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2011 Sew Easy
Sewing and Embroidery Retreat
at the
3800 South Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502-6191
July 17 - July 21, 2011
RAY’S SEWING MACHINE CENTER
Presents
JANOME & ELNA
This retreat is especially for Janome & Elna Embroidery Machine Owners! This retreat is a
consumer development show, open to quilters, sewers, embroiderers and those who want to
become educators. The sessions feature talented educators, software designers and authors
who are well-known in the sewing industry. These instructors will be sharing techniques
and personal tips while participants work on projects designed to help them use their
machines to their fullest potential.
Registration: Participant Registration & Support Sunday, 3 pm – 6 pm and Mon-Thurs, 7:45 am – 8:15 am Reception: Sunday Evening, 7:00 pm Opening Hat Competition (bring a hat from home that YOU made, embroidered, or
decorated) Sessions: Sewing, Quilting, Embroidery and Digitizing Lunches: Provided Daily Shopping: Vendors Exhibits Open Daily Competitions: Embroidery & Sewing Competitions Patriotic Ball: Thursday Evening Cocktails at 7:00 pm Dinner at 7:30 pm Final Parade Competition – Individual Projects
Events
545 Meridian Ave, Suite F San Jose, CA 95126
(408) 295-6901
A Patriotic Celebration
Session Fee, Due Dates: Deposit of $150 is due with your Session Registration Form by June 15, 2011. Your final payment is due by July 15, 2011 Select your Sessions and return with your registration form. Registration Packet includes:
• Your Sessions Schedule • ATA PC card or USB Memory Stick • Lunch Vouchers • Raffle Tickets
Required Sewing Items: Janome Memory Craft Embroidery Machine or Elna Embroidery Machine with the following accessories:
• Embroidery Foot (P) • All other standard feet • All hoops • Machine needles • Threaded bobbins • Empty bobbins • Hand sewing needles • Fabric shears • Paper & Embroidery scissors
• Rotary cutter • 24” ruler • Small cutting mat • Straight pins • Seam ripper • Seam gauge • Tweezers • Fray check
Required Computer Supplies: • Laptop computer with Janome software • Digitizer, Elna including dongle (Don’t forget your
DONGLE) and/or Customizer and an ATA PC card and adapter, extra CD’s or USB Memory Sticks for 11000 for storage, wired external mouse.
Other Important Information: Participants must provide their own sewing
machines. Notebooks, pens and paper will be
provided at Participant Registration & Support.
Participants will receive one raffle ticket at lunch and must be present to win.
Be sure to check the Daily Announcements Board at Participant Registration & Support.
If you need assistance moving your supplies from Session to Session, please be sure to make arrangements with the Retreat Staff at the Participant Registration & Support.
Sessions are designed for all skill levels. Sessions are filled on a first-registered, first-
served basis up to the maximum participant level of 18, unless otherwise noted in Session descriptions. If a session is full, participants will be placed in their next choice session.
Sessions with enrollment of less than 8 will be cancelled.
Tell us who you would like to be in your sewing group. We’ll do our best to keep you together throughout the week.
Open Project
Competition Select your favorite project from your sessions and
embellish it with item you brought from home –
embroidery designs, buttons, beads, trim, etc. or purchase
supplies from vendors. Wear or bring your finished project
to the Final Evening Dinner Party and compete for the
following:
Best Embroidery
Best Embellishments
Most Creative Overall Thursday, July 21th
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
BOBBI BULLARD
Bullard Designs [email protected]
Award winning Bobbi Bullard is known for her wearable art that’s really wearable!
She has developed unique methods for individualizing garments with a variety of
embellishment techniques and new ways of using machine embroidery. She has been
entertaining sewing enthusiasts for years, teaching around the country, inspiring
people wherever she goes. She is a contributing editor for Embroidery Journal and
Designs in Machine Embroidery and has written for Quiltmaker, Threads, Fitting
Tips and Total Embellishment Newsletter and contributes to ASG’s Notions.
MARY JO GABEL www.sergeandsewwithmaryjo.com Gabel Enterprises
Mary Jo Gabel has developed and successfully taught serger sewing classes for the past
twenty-one years. In her hands on classes she has worked with all makes and models of
sergers. She has put together a series of serger instructional DVDs to share her knowledge
with home sewers everywhere. Her step-by-step instructions can be followed by the novice
sewer and/or the accomplished seamstress. The great close ups in all of her dvds make for
private lessons in your own home!
Mary Jo's knowledge of the serger and her gift to teach makes this series of serger instructional
DVDs a must have for those who wish to get the most from their home sergers. She holds a
B.S. Degress in Home Economics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo. For the past thirty years, she has taught all aspects and levels of sewing: community
college, adult education, College for Kids and 4-H programs. At present she teaches at Allan
Hancock College in Santa Maria and for the Lucia Mar Adult Education program in Arroyo
Grande, California as well as teaches at sewing shows and for sewing groups.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
GAY GERLACK Sewabration www.sewabration.com
Gay Gerlack, Martinez, California, is the owner of Sewabration. She has a line of patterns
and booklets, and is available to teach and/or speak at educational seminars. She is a
member of the Sewing Educators Alliance and the American Sewing Guild.
Gay has taught for the Original Creative Festivals, San Mateo, CA, Reno, NV and Tucson,
AZ; the International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX; the Sewing and Stitchery Expo,
Puyallup, WA; the International Embroidery Conference, Columbus, IN; the Creative
Embroidery Conference, Las Vegas, NV; the Machine Enthusiasts Embroidery Conference,
Las Vegas, NV and Phoenix, AZ, the Janome Sew Easy Retreat, Reno, NV and South Lake
Tahoe, NV; the Sparkle Cruise; the Sew, Quilt and Embroidery Festivals, various locations;
the Valley Stitcher’s Guild, Walnut Creek, CA; an independent two-day retreat in Indiana;
various chapters of the American Sewing Guild and a variety of sewing centers. Gay was
the key note speaker for the Indianapolis, IN Chapter of the American Sewing Guild in
November, 2009.
Her designs have been featured in Threads Magazine, Sew Stylish Magazine, Designs in
Machine Embroidery, and the Embroidery Journal. She has also written articles for Pattern
Review.
Gay is now semi-retired and will donate her teaching skills on a “as time permits” basis. If
your group would like to make arrangements for a FREE class or seminar contact Gay at
[email protected] for details and arrangements.
The classes and projects are part of a simplified sewing series designed to make sewing
fast, fun and creative…a Sewabration!
CINDY LOSEKAMP Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.
JACKI MCNEIL
Jacalyns Joys www.jacalynsjoys.com
Jacki has been sewing for 16 years. She loves quilting, home decorator projects, wearable art
and sewing for her grandchildren. She is active with the American Sewing Guild, Placerville
Gold Country Chapter. Jacki’s goal for her students is that they leave each class with a sense of
joy knowing that they have successfully completed their projects.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
DINI Momo-Dini Embroidery Art www.momodini.com
Momo & Dini are sisters who come from Beijing, China. Their artistry has been recognized in both China & International competitions, in which their paintings were praised with many awards. Not only are they breathtaking artists, but they chose to pass on their talents and knowledge to students as professors. Dini taught at Fine Arts Institute of Northeast Normal University and Momo taught at the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing. The aim of Mom-Dini’s Embroidery Art is to produce the best designs with the highest standards and quality control. Their embroidery artistic mission encompasses the complex movement of merging the different cultures of the East and the West to give embroidery a new life and energy. Since Mono and Dini have exquisite computer literacy, they created their design patterns and digitize them themselves. Beautifully crafted embroidery designs configured from Momo-Dini do not only have intricate patterns, but they also radiate with musical and poetic inspiration, which sweet dreams are being dreamed. The fine lines, the satins, the different stitches of their designs are not merely elements showing compositional skills, but also reflect their ability to communicate their artistic truth.
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Is a fun and enlightening teacher known for her incredible amount of samples and ingenious
way of creating. She has written numerous books and patterns and created many beautiful
embroidery design CD's. Cindy has been creating her entire life. She started learning at her
Grandmother’s knee and then continued at singer sewing classes and in 4-H. Cindy also is
known for her ultra creative ideas and methods for using embroidery machines and the
decorative stitches that most people never use. Cindy has been a guest on many of the popular
TV shows and she has traveled extensively. Her love of sewing, crocheting, embroidering and
painting is the driving force behind her company, Sew Artfully Yours.
You will enjoy learning from this exciting and empowering sewing personality
A former technical writer and instructional designer, Connie Mantini has won awards for
designing and developing courses and guides that explain complex technical concepts in a way
to make them easily understood. She worked for many years in Silicon Valley, CA where she
wrote and presented instructional materials for high-tech firms. Learning sewing skills as a child
from her mother, she has been sewing for years and began quilting more than 10 years ago as a
way to use up her sewing scraps. Uniquely qualified to create this book (Shatter and Sew!), she
spent six-years researching and exploring this technique. She aimed this book to those who
appreciate the fabric arts. Shatter and Sew! has been selected as an Editor's Pick by McCalls
Quilting magazine and Staff Pick by Quitler's Newsletter magazine.
Momo and Dini’s designs have been thoroughly tested to produce impeccable results that allow customers to purely enjoy the embroidery itself by diverging them from the frustrations of constant adjustments. Their products will resonate within you and your lifestyles. With Momo-Dini’s designs you can uplift your homes atmosphere by using their designs on your pillows, curtains, drapery, table cloths, bed sheets, nightgowns, fashion clothing, and anything your imagination can conjure up. Although their designs are for home décor, it will eventually become a vital part of enjoying your life.
CONNIE MANTINI
Shatter and Sew
CAROL MCKINNEY
Janome America
Carol McKinney is an educator for Janome America. Ever since she taught herself to
sew, Carol has been perfecting her skills. She went from making clothing for herself
and her family to designing and marketing wearable art vest patterns and teaching
classes on the appliqué cut-work construction. In 1997 she won first prize in the Sulky
Challenge and had projects featured in two Sulky concepts books. In 1996 Shirley
Adams featured Carol’s Cherokee Nations vest on her program. Two of her Peek-a-
Boo Pleats garments were included in Serger Art by Diane Bossom, published in
1997. In 2002 Threads Magazine featured her machine embroidery lace technique.
Carol has had numerous projects featured in Janome Digest, is a contributor to
Creative Sewing Techniques by Machine, and has taught at Janome Institute three
times.
MARGO SHAW
Janome America
Margo Shaw lives in Rockvale, TN, just south of Nashville. She has taught at
Janome Institute, AQS Quilt Show Paducah, other quilt shows and dealerships
across the country. Her work has been featured several times in Janome
Digest Sewist Showcase. This garment sewer from the South also delights in
making dolls and unique articles of home decor.
VALORA HAMMOND
Janome America [email protected]
Valora Hammond joined Janome America in 2002. She started sewing when
she was 8 years old. She has been doing custom sewing since she was in high
school, expanding to creating garments for contests, stage, and special
occasions. She is a graduate of Colorado State University with a secondary
teaching degree major and a minor in apparel production. She loves to share
her passion and enthusiasm in a classroom setting, allowing the consumer a
chance to grow with their art. Valora is a contributor to Creative Sewing
Techniques by Machine.
JANOME INSTRUCTORS
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Stitch & Bag Session BB101 8 hours
Spend some quality time with your embroidery machine and stitch up a
beautiful and useful totebag.
Tired of totebags that only hold things when they’re upright? This tote
has a drawstring top as well as a lot of style. Easy to make, finished
inside and out, this tote can do service as a purse or just hold your most
important items. You will stitch out an elegant and graceful design from
renowned digitizer, Bobbi Bullard. Then Bobbi will guide you into
putting together the Yamaguchi Tote Bag using her tips and techniques
Sessions with Bobbi
The R Words Session BB102 8 hours
"I never thought that that could look like that!" Back by popular demand! Everyone who took this class last year asked if Bobbi would give
it again. This is one class that’s fun to take over and over again. There’s always something
new for you to do!
Be frugal and green! Learn to use your embroidery machine, embellishment tools you
already own, and your artistic mind to rework a denim jacket. Bring a denim jacket from
the thrift store or that forgotten part of your closet to class and we’ll transform it into a
work of art that you’ll want to wear with everything. We’ll begin by embroidering designs
on separate pieces of fabric. Next we’ll insert the embroidered piece into the jackets.
You’ll learn a variety of embellishments and then choose which ones to add to your
personal work of art. In addition to creating your own master piece you’ll enjoy a parade
of samples, a compendium of ideas, and detailed instructions for some of the projects.
Learn to take the old, the plain, the buyer's remorse items, and re-work them to make them
spectacular. You can look at the picture for an idea, but everyone’s finished work will be
unique.
Full Day
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Supply list:
• Bring a denim jacket that fits to the class as well as embroidery thread and basic sewing
supplies. Bobbi will supply everything else including embroidery designs for your use.
Consider visiting a thrift store for your jacket, then you won’t be shy about trying new
techniques on it.
(Yes, I gave this last year but the people in the class asked me to give it again)
Sessions with Bobbi
Luxury Personified: The Scarf Class
Indulge yourself, unleash your inner hedonist . Create a luscious silk
scarf finished with cutwork ends created on the embroidery
machine. And.. you'll finish your project in class!
Learn the skill of machine embroidery cutwork while creating this
work of art. You'll want to make one for everyone you know.
Spend a day at a sew-in and go home with a new, splendid silk scarf.
Quicky /Quirky Casserole Carrier: Session BB104 4 hours
Practical, beautiful and fun! This casserole carrier is quick to
make. Whip one up to carry your dish to your next pot luck and
leave the carrier as a hostess gift! No one will know how easy it
was for you to make! So easy that you’ll finish one in a single
morning! It’s a sew-in with a great end product!
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Bobbi Bullard, queen of machine embroidery, is offering a crash course to elevate your machine
embroidering to the next level of expertise. The course starts with color theory for embroiderers
and follows with the importance of the thread path, how to succeed with metallic threads, and the
perfect formula for perfect stitch-outs. You'll be an expert at perfect hooping by the end of the class
using Bobbi's special tricks. And Bobbi will share her amazingly simple way to get perfect
placement; whether for multi-hoop designs, continuous designs or just to get your design precisely
where you want it. Want the truth about stabilizing? Cover it with Bobbi who will tell you in an
unbiased way which stabilizers to use when. Lastly, you will look at the big picture: how to arrange
designs aesthetically for the most eye-catching projects. The class includes the theory behind good
embroidery with samples of each technique; a smorgasbord of information and inspiration.
Success Factors Session BB105 2 hour evening
How to Make Your Machine Embroidery Easier & More Successful
Session BB103 4 hours
Sessions with Dini
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Elusive, delicate, whispy . . . .dragonflies and the georgette they’re
embroidered upon are each known for these beautiful but challenging
characteristics. Discover how to create nearly reversible embroideries on
sheer fabrics and leave class with a glorious, feminine scarf to wear in a
multitude of ways. Learn to hoop sheer, drapey and delicate fabrics, and
leave with confidence to embroider on them at home.
Dragonflies Session MD101 4 hours
Soft, Reversible 100% wool scarf:
For years people have asked Dini for her secrets to impossibly soft
embroideries. Time for the answers! Get these results yourself on a soft
wool scarf. Prerequisite: Embroidery experience.
Butterfly Scarf Session MD102 4 hours
Hands-on Class
Silk umbrella with 100% UV protection from sun
Discover new excitement in your embroidery skills with this
unusual and whimsical project: an umbrella! You'll learn to
prepare the umbrella for embroidery; embroider one of Dini's
wonderful 'reversible' designs; and finish with style.
Leap Frogs Session MD103 4 hours
Kit Contains:
• 1-Silk Umbrella with 100% UV protection from sun
• 1-Ribbit! Ribbit! Embroidery design
• WET N MELT Stabilizer
Sessions with Dini
For years, people have asked Momo-Dini for secrets about the unbelievable soft, elegant embroidery
designs.
How to make beautiful embroidery designs;
Why are they named Embroidery Art;
How to choose threads color to match with fabrics;
How you can make a project soft;
How to make embroidery on soft delicate wool sweaters;
How to make embroidery on sleeves;
How to make design on collars;
All these questions and more will be answered here.
Beautiful Embroidery Session MD105 2 hours seminar
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Something Without Stabilizer:
Elegant embroidery chosen to compliment the woven jacquard fabric
is completed completely without stabilizers! Learn when stabilizing
is unnecessary, how to choose designs and fabrics for more “thread
only” projects and complete your beautiful embroidery in the
process. Counts as 3-4 sessions.
Table Cloth Session MD104 4 hours
Sessions with Cindy
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Two Hour Jacket…then We Embroider! Session CL201 4 hours
Floral Elegance Hand Bag Session CL202 4 hours
Bring your favorite piece of fabric and leave with an awesome jacket! This is
square construction but the finished jacket is anything but square! You can
come early on Sunday and cut out your jacket before the class. Take it to all
the classes and embellish on it or add your embellishments in your room so
you can compete in the Thursday night festivities. Bring a little extra fabric
and use it to make your Floral Elegance Hand Bag so you will have one
amazing outfit! :o)
Make this gorgeous bag to complement your Lola jacket and you will be ready for the evening festivities!
We will cut out your bag and then begin the embroidered flap. You’ll be doing dimensional embroidery
and then we’ll assemble the bag. It’s a snap and you will love making this one and many more for gifts
because you get the pattern in the class! :o)
Stuffed Embroidery Session CL203 4 hours Cindy has developed a different kind of applique embroidery that gives an amazing dimensional
quality unlike any you’ve seen. You will use yarns, wool felts, fiber, roving…all the cool stuff
you’ve bought but haven’t gotten around to using. Since developing this technique, she has created
new collections of simple and quick designs so you can be Über-creative in just a moment of time.
These sew so quick you won’t believe it. Add these to your other collections and do embroideries
along with the new “Stuffed Embroidery” for unique creations. Join us and see what the “Stuffs”
about! :o)
This is a totally different method for dyeing fabric. You will get mottling and strong color in this class
since we will be using procion dyes. So don’t think you’ve done it before…this is different and can be
used for dyeing other types of fabric…not just silk. If you want…you can even dye your jacket! :o)
Dyeing cloth is an age old passion. Even if you’ve tried it before or you are just the slightest bit
interested in how it’s done…you will love this “hands on” excursion into the world of dye. Our project
is a silk scarf…beautiful in its own right but we will enhance it with color. We’ll be using procion dyes
for an amazing vibrancy you just can’t get with other types of dye. Cindy will lead you through the
process of mixing the dye, making the solutions and helping you to dye one scarf. If you love it…then
you can get more scarves to dye in class. Everything will be mixed up…all you have to do is pick
your colors! This is a great way to experience the excitement and fulfillment dyeing fabric brings.
Cindy gives you the stepping stones to dyeing your own fabric for garments and quilts. Truly Exciting
Sessions with Cindy
Cut And Paste Collage Session CL205 4 hours
What comes first…the collage or the shirt? You will find that
each process will lead naturally to the next, from initial concept
and fabric selection to surface design, stitching, fusing and
embellishing. You will love creating your one of a kind
masterpiece with Cindy’s kind and gentle encouragement. You’ll
have your choice of several kit combinations. Bring a denim,
linen or cotton shirt, or even a jacket that needs some
embellishing. Bring your favorite bits…not too many…just a
few to make it your own. Simple stitching and a little
embroidery make your work come alive! Come and join in the
fun! :o)
DYE ONE ON Session CL204 2 hour Evening
Creating Your Own Silk Screens In 30 Minutes Or Less
Session CL206 2 hours Evening Cindy will show you how easy it is to make your own silkscreens using the sun or a light box. You
don’t need lots of equipment to create long lasting screens. Use your own art, clipart, or geometric
shapes to create your “one of a kind” silk screens. After you create your screen, you will be able to use
it to silk screen on a linen hand towel. Cindy has the blank screens to create more after class or the
already completed screens should you just want to “use em”, not “make em”.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Phoebe Lucille Vintage Linen Appliqué Pillow Session CL207 2 hours Evening
Sessions with Cindy
With vintage linens as its inspiration, Cindy’s embroidered
appliqué design and a hemstitched tablerunner work
perfectly to deliver this simple, elegant envelope pillow.
Hooped embroidery makes detailed appliqué designs a
breeze; material and design choices create the illusion of
linens from grandmother’s closet.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Sessions with Gay
This wallet can be used as a checkbook cover, has six slots for credit cards, and has
two deep side pockets for “lots of cash”. The kits will have a variety of fabrics
available. A free pattern for the projects is included.
Wallet / Checkbook / Credit Card Holder
Session GG101 2 hours
Anything Bags Session GG102 2hours
The kits come in a variety of sizes and fabrics. They are quick and
very easy to sew and are the perfect project to make one for yourself
and one for our troops. A free pattern for the project is included.
Large Reversible Purse Session GG103 4 hours
This roomy purse is approximately 9” X 12” and has a double pocket, perfect
for a cell phone on one side and a handy place for your keys in the other. The
kits will include a “designer” fabric that will be pieced for one side and the
reversible side will be a solid fabric that can be embroidered or embellished. A
free pattern for the project is included. Four Hours class
Rolled Thread Session MG101 2 hours
Come learn the proper adjustments to achieve that perfect rolled hem. You will be making a set of six
napkins as well as a fun and simple Japanese tote bag that you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Kit includes:
• precut fabrics for the napkins and the bag as well as one woolly nylon thread.
Bring to class:
• Tweezers
• Small sewing supplies: pins, scissors, etc.
• Two cones of dark serger thread
Thread Scarf (using the Cover Pro 1000) Session MG102 2 hours
In this hands-on class we will be using Janome’s Cover Pro 1000. We will be
making an all thread scarf. Mary Jo will also show you threading the cover
stitch as well as tips for hemming, etc. If you own the Cover Pro or are
thinking you might like to own one, join this class and you will be glad you did.
Kit includes:
• Stabilizer and a decorative thread.
Bring to class:
• Four different colors of embroidery threads (your color choice)
• Small sewing supplies to include: pins, scissors, etc.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Sergers are provided by Ray’s Machine Sewing Center
Do not bring your sewing machine to this session
Sessions with Mary Jo
Cover Pro are provided by Ray’s Machine Sewing Center
Do not bring your sewing machine to this session
Scarves and More Scarves Session MG103 2 hours
Hands on class with sergers provided by Ray’s Sewing Center
Kit will include all precut fabrics for the infinite scarf, a cowl bias cut scarf, and others.
Scarves are a popular way to accessorize any time of the year. We will be making a variety of scarves. You’ll
want to make them for gifts and to update that favorite outfit. The infinite scarf is so popular as well as the bias-
cut cowl scarf, the flouce sheer scarf and Mary Jo will have others to share with you. We will be using the
balanced overlock stitch as well as the rolled hem in this class.
Bring to class:
• Tweezers
• Small sewing supplies: pins, scissors, etc.
• Two cones of dark serger thread
Sessions with Mary Jo
Serge A T-Shirt Session MG105 4 hours
Master the Cover Pro:
We will be making a t-shirt from cutting it out to finishing your hems with
the Cover Pro. Fabric will be provided, however if you want to bring your
own fabric please bring 1½ yards of a suitable knit fabric (prewashed).
Students need to bring along (do not wear it) a t-shirt or knit top that they
like the fit. Using measurements from that shirt, you will determine which
size to make from a master pattern, cut out and construct a t-shirt. Your
shirt will have a crew neck, a lowered neckline or a V-neckline using self
fabric for the ribbing.
Pretty Party Bag Session MG104 4 hours
This cute little lined bag will teach you the fun things you can do with the
serger. To make this bag, students will use a decorative thread to do a wide
wrapped stitch, flatlocking, and a rolled hem in addition to the basic balanced
stitch. You will also be serging over fishing line to make a sheer, edged and
gathered flower for the bag. This is the perfect project to learn all the
capabilities of the serger and produce a bag that everyone will want.
Four hour class - (Intermediate to Advanced)
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Cover Pros are provided by Ray’s Machine Sewing Center
Do not bring your sewing machine to this session
Sergers are provided by Ray’s Machine Sewing Center
Do not bring your sewing machine to this session
Kit includes:
• All precut fabrics and lining
• A decorative thread.
Bring to class:
• Tweezers
• Small sewing supplies: pins, scissors, etc.
• Two cones of dark serger thread
Bring to class:
• Two cones of dark thread or if you are bringing your own fabric, two cones to match or
blend with your fabric
• Small sewing supplies to include: pins, scissors, thread scissors, tape measure, pencil
Basic Serger Techniques Session MG107 4 hour class
Sessions with Mary Jo
In this hands-on class, you will leave knowing more about the serger than you ever thought you would.
Mary Jo will take you through proper threading techniques, adjusting tensions for a balanced overlock
stitch using serger thread and woolly nylon, turning corners (inside and outside), differential feed, as well
as adjusting for a rolled hem. This will take you to new levels with your serger. She will have tension
sheets for you to write down your settings along with your samples. A must have serger class.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Sergers are provided by Ray’s Machine Sewing Center
Do not bring your sewing machine to this session
In this hands-on class we will be using Janome’s sergers to make the
jacket. Each student will need to bring a t-shirt that you like the fit (do not
wear the shirt) or your favorite t-shirt pattern. We will be changing a t-
shirt pattern to make the jacket. You can use this jacket to embellish for
the contest or just make it to enjoy wearing with your favorite jeans,
palazzo pants or that little black dress!! You will want to make one in
every color!
Jacket Fun Session MG106 4 hours
Kit will include
• Fabric (and a pattern we will alter), and the pattern paper for making the new pattern for this
fun jacket.
Bring:
• Three dark colors of serger thread, rotary cutter or dressmaker shears, a t-shirt that you like
the fit or your favorite t-shirt pattern
• Small sewing supplies to include: pins, scissors, fabric marker or chalk marker, pencil,
paper scissors
Bring:
• Two different colors of cone thread (not white)
• One cone of woolly nylon
• Small sewing supplies to include: pins, scissors,
etc.
Sessions with Jackie
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
BOOK SYNOPSIS Shatter and Sew! introduces the Shattered Image™ technique, which is a
way to cut identical images into squares, and re-arrange them to create a
new image with the illusion of movement, expansion, or magnification. This
book introduces people to the Canadian award-winning designer Ellen
Adams who passed away in 2001. It:
• Describes the technique and provides proven instructions for 3
technique variations: 4, 9, and 16 repeats (simple to the complex)
• Gives you proven, step-by-step instructions with illustrations.
Presents a variety of projects in different motifs, to see what does and does
not work!
Sessions with Connie Mantini
Shatter and Sew Placemat Session CM101 6 hours
Introducing the Shattered Image™ Technique
Project at a standstill? Get your designs moving! Learn how to
shatter an image to create an illusion of movement, expansion, or
magnification. Shatter and Sew! introduces the Shattered Image
technique, which is a way to cut identical images into squares, and
re-arrange them to create a new image that appears to move. This
workshop introduces you to the basic 4-repeat technique and to the
Canadian, award-winning designer Ellen Adams, who developed
and named her technique. See the various ways you can impress
your friends by incorporating this technique into sewing and
quilting projects.
Our troops make sacrifices that most of us can hardly imagine. They leave
behind their friends and family and put their lives on the line for us every day. That's why we work so hard to share a touch of home with them wherever they serve. Come join Jackie and make a donation gift for our troops. These masks will help keep the daylight out, as they work around the clock and share quarters with those still on duty. All the materials will be provided, so just bring your machine.
A gift for our Troops Session JM301 2 hours & 2 hour Evening
The doily class
You will look at those built in decorative stitches in a
totally different way. Who knew you can make lace using
these stitches? We are using the circular sewing attachment
for this project, and it will be provided in class
Sessions with Carol
Round & Round We Go Session CM201 4 hours
This is a smaller scale of the Quilted Centerpiece in
“Creative Sewing Techniques” You will be paper piecing,
making your own pleater to pleat a strip of fabric, and use
piping to keep from sewing any curved seams.
Make a “fabric” overlay using yarn, thread, and water soluble to
embellish a plain shirt. The panels will jazz up a plain denim shirt. We
will accomplish this using free motion.
*please bring a denim shirt in any color
Goose Me Session CM202 8 hours
Jazz It Up Session CM203 4 hours
We are embellishing a plain shirt with appliqué. Using the ruffler
to pleat fabric strips, and the hemline uses bias fabric strips shaped
into a Celtic design, cut away background fabric and satin stitch
the edges.
Celtic Cutwork Session CM204 8 hours
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Digitizer for Beginners Session VH401 8 hours
Sessions with Valora
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Want to know what else Digitizer can do? Come find out how to take a
design and enlarge it and make it work in the Macrohoop or Gigahoop. Plus
you will learn all the new features of Digitizer v.3. We will work with
lettering and some advanced digitizing techniques.
Class requirements: Computer, Digitizer ProMB installed on your
computer, Digitizer dongle and an auxiliary mouse (not wireless!)
Digitizer MB-Advanced Session VH402 8 hours
Come find out the power of Digitizer, how to enlarge a design to
picking a design apart. Learn the icons so that you can use the
program when you get home. You will also find out why all designs
are not created equal when you enlarge or reduce.
Class requirements: Computer, Digitizer installed on your computer,
Digitizer dongle and an auxiliary mouse (not wireless!)
Sessions with Margo
Diamond Pillow ©
Session MS101 4 hours
If the glimpse of a brilliant diamond doesn’t get your attention
perhaps the ease of creating your own will. This genuine, 4-
carat diamond harbors a secret technique; four circles stitched
in a unique fashion taking us straight to the gem without all the
fuss. This beautiful pillow cover, “set” with a girl’s best friend,
easily slips into an 11” x 14” pillow form with ties on either
end. Your 4-carat diamond pillow, adorned with a decorative
button and tassel, is sure to inspire a conversation and provide a
sparkle to your surroundings.
I would be delighted to have you join me in this no-fuss
diamond hunt . . . actually; we’ll skip the hunt and indulge in
our real passion which is sewing.
Sessions with Valora Hammond
Artistic Sewing Suite Session VH403 8 hours
Take your designs to a new level with the Artistic
Sewing Suite. This unique program allows you complete creative
freedom – and the ability to control many different facets of sewing
and embroidery with one comprehensive product. The Artistic
Sewing Suite is an exclusive software bundle that allows you to
unite all of your sewing loves – and explore new ones! Applique,
cutwork, embroidery, quilting, decorative stitching, heat transfer,
and more.
Great for beginners, this software makes design creation easy – but
still allows you to get powerful and professional results. With 3,500
built-in designs, you can get started right out of the box.
• Easily convert True Type Fonts to stitch out or cut for appliqué.
• Use the cutting needles to turn your embroidery machine into an
amazing new tool – cut out intricate appliqué or quilting shapes, or
use the cutting needles to save time on a variety of applications –
from crafting to scrapbooking
• Over 350 built-in stitch patterns allow you to create unique effects
on your appliqué and quilting projects.
• The unique Heat Transfer tool allows you to take any artwork and
iron it onto fabric – you can even add embroidery accents to the heat
transfer image right in the program.
• Can be used in conjunction with a variety of other
computer programs – from Quilt Layout to Quilt
Finishing, other digitizing programs, even use your web
cam to import designs! It’s versatile enough to keep
creating easy.
• The Artistic Sewing Suite has a powerful graphics
program built into the software, so you can edit,
manipulate, and personalize artwork from anywhere,
including a webcam, and then turn it into the perfect
accent for your next sewing project.
• Crafters will love the cutting capability! It can be used
with a wide range of substances, from felt to foam to
balsa wood for cutting any shape you can imagine.
• Reverse appliqué is easy with the Artistic Sewing
Suite – no more tedious cutting! Don’t worry about
small corners and intricate designs - let your
embroidery machine do the work.
• Combine traditional and reverse appliqué with
embroidery designs with just a few mouse clicks.
Elegant and innovative design is that easy.
• Use with virtually all brands or styles of embroidery
machine.
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
• Note: Demo software will be provided
• Just bring your laptop
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Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat ~ Redefining the Art of Sewing
Sunday, July 17 – Thursday, July 21, 2011
2011 Registration Form
Mail Registration Form with deposit before June 15, 2011
to:
Ray’s Sewing Machine Center
545 Meridian Ave, Suite F
San Jose, CA 95126
Questions? Call Lindsay at Ray’s 408-295-6901
Or email [email protected]
Sign me up! 3 Days ~$599 4 Days ~ $699
$150 non-refundable deposit due 6/15/11 Final Payment due 7/15/11
Tuition discount available for ages 12-17. Call Ray’s! (ask)
Reserve meals for Spouse/Guest All Guest meals and parties must be paid in advance 4 Lunches at $xx each Total Lunches ______ x $xx = $ ___________ 2 Cocktail Parties at $xx each Total Parties ______ x $xx = $ ___________ Payment: Check Visa MC Discover CC # _________________________________________ Exp. Date & Security Code: _______________________
Atlantis Room Reservations: 1-800-Atlantis
Special Group Rate $59 Reg $149 Hotel Group Code Number: 2011 Ray’s Janome Retreat
Ray’s Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011
Do you want any evening classes? Evening classes are Tues and Weds from 7-9:00 pm
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