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Now there's a NEW
Seminar you can teach:


When you teach either of these seminars we will list you on our
20 Tips Teacher Directory. Take a look...

 

The Business of
Teaching Sewing

NEW SECOND EDITION
$24.95
by Marcy Miller, Pati Palmer
Now is the ideal time to enter the business of teaching sewing. As sewing curriculum in the schools diminishes, thousands are looking elsewhere to learn to sew, or to improve their sewing skills. This newly revised book compiles more than 30 years of teaching ideas gleaned from thousands of classes taught by Palmer/Pletsch corporate educators. The authors guide you through setting up a business, identifying what, where and when to teach, creating lesson plans and visuals for teaching, then marketing yourself and your "product." Reproducible and editable business forms and teaching handouts give you a head start on making money teaching sewing.  112 pages.
Click here to read the press release on this book.

The Business of Teaching Sewing (book)
$24.95 

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Are you teaching beginning sewing? This book by Nancy Zieman is the perfect "textbook."


Let's Sew!

by Nancy Zieman

A beginner’s sewing guide
Step by step instructions and illustrations convince novice sewers, “I can do that.” This book focuses on the basics of using sewing machines and sergers, fabric facts, and using patterns. Examples of fundamental construction techniques include adding a patch pocket, stitching buttonholes, inserting a centered or lapped zipper, and making a wrapped corner collar. Let’s Sew! is also a perfect gift for beginning sewers of all ages! Written in association with the National 4-H Council. Soft cover; 80 pages.

"Let's Sew!" $10.95

This slide-filled seminar contains the most important tips that will change anyone's sewing life for the better, whether they're working on fashion or home decorating projects. For problems with sleeves, easing, puckers, choosing the right interfacing, fitting challenges, sewing different shaped seams together, piping in fashio or home dec, choosing flattering styles, or ending up with a garment you are not proud to wear, this class has the answers. The CD includes a PowerPoint slide presentation, script, and seminar marketing materials. Purchase includes a listing on our 20 Tips seminar location directory, if you choose. (SEE DIRECTORY)

20 Tips Seminar CD  $40.00
 

 


 

I heard great success stories from many of you who bought the 20 Tips CD. You said it gave you an instant class. Many of you taught it many times and had great success in attendance and sales. Many of you used it to promote your hands-on classes. I was so pleased as the seminar involved hundreds if not thousands of hours to create if you add all the sample making and photography over the years.

This year I did another version of the seminar at the Puyallup Sewing Expo and called it 20 MORE Tips. My attendance was superb and we sold tons of notions. The new disk includes a list of what you can purchase to sell at the seminar."

More 20 Tips Seminar CD  $40.00


 

Ordering Wholesale Palmer/Pletsch Products

Palmer/Pletsch teachers may order Palmer/Pletsch products at wholesale pricing following the instructions below.

Minimum Order: $75 net + applicable freight
Terms: Pre-payment or credit card

METHOD 1: EMAIL
E-mail your order to info@palmerpletsch.com - The order will be charged to your credit card on file. DO NOT e-mail your credit card number; it is not safe.

METHOD 2: FAX
Fax your order to 503-274-1377
The order can be charged to a credit card on file or a new number can be faxed.

METHOD 3: PHONE
Call 1-800-728-3784

METHOD 4: ONLINE**
Place your order online at www.palmerpletsch.com. You can enter payment details at the time of the online order.

** Wholesale pricing online will only apply to any item ordered in quantities of six or more. If you do not want six or more of each item in your order, please use method 1, 2 or 3 above to get wholesale pricing on your entire order. 

Please call 1-800-728-3784 or e-mail info@palmerpletsch.com if you have any questions.  Thank you.

 

 

A POWERPOINT SLIDE PRESENTATION:



Perfect Fusing: The Latest Solutions to Professional Garment Shaping

Palmer/Pletsch has made choosing and using interfacings simpler than ever before. Teach a seminar on how to use fusibles. You or your sponsor can sell the interfacings and the interfacing DVD after your seminar. The 88 slides are in PowerPoint. Read the script as you project the slides on your laptop or use a digital projector. Your audience will learn how to select and use fusible interfacings in blouses, dresses, and jackets.

View and download the script for free:

PDF
Word Document

PowerPoint Presentation -  $25:  (The PowerPoint download will be available after ordering.)

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A POWERPOINT SLIDE SERIES FOR IMAGE CLASSES:
Looking Good

118 slides, detailed script on line, color theory, proportion, personal style, and much, much more, complete with examples. CD includes scanned slides, script, and press release. $55.

Looking Good
Seminar CD
  $55.00

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A TEACHER TRAINING KIT:
Creative Serging

This TEACHER TRAINING KIT includes original camera-ready or printable sample pages for teaching a 1-day Super Beginner Serger Workshop, a 2-day Hands-on Workshop, and a 4-day Hands-on Workshop PLUS 290 slides with script on a CD so that you can also teach slide/lecture seminars. Also, included are pricing ideas and class formats for teaching serger classes as well as marketing ideas and more. 

Serging Teacher Training Kit  $195.00

NOTE: If you are thinking of teaching Serger classes or workshops, consider signing up for our Creative Serging four-day workshop. During the workshop you will make a sample notebook which  will have all the samples you need for teaching. LEARN MORE...

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Are you teaching children how to sew? The Winky Cherry System of Teaching Children to Sew teaches children sewing plus social and growth skills. Levels progress from hand sewing to embroidery and machine sewing. Author and teacher Winky Cherry believes that children should learn to sew by hand before they learn to use a sewing machine. Hand sewing skills develop finger dexterity and teach the values of patience and practice. LEARN MORE...

 

 

 

Teaching Manual
and DVD

 


"Winky Cherry System Manual" $19.95  

Teach Young Children to Sew DVD $19.95  

Special Manual and DVD Combination offer - $29.95:
Teach Young Children to Sew Manual and DVD   

 

Hand Sewing

LEVEL I:

My First Sewing Book (With Kit) $14.95

My First Sewing Book (Book only) $10.95

My First Sewing Book (With Kit) in Spanish"  $14.95   
 

LEVEL II:
My First Embroidery Book $8.95
(available only as a downloadable pdf after processing your order) 

 


LEVEL III:


My First Doll Book (With Kit) $14.95

My First Doll Book (Book Only) $10.95

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Machine Sewing

LEVEL IV:

My First Machine Sewing Book (With Kit) $12.95

My First Machine Sewing Book (Book Only) $10.95


LEVEL V:

My First Patchwork Book (With Kit) $12.95

My First Patchwork Book (Book Only) $10.95

 

LEVEL VI:

My First Quilt Book (With Kit) $12.95 

My First Quilt Book (Book Only) $10.95 

 

              
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