Free Motion Echo Quilting

Echo quilting is a type of free motion quilting that can be an easy beginner application. The quilter can get the feel and experience of free motion without concentrating on the additional skill of drawing with the stitches too.

And echo quilting has just gotten easier with a foot that Husqvarna Viking has just introduced the Free Motion Echo Quilting Foot.

Made for the Designer line of sewing machines, this foot is specifically for number 7 Husqvarna Viking machines. Witness just how easy it is to stitch accurately with this see through foot with lines to help you keep your stitches exactly where you want them. Click on the video:

         

So before you start your next quilting job big or small, stop by the sewing center and pick up one of these versitile feet to add to your sewing tool bag. It will help you make your life easier!

National Quilting Month

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!

Events--Won't You Join Us?

Quilt a picnic! Have you seen this picnic quilt? A Lunchbox Quilt design, this quilt is as fun to make as it is to take to a picnic. What a fun and colorful quilt to use as a table cloth or take to the fireworks display to sit on. Or, if you don't have time for a whole quilt how about a table runner for the summer patio? Classes are in Highland on the last Wednesday of the month. $10 for the class. Design purchase required. Registration is required so that we can be ready for you. 


Let's have tea! Embroider one block a month, put it all together and you'll have this wimsical teapot quilt by Jan Brown. This class meets the third Wednesday of the month. Class fee is $15 and requires design purchase. Come register for the next class now!

Things are coming up roses in Merrillville on the last Wednesday of the month as we begin stitching the Antique Rose Quilt. Each block is quilted as you go---no need to quilt a large quilt with this technique.  This is a very popular class so please sign up as soon as possible it will fill up quickly!  
Don't have an embroidery machine but want to quilt? No problem! We have beginning quilting on the third Saturday and third Tuesday of the month in Merrillville. Come learn the tips and techniques and by the time you're done quilting you'll have the tools you need to tackle any project. Class is $10.

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 different 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. Stitcher's Garden 1 in Highland and Stitcher's Garden 2 in Merrillville. Please see our class schedules for the times for this quilt.

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

Buy 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! &nbsp 


**Please see store for complete details for all as additional restrictions may apply.

Notion of the week

There are times when even the most experienced sewers need help. And since today's 12th day of Christmas gift is buy two get one free on sewing machine feet, I thought it would be timely to give you the scoop on a sewing machine foot that can help you out.

This is the walking foot. This foot will keep those quarter inch seams straight and well fed through your machine for perfect stitching all the time. It can also help with quilting, feeding those difficult, slippery fabrics that need some extra help, or when you have thicker items that could use an extra boot through the machine.

The other day during quilting classes at our Highland store, store manager and quilting guru, Joan, noted that one of the students was having difficulties with those seams going through on the straight and narrow. Joan recommended the walking foot for the student's machine.

Sure enough, the seams were PERFECT and trouble free too. So hurry in and get your walking foot today and take advantage of the buy two get one free deal on all feet!

Come in for our Quilting Foot sale 25% off this week only!

September means the temperature is starting to cool down and you start breaking out the jackets.  Could be perfect time to make yourself or a loved one a beautiful quilt to keep them warm all winter long!

For this week only (9/19 – 9/25) you can save 25% on all of our Quilting Feet!  No matter if you’ve been quilting for years or want to make a quilt for the first time, come on in for a demo and save on the following feet:

Interchangeable Dual Feed
Changeable ¼” Guide Foot
¼” Edge Stitching Foot
Quilter’s Presser Feet Kit
Changeable Quilter’s Guide Foot
Clear ¼” Piecing Foot

This offer won’t last long so hurry and experience the Joy of Sewing™!

And don't miss our exciting sales and activities for National Sewing month.  It just might be time to trade in your machine or pick out that serger or embroidery machine you've been thinking about.

Your friends at Indiana Sewing Centers

This week only --- 25% off on All Garment Feet!

Have you ever tried to struggle through a project and wish there was an easier way to create your dream garment?  Chances are, having the right foot can make your results beautiful, while making it so much easier!

For this week only (9/12 – 9/18) you can get 25% off all of our Garment Sewing Feet!  Always had a technique you wanted to try or want to learn how to make your garments easier and more beautiful than ever before?  Come on in for a demo and save on the following feet:

Flat Felled Foot 9mm

 

Clear Seam Guide Foot

Clear Stitch-In-Ditch Foot

Invisible Zipper Foot

   

This offer won’t last long so hurry and experience the Joy of Sewing™!

Your friends at Northwest Indiana Sewing Centers