Londa Rohfling – Londa’s Creative Threads
With 13 years of owning a retail fabric and sewing machine shop behind her, Londa Rohlfing switched to an Internet-based business to go worldwide, and now operates six sewing-related Web sites.  Her personal mission is “To offer quality sewing products with passion, individual attention, and creative suggestions as a fellow avid seamstress, teacher and designer.” After 40+ years of what she calls “normal (now boring) garment sewing,” her mountain-top sewing experiences are “artsy, creative sewing.”   She delights in creating garments that are unique and truly one-of-a-kind.  Her current “obsession” is transforming sweatshirts into wonderful, unique couture jackets.

Friday, 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.FR231 Jr. Ballroom C
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.SU233
Londa’s Creative Sweatshirt Jackets
Londa Rohlfing
Class Fee: $8
Beyond the norm – Londa’s one-of-a-kind jackets created using sweatshirts are absolutely amazing! Use your ‘stash’ with Londa’s techniques for shaping, necklines, collars, hems, stabilizing edges, bias silk ribbon, couching…even needle felting, stenciling, and Paintsticks. Having created over 180 different jackets, Londa will inspire your creativity with pictures, how-to’s and great NEW jackets.

Saturday 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.SA232 Jr. Ballroom C
Design Principles for Creative Sewing
Londa Rohlfing
Class Fee: $8
You have your “stash.” You have skills. You have tools. You have ideas…too many ideas! How do you decide what to use – where and how to use it? Design Principles! Londa will walk you through good design of Balance, Rhythm, Proportion and Center of Interest. Using her creative sweatshirt Jackets as teaching samples…you will learn to identify the successful use of these all-important principles enabling you to approach your own creative sewing with a newly-trained, artistic “eye.”