Have heard about Hoopsisters?
 Over four years ago, sisters Lynda Remmers and Annie Moody were at a sewing getaway with friends. While Lynda digitized a wall hanging for her family room, Annie worked on a crazy quilt pattern. Some late nights were spent discussing the possibilities of this new quilt technique. Lynda went home and began teaching the technique to her customers at Sewing Concepts in Woodstock, Illinois and Annie, an Educator with Janome America, Inc. began teaching it across the United States. Everywhere Annie went, her students wanted to know where they can get more patterns and Lynda’s customers couldn’t wait to see what she came up with next. Lynda and Annie decided these patterns needed to be shared with everybody and they were inspired to design more. |
 Annie Moody, Co-founder
| Annie enjoys designing and creating using software, technology and doing whatever is possible inside the hoop of her embroidery machine. She has taught all over the United States and in Japan. Her projects and articles can be found on Janome America’s website, Marcus Brothers website, the Janome Digest magazine and The Quilter Magazine. Annie appears as a regular guest on Kaye’s Quilting Friends and on KayeWoodTV.com. Annie’s quilts have been exhibited at shows at the local level and national level. Her quilts have been exhibited at the American Quilters Society show in Nashville, Tennessee and the MQX show in New Hampshire.  Her passion is teaching others to do what she loves to do. She always asks her students to bring the same thing to every class and that is excitement and enthusiasm. She is an “Embroidablock” addict and will probably never start another quilt using traditional methods. Although there may be a few unfinished quilts in her closet she may have to complete the old fashioned way. |
 Lynda Remmer, Co-founder
| Lynda Remmers, along with her husband Duane, opened Sewing Concepts in the spring of 1989 selling Janome sewing machines. 21 years later they operate two stores in Illinois, one on the Woodstock Square, the second in Carpentersville, IL. Lynda is responsible for the classes in both stores. It can be a challenge coming up with new ideas and recycling old favorites to keep people interested. Her favorite is embroidery and software classes. The potential is unlimited!  Lynda’s customers love combining quilting with embroidery in a new and creative ways. The quilters are seeing the value of embroidery machines, and the embroiders are having fun quilting. They can’t wait for the next project!“Embroidablock” is an innovative and fun technique that gives even the new quilter professional looking results with every block. Annie and Lynda’s unique look combines piecing with embroidery to produce a look of elegance and add interest to your quilts. Not only will each block be perfect, but the technique also requires minimal cutting and little or no math. Let your embroidery module do all the work for you, from piecing to beautiful decorative stitches and all over embroidery. From a distance, some areas of your quilt look like printed fabric, but up close, it takes on a whole new dimension with all over embroidery motifs stitched in well-thought out places.
Stephanie Pennington-Grant has been leading a Hoopsisters group for Thimble Pleasures that meets monthly in the shop to work on their projects. I stopped into their group recently and was amazed at their projects! I recently started the mystery quilt – having never used my embroidery module before!! (Nuts, you say?!) Learned to use the module and the technique in one 2-hour session! It’s that easy! My first block is below……..(shhh, it’s a mystery! ) If you are like me and want the motivation to use your embroidery module (or you want to try one out in the shop…..) – join us! I guarantee you will get hooked!! Finished mystery quilt to follow later………….. Content adapted from www.Hoopsisters.com.
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August 13th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
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