Beginning Machine Sewing: 4 Classes

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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Event Category

Arts & DIY

Note: This is a multi-session event series. By purchasing the event package, you acknowledge that you can attend all event dates included below.
Event Overview

Sewing Suite Home Chicago

Sewing is a learning-by-doing type of activity, and each day of this four part series will build on each other. By the end of this series you will be comfortable using a sewing machine, be able to choose the appropriate techniques and materials for a project, and will know how to manipulate fabric into fun and/or practical wearables for personal use. You can say I made it every day of the week!

Session 1: Go Go Gadget
Discussion: How to take care of your sewing machine
Hands-On Activities: Parts of the machine, various stitches and accompanying pressure and tension
Skills Learned: Learn how a sewing machine works; Machine maintenance; Stitches pressure and tension; key machine stitches.

Session 2: Razzle, Dazzle with Ruffles, Darts, and more!
Discussion: Textile Fiber and Weaves
Hands-On Activities: Fabric manipulation through techniques such as Darts, ruffles, seams and seam finishes.
Skills Learned: Learn how to sculpt and structure fabric to take the form you want.

Session 3: Zipper and Button Battle
Discussion: Introduction to Closures
Hands-On Activities: Zipper applications, buttons, button holes, snaps
Skills Learned: Learn how to use the appropriate closures

Session 4: Chi-town Chic!
Discussion: Pulling it all together
Hands-On Activities: Sew a zippered pillow case
Skills Learned: Learn how to apply all learned techniques to complete a pillow case.

Workshop Schedule: Meets for 4 consecutive Tuesdays for two-hour sessions (8 Hours Total)

Minimum age

All ages welcome

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MORE ABOUT YOUR HOST

The world around us is changing quickly but our need for communal gatherings in a nurturing and creative setting is not. Urban Threads Studio is a D-I-Y (do it yourself) collaborative studio that hopes to introduce you to the wonderful ancient craft of sewing and textile art with a 21st century twist. You may just want to rediscover a skill you learned as a child, experience the calm energy of a day of crafting or pick up an altogether new or more advanced skill like dyeing or felting. Our program hopes to accomplish all that and much more. Join us in the adventure and: register for a workshop, celebrate a next birthday with a textile art party, sign up the kids for summer camp, ask us about after school programs or enroll your youth organization in our 2013 community project.

If you need a personal consultation please call our Artistic Director, Michelle Santoro, at (708) 717-3740