Blending: Blending your colors. Nothing brings your design to life better! Since 1987 when Lee and Keith Caroselli, the brother and sister team who founded Balboa, asked why can't we Blend, Balboa has been synonymous with Blending and Shading, They not only thought outside the box, they built their own with tried and true techniques that have revolutionized the Industry.
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2026 Class #14 Design SetUp
2026 Class #13 Stitch Saving Designs
Stitch Saving Techniques Balboa Stitch Designs. Back to the "Basics". This is what started it all! A low stitch design that costs pennies to run and looks like a million. We will take what could be a complicated design apart and make it simple, from 100,000 stitches to 10,000, using Basic stitches that you have perfected, the running Stitch, the Column Stitch and the Fill. Nothing complicated! Learn to simplify and bring the the essense of the art! From there, we look at mixed mediums. Our systems give us the ability to add prints and embroidery. We will take a high stitch Design and reduce it to a print with embroidered embellishments. Then, Extending your design's size with a print.
2026 Class #12 Shading
Tennie’s 8th Class
Tennie’s 7th Class
Class #6 with Tennie
2026 Class #10: Color, the first step to Blending
Tennie’s Class #5
Private class with Tennie Class #4
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2026 Class #9 Motifs Part 2
Private Class for Tennie Part #2
Tennie’s Private Class
2026 Class #8 Motifs, Part 1
Class #8, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Motifs, Custom and Stock! Turn your repeating Designs into Motifs! Learn to evaluate your Design, What do you see that is a duplicate? Learn how to save it, make it a motif, an object that may easily be repeated. Scale it at different sizes. Learn how to Path between …
2026 Class #7 Small Letters and Narrow Columns
Think .15" letters are impossible? Think again. The Industry says you can't get crisp, clean satin-stitch lettering at less than a quarter-inch without it turning into a "blob." They’re wrong.
In this class, Lee Caroselli Barnes pulls back the curtain on her newest manual technique and shows you how to create Column-Stitch letters at only .15" high, that are Legible, Clean and Crisp! Professional Quality that cannot be done using your software’s automatic tools.
Join us to learn how to manually guide your machine to do what they say is impossible. It’s time to move from "stock" to Exceptional.