Sewing Club at Sew Images: You'll be up-to-date on the latest techniques and gadgets available.. Each monthly Saturday meeting features a lecture and demonstration of a specialized technique. Share your project ideas and skills with other club members and guests. In addition, just enjoy being with other sewers who enjoy sewing as much as you do! . Please see our schedule below. Materials may be required for some classes.
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | January 16 |
SERGER MAGIC If you only use your serger for seam finishes, you may want to know how you ca use your serger for other very special techniques. We will use all available attachments, presser feet and accessories, which make your Serging experience fun and easy.
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | February 20
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Sashiko Projects Sashido embroidery has be around for centuries. We've updated the technique with a sewing machine instead of by hand. Sashido by hand is a portable technique, but using a sewing machine or embroidery software is much faster. Create endless traditional Japanese stitches for borders, trims, framing and much more. Mix and match designs using your embroider software makes a project easy and painless. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | March 20
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Decorative Fabric & Fiber Weaving More interesting texture through weaving or sewn edge fabric can be achieved with your sewing machine or serger. Small areas suoch as yokes on clothing, table runners and instead of blocks for quilts, weave your block with interesting threads and embellishments. Learn how to accomplish a work of art through fabric weaving and texture. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | April 17
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Pillows - Designer Techniques Punching, Scribbling, Decorative Stitching by machine. No rules apply here. Color and texture is important to the final outcome of your project. Make your own trim, retrieve leftover bits and poieces of fabric and using different presser feet makes these techniquoes fun and interesting. You will learn how and when to use adhesives, interfacing, fusible fiber and buttons. After you learn how to construct a pillow, you can use these same designer techniques on other projects, such as clothing, quilting and home decorations. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-1:30 | May 15  |
EMBROIDERY TIPS & TRICKS You have been using your embroidery machine for a while, now it's time to fine tune your techniques. We will discuss issues with embroidery, how to solve annoying, tension issues, explore other digitizing techniques. If you do not own an embroidery machine, you may use these timps for embroidery on a non-module system.
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | June 19
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MAKING CIRCLES Sewing in circles does not have to be difficult. Make perfect circles to make coaster, ruffles, art objects and geometric designs for show on a project. Machine accessories, templates and circle objects can aid in making circles. You will need tools for that show stopping piece of art. If you are bored with just straight line sewing, try a circle or circles. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | July & August | NO MEETING |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | September 18 | WHAT'S NEWWhat's next? During the summer months, all sewing machine companies introduce new major changes in their line up of sewing machines, software and accessories. We will reeal all and any new developments coming in future announcements. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | October 16 | TBD Reserved for future topics, and projects. |
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | November 20 | GETTING READY FOR HOLIDAY SEWING! Holidays are always fun! Getting ready for it takes planning, especially if you are planning to entertain, give gifts and step out to a party on New Year's Eve. This class will give you ideas to adopt or the holidays.
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| Saturday | 10:30-12:30 | December 18 | Annual Holiday Party We love good food, bring your favorite dish and celebrate the hight lights of the season and sewing accomplishments. We will reveal new topics for the year 2011. Come and enjoy the festivities. |
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