Class - Create With Your BERNINA Q Series Machines

Date(s) & Time(s):

Saturday, October 18th

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (30 minute lunch break included)

This class is all about learning creative designs and the beneficial uses of a long arm machine.  This is a demo and try style of class with a make and take project!

Robin Bogaert will demo a technique and then you try your hand at creative fill stitches, grid work, ruler work, thread painting, couching and combining these techniques. In addition, Robin will bring her compliment of BERNINA & Angela Walters rulers (& more!) so you can try working with these rulers and combining free motion designs.

Q-Series floor models will be provided for you to try. Just bring your notepad, pen and thread snips. Includes a pizza lunch and a Swag Bag made by Robin and filled with goodies!

If you’ve had a long arm machine for a while, need more training, creative inspiration and/or are considering a BERNINA long arm machine and want to see more of its fantastic potential, this is a class designed with you in mind. You can also use all these techniques on a domestic sewing machine.

Class fee includes Swag Bag and pizza lunch.

Special offers:

Purchase any BERNINA or bernette machine and your registration fee(s) will be converted into a gift certificate to use for accessories, fabrics, threads or anything else that we sell in our shop!

Sign up for all 3 days of events and receive a $25 gift certificate to Watergirl Quilt Co. as a thank you.

Instructor Bio:

Robin Bogaert is a long arm quilter, creator & blogger.   Her creative work is focused on writing, designing, teaching, trunk shows, and free motion quilting, ruler work and thread painting. Robin has always been brand loyal & passionate about BERNINA Sewing Machines (as a past quilt store owner) and is considered a BERNINA Q Series Long Arm expert providing educational workshops for BERNINA Canada & local quilt/sewing shops.

Robin was featured in the Summer 2016 and 2017 (Canada 150^th) edition of Quilters’ Connection Magazine. Robin was also the guest artist Trunk Show presenter at the St Jacobs Quilt Festival in 2019. Additional articles about sewing and quilting that Robin has authored can be seen on www.quiltsocial.com.

Robin is a current BERNINA Brand Ambassador & blog writer for the BERNINA International Blog www.weallsew.com

Robin has been invited to be an upcoming teacher at Quilt Canada, Winnipeg in 2026.

Complimentary

Coffee and tea will be available in our kitchenette.  Please bring a travel mug or sealed cup to avoid any spillage.  Tap water in our classroom is drinkable.

Allergy alerts

Customers suffer from various allergies and medical conditions.  To help avoid any incidents, we request you do not bring or wear the following:

-        Seafood

-        Peanuts

-        Perfumes / scented products

Arrival:

You may enter via the main door of the store or if someone is in the classroom they can open its door to make it easier to bring your things.   If you start time is prior to store opening, please wait to be let in by your instructor as staff may be busy completing their pre-opening duties.

Parking:

Limited parking spots are available in the parking lot at store level.   Please refer to signage to ensure you are NOT parked in a designated residential parking spot.  Free long term town parking is available on the river side of our building (to the left).  There is NO parking allowed on Water Street.  E-chargers are available within the Shoppers Drug Mart parking lot.  NOTE: there is a time limit for parking at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Cancellation of Class/Retreat?

Please refer to our "Refund" Policy Refund policy – Watergirl Quilt Co.