{"id":25170,"date":"2007-09-03T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/sewing-expo-needs-last-minute-push-for-contest\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:06:13","slug":"sewing-expo-needs-last-minute-push-for-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/sewing-expo-needs-last-minute-push-for-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Expo needs last-minute push for contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Brenda Rogerson of Highland, Michigan writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americansewingexpo.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">American Sewing Expo<\/a>\u00a0is the largest independently owned sewing expo in the country with over 15,000 people attending our three-day show from all over the U.S.\u00a0In addition to classes, vendors, a sewing cafe and special exhibits, we have several challenges for sewers of all abilities and interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are having a hard time getting contestants for our Baby Lock Passion for Fashion design contest inspired by Project Runway.\u00a0 This a live challenge that will let avid sewers showcase their sewing and design talents complete with professional models and a fashion show. The participant will be given a design challenge scenario and have all day Friday, September 28, to create their &#8216;secret project.&#8217; Expo attendees will have the opportunity to follow the progress of the designers as they work on their creations. Contestants return on Saturday, September 29, for a last-minute fitting on their professional model before the fashion show and photo shoot in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have contacted the local colleges, run ads in several sewing publications, posted several places on the web, and have information and rules\u00a0on our website\u00a0but have not had much response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Rogerson of Highland, Michigan writes: &#8220;The American Sewing Expo\u00a0is the largest independently owned sewing expo in the country with over 15,000 people attending our three-day show from all over the U.S.\u00a0In addition to classes, vendors, a sewing cafe and special exhibits, we have several challenges for sewers of all abilities and interests. &#8220;We are\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/sewing-expo-needs-last-minute-push-for-contest\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":20,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-25170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-contests","8":"tag-event-promotion","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41059,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions\/41059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}