Arts & Crafts

Beginning Machine Quilting

If you would like to learn to machine quilt, this is the class for you! The instructor will provide tips and strategies that will also assist someone who has done some machine quilting improve their skills. The basic strategies of successful cutting, machine piecing, machine quilting, and binding will be shared. If the student does the "homework," a completed "Yellow Brick Road" quilt will be finished by the last night of class. You will need a sewing machine in good working order. Tools and fabric requirements will be discussed the first night of class.

Basic Sewing Glass

Have you desired to learn to sew, or perhaps you just want to brush up on your sewing skills? This class will cover the basics of sewing including, putting a zipper in a garment, making button holes, reading and cutting out patterns, gathering, and other important sewing skills. Students will start with a simple sewing project. Also to be completed during the course will be a sewing project of the student's choice.

Students will need to bring their own sewing machine and will be responsible for the supplies needed for their individual sewing project. Students will be making an apron for one of the projects.  This project will cover the button & ruffle as well as the reading of a pattern, pinning and cutting out.  The other project will be making a book bag with a zipper. The instructor will provide the supplies for the beginning project. There will be an $8 supply fee for the first project. Students will be responsible for the supplies for the second project. Lisa Pluth was a seamstress for Disney World, so students will be learning to sew from the BEST!

Intermediate Sewing Glass

This class will cover the elements of simple garment making including, taking measurements, blind hems,
collars, sleeves, waistbands, darts, shortening or lengthening a garment and other skills used in sewing
 clothing. Students will need to bring their own sewing machine and will be responsible for the supplies
 needed for their individual sewing project.  You will complete 2 or 3 projects depending on the garments chosen.

This class will NOT cover the elements from beginning sewing  but will expand on that knowledge. 
Students don't need to have attended the 1st level but will need to posses those skills in order to
successfully complete this class.  There won't be a supply fee as students will be responsible for the
supplies for their individual projects.

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