Madra Prater – Amazing Designs
Madra Prater is a software educator from Amazing Designs. Her love of design and embellishment are evident in her list of honors. A four time winner of the Sulky Thread Challenge, three time winner of the McGhee’s Fiber Art Challenge and winner of the Hoffmann Challenge, Madra’s creativity has been featured in many publications. After her second year of winning top awards in the Amazing Designs Sulky Challenge in the professional category, she joined the Amazing Designs education team. Now she is challenging and inspiring her students to create with Amazing Designs.

Friday, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. FR311 Room 104
Make Your Embroidery Amazing with Edit ‘N Stitch™
Madra Prater
Class Fee: $8
Add your creativity to purchased embroidery designs and make something unique and fabulous! It’s easy and fun to customize embroidery designs with Edit ‘N Stitch.  Amazing Designs Educator Madra Prater will share inspiring samples and helpful tips as she merges, resizes, flips, re-colors, and pulls out segments of designs to create one-of-a-kind results. Plus, learn why the Split ‘N Stitch Wizard in Edit ‘N Stitch 2.0 means never being limited by your 4” hoop again!

Saturday, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.SA312 Room 104
Express Yourself with Personalize ‘N Stitch™
Madra Prater
Class Fee: $8
Just in time for holiday sewing, learn how to quickly and easily add lettering and monogramming to your embroidery with Personalize ‘N Stitch. Amazing Designs Educator Madra Prater will share inspiring samples and helpful tips as she creates monograms, adds lettering to embroidery designs, creates multi-line text and more. Whether you’d like to stitch an initial or an entire poem, see how the easy-to-use “wizards” in Personalize ‘N Stitch make it simple to create personalized gifts and décor.

Sunday, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. SU313 Room 104
Create Designs in Minutes with Digitize ‘N Stitch™
Madra Prater
Class Fee: $8
Ever thought about creating your own designs? With Digitize ‘N Stitch auto-digitizing software it’s easy to turn simple art into original embroidery designs. Amazing Designs Educator Madra Prater will share inspiring samples and helpful tips as she uses this easy wizard-based program to digitize appliqués, cross-stitch designs and embroidery designs.  Go from idea to machine in minutes with Digitize ‘N Stitch!