Education Programs - Correspondence Courses

Level: A
Lessons: 5
Points: 10

Notes
COST: Individual $97.00 (includes $60 teacher's fee, $19.00 text & postage and $15.00 SAGA administrative fee. Group $54.00 per student (includes teacher's fee, text, postage and administrative fee) with a minimum of 4 students and a maximum of 10 students plus a group leader. The group leader pays $30.00 (includes teacher's fee, text, postage and administrative fee).

DESCRIPTION
Are you tired of the same old thing? Would you like to learn some fun, new things to do with your smocking needle? Do you feel you could design for yourself or others, if only you knew a bit more about how to do it? Have you reached the point where you want to experiment with stitches on pleats? If you have been nodding your head as you read this, This Is The Course For You!













Advanced Smocking Stitches and Design is a five-lesson course for individuals or groups. It will cover 15 different advanced stitches and many more suggested variations. First, the students will stitch and experiment with these 15 stitches on a sampler. An extensive bibliography dealing with design, smocking, and embroidery stitches is included to enable the student to expand her knowledge along her lines of interest. Next, after a comprehensive discussion of color and design, the student will create an original smocking design using the advanced stitches she has learned. She will then stitch this design on a garment. The angel-wing bishop dress pattern is offered through the course, but she is free to use any garment pattern of her choosing. Graphing and detailed construction information are included.













Since very few published designers design with advanced stitches, students will be encouraged to publish their own designs, and will be given information about publishing, printing, and marketing in order to fill this gap.













Students work will be critiqued twice. The sampler will be critiqued for technique. The completed stitched original design will be critiqued for aesthetic value.













Students MUST have a working knowledge of the basic stitches and techniques of English Smocking before taking this course.