Event Type 2: Special Events

10AM-Noon-Free Motion
Miriam will demonstrate free motion on the Janome QMP20.  Learn the difference between cruise and precision mode, how to use the fully independent, adjustable handlebars for micro quilting, and sew much more. See how the LED lights around the needle, throat space area, and the bobbin area make it easy to see every stitch and how the needlepoint laser light gives you precise needle position.

1-4 ProStitcher

 Expand your quilting possibilities with this easy-to-use, computerized system, and finish more quilts.
Miriam will share tips, tricks and techniques for using ProStitcher.

Miriam has been involved in the fabric world in many different avenues: fashion design, managing a modern quilt store, co-owning a long arm quilting business, serving as a textile sales representative and most excitingly as a Janome Educator.  Miriam has been published in several articles and appeared on the show Fresh Quilting. Her work has been featured in the Modern Quilt Guild’s “Modern Quilts, Best of the New Century” book. Out of her local and international awards – which includes QuiltCon awards, and a Best in Show award from the Asheville Quilt Show – she is most proud of her 1^st place blue ribbon from AQS Paducah.

Anne’s passion for sewing started with the required Home Economics class. Sewing, creating unique clothes, and crafting was her thing – even using her grandmother’s trundle machine. Her first embroidery machine, the Janome Memory Craft 9000, grew that passion with quilting, embroidery, and digitizing. If it could fit in the hoop, let’s embroider it! Joining the Janome team was a dream come true, Anne is a Janome girl through and through – you know she didn’t stop with that MC9000!

You’ll find her on the Janome Artistic Digitizer Facebook page, sharing her extensive knowledge of embroidery, digitizing and editing; and helping everyone with troubleshooting their projects. She does a weekly LIVE on the Janome Sewing Machines FB page covering all her favorite topics.

Sharing her creativity through her travels with Janome and teaching are some of her favorite things. Anne says “My job with Janome has never really been a job! I get to do the two things I love: talking with people and creating! And I can do my job just about anywhere.“ You may have seen her when she does her LIVE from a dealer’s store or from other locations across the country.

Two-part class.
Morning session: 10AM-12noon
 Artistic Digitizer software review and set up of preferences.  Anne will include a small lesson, to learn a few of the tools. She will also show a bit on converting a graphic to stitches and how to proceed.
Break from 12-1
Afternoon session: 1-4:30, Project class
Anne will guide you as you make the design in the class to stitch out at home.  We will have a machine set up to show it stitching out.
In this class you will create an applique from a graphic provided.  Ambience quilting will be applied to the design. Anne will offer options for creating the cut file or using the cutting blades.