SPRING
Playlist
CalicoGals |Spring 2017 Playlist
2017
Classes and
Workshops
FIDGET QUILT
With Candy Tucker, Saturday, April 15, 1-4pm
Fidget quilts are small lap quilts made to entertain or calm people
of any age who suffer with dementia, autism, blindness, and
sensory issues. And… they are even lots of fun for everyone
else! Fidget quilts contain fun “feely” fabrics and small
items to fiddle with. Create a fidget quilt personalized
for the person for whom you are making it. Go home
with lots of ideas for making more fidget quilts. Class fee
of $35 includes class, pattern, an assortment of “fidget” items
to attach to your quilt and a selection of textured fabrics. Bring
your own textured fabrics to swap with the group!
NEW YORK BEAUTY
ISLAND SUNRISE
With Julie Burger, Monday:
April 10, 10:30am-4:30pm
Everyone LOVES the classic NY Beauty
Block! This sample quilt is 56” x 56”,
but make yours larger if you like! (we’ll
order more papers!) Learn how to
organize and
cut the Judy
Niemeyer way,
along with
paper and
curved piecing resulting
in a stunning
quilt. Create
your NY Beauty Block in any
color combination of contrasting fabrics. Fee: $45
HUGS - HELPING US GIVE
SMILES With Melonie Unger,
Saturday, July 8, 10am - 3pm
Make a difference in the lives of
others using your quilting skills.
Join Melonie in supporting
“Quilts for Kids - Syracuse, NY
Chapter.” You get to quilt and
benefit a good cause right here
in our community. Class fee
includes lunch and pattern for
the project. Pick up your pattern early and join the group
ready to sew. Have fun and give
back! Fee: $10
GARDEN WALK
With Nina Dukette, Mondays:
April 24, May 22, June 26,
10:30am - 1:30pm
It’s back! Join us for The Garden Walk, a
wonderful 6 month series that’s all the
buzz at Calico Gals. These three deep
dive classes will help you get to know
your machine like nobody’s business.
Learn the ins and out of bobbinwork,
fringe foot, wing needle, couching,
sewing in circles, twin needles, ruffler,
mini piping and much more. There’s
so many new things to learn! Fee: $70
(includes three months of classes)
GENESEE VALLEY BUS TRIP - SUNDAY, JUNE 4
Come one! Come all! A day trip to the Genesee Valley Quilt Show with over
600 Quilts & 60 Fabulous Vendors. Bus Fare, Ticket to Show, Snacks,
Goodie Bags - all this and more. Lunch on your own.
Call the gals, 315-445-0617 to save your seat! Fee: $70
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THE BASICS/FIRST STEPS
MACHINE APPLIQUE
With Beth Broadway, Wednesday, June 14, 5-8pm
Machine Applique is THE class to launch or improve
your machine applique skills. Every serious stitcher will
gain skill and confidence as you prepare applique pieces, choose fusibles and stabilizers, learn to select the
right stitches (buttonhole, satin, zig zag or raw edge
appliqué) and more! A fantastic class at a terrific price
where you’ll make a useable, gift-able tea towel and
gain the lifetime skill of Machine Applique! Fee: $30
SIMPLICITY
With Patti Blanchard
Wednesday, May 10
5:30-7:30pm
Simplicity is a quick
and easy quilt class
with focus on the basic
four patch block. As a bonus,
you’ll be introduced to one of our
favorite tools that makes construction a
breeze! Use your stash of 5” charm squares
to create this cozy beauty! Fee: $25
SPRING BASKET IN WOOL
With Melonie Unger, Thursday, May 25
2:30-4:30pm or 5:30-7:30pm
Celebrate the warmer weather and learn to create an
amazing project featuring the
beauty of wool. Turn your piece
into a pillow or picture. Gain
confidence with wool work,
learning how to fuse and hand
stitch around precut shapes. Fun!
Fee: $20
BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING
With Nina Dukette, 2 Mondays & a Tuesday
April 3, 10, & 18, 5:30-8:30pm
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. Fee: $45
BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS FOR EMBROIDERERS
With Tom Baxter, April 5, Wednesday, 5:30-8pm
Get geeky! Your quilting will improve when you take
this basic computer class. We’re not lying! In this class
(mainly for Windows users with some overlap to Mac)
you’ll learn computer terminology, what you need to
know about files and folders, internet downloads and
how to use a USB thumb drive. Don’t be scared - jump
in and get comfortable with tech by learning more
about your computer. Laptop required for class.
Fee: $20
OPEN SEWING TIME AT CALICO GALS:
NUTZ with Kathy Barden, My Time Monday with
Lynn Schantz, NUTZ at Night with Melonie Unger
MTM:Mondays, 10am - 3pm NUTZ: Fridays, 10am - 3pm
NUTZ at Night: Fridays, 5pm-10pm, Check store for Dates!
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! Fee: $15!
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SERGERS & MORE
READY, SET SERGE
With Nina Dukette, Monday, March 27, 5:30-7:30pm
2 good reasons to own a serger - FAST and FABULOUS projects! Join Nina in this class and make an
eyeglass case, a cosmetic bag and a gift bag - all totally complete during class time. It’s a great introduction
for a new serger owner and really fun class for experienced sergers too. If you don’t own a serger - borrow
one of ours and see what the fun is all about! Fee: $20
S.O.S. SERGE ON SERGERS!
With Melissa Morgante, Fridays: April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, 10am - 3pm
Use your serger to the max! Bring in any serger project and before you know it, you’ll have it finished. Any
brand of serger is welcome - just be sure to clean, dust and thread it first. Serging goes smoother with
sharp needles, so bring a few new ones with you. And don’t forget your project instructions. You’ll feel so
good once you’ve completed your project! Fee: $15
BABY LOCK SERGER TECHNIQUE SAMPLER
With Melissa Morgante, Saturday, May 20,
10am - 3pm. Get better at serging! This technique
class gives you practice using your Babylock serger
to learn Cover Stitch, Chain Stitch, Rolled Hem,
Ruffle, Flat Lock, Wave and other techniques you’d
like to try. Bring your lunch and spend the day
learning. Fee: $25
USING THE GUIDE PEN ON YOUR BABYLOCK
DESTINY, UNITY OR CRESCENDO
With Nina Dukette, Tuesday, April 18, 11am - 1pm
Babylock machines come with a unique and wonderful piece of technology - the guide beam pen. It’s
a little laser light that helps you to be more accurate
and have more fun with your sewing. Bring your machine and join Nina in this hands-on workshop.
Fabric kit provided. Fee: $10
BABYLOCK SERGER REVISIT
With Melissa Morgante, Sunday, April 30,
12:30-3:00pm Monday, June 12, 10:30am - 1pm
Are you the owner of a Baby Lock serger?
Wondering what your next step is? Relax! If you’ve
taken it out of the box, you’re in good shape.
Learn all the great uses for your Baby Lock
serger in this comprehensive class - serging
curves, inside corners, outside corners, rolled hems, balanced stitches and more.
Fee: $25
BABY LOCK SERGE-A-THON
APRIL 29, ANYTIME
Make a FREE pillowcase on an easy-to-use Baby
Lock serger during the Serge-A-Thon on April 29
and we’ll donate it to help someone in need. Best
of all, anyone visiting our retail store on April 29
can enter to win one of three Baby Lock Ovation
Sergers with a Madeira Aerolock Serger Thread
Box.
BABYLOCK SERGER COVER/CHAIN STITCH
With Melissa Morgante, Sunday, April 2, 12:30-3pm
& Saturday, April 22, 1:30-4pm
Get your pretty on with new ways to embellish using
serging. This class teaches wonderful options for adding Cover Stitch and Chain Stitch to clothing or even
quilting. Required: Prior knowledge of Serger technique; change from 4 thread overlock to 3 thread and
back, change needles back and forth. If not confident,
come to Serger Revisit first. Fee: $25
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FUN STUFF
3 SHOP BUS TRIP - THURSDAY, MAY 4
Quilt Shop Tour! Come on all you quilters - hop on the bus to spend the
day visiting 3 fabulous quilt shops in
Upstate NY. Start in Syracuse, Utica, or
Albany, and enjoy the ride traveling with
friends, visiting stores, and participating in
demonstrations, all with pattern & fabric
provided for an adorable project. Add a box
lunch to top if off and you’ve got a fabulous day!!
A joint production of Calico Gals, Tiger Lily Quilt Company and The
Joyful Quilter. Fee: $55
CLASSMATE SEWING TOTE
With Marcia Evans
Wednesday, April 12 , 10:30am - 3:30pm
Every quilter needs this awesome tote! Using your favorite quilt
fabrics, vinyl, zippers and hook clasps, go home with this a tote
roomy enough to hold all the accruements/accoutrements
needed for the tools you bring back and forth to class. Marcia
will bring a crockpot of soup to share for lunch. Feel free to
bring something to share, but it is not mandatory.
Fee: $35
VILLA ROSA LUNCH BUNCH
With Lynn Schantz & Melonie Unger
Thursday, April 27, 10:30am - 3:30pm
Quilting Inspiration with lunch on the side!
Beginners and experienced quilters alike will
LOVE this class where quick, easy AND great
design go hand in hand. Make a date with yourself and your quilting friends to
check out the new featured
quilt, accompanied by a
delicious lunch and lots
of great tips and
personal instruction.
Check out the samples,
you won’t want to miss
this! Fee: $35
BOXY
RECTANGLE
DRESDEN PLATE
With Marcia Evans
Saturday, May 6,
10:30am - 1:30pm
Classic meets cool in this updated 10-wedge dresden
class! Try the newly released template and create a
traditional quilt in a fun shape. You’ll love the pre-finished center - it cuts time and makes a creative use
your quilt fabric! This is a hands-on class with
instruction to complete at least 1 block,
including appliquéing it to a your background
and discussing options for quilting these
beauties! Fee: $25
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MAKE A QUILT!
GLACIER STAR
PRE-CLASS GLACIER STAR
With Julie Burger, May 23, June 22, July 18
With Julie Burger, Saturday, April 1, 10:30am - 4:30pm
Aug 8, Sept 12, Oct 10, 10:30am - 4:30pm
Spend a day getting organized for your Glacier Star
We are thrilled to offer Judy Niemeyer’s Glacier Star project. Julie will help you choose fabrics, organize
as our Technique of the Month (TOM) Program. And your cutting process and prepare your fabrics for the
you will be thrilled to complete a beautiful Glacial
Technique of the Month series. Time well spent to
Star quilt in just 7 months. Starting in April, certistart off ready to go! Fee: $45
fied instructor Julie Burger teaches a different Judy
Niemeyer paper piecing technique each month,
leading you to create a glorious quilt! TOM programs
incorporate a wide range of techniques to familiarize
quilters with paper piecing so they can successfully
complete any Judy pattern. Class 1 covers fabrics,
tools, organization, cutting papers and fabric, and set
up. Join us for this once a month class and find out
just how easy Judy Niemeyer quilts really are! Choice
of sizes: 60 x 60 or 90 x 90. Fee: $45 each class,
$90 registration fee includes first & last class.
SEW TRASHY - DEMIN QUILT
With Gay Silkey & Melonie Unger, Thursday, May 11, 2-4pm or 6-8pm
Who doesn’t have an old pair of jeans they’d like to keep forever? Repurpose jeans
into a quick and easy quilt that will make you feel like you’re home. Get the tips for
strip cutting and piecing tol create a fun quilt. Perfect for a teenager! Fee: $25
MEL’S MINIS, DOUBLE BEAR PAW
With Melonie Unger, Thursday, April 6, 2:30-4:30pm or 5:30-7:30pm
If you have ever tried (or wanted to try) tiny piecing for quilt miniatures, this is
the class for you. Learn Melonie’s tips and hints that make it easy. You will love
how satisfying the precision can be. The finished quilt measures 12 1/2” x 12
1/2” and is just plain adorable! Fee: $20
BEBOPSTOMP
BOO
GIE-
WO O
GIE
JELLYROLL JAZZ
With Melissa Morgante
Thursdays: June 8 or July 13, 10am - 3pm
We love Jelly Rolls - those wonderful strips sets of
beautiful fabrics! Grab your favorite and turn it into a
fast and fun quilt. Choose one or both of these jazzy
patterns - both are included in the book along with a
bunch more. Even better - these quilts work well for
sewing by machine or sergers. BeBop Stomp class is
on June 8, Boogie Woogie class is on July 13.
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JOIN A CLUB!
CHRISTMAS CLUB
With Marcia Evans & Melonie Unger
Sundays: April 9, May 7, June 11, July 9, 12:30-1:30pm or 2-3pm
HO HO HO! The Gals are bringing back Christmas Club! Get ahead of the holiday
curve this year in this fun class from the Terry Atkinson book “Simple, Fun &
Quickly Done”. Marcia and Melonie will demonstrate quick and easy projects each
month, so you have plenty of gifts long before the snow falls.
Fee: $36 for a whole year of club meetings.
GO CLUB With Lynn Schantz, Peggy Bass & Marcia Evans
Wednesdays: April 19, May 24, June 21, July 19, 1:30-3:30 pm or 5:30-7:30pm
You’ll be quilting sooner than later with the GO Cutting system, whether you own it or just want to try it out. Our
monthly GO Cutting Club gives you plenty of practice time
with a new project every month. Options, idea, fabric
bonuses, die discounts and more! Have fun with GO BOMs
and GO swaps! Fee: $20/month
New!
KIMBERBELLS MACHINE EMBROIDERY CLUB
With Nina Dukette, Melonie Unger, & Janet Lutz
Thursdays: April 13, May 18, June 8
4pm or 5:30pm
Join the Club! The all new Kimberbells Embroidery
Club, where you learn a new machine embroidery
technique and receive a pattern and a new machine
embroidery every month. This year round (12 months)
club is fun and educational. Connect with fellow
stitchers and go home with a variety of designs, patterns and ideas. Fee includes a Calico Gals flash drive,
12 Kimberbell embroidery file designs (in your format), and a year full of fun meetings! Designs are free
when you attend the meetings, $5 each if you need
to catch up. No machines needed for the
meetings. All machine
brands and formats
welcome. Be watching
for the quarterly
Kimberbells Sew-Ins
where members can
bring machines and
work on our Kimberbell projects together!
Fee: $25 for the year!
DESTINY EMBROIDERY CLUB
With Nina Dukette, Tuesdays, April 11, May 16 , & June 13
1-4pm. The most beautiful
sewing and embroidery
machine in the Babylock
line up can do the most
beautiful things! Learn
something new each
month and use your
machine to the max.
Fee:
$10 per class
ADD-A-QUARTER CLUB
With Julie Burger, Tuesdays: April 4, May 2
June 6, July 11, 12- 4pm
Foundation Piecers! Have you ever started a
project and then another pops up, and then
another, and another? Suddenly, you run out of
time, inspiration and need help to get back to it!
That’s where Julie comes in! Bring your paper
piecing projects to work on and share with the
class. Join in the fun just once or every month.
Fee: $10/month
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FINISH IT UP!
FREE MOTION MACHINE QUILTING
With Candy Tucker, Mondays: April 24 & May 8
5:30pm - 8:30pm. Take the scary out of machine
quilting when you learn to use the walking foot, free
motion foot, and complete a sample book of quilting
patterns. Next time you’re ready to quilt, you’ll be all set
with patterns you already know how to do.
Fee: $30
HAPPY ENDINGS I BORDERS
With Kathy Barden
Wednesday, April 26, 10:30am - 3pm
Your quilt top is almost complete, except for those
pesky borders. Will you do simple overlapping or
more interesting mitered borders? What about
using a border print or stripes! Maybe you’ll try
multiple borders or a border with a flange for a
change. How about adding some prairie points,
corner stones or even a pieced piano keys border?
But, which is best to add the most interest and not
detract from what you have already done? And,
how do you figure out how much fabric you’ll
need for those borders? In this technique class
you will be making samples of all of the above
borders that you can reference for years to come.
If this is your first quilt or your fifty first quilt come
and learn something new about borders! Fee: $35
SAVE! JUST $60 WHEN YOU REGISTER FOR
BOTH CLASSES
HQ PRO-STITCHER INTRO CLASS
With Tom Baxter, Wednesday, May 31, 5:30-8pm
Super lecture for the Pro-Stitcher on your
HandiQuilter Long-Arm machine. Start at the
beginning, review the functions of each button
and learn the details on the menu items. Tom will
demonstrate how to select an image, define an
area and place the image in the area, followed
by a tutorial on the skew feature. Perfect class for
new owners, power quilters or those considering
the purchase. Fee: $25
WOOLY 911
With Melonie Unger, Saturday, June 17, 10am - 3pm
Melonie will become your best friend if you come
to Wooly 911, helping you complete ANY ( yes, she
means ANY ) wool project. And she even brings
lunch! This is the 911 call every stitcher with an
unfinished project must make! Fee: $15
HAPPY ENDINGS II BINDINGS
With Kathy Barden
Wednesday, May 3, 10:30am - 3pm
Bindings, bindings and more bindings! Now that
your quilt top (jacket, tote, table runner, placemats,
etc.) is complete, let’s get busy finishing. Scallops,
or rounded corners? Straight grain or on the bias
binding? Blunt end or mitered corners? What about
a corded, false or two colored binding? Hand sew
or machine it with a decorative stitch and gathered
eyelet? Get all your questions answered, and any
more you can think of, in this lively and informative
class. A follow up to Happy Endings 101: Borders,
this is the next step in the “Git ‘er done” series. Make
samples to use as references for years to come.
Fee: $35
CALICOGALS WILL BE CLOSED:
April 16 - Easter, May 14 - Mother’s Day,
May 28 & 29 - Memorial Day
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