Sue Patten is not your typical quilters. Anyone who knows Sue knows her high energy, innovative designs and techniques and would tell you to expect the unexpected! Always with a story to tell or a tip to give, her classes are non-stop educational and fun. Sue is an award winning longarm quilter, who has traveled throughout Canada, The United States and Europe teaching her unique and innovative styles to longarmer, domestic quilters and hand quilters alike. Sue offers a wide variety of classes for all levels of quilters, including hands on, lecture demos, and drawing classes along with a must see, hilariously funny, trunk show. This includes everything from her hand work, to her world- renowned, award-winning thread art quilts. Sue is the author of “Quilting Possibilities…Freehand Filler Patterns” and "Adaptable Quilting Designs" published by AQS Books.

When she is not teaching and writing books she is a designer of stencils, machine embroidery patterns, hand embroidery patterns, Innovative whole cloth designs, longarm computerized patterns, hand and machine quilting designs, thread designer and most importantly mother of three.

Sue has appeared on various TV shows such as “The Quilt Show” with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, “America Sews” with Sue Hausmann and “Linda Taylors Longarm Quilting Show”. Her work has also been featured in magazines and other author’s books from around the globe.  

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Class # 208 - Edge to Edge and All Over Designs
Wednesday, Aug. 4th, 9-11
Class Type - Lecture
Skill Level - Everyone

No marking, No turning the quilt and No panto’s needed! Come learn how quick and easy those quilts can be done using free motion. This class covers design ideas, texture to create evenly distributed quilting. Imagine being able to complete those customer quilts in half the time with no math and designs that interlock and fit perfectly from the first row to the last.

Materials:  $5.00 fee for handout.

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Class # 228 - Feather Alternatives
Wednesday, Aug. 4th, 1-3
Class Type - Lecture
Skill Level - Everyone

Not every quilt screams for feathers . . . join Sue and discover a world of alternative designs to create movement and texture. These free motion designs are great for blocks, sashing and borders for all those quilts that scream for “anything but feathers”.

Materials:  $5.00 fee for handout. 

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Class # 109 - Free Motion Possibility for the True Beginner
Tuesday, Aug. 3rd, 8-12
Class Type - Hands-On Longarm Machine
Skill Level - Beginner

This class will inspire a beginners’ confidence when using free motion design techniques. Sue will discuss threads, tension, batting and “floating” a quilt top. So put away those marking tools, turn off that laser light and join in on this free motion Block Party.

The $10 class kit includes most materials.

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Class # 129 - Tread Art Extreme
Tuesday, Aug. 3rd, 2-6
Class Type - Hands-On with Machine
Skill Level - Everyone

Have you ever wanted to thread art on your longarm? Come see how fun and easy it can be. Sue takes you step by step from outline to full fill-in Thread Art. She’ll show you how her thread counting technique makes it quick and easy to create beautiful works of art. Come experience a world of beauty created with thread.

The $25 class kit includes most materials

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Class # 322 - Tickle My Quilt With Feathers
Thursday, Aug. 5th, 1-3
Class Type - Lecture
Skill Level - Everyone

This class will take your feather techniques to a whole new level in design and texture. Explore the feather with a fun free motion style from traditional to funky in this fast pace, cutting edge, feather frenzy!

Materials:  $5.00 fee for handout.  

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Class # 511 - Stunning Sashings
Saturday, Aug. 7th, 9-11
Class Type - Demonstration with Longarm Machine
Skill Type - Everyone

We spend so much time planning our block designs that we often ignore the sashings altogether. This class offers you quick and easy, free motion design concepts to add texture and movement to all your quilts sashings.

Materials:  $5.00 fee for handout. 

 

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