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2026 Schedule of Webinars!  Balboa’s Secrets! Techniques that will make your Designs standout!, with Homework to make sense of it all!

Introduction to 2026:  January 27, 2026,  9:30 AM Pacific Time: An overview of the Process of Digitizing.

February 3, 2026:  Class #1, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: It Starts with a Stitch:   We begin with the Stitch, then move to the Running Stitch, Then to the Column or Satin Stitch and then the Fill.

February 17, 2026:  Class #2 , 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Our Prettiest stitch, the Column Stitch. We have Mastered the Running Stitch, and in this Class we are progressing to the Column or Satin Stitch, our most beautiful stitch, but the hardest to control. 

MARCH 3, 2026:  Class #3  9:30 AM Pacific Time: Our most versatile group of Stitches, the Fill:

March 17, 2026:  Class #4  9:30 AM Pacific Time: Underlays:  In this Fourth Class we will be learning about Underlays.

March 31, 2026:  Class #5  9:30 AM Pacific Time:  Pathing… Our 5th Class, and the last of our Warm Up…Pathing!  We will show how pathing is used throughout the design, looking at the how important it is, how it is constructed, which of your three stitches to use, and when to use them instead of an Underlay or trim!

April 14, 2026:  Class #6  9:30 AM Pacific Time:  Lettering, Custom and Stock:  Today we will look at lettering, first setting up Keyboard Lettering, then Custom Lettering.  This eight Class is Essential.

April 28, 2028:  Class #7  9:30 AM Pacific Time: Narrow Columns and Small Letters:  Today we will look at Narrow Columns and Small Letters and unlock the Secret to clean crisp small letters that do not get lost. If you can create a narrow column, one that is no wider than a piece of thread, you can create a small column-stitch letter..

May 12, 2026:  Class #8, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Motifs, Custom and Stock!  Turn your repeating Designs into Motifs!

May 26, 2026:  Class #9  9:30 AM Pacific Time:  Color, and Shapes and Definition through Color: Start with Color, learn the difference it can make. learn how it all works.  Learn to mix your colors so that you will be able to blend your colors.  See then, how you can make opposites on the Colorwheel give shape and definition to your design!

June 9, 2026:  Class #10  9:30 AM Pacific Time:  Blending:   Blending your colors.  Learn effective ways to create new shades and tints of colors in your designs.

June 23, 2026:  Class #11 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Shading: Using your Blends of color to Shade your Design and give it realism and depth.  Know where to place your colors, at what intensity.

July 7, 2026:  Class #12  9:30 AM Pacific Time:  Design Set-Up:  Our class on setting up your artwork for Realistic Designs and Corporate Logos to give you the Best Digitized Design possible; Learn what to do to get the artwork to give you the information you need to create the design that you want and that your your customer loves!

July 21, 2026:  Class #13 9:30 AM Pacific Time: 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 dollars.

August 4, 2026:  Class #14 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Appliques! Not just a substitute for stitches! Learn to use the applique to add beauty to your Design!

August 18, 2026:  Class #15 3D Foam and Alternatives:  Learn the tricks of doing 3D Foam, and learn alternatives.
Don’t say No to the 3D job. Learn the easiest way to make the clean up minimal, or use the alternative. A step by step tutorial on successful use of Foam, and using your underlays as an alternative.

September 1, 2026:  Class #16, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Working with non-native Designs. We will address the fixes needed for each of the stitch types, the Fill, the Column Stitch, and the Running stitch.

September 15, 2026 Class #17, 9:30AM Pacific Time:  Working with a bad Stitchout for art, Making a bad design good!  Creating a Design from a stitch out. We’ve all had it happen. The only art for you to use is a stitch-out of the design…No Stitch file, no other Art…AND the reason the customer has come to you is that the stitch out is not good!  And what about that stitch file that we get that looks so good on screen, but is a mess when you run it.  We will take that apart and see what to do.  You would be surprised how the same step-by-step method makes the cleanup easy for any design!

September 29, 2026 Class #18, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Textures:  Glass and Fur and Feathers:  Starting with Glass;  Create stitches that give you glass so real you can pick it up!   For your fur and feathers;  Make use of the things you learned in our WarmUp sessions, your basic stitches and recreate feathers and hair or fur.

October 13,2026,  Class #19,  9:30 AM Pacific Time: Portraits, the human face, eyes, nose, and mouth.  See how one flows to the other.  Learn placement and see how to be sure no detail moves!  Build the base, add the detail, and duplicate the expression!  A great beginning to a very complicated design.

October 27, 2026, Class #20, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Finishing Touches, Tie off your design with style, and mix your mediums by bringing your prints, (graphics), into your Designs.  Add a print that looks like stitches, finish it with stitches. Use your pathing to improve the backside!  Finally, finish with your heat press for long-term beauty, and present your work with pride.  This is your customers identity, show him, or her, you respect it!  It is all in the presentation!

November 10, 2026, Class #21 9:30 AM,  Copyrights!  That’s the Law! Learn what this body of law can do for you, and how to use it to your benefit. Learn why we have it, and embrace it…Don’t fear it!  HOMEWORK: Fill out your own Copyright form in both  TX and VA

November 24, 2026: Class #22  9:30 AM Review: Review of some of our Techniques. Lets look at what we have learned with another thought in mind.  Is there a design or a customer who has a design that might need to know about new ideas you may have for their Logo?  

December 6, 2026, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Our Christmas Cleanup. We all have that Design that we run year after year for a valued customer. One that you say you will edit before using it again. That editing gets put off and you battle through too much density and multiple thread breaks, making the design take way too long to run.  We will take 2 designs that are sent in, one could be yours, and we will clean that up and get it ready for the Rush!