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Registration Info Hotels Fashion Show Bridal Extravaganza Home Décor Show Home |
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Cal Poly University Conference Center
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Registration Info Hotels Fashion Show Bridal Extravaganza Home Décor Show Home |
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Art-to-Wear
Designing
for the Bernina Fashion Show
Flatter You,
Flatter Me Bobbi Bullard
Art of My Heart Diane Gloystein Move over Picasso. Meet a clotheshorse of a different color. Inspired by everything from island travels to children's art, Diane has created a unique wardrobe loaded with embellishments. Saturday 1:30 -- 2:30 N2S
Bridal Bustling the Bride Lorraine Kimball 13 seats left
You’ll
enjoy a fantastic demonstration and lecture on a myriad of bustling styles
covering: over-bustle, under-bustle and combinations of bustles and
different types of skirts, helpful techniques and more.
(See her at the “Bridal
Fashion Show”.)
Alterations
for the Purchased Wedding Gown
Bridal Gown
Silhouettes to Suit Any Body Type
12
seats left
Bridal Fashion Trends Nicole Lenzen See and discussion current and future bridal fashion trends. Modern examples of elements from previous eras will be incorporated. This information will provide a complete stylistic direction for wedding theme and attire. Saturday 5:00 – 6:00 L2S Sunday 2:00 – 3:00 L4S
Bridal Gown Fabrics Nicole Lenzen
Learn
different textiles and materials used in bridal gowns and how to identify
fabrics and understand how the properties of the textiles apply to the look
and feel of different gown styles. Swatch book included.
Couture & Intermediate Techniques
Quick,
Quicker, Quickest Gifts to Make
On the Edge: A Fresh Approach to Decorative Detail
Lyla Messinger:
Creating decorative details involves placement as well as decisions on
techniques used. This informative lecture will feature inspiring garment
samples and instructions. Samples include fabric sculpting on fleece, unique
facing, piping & binding detail, random curved piecing, and more.
Drawstring Design Lyla Messinger
Drawstrings
redesign the look of a pattern and hide figure flaws. See how it varies the
drape and appearance of a garment. Learn techniques to incorporate
decorative or hidden drawstrings by adding them to seams, shoulders,
sleeves, pants, and pattern pieces.
Poncho or Cover-up in an Hour! Bobbie Moon
(Hands-on)
Bring 1 ¼ yards of your favorite fabric and turn it into a stylish poncho or
cover-up jacket (soft drapey fabric is best). You’ll cut, finish edges and
sew this garment in less than 60 minutes!
Simple to Sew Garments Bobbie Moon 13 seats left (Hands-on) See garments that can be sewn from spectacular fabric very simply and quickly. Make a simple jacket from wool tweed in an afternoon. Some of these garments need no pattern; others are from patterns available in class. Saturday 1:30 – 2:30 Q3S Sunday 3:30 – 4:30 Q5S
Junk Jeans:
Basics "Uzed" to the Limit!
11 seats
left
(S1S) Saturday 12:00 – 1:00 S1S Sunday 12:30 – 1:30 S3S
Junk Jeans: Extreme Makeover! Luveta Nickels Learn how Luveta manipulates denim using her Pink Power Drill and how she applies bleach with grinder stones. See beautiful samples with bleached backgrounds featuring unbelievable embroidery and learn designing with Battenberg lace and stencils. Featuring her trunk show. Saturday 3:30 – 4:30 S2S Sunday 3:30 – 4:30 S4S
Jackets, Jackets, Jackets Cecelia Podolak
Learn easy techniques to speed up fusing interfacings and doing the majority
of sewing on the machine. Choose non-traditional fabrics, such as denim and
stretch wovens, that perfect sewing and pressing techniques. See how to
adjust facings and sleeve caps for fabric weight.
Trade Secrets of Quality Sewn Garments 9 seats left (U5S) Cecelia Podolak: Evaluate better ready-to-wear; get professional techniques for changing seam allowance width, learn placement, types and uses of interfacing; removal of ease from sleeve caps, sew invisible hems, pressing tips for flat seams and edges, handle square corners, and select the best button, and more. Saturday 4:30 – 5:30 U3S Sunday 12:30 – 1:30 U5S
Copy Your
Favorite Garment! Ann Poindexter:
8 seats left
Turn a Basic
Pattern Into A Couture Look
13 seats
left
Simple to Sensational Seams Diane Ricks: Diane will show you the value and beauty of seams on a garment. Learn how seams can be the focal point of a designer garment. This seminar is loaded with lots of ideas you can use for your own creation. Saturday 12:30 – 1:30 X3S
Sewing Shortcuts Connie Crawford 3 Seats Left Learn garment industry techniques and shortcuts: efficient cutting methods, notching concepts, pin basting, using a gathering foot, crimping vs. ease stitching, placket, understsitching, zipper and bias treatments, spaghetti variations, vest linings and hands-on samples of zippers, plackets and more. Saturday 8:30 – 10:00 F3N
Choosing Interfacing For Fashion Sewing: 12 seats left Connie Crawford: Learn how to recognize fiber content, various weaves and interfacing weights and how professionals select the correct interfacing for fabrics. See how the use of polyesters, georgettes and micro-fibers influenced the development of interfacings. Sunday 2:00 – 3:00 F6S
Single Layer Construction Linda Kubik 12 seats left Garment construction without interfacing or facings? Learn what patterns work, seam finishes, bindings and unique edge finishes will allow you to construct garments without interfacings or facings. Sunday 11:00 – 12:00 J4S
Seven Habits
of Highly Successful Sewers
11
seats left
Fast Ways To Sew Better Kathy Ruddy 11 seats left (O2S )
Learn
how to make collars using fusibles for non-lumpy corners and joints, apply
elastic to waistlines, get perfect bound buttonholes & welt pockets, make
wrap around cuffs as in RTW.
Draping & Pattern Drafting
Drafting & Designing With
Flounces and Ruffles 12
seats left
Couture Draping Techniques Connie Crawford 13 seats left
Author
of “The Art
of Fashion Draping”
shares her experience and illustrates draping a bustier design, the vital
draping principles required to create designs with correct drape, balance,
fit, and proportion. This approach gives you the perfect fit!
Embellishment & Color Design
The Art of
Embellishment
June Colburn:
8 Seats Left
Color Theory
for the Fiber Artist
Nick Coman:
12 seats left
Dust Ruffles Bobbie Moon
Learn the various styles of dust ruffles, how to measure and gather yards of
heavy decorator fabric, how to eliminate the need for a huge piece of fabric
for a deck and when and how to line a dust ruffle.
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Bridal Extravaganza Home Décor Show
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Embroidery Giving Birth to an Embroidery Diane Gloystein
Labor will be a breeze once you understand the basics of choosing
stabilizers and creating perfectly painless stitches with rayon, cotton and
metallic threads! Understand how background finishes and fabric snips can
enhance your embroidery. An essential class for embroidery newbies an
invaluable update for seasoned veterans!
Hop on the BAND Wagon Lyla Messinger: Use bands in every size, shape and form to add surface or design details—from fabric edgings to appliquéd details and simple ribbon. Fabric for bands can be purchased or created using Lyla’s signature details. Saturday 9:00 – 10:00 P1S
Creating Captivating Color Linda Visnaw: For garments, home decor or quilting, etc. Experience exciting coloring tools and master your personal color pallet to create your own style. Learn how easy, fast and fun coloring can be. Saturday 4:30 – 5:30 Y3S Sunday 12:00 – 1:00 Y5S
BLING! Embroidery Style Bobbi
Bullard
6
Seats Left
Traditional Japanese Hand Embroidery June Colburn 13 seats left Learn about Japanese embroidery techniques, the motifs and their symbolism. See examples of embroidery in kimono, kimono neck-cloths, and fukusa, formal wrapping cloths for marriage gifts and silk obi featured in June collection of museum-quality vintage textiles. Sunday 9:00 – 10:30 C5N
Embroidery: Using Those Hidden Feet Ann Poindexter 4 Seats Left You can decorate without an embroidery machine! Gather those feet in your box and learn how to use them. From brakling & pin tucking, to beautiful 3-D flowers and leaves; there are endless uses for those feet hidden away. Saturday 12:00 – 1:30 V6N
Embroidery Techniques Ann Poindexter 11 seats left Turn a plain pillow, dress, suit, jacket, etc., into stunning elegant wear by making flowers, leaves, birds with silk ribbon embroidery. Learn the art of using rayon threads for the twist stitch and more. Saturday 2:00 – 3:00 V7S
Coloring Techniques for Today's Sewing Tools: 13 seats left (Y2S ) Linda Visnaw: Sewing & embroidery machines can open a whole new world of surface decoration, the possibilities are colorful and endless. Design possibilities are all around you. See how quickly your unique designs can develop into eye catching treasures. Saturday 10:30 – 11:30 Y2S Sunday 10:30 – 11:30 Y4S
Embroidery Software Designs Linda Visnaw 13 seats left Imagine a design you have created on paper. Now imagine that design on the screen of your computer. And wow, imagine your design being sewn out by your embroidery machine. Digitizing software is only one of the galleries of software products available to the home embroiderer today. There is truly something for everyone so come and imagine for a while. Friday Y6S 12:30 -- 1:30
Fashion & Costume Design Japanese Design 101 June Colburn Learn easy steps and principles to designing in the Asian style illustrated with quilts and garments. Japanese designs create serenity we recognize and can now replicate. Saturday 3:30 – 4:30 C4S
From Concept To Reality Linda Kubik You’ve designed the perfect garment mentally, now you can translate that idea into an actual garment. Learn steps to choosing color, yarn, set, weaving, fulling, cutting, and sewing. Sunday 12:30 – 1:30 J5S
Fashion & Costume Portfolio Design & Evaluation Justine L. Parish Learn portfolio design with award winning fiber artist, Justine. This class is for those whose portfolios are either fully developed or partially complete and need professional portfolio evaluation. Students can also observe evaluations to learn about portfolio design. Saturday 9:00 – 10:00 M3S
Quick Sketching: Drawing Skirts & Pants Justine Limpus Parish Author of “Drawing the Fashion Body”, will demonstrate quick and easy methods for drawing details of skirts & pants on a body. Follow along as she draws basic fashion and costume bodies, and a sampling of garment details. Beginners welcome. Bring paper and pencil. Sunday 9:00 – 10:00 M5S
Quick Sketching: Drawing
Jackets & Coats
Quick
Sketching: Drawing Heads, Hair & Hats
Fitting Measuring Made Easy Lorraine Henry 11 seats left
Discover the where and why of measurement. See a new tape measure that makes
it easy to measure yourself. Gain tips to become proficient at solving
fitting problems and learn 3 fitting methods.
Using Body Measurements Effectively Lorraine Henry 6 Seats Left
Improve fitting and alterations skills. See how measurements relate to one
another and the order of pattern alterations to save time. Why 86 identified
figure variations need more than one measurement to correctly adjust the
pattern and more.
Busts and Backs Lorraine Henry 7 Seats Left
Learn how to alter for large, small or droopy busts, hollow or prominent
chests; rounded, flat, broad or narrow backs, apply ease, add darts to a
dartless pattern, and alter the bust in a princess design.
Correcting the Crotch Curve Lorraine Henry 11 seats left Compare the major pattern companies' crotch curves and size variations to learn why they fit differently and how they compare to ready-to-wear. See techniques to evaluate your figure and correct patterns for a terrific fit. Sunday 9:00 – 10:00 H5S
Fit After Forty & Younger! Lorraine Henry 11 seats left
A
good fit will camouflage figure changes at any age. No more "fitting fits."
Learn how to make pattern alterations to defy gravity and give you the fit
that will inspire you to keep that sewing machine humming!
How to Make a Dress Form Ann Poindexter 13 seats left Make a dress form that is perfect for your body type by taking an old dress form and make it fit with quilt batting and iron-on interfacing. You will be amazed at the results! Sunday 1:30 – 2:30 V11S
Figure Diagramming Pats Mundwiler 12 seats left
Diagramming allows you to see figure problems, making it easier to alter a
pattern to shorten sleeves, compensate for a high hip, etc., and add more
design width in certain areas to balance your body proportion.
Fearless Dresses: Pattern & Fit Cecelia Podolak 11 seats left (U1N)
Learn styling options: sleeveless, three-quarter cuffed or short sleeves; a
one-piece dressmaker collar; front button closure or concealed placket;
mid-knee/calf length; eliminating waist seam for an easy fit for all figure
types or change the fabric to create a new look.
Fitting Just Right! Ann Poindexter 12 seats left Tired of that blouse bulging in front and your arms in misery? You will learn alteration tricks to correct your patterns to have that perfectly fitting blouse. Friday 4:00 – 5:00 V3S
Speed Method
of Fitting & Alteration (Fabulous Fit)
12
seats left
Be Successful When you Sew! Kathy Ruddy Learn how patterns have changed and how technology can help you explore efficient and fun ways to complete your projects. Understand ease and fit preferences, fabric checkpoints and why and when to fabric fit. Learn to use interfacings and shoulder pads, achieve accurate cutting, seams, darts and more! Saturday 5:00 – 6:00 O4S Sunday 3:30 – 4:30 O7S
Home Décor Couture Decorating Pam Damour Interior Designer, “The Decorating Diva”, will share home décor tips to create high-end looks seen from photos and magazines. You can achieve them yourself, at home, using machines and tools available to all of us! Saturday 9:00 – 10:00 G3S
Pillow Parade Pam Damour
Pam demonstrates her workroom techniques used in custom decorator pillows
such as: neck roll, envelope, padded flanges, pleated ruffles, ruched
cording, double welt and more! Pam’s techniques are easy.
Saturday 12:00 – 1:30 G4N Bedrooms are fun to decorate. Join Pam in this trunk show where you will learn trade secrets for bed skirts, duvet covers, pillow shams, headboards, window treatments and more! Sunday 9:00 – 10:30 G5N
Home Dec in a Sec! Pam Damour No time to redecorate? Pam will give you some great tips to revive your tired interiors without spending days in front of the sewing machine. She has almost 25 years in the business of decorating. Sunday 1:30 – 2:30 G6S
Sew Sensational Pillows Linda Lee Get fabulous techniques for creating gorgeously-embellished pillows in easy-to-follow steps. Learn to stitch ruffled, pipe-edged, tasseled, pleated, flanged, buttoned, and tied pillows and even more. Linda's extraordinary pillows feature details that professional designers use. Saturday 2:00 – 3:00 K3S
Make Your Own Pillow Ann Poindexter Learn how to use various weaving techniques; add Trapunto stitching and a pictures to your pillow. Its fun and easy just follow the simple steps. These pillows are great for bragging rights. Saturday 5:00 – 6:00 V8S |
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