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Sewing Machines Provided by

   Pre-Day 2010 Sit & Sew

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 9AM - 4:30PM
Call 1-800-547-4176, ext 2531, 2514 or 2511

Do you love to sit and sew all day? We invite you to sign up for these special, all day sit and sew classes with some of your favorite sewing teachers. Call now to pre-register with a credit card. Each class includes lunch, project kits, professional instruction and tons of fun. All machines provided by Baby Lock. Sign up now since these pre-day classes fill quickly and the registration is limited!

You must CALL to reserve a space in these classes.
Mail-in reservations for these pre-day classes cannot be accepted.

Carol Ahles & Hope Yoder
Wednesday, May 19 (Two 3 hour classes) – Fee $125
Lace-Edged Hemstitched Baby Blanket with Carol Ahles
Replicate the classic look of vintage baby linens as you make a beautiful Austrian Cashmere Cotton flannel baby blanket with hemstitched crochet-like lace edging. Learn a creative way to hemstitch lace while cording for strength, color and texture, as well as how to perfect hemstitching on flannel and while stitching curves. Most students finish this charming baby blanket in class! Hand or machine embroidery could easily be added later and what a perfect baby gift this would be! Blankets featured in Creative Needle Magazine, Nov/Dec ’01; hemstitching in the revised Fine Machine Sewing, Taunton Press 2001 & 2003.

Dreamy Madeira Pillowcase with Hope Yoder
The best of naps invites one to immerse herself into a crisp cotton pillowcase trimmed with delicate stitches and pretty Madeira borders. Create a beautiful pillowcase using fine sewing techniques and a few of Hope's favorite embellishments. As a lovely accent pillow, it will brighten up any room or it can be used for a new baby or bride's gift. The pillowcase includes a convenient covered button closure for added charm and functionality. Join Hope for this brand new workshop and be prepared to have learned many new and easy techniques as you leave with your own "Dreamy Madeira Pillowcase". Please visit www.HopeYoder.com for pictures and more details.

Missy Billingsley
Wednesday, May 19 (6 hour class) – Fee $125
Silk Dupioni Sewing Organizer
Silk dupioni is a rich fabric that comes in a rainbow of colors that for stitching a perfect picture of romance and femininity.  After spending this day with Missy, you will be beautifully organized with new silk dupioni sewing accessories. You will cherish the circular drawstring tote because of its beauty and practicality, and crazy quilting will be easier than ever when you learn how to do it using your embroidery machine.  After stitching your essential tote, you will complete your trio of sewing accessories with a beautiful scissor case, pin cushion and needle case with “crazy patch in-the-hoop”.

Lorene Bonewitz
Wednesday, May 19 (6 hour class) – Fee $125
“Boutique Chic” ~ Sew It Up!
Lorene Bonewitz is the creative force behind Sewitup.com, a website devoted to her custom designer kits for sewers. Come spend the day with her and create your own little girl’s dress complete with embellishments and full of special techniques. You’ll sit along side Lorene and learn how to shirr, create easy ruffles and learn her secrets of combining fabrics and trims in ways you’ve never dreamed! Dress sizes 2 to 8.

Louise Cutting
Wednesday, May 19 (6 hour class) – Fee $125
Cutting It Apart…
Let’s take different sections of a garment and learn the professional way to sew the details. Details tell the story when it comes to fashion sewing, and a foolproof system for creating them can easily be yours. Sewing all day long, you’ll execute each technique and create a workbook of samples. Create the best-looking collar band, sewn completely by machine. Add to your sewing bag of tricks as you learn an easy way to create a tab front on a shirt…clean finished inside and out, a “cool” collar with foolproof corner edge stitching, a balanced couture double ended designer dart, a rolled designer couture hem and much more…all the elements necessary for great garments and time efficiency in your home studio. Gain complete confidence in your abilities, both technical and artistic for all parts of your garment. Discover notions and feet that help you become unerringly accurate. Learn trimming and shaping secrets for smooth, bulk free corners and curves. The bonus: discussions taking place throughout the day will add to your sewing ambitions and fashion sense.

Kathy Ruddy
Wednesday, May 19 (6 hour class) – Fee $125
Serger 911
Spend a day serging with Kathy Ruddy and go home with a clear understanding of how Sergers work. Kathy, the creator of 5 Serger videos, will teach you a sequential tension formula that works on any Serger model for every thread type and with all kinds of fabrics. Learn about Serger burrs and Serger width and how they affect the character of your stitches, especially when using the rolled-edge stitch. Learn about differential feed and Lyra. Wipe away the mystery of Serger tension forever! Begin your day with pre-cut fabric pieces and leave with completed technique samples for a Serger pocket, 10 minute tank top, Serger jacket and the sequential tension formula. **You may want to bring your own serger so you can learn the tension formula for it or a Baby Lock Serger will be provided for the class.

Emma Seabrooke
Wednesday, May 19 (Two 3 hour classes) – Fee $125
Drafting New Designer Tees
Has your old tee become boring? Have you seen a neckline you wish you could imitate? You can change boring to new and interesting and you can imitate that neckline you saw. Come to Emma’s class where she will show you her easy ways to vary tee necklines while using her extensive color instructions that show several different ways to make changes. You can also learn to create a tee dress, as well as an empire tee or empire tee dress that actually sits in the right place. If you have a garment that you would like to recreate, bring it or a picture too. Change is good!!!

Ahh Sleeves!
What a difference a sleeve can make. Learn to enlarge the sleeve to fit your arm and how to add a bit of spice to the same ole sleeve. Learn to make changes on set-in or raglan sleeves plus how to make the drafting changes without changing the whole pattern. Create with colorful and informative instructions that show you several examples and provide you with the confidence to create some of your own ideas or duplicate those you have seen. Come learn some fun styles and bring ideas with you.