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Summer Vacation for DC Threads Sewing Lounge

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:41:09 +0000

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!

Enjoy some photos from yesterday’s Lounge. We made bags, learned to use new machines, laid out patterns, recycled spouse’s denim shirts, rubbed off hobo bags, and channeled our collective creative karma! Many thanks to all the sewists who joined us and to all our AMAZING coaches!

The June Lounge is FULL but sew along with us from home!

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:20:02 +0000

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 EMPIRE WAIST TUBE TOP – a cool summer top that is soooooo chic and easy to make! Click on the image below for the instructions and required fabric and notions:

Sew on!

The DC Threads Sewing Lounge continues to be wildly popular – with spaces filling up within hours of availability and long waiting lists! In an effort to to accommodate everyone interested in learning to sew, we are working to find the time and space to host additional sessions of the Lounge. Squeezing more hours into the day is always tough – but we thought we would reach out to our sewing community to inquire if any sewists out there know of a space, in DC, (specifically – a free space) that would be suitable to host a Lounge once or twice a month. Drop us an email at DCThreads@gmail.com if you have an ideas for us.

Thanks again for your support of DC Threads!

Best,

Laura and Allison

Couture Techniques Workshop – May 22nd – NOT TO BE MISSED!

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:26:52 +0000

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 seams, covered snaps that are attached with a buttonhole stitch, thread chains and thread bars, seaming lace invisibly and faggoting.

Susan received her professional sewing training at the New York couture salon, Chez Cez et Bez and later worked as a fashion designer and manufacturing supervisor on 7th Avenue in New York. She is a contributing editor of Threads magazine and was recently awarded the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award.

I have attended several of Susan’s classes and she is extraordinarily skilled in the techniques of couture and is a terrific teacher.

Saturday, May 22, 2010 Time: 9am – 5pm

Marriott BWI Airport Hotel (410) 859-8300

1743 West Nursery Road

Linthicum Heights, MD 21090

Full Day Workshop – $100 (ASG Members) $140 (Non ASG Members)

Registration Deadline: May 8, 2010

NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR

Questions, please contact Blondell Howard at sew.sassy@verizon.net

or Ivalyn “Tee” Jones-Actie at dressed2atee@yahoo.com

To register please mail your check (made out to MD AMerican Sewing Guild) to:

Blondell Howard

c/o The Sassy SEWer

9008 Harford Road

Baltimore, MD 21234

Please include your name, address and email address with your payment.

You’ll master the following: – a range of basic hand-sewing stitches, a hand-picked zipper, ultra-thin spaghetti straps, a beautifully controlled narrow machine hem, perfect angled seams, covered snaps that are attached with a buttonhole stitch, thread chains and thread bars, seaming lace invisibly and faggoting.

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:24:02 +0000

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 you do for our community!

Join DC Threads for a Private Tour of the Textile Museum’s Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:01:37 +0000

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 curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s. The Nuno exhibition features 18 examples from the Nuno studio, dating from the time of the company’s founding in 1984 to the present day. Nuno (meaning “functional fabric” in Japanese) integrates the techniques, materials and aesthetics of traditional Japanese textiles with cutting-edge technologies in order to create some of the world’s most innovative and influential fabrics.

When? Saturday April 3rd from 11:00am -12:00nn

Where? Textile Museum 2320 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008-4088 Phone: (202) 667-0441

How Much? a $5 donation to the Textile Museum

How Do I Snag a Spot? We need to limit registration to 20 enthusiasts - so register SOON for this event at our registration page here.