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Technologically Speaking...
From computerized sewing machines to the internet, all kinds of technology can have a big impact on your sewing. Keep up with the latest at the Expo!

Image Magic
with Katie Bartz
Discover creative magic when you learn to manipulate images on your computer – fabric prints, children’s artwork, photographs, clip art . . . anything you can scan or print qualifies. See great ways to use the images for more creative scrapbook pages, memory quilts, custom home décor projects and more artful clothing. Explore adding machine embroidery stitches to enhance or even replace the image for more incredible artistic effects.
Friday   2:30 – 3:30   L162

Photoshop Elements 6.0
with Katie Bartz
You asked for it and we listened!!! Printing digital images on fabric and paper can be a big part of the creative process when you know how to manipulate them on the computer first.Your projects will stand out and look more polished when you spend a day learning Photoshop Elements 6.0 with Katie. See how the newest software can unleash your creativity and satisfy your artistic desires! It's a perfect workshop for business needs, cardmaking, art and memory quilts, digital scrapbooking, digitized and free-motion machine embroidery and all types of embellishment, which take on unlimited options when you print images exactly as you want them to appear. Make one-of-a-kind memories on the first try! Learn to whiten teeth, remove unwanted backgrounds or red-eye, enhance eye color, minimize wrinkles and lose 20 pounds if that's how you'd like your portrait to appear. Discover artistic filters, enhance images by adding text, frames, brushed edges and brighten color for printing. See a demonstration on colorizing black and white photos and removing yellow from your "older" scanned photo stash. Learn how easy it is to crop and resize images so there is no pixilation when enlarging. Practice taking an element from one photo and adding it to another. Just imagine making quilted postcards with original artwork, photos, personal messages. All this and more is just a mouse-click or pen-stroke away. Leave class with a Photoshop Elements workbook for reference, a multitude of ideas and the confidence to use all kinds of images in your fabric and paper projects. It's time to take your photos up a notch and learn what the professionals do! Must be comfortable with Windows applications and using a mouse (or Pen Pad).
Wednesday   10:00 – 4:30   MDB700
Supply List
Limit 30
Cost: $225

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

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

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