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Can’t wait to make more beautiful little dresses! Hope you can join us next month!
Textiles + Wine = A Mighty Fine Time!
DC Threads kicked off 2011 with our inaugural “Sip and Stitch” event! “Sip and Stitch” brings together local and national sewing experts and DC area sewists (of all experience levels) for a relaxed evening of information-sharing, hands-on learning, wine, and light refreshments. The events are sponsored by DC Threads and are held at Bits of Thread Sewing Studio in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC. Many thanks to Molly and Judah Greenzaid for offering 20 or so sewing enthusiasts an insider’s glimpse into the world of textiles and the fashion industry. The Greenzaids shared with us their extensive knowledge of textiles – bringing with them dozens and dozens of swatches of fabrics that we held, touched, and coveted! We even burned some fabric as a way to identify true fiber content – avoiding a visit by the DC Fire Department!! And finally, armed with the latest fashion magazines and pattern books, Molly demonstrated how to select fabrics to copy the latest fashion trends.
Stay tuned for information about our next Sip and Stitch! We hope you will join us!
That’s right! You heard right! DC Threads caught some major ink in the current issue of Vogue Pattern Magazine (February/March 2011). Linda Turner Griepentrog penned a great piece about “today’s sewing circle” – the Sewing Lounge. She featured photos of ten Lounges from all over the US - including Baltimore’s The Sassy SEWer Sewing Lounge! Too bad Allison’s Bits of Thread Sewing Studio was but a twinkle of a dream months ago when we were interviewed for the story! DC Threads was featured in a special side-bar focusing on our community service focus! RAH!!! The story is great – we especially love the pics of Doris Lum, our stellar beginners’ coach and Erica and Teoki, a couple of our fav sewists! How cool is that!???? DC Threads is to thrilled to announce: “Sip and Stitch”!
“Sip and Stitch” is a series of events that will bring together local and national sewing experts and DC area sewists (of all experience levels) for a relaxed evening of information-sharing, hands-on learning, wine, and light refreshments. “Sip and Stitch” events are sponsored by DC Threads and are held at Bits of Thread Sewing Studio in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC.
DC Threads kicks off its inaugural “Sip and Stitch” year with: “Fabrics 101: Linens and Woolens and Silks – Oh My!” with Molly Greenzaid
Molly Greenzaid, co-founder of Fabrics and Trims online store and long time denizen of the DC sewing and fashion scene, will demystify the myriad fabrics available to sewists, provide us with tips on how to select the appropriate fabric for a project, and share with us some techniques for identifying different types of fabric. She also will share with us her extensive experience as a buyer for leading US and London-based fabric stores.
When? Friday Janaury 21, 2011 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where? Bits of Thread Sewing Studio 1794 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC 20009 Suite 6 (For entry – dial 9 then 06)
How Much? $5.00 Our registration fee covers libations (wine and tea), light refreshments, and an honorarium for our speakers.
Registration Required? Yes, space is limited so register early. You can RSVP here or via the RSVP button on the DC Threads website.
Molly Greenzaid, briefly:
Fabrics and Trimmings launched as an Etsy shop in August 2010 –a small venture to keep the Greenzaids doing what they love best – buying and selling fabrics and trims! Their point of view focuses on novelty fabrics and trims—the less common offerings in the market. They are in the fabric markets frequently and attend trade shows nation-wide. Their vast list of professional contacts and their seasoned reputation provides them with access to the ‘ right people with the right fabrics.’ A recent customer comment affirms this: “Each time I return or see fabric that is electric and beautiful – it is you!”
Hope to see you sippin’ and stitchin’ with DC Threads!!
DC Threads (and our new home Bits of Thread) received a little page time in the “Arts and Living Section” of WashingtonPost.com! The article features sewing resources in the DC area – places to learn to sew and to buy fabric and notions – as well as several great books about sewing! Check the article out here!
And check out our own Allison Lince-Bentley in a feature piece in the Post! Click here!
When we started the DC Threads program in October 2008, our long-term dream was to have a permanent space where we could hold the lounge and other sewing programs and classes. We are finally in a position to make that happen. Over the past year, Allison has been growing a small teaching business, the Bits of Thread Sewing Studio. This November, she moved into a new space in Adams Morgan that will be large enough to host the DC Threads lounge, starting in January. The move is bittersweet for us– we are thrilled to finally have a space where we can have all of the supplies and equipment we need in one place, but we will be very sad to leave North Michigan Park, which has been so good to us. We hope you understand our decision, and we hope to see you at the new lounge location. If any of you would like to continue a sewing program or sewing circle at North Michigan Park, we invite you to contact us for more information. And yes, the DC Threads lounge will remain FREE, and will still be held once a month as before, run by volunteer coaches. The next lounge will be Saturday, January 8, 2011 — more details are coming shortly! Again, thank you all –especially the staff at North Michigan Park, and our volunteers– for helping us making this such a successful program. The move brings us many new possibilities which we are excited about, and we look forward to sharing them with you in the New Year. Please be in touch if you have any questions, and we hope to see you at a sewing lounge soon! Laura and Allison
Those dog daze of summer are gone and DC Threads is looking forward to diving into the Fall sewing season! Join us at an upcoming DC Threads Sewing Lounge to learn the skills you will need to create your own runway-worthy garments this fall season. The October Lounge will feature a presentation of a designer’s portfolio - sure to inspire us all! Hope to see you soon! The schedule for the October Lounge will be: 1:00PM Lounge opens 1:15PM- 2:15PM Beginner sewing session 2:30PM – 3:00PM Break-out session: Presentation of designer portfolio 3:45PM Clean up 4:00PM Lounge closes 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! 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
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.
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