Serger Retreats

NEW DATES COMING SOON. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SETUP A RETREAT DATE, PLEASE CALL MARY JO GABEL AT (805) 929-4006.

“A Retreat for You and Your Friends”
Gather a few friends and email Mary Jo what you’d like to learn and she can put together a retreat to your liking. It can include serging one day and embroidery the next day or perhaps an all embroidery retreat. Since Mary Jo teaches garment construction, serger sewing, embroidery machine basics and free motion thread painting, she can teach as an all hands on retreat or combine a hands on with lectures and demonstrations to your liking.

In this two day class you will learn more about your serger than you ever dreamed!!! Mary Jo will give you a basic class as well as a couple of fun projects that will make you get acquainted with your serger. You will learn to adjust for the basic overlock stitch, a wide wrapped stitch, a rolled hem and a flatlock stitch. Or, this could be a custom retreat tailored to focus on those aspects that you want to learn!

Day 1:
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-11:30 Serger Basics
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-5:30 Serge Mary Jo’s Fun Swing Jacket

Day 2:
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-11:30 Pretty Party Bag Project
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-5:30 Complete the bag

Fee for the retreat is $250 with a non-refundable, non-transferrable deposit of $75 due to reserve your space. Balance due two weeks prior to the retreat. Minimum number of students is five and the maximum is eight.

The fee includes the continental breakfast and lunch as well as the fabrics for the jacket and the bag and all thread that is needed.

Supply list:
Serger with power cord, accessories, manual and all small sewing supplies in addition to good dressmaker shears and a rotary cutter. If you do not want to bring your own serger, call or email Mary Jo and she will work something out for you.