New Owner’s Classes

New Owner’s Sewing Basics Second Tuesday of the month: Apr 11, May 9 (3:00-4:00pm)

Fee: No Charge with machine purchase @ J&R No. of Meetings: One (1) repeats each month Requirements: Bring your own machine, manual and accessories. Description: All electronic and computerized machines included. Learn accessories and basics of your machine, cleaning and maintenance, threading, winding bobbin, choosing stitches, seam, permanent reverse, jeans hemming, buttonholes and buttons.

New Owner’s Embroidery Basics Second Tuesday of the month: Apr 11, May 9 (4:30-5:30pm)

Fee: No Charge with machine purchase @ J&R No. of Meetings: One (1) repeats each month Requirements: Bring your own machine, manual and accessories. Description: All home embroidery machines included. Learn machine set-up, hooping 101, calling up design from machine memory or flash drive, placement in hoop, rotation, basting in the hoop and stitching out. New Owner’s Serger Basics Third Tuesday of the month: Mar 21, Apr 18 (3:00-4:00pm)

Fee: No Charge with machine purchase @ J&R No. of Meetings: One (1) repeats each month Requirements: Bring your own machine, manual and accessories. Description: All sergers included. Learn threading basics: 4-Thread Overlock, Rolled Hem, Coverlock stitches. Learn how to adjust tensions for a quality serger stitch.

Sewing Tip #17

Sewing Terms Give your vocabulary a boost!

BINDING – Strip of fabric used to cover or enclose raw edges. FEED DOGS – Located beneath the presser foot, these “teeth” move the fabric under the presser foot. MACHINE TENSION – Controlled by disks to apply drag to the machine thread. Adjust it for thread and fabric variances. STITCH IN THE DITCH – Stitching inside the “valley” or “groove” of a seam.

New Owner’s Beginning Software Basics First Tuesday of the month: Pfaff 6D, Premier Plus – Apr 4 (4:30-5:30pm) Brother PE Design Next – May 2 (4:30-5:30pm) Floriani Total Control U – Jun 6 (4:30-5:30pm) Fee: No Charge with software purchase @ J&R No. of Meetings: One (1) repeats each month Requirements: Bring your own laptop with software installed, manual and notebook. Be sure to bring your dongle or other security device as required to open your software. Description: Learn basics of the software program. Learn to bring a design onto the screen, manipulate the design by resize, rescale, change thread colors, rotate, reposition. Learn to add text and manipulate text in a variety of ways, add and align multiple lines of text. Learn to select hoop size and orientation, center your design, save design, send, and move or copy design to your flash drive. Learn basics of organizing your designs and how to search designs.

Arrow & Kangaroo Chairs Are a Great Addition To Any Sewing Space!

New Owner’s ScanNCut Basics Mar 28 (9:30-Noon) Apr 25 (9:30-Noon) Fee: No Charge with machine purchase @ J&R Requirements: Bring your own machine, manual and accessories. Description: New owner ScanNCut class – Learn ScanNCut fundamentals plus use of rhinestone kit, stamping kit, ScanNCut Canvas basics, etc.

Fun Sewing Classes

Stitcher’s Garden Block of the Month 7 Months - Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 13, Jun 10, Jul 8 (10:00-11:30) Skill Level: Moderate Beginner to Proficient Fee: $195 – Includes all materials needed for top & binding plus monthly patterns Description: Amy teaches fun, new, and creative stitching techniques on this beautiful floral garden quilt. Learn to use your machine’s decorative stitches in new ways, creating unique machine applique and fun, interesting techniques. Learn how using a variety of decorative feet can make your stitching faster and easier than you thought possible!

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Beginning Quilting Five (5) Saturdays: Apr 8, 16, 22, May 6, 13 (1:00-4:00) Skill Level: New Beginner Fee: $50 Description: Rosemary teaches beginners all the steps to making a lap-sized quilt. These steps begin with information on how to select fabric for an interesting, vibrant quilt, layering quilt tops with batting and backing, quilting through layers and completing your quilt with a double-fold binding. You’ll be excited to learn from a master teacher and quilter.

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Exciting Embroidery Classes

Rosemary’s Tote Bag Class Mar 25, Apr 1 (1:00-4:00) Skill Level: Beginner to Proficient Fee: $30 Description: Join Rosemary for 2 days of fun! You will make a cute tote bag in this 2-part class. The tote bag is durable, sturdy, and stylish, made with fabric straps and a pocket. Make one for yourself, and another for a friend! This class is for beginners thru proficient sewists.

Floriani Embroidery Threads Floriani Embroidery threads come in over 300 colors. Spool sizes are 1000 meters

and 5000 meters. With a beautiful rayon-like sheen, this polyester thread

is a joy to use.

Edge to Edge Quilting Class Mar 25 (9:30-Noon) Apr 1 (9:30-Noon) Apr 19 (2:00-4:30) Apr 29 (1:00-3:30) Skill Level: Beginner to Proficient Fee: $20 Description: Nancy will be teaching the Edge to Edge Quilting technique, which is quilting in the hoop. Come to class with a crib size (minimum) project (top, batting & backing) ready to quilt. Choose from 1 of 4 sessions offered.

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As part of J & R’s March Sew Clean Sale, we are donating 5% of our machine sales to the Community Meal project. 5% of every dollar spent at J & R Vacuum & Sewing during the

month of March will be used to help the hurting, hungry, and lonely in our community.

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