RAYS SEWING MACHINE CENTER

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JANOME & ELNA

2011 Sew Easy Sewing and Embroidery Retreat at the

3800 South Virginia Street Reno, NV 89502-6191

July 17 - July 21, 2011

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.

545 Meridian Ave, Suite F San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 295-6901

Events
Registration: Reception: Participant Registration & Support Sunday, 3 pm 6 pm and Mon-Thurs, 7:45 am 8:15 am Sunday Evening, 7:00 pm Opening Hat Competition (bring a hat from home that YOU made, embroidered, or decorated) Sessions: Lunches: Shopping: Competitions: Patriotic Ball: Sewing, Quilting, Embroidery and Digitizing Provided Daily Vendors Exhibits Open Daily Embroidery & Sewing Competitions Thursday Evening

Cocktails at 7:00 pm
Dinner at 7:30 pm Final Parade Competition Individual Projects

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

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, firstserved 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. Well do our best to keep you together throughout the week.

Required Sewing Items:

Janome Memory Craft Embroidery Machine or Elna Embroidery Machine with the following accessories: Embroidery Foot (P) Rotary cutter All other standard feet 24 ruler All hoops Small cutting mat Machine needles Straight pins Threaded bobbins Seam ripper Empty bobbins Seam gauge Hand sewing needles Tweezers Fabric shears Fray check Paper & Embroidery scissors

Required Computer Supplies:

Laptop computer with Janome software Digitizer, Elna including dongle (Dont forget your DONGLE) and/or Customizer and an ATA PC card and adapter, extra CDs or USB Memory Sticks for 11000 for storage, wired external mouse.

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

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BOBBI BULLARD Bullard Designs

bobbi@bullarddesigns.com

Award winning Bobbi Bullard is known for her wearable art thats 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 ASGs 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.

GAY GERLACK
Sewabration www.sewabration.com

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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 Stitchers 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 Sewabration@aol.com for details and arrangements. The classes and projects are part of a simplified sewing series designed to make sewing fast, fun and creativea Sewabration!

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-Dinis 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. Momo and Dinis 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-Dinis 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 dcor, it will eventually become a vital part of enjoying your life.

. cindy@sewingart.com

CINDY LOSEKAMP
Sew Artfully Yours, Inc.

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 Grandmothers 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

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. Jackis goal for her students is that they leave each class with a sense of joy knowing that they have successfully completed their projects.

CONNIE MANTINI Shatter and Sew

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.
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JANOME INSTRUCTORS
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 appliqu 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 Carols Cherokee Nations vest on her program. Two of her Peek-aBoo 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.

Janome America

VALORA HAMMOND vhammond@janome-america.com

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.

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.

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Sessions with Bobbi 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 theyre 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

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 thats fun to take over and over again. Theres 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 well transform it into a work of art that youll want to wear with everything. Well begin by embroidering designs on separate pieces of fabric. Next well insert the embroidered piece into the jackets. Youll 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 youll 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 everyones finished work will be unique. Full Day

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 wont 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)

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Sessions with Bobbi Luxury Personified: The Scarf Class

Session BB103 4 hours
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 youll finish one in a single morning! Its a sew-in with a great end product!

Success Factors
Session BB105 2 hour evening

How to Make Your Machine Embroidery Easier & More Successful

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.
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Sessions with Dini Dragonflies

Session MD101 4 hours
Elusive, delicate, whispy . . . .dragonflies and the georgette theyre 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.

Butterfly Scarf
Session MD102 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.

Leap Frogs
Session MD103 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.
Kit Contains: 1-Silk Umbrella with 100% UV protection from sun 1-Ribbit! Ribbit! Embroidery design WET N MELT Stabilizer

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Sessions with Dini

Table Cloth
Session MD104 4 hours
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.

Beautiful Embroidery
Session MD105 2 hours seminar
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.

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Sessions with Cindy Two Hour Jacketthen We Embroider!

Session CL201 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)

Floral Elegance Hand Bag

Session CL202 4 hours
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. Youll be doing dimensional embroidery and then well assemble the bag. Its 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 youve seen. You will use yarns, wool felts, fiber, rovingall the cool stuff youve bought but havent gotten around to using. Since developing this technique, she has created new collections of simple and quick designs so you can be ber-creative in just a moment of time. These sew so quick you wont 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)
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Sessions with Cindy DYE ONE ON

Session CL204 2 hour Evening
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 dont think youve done it beforethis is different and can be used for dyeing other types of fabricnot just silk. If you wantyou can even dye your jacket! :o) Dyeing cloth is an age old passion. Even if youve tried it before or you are just the slightest bit interested in how its doneyou will love this hands on excursion into the world of dye. Our project is a silk scarfbeautiful in its own right but we will enhance it with color. Well be using procion dyes for an amazing vibrancy you just cant 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 itthen you can get more scarves to dye in class. Everything will be mixed upall 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

Cut And Paste Collage

Session CL205 4 hours
What comes firstthe 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 Cindys kind and gentle encouragement. Youll 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 bitsnot too manyjust 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)

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 dont 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.
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Sessions with Cindy Phoebe Lucille Vintage Linen Appliqu Pillow

Session CL207 2 hours Evening
With vintage linens as its inspiration, Cindys embroidered appliqu design and a hemstitched tablerunner work perfectly to deliver this simple, elegant envelope pillow. Hooped embroidery makes detailed appliqu designs a breeze; material and design choices create the illusion of linens from grandmothers closet.

Sessions with Gay Wallet / Checkbook / Credit Card Holder

Session GG101 2 hours
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.

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
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Sessions with Mary Jo 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 youll 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. Sergers are provided by Rays Machine Sewing Center Two cones of dark serger thread Do not bring your sewing machine to this session

Thread Scarf (using the Cover Pro 1000)

Session MG102 2 hours
In this hands-on class we will be using Janomes 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.
Cover Pro are provided by Rays Machine Sewing Center Kit includes: Do not bring your sewing machine to this session 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.

Scarves and More Scarves

Session MG103 2 hours
Hands on class with sergers provided by Rays 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. Youll want to make them for gifts and to update that favorite outfit. The infinite scarf is so popular as well as the biascut 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

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Sessions with Mary Jo 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) 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
Sergers are provided by Rays Machine Sewing Center Do not bring your sewing machine to this session

Serge A T-Shirt
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 1 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.

Session MG105 4 hours

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

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Cover Pros are provided by Rays Machine Sewing Center Do not bring your sewing machine to this session

Sessions with Mary Jo

Jacket Fun
Session MG106 4 hours
In this hands-on class we will be using Janomes 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 tshirt 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!

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

Basic Serger Techniques

Session MG107 4 hour class
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. Bring: Two different colors of cone thread (not white) One cone of woolly nylon Small sewing supplies to include: pins, scissors, Sergers are provided by Rays Machine Sewing Center etc. Do not bring your sewing machine to this session

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Sessions with Jackie A gift for our Troops

Session JM301 2 hours & 2 hour Evening
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.

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. 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!
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Sessions with Carol

Round & Round We Go
Session CM201 4 hours
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

Goose Me
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.

Session CM202 8 hours

Jazz It Up
Session CM203 4 hours
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

Celtic Cutwork
Session CM204 8 hours

We are embellishing a plain shirt with appliqu. 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.

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Sessions with Margo Diamond Pillow

Session MS101 4 hours
If the glimpse of a brilliant diamond doesnt get your attention perhaps the ease of creating your own will. This genuine, 4carat 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 girls 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; well skip the hunt and indulge in our real passion which is sewing.

Sessions with Valora

Digitizer for Beginners

Session VH401 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!)

Digitizer MB-Advanced
Session VH402 8 hours
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!)
Rays Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011

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 appliqu. Use the cutting needles to turn your embroidery machine into an amazing new tool cut out intricate appliqu 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 appliqu 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.

Note: Demo software will be provided Just bring your laptop

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! Its 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 appliqu is easy with the Artistic Sewing Suite no more tedious cutting! Dont worry about small corners and intricate designs - let your embroidery machine do the work. Combine traditional and reverse appliqu 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.

Rays Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011

Rays Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat ~ Redefining the Art of Sewing

Sunday, July 17 Thursday, July 21, 2011

2011 Registration Form

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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 Rays! (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

Email ________________________________________ Sewing Machine Model _________ Borrow One Food Preferences/Allergies: vegetarian/vegan lactose intolerant diabetic glucose free gluten free other food concerns_________________________ Please group me with the following friends: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Mail Registration Form with deposit before June 15, 2011 to: Rays Sewing Machine Center 545 Meridian Ave, Suite F San Jose, CA 95126 Questions? Call Lindsay at Rays 408-295-6901 Or email lindsayweeks@ymail.com

Special Group Rate $59 Reg $149 Hotel Group Code Number: 2011 Rays Janome Retreat

Please Select Top 10 Sessions of choice

Including Session numbers

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*Note: Any classes with less than 8 sign ups will be cancelled Next Choice will be given

Do you want any evening classes?

Evening classes are Tues and Weds from 7-9:00 pm 1.___________________________ 2.___________________________
Rays Sew Easy Embroidery Retreat 2011