Cincinnati Original Creative Festival Cincinnati, OH June 23, 24 & 25, 2011 Sharonville Convention Center
11355 Chester Road Sharonville, OH, 45246-4002
Shopping hours: Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm • Saturday 10am-4pm
Classes begin at 9am each day
Admission: $8 per day, $16 3-day pass
Thanking Our Troops The "God Bless America Touring Quilts"
The Original Creative Festival arranged to have this beautiful collection of patriotic quilts displayed at the Expo. Pictured below are just a few of the quilts that were exhibited. These 22" quilts will tour the USA for 18 months with the other 220 "God Bless America Touring Quilts" and then will be auctioned. The proceeds from the auction will benefit non-profit groups who make quilts for wounded soldiers and families of the fallen.
Author and Crochet Designer Ellen Gormley was in the Southwest Ohio Crochet Guild booth during the Festival.
Ellen stitched more than 80 afghans before beginning her design career in 2004. Now, Ellen has sold more than 100 designs, and been published numerous times in many crochet magazines including Interweave Crochet, Crochet Today, Crochet!, Crochet World and Inside Crochet. Her designs have been shown on the PBS show Knit and Crochet Now! Her first full length book Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook, is for sale now with F+W/Krause publishers.
Ellen is the Crochet LIberation Front's 2009 Award Winner of Best Crochet Designer of Home Decor. You may follow Ellen on Twitter and Ravelry at GoCrochet and her website is CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ELLEN
These nationally known educators were
at the Original Creative Festival
SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE GREATER CINCINNATI AFFILIATEWWW.KOMENCINCINNATI.ORG Exhibiting breast cancer educational materials, crop for the cure info.
The Southwest Ohio Crochet Guild booth.
A chartered chapter of the Crochet Guild of America, is dedicated to promoting the heArt of crochet. Members have all levels of experience from novice to professional, beginner to designer. They come together to teach, share, learn, donate, travel, volunteer, and most importantly have fun. The SOCG is pleased to create and donate baby hats to new mothers at University Hospital in downtown Cincinnati. They also participate in Super Scarves, an effort based in Indianapolist to create and donate scarves to all volunteers of Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolist next year.
Ellen Gormley was available for a book signing on her first full length book Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook. Ellen stitched more than 80 afghans before beginning her design career in 2004. In 2008, Ellen was voted the Best Crochet Designer of Home Décor by the Crochet Liberation Front. Ellen has sold more than 100 designs, and been published numerous times in many crochet magazines including Interweave Crochet, Crochet Today, Crochet!, Crochet World and Inside Crochet. Her designs have been shown on the PBS show Knit and Crochet Now! You can follow Ellen on her blog at www.GoCrochet.com and as 'GoCrochet' on Twitter and www.Ravelry.com.
Thousands of dollars in Door Prizes were awarded to attendees at the Festival!
The grand prize this year was a Janome 3160 QDC sewing machine with a retail value of $999. You'll find 60 stitches including 6 one-step buttonholes. Janome's Exclusive Superior Plus Feed System offers specialized box feeding on top of Janome's SFS system, ensuring even, stable feeding with any fabric. And the time saving features including memorized needle up/down, one hand needle threader, and lock stitch button make sewing easy. Best of all, this full-size machine weighs only 12 pounds, so its easy to take to classes and guild meetings!
Grand Prize Drawing at the Creative Festival was a sewing machine cabinet,
courtesy of Beba's Enterprises LLC
(Salem Manufacturing Inc.).
This cabinet has retail value of $2,800. This grand prize is an all wood sewing cabinet made in the USA. Dimensions are 67" by 27" cabinet top surface area and featured an additional 21" folding back leaf which provides a total width of 48". DRAWING will be Saturday, June 25 at 2:30 pm. You
Juki America Door Prize!
Another great prize given away at Creative Festival! A Juki 27Z Sewing Machine!
Looking for a portable, full-featured sewing machine? Then this is the machine for you. The HZL-27Z packs large features into a small footprint. With 22 stitch patterns, including a buttonhole, you'll find that the HZL-27Z can handle just about any sewing task. MACHINE DETAILS
This AccuQuilt Go! Baby fabric cutter and Go! Baby Pink Tote plus accessories was awarded at the Original Creative Festival!
The GO! Baby™ Fabric Cutter is an extension of the GO!® family of products and is an ultra portable and adorable fabric cutter for quilters and fabric crafters. The GO! Baby™ Fabric Cutter has the same cutting performance as the original GO!® Fabric Cutter and is just as safe, accurate and fast. With a more compact design, the GO! Baby™ is perfect for the beginner and occasional quilter. When using AccuQuilt GO!® fabric cutters, all of the fabric for a full size quilt can be cut in under an hour. The GO! Baby™ is also a great tool for fabric crafters who cut out time consuming appliqué shapes, as almost all of the GO!® appliqué dies work with it. The Go! Baby and it’s pretty pink tote was given away to one lucky winner at the Original Creative Festival.
SPECIAL DOOR PRIZE courtesy of Electric Quilt Company.
One lucky Creative Festival attendee's name was drawn as the winner of the wonderful Quilt Design Software called Electric Quilt 7.
This prize retail value is $189.95. The software allows to you Design~Dream~Create! It does it all. See complete details about this prize by clicking on this link: http://www.electricquilt.com/Shop/EQ7/EQ7.asp
Special door prize by show sponsor Sulky of America
was this 40wt Rayon Slimline Starter Thread Collection with retail value $141.66
Attendees were inspired as models from SquigglyTwigs Designs showed some of their fun and creative collection of easy to sew patterns for Boutique styled clothing for all. If you can follow a simple recipe, you can sew any of these patterns in no time at all. See more of SquigglyTwigs at their blog http://www.squigglytwigs.blogspot.com.
DETAILED PHOTOS
Attendees were invited to
participate in the LoveQuilt
Connection!
During the Festival attendees had the
opportunity to sit and sew a seam for charity.
We used the 6-Hour Quilt by Kaye
Wood, famous quilt teacher, author and
hostess of TV's Kaye's Quilting Friends Machines for the LoveQuilt Connection were
supplied by Seams Sew Easy of Fairfield OH. DETAILS
Rose Hughes displayed quilts from her collection
"The Embellished Path."
Rose Hughes, quilt artist and author, enjoys traveling and discovering pathways. She set off many years ago to free herself and other fabric artists from the confining shapes of squares and blocks. This journey led her to the Fast-Piece Appliqué™ method she developed. Now Rose’s quilt journey continues to take her off in search of new ways to embellish her quilts. This exhibit is collection of quilt art that expresses her favorite finds she has discovered on this E-ticket ride, (that’s “E” for embellishment!). You may find the methods used in these quilts and other in Rose’s two books, Dream Landscapes & Exploring Embellishments.
The Gee's Bend Experience Quilt Exhibit Gees Bend quilter and textile artist Claudia Pettway Charley attended the Expo
with a collection from Gees Bend Alabama
The official hotel for the Original Creative Festival was
Crowne Plaza Hotel
CINCINNATI NORTH
11320 Chester Road, Cincinnati, OH 45246
877-227-6963
Classroom sewing machines were sponsored by: Sew Ezy Sewing Studio, Kramers Sew & Vac and Juki America Inc.
For over 23 years the Original Creative Festivals offer a world class buyers market. Open to the public, the festivals feature the latest
traditional supplies, hands on classes and hard to find gadgets.
REMEMBER TO BRING
BASIC SEWING SUPPLIES
IF YOU SIGN-UP FOR
WORKSHOPS OR
HANDS-ON CLASSES
You will need to bring the following supplies if you are taking any hands-on
classes: sharp sewing
shears, rotary cutter,
cutting mat, straight pins,
marking tool, ruler, tape
measure, #2 pencils and
notepad.
Sewing machines are
provided in the classroom.
Students should check
class descriptions for
additional items needed.
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This AccuQuilt Go! Baby fabric cutter and Go! Baby Pink Tote plus accessories was awarded at the Original Creative Festival!
