10am - 11am:  In the Hoop Embroidery Techniques - Learn the secrets to successfully creating In the Hoop projects that are pretty, practical and sew fun!  Hope's customers say they have neer had so much fun with their embroidery machines!  Hope will share her favorite stabilizers and tricks to getting professional results every time.  Hope will show her Tag-A-Longs along with new techniques to make brag tags by incorporating photo fabric paper.  Most of us love the romance of lace and now you can embellish ready made projects with lace shaping in the hoop.  Hope has some new ideas up her sleeve that you won't want to miss. 

11:15 - 12:30 - Continuous Border Embroidery:  Barbara Jones will share with you the tips and tricks for creating beautiful border embroideries  -- longer than any hoop!  Learn how to repeat designs and keep them nice & straight!  Barbara will share how she created her beautiful table runner & share the features that can make it even easier on the Brother Quattro 6000D! 

12:30 - 2:pm -Lunch and Make It Take It:   Every girl needs the essentials close at hand, so we have a special treat for you to tuck away inside your purse.  All participants will have the opportunity to use new embroidered lace designs from one of Hope's upcoming collections to press your own fabric button covered mirror!  Also, Barbara will be available to demo and answer any questions on the BES Lettering & Brother machines.

2pm- 3pm: From Blank to Beautiful -  Remember what attracted you to purchase your first embroidery machine??  Maybe it was so you could embroider on ready  made items, creating quick projects with machine embroidery.  Hope is a master at taking a "blank" and turning it into something beautiful!  One of her blank garments was even featured on the cover of Sew Beautiful Magazine this year!  Create a pretty vase tablescape using blank cocktail napkins.  This lecture will showcase many purchased blank items that hae been transformed into a work of art! 

3pm-4pm:  An opporunity to finish any "unfinished" Make It/Take It projects & continue shopping!