Today's workshop is a small trapunto butterfly piece; my sample is on hand dyed fabrics and is quilted with pink threads -- no surprise there.....
Here's a closeup of one of the butterflies....
Glenda Lewis of Summer Breezes rented a meeting room at a nearby hotel for the workshop...
..smiling people and Bernina 830's!
After the workshop, Glenda and I went to the store so I could take a peek at all the things going on there. An event had been held to get everybody ready to make Christmas gifts and decorations, so Summer Breezes is all ready -- complete with tree! That's Glenda with the big smile!
There are embroidered decorations and lights and spools of metallic thread....
...and pretty red bows! I love the idea of thread hanging on the tree; adds a lot of color and sparkle...
Glenda showed me some of the embroideries: the one above is done on a premade table runner.
Glenda plans to put log cabins and other blocks around this embroidery to make a small seasonal quilt....
Another premade plain black table runner -- a blank canvas for more beautiful machine embroidery!
This cute Santa has a fluffy beard....
...made using Minkee and Texture Magic!
One of the store's projects for Breast Cancer Awareness Month is this notepad cover -- the outside using decorative stitches, machine embroidery and a number of different presser feet...
....while the inside has pockets for pens and maybe a calculator and your small pad of lined paper.
Lots of place mats in various seasonal prints....
...complete with built in pockets for silverware and a napkin.
Glenda said that she had taken samples of these place mats to a gourmet food gathering, thinking that perhaps foodies would want to make them. She said everyone loved them, but they wanted to buy them already made!
Sometimes in the warmer weather, a sewer still wants to spend some time at the machine, but wants to make a smaller project. To accommodate that, Summer Breezes has a Bag of the Month Club where you can make all kinds of purses.
There was such a variety that I just kept taking pictures!
Summer Breezes Creative Quilting & Fabrics is located at 5221 Oleander Drive, Wilmington NC (ph: 910-791-6868). To see their website, click here.
Here's a closeup of one of the butterflies....
Glenda Lewis of Summer Breezes rented a meeting room at a nearby hotel for the workshop...
..smiling people and Bernina 830's!
After the workshop, Glenda and I went to the store so I could take a peek at all the things going on there. An event had been held to get everybody ready to make Christmas gifts and decorations, so Summer Breezes is all ready -- complete with tree! That's Glenda with the big smile!
There are embroidered decorations and lights and spools of metallic thread....
...and pretty red bows! I love the idea of thread hanging on the tree; adds a lot of color and sparkle...
Glenda showed me some of the embroideries: the one above is done on a premade table runner.
Glenda plans to put log cabins and other blocks around this embroidery to make a small seasonal quilt....
Another premade plain black table runner -- a blank canvas for more beautiful machine embroidery!
This cute Santa has a fluffy beard....
...made using Minkee and Texture Magic!
One of the store's projects for Breast Cancer Awareness Month is this notepad cover -- the outside using decorative stitches, machine embroidery and a number of different presser feet...
....while the inside has pockets for pens and maybe a calculator and your small pad of lined paper.
Lots of place mats in various seasonal prints....
...complete with built in pockets for silverware and a napkin.
Glenda said that she had taken samples of these place mats to a gourmet food gathering, thinking that perhaps foodies would want to make them. She said everyone loved them, but they wanted to buy them already made!
Sometimes in the warmer weather, a sewer still wants to spend some time at the machine, but wants to make a smaller project. To accommodate that, Summer Breezes has a Bag of the Month Club where you can make all kinds of purses.
There was such a variety that I just kept taking pictures!
Summer Breezes Creative Quilting & Fabrics is located at 5221 Oleander Drive, Wilmington NC (ph: 910-791-6868). To see their website, click here.
After class is dinner and a 1-1/2 hour drive to New Bern NC to meet James and Carole Hall of New Bern Fabric Center -- until then.....
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