Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild

The next meeting is Tuesday May 6 at 10:00 am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 218 Serenada Drive, Georgetown, TX.

The May meeting is Snapplique! Appliqué in a Snap! by Becky Thompson of Power Tools with Thread.

Becky will demonstrate the snapplique process. Her lecture will include a demo of scanning a quilting paper applique pattern into the Brother ScanNCut, importing that scan into Brother Canvas (download version), editing the scan to prepare for cutting, downloading the clean scan, and cutting out the applique shapes.

The scan shapes will then be imported into Embrilliance Embroidery software and converted to an embroidery design. The design will then be stitched out.

In person at Austin Sewing Machines and Quilting, Austin, TX.

Students will receive hands-on training to scan a paper pattern into the ScanNCut (Cricut & Silhouette are not supported). The scan will then be imported into the computer via student-provided USB or cable (their choice). Student must use a laptop that can support full functionality of embroidery software, tablets are NOT supported.

Students will learn how to clean up the scans to accurately cut out appliqué pieces, how to cut the scan shapes with a ScanNCut into appliqué pieces for machine embroidery. They will also be provided complete hands-on software instruction to convert the scan shapes into an embroidery design, and will stitch out the design to complete a project (wall hanging or mug rug).

A ScanNCut machine will be needed for this workshop, students can share.

See the Workshops page for information about an optional kit and the supply list.