Swan Sheridan Two Day Event July 17th and July 18th, 2025

Date: Thursday July 17th and Friday July 18th
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 and applique and landscape quilting expert.

This ticket allows you to attend the Thursday class "Decorative Stitches for Everyone" as well as the Friday class "Threadscapes". Not only do you get to experience two days of amazing learnings from Swan, you will also be able to attend her Trunk Show on Friday evening.

Materials needed for Decorative Stitches Class:

• 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 fgor 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 (I 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

• Fabric: You will need a selection of scrap fabrics measuring at least 9”x 9” in a range of sunset colors (you will need 5 colors though you may wish to bring more in order to have options), two dark shades you might like for mountains. Choose one or more colors for sand, and at least one saguaro shade if you would like to make the desert scene. Choose one or more colors for a green valley and at least one color for your river if you would like to make the valley scene. This project works best if you chose fabrics that have little or no print and exhibit some color change within the fabric. Hand dyes and batiks are excellent.
  • Our staff is ready to help you select your fabrics at any time in-store.
• A piece of backing fabric measuring at least 10” x 12” and a batting scrap roughly the same size as the backing fabric.
• Thread: This class is primarily about color and thread. Consider bringing a variety of threads that match, closely match, or accentuate elements of the fabrics that you select. Choose a variety that also reflects elements of the landscape. Use the sample photo as an example to help you with your selections. The sample contains thread from Superior’s King Tut line, Sulky’s variegated line, and several rayon and polyester selections. Don’t feel limited by cotton. This is an art piece and many types of thread are acceptable.
• In the bobbin, choose matching colors for your bobbin threads in the weights of your preferred top threads. (Cotton bobbin threads that work well are Aurfil, Mettler, and DMC machine embroidery thread.)
• Sewing machine in good working order capable of dropping the feed dogs
• Free Motion Quilting foot compatible with your machine (a full circle or an open toe foot will work)
• Teflon free motion slider (optional item, you just need to be able to easily move your fabric through your machine)
• Microtex (sharp) machine needles (80/12 or 90/14 is best)
• Self threading needle (for hand burying knots)
• Paper cutting scissors
• Good sharp fabric cutting scissors
• Small scissors you can get up close to your project surface with
• Sewline Glue pen
• ½ yard freezer paper
• Pencil
• Rotary Cutter