Sabrina50

Hello fellow members;
I am very new to quilting and embroidery. I have recently purchased an embroidery machine and have made it my mission to do some in the hoop machine quilting. I notices a few posts for a John Deer quilting seminar or retreat where someone stated that they learned alot about machine quilting. Could someone tell me if there is a site where they list all these events so that I might find something close to my area. I am near Niagara Falls Canada and am not sure if these events are limited to the US only.
Thanks for your help.

Onebyone

I never heard of a John Deer retreat for quilting. Interesting. I guess it would be for embroidering the John Deer motifs or using John Deer fabric in quilt projects.

Future Quilter

This is my best guess. Link

Onebyone

Ha. I never thought of a person being named John Deer. I auto think of John Deere the farm equipment company.

Macybaby

John Deer is a person - John Deere is a line of farm (and other) equipment.

Bluebonnets

Lol, I was thinking it was a retreat for learning to make green tractor quilts.

Future Quilter

Me too, thats why I opened this thread in the first place. LOL

Prism99

I found this website that lists machine quilting retreats in the U.S.: http://quiltingretreatfinder.com/ . I tried their international option and didn't find anything for Canada.

Most machine quilting is done on regular domestic sewing machines using free-motion techniques, or on longarm frame setups. Quilting with an embroidery machine is much less common.

romanojg

I've been to a couple of his retreats and learned alot about embroidery. Google his name and you should get his website and look for classes or retreats. The next one we have here is Anita Goodesigns for embroidery.

ManiacQuilter2

That was my thought too. Why would a farm equipment company be getting into quilting ?!