Think you know what your Brother machine can do?

We’re willing to bet there are a few tricks hiding in that machine that you’ve never tried — and maybe didn’t even know were possible!

Join Maple Leaf Quilting Company & Brother Canada for a fun, creative event designed to make you say:

“WAIT… my machine can do THAT?!”

We’ll explore unexpected techniques, clever features and creative possibilities that can take your sewing, quilting and embroidery in a whole new direction.

Whether you’re a longtime Brother owner or you’re curious about what today’s machines can actually do, come prepared to be inspired.

✨ Discover new techniques
✨ See Brother technology in action
✨ Learn tips and tricks
✨ Get ideas you’ll actually want to try at home
✨ And discover a few things we’re not telling you about yet!

Because sometimes the best feature on your sewing machine is the one you didn’t know was there.

Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Create THIS!

Come see what you’ve been missing on September 12th from 10-12!

🧵 Beginner Craft Class – DIY TV Table Pressing Board

Tired of running back and forth to your ironing board while sewing? This fun, beginner-friendly class will show you how to make your own custom pressing board—perfect to keep right beside your machine for quick and easy pressing. The table surface measures approximately 14" X 19" - a generous ironing surface!! Added bonus - this board is constructed from a wooden TV table.

A totally portable pressing table that you can take to retreats!!! No need to share a communal ironing station with anyone😉 

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Teacher: Sharla M.
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane, AB
Price: $84.99   Everything is included... Just show up!!!!

🧵 What You’ll Learn:
How to create a beautiful, functional pressing board from start to finish—no sewing experience needed! Pattern and kit included. We will walk you through each step, and you’ll end up with something you’ll actually use every time you sew.

🎨 Pick Your Style:
Choose from 5 different fabric options to make your mat your own!

Choose from 2 different wood colours as well 😉

💡 Skill Level:
Beginner — no experience required! This is a light, social class perfect for anyone looking for a fun and creative break. (Please note: We'll be using staple guns, so this class is recommended for ages 15 and up.)

🎉 What’s Included:

Wooden TV table, Plywood board, batting, fabric 

We are providing the staple guns for everyone to borrow for the class 😊

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE

🧵✨ Wear Your Quilt Retreat ✨🧵

📍 Frank Wills Hall - Cochrane, Alberta
📅 Retreat Dates & Times

Friday, September 25, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Optional early setup)

Saturday, September 26, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

👩 Hosted by Sharla M.

https://youtu.be/nZhdaFCPPgU

Have you always dreamed of making a quilted jacket but weren't sure where to start?

This retreat is designed to guide you through the entire process - from planning and preparing your quilted fabric to sewing a beautiful, one-of-a-kind jacket you'll be proud to wear home.

Whether you're creating your own quilted fabric, using a cherished quilt, or choosing a cheater print, Sharla will help you navigate every step of the journey.

Leave the cooking, chores, and distractions behind and spend a weekend focused on creativity, sewing, and connecting with fellow quilters.

Your Quilted Jacket Journey

Session 1 - Planning & Preparation

Before the retreat, you'll receive access to an informative video session covering everything you need to know to get started, including:

• Choosing your jacket style and size (XXS-5XL)
• Deciding whether to create your own quilted fabric top, use a quilt, or work with cheater fabric
• Quilting options, including having Maple Leaf Quilting Company professionally quilt your quilt top or you quilt it yourself
• Closure options such as buttons, zippers, frogs, and more
• Fabric requirements and preparation tips

Session 2 - Personal Consultation

You'll meet one-on-one with Sharla to:

• Determine your best jacket size using physical sample jackets
• Discuss personalized design details and closure options
• Review quilt top and fabric choices
• Establish deadlines if you're having Maple Leaf Quilting Company quilt your jacket fabric
• Receive recommendations to help ensure your project is a success

Session 3 - Retreat Day

The excitement comes together at Frank Wills Hall!

You are welcome to arrive on Friday, September 25 from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM to set up your sewing space and get settled in. (Please note that instruction will not be provided during setup time.)

On Saturday at 9:00 AM, you'll receive your pattern and spend the day cutting, sewing, binding, fitting, and finishing your quilted jacket with guidance from Sharla throughout the process.

By the end of the retreat, you'll be well on your way to completing a stunning custom jacket - and many participants will leave wearing their finished creation!

What's Included

💛 Printed jacket pattern and complete instructions

💛 One-on-one sizing and planning consultation with Sharla

💛 Expert guidance throughout the construction process

💛 Help with binding, closures, fitting, and finishing details

💛 Professionally quilted quilt top (for participants who choose our quilting service)

💛 Breakfast, lunch, and snacks

💛 A full day of uninterrupted sewing with fellow quilters

💛 A welcoming, supportive, and inspiring retreat atmosphere

Why You'll Love This Retreat

✨ Learn new skills and techniques

✨ Gain confidence tackling a wearable quilting project

✨ Enjoy dedicated sewing time without interruptions

✨ Connect with other quilters who share your passion

✨ Create a truly unique jacket that reflects your personal style

Important Information

• Spaces are limited.
• Tickets are non-refundable.
• Participants must complete all preparation requirements before the retreat date.

If a quilted jacket has been sitting on your quilting bucket list, this is your opportunity to make it happen.

👉 Reserve your seat today and join us for a memorable weekend of creativity, learning, laughter, and quilting! 🧥✨

By signing up you agree to retreat policies. Review them HERE

🧵 Jelly Roll Rug, Table Runner or Placemat Workshop

Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Teacher: Sharla M.
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane, AB
Price: $65
Skill Level: Confident Beginner / Intermediate (must be comfortable operating your sewing machine)

Turn a jelly roll into something cozy, functional, and beautiful! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to transform pre-cut fabric strips and batting into a jelly roll rug, placemat, or table runner. Using simple machine stitches (straight and zig-zag), Sharla will guide you through folding, stitching, and shaping your strips into a durable piece that’s as fun to make as it is to use.

You’ll start small in class by creating a placemat, learning how to manage curves and build your project smoothly. From there, you’ll have the skills, tips, and confidence to tackle a larger rug at home — or stick with smaller makes like placemats or runners if that’s more your style.

✨ What’s Included:

• Jelly roll batting

• Step-by-step instructions in a supportive class environment

• 10% off coupon for class supplies 

🧰 What to Bring:
(Fabric and supplies must be purchased ahead of time; detailed list provided upon registration.)

• Jelly roll

• Sewing machine in good working order (with foot pedal & power cord)

• Zig-zag foot + extension table (if you have one)

• Coordinating thread for your fabric

• Scissors/snips

• Optional: Clover Jelly Roll Tool, Jelly Roll Rug Pattern

👉 All materials are available at Maple Leaf Quilting Company, and your 10% discount applies to all class supplies.

⚡ Important: This class requires that you are comfortable using your sewing machine, including basic troubleshooting.

📏VERY Limited spots available — extra space is needed for this project! While you may not finish a full rug during class, you’ll leave with the know-how (and confidence!) to finish it at home — and start making them as gifts for everyone you love.

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE

🎄 Merry & Bright Christmas Pillow Workshop

Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 2025  
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane
Instructor: Sharla M.
Cost: $124.99 (includes fabric)

Get ready to bring your creativity into the Christmas spirit with our Merry & Bright Pillow Workshop—a fabulous and fun sewing day perfect for confident beginners!

Led by Sharla, this class will guide you through the steps to create a charming and beautiful Christmas pillow using 32 mini charms. The finished pillow is approximately 12" X 16" and includes a cozy envelope-style back closure—yes, we’re making the whole thing from start to finish!

🧵 Skill Level:
This is a beginner-friendly class. You should be comfortable using your sewing machine and have basic sewing knowledge. A small amount of hand stitching is required for the wording!

This class is for absolute beginners with no experience, but it’s also great if you're looking to grow your skills with a fun and satisfying project.

🎨 Pick Your Style:
Choose from two fabulous fabric bundles:
☃️ Peppermint & Pine
🎄 Holly & Hearth

🧵 What’s Included:
✔️ All of the fabric for pillow front, embroidery floss, decorative trim for outer edge and backing fabric
✔️ Instruction and printed pattern
✔️ Envelope back fabric
✔️ 10% off class accessories (thread, needles etc)

☕ Feel free to bring snacks or a light lunch to keep you energized throughout the day!

🧰 What to Bring:

• Sewing machine (in good working order) & foot pedal

• Zig zag foot

• Thread (to match your fabric), pins, rotary cutter, scissors/snips

• Hand sewing needles for embroidery floss

• Small pressing board and/or iron (if you have one—1 classroom station will be available but bringing your own will speed up your efficiency)

• Small cutting mat 

• Note: You may not finish your pillow during class, but you'll go home with all the skills and materials needed to complete it confidently!

• 🎟️ Spots are limited, so grab your seat soon and let your creativity sparkle in this hands-on, festive-packed class!

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE

✨ Turn Your Quilt Panel Into the Star of the Show! ✨

Do you buy quilt panels simply because they’re cute or beautiful?
Do you have a stash full of panels because you’re not quite sure what to do with them?
Or maybe you don’t buy panels at all—but secretly want to?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, this class is for you! 🧵❤️

Join Sharla for a fun, creative 2-day quilt class where you’ll learn how to turn a panel—or any beautiful large-print fabric—into a stunning, custom quilt top.

Date: Wednesday October 14 & Saturday October 17 , 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Teacher: Sharla M.
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane, AB
Price: $124.99

🧵 What You’ll Learn:

Forget adding border after border just to make your panel bigger! Instead, you’ll learn how to:

• ✂️ Intentionally cut and square your panel or large-scale print
• 🎨 Choose colours and plan your design
• 🧩 Incorporate pieced blocks to complement your fabric
• 📐 Create an asymmetrical layout with deliberate block placement
• ❤️ Make your panel the star of the quilt

The featured design combines a beautiful panel with Irish Chain blocks, creating a unique and eye-catching quilt top with lots of personality!

🗓️ 2-Day Class

Wednesday & Saturday
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM each day

From squaring and cutting your fabric to colour placement, design layout and piecing, Sharla will guide you through the process of creating a custom quilt top from start to finish.

Bring that beautiful panel out of your stash and learn how to make it work for YOU!

Your next quilt could be so much more than just a panel with borders. 💕🪡

Come learn how to make your panel the star of your next quilt!

🧵 Skill Level

Confident Beginner – You should be comfortable with your sewing machine and have basic quilting experience. 

🪡 What’s Included

✔️ Pattern (pattern makes a 48" X 64" quilt but I added a border to the outer edge to make it 60" X 72")
✔️ Full instruction & hands-on guidance during class

✔️10% off any fabric & supplies for the class

✔️10% off Longarm quilting services if you finish this quilt top within a month

🧰 What to Bring

• Sewing machine (in good working order) + foot pedal, bobbins

• 24" Panel or 3/4m of Theme or Large print fabric
• Sashing fabric .25m & Contrast Fabric .25m (I used the same fabric for sashing, contrast and outer border using 2m of 44" fabric)
• Binding fabric .5m
• All fabric requirements are based on 44" wide fabric

• Thread, pins, scissors/snips

• Rotary cutter and cutting mat ( we do have communal ones)
• Iron/pressing board (it will speed up your progress)
  
• Basic troubleshooting knowledge for your machine

⚠️ Please note: This is a 2 day class. I am confident you will finish this quilt top in 2 days but if not, you’ll leave with the skills, knowledge, and materials to complete it successfully at home. 

✨ Spots are limited! Reserve your seat today and join us for this creative fun class!

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE

🧵 Beginner Quilting Class – Poppies! Wall Hanging

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Teacher: Sharla M.
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane, AB
Price: $124.99 (includes fabric & pattern)
Skill Level: Confident Beginner / Intermediate Quilter (must be comfortable operating your sewing machine)

🌺 Bring your creativity into full bloom!
Join us for a fun and inspiring day of sewing and quilting as we create a bold and beautiful Poppies! Wall Hanging. This eye-catching project features pieced and appliqued petals that create stunning poppy flowers—perfect for dressing up your wall or gifting to someone special.

Under Sharla’s guidance, you’ll learn how to quilt on your domestic machine, cut, stitch, and assemble your poppies into a vibrant 18.5" x 41" wall hanging.

Make your own beautiful wall hanging to display with pride this Remembrance Day 

Each kit includes the pattern and all of the fabric, batting, and fusible required for your wall hanging. Fabrics provided for class will not be the exact same as shown in the samples.

🧵 What’s Included:

✔️ Over 3 metres of fabric (petals, background, binding AND backing)
✔️ Batting & Fusible Webbing
✔️ Printed instructions & in-class guidance
 

🧰 What to Bring:

• Sewing machine (good working order) + foot pedal

• Zig zag foot (mandatory)

• Free motion foot and/or stitch in the ditch foot (if you have them)

• Coordinating thread, pins, rotary cutter, cutting mat, scissors/snips

• Small pressing board and/or iron (recommended – classroom stations provided. Having your own pressing board will speed up your efficiency)
• ☕ Bring a light lunch or snacks to keep your energy up!

   

⚠️ You may not finish your wall hanging during class, but you’ll head home with the confidence, skills, and materials to complete it with ease.

🎟️ Seats are limited—join us for a meaningful and creative workshop as we remember and honour those who served ❤️

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE

🧵 Embroidery Club

*** Spots are limited - Sign Up Early to Avoid Disappointment

This project will work with a 5" x 7" Hoop

September 9, 2026

Time: 10am to 4pm
Teacher: Leatina Wood
Location: Maple Leaf Quilting Company, 141 River Avenue, Cochrane, AB

🧵 What You’ll Learn:

Complete 2-projects:

• Sew Bizzee Pins & Needles Keeper
• Machine Needle Sorting Pincushion 

Patterns and kit included.

We will walk you through each step, and you’ll end up with something you’ll actually use every time you sew.

💡 Skill Level:  Beginner and up!

You need to have a working knowledge of your machine, the instruction given is based on the Embroidery Club project for each month, not on machine function.  

🎉 What’s Included:

• USB with patterns in your required machine format.
• All fabric & stabilizers for both projects. 
• Pattern & Instructions for each project. 
• Welcome Binder to keep all your Embroidery Club project information in one spot! (This will only be provided one time to keep all your projects!)
  

🧵 Optional Product Requirements:

You can purchase the following and we will have things waiting for you when class day starts, or you can bring your own from home! 

Suggested Glide 40wt. Embroidery threads used in the 'Sew Bizzee' & 'Machine Needle Sorting Pincushion':

• Black # 11001
• Mellow #80107
• Daffodil #87406
• Bright Gold #80137
• Pumpkin Seed #51365
• Frog #62422
• Pumpkin #80151
• Raspberry #70193
• Bloom #70219
  
• Pacific #90285
• Eggplant #42715
• Magic Mink #30317
• Frog #62422

To purchase these threads at a discounted rate for the class, CLICK HERE. 

Please don't forget the following when coming to class: 

• Embroidery Machine (Power Cord & Foot Pedals too) 
• Embroidery hoop large enough for a 8.6"H x 4.7" W Embroidery design.
• Embroidery hoop large enough for a 6.2"H x 5.6"W embroidery design.
• Bobbin Thread - 60wt polyester bobbin fill thread
• Embroidery scissors
• Fabric Scissors 
• Rotary Cutter, Mat & 6.5" x 12.5 Ruler
• 90/14 Metallic Needle, 75/11 Embroidery Needle
• Point Turner
• Adhesive Tape (Expert Embroidery Tear Away Tape by OESD or similar)
• Temporary Adhesive Spray (505 Spray & Fix Temporary Fabric Adhesive or similar)
• 2 Clips (ie: Wonder Clips or similar)
• Hand Needle & Thread (optional)

By signing up you agree to class policies. Review them HERE