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2026 Schedule of Webinars!  NEW Techniques, All with WORKBOOKS!

Class #1: February 3rd 9:30 AM Pacific Time:Prepare yourself for Digitizing Excellence, by Starting 2026 with an overview of the process of Digitizing that thoroughly covers the Basics. We begin with the Stitch, then move to the Running Stitch, Then to the Column or Satin Stitch and then the Fill. Learn where to use them and when. Learn how to Construct them. AND learn their’ Properties, the things They will do and won’t let you do, as well as the Variations, the things these Stitches do that you can change.  Master this first group of stitches of the Basics, the Running Stitch, and progress to the Column or Satin Stitch, then the Fill or Tatami. An absolute must if you want to take your Digitizing to the next level.  You will be surprised how much more there is to learn about each of our 3 Basic groups of stitches!
HOMEWORK: HOMEWORK: Review your class, and then your Homework, use the Balboa techniques to create the objects you saw in Class, or simply take that same object, watch it run, and see that the result is exactly what you were told it would be.  Use length and density and even layering to control the objects in your design. Lessons on the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, and the texture and patterns you can add with each of the groups of stitches. Control puckering, rolling, and push-pull by digitizing a Design with techniques that do just that

Class #2  February 17, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: We began with the Stitch, then moved to the Running Stitch.  Now, on to the Column or Satin Stitch and then the Fill. Learn where to use each of these groups of stitches and when. Learn how to Construct them. AND learn their Properties, the things They will do and won’t let you do, as well as the Variations, the things these Stitches do that you can change.  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.  This Class will give you the confidence to use Your Column Stitch to bring out the best in your designs.  Master this group of stitches and move on to the Fill or Tatami. These Basics are An absolute must if you want to take your Digitizing to the next level.  You will be surprised how much there is to learn about each of our 3 Basic groups of stitches!
HOMEWORK: HOMEWORK: Review your class, and then your Homework, use the Balboa techniques to create the objects you saw in Class, or simply take that same object, watch it run, and see that the result is exactly what you were told it would be.  Use length and density and even layering to control the objects in your design. Lessons on the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, and the texture and patterns you can add with each of the groups of stitches, and invaluable lessons on Control puckering, rolling, and push-pull by digitizing a Design with techniques that do just that

Class #3: March 3rd, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: In this Third Class we will  show how the Fill stitch is used throughout the design, looking at the role the Fill or Tatami Stitch plays and how it is constructed.  What you can vary or change: the length, the density and the needle penetrations, as well as its’ properties.  The things you cannot change, how to live with them and make them an asset and not a threat.  Finally in this class you will solve the mystery of Push-Pull.  You do NOT correct it.  You simply do not create it!
HOMEWORK: Valuable Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, and the texture and pattern formed by the needle penetrations, creating the Fill or Tatami Stitch.  This group of stitches’, its’ pull, its’ tie-offs, tie-ins, trims, puckering and push-pull, are all controlled with length and density and layering, using the techniques that you have learned about the Fill Stitch in this Class!

Class #4: March 17th 9:30 AM Pacific Time: In this Fourth Class we will be learning about Underlays.  Part of our Warm Up before the hard stuff! The Underlay, both Manual and Automatic. The structure of the Design,.. 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. Learn to use your underlays for volume and depth, instead of Foam.
HOMEWORK: Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, and the texture and patterns you can add with this group of stitches, puckering and push-pull, controlling you Underlay with length and density and even layering as well as using the length and density and layering in your underlay to control the objects in your design.  Then, using the techniques that you have learned about the UnderlayStitches in a design!

Class #5: March 31st, 9:30 AM Pacific Time:This Class is on Pathing! Our 6th 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!
HOMEWORK: Lessons in the Length of the Stitch, the Density of the stitches, and the texture and patterns you can add with this group of stitches, puckering and push-pull, using the length and density and layering in your “Pathing” to control the objects in your design.  Then, using the techniques that you have learned about the PathingStitches in a design!

Class #6: April 14th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time:
The rest of the schedule will be posted in the next few days.  For those of you blocking off time for your Classes.  They will be every other Tuesday at 9:30 AM through out the year, unless the Class falls on a holiday.