Stitch Classes
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Hand sewing is a portable craft and a means to a meditative practice. The Slow Down & Stitch workshop series at Orange has offerings that are suitable for complete beginners as well as sewists who wish to extend their skills to incorporate the durability and elegance of hand-sewing and hand-finishing techniques. Enjoy the serene atmosphere of Orange as you learn skills, engage with beautiful materials, create one-of-a-kind objects, and make new friends. Browse the workshop descriptions and join in!
New classes will appear on EventBrite. Use the link above for full workshop descriptions and pricing.
Hand-sewing Resources
READING
- Hand Sewing Clothing by Louisa Owen Sonstroem
- Hand-sewn Inquiry (master’s thesis) by Sarah Woodyard
- How to Sew Clothes by Amelia Greenhall and Amy Bornman
- This Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair
- Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle by Clair Hunter
- Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Peppermint Magazine
LISTENING
- LINKS: 10 of the Best Sewing Podcasts So You Never Have to Sew Alone
- Check Your Thread episode 15 featuring Louisa Owen Sonstroem
- Love to Sew podcast episode featuring Bernadette Banner
- Love to Sew podcast episode featuring Brooks Ann Camper
- Sew & Tell podcast episode 77 with Alexis Bailey
- The Long Thread podcast
WATCHING
- Hand-sewing tutorials from Sewn Company
- Strata Top sew along
- Burnley & Trowbridge YouTube: historical sewing tutorials, tips, and more
- Repair What You Wear: sewing skills and mending tutorials
- Creativebug tutorials — available free with your Eastern Monroe Public Library card number
PATTERNS
- All-well Box Top and Hacking Guide .pdf sewing pattern
- Strata Top by Sew Liberated
- 100 Acts of Sewing
TOOLS
- What You Actually Need to Make Clothing in an Apocalypse from Bernadette Banner
- Burnley & Trowbridge Guide to Thread and Needles
- How to Use a Thimble from Sewn Company (right handed)
- How to Choose and Use a Thimble from Brooks Ann Camper
- Sew with a Metal Thimble from Abby Cox
- Level Up Your Thimble Game by Thread and Plume
- Choosing the Right Needle for Your Hand Sewing by Thread and Plume
- Burnley & Trowbridge needles and pins
- Brooklyn Haberdashery
FABRIC & NOTIONS
- Brooklyn General in Brooklyn, New York
- Stonemountain & Daughter Fabrics in Berkeley, California
- The Confident Stitch in Missoula, Montana
- Firecracker Fabrics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Fancy Tiger Crafts Co-op Engelwood, Colorado
- Miss Matatabi Japanese Fabrics
- Burnley & Trowbridge threads
- Ramble and Roots: botanically-dyed fabric and threads
- OAK Fabrics (online only)
- Isee Fabrics (online only) certified organic, US-milled