Thursday, February 28, 2013

Join us for National Quilting Month this March

            Kalamazoo Sewing Center


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March is National Quilting Month! Won't you join us? We have lots of great quilting projects planned. Need a new machine? Notions to take your creativity to new hights? Come see us!
It's National Quilting Month!

Events--Won't You Join Us?

Sincerely Yours Quilt---a beautiful, classic quilt and we're still welcoming new students! Call to register and come join us March 20th to create this stunning quilt. Sincerely Yours Quilt

Learn to applique and stitch the Floral Applique Quilt---one block at a time, one block per month. There's a different flower to plant every month---March 1. What a way to start out National Quilting Month!

Quilting offers opportunities to pick up sewing skills and practice them until you're a pro. The stitcher's garden applique quilts are an excellent example of learning new skills a bit at a time and stitching up a sweet quilt all your own at the same time. This quilt offers lessons on Stitcher's Garden by Terri M. Smithdifferent feet that are available and/or that came with your machine. Make perfect stitches, sew perfect ruffles, sew buttons, buttonholes, use your decorative stitches---learn how with our Applique Quilt classes. Just look at this gorgeous quilt top by Terri M. Smith!
  Please see our class schedule for the times for this quilt.


Get a Shopping Spree March 1 through March 31!**

Designer Ruby DeluxeBuy a Designer Diamond Deluxe and get a $500 shopping spree for notions, threads, additional hoops, and tools to take your creativity to the limit!   

Or buy a Designer Ruby Deluxe in March and receive a $300 in store shopping spree to help you with your first projects!Hurry in this offer won't last! And remember our sewing machines come with free classes to help you take advantage of all your machine's new features!    
Designer Diamond Deluxe

**Please see store for complete details for all as additional restrictions may apply.
Kalamazoo Sewing Center:
5401 Portage Rd., Suite 6
Portage, MI 49002
(269)342-5808
Fax: (269) 342-0456
email: mail@kalamazoosews.com

Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30, Saturday 9:30-1 Closed Sunday
Class schedule is subject to change. Please give us a call if the weather is inclement.
New Feet to help you with your quilting:
Multi-line Foot

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Notion of Note

We are so exited to have the Husqvarna Viking Circular attachment to add to the tool bag available for your Husqvarna Viking Sewing Machine. This attachment allows you to make perfect circles and bloom those circles into flowers and other wonderful embellishments on your favorite projects. This versatile notion also helps with those applique projects.

With the simple templates, this is the perfect new tool to add to your sewing studio. Take a look at the instructional video below and see just how easy you can add pizazz to your next project, then come see us for your attachment.


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Why 5D Professional Plus?

Husqvarna Viking has a trade in deal going on 5D Embroidery Software and TruEmbroidery for the Mac Operating Systems. This makes now a great time to upgrade whatever software that you are currently using to the state of the art software package that can help you do whatever you've been dreaming of in creating fashion and home decor distinctly yours.

But why should you upgrade? What do you get when you upgrade your products?

If you currently use digitizing software other than 4D or a 5D component what you receive in a 5D upgrade is a professional product that allows you to create and manipulate designs easily and with more precision than ever before. Users of 5D tell us that the 5D products are amazing in comparison to other products. Here's a summary of the 5D products available and a sample of what they do:

5D Embroidery Package

  • Resize, Rotate, and manipulate designs. Don't worry about overlap when joining designs, overlap and stitches are adjusted for you. Change colors in the software and see what the results will be right on your screen using thousands of built in colors from all the prominent manufacturers.
  • Monogram and use lettering on your projects with fonts that are readily available on your computer. 
  • There are over 700 embroidery designs included that you can include in your projects.
  • Organize your embroideries in 5D organizer.

5D Embroidery Extra

  • Do everything that 5D Embroidery Package does plus
  • Create designs from your favorite pictures.
  • Use Colorsort for the best, most efficient stitch out.
  • View projects before stitch out on various backgrounds; try out embellishments; and view appliques on your project before you add them. Adjust on your screen before you stitch and you'll always have the perfect result that you had envisioned.

5D Professional Plus

  • Ever been in the middle of the design process and wish your tool could just do something else? 5D Professional Plus comes with 11 different modules built in to make sure that you will always have what you need.
  • Shade and form your embroidery with multi gradient fill, lace, and more.
  • Load or draw images and then automatically convert what you've drawn to embroidery! So simple!
  • Use your machine motifs or create your own.   
  • Create portraits of family members, pets, and stitch a whole family portrait. Frame them, make a memory quilt, commemorate a special occasion or wedding.
  • Includes 5D sketch, Cross Stitcher, Family Tree among the modules
Come in and consult with our staff to find out what package is the best for you and what you plan to do. We support the products whether it's just one question or a class.

Now is a great time to upgrade with the generous rebates for trade in, but they will only be available for a limited time, so see us today.






      

Monday, February 11, 2013

Get ready for National Quilting Month with 0% Interest!

Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 875Q
This month we're helping you get ready for National Quilting Month by offering 0% Interest Financing from now until February 28, 2013 on selected models with special features built in just for the home quilter.

Even though you can quilt with any machine, there are a few design features that really help you out and make your sewing more fun and more accurate and professional.

The first thing on a quilter's wish list would be a large sewing surface and our sewing deals this month offer 8 inches for the Husqvarna Viking Opal and a really super 10 inches for the Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 875Q. This is the area between the needle and the sewing arm---the place where you slide the rolled up quilt through when quilting---the more room here the easier it is on you and the more even your stitches become.

The next thing that's nice to have is the Husqvarna Sewing Advisor. This is like having a sewing assistant right in your sewing studio. Key in information on fabric, choose a stitch, and your machine makes adjustments to tension, stitch length, and lets you know which foot and needle to use---all handled for you to make sewing so easy.

Sewing with the Husqvarna Viking Opal
Another handy feature for when you're piecing quilt tops together is the ability to move your needle over for the quarter inch seems (instead of moving your fabric from under a foot and suffering fabric slip). The Opal and the Sapphire 875Q have 29 needle positions to help with all your sewing.

You'll find that features like a needle threader, a fix stitch, and a thread cutter in addition to needle up and down and free motion quilting with your built in stitches are items that you can't believe you lived without.

The Sapphire also has the Exclusive Sensor System  that helps your quilt feed through the machine so that every stitch is perfect from the first stitch to the last.

For a limited time you can take home one of these machines and make payments with 0% interest for 24 months. Come see us in the store for complete details as restrictions apply---hurry in stock supplies of these machines are limited.





        

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Notion of Note

Aqua Magic is not your ordinary dissolveable stabilizer. This stablizer is strong and off the role appears like any regular, undesolvable stabilizer---just like a light fabric. There the resemblance ends.

Aqua Magic is great for items that have edges---gift card holders, freestanding lace projects. It is heavy enough to handle applique stitches and you can use 2-3 layers for dense stitch applications.

Aqua Magic also comes in a tacky version for applications when you're not going to hoop your project and need to tack down your item. The tacky glue washes away just as easily as the Aqua Magic Stabilizer---simple hot water does the trick---truly magic. Now at our low price of $38.95 for a 12x25 inch roll of Aqua Magic or $51.95 for a 12x10 inch roll of Aqua Magic Plus with the tacky surface. Stock up today!