Decorative Stitches for Everyone- Swan Amity, Thu July 17th, 2025 10 AM

Date: Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Time: 10 AM - 4 PM
Teacher: Swan Sheridan

Nebraska Quilt Company is excited to partner with Swan Sheridan of Swan Amity Studios from Tucson, Arizona. She is an amazing pattern, fabric designer, applique and landscape quilting expert.

Make this floral project using basic fusing techniques and some of the fun decorative stitches on your machine! Join Swan to learn the ins and outs of basic fusing techniques and decorative stitches to make your personal a masterpiece. Personalize your project with color and placement, making the piece all your own. You’ll learn to enjoy all that your machine has to offer and see just how pretty your threads can be when you use all of your stitches on your fused projects.

Materials needed:

• Background - 1/3 yard
• Blossoms - 2 Fat Eights of coordinating colors
• Stems - 2 Fat Eights of coordinating colors
• Batting: Batting piece measuring at least 12"x30". You will need your batting piece in class.
• Backing Material: 1/3 yard You will need this backing piece in class.
• Binding: 1/3 yard
• Our staff is ready to help you select your fabrics at any time in-store.
• Sewing machine in good working order capable of dropping the feed dogs
• Microtex (sharp) machine needles (80/12 is best or a 70/10)
• Paper cutting scissors
• Good sharp fabric cutting scissors
• Pencil
• Marking tool appropriate for your background fabric (light for dark fabrics and blue washout for light fabrics)
• Rotary Cutter
• Pins
• Masking Tape
• #1 Safety Pins
• 3"x18" ruler or one of similar size
• Thread in a variety of colors (We suggest 50 wt and 40 wt for the majority of your stitching. This is also an opportunity to put to use any specialty threads you might like such as rayons, polys, or machine embroidery threads.)
• Fusible web-Double sided (I suggest soft fuse, hotfix fusible, or Heat and Bond Lite): 1/2 yard of at least 18"wide fusible
• Optional: Teflon pressing sheet