Londa Rohlfing
Around central Illinois, "Londa" is synonymous with creative sewing. In 2003, with 13 years of running my fabric shop behind me, I switched to an internet-based business to go world-wide. My personal mission is to offer quality sewing products with passion, individual attention, and creative suggestions as a fellow avid seamstress, teacher and designer. Londa's Creative Threads is my comprehensive sewing website www.londas-sewing.com offering fabric, patterns and notions, wonderful embellishments of all types, ribbons, kai Scissors and almost ALL the Clover Notions.
After 40+ years of 'normal' (what I now call boring) garment sewing, MY mountain-top sewing experiences consist of artsy, creative sewing. Precious time stolen away for me...not to save money, not to just clothe a body, but to CREATE a garment that is unique and truly, truly One-Of-A-Kind. My current obsession is with transforming sweatshirts into wonderful, couture jackets - and at this time, I've created over 300 different jackets - fueling my own line of educational CD's, printed book, patterns, and DVD's around my unique sweatshirt jackets.
I love to travel and teach - doing so for guilds, shops, and many of the sewing expos around the country. I love this as I get to personally meet many of my customers.
I face the same challenge of many sewers today: when I'm at the computer...my sewing machine 'calls' to me, and when I'm at my sewing machine...I find myself running over to the computer! I LOVE to chat with customers in person, so feel most welcome to call me with your questions - about ANYTHING sewing!
Embellishments for Creative Clothing
Londa Rohlfing/Londa's Creative Threads
235CT - Room 109 -- Class fee $8
THURSDAY 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Sew…How do you tastefully embellish clothing to make it special, yet NOT overdone? Londa will show numerous examples and teach you her techniques for taking your clothing beyond what you normally expect and see in wearable art. Armed with these tried-and-true and innovative techniques, you can truly make your wardrobe extra special (yet tasteful) with good design filtering your decisions.
Creative Sweatshirt Jackets - Londa's Way
Londa Rohlfing/Londa's Creative Threads
Stage Presentation -- Price: No-Charge
224CT - THURSDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
324CF - FRIDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
424CS - SATURDAY 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
You're kidding me: "THAT'S a SWEATSHIRT? This is what your friends will say when you learn Londa's endless creative jackets and techniques. Let Londa show you how to endlessly give your 'collection' of fabrics to creative use with her amazing techniques for embellishment with good design principles behind them. You'll see endless styling, necklines, creative closures, sleeve and cuff treatments, hems and more. You'll never again look for a sweatshirt without a bottom band when you learn how Londa transforms that band into different collars. Having created hundreds of different jackets from sweatshirts, Londa will inspire your creativity with pictures, samples, and techniques galore. EVERY YEAR, Londa amazes you with her new design concepts, taking her niche to even more exciting levels.
Make That Sweatshirt Jacket FIT & Flatter, Londa’s Way
Londa Rohlfing/Londa’s Creative Threads
425CS - Room 109 -- Class fee $8
SATURDAY 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Never again spend all that time and waste your “stash” on a great sweatshirt jacket – only to be disappointed in the fit! Londa will teach you her techniques for fitting the sweatshirt FIRST….seeing the sweatshirt as just “fabric and matching ribbing.” Stabilization of edges is equally important and covered thoroughly in this class.
From Frumpy…to WOW!
Londa Rohlfing/Londa's Creative Threads
450CS - Room 108-- Class fee $8
SATURDAY 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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, color, 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.”
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