For your enjoyment and entertainment, we’ve chosen a selection of style shows to inspire your creativity.

Our very own "Top Models" always make these Style Shows an EXPO favorite.

Be sure to check the day and time so you don't miss one!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon Events
Sunday Only

MAKING IT WORK! SIMPLICITY PRESENTS INSPIRED BY PROJECT RUNWAY™ PLUS MUST HAVES SPRING
Simplicity
9:30 AM, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

Simplicity’s Project Runway sewing collection is the best way to sew the
new must have fashions and make them your own. Each inspired by Project
Runway pattern includes a customized designer croquis kit to allow you to
work the given design elements into your own creative fashion expression.
The style show highlights new runway ready designs, colors and fabrics that
are as much fun to sew as to wear.

YOUR PERSONAL STYLE PUZZLE...PUTTING ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER!Louise Cutting, Cutting Corners & Linda Lee, Sewing Workshop
10:30 am, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

Chances are your closet is too full of clothes you never wear, worn-out all-time favorites, or pieces you made but never got around to making the companion garment! Join Louise Cutting and Linda Lee to start the process of pulling your closet, age, and lifestyle together. Wonderful fabrics ing reat colors are the hallmarks of Louise's and Linda's style. Cutting Line Design patterns offer sleek and simple designs. The Sewing Workshop patterns are known for their carfree chic, and Linda's and Louise's combined pattern colelction, Shapes has clean and modern lines. This showcase of beautiful garments from all three pattern lines will make you want to sew for yourself again.

McCALL'S, VOGUE, BUTTERICK FASHIONS WITH PALMER/PLETSCH TIPS
Pati Palmer, Palmer/Pletsch
11:30 AM, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

See new designs from the "Big 3" pattern companies for spring/summer 2010. Pati Palmer will add fitting, sewing , and interfacing tips. Marta Alto is the "real person" model you can identify with. She will show her fahsion choices made to fit her baby boomer figure as well as why she chose her fabrics to flatter. See desinger fashions from Palmer/Pletsch and more.

INSPIRED CLOSETS MARCY AND SANDRA TAKE VOGUE OUTSIDE THE BOX (AND INTO THEIR OWN HANDS)!
Sandra Betzina, Power Sewing, and Marcy Tilton, Marcy Tilton
1:30 pm, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

Popular Vogue pattern designers, Sandra Betzina & Marcy Tilton will show original garments from their Vogue desings, ensembles from their personal wardrobes and from pieces developed especially for this lively and idea packed fashion show. You'll be treated to an inspiring and amusing collection of tips, technqiues, treats and tales from two of the premier mavens of the sewing world.

Independent Pattern Company Alliance
The IPCA Fashion Extravaganza

Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 A.M.

An exciting and varied runway show presented cooperatively by leading independent pattern companies who are members of the Independent Pattern Company Alliance. Members of IPCA work to set the highest standards in the home sewing industry.

Our patterns are professionally drafted and graded with concise, well illustrated instructions. Don’t miss seeing the designs of 10 top-notch designers in one show!

INSPIRED TO SEW - THE CHALLENGE OF 2 FRIENDS FROM SEW EXPO
Linda McGehee, Ghee's
Thursday, 12:30 pm, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

The response to last year's challenge show with Jane and Bonne was so overwhelming, we invited them back! This challenge began in 1995, when Jan and Bonne made their first trek to Puyallup, WA for the Sewing & Stitchery Expo. They agreed to purchase a particular pattern or fabric to make into garments for the next year. They did the "reveal" the following year. For 15 years, the challenges continued and they incorporated class technqiues, emboridery designs, embellishments, threads, notions, etc. You'll see their FOUR 2010 challenge garments, as well as some screen close-ups of techniques from their favorites.

SEW-LEBRITIES BY PROJECT SEWING WORKSHOP
Linda Lee, Project Sewing Workshop
Saturday, 12:30 pm, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

Give the sewing pros the same selection of fabrics and pattern styles and let them go. The results are stunning interpretations rendered in the style for which they are famous. Sewing stars from all genres, quilters and embroiderers, dyers and mbellishers, were given fabrics and patterns from the Project Sewing Workshop program of “kits and cuts”, and asked to alter, re-invent and otherwise give nother life to them to produce an ensemble for this special fashion show. It’s art-to-wear at its best.

The Coats & Clark Charity Event:
THE PINK & RED FASHION SHOW
Sunday, 8:30 - 9:15 am, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

This year, we are pleased to announce that Coats & Clark is sponsoring the 2010 Sewing & Stitchery Expo Charity Event. We are partnering with both the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society to create a brand new, never-been-done-anywhere-event, THE PINK& RED FASHION SHOW. Our Sewing Stars will be creating oneof-a-kind garments for this worthwhile event, and WE WANT
YOU TO BE A PART OF THE SHOW, TOO!! Make your own Pink & Red outfit—and send us a digital picture. For more information, go to the show blog sewingandstitcheryexpo.blogspot.com) or the Coats & Clark website (www.coatsandclark.com) and read all about it. We’ll be posting the pictures on a photo sharing website—and the Expo audience will VOTE FOR THEIR FAVORITES. The top ten vote-getters will be part of the Pink & Red Style Show—and they’ll receive a prize from Coats & Clark. The #1 vote-getter will be announced as the winning FAN FAVORITE and receive a GRAND PRIZE from Coats & Clark.

"PROJECT KIDS" FASHION SHOW
Threads for Life, Meeker Elementary School
Sunday, 10:30 am, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

Now in it’s third year, the “Threads for Life” after-school sewing program in
Puyallup will present a special “Project Kids” Fashion Show. You’ll see both
current and alumni students express their Fashionista style as they proudly
walk the Runway modeling their designs. Their leader, Connie Trach, says,
“these sewists are our future designers—I’d like to encourage everybody to come out and make some noise to celebrate their accomplishment! Also, because Babylock has been very supportive of our “Threads for Life” program, we have invited Steve Jeffery, Babylock President, to be a part of the
show—and the students have a special gift for him.

MORNING, NOON & NIGHT FASHION SHOW
Bates Technical College
Sunday, 11:30 pm, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

The fashion students of Bates Technical College of Tacoma, WA were challenged to create garments—which had to be constructed between Expo 2009 and the current year. The student designers could use their own original design, or they could use commercial or independent patterns. A fashion board selected the “best of the best” and the garments you’ll see on the runway were custom garments to fit their models. Hair and makeup are compliments of 7 Salon of Seattle & Smashbox makeup.

FOR THE LOVE OF SEWING
American Sewing Guild, Olympia Chapter
Sunday, 12:30 pm, Expo Runway, 2nd Floor Pavilion

The Olympia Chapter of the American Sewing Guild proudly presents a fashion show of garments and other things made and modeled by REAL honest-to-goodness-women. The American Sewing Guild’s mission is to promote “Sewing as an art and life skill”. This fashion show from local ASG members, representing women from all over the United States, is all about sharing their love of sewing.