First Steps to Embroidery

A new Embroidery Club for Beginners and Intermediate machine embroidery enthusiasts. Learn a new technique and get familiar with the correct stabilizer to use with a variety of projects taught each month. All Machine Makes and Models are welcome, with some working knowledge of your machine.

Whether you’re just getting started or are already a seasoned stitcher, here you’ll find a warm hideaway to spark your imagination. We offer private and group lessons to help harvest your skills, as well as a full-service monogram studio serving personal and wholesale orders.

You’ll learn embroidery stitches, how to transfer patterns, and ideas for how to use embroidery in your craft projects.  By the end of class you’ll have started your first embroidery sampler, which you can frame or put in a notebook to reference in the future.

Let’s make pants that fit. We all just need a little help. We will draft a basic pant pattern from a template based on your unique measurements, then sew a muslin to test and refine fit.

If you can count, you can cross stitch!  Show your love for Chicago with this cute version of our hometown skyline! The Three-hour workshop will give you the skills to read a pattern and sew directly on to a blank fabric palette to create your own project.  All materials are included.