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APQS Classes

As an APQS owner, you’ll be able to take advantage of a variety of training and maintenance classes.

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Training classes

Beginner class in longarm machine quilting

You'll learn the skills you'll need to complete typical quilting projects on your new longarm machine. This includes:

• Supply issues
• Machine functions
• Maintenance
• Customer contact and consultation
• Different ways to load a quilt
• How to conquer pantographs
• Basic custom quilting skills like border designs, blocks, stitching in the ditch, and more
• Business tips

This class is mostly "demonstration" so we can squeeze in as much information as possible.

Instructor: Dawn Cavanaugh, APQS national education director

Cost: Free within one year of the purchase of a new or certified used APQS machine.

Dates: Click Here for Schedule

Attendance is limited, reserve your spot today. Please call 1-800-426-7233 and ask forDawn or email her at dawn@apqs.com.

Advanced Beginner Class in Longarm Machine Quilting

This 6-hour class takes you beyond pantographs and simple overall designs and pushes you to become more comfortable with your freehand quilting skills. You’ll learn:

• How to deal with less common quilt situations such as flannel, batik and polar fleece
• Batting and thread choices
• Designing your own patterns
• Using quilting to camouflage poorly constructed quilts
• Feather and background design techniques

Instructor: Dawn Cavanaugh, APQS national education director

Cost: $200

Dates: Click here for schedule

Attendance is limited, reserve your spot today. Please call 1-800-426-7233 and ask forDawn or email her at dawn@apqs.com.

Maintenance classes

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Learn how to keep your quilting machine running like new in this two-day seminar. You’ll learn the very basics of machine maintenance, all the way through more in-depth service such as timing and motor brushes. Other topics include:

• tension issues
• thread and needles
• wheel adjustments
• hook maintenance

Instructor: Amy Anderson, APQS head service technician

Cost: $400, payable in advance.

Accommodations: We recommend you make hotel reservations in Carroll for the evening between classes. One hotel close to the factory is the Super 8 at 712-792-6666.

Dates: Click here for schedule

Attendance is limited, reserve your spot today. Please call 1-800-426-7233 and ask forDawn or email her at dawn@apqs.com.