Machine Embroidery: Cleveland
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Freshman Embroidery
with Katie Bartz
Start right, right from the start! Learn the basic language of embroidery as you uncover how to approach your projects for certain success. Begin correctly, choosing the best procedures, basic tools and appropriate supplies, including how to decide which stabilizers to use in various situations. Move on to the not-so-obvious ways used to prepare the harder stuff for stitching, as you learn about hoops and why you might use more than one; get your hands on stretchy, thick, shifty and recalcitrant fabrics as you practice preparing them for successful embroidery without stress. It's a fantastic class for embroiderers at all levels of skill and experience. (Professionals need not attend.) Counts as 3 sessions.  
Thursday   6:30 – 9:00   F82 & G98

Embroidery Lab 101
with Katie Bartz in the Sewing Spot
Get started on the right foot with your first embroidery. All the theory comes into focus as you watch the thread form the beautiful, perfect stitches, then remove the hoop and finish trimming, remove your stabilizer and viola - an embroidered fingertip towel! Success! Pre-requisite: Freshman Embroidery (above). Materials Fee: $10. Limit 12.
Friday   10:30 – 12:00   J143X
Friday   12:30 – 2:00   K159X

Embroidery Software Clinic
with Debra Bohn
Whether you’re comfortable and ready to learn more, at the start of your learning curve or want to test-drive embroidery software, this is your chance! Spend the day learning to adjust designs to create a variety of custom embroideries. Discover how to create your own designs from clipart, how easy it is to change the fills and customize designs yourself to create redwork, quilting, appliqué and step-filled embroideries. Learn to create designs bigger than your hoop, and how to split them into manageable hoopings. Discuss alignment, placement and how to remove unnecessary stitches, endless embroideries, encore embroideries. Includes instructional CD. This class is appropriate for anyone who wants to experience embroidery software and learn how easy it is to use and owners of 3D or 4D Husqvarna Viking software and 3D & 4D Pfaff Creative software whether you have just the basic package or the Professional package. Exercises in class will be “hands on” and include the following modules: 4D Configure, 4D Organizer, 4D Embroidery Extra, 4D Stitch Editor, 4D Design Aligner and 4D Design Creator. A trial version of the Husqvarna Viking 4D Professional software will be available for download in class. Owners of other 3D or 4D software may choose to use what they own or download the trial version. Must be comfortable with Windows applications and using a mouse.
Wednesday   10:00 – 4:30   MDB600
Supply List
Limit 15
Cost: $189

Enrich Your Jeans With Embroidery
with Debra Bohn in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
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Great embroidered jeans can be yours – they’ll fit, they won’t cost a fortune and they’ll have the colors you enjoy running up the leg, around the hem and on the pocket. Using embroidery and embellishment techniques, you’ll re-fashion a pair of plain jeans in class. Learn how to choose appropriate designs and prepare them for the hoop. Choose your colors and stitch away, maybe add a few crystals, too! Finally, return them to their original shape and you’ll have a pair of custom-designed jeans to wear home (plus the confidence to create more). Supply List. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $10. Limit 24.
Saturday   8:30 – 11:30   Q233X & R249

Stabilizer Frenzy
with Debra Bohn in the Husqvarna Viking Studio
Create a notebook of samples as you stitch your way through a variety of fabrics, designs and stabilizers. Not sure how to hoop or what hooping aids are available? Need help matching stabilizer to fabric and design? Learn while doing, and collect as many ideas as techniques. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $25. Limit 24.
Friday   8:30 – 11:30   H121X & J137

Travel Ironing Mat
with Debra Bohn in the Husqvarna Viking Sewing Studio
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Create this useful and aesthetically pleasing ironing pad/pressing surface to take on trips or use in classes. Learn about embroidery as you stitch out a multi-color design in the hoop; learn to work with teflon fabric, how to use a quilting bar for grid quilting, to serge a finish with decorative thread and more. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $18. Limit 24.
Thursday   8:30 – 11:30   A9X & B25

Embroidered Jeans and Jackets
with Debra Bohn
It’s with us and getting stronger – embroidered jeans and jackets, whether you make them yourself or personalize ready-to-wear, are more popular than ever. Learn the tricks for success, including how to choose the best designs (or adapt the ones you love), which hoops and stabilizers work best and more.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D51
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V291

Hand-to-Hoop Combat
with Debra Bohn
Call a truce! Your embroidery outlines will stay on the edge (not the interior) of your design, your fill stitch will truly fill and your project will be happy to stay in the hoop! Discover ways to avoid altercations up front and resolve them peacefully. Includes a look at new products and many embroidery ideas, and a complete booklet of tips to make your embroidery fun and perfectly safe! Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $5.
Friday   2:30 – 5:00   L163 & M179

New Embroidery Basics
with Diane Gloystein
Be successful from the start when you choose your components correctly. Catch up on all the newest developments in decorative threads, needles, backings and toppings for every need. Discover how painted, stitched and imaginatively embellished backgrounds set off your embroidery, making it truly extraordinary. An essential class for those just starting their embroidery adventures, an invaluable update for everyone else!
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L172
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q229

The Fashionable Embroiderer
with Laura Haynie
Achieving impressive, high-fashion embroidered garments is part artistry, part technique and part inspiration. See a wardrobe of samples as you discover how to choose fine details and broad strokes that work for you. Includes step-by-step fearless decorative buttonholes; creating a garment using only silk organza, lace and embroidery; fashionable placements (including hoop examples and templates); a trunk show of award-winning garments including exquisite suits, evening gowns and jackets; professional ideas and how-tos; touches of heirloom for grown-up girls and more.
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00   C35
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H115
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R242

Luxury Quilts
with Patsy Shields
Quilts aren’t always 100% cotton. Makers of luxury quilts work with a range of different fabrics, battings, embellishments, quilting designs, stitching effects and finishing techniques. Gain a feel for the various elements and how to combine them for the quilts of your dreams. Discussion includes inspiration, color use, supplies from fabric to thread to batting, quilt and trapunto designs and techniques, embellishments and embroidery. Luxury from the inside out!
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A3
Friday   10:30 – 11:30   J139
Saturday   12:30 – 1:30   S259

Karma Bag
with Kathy Stachowicz in the Baby Lock Studio
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From the unique handle and bag design to the fanciful embellishment, this one screams “Look at Me!” Techniques include easy appliqué (in the hoop), decorative borders using machine embroidery, easy flatlock on the serger and edge finishes using the wave stitch. This bag is as much fun to create as it is to sport around town! Includes bag frame, all materials and pattern. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $22. Limit 20.
Thursday   8:30 – 11:30   A7X & B23

Sunflower Wallhanging
with Kathy Stachowicz in the Baby Lock Studio
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This project has it all – embroidery, crystals, 3-D embroidery, appliqué, lacework and fabric painting. The four blocks feature different techniques. Combine embroidery with fabric painting, create a three-dimensional embroidery as an appliqué, see how easy it is to stitch a lacework appliqué and pad the center of an embroidered flower. Once completed, just construct the wallhanging, sit back, and enjoy the sunflowers. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $18. Limit 20.
Saturday   12:00 – 3:00   S263X & T279

Embroidered and Painted Linen Towel
with Kathy Stachowicz in the Baby Lock Studio
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Take a classic linen towel, add a little embroidery and in an instant have anything but a classic. Working with an existing embroidery design altered just for this purpose, you’ll experience the beauty of hooped embroidery. Take it all up a notch, adding dimension and highlights with fabric paint. Finally, stitch the traditional linen towel hem as your finishing touch. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $12. Limit 20.
Saturday   8:30 – 11:30   Q231X & R247

The Secret’s Under the Stitch
with Jim Suzio
We’ve all seen them, the “perfectly” embroidered garments hanging on mannequins or on display. You reach for a touch . . . and discover it’s body armor! Learn the ins and outs of combining the “perfect” stabilizer with the “perfect” fabric and designs for a truly touchable – and wearable – look.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A2
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V290

Sewing for My Little Sweetie
with Jim Suzio
Sewing for your sweetie, too? Sewing for children means smaller sizes and smaller pieces, and tighter spaces at the machine. Clothes for every day, that heirloom portrait dress or a more tailored “uniform” will fit better, look better and feel better on when you adopt the shortcuts and techniques Jim’s learned from experience sewing for his own Sweetie.
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00   C34
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q226

Flawless Cutwork the Edited Way
with Jim Suzio
Discover how to produce flawless edgings and borders with your cutwork designs. The secret is in the timing! By trimming away the fabric before you stitch your embroidery design, your satin stitches will remain intact and beautiful. Learn how easily this can be accomplished, with even the most basic editing software. Lots of samples, lots of ooooohs!
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E66

Knocking Off the Dream: Sewing for the Stars
with Jim Suzio
You’ve seen them on the runways in the movies, and fantasized about wearing such lavish creations. But you never dreamed you would actually wear one . . . much less make it yourself!. In this continuation of the “Knocking Them Off” series, see how easily you can create your own versions of these inspirational gowns. From pattern modifications to beading on the machine, you can do it. New gowns and a surprise, too!
Friday   1:00 – 2:00   K146

Holiday Quick Fixes
with Jim Suzio
For a q uick seasonal change, a guilt-free holiday “spruce-up” or a special party, Jim’s unconventional methods yield much fun without breaking the bank. See how easily a yard or two of fabric can camouflage a table, flatter a window or dress up a chair. From fabric manipulations to reversible embroideries for table linens and pillowcases and flawless rolled hems, see ideas for designer looks even a novice can create – without breaking the bank!
Friday   4:00 – 5:00   M178

Digitizing for Rookies: What We Really Want to Know
with Jim Suzio
You keep hearing about digitizing, now see it in action. Learn about selecting the artwork (the picture), getting it to the machine (through the computer) and stitching it out (tweaking at the machine). Discover the basics of what it means to digitize, what digitizing software is all about and how clever shortcuts can make your work simple and more satisfying. Counts as 3 sessions.
Friday   6:30 – 9:00   N194 & P210

Embroidery Software for Rookies
with Jim Suzio
You bought a new embroidery machine and it came with lots of stuff: threads, stabilizers, software . . . It's all opened, the software is installed, you've looked around and embroidered your first shirt. Now what? See how easily you can work your way through embroidery software while learning what the various "buttons" do. Topics covered include how to open a design file, alter it and save it to the machine, as well as to a new folder (and see how easy it can be to create one). The "beginners-beginners" class that you've asked for is here!
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T274

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