$199
Gets you access to More than 170 existing Videos, with a Click!
A $17,750 value…Including the new 2024 Webinars and videos!
AND… A real Digitizer to answer your questions!
Start with our NEW 2024 Basics and Beyond, Class #1, #2 and #3 of our 2024 Video Series, your Basics, and Much More!!! View each Video, Do your workbook Assignments to be sure that you are ready for the next Class, then go on to Class #4 Underlay, #5 Design Analysis, #6 Lettering, Custom and Stock, #7 Small Letters & Narrow Columns, #8 Color, #9 Pathing, #10 Blending, then Attend Class #11 on June 25th, Shading, share your ideas with industry leaders as you learn Balboa’s most recent techniques. Take a break at any time for a Private Class at One-Third OFF to answer your questions, review what you have learned and take you to the next step!!!
Or, if you Like, Review Balboa’s 7-hour “Learn to Digitize Class”…Take it at your own pace…Finish with the virtual workbook with practice exercises…AND directions on where to find the answers on the video timelines! Then choose from a variety of subjects in our Library of more than 170 Videos that extend your knowledge on Small Letters and Narrow Columns, Blending and Shading, Eliminating Push-Pull, Design Set-Up, Choosing Colors, Editing Stock Monograms, Pathing, and much much more!
Fine-tune your techniques and fine-tune your designs. Eliminate the frustration of Thread breaks and Nesting, Outlines not lining up, using simple easy to understand “Balboa Secrets”. Then, Schedule a Half Day Private Class at 35% Off, where we will work on one of your Designs and you will Learn techniques to make your digitizing better on every one of your Designs.
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The Ultimate Package for Learning to Edit and Digitize! The new 2024 Digitizing Series covers Digitizing from A to Z! Watch the comprehensive Webinars, take part yourself with an open Mic where your questions are answered when you ask. A live exchange that will show you that you are not alone!
Solidify what you have seen on screen with the “Homework” provided for that Class. The Class and your Homework are added to your Video Library to review as often as you like. A new way of teaching, that allows you to understand why you are doing what you do. If you understand, there is no need for notes, no need to memorize, only to draw from what you, as an embroiderer have seen.
Webinars each month, with Homework for each class that will unlock even more Answers for you, AND
Our Webinars teach you techniques to make your Corporate Designs look better, run better at lower stitch counts, Techniques that eliminate frustration and make you money!…BALBOA’s SECRETS!
For those of you who are doing realistic designs, and need help in transferring art into stitches, you will find that these same techniques work on your more creative designs as well as your Corporate Logos!
Just look at our Designs on our Site and see what you will be able to do…Easily!
If you cannot attend, all Webinars are recorded and will be added to your Balboa Video Library for your viewing, and after viewing, if there are questions…email or call! You will get an Answer!
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2024 CALENDAR:
January 23rd 9:30 AM Pacific Time: New Year New You: Mapping out our Year of Training. GREAT CLASS!!! Check it out !
We reviewed the Class Schedule to see if we have left anything out. NEW! 2024 Class will have Homework that will give you valuable lessons on the techniques in Each class, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in that Class!
Class #1: February 6th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will start with the Stitch. Then show how that Stitch is used in each of our basic groups of stitches. Next, we will take a Design apart looking at the role the Running Stitch plays and its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, the forming of the Satin or Column Stitch, the role of the Underlay, as well as tie-offs and pathing, puckering and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!.
Class #2: February 20th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will take the same Design apart looking at the role the Satin or Column Stitch plays and its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, the forming of the Satin or Column Stitch, the role of the Underlay, as well as tie-offs and pathing, puckering and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!.
Class #3: March 5th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Taking the same Design, we will examine the role that the Fill or Tatami stitch plays in the design as well as its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on the length of the stitch in the Fill, the density of the Fill, and the texture and pattern formed by the needle penetrations, as well as pathing and underlays, and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #4: March 19th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Underlay, not just manual, and not just part of the object. Learn which Underlay to use with each stitch type, and where and when to use it, as well as why! Learn how to hide your underlays…and create knockdown bases when doing terrycloth. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in density, length of stitches, pull compensation, column width, and… learn how to create a custom underlay to customize your Fonts…and we will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #5: April 2nd 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Design Analysis and Set Up. Taking the same Design, we will analyze it, looking at where to start, and what stitches to use, where to place your Underlay and where to eliminate it. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on Design Analysis, Where to begin and how to end!… and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #6 April 16 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Today we will look at lettering, first setting up stock lettering, then custom lettering. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons on Density, Length of Stitch, Underlay, pathing, trims, and tie-offs, as well as forming Tatami Lettering…and you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #7 April 30th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will examine Small Lettering and unlock the Secret to clean crisp letters that do not get lost. Learn new techniques for those letters smaller than .22 inches! HOMEWORK: Learn valuable lessons on density, length of stitch, underlays, pathing through your letters both running stitch letters AND Satin Stitch letters, tie-offs and trims, and we will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #8th May 14th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Color selection, the difference it can make. Turn a Ho Hum Design to one that Pops with the simple use of color! Develop volume and shape using simple rules from Art 101 HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on choosing your Colors, what pops, what blends and softens, what will appear fresh and what won’t, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #9 May 28th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Pathing, a major part of any Design that makes the difference in how the Design looks, as well as your time on the machine. Learn to travel through your design using Color. and/or your stitch types. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on connecting each part of your design to the next, how to avoid extra trims and how to map out your Design, and… you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #10 June 11th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Blending your colors. Learn effective ways to create new shades and tints of colors in your designs! Minimize the colors you use by blending as you travel through your design! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on mixing those Colors in your designs, see how simple artistic principles will allow you to give that design the perfect shades of color that you need, and you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using these blending techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #11 June 25 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Shading: Using your Blends of color to Shade your Design and give it realism and depth. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on placing your colors throughout your Design, using densities to enhance the colors or to soften them. Then try these techniques on a Design that contains problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #12: July 9 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Repeating Patterns…Motifs. Learn to evaluate your design, What do you see that is a duplicate? Learn how to save it, make it a motif, or an object that may easily be repeated at different sizes..Learn how to see that your connection between each motif or object is part of the design. Then do a running stitch and turn that running stitch into anything from a Border to Bricks to Waterfalls! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in density, length of stitches, push-pull, and pathing and texture! … and you will have a Design containing problems that can be enhanced using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class # 13 July 23rd 9:30 AM Pacific Time: 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…AND the reason the customer has come to you is that the stitch out is not good! We will take the art, clean it up, and make it better! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in cleaning up your art, where to start, densities, stitch length, underlay, color, and push-pull, and you will have a stitch file of a faulty Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #14 August 13th, 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. Look at the angle of the fill, was it changed when the formats were changed?, Look at the Satin Stitch, should it be a Fill? Then the Running stitch. Was it changed to Manual? AND…were your Fills changed to Manual Stitches. We will change those manual stitches back to running stitches for control and scaling. HOMEWORK: You will have a Non-Native design to work th
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Webinar 2024 Class #11 Shading
$100.00
Class #11 June 25 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Shading: Using your Blends of color to Shade your Design and give it realism and depth. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on placing your colors throughout your Design, using densities to enhance the colors or to soften them. Then try these techniques on a Design that contains problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
NEW this year! A WORKBOOK with each Class! A way to be sure that you got it! Take your lessons past the Screen. Learn even more about the subject that we have taught, Share your results and Excell!
We will teach you techniques to perfect your work, prevent thread breaks, save stitches, and make digitizing more enjoyable.
You will receive access to our Streaming videos of these classes shortly after the class ends, and you may view them on your Mac, IPad and PC. Simply watch, pause, practice and continue! What could be better? Certainly NOT the price!
One of our twice-monthly Webinars that will give you answers to editing your existing designs. You will learn how to turn a Bad Design to a Great one!
Join in and be part of it, or just plan to use the Video Recording of the Webinar to Learn and to Review.
Pay $100, for each of the Classes that interest you, or sign up for our Complete Learning Package at $199 CLICK HERE: https://learntodigitize.net/shop/complete-learning-package/
and have the advantage of accessing any Webinar and its Workbook, at no extra charge! PLUS…Access more than 165 existing videos, and the NEW recordings of the 2024 Webinars as they are produced, and get three hours of Private Training each year!
NEED TO RE-NEW?, AND to Catch Up?
That is easy, $100 will give you another year of all the benefits of our Complete Learning Package while Catching you up on any Classes you missed! CLICK HERE: https://learntodigitize.net/shop/learning-package-subscription-renewal/
OR…If you are really serious about Learning to Digitize, We are Serious about Teaching you! Balboa’s “Everything Balboa Package” includes 9 personal classes each year and all the benefits of the Complete Learning Package as well as Balboa’s Library of Designs!
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2024 Schedule
Class #1: February 6th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will start with the Stitch. Then show how that Stitch is used in each of our basic groups of stitches. Next, we will take a Design apart looking at the role the Running Stitch plays and its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, the forming of the Satin or Column Stitch, the role of the Underlay, as well as tie-offs and pathing, puckering and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!.
Class #2: February 20th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will take the same Design apart looking at the role the Satin or Column Stitch plays and its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, the forming of the Satin or Column Stitch, the role of the Underlay, as well as tie-offs and pathing, puckering and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!.
Class #3: March 5th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Taking the same Design, we will examine the role that the Fill or Tatami stitch plays in the design as well as its construction. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on the length of the stitch in the Fill, the density of the Fill, and the texture and pattern formed by the needle penetrations, as well as pathing and underlays, and push-pull, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #4: March 19th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Underlay, not just manual, and not just part of the object. Learn which Underlay to use with each stitch type, and where and when to use it, as well as why! Learn how to hide your underlays…and create knockdown bases when doing terrycloth. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in density, length of stitches, pull compensation, column width, and… learn how to create a custom underlay to customize your Fonts…and we will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #5: April 2nd 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Design Analysis and Set Up. Taking the same Design, we will analyze it, looking at where to start, and what stitches to use, where to place your Underlay and where to eliminate it. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on Design Analysis, Where to begin and how to end!… and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #6 April 16 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Today we will look at lettering, first setting up stock lettering, then custom lettering. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons on Density, Length of Stitch, Underlay, pathing, trims, and tie-offs, as well as forming Tatami Lettering…and you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #7 April 30th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We will examine Small Lettering and unlock the Secret to clean crisp letters that do not get lost. Learn new techniques for those letters smaller than .22 inches! HOMEWORK: Learn valuable lessons on density, length of stitch, underlays, pathing through your letters both running stitch letters AND Satin Stitch letters, tie-offs and trims, and we will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #8th May 14th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Color selection, the difference it can make. Turn a Ho Hum Design to one that Pops with the simple use of color! Develop volume and shape using simple rules from Art 101 HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on choosing your Colors, what pops, what blends and softens, what will appear fresh and what won’t, and a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #9 May 28th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Pathing, a major part of any Design that makes the difference in how the Design looks, as well as your time on the machine. Learn to travel through your design using Color. and/or your stitch types. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on connecting each part of your design to the next, how to avoid extra trims and how to map out your Design, and… you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #10 June 11th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Blending your colors. Learn effective ways to create new shades and tints of colors in your designs! Minimize the colors you use by blending as you travel through your design! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on mixing those Colors in your designs, see how simple artistic principles will allow you to give that design the perfect shades of color that you need, and you will have a Design containing problems that can be corrected using these blending techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #11 June 25 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Shading: Using your Blends of color to Shade your Design and give it realism and depth. HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons on placing your colors throughout your Design, using densities to enhance the colors or to soften them. Then try these techniques on a Design that contains problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #12: July 9 th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Repeating Patterns…Motifs. Learn to evaluate your design, What do you see that is a duplicate? Learn how to save it, make it a motif, or an object that may easily be repeated at different sizes..Learn how to see that your connection between each motif or object is part of the design. Then do a running stitch and turn that running stitch into anything from a Border to Bricks to Waterfalls! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in density, length of stitches, push-pull, and pathing and texture! … and you will have a Design containing problems that can be enhanced using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class # 13 July 23rd 9:30 AM Pacific Time: 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…AND the reason the customer has come to you is that the stitch out is not good! We will take the art, clean it up, and make it better! HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in cleaning up your art, where to start, densities, stitch length, underlay, color, and push-pull, and you will have a stitch file of a faulty Design containing problems that can be corrected using techniques that you have learned in this Class!
Class #14 August 13th, 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. Look at the angle of the fill, was it changed when the formats were changed?, Look at the Satin Stitch, should it be a Fill? Then the Running stitch. Was it changed to Manual? AND…were your Fills changed to Manual Stitches. We will change those manual stitches back to running stitches for control and scaling. HOMEWORK: You will have a Non-Native design to work the new “Magic” you have learned! See what your limits are, and what may still need to be trashed to allow for complete control.
Class #15 August 27th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Appliques! Not just a substitute for stitches! Learn to use the applique to add beauty to your Design! Learn to use this technique to add function and Effect. Learn to use “Trapunto” as a tool for texture. (appliqueing an embroidered “Trapunto” piece to the background adding running stitches to define the design) HOMEWORK: Valuable lessons in using automatic applique programs, different ways to finish off your applique using borders, made from Motifs!, using fills to shade, and using a running stitch leaving the fabric “Raw”., use of auto-applique for Athletic Designs, and creating movement before stitching down the material.
Class #16 September 10th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Borders and finishing stitches, Tie off your design with style, create design blocks using textured backgrounds, and mix your mediums by bringing your prints into your design. HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in Creating Borders, background textures, and using the tools that you have to add printing to embroidery! A chance to create a border or background to enhance your design. Make it a print, or a light-density pattern, or use your running stitch!
Class #17 September 24th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: 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, andembrace it…Don’t fear it! HOMEWORK: Fill out your own Copyright form in both TX and VA
Class #18 October 8th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Pricing your Work. Learn who your market is. Learn to work within your marketplace. Add Perks that bring them back. What is there locally, what does the national/international market offer? How to set up your product so that you do not lose it,,. AND, Make sure you are making money!HOMEWORK: Analyze your market, and look at how you can expand it without doing extra work. What opportunities do you have locally, and nationally?
Class #19 October 22nd, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Back to the Business Designs: What can you do with an existing Logo to make it more Beautiful? How to get through to your customer. Give him what he needs, not what he wants! HOMEWORK: Look at colors and techniques that will enhance the design in front of you. Look at perceived value versus costs!
Class #20 November 5th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Let’s look at the artistic side of your business. How to sell it to a customer who has no imagination! How to make a picture worth 1000 works. You have the tools! Take that LOGO and make it POP, you know how. Show that customer more than he or she ever expected! You have the tools, tools that will make this customer yours forever. Use them! HOMEWORK: Take that hum drum logo. Set it up as tone-on-tone using the garment that works! Look at colors and techniques that will enhance the design in front of you. Look at perceived value versus costs!
Classes #21 and #22 November 19th and December 3rd, each at 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! HOMEWORK: Take Your Design and do our step-by-step Clean-up, and Enjoy your Holiday. Be ready to submit your Design, if it is chosen for demonstration, you will have Your work done for you. If not, you will see how to do it.
HOMEWORK: Take the time to finally try the techniques that you have learned on your own design! See how much time you will save, and enjoy your Holidays with your family and friends!
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