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Greetings all

DC Threads is taking a summer vacation. Due to a DC Parks and Rec event being held at the North Michigan Park Rec Center on July 10th, the DC Threads Sewing Lounge will not meet.  We will return in August with needles ready to stitch!  Have a great month and see you in August!

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Welcome summer!

This month we are re-introducing the Sewing Lounge’s  “Project of the Month”.  Each month we will offer up a suggested project that Lounge participants can make or that you can make at home if you can’t attend the Lounge.  This month we will be sewing an [...]

Interested in learning about couture sewing techniques?  The American Sewing Guild – Maryland Chapter is hosting a full day workshop with Susan Khalje – couture dressmaker and master teacher.  Susan will demonstrate  a range of basic hand-sewing stitches, a hand-picked zipper, ultra-thin spaghetti straps, a beautifully controlled narrow machine hem, perfect angled [...]

Community of Hope ROCKS!!!

Many thanks to the Community of Hope for accepting the American Sewing Guild – Maryland Chapter’s offering of 200 hand crafted pillow cases for their residents! We hope that they will brighten up your residents’ spaces.  Thanks again to Community of Hope for all the good work that [...]

The Textile Museum has graciously offered to host, for DC Threads, a private tour of two extraordinary exhibitions: Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection and the Fabrics of Feathers and Steel: The Innovation of Nuno.   The Contemporary Japanese Fashion exhibit includes avant-garde garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former [...]

Don’t miss this fashion and design event!  Fashion Fights Poverty has partnered with Woodrow Wilson High School to fund its Clothing and Textile Program (CTP), a program that began in the 1930s as part of the Home Economic and Arts curriculum. The program has evolved over the years and typically includes up to 225 students, [...]

Hand-sewn snowflake cards, a great indoor activity idea from goldtop.org

Alas, for the first time since this program was launched in 2008, the DC Threads Sewing Lounge will be canceled this Saturday (February 13, 2010). We tried to hold out, but North Michigan Park Center is still working on plowing its sidewalks and parking lot, [...]

Welcome 2010!  All of us here at DC Threads are looking forward to another wildly successful  year – thanks to  the incredibly talented and creative sewists and volunteers who join us each month at the Sewing Lounge!!  Our vision for 2010 includes building on the success of the Lounge, focusing on our “Stitchin’ for Change” [...]

Thanks to NinnyCat Crochet for inviting DC Threads to offer a sewing workshop at today’s DC Craft Mafia’s Holiday Heist craft bazaar! The project of the day is – – HOLIDAY STOCKINGS! Love it — the crafting of holiday stockings 2 years ago at Ipso Crafto is where Allison and I dreamed up the idea [...]

Once again we are pleased to share some upcoming DC-based fashion events with our DC Threads family.

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The Textile Museum has two “must see” events on their calendar.  First up is (drum-roll please) an evening with ISABEL TOLEDO – designer of Mrs. O’s fabulous lemongrass dress and coat!!!

From Switzerland to the [...]