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Here's Your Supply List & Schedule
In preparation for your trip, we're sending the Retreat Supply List and Retreat Schedule for reference below.
Quiltworx has been busily working with our featured Certified Shop, Stitch n' Snip, from Garden Valley, ID on compiling supplies and fabrics for your Quiltworx University experience in just a few short weeks! We are excited to announce that we are also working with Idaho Sew & Vac to supply the classroom with sewing machines.
If you’d like to reserve a sewing machine and haven’t done so yet, the fee is $60. Click here and select the ‘Sewing Machine Rental’ ticket:
Reserve Your Sewing Machine
The purpose of this email is to help you gather last minute supplies and also give you an idea of the schedule for the week.
If you have any questions regarding rooms and accommodations, contact Anna Gardner through Stitch n’ Snip at anna@stitchnsnip.com.
We can’t wait to welcome you to Quiltworx University in Boise, Idaho! Get ready for a week of creativity, learning, and quilting fun in the heart of the Treasure Valley—we’re so excited to share it with you!
~ Sincerely, the Quiltworx University Team
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Complimentary Cutting Mat
We’ll be providing each student with a brand new 18" x 24" cutting mat to use during the event. If you’d like to take one home, you can purchase it at the special event price of $20 (regularly $38.99).
Goodie Bag from Stitch n’ Snip
Every attendee will receive a special gift bag filled with:
- Folding templates (2 sizes)
- Paper clips
- Paper tape
- Swag & treats (including chocolate 🍫)
- …and plenty of fun surprises!
Additional Supplies
Please review the following supply list for items to bring, if you have them. Anything you don’t have, forget or decide you’d rather not pack will be available for purchase at our on-site Pop-Up Store for 15% off.
Supply list:
- Acorn Pressing Pen & Easy Press Solution (We will have our exclusive Staycap Starch Stand, which includes an empty Acorn Pressing Pen at the Event too, so if you don’t own this yet...you might want to wait to see your options)
- Glue Pen (Again we will have our Exclusive Staycap Glue Stand which includes the Sewline glue pen & comes in many colors!)
- Marking Pen or pencil (Sewline Mechanical Chalk Pencils, Frixion Fineliners, etc.)
- Repositionable Glue (Judy prefers Scotch Brand)
- 12" Add-a-quarter ruler
- 18" Add-a-quarter ruler
- Purple Thang (optional)
- Favorite Cutting Rulers (suggested sizes: 6-1/2" x 12-1/2" or 4-1/2” x 12-1/2”, if driving in you can bring the 6-1/2” x 24-1/2” …but we will have a few long rulers to share at the event)
- Rotary cutter 45mm or 60 mm
- New rotary blade
- Size 70 needles (Microtex recommended)
- Scissors
- Seam ripper
- High quality cotton sewing thread (Aurifil is our favorite, and we will have some at the Event)
- Flower pins
- Large Ziploc Bags
- Binder Clips (medium and small) or Wonder Clips Reg & Jumbo
- If your pattern has curves: 12” Creative Grids Wave Ruler or the Curved Diamond Cutting and Trimming Ruler from Quiltworx.com. You may also want the Leaf Ruler and Judy’s Mini Arcs Ruler depending on your pattern. They will have some on-hand so if you don’t have them, you can get them while you are there.
- Small Extension Cords and a surge protector strip can be helpful if you plan to bring your own sewing machine, iron, sewing light, and/or at-station mobile device charger.
- Bring your fabric and pattern if you are doing Confetti Cake or Fields of Aster and have purchased your own fabric.
Machines:
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For this event, you’ll be sewing on Bernina 475QE machines—excellent classroom models with all the beloved Bernina features, including:
- Easy-to-use 4.3" color touch screen
- Jumbo bobbin with 70% more thread capacity
- Semi-automatic needle threader
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Automatic thread cutter
- Bright LED sewing lights
- 1/4” Patchwork Foot #37 included
- Slide-on Extension Table
- BERNINA Free Hand System (FHS)
Special event pricing will be available if you’d like to take one home!
An Idaho Sew & Vac representative will provide a machine orientation session on Sunday evening—more details will be shared at the event.
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Sewing Station Information:
To ensure a smooth setup for our event, we will have assigned seating to help us organize stations, set up reserved sewing machines, and place projects for each student. You will be placed with the people you requested in your Attendee Form. Thank you for helping us streamline the check-in process!
Each student will have ample sewing space with their own 6ft sewing table. Large cutting and pressing stations will be available through the sewing area. There will be 3 teaching stations around the room, and the pop up store fabric section will be in its own room down the hallway by the bathrooms.
You are welcome to bring a small table and a mini-iron to have at your station. If you are driving in and own a Sew Steady Table (the clear tables that fit your machine), bring it with you as we will be doing some fun Tips & Tricks at one of our nightly demos. Extra lighting is allowed in the classroom, but please avoid bringing magnifying glass combos as they have been known to start fires.
Please be mindful of those around you by refraining from wearing perfumes or highly scented lotions, as some people may have allergies or sensitivities.
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Program Schedule
The general program schedule is provided below if you are interested in how your day-to-day will work! Your week will include special events, check-in, and check-out information!
Sunday, September 14th:
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4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Check-In. Early check-in to the sewing area will not be allowed. Thank you for your understanding and patience. 4:00 p.m. or after, please come to the Ballroom at The Grove Hotel and stop at the check-in station to receive your badge. You’ll then be shown to your sewing table. Instruction and tutorials on using your machines will be provided. You will also meet your instructors to get started on cutting papers for your first class, which will start on Monday.
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7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception: A Welcome Reception with snacks and refreshments starts at 7:00 p.m. We will introduce Judy and her CI team, plus meet Judel & Stitch n’ Snip Staff. We will have a small Trunk Show with Judy and learn a little more about the week that you will be spending with us! Please note, you will be on your own for dinner Sunday evening before you check in.
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8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.: For those who wish to stay with us in the evening, we will continue with machine demos, meeting instructors, and learning basic cutting techniques for Monday’s first class. We would like to request that as students; you concentrate on cutting out your papers and wait until Monday morning to start on your project so that everyone starts at the same place as the other students for Monday’s classes. Teachers will not be in the classroom after 10 p.m. and the shop will not be open past 10 p.m. on Sunday given that Monday is a busy day for everyone!
Free Gift:
For those of you who have attended Quiltworx University before, you are aware that we always provide you with a Surprise Quiltworx Pattern! This is Judy’s choice, and it is different at each event! When you open your box, if there is a pattern in there you don’t recognize, please be aware, this is our Gift to You! If you would like to choose fabrics for it during the week, we can help you at the shop! Or, if you have the perfect fabrics at home, you can definitely save it for that. Sometimes people open this and begin cutting into it, thinking this is their design. Please save it for later! It is our gift to you!
Onsite Quilt Shop!:
One of the most amazing parts of this event is the onsite quilt shop, which will have hundreds of bolts of fabric, kits, paper piecing tools, notions and more available for you throughout the week. The staff from Stitch n’ Snip will be on site to not only help you with any quilting supplies you might need, but also to help Judel Niemeyer kit custom Quiltworx patterns in colorways you love, using Quiltster!
Daily Schedule (September 15th to 19th, Monday to Friday):
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7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast is on your own and open sew.
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9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.: Morning Classes
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12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch will be held in the dining area in the Ballroom
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1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Afternoon Classes
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3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.: Afternoon Break & Open Sew (The workshop is over at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 19th.)
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4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: Afternoon programs & demos, Quiltster demonstrations, or open sew.
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Dinner 6:00 p.m.: Dinner will be held in the dining area in the Ballroom
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Post Dinner: Trunk Shows, nightly demos with Stitch n’ Snip, open sew until Midnight, and shopping will be offered until 10 p.m. Instructors will be available every night until 10 p.m. as well.
Hotel Information:
If you’re staying at The Grove Hotel
- Check-in: Sunday, Sept. 14 after 4:00 p.m.
- Check-out: Friday, Sept. 19 by 11:00 a.m.
- A secure space will be available to store luggage after check-out if needed.
- You are responsible for all incidentals and parking fees; a credit card is required at check-in.
If you’re staying at the Courtyard Hotel
- Check-in: Sunday, Sept. 14 after 3:00 p.m. (Plenty of time to settle in, then head to The Grove for event check-in after 4:00 p.m.)
- Check-out: Friday, Sept. 19 by 12:00 p.m.
- A secure space will be available to store luggage after check-out if needed.
- You are responsible for all incidentals; a credit card is required at check-in.
- Parking is free at the Courtyard Hotel. Parking at The Grove is not included, so we encourage Courtyard guests to carpool to save on parking fees.
Classes:
In general, we will work on the following sections of your quilts on the following days. When you get to the event, there will be a box with your schedule, pattern, and fabrics at each station. There will also be a schedule that outlines which classes each teacher will be teaching throughout the day in case you want to attend another class. Please reference your personal schedules to learn which instructors are teaching each workshop on each day. There will be a morning and afternoon session of each class, unless all students show up for the morning (some groups are smaller than others). So, if you feel the class is large or want to see it again, or possibly have multiple workshops on the same day because you have purchased more than one kit, do not worry! We will have plenty of time to teach you what you need to know:
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Monday - Group A – JNQ2217DIA
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Tuesday Morning – Group B JNQ00257-B
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Tuesday Afternoon – Group J JNQ00257-E and JNQ00257-J
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Wednesday Morning – Group JNQ16x16TRI
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Thursday Morning – Groups D JNQ00281-D and JNQ00242-D
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Thursday Afternoon – Group H JNQ00277-H
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Thursday Night – Group JNQ00284-K
We try to run Quiltster demonstrations for interested students. We need to work out some AV equipment and a location during the event that we can use and we will announce times and locations on the first day for interested students.
- Custom Kits! Throughout the week, Judel will be working to create custom kits for customers using fabrics available at the Onsite Quilt Shop. She will take custom orders through Thursday, mid-day, so if you are hoping for a special kit project to take home with you of your favorite Quiltworx design, please think about it and come prepared with some ideas! She will use Quiltster, then send the project information to your Quiltster accounts and also to the shop so they can kit!
- Trunk Shows from instructors and students will be held throughout the week if you are interested. Feel free to bring a few projects to show off if you can spare the space! We’d love to see your special touches to Quiltworx projects you’ve made over the years! Featured this year, the Jungle Magnolia, new publications, ColorStock, Tim Holtz designs, Kaffe and Tula, and some amazing projects from the Quilt Store, and other attendees at the Retreat!
Judy will be available for demonstrations on other techniques beyond just those used in the units for the workshop as time permits. She will also be in the teaching room on most nights (perhaps not all) after dinner, to discuss workshop needs in general.
- The Certified Shop will be available throughout the week for supplies, quilt kits, fabric, and anything else you may need to satisfy your quilting desires! In general, the shop will close at 10:00 p.m. and open at 8:00 a.m. each day.
- On Friday, class will end at 3:00 p.m. Students can check out early and head home, or stay for the duration of class, but this year, we ask that you begin taking apart your sewing station at 3:00 p.m. Checking out at the store will take place beginning Thursday evening and into Friday morning. We will be packing up and preparing for the end of class throughout the day as appropriate. With a limited window to clear the area, this is important for us to accomplish.
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Meet Our Team!
CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS
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