Description
We are thrilled to reveal that our 20th event will take place in San Antonio, Texas! We're teaming up with the most inspirational designers and pattern writers of our industry. The event is set for April 10th to April 13th, 2025. Included in your registration fee, you’ll have the opportunity to take classes taught by extraordinary and influential women from the modern quilting and sewing world at the Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk.
Veruschka Zarate
Veruschka Zarate of Pride & Joy Quilting is a Quilt Maker and Pattern Designer specializing in Foundation Paper Piecing. She taught at QuiltCon 2022 and offers an online course. Her quilt "Pride and Joy" won awards. Veruschka has been featured in various magazines and podcasts, enjoys presenting to quilting guilds worldwide, and offers workshops on Foundation Paper Piecing. She started quilting in 2016, focusing on Foundation Paper Piecing in 2019. Veruschka is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, a mother of two boys, and finds joy in creative outlets like voice, graphic design, and painting.
Devon Iott
Ohio native Devon Iott, with a film background, has an eye for aesthetics. Despite her initial career plans, a part-time job at a craft store shifted her trajectory. From a cashier to a curriculum teacher, she found a deep passion for sewing along the way. Networking and opportunities led her to roles in fabric stores and renowned companies like Singer-Viking-Pfaff sewing machines and Colette Patterns.
Miss Make is a creative studio founded by Devon. They specialize in creating distinctive and user-friendly quilt patterns. One of Miss Make's core principles is to demonstrate that exploring creativity through quilting can be simple. Their patterns focus on clear instructions, detailed explanations, and easy accessibility to tools and materials. Currently, Devon resides with her husband, son, and two cats in Atlanta.
Kimberly Kight is a fabric obsessive. She helped shape and influence the modern fabric and quilting scene with her now-retired blog True Up. From the time she started sewing, she has collected vintage fabrics and feedsacks. As a designer with Ruby Star Society, she mixes various vintage and modern design influences to build fun, narrative-based collections and quilt patterns. Kim is also the author of A Field Guide to Fabric Design (Stash Books, 2011). She lives in Dripping Springs, Texas (“the gateway to the Hill Country” outside of Austin).
Alexia Marcelle Abegg is multi-disciplined artist. She designs fabric with Ruby Star Society, creates wheel thrown ceramics, sewing patterns, and hand dyed goods. She has taught sewing for over a decade. Her collaborations include Lotta Jansdotter's Everyday Sewing, Queen of Cups Handmade, and Green Bee Patterns. She lives in Nashville TN with her husband and their dog, Olive.
Before coming to the event, Sewtopia works with Windham Fabrics to selected 6 fabrics. A couple months before the event, we send every attendee six fat quarters. Participation is optional and encouraged. The rules of the challenge are simple, you can use one or all the fabrics, just make sure that you only use Windham Fabrics with your creation. When attendees check – they’ll be asked to check in their projects to be eligible for prizes.
The best part of getting together for the weekend is letting us take you to the best fabric and quilt stores in the area. A shop hop is like a pub crawl, only you’re shopping instead of drinking. At the time of registration, we will ask whether you want to have a spot on the bus. The shops will offer special giveaways and sale prices to you as well. Shops will be announced closer to the event.
Sewtopia’s Sewing Lounge will be open Thursday, April 10th after the shop hop to midnight. We’ll open the lounge again in the morning for classes. We will leave it open and close each night at midnight. Attendees will be contacted prior to the event regarding seating. We’ll ask who you’d like to sit by and assign seats.
Here’s the general format that an attendee should expect if they’re attending Sewtopia San Antonio:
For classes we will split the ballroom into 3 sections. Teachers will teach Friday and Saturday. Twenty (20+) attendees in the morning session, we’ll break for lunch for one (1) hour. After lunch, the first two sessions that were in class will be in open sew while the third session will be in class. We will open all walls for evening sewing at 5pm to midnight. The next day, the ballroom will split again into 3 session. Teachers will swap sections and teach in the morning again and we’ll repeat the schedule from the day before. On Sunday, the Sewing Lounge will be in open sew until noon.
If you’re bringing a machine or items don’t worry about carrying them back to your room -- we’ll lock up every night for you. This time is yours to finish up class projects and other sewing projects.
General notions will be provided. Irons, cutting mats, rotary cutters, and thread.
In 2018, Sewtopia re-opened our online shop. We continue to update it with new Sewtopia merchandise, notions, and fabrics. We’re bring the show on the road and will be in the Sewing Lounge with new fabrics from Cloud 9, Ruby Star Society, Windham, and Robert Kaufman.
Sewtopia will do one official secret swap that attendees can participate in. This is a blind swap, meaning we will not assign you a partner. We ask that that you bring your swap item WRAPPED to the event at check-in and Sewtopia will distribute swap gifts Friday night to open Saturday morning before class. If you bring an item to swap you get one back.
#sewtopiaswap
Rules:
- If you’re on Instagram, please use this hashtag so others can cheer you on and support your creative process.
- Money limit is $15, don’t break the bank!
- Bring your swap item wrapped and labeled to Sewtopia when you check in.
- Make sure there’s something saying who it’s from like a label or a slip of paper.
- Smalls category would be anything smaller than a 24×24 pillow or mini, mug rug, pin cushion, something for a sewing area, or a pouch.
- Make something that you love, out of fabrics you adore.
- The folks of Sewtopia will do the secret swap Friday night after the sewing lounge closes. The swap items will be at your sewing station for Saturday morning for you to open.
- Don’t worry if you don’t do the swap. We will hand out swap gifts only to those who participated.
If you have any questions, email me and I’ll collect them all in a FAQs email to everyone.
San Antonio Embassy Suites Riverwalk
Sewtopia | San Antonio takes place at the San Antonio Embassy Suites Riverwalk. The hotel is onveniently located less than a mile and a half from the Alamodome and Tower of the Americas, within a 10-minute walk of The Alamo, The Majestic Theatre, and The Buckhorn Saloon.
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Hotel Rates:
$183.00 (taxes & fees are not included) | King Suite
$229.00 (taxes & fees are not included) | King Suite
CLOSEST AIRPORT
If you’re flying in, the airport you want is the San Antonio International Airport code is SAT.
This "UNOFFICAL-OFFICIAL" swap is ran by our fantastic attendee, Rhiannon. Unlike the Sewtopia Swap, attendees sign up for this swap and your swap partner is assigned.
Super Secret Swap hashtags| #sewtopiasupersecretswap #supersecretswapsanantonio Check previous #supersecretswappdx & #supersecretswapatx #hashtag on Instagram for inspiration.
- Rules:
- There will be a signup form emailed to all attendees 3 to 4 months before the event, where you can sign up to participate.
- Once partners are assigned, you must confirm with Rhiannon with a reply to an email.
- If you’re on Instagram, please use the hashtag #supersecretswapsanantonio so others can cheer you on.
- This is a SECRET swap, don't give too much away on social media.
- Participants are asked to make a mosaic on Instagram and/or Pinterest to help your partner visualize what you like.
- You will be required to make one handmade item; this may be a mini, tote bag, or some other small handmade item, tailored to your partner's likes or desires.
- Each participant should spend $20-$35 on extras along with a handmade gift.
- One small gift will be left secretly at your partner’s sewing station on Thursday or Friday (though you may leave more than one if you like) with the final handmade gift being hand delivered or “revealed” to your partner on Saturday afternoon (sometime after lunch before dinner)
- If you’re on Instagram or in the Sewtopia Facebook group, please use this hashtag so others can cheer you on and support your creative process.
- If you have any questions, email us at [email protected] or post your question in our Facebook Group
Travel FAQ
- Where do I park?
- The Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk Downtown has valet parking $49.00/day with in and out at not extra charge.
- What hotels are available for booking? How do I get the Sewtopia discount on my hotel room?
- We’ve setup a discounted room block for our attendees with the hosting hotel for the event. The reservation link is available under the hotel section of the event. We'll also send you a confirmation email after registration with the link and reminder on last day to reserve your hotel room. We ask that you book your hotel room as soon as you can, we’ve sold out on our room block since our Chicago event in 2014.
- What airport should I fly into?
- If you’re flying in, the airport you want is San Antonio International Airport (SAT), it’s 15 minutes to the hosting hotel.
- You’re not helping me at all! I have different questions!
- Shoot us an email at [email protected]
Venue FAQ
- Where is Sewtopia | San Antonio being held?
- San Antonio Embassy Suites Riverwalk 125 E. Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78205,
- Will food be provided? Are there restaurants in the area?
- Lunches will be provided in your full registration fee for Friday and Saturday. You will be on own for dinner. When we chose the location for Sewtopia | San Antonio, we put it in smack in the middle of the downtown next many walkable dining options , so you won’t have a hard time finding a good place to eat. If you need a suggestion of places to eat, we suggest joining our Facebook group and posting there.
