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| 2012 Virtual BERNINA Club Club Dates and Topics Live Virtual Sessions: 7:00 PM January 26: A Tisket a Tasket – Create a Sewing Basket Begin the sewing year with this customized and useful sewing basket. Keep your sewing supplies organized at home and when you sew on the go. Incorporate your favorite sewing notions and tools into your custom basket. February 23: What’s Your Cargo? Shop hands-free and look stylish with this cross-body bag. Several zipper pockets will keep everything secure and organized while the embellished areas will give you a one-of-kind accessory. March 22: Simple Home Kitchen A pound of fabric, 2 cups thread and a pinch of imagination…Refresh your home with Sweetwater’s Simple Home ideas for the kitchen. You’ll be enchanted by the look of these vintage-inspired accessories created with modern-day techniques. April 26: Accordion Mementos Express some of your favorite memories with needle and thread. Combine the panels to create an accordion style display with unique closure. May 24: Too Stylish to Sleep Update a bedroom with a bed runner and super-styled pillows. When a quilt is too heavy or too time-consuming, consider making the smaller, yet equally powerful bed runner and coordinating pillows. As an accent to existent bedding, it’ll be easy to change seasonally when desired. June 28: Could it be Vera? Create the quilted bag wardrobe of your dreams with your hand-picked fabric choices. Incorporate your favorite quilting techniques to create a quilted bag ensemble resembling those popular boutique styles. August 23: Artful Centerpiece Create a lovely quilted centerpiece using piecing and thread painting techniques. September 27: A Touch of Whimsy Enjoy decorating your home with these whimsical pillows celebrating the seasons and styles. Learn to use your serger for some of these shabby chic styles and your sewing machine for other techniques. October 25: Winter Robin Appliqué Create this charming wall hanging of a faux postage stamp with a traditional winter theme. Create using either raw- edge appliqué - or not - and learn to use machine stitches to mimic hand work. November 29: Funky Organizers Create these adorable and artsy pouches for all your accessory storage needs. BERNINA accessories make these projects even more successful and fantastic! |
Software Sampler
Club Dates and Topics
Live Virtual Sessions: 11:00am
January 21: Digitizing Logos
Review the digitizing process of creating embroidery designs from
graphics. Digitize the Version 6 Logo for a Notebook Cover and CD
case to hold your 2012 CDs & Printed Software Lessons
February 18: Embroider Texture
Digitize designs for needle punching, ribbon work and couching. Create
beautiful modern designs applicable to a variety of projects. Automate
the Needle Punch process and Embellish scarves, pillows bags, journal
cover etc ....
March 17: Lettering Workshop
Build your lettering skills and explore new techniques. Use True Type
fonts to customize your projects. Lettering techniques covered will
include a variety of fill effects, outlining, echo, and appliqué.
April 21: Appliqué Workshop
Create beautifully embellished appliqué designs. Coordinate the
appliqué with matching hemstitched trims and borders to complete the
project. Create appliqué from a variety of methods, and apply a
coordinating quick border with Spanish hemstitching.
May 19: Create Hand Look Embroidery – Doodle Stitching
Create your own stitches to use in Embroidery Software and replicate
the look of hand stitched embroidery. Great way to finish any handwork
embroidery UFO’s! Use cotton thread to embroider the hand look
stitching on a fabric Bread Basket & Napkins, or select any of the other
projects from this wonderful book.
June 16: Embroider a Button!
Design and produce your own custom covered buttons to use in
projects, on garments, or as jewelry! Embroider a ribbonwork design,
and create small embroidery designs that stitch out successfully.
Digitize a ribbonwork design, and then cut it out - ready for a button -
with the Cutwork Tool!
August 18: Mix It Up with Mixed Media
Learn to create beautiful line work to expand your design possibilities.
Combine paint colors with your stitching. Turn Zentangle doodles into
spectacular embroidery. Explore a variety of Mixed Media options and
create a mixed media Sidekick Sling Bag or Alice Book Bag.
September 15: Embroider on Photographs
Use transfer Photo techniques to transfer your photos to fabric and use
your software to create breathtaking embellished “photo appliqué.”
Explore collage techniques, and use Corel PhotoPaint to apply photo
effects. Then appliqué and create embroidered texture on your
transferred photo.
October 20: Embroidered Tile Technique
Create personalized embellished fabric using the pattern stitches in the
software to create your own embroidered pattern tile designs. Work with
placement of repeated designs and learn to import machine stitches as
well as creating your own stitch patterns in the software
November 17: Embroider a Clock!
Embroider a custom clock! This is a great gift idea for a business, a
college student, a child’s room, sports enthusiast, proud grandparent,
etc. Import graphics or photos for the clock face background, then
create the embroidered numbers and embellishment for the clock face.
Club Dates and Topics
Live Virtual Sessions: 11:00am
January 21: Digitizing Logos
Review the digitizing process of creating embroidery designs from
graphics. Digitize the Version 6 Logo for a Notebook Cover and CD
case to hold your 2012 CDs & Printed Software Lessons
February 18: Embroider Texture
Digitize designs for needle punching, ribbon work and couching. Create
beautiful modern designs applicable to a variety of projects. Automate
the Needle Punch process and Embellish scarves, pillows bags, journal
cover etc ....
March 17: Lettering Workshop
Build your lettering skills and explore new techniques. Use True Type
fonts to customize your projects. Lettering techniques covered will
include a variety of fill effects, outlining, echo, and appliqué.
April 21: Appliqué Workshop
Create beautifully embellished appliqué designs. Coordinate the
appliqué with matching hemstitched trims and borders to complete the
project. Create appliqué from a variety of methods, and apply a
coordinating quick border with Spanish hemstitching.
May 19: Create Hand Look Embroidery – Doodle Stitching
Create your own stitches to use in Embroidery Software and replicate
the look of hand stitched embroidery. Great way to finish any handwork
embroidery UFO’s! Use cotton thread to embroider the hand look
stitching on a fabric Bread Basket & Napkins, or select any of the other
projects from this wonderful book.
June 16: Embroider a Button!
Design and produce your own custom covered buttons to use in
projects, on garments, or as jewelry! Embroider a ribbonwork design,
and create small embroidery designs that stitch out successfully.
Digitize a ribbonwork design, and then cut it out - ready for a button -
with the Cutwork Tool!
August 18: Mix It Up with Mixed Media
Learn to create beautiful line work to expand your design possibilities.
Combine paint colors with your stitching. Turn Zentangle doodles into
spectacular embroidery. Explore a variety of Mixed Media options and
create a mixed media Sidekick Sling Bag or Alice Book Bag.
September 15: Embroider on Photographs
Use transfer Photo techniques to transfer your photos to fabric and use
your software to create breathtaking embellished “photo appliqué.”
Explore collage techniques, and use Corel PhotoPaint to apply photo
effects. Then appliqué and create embroidered texture on your
transferred photo.
October 20: Embroidered Tile Technique
Create personalized embellished fabric using the pattern stitches in the
software to create your own embroidered pattern tile designs. Work with
placement of repeated designs and learn to import machine stitches as
well as creating your own stitch patterns in the software
November 17: Embroider a Clock!
Embroider a custom clock! This is a great gift idea for a business, a
college student, a child’s room, sports enthusiast, proud grandparent,
etc. Import graphics or photos for the clock face background, then
create the embroidered numbers and embellishment for the clock face.
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