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We will cover things like:
🦋Making a stencil from your image
🌷Using fusible adhesive
🤓Edge stitching, satin stitching, pivoting
Prerequisite:
🤸♀️ This class is beginner friendly but equires recent sewing machine experience — this is not a learn-to-sew class. Learn more about prerecs and if this is the right class for you and reach out I’d love to chat this over!
📍Home Ec NYC
44-02 23rd st #315
Long Island City, NY 11101
Have some general workshop related questions?! Check out the [FAQs].
What is Included:
⏰ 3 hours for guided workshop time.
🛠️ All tools and instruction for the workshop.
💃 Live demo and instructions and demonstrations
👉Note: This does not include materials. Materials can be purchased separately or brought from home (see below).
What do you need to bring?
An image [on paper] to use for your appliqué- could be simple shapes, flowers, letters for spelling words, pop culture characters, etc. Can be hand drawn or a found image.
Item of clothing on which you will machine sew your applique. T-shirt or sweatshirt is ideal. A tote bag could work, too.
Scraps of fabric to use for the applique. Knit fabrics are ideal (t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.), but any scraps can be used. You can also bring old clothing to be cut
👉Note: If the materials brought by the student are not appropriate for the project or they forget them, students can purchase provided materials at the time of class for full price.
Diana Rodgers
Diana Rodgers is a sewing teacher and fiber artist living in the Bronx. She earned a BFA in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. After a decade as a designer in the fashion industry, she started her own brand, Wonder Threads, and manufactured an evolving line of products sold locally, online, and also wholesaled to MoMA Design Store, Uncommon Goods, and several boutiques around the country.
Diana has been teaching sewing to both children and adults since 2015. Her sewing classes range from beginner basics, to garments, bags, accessories, and quilts. Her goal is to help her students build a strong foundation of sewing skills while creating awesome projects.
Her personal work includes garment sewing, quilting, applique, soft sculpture, and embroidery.
When not sewing, Diana can be found tending both her outdoor and indoor plants, baking, and visiting art galleries.
Diana’s work can be seen at dianarodgers.com and followed on Instagram @wonderthreads
