Claudia's Creations Machine Embroidery Workshop

Our next Claudia Creations workshop is:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday March 20, 21 & 22
9:30 am - 8:00 pm

"Let Freedom Ring" – The 2026 Design

Join us for 3 fun filled days of Creative machine embroidery with Claudia Dinnell of Claudia's Creations. Come master Claudia's multi-hooping technique for perfect placement and alignment. Improve your hooping skills, better understand the features on your machine that allow you to tweak the position of a design within the hoop. Get tips and techniques that will make your embroidery exciting, fun, and flawless. Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 20, 21, 22. 9:30 am - 4:30 pm each day for instruction with Claudia including a light lunch each day. You will then have the opportunity to continue embroidering until 8:00 pm on Friday and Saturday with an optional $12 - $15 for an evening buffet dinner. We will be doing Claudia's NEW design for 2026 workshop exclusive design. Your workshop fee includes Claudia's instruction and lunch. We will enjoy 6 hours of wonderful instruction from Claudia to help you complete her exclusive design.
The size for this quilt is 55" X 55" 
This is for ALL machine brands but the minimum hoop requirement is 8" wide by 12" hoop or larger.

Hotel Accommodations

If you are not near the Des Moines area and you are traveling, we have secured a corporate rate with 2 hotels in the area. The Hampton Inn & Suites in Ankeny, just 8 minutes from Woodside Quilting. The corporate rate is $119.00 per night with a free breakfast. Call the hotel directly to make your reservation and mention you are needing the Woodside Quilting Corporate rate for an event. You need to call the hotel and make this reservation directly with them not through a 3rd party. If you have questions or issues, please call the store and ask to speak to Warren or Marty.

1. Hampton Inn & Suites 6210 SE Convenience Blvd, Ankeny, IA 50021 – 515 261-4400.

2. Holiday Inn Express - 2502 SE Hulsizer Dr, Ankeny, IA 50021 (at pre-tax rate of $114.99 a night)

Cost & Details

The workshop fee is $299 and includes the workshop, lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It does NOT include optional $12-$15 evening dinner buffet, your fabrics, threads or other materials for your project or the new design that you can only purchase at one of her workshops. The workshop design is $139. You will receive a 15% class discount on other items needed for the workshop.

Pre-Workshop Prep Class

If you have never taken a Claudia Creations workshop a Pre-workshop Class is required to understand how to prepare your fabric background. This class is a week before the workshop. Thursday March 5th from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Claudia wants you to come prepared to start embroidering the day of the class. You will not want to take time away from the workshop to do this process and we will not take time in the workshop for this pre-workshop fabric preparation work.

About Claudia Dinnell

Claudia is a third generation Native Arizonan. Her love for quilting and sewing began in her early twenties and has blossomed ever since. She was forced into learning/teaching digitizing by her favorite local quilt shop and that experience has changed her life! Her creative juices have exploded on the fabric via extraordinary machine embroidery.

“I travel all over the United States teaching to exciting and enthusiastic students eager to learn new techniques and instructions about machine embroidery. My style of machine embroidery is full of unique fills, outlines and effects to enhance and adorn the design. My specialty is multi-hooping larger deigns on one piece of fabric.

I have created a technique for splitting/dividing designs called “Perfect Placement.” It is the most accurate and deliberate method for aligning two or more designs together flawlessly. It always gives me a thrill when students create these large masterpieces “without a hint of how in the world it was created!””