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October 2014
Creativ Festival-Toronto, Canada
Creativ Festival, Your Link to Creativity! An unbeatable shopping excursion infused with ideas, inspiration and instruction. Since 1988, Creativ Festival is Canada’s largest diy consumer show dedicated to the creative arts of sewing, knitting, beading, spinning, weaving, felting, quilting, crocheting, stitching, scrapbooking, crafting and other fibre, textile, needle and paper arts. Offering 5 days of up-close-and-personal hands-on instruction at conference classes (October 22 to 26, 2014) and an exhibit hall bursting with creativity on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (October 24…
Find out more »November 2014
Fall Garment Designer & Sewing Retreat
Our audience has been asking for some hands-on creativity with sewing, so this year, we are builing a day of sewing into our Fall workshop retreat. The location will be San Marcos, CA, but if our numbers outgrow the space, we will move the function to San Diego, at Mesa College. We will use the store windows of Europe as our inspiration. Susan will share her many inspirational images, and will will use them as our kickstart for designing garments…
Find out more »January 2015
Machine Knitter’s Guild of San Francisco Bay Area
Susan Lazear will be the guest Speaker for Machine Knitter's Guild of San Francisco Bay Area, January 2015 meeting.
Find out more »Webinar-Facing Alternatives
For those who have not yet attended, a webinar is a 60 to 70 minute online class to include Lecture, Question & Answer and PDF Handouts for personal use. This webinar will share various sewing techniques that one can use in lieu of the standard facing. Susan has combed store windows around the world for various ideas and then translated them to how they should be sewn. Be inspired by European fashions, and learn how to recreate the technique on…
Find out more »Webinar-Stitch Painter: Using Full Color Import
For those who have not yet attended, a webinar is a 60 to 70 minute online class to include Lecture, Question & Answer and PDF Handouts for personal use. This webinar will teach you how to work with the Full Color Import module of Stitch Painter. If your goal is to take a scanned image into the software, reduce the colors to a workable amount and grid the image according to your needs, this class will take you down the…
Find out more »Webinar-Variations on a Theme
For those who have not yet attended, a webinar is a 60 to 70 minute online class to include Lecture, Question & Answer and PDF Handouts for personal use. Just as music has variations to a theme, so can we, using Garment Designer. In this webinar, you will learn how to take one pattern and apply different variations to it to create multiple looks. This is an ideal approach for anyone who has a garment they love, and want more…
Find out more »February 2015
Webinar-Stitch Painter: Using Full Color Import
For those who have not yet attended, a webinar is a 60 to 70 minute online class to include Lecture, Question & Answer and PDF Handouts for personal use. This webinar will teach you how to work with the Full Color Import module of Stitch Painter. If your goal is to take a scanned image into the software, reduce the colors to a workable amount and grid the image according to your needs, this class will take you down the…
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