Wednesday, September 11, 1991 - North Shore News - 44

Creative sewing festival
expands to western Canada.

FROM HAUTE couture to home
decor, Canadians are eager to do it
themselves, says Rita Krim,
president of International
Showcase Associates Inc.

She should know, having just
taken her popular Creative Sewing
and Needlework Festival on the
road for its first regional show in
Halifax. The Festival, which has
delighted over 85,000 home sewers,
needleworkers and crafters in
Toronto in the past three years is
now coming to the West Coast.

If che enthusiasm of attendees in
Halifax is any indication, the
Festival will be well received from
coast to coast. “The response was
phenomenal,” says Krim, “from
exhibitors, both retailers and
suppliers, and visitors. They told us
a show like this was long overdue
and they hoped it would continue
as an annual event.”

Krim'’s company, International
Showcase Associates, which

produces the festival, is a business
success story about a company
that’s expanding during shaky

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economic times. Krim credits much
of her success to the current trend
to “cocooning”, spending more
leisure time at home.

“People want the way they dress
and their home environment to
reflect their personal raste. And
they enjoy it themselves, using
methods, products, and skills that
get the job done quickly, simply
and economically,” says Krim.

The Creative Sewing and
Needlework Festival (whose policy
it is to promote Canadian
businesses only) gives people the
opportunity to discover, learn and
buy che latest supplies, services,
trends and techniques for sewing,
knitting, quilting, spinning,
weaving, embroidery, needlepoint,
petit point, cross stitch, crocheting,
smocking, folk art, stencilling and
more.

In addition to both retail and
manufacturers’ exhibits, the festival
offers over one hundred free how-
to demenstrations in everything
from sweater finishing techniques
to computerized serging and how to

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For the beginner there's the
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Discovery area where Singer
introduces people to sewing,
Fabricland teaches about buttons,
zippers and hems; and Fanny's
Fabrics demonstrates quick tips for
crafts and home decorating.

The show also offers activities for
children. Boys & Girls eight to 12
years of age are invited to discover
the satisfaction of creating at the
Husqvarna White “Kids Can Sew”
workshop, where they can sew,
serge and personalize a T-shirt.

Highlighting the festival will be
an informative keynote seminar
series which combines locak,
naticna! and international experts.
Among the 24 topics in this series
are presentations by:
© Jan Larkey, author of Flatter Your
Figure, who will enterrain with her
innovative approach to charting
the individual figure without using
measurements;
© Linda MacPhee, co-founder and
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Workshops teaches people how to
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jeans into a quilted coat;
® Lynette Ranney Black of Palmer
Plersch Associates, will
demonstrate creative serging for che
home, and give tips on how to
design the ultimate sewing room;
® Shirley Scott, author of Canada
Knits: Crafts and Comfort in a
Northem Land, talks about Canada's
knitting heritage;
*Sharon Templeton, whose
custom creations are often featured
in such magazines as Canadian
House & Home, Flair and Window
Fashions will cover quick and easy
window treatments;
* Ann Boyce, noted quilting expert
will lecture on hwo to sew unusual
fabrics and threads.
®Gina Brown, International
teacher and expert needlewoman
will reach about Battenburg lace,
Brazilian embroidery, duplicate
stitch and decorative stitches on
needlepoint canvas.

Free daily fashion shows, the

Wore than 87000

Paton’s search for Canada’s fastest
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demonstrations, over 100 door
prizes including sewing raachnies
and a serger, and dozens of hands-
on workshops are sure to offer an
experience people will enjoy.

So mark your calendar now to
attend the first annual Creative
Sewing and Needlework Festival on
September 13, 14 & 15 at the
Pacific Showmart Building, PNE
grounds, Vancouver.

Pre-registration is available for all
keynote seminars, which is the only
festival feature requiring an
additional fee. Keynote seminar
passes are $35 and include two-day
festival entry, Jan Larkey's seminar
and any three serninars.

General admission is $8 at the
door and $7 in advance. Seminar
passes and advance tickets may be
ordered by calling the festival office
in Toronto at (416) 470-7057, or
from local fabric, yarn, and craft
stores including Fabricland and
Fanny's Fabrics.

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Embroidery
Petit Point
Crocheting
Cross-Stitch
Ribbon Craft

Weaving
Spinning
Smocking
Foik Art
Stenciling

* MORE THAN 100 MOTIVATING EXHIBITS
* CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP (Ages 8 to 12)

e MAKE-AND-TAKE PROJECTS

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° CANADA'S FASTEST KNITTER CONTEST

e OVER 100 DEMONSTRATIONS BY MANUFACTURERS,
WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS

¢ SEMINARS BY CELEBRITY EXPERTS
® MEETING YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS & TV STARS

FEELING FABULOUS FIBRES

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SEPT. 13-14-15, 1991

FRI. 12 Noon-8pm; SAT. 10am-8pm
SUN. 10am-6pm

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Adult: $8.00

Student (7-17): $4.00
Children under 7: FREE
“Keynote Seminar Pass: $35.00
Individual Seminar Ticket: $10.00

* Includes 2 day entry, Jan Larkey’s Keynoie Presentation,
plus 3 seminars of your chaice.

Bring this ad to the Festival and receive $3.00 OFF the purchase of a $35 Seminar Pass (Limit one per person)
Supported by Canadian Sewing & Needlecraft Association
Canada’s only retail, wholessie and manufacturer's association serving the home sewing and neadiecralt industry.

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