Correspondence Courses
Points: 10
Area: FMS
Price: $165
Kit Fee: $0
(Student provides kit.)
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This course is designed for the student who has learned basic heirloom sewing techniques or has completed the Apprentice Level of the Artisan Program and wishes to further his/her study of heirloom sewing techniques. A good working knowledge of one’s sewing machine is required prior to taking this course.
All materials except for this text are to be provided by the student. A detailed supply list is provided in the introductory section of the text.
Points: 10
Area: SMK
Price: $107
Kit Fee: $0
(COST:Individual $107.00 ($60.00 teacher’s fee,$32.00 text, postage, kit, $15.00 SAGA admin fee).)
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This course will provide an opportunity for you to work with some “off the beaten path” fabrics and flosses. In lesson 1 you will pleat and smock Linen with cotton threads and flosses, lesson 2 is Wool and Wool threads. Featherwale corduroy with cotton and nylon flosses are in lesson 3 and lesson 4 uses silk fabric with silk flosses. The final lesson, 5, is your choice of fabric and a hand dyed floss to stitch your design. This course is designed to stretch your imagination and try flosses and fabrics you don’t see used in smocking everyday. The smocking graphs are included in the course for lessons 1 thru 4, in lesson 5 you may use your own design or a published one.
Points: 10
Area: FMS
Price: $167
Kit Fee: $0
(Student provides kit.)
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**Newly Revised and Updated, 2024**Have you admired the sweet heirloom garments that grace the pages of sewing magazines and wish you knew the secrets to creating them? Maybe you have beginning FMS skills but would like to perfect them, or perhaps you would like some guided practice, to gain enough confidence to submit your work to SAGA’s Artisan program.
This 5-lesson notebook course takes you step-by-step through beginning heirloom techniques. You will start with the very basics of pulling a thread, and rolling and whipping. Next, you’ll learn lace joining, flat tucks and pin tucks, five different techniques incorporating entredeux, as well as how to construct a fancy band.
All the techniques required for the FMS Apprentice level of the Artisan program are included in the course, plus a few more that are helpful to learn at the beginner level. Being enrolled in the Artisan program is not required to take the course. In addition to heirloom sewing, every lesson includes useful and practical information on general sewing, covering topics such as threads, machine needles, tension theory, and more. Artisan members are awarded 10 points upon completion of the course.
As you learn each heirloom technique, you’ll be building a useful sample notebook with stitch settings that are just right for you and your machine. This will become a valuable and time saving reference tool for creating future projects.
Requirements for this course are having a good working knowledge of your sewing machine model and beginning skills in general sewing.
Points: 10
Area: SMK
Price: $110
Kit Fee: $0
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Claire Meldrum's Perfect Picture Smocking will show you how to do your most beautiful picture smocking ever! The course is easy to follow and one you will be thrilled to take. Several of our testers decided to take the full class after testing the material! We never had that happen before so that should give you some idea of the usefulness of this course. You will make small samples of various pictures using a single color, then changing colors during the stitching. Picture Smocking is terrific for all kinds of garments, samplers, ornaments and sewing items such as needlebooks. Claire will provide 5 evaluations to let you know how to improve your stitching. You should have some experience with smocking prior to the class.
Points: 10
Area: SMK
Price: $97
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This course explores the use of fabrics and floss colors for dramatic variations of one simple smocking design. You will be challenged to try to discover new combinations and discover how simple it is to customize smocking designs to match your fabric. To take this course you should be proficient in pleating fabric and the execution of three basic smocking stitches, the cable, trellis and wave. For Artisan program participants the lesson samplers and pleating will offer practice for your Smocking Level I submissions.
The course text is included in the text fee while all other materials for the course will be provided by the student. Materials required are five pieces of fabric, floss, pleating thread, needles and additional materials may include pins, needle threader, scissors, pen, pencils and paper. Simple Stitch Effects is a five-lesson course taught for individuals only.