionally since 2011. Waynna’s passion for quilting has led her to teach quilt-making classes at a local quilt shop,
and to help quilters with their projects and quilting aspirations. She enjoys working with Wayanna be teaching the 1/2 day classes in November: machine quilterswill of all skill levels, but she especially enjoysfollowing working with new and current owners. She loves to build confidence in quilters, using the power of the Pro-Stitcher • Sit Down Machine Quilting Basics Pro-Stitcher program to put the finishing touch on their works of art. In addition to her specialty of working with Pro-Stitcher, she enjoys working with Art and Stitch software to • Ruler Essentials digitize her own designs. Waynna retired • Stand UpinLongarm Machine Quilting from her career the healthcare industry, and now resides in Western Basics Pennsylvania on a 39-acre vineyard, with her very supportive husband, Denny, and farm dog Stanley. Waynna • Intro tohave Pro-Stitcher and Denny two adult children and one granddaughter.
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Calico Gals welcomes Linda Gosselin on October 19 & 20! A quilter just like you, in 2002 Linda pieced a scrappy triple Irish chain quilt and took it to a longarm quilter at a local quilt shop. Seeing what the longarm system could do, she wanted to own a system herself! She bought a used HQ Sixteen® in 2005, added Pro-Stitcher® in 2007, and then upgraded to a new HQ Fusion® with Pro-Stitcher in 2010. In addition, her studio now also includes a new HQ Avanté® with Pro-Stitcher and an HQ Sweet Sixteen®.
National Educator
Linda Gosselin Linda Gosselin has been piecing quilts since the American Bicentennial quilt revival of 1976. In 2002, she pieced a scrappy triple Irish chain quilt and took it to a longarm quilter at a local quilt shop. Seeing what the longarm system could do, she wanted to own a system herself! She bought a used HQ Sixteen® in 2005, added Pro-Stitcher® in 2007, and then upgraded to a new HQ Fusion® with Pro-Stitcher in 2010. In addition, her studio now also includes a new HQ Avanté® with Pro-Stitcher and an HQ Sweet Sixteen®.
OCT 19, 9AM - NOON THE SIMPLE PATH TO STRAIGHT LINE QUILTING The trend ofHaving modern quilts, with large areas of “negative a background as an IT professional, Linda easily combines her love of space”, has created new intostraight line quilting Pro-Stitcher and Art &interest Stitch. She loves “wow” her customers by showing and them a digital image of their own quilts on her computer in order to audition crosshatching. Both are impressive to behold, but neither quilting designs before they leave her studio. is difficult to achieve when you know the tools and tricks. A certified Art & Stitch instructor, Linda teaches on line classes for both Learn the methods involved and create amazing geometric Art & Stitch and Pro-Stitcher using Simulator. She quilts for customers, Quilts of Valor and for charity, andlines. teaches quilting classes at local quilt shops. designs by quilting simple Samples of her work can be seen at www.TheQuiltersHelpdesk.com
Linda lives with her husband in central Massachusetts. She has two married
daughters, twinPM grandsons born on the Fourth of July, and one granddaughter. OCT 19, 1:30 - 4:30 CURVY RULERS AHEAD Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to drive! You’ll be rounding corners, navigating curves and riding up and www.HandiQuilter.com down with this class on curved templates. Learn how to read and use the markings on the templates, and the tricks for making half circles, flattened circles, and perfectly curved lines. Create beautiful quilting designs using swags, clam shells, ovals, arcs and half circles.
OCT 20, 9 AM - NOON YOU CAN DO THAT ON A LONGARM, TOO? A longarm isn’t just for quilting tops! Learn how techniques usually done with a sewing machine can be accomplished with a longarm machine. Enjoy a "parade of projects” and leave with brilliant shortcuts and ideas for quick and easy projects. You’ll have a whole new perspective on what’s possible with a longarm!
OCT 20, 1:30 - 4:30 PM • QUILTING BEYOND THE DESIGN Begin with a basic design from a stencil, a ruler or template, an appliqué, a fabric print, a cookie cutter or a shape you draw yourself. Then transform that design from basic to spectacular by extending, expanding, and adding secondary designs, repeats, fills and special effects. Learn marking techniques and tools for applying designs to quilt tops.
Sew a Purse Change a Life
NATIONAL SEWING MONTH SEPTEMBER
Grab Your Friends For a Special Charity Sewing Event As part of National Sewing Month, join us for a special charity sewing event that benefits Sew Powerful. We’re hosting an exclusive event where you’ll use a Baby Lock sewing machine to make and donate cute purses that discretely carry reusable feminine hygiene products for girls in Zambia.
About Sew Powerful Sew Powerful unites sewists from around the world to combat extreme poverty in Lusaka Zambia where it equips community members with jobs, training tools and technical skills to make purposeful products, all designed to keep kids in school. To learn more, visit www.sewpowerful.org.
These purses empower girls to stay in school all month, improve their academic performance and move on to secondary school. We’ll provide you with everything you need including a sewing machine, fabric, instructions, and more.
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Dealer Info Here SEW POWERFUL PURSES AT CALICOGALS Calico Gals welcomes you to make a purse with us. Everything is provided for you… even the sewing machine. Sign up for morning or afternoon time. $10 registration fee. $10 • SEPT 23 • 10:30-1:30 OR 2-5
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HEARTSTRINGS With Lynn Schantz Heartstrings is a quick and easy quilt project made with a Jelly Roll or pre-cut 2 1/2" strips you choose. The hearts and the colorful border combined with your choice of a background fabric completes this adorable 56 x 68 quilt. Be warned… it’s difficult to make just one! $25 • OCT 30 • 12:30-3:00
VETERAN'S DAY SEW-IN With Lynn Schantz & Melonie Unger Come for a fun day of sewing and friendship. Bring your own projects to work on or join Lynn and Melonie in sewing quilts for the homebound veterans through the Syracuse VA. We'll be using the super simple Villa Rosa "Country Life" Pattern. Bring a sandwich and we'll have crockpots of soup. We'll have snacks to keep you energized too! $45 • NOV 11 • 8-3
HANGING GARDENS With Karen Cross Pull out your 2-1/2 inch strips and turn them into a beautiful quilt! Plan your "hanging garden" with spring, summer or fall colors and watch the magic happen as you begin building your blocks. Learn the cutting techniques and make this project fun! $40 • NOV 4 & 13 (2 PART CLASS) • 5:30-8:30PM
ORNAMENTS With Karen Cross
December 3-7!
ONLINE AND IN-STORE!
Grab your pattern and gather your scraps! Its time to have fun creating holiday ornaments! Make one or all to give to friends or keep a set for yourself. Class includes sewing, cutting, appliqué, and embroidery (hand or machine). $10 • NOV 20 • 1:30-4:00 OR 5:30-8:00
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SCRAPPY SPINNERS BLOCK OF THE WEEK With Lynn Schantz The Sassy 12" Scrappy Spinner blocks are precision cut and ready for you to sew! This is not a dream, it's for real! Lynn is bringing back the precut Block of the Week.(Hurray!) Stop in each week to pick up your block for the low price of $5 each. Twelve quick weeks, twelve quick blocks and you'll have a great quilt, ready for your choice of borders. Simple and quick, now that's what we like! Finishing kits with 6" spinners for a different border will be available, too. Choose your own border and sashing strips to suit your color preferences. First block will be ready for pick up on Monday, September 23rd. Can't make it in one of the weeks? No worries, we'll hold it for you, but the price goes up to $7. It's time to sew your spinners! STARTS SEPT 30
VILLA ROSA LUNCH BUNCH With Lynn Schantz & Melonie Unger Yes, you can complete a quilt top in one day! "Little Jewels" is a great quilt pattern featuring beautiful, large print fabrics. Of course, you do the piecing and the pressing will be done for you. Plus, you'll be served a yummy lunch (or dinner) with a side of FUN. That’s what the Lunch Bunch is all about! $35 • NOV 7 • 10:30-3:30 & NOV 8 • 4-9 SUNDAY STITCHERS With Lynn Schantz Let's just sew!! It's a dedicated afternoon for some sewing fun with friends. Haul out those bags of swaps, Accuquilt cut blocks or any other projects and dive in!! Starting a project or finishing . . . it's all good! Bring a snack to pass. Coming to My Time Monday the next day? Leave your machine and we'll be ready to get right back to work. It's just that easy. :) $15 • OCT 6, NOV 3 & DEC 1 • 12:30-4:00
Open Sewing Time at Calico Gals
NUTZ with Melonie Unger MY TIME MONDAY with LYNN SCHANTZ NUTZ@NIGHT with Melonie Unger Open Sewing Time at Calico Gals is the best! It's like a mini-retreat! Come in and work on your own projects. Sign up to spend the day indulging in some dedicated sewing time. Everyone brings a dish to pass and the gals guarantee friendship and fun! $15 • NUTZ: 1st & 3rd Friday, 10:30am–3:30pm MTM: 1st Monday, 10:30am–3:30pm • NUTZ@NIGHT: 1st Friday, 5-10pm
WOOLY BLOCK ADVENTURE IS BACK THIS FALL! Collect fun wool patterns from the comfort of your home. Join the Wooly Block Neighborhood Facebook Group to get a preview of the adorable blocks from around the USA and Canada. The Wooly kits from Calico Gals will include your choice of a pre-printed USA or Canadian flag. Follow along beginning October 1 at rowbyrowexperience.com.
WOOLY 911 With Melonie Unger Join Melonie, your best friend and wool helper, in the Wooly 911 class. She helps you complete a wool project of your choice. Or… start from the beginning… purchase the Holiday Tree Table Mat kit and learn everything you need to know about wool appliqué. Melonie even brings lunch! All beginners or confidant wool stitchers are welcome to join this fun group. $15 • NOV 17 • 12:30-4:00
CHRISTMAS CUBE With Peggy Bass Are you intrigued by the look of cubes and illusion quilts, but wonder if you can do it? You can! Join Peggy as she explores dimensional cube designs and illusion quilts. This Christmas Cube design by Karen Combs is a great way to begin! This design makes a nice wall hanging that you can have in time for the Holidays! $25 • NOV 12 • 5:30-8:30
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AMISH WITH A TWIST STITCH DAY With Karen Cross Calling all members of Amish with a Twist BOM - have you started it? One block, ten blocks, not even cut yet? Come on in and spend some dedicated time working on this phenomenal quilt. Bring a snack to share and focus on this project.
$10 • NOV 9 • 10:30-2:30
PURCHASE A BABY LOCK SOPRANO AT MSRP AND RECEIVE AN EXCLUSIVE QUILT KIT BY RILEY BLAKE. OFFER VALID AUGUST 1- OCTOBER 15, 2019
REFLECTED HARMONY BOM With Peggy Bass Make a stunning quilt a little at a time! Join this Block of the Month and complete the queen size quilt in 8 months. The reds, pinks and tans piece together into Reflected Harmony - the centerpiece of any bedroom. Perfect for an upcoming wedding gift. Begins October 1. $25 per month. $50 registration includes first and last month. $25/MONTH STARTS OCT 1
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315-445-0617
3906 New Court Avenue, Syracuse, NY
CALICO GALS WILL BE CLOSED: • NOVEMBER 28 • DECEMBER 25 HAPPY HOOPERS With Jenifer Cantrell Bring your embroidery machine and spend the day with Jen - starting, working on and finishing new projects. The classroom space will be totally dedicated to machine embroidery! Jen will be starting on the new Kimberbell quilt, Make Yourself at Home. You can join her in creating this fun new quilt or work on other machine embroidery creations. Bring your lunch or a dish to share. Get set up and focus all day! $15 • OCT 8, NOV 12 & DEC 10 • 10:30-3:30 IQ DESIGNER: SIMPLY SCANNING With Nina Dukette Second in the series exploring the many capabilities of IQ Designer. Become more comfortable with scanning and manipulating images. Learn tips for both line and filled designs. Included with class is a USB containing step by step instructions for the class projects and more. $75 • OCT 14 • 10:30-3:30
Kimberbell Club New Class Time Added!
Kimberbell Club is going strong! $25 fee includes a flash drive, 12 unique designs for your embroidery machine, power point presentation, show and tell from the group, discounts and more. Club started in April, but join anytime and we will catch you up! Choose noon, 4:00 or 5:30 pm meeting time.
