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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

Cut It Up!
with Debra Bohn
If you’re working with one large and one small scissors, you’re doing it the hard way! Discover how using the right tool makes a big difference in your finished project as you learn why the scissors you use is the first (and the last) step in a successful process.
Saturday   12:30 – 1:30   S258

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

Beat the Clock With Your Accessory Feet
with Debra Bohn
All those new and ever-so-useful accessory feet really do make it easy to get professional-grade results in no time at all. See just how much they can add to your sewing pleasure as they cut down on steps, time and “unsewing”. Once you’ve learned to use them for their intended (and improvised) purposes, you’ll reach for them over and over, beating the clock every time you snap one on!
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E67

Easy Skirts from Rectangles
with Barb Callahan
With a simple shape you can make a very flattering skirt in many different styles. Learn to fit easily, and to create many looks with different fabrics, adding details, godets, panels, ruffles and textured overlays. They’re easy, attractive and they fit!
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00   C36
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V295

Multi-Media Backgrounds
with Barb Callahan
Painted, printed, dyed and even needle felted backgrounds are a perfect canvas for embellishments. They’ll add interest to embroidery, beading, layering and can even add some glitz. Many samples, guidelines and instructions for creating your own multi-media backgrounds will be discussed and demonstrated.
Thursday   4:00 –5:00   E69

Jacket Magic
with Barb Callahan
Simple changes to your favorite jacket patterns can create a totally new look. Discover the potential when you change the center front line to add new interest, change collars, sleeve lengths, overall length and hemline shapes. Different fabric combinations and colors all add to a new design, and even buttonholes can add to a new look. Many ideas and samples shared.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H114
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R251

World of Computerized Patternmaking
with Shelley Doyal
When it comes to creating great fit, knowledge is power! Discover how patterns are made and the difference between grading and making a larger size; learn what slopers are, why you need one and what to expect from your sloper. Explore computerized patternmaking software and the pattern printing process as you discover ways to stop folding, splitting, extending and tucking your paper patterns altogether!
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D59
Friday   10:30 – 11:30   J130
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T283

Altering Ready-to-Wear
with Megan Engelmann
Learn to alter your ready-to-wear garments like a pro! Explore fit “inspection” sequences, hearing what garment’s folds and wrinkles indicate about fit and, most importantly, how to proceed with the alteration at the machine. Leave class confident in your alteration approach. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Limit 20.
Saturday   12:30 – 3:00   S269 & T285

It’s All About the Bodice
with Megan Engelmann
Gain confidence in designing your own garments when you learn some of the basic principles of pattern drafting. Practice correct slash-and-spread, contouring and dart manipulation techniques so you can create your own one-of-a-kind garments from a basic bodice foundation. Pre-requisite: Sewing experience. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials: $7. Limit 20.
Friday   1:00 – 3:30   K158 & L174

Sewing Techniques: Zippers
with Megan Engelmann in the Rookie Studio
With the correct tools and techniques at work, you’ll be able to insert zippers three ways in short order. Once learned, a zipper will take you no more than a few minutes to install, start to finish. Complete a sample of a lapped, invisible and exposed installation in class, as you amaze yourself. They may become your favorite construction detail! Pre-requisite: Sewing experience. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 20.
Thursday   12:30 – 3:30   C40X & D56

Pants: From Start to Fitted
with Cynthia Guffey
When your pants pattern really fits, pants are one of the fastest, easiest garments to sew – start to finish in an evening, pockets, zipper and all. Figures change, styles change, and suddenly what once fit doesn’t. Or maybe you’ve never had a pattern that really fits. No matter! Develop your personal pattern for perfectly fitted pants with Cynthia as your fitter. Spend the day working from the mock-up you’ve prepared before class, and transferring the changes back to your tissue pattern. When you leave, you’ll KNOW they fit and look great! To top off the perfect pants, class includes shaped and straight waistband options, pre-class workbook and detailed directions for preparing the mock-up. This class is designed for experienced fashion sewing enthusiasts.
Wednesday   9:30 – 5:00   MDB100
Supply List and Advance Prep
Limit 16
Cost: $220

Stripes, Plaids and Printed Designs
with Cynthia Guffey
What is the decision making process when choosing patterns for these fabrics? Clarify your thinking as you learn the language (even, uneven, one-way and crosswise), then discover what makes them work – or not – to help you make great choices in fabrics, patterns and clothes that flatter you and each other.
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E65

Body Type Pattern Selection
with Cynthia Guffey
A stunning consultation session, this intimate workshop explores the concepts necessary for each woman in attendance to show off her own figure. In the analysis process, ideas and approaches to pattern selection for a variety of body types will be shared. Participants will not only clearly define their own best lines, but will understand the principles at work, enabling them to create highly flattering clothes with confidence. Counts as 4 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 20.
Friday   8:30 – 11:30   H116X & J132
Saturday  8:30 – 11:30   Q228X & R244

The Perfectly Fitted Sleeve
with Cynthia Guffey
The goal of great fit is to create clothing with no restrictions to physical activity but which shows off great-looking fit when standing still. Learn to reach that goal time and time again as Cynthia explores how fit, shape of the curve, depth of the cap and construction techniques all play a role in creating the perfectly fitted and set sleeve.
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L171

Tool-Free Tricky Gizmo Detail Sewing
with Cynthia Guffey
The tricky gizmo is her method. The tools are simple: needle and thread. The details are everywhere in your wardrobe, and knowing how to execute them is wonderful. If you’ve looked at how Cynthia stitches her buttons, snaps and other closures, you know there’s a method at work. Not a stray thread or stitch in sight, everything secure, perfectly placed and doing the job it was meant to do. Includes a variety of button styles and uses, snaps, knots, thread loops and more. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 24.
Friday   6:30 – 9:00   N196 & P212

The Anatomy of a Collar
with Cynthia Guffey
Your collar frames your face, and you’ve already discovered some do a better job than others. Discover how the way in which a collar stands and rolls is determined by the convex, concave and straight line shaping of the neck edges of the collar and your garment. Some collars stand up at attention; others lay completely flat. Learn to adjust the degree to which your collar moves towards one or the other of these extremes when you adjust the convexity and concavity of your seam lines. Gain insight into the importance of properly stitching these two shapes together, eliminating distortion on one side and creating perfectly shaped, fitted and sewn collars.
Saturday   12:30 – 1:30   S257

Focal Point Zipper Placements
with Cynthia Guffey
Unexpected placement of an exposed zipper can become the focal point of your garment design, whether you sew the garment or add one to your purchased clothing. Visible or not, surprising zipper locations create distinctive and useful design elements. Consider a zipper neatly tucked below a pocket welt or totally exposed at the neckline or hemline (imagine a chunky zipper running upward from the ankle of your jeans). Learn to make a place for your zippers where no seams exists, and examine options such as hiding the zipper (even without a seam in which to place it), or exposing it, creating a focal point for your garment’s design.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D49

Bound Pockets, Bound Buttonholes
with Cynthia Guffey
They’re in everything from handbags to couture fashions: bound pockets and buttonholes abound as embellishment details. Both are created in the same general manner. From the same set of principles and using precut samples, you’ll choose to start with either a pocket or buttonhole to accomplish in class. Directions and pre-cut materials are provided for both, and how far you go in class is up to you. Includes discussion about sizing buttonholes to fit the buttons, and designing circular, triangular and other non-traditional shapes. Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $20. Limit 20.
Thursday   6:30 – 9:00   F92 & G108

Controlling the Bias
with Cynthia Guffey
An entire garment on the bias splays over the body, showing off all the lumps, bumps and creases we want to hide. But bias under control is miraculous, creating soft drape and graceful camouflage. Discover how to create a flattering silhouette by surrounding bias areas of the garment with those cut on the straight grain, defining where the drape occurs and thus the shape of your garment. You’ll never see an A-line garment the same way again!
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30  B17

Neckline Treatments
with Cynthia Guffey
Necklines frame the face. To enhance our best features, we control our neckline shapes and sizes. See a dramatic demonstration of collar and neckline shapes and their effect on an individual’s appearance: pointed, rounded or something in between. Learn to incorporate your best shapes into simple necklines with facings, collars and other neckline treatments.
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V289

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

Fit: Measure Like a Master
with Lorraine Henry
Who fits the dressmaker? Accurate measurements are the key to getting a good fit for yourself by yourself. The four measurements listed on the pattern envelope aren't enough! Do you know how to measure for the shoulder slope? Why is the side seam measurement so important? And you really need both front and back measurements rather than all around measurements! Of course there is also the troublesome crotch area! Learn all of the techniques of a master fitter and the necessary measurements that must be taken for a fit that stands out in the crowd!
Friday   10:30 – 11:30   J133

Pattern Alteration S.O.S.
with Lorraine Henry
Tired of slashing your pattern into puzzle pieces and trying to put it back together to "kind of fit"? Have you ever wanted to just pull out your seam allowances and magically fit your figure? It is almost that easy with the seam method of pattern alteration! Have an "Ah-Ha!" visual experience as you watch how seams can swivel to enlarge for the bust, widen (or narrow) for the back, shorten or lengthen wherever needed, and work in combinations without causing any distortion in the pattern. Come and learn how to create hinges and swivel your seams to meet the needs of YOUR personal shape. Supply List. Limit 24.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D54
Saturday   3:30 – 4:30   V294

The Cut of the Crotch
with Lorraine Henry
The difference between fitting a skirt and pants is one thing: the crotch curve, as pants are simply a skirt with a crotch extension. Shaping that curve correctly is the difference between good fit and not-so-good fit. See an unbelievable comparison of all major pattern companies crotch curves and size variations to learn why they fit differently, and how they compare to ready-to-wear pant patterns. Techniques for figure evaluation and choosing the correct patterns included.
Saturday   12:30 – 1:30   S261

Essential Elements of Pattern Alteration
with Lorraine Henry
Remember the old saying, “one thing leads to another?” So true with figure variations and fit! A key element in fitting is an understanding of how measurements relate to one another. Each of the 86 identified figure variations need more than just one measurement to correctly adjust the pattern. There are rules if followed, will make correcting the fit more accurate. Learn about “L before W” (length before width) and “even before uneven”. Learn the order of comparing your body measurements to the pattern. There are relationships that will help you determine where to change and what to change. We can eliminate some of our “fitting fits” by following the above guidelines.
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L165

Get Rid of the Gaps
with Lorraine Henry
Tops that fit are in . . . gaping armholes are out! Correcting the fit in the armscye and bust areas is a quick way to visually lose weight immediately and increase comfort at the same time. A garment that fits smoothly and hangs without wrinkles is instantly slimming. Learn to eliminate gaps and pulls so you can fit any size bust, whether it’s larger or smaller than the ‘standard’ B cup. Learn to shape a princess-style garment to match the bust shape, and address fitting problems in the back, too.
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30   B21

It’s Never Just a Sweatshirt!
with Nancy McElhinny
Sweatshirt jackets are in and you don't want to be left out! Discover just how fast and easy it is to create an entire closet full of colorful jackets and pullovers in short order. See how hand-dyed ribbons are used to create a fabulous pullover in an evening of easy handwork; how to use your favorite fabrics to enhance design with a stencil, some sewing and a pair of scissors; how your twin needle can prepare a design pallet ready for favorite embellishment techniques and more. Includes couching, machine or hand embroidery, appliqué or thread embellishment – jackets are limited only by your imagination.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H124

Basic Sweatshirt Jacket Fitting
with Jerri McKee
Learn the best ways to prepare your sweatshirts to create flattering art-to-wear jackets. See how to cut them apart, fit them to your body, establish the correct length and create a variety of necklines for a range of jacket styles.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A12
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q236

Fashion Forward Knit Techniques
with Lyla Messinger
Success in sewing knits is just around the corner! Make garments like high end ready-to-wear by utilizing the versatile characteristics of knits. Be tantalized by the wide variety of Lyla’s unique decorative details, ideal for knits. Learn solutions for controlling hems, stabilizing seams and edges, and other simplified sewing techniques ideal for knits. See simple, fast techniques perfect for women on the go!
Friday   1:00 – 2:00   K147

Sophisticated Fleece Techniques
with Lyla Messinger
Fleece is one of the most popular fabrics today, and transforming the look from plain to WOW! is simple. Lyla includes spectacular ideas for enhancing the appearance of fleece, many decorative accents, and ways to piece with flair. Capture the basics of fresh and decorative finishing techniques for seams, edgings, sculpted buttonholes and more. These inspirational ideas are ideal for fleece as well as other fabrics.
Friday   10:30 – 11:30   J131

Six in Sixty
with Lyla Messinger
Learn a new technique every ten minutes and walk out of class with skills you can really use. Discover fast and easy ways to give your finished garments the look of high-end fashion designs. As Lyla says, “If I’d had today’s products, tools & knowledge when I learned to sew….I’d have had the satisfaction of getting more projects done…faster and with great results!”
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30   B19
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q227

On the Edge 2008: A Fresh Approach
with Lyla Messinger
Ever been stunned by a simple detail that ‘makes the garment’? Develop a new perspective on “boutique” sewing, including what, where and how to include Lyla’s simple, yet stunning details on a variety of garments. Great details don’t need to be complicated, difficult or time consuming to be effective – simplicity is often the key to a garment’s success. See many examples and how-to visuals to elevate your fashion sewing.
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T275

Altered Fashion
with Tammy O'Connell
Refashioning, restyling, revamping . . . the words themselves give you creative license to give a garment new personality – yours! Use any embellishment, alteration, construction or de-construction technique you like to do, too. Think embroidery, adding or deleting fabric or trim, merging pieces, painting, beading, dyeing . . . focus in class on three techniques for each type of garment: skirts, jackets and pants as you learn to let imagination go, and alter your fashion.
Thursday   4:00 – 5:00   E75
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q235

Leather Logic
with Tammy O’Connell
Learn leather-sewing basics for creating marvelous garments and bags for your wardrobe. Discussion will include leather and suede and their relatives: pleather, faux suede and the new washable suede. Focus on techniques and inspiration as you consider all your options in adding the luxury and timelessness of these ‘fabrics’ to your sewing routine.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H117

Design Principles for Creative Sewing
with Londa Rohlfing
You have your ‘stash’. You have skills. You have tools. You have ideas…too many ideas! How do you decide what to use – where and how to use it? Design Principles! Londa will walk you through good design of balance, rhythm, color, proportion and center of interest. Learn to identify the successful use of these all-important principles, enabling you to approach your own creative sewing with a newly-trained, artistic ‘eye’.
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30   B18
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T276

Comfy Tailored Pants and Skirts
with Kathy Ruddy
A well fitted pattern can be changed to keep up with fashion trends. Learn: the “Eat Cookies” waist, a tailored look with 2” breathing room; how to update pocket styles and add current leg changes to your favorite pattern; how to eliminate the zipper with a different waist finish for fabrics that will stretch from your waist to hip measurement, plus a zipper installation that is the easiest ever.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A5
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T277

Jackets: Shortcuts to Classic Tailoring
with Kathy Ruddy
A well-shaped jacket can make droopy shoulders look more square, and oversized arms, bust and hips look smaller. Learn what you can do on the inside to make the outside smooth over your lumps and bumps. Learn fitting tricks, sleeve installations, shoulder shaping, interfacing, underlining, lining, hemming and how to hide zippers in pockets, seams and darts.
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00  C37
Friday   4:00 – 5:00   M181

Fast and Accurate Ways to Sew Better
with Kathy Ruddy
You’ll love Kathy’s “It’s a process” attitude towards fashion sewing as she abandons outdated methods in favor of her own foolproof techniques. Banish the homemade look using her ways to make collars using fusibles for non-lumpy corners and joints, apply elastic to her “eat cookies” waistlines, get perfect bound buttonholes and welt pockets in one try and make wrap-around cuffs as in RTW. You’ll like sewing more!.
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R245

Copy Cat Sewing
with Kathy Ruddy
Using small scale patterns, learn pattern drafting techniques as you tour some of Kathy’s most infamous creations: the  Eat-Lots-of-Cookies waistlines; adding pockets copied from ready-to-wear; the Boston Legal Jacket; the Ultimate Jean made from stretch denim; a smooth waist pull-on pant with low rise pockets to stay trendy without a muffin-top and more. Supply List. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $6. Limit 24.
Friday   6:00 – 9:00   N198X & P214

Dozen Favorite Construction Techniques
with Peggy Sagers
She sews enough clothes each year to fill several closets. She's fast, she works with a wide range of fabrics, includes all the "hard" details and there's not a puckered seam or mis-set sleeve to be found. Learn a dozen of Peggy's favorite techniques and you'll find your sewing becoming more accurate, fast and fun. Samples, stories and of course, lots of fashion tips included.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A1

More Easy, Fast, and Great Factory Methods for Garment Sewing
with Peggy Sagers
This is all new stuff. New fast, easy sewing routines you'll want to use over and over again, even for the tricky things you don't think you can do, like notch lapels. Save mounds of time and get consistently better results when you use industry techniques for collars, cuffs, waistbands and fly fronts, direct from the garment factory where Peggy wrote the guide sheets.
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q225

What to Know Before You Sew
with Peggy Sagers
We all need this class – we just don’t know it! Discover exactly what makes some clothes your favorites, and why you want to use what is in your closet as a guide when making new garments. You can then make an entire wardrobe of success stories. There are three simple things we should all know before we begin – do you know what they are? Once you do, you’ll quickly improve what you sew for yourself, and you’ll love what you sew.
Friday   9:00 – 10:00   H113

Designer Finishes
with Peggy Sagers
Armani, Channel and Tahari do it, and so can you. Create dynamic, memorable looks with a touch of trim here and an unconventional use of a common notion there. See a collection of ideas and get more inspiration than you can use as Peggy shows off the newest looks in high-end apparel. She's done all the shopping, looking for techniques and details especially appropriate for we who sew clothes – to add to our favorite jackets, tops, pants and skirts. Trims, edge treatments and embellishments on collars, hems, jacket fronts and more come into focus as you review her best picks in class.
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D52
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T273

Dress Well, Sew Easy
with Peggy Sagers
Today it's all about finishing a project quickly and wearing it often. Although life seems more complex than ever, with more activities and responsibilities competing for our time, we can actually wear items in our wardrobe more often than ever before, and be appropriately and well-dressed all the time. See how Peggy builds a wardrobe of looks with a core group of patterns, fabrics and details, creating the best-dressed looks for the upcoming seasons. Less really can be more!
Friday   1:00 – 2:00   K145

Easy Seam Pants Workshop
with Emma Seabrooke
Pants and capris with or without side seams are attractive, comfortable to wear and a cinch to sew up. Try on samples, get help adjusting your pattern, cut them out and then, using the best notions for knits, sew the garment together! See many sample garments, get ideas to create more, and leave class with your pants and the fitted pattern!
Wednesday   9:30 – 12:30   MDB400
Sewing Machine Necessary
Supply List
Limit 12
Cost: $85

Designer Tee Workshop
with Emma Seabrooke
Rather than tees that hang off your shoulders and look more like your husband’s cast offs than part of your wardrobe, spend a little time fitting a shirt just for you! Try on samples, cut out a pattern and have it fitted to you in class. You’ll make a tee without darts that fits really your body. See many sample tees with designer details along the way.
Wednesday   1:30 – 4:30   MDB500
Sewing Machine Necessary
Supply List
Limit 12
Cost: $70

Making Designer Tees
with Emma Seabrooke
Tired of over-embellished, unflattering, uninspired tee shirts? Discover ways to put fashion zing back into your next tee. Learn to fit your tee to the body – the essential first step in great tee shirts. Then explore treatments using lace, illusion, binding and ribbing, machine stitches for knits and more. There’s no more versatile garment than a truly great tee!
Thursday   10:30 – 11:30   B20
Saturday   2:00 – 3:00   T284

Skirting the Subject
with Emma Seabrooke
Learn to fit a skirt just for you that hangs straight and is just the right length! Discover flirty new styles, alternative stitching techniques, fabric combinations and your correct skirt lengths (yes, you’ll have more than one) as you see a trunk show of new skirts. The bonus: seeing how a piece of leftover fabric can become the perfect new skirt by eliminating side, center front or center back seams.
Thursday   1:00 – 2:00   C33

Sewing Sophisticated Knits
with Emma Seabrooke
Learn to construct a cardigan with buttonholes, zippers, center front closures and how to chevron the front closure. Discover cording, hemming, binding and stabilizing methods for the cardigan. Your garments will take on a very professional look!
Saturday   10:30 – 11:30   R241

Stretch Laces, Tiny Pleats, OH MY!
with Emma Seabrooke in the Sewing Spot
Enjoy the beauty of stretch laces and mini-pleated fabrics in your wardrobe when you know the best ways to approach them in your sewing studio. See a trunk-full of ideas as you put together a notebook of sewing techniques for stabilizing, creating great necklines, stitching perfect hems and more. Counts as 2 sessions. Materials Fee: $22. Limit 12.
Friday   6:30 – 9:00   N207 & P223

Secrets for Sewing with Slinky
with Emma Seabrooke in the Baby Lock Studio
One of the most popular knits to wear, Slinky can be a favorite at the sewing machine, too. Learn about choosing patterns, layout, pinning and cutting. Then, at the sewing machine, learn to stitch perfect seams (no ripples), stabilize shoulder seams, bind or apply ribbing to a neckline and hang a collar on Slinky. Lastly, create proper hems, including bias and sarong. You’ll create a collection of samples you’ll find indispensable in your sewing room! Counts as 3 sessions. Materials Fee: $22. Limit 20.
Friday   12:30 – 3:30   K151X & L167

Easy Seam Pants and Capris
with Emma Seabrooke
Whether your pants and capris have a side seam or not, these easy-seams are attractive and comfortable to wear. Learn to measure yourself, fit the pattern, see helpful notions for construction and best ways to cut and sew the garment together. They’re perfect for work, the beach or a special occasion, and fast and easy to make once you’ve discovered the secrets to their success (and yours).
Friday   10:30 – 11:30   J140

Cowl Scarf and Twisted Scarf
with Emma Seabrooke in the Sewing Spot
Make a cowl scarf AND a twisted scarf and have some fun along the way. No fitting required, and you’ll work with Slinky, stretch laces and various other knits. These quick accessories can update or change an outfit in just minutes. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 12.
Thursday   9:00 – 10:00   A15

Cuff ‘Em!
with Emma Seabrooke in the Sewing Spot
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Not even the fashion police use lace, ribbon and pretty buttons on their cuffs! Have fun making this elegant accessory, perfect for dressing up any jacket, cardigan or long-sleeved top. Materials Fee: $15. Limit 12.
Saturday   9:00 – 10:00   Q239

Inspiration and Art Wear
with Nancy Shriber
Sharing her inspirational trunk show of art wear, Nancy discusses the big questions we all confront: “What if . . . ?” and “How do I . . . ?”. As in “how do I start,” and “what if I get stuck, how do I finish”. Discover how she stays focused, resolves problems and uses a series of proven tools and techniques to move forward on her garments. See a few of the completed garments that presented Nancy with a challenge; discuss the stumbling blocks, what she considered doing about them and how she eventually worked around or through them.
Thursday   12:30 – 2:00   C44X

For the Love of Silk
with Nancy Shriber
Learn the language of love . . . for silk! Explore this all-season, versatile and oh-so-wonderful-to-work-with-and-wear fiber in a meaningful conversation: silk is strong and cooperative, flattering and fantastic to work with. It actually wants to be sewn and pressed and handled. So fabulous running through your hands, silk’s subtle charms can easily become addictive. Discuss and explore the types and weights of silk and learn why four-ply silk is considered the cream of the silk crop. Includes needle and thread basics, what to look for when buying silk, how to prepare and care for the fiber before and after it is sewn, seams and seam finishes and finishing details for using silk in fashion, accessories and art-to-wear projects. Many samples and language practice in class..
Thursday   2:30 – 3:30   D60

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

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

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