Once again, Judy, Katherine, and Megan are bringing their expertise in Baby Lock embroidery machines to the new “Sashay with Your Solaris” workshops. With these three women, you will delve into the aspects of the Solaris that make it different from the Destiny: Creating quilted borders, using the unique sewing features such as the primary and secondary laser lines, the additions to the IQ Designer, and understanding when and how to use the IQ Visionary Projector.

Your learning will be project based and sprinkled with laughter and inspiration from different trunk shows that show you so many options for creating with your Solaris. This is a 3-day, 3-night event that gives you plenty of practice in bringing scanned images, jpegs, or hand drawings into IQ Designer to turn them into personal projects, appliques, family heirlooms, and in the hoop projects.

There is an extra benefit for your Sashay with Your Solaris event at Needle in a Haystack! You’ll actually receive a bit more education as Katherine and Judy are available during the hours after dinner and before bedtime. You can choose to rest and revisit the day’s knowledge or play with some of the extras that are available to you.

Feel confident as you learn from women who use this same machine to create their own projects. Together, Judy, Katherine, and Megan have over 50 years of machine embroidery experience. Add in sewing and quilting and you have close to 100 years! Judy has been a Baby Lock dealer for over 20 years with Megan at her side helping customers for more than half of those years. Katherine began as Judy’s best customer and then brought all of her computer knowledge to join these two as the resident tech geek.

Judy and Katherine have been playing and creating together for many years. They created the As You Wish Jacket, a very successful line of jacket patterns which lead to their appearance of the PBS television show Sewing with Nancy. They co-authored Jackets on the Cutting Edge, a book created in conjunction with that guest appearance. Judy and Katherine were featured guest speakers at the Nancy’s Notions Sewing Weekend as well as presenting/teaching together at various sewing guilds and other venues. Needle in a Haystack has been the site of their previous classes for the Ellisimo embroidery machine, the Dance with Your Destiny classes, and Kimberbell Exclusive Events.

Come join the fun to become more confident with your Baby Lock Solaris!