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Designed to be welcoming and a little bit magical✨. Whether you're here to try a new activity with friends🥰, taking the first step on your sewing journey 🌱 or in need of a refresher 🤔 you’ll leave with skills, confidence, and something you made with your own hands 🎉HOW EPIC?!!?🎉
This grouping of classes are considered a prerequisite for the rest of the sewing classes offered at Home Ec NYC
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Centered around a specific project these workshops can run as an intensive or span multiple weeks, allowing for richer learning, creative momentum, and more meaningful connection with your work and your new sewing besties 👯♀️.
As we learn, play, mess up (it’s allowed!), and grrrrow .. You'll get to watch your process evolve and your skills and vision take shape. At the end? We celebrate 🎉—because showing up, sticking with it, and making cool shit with cool people is a big deal.
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Flexible, expert advice when you need it. Book hourly support across a range of topics—from planning to problem-solving. This focused consultation will help clarify your goals, map out next steps, and identify opportunities for growth.kill Building
A collection of focused classes to master essential techniques🛠️, gain confidence 💪, slow down🐌, and actually enjoy the process! Each session covers a specific technique, breaking it down into clear, approachable steps with in-depth instruction and expert tips. Think of me as your guide down the rabbit hole 🐇. Leave saying: “Wait—I CAN totally do this!” Because you can. And you will 😘
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Slow, intentional, and deeply satisfying 🧶✨. These workshops focus on techniques done entirely by hand with no sewing machines required! Rooted in the same creative world, these skills both support and stand alongside machine-based making. From hand embroidery and mending to pattern making and knitting, we’ll explore the quiet magic of working bit by bit.
Perfect for anyone craving a slower pace 🐌, a deeper connection to materials, or skills you can take anywhere. Come build patience, precision, and confidence while making something beautiful, useful, or both—with your hands, your brain, and a little bit of heart 💖.
Scheduled through December!
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Hi Darlings, it’s Hillary. I will be filling in the calendar for November& December soon. Check back for more and as always - for the most up to date information check in workshop/event descriptions and subscribe to the [Newsletter] for announcements!
September 🪲
Wed 9/9 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Thurs 9/10 -12/106:30pm-8:30pm
The Artist’s Way - Reading Group (13 weeks)
Sat 9/12, 9/19 11:00am-6:00pm
✨NEW✨Button-Up Shirt (2 day intensive)
Sun 9/13 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sun 9/13 3:30pm-5:30pm
Hand Sewing
Wed 9/16 6:30pm-8:30pm
Embroidery 101
Tues 9/22 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sat 9/26 3:30pm-6:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Sun 9/27 11:30am-4:30pm
BYOP (bring your own project baby!)
Tues 9/29 6:30pm-8:30pm
Embroidery 101
Wed 9/30 6:30pm-8:30pm
Mending: Darning
October 🐌
s 10/6 6:30pm-9:30pm
Upcycling: Machine Applique Techniques
Sat 10/10 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Sat 10/10 3:30pm-6:30pm
✨NEW✨ Alterations - T-Shirt Crop
Sun 10/11 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sun 10/11 3:30pm-5:30pm
Hand Sewing
Tues 10/13 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Wed 10/14, 10/21 6:30pm-9:00pm
Bow Boxer Shorts (2 week)
Sat 10/17 11:30am-2:30pm
Alterations - Hems
Sat 10/17 3:30pm-5:30pm
Embroidery 101
Tue 10/20 6:30pm-9:30pm
✨NEW✨ Alterations - T-Shirt Crop
Fri 10/23 6:30pm-8:30pm
✨NEW✨ Upcycling: Bead-dazzel
Sat 10/24 11:30am-5:30pm
Patternmaking 101- Bodice Sloper
Sun 10/25 11:30am-4:30pm
BYOP (bring your own project baby!)
Wed 10/28 6:30pm-9:30pm
Hand Sewing
November🍂
Wed 11/4 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sat 11/7, 11/14 11:00am-6:00pm
Button-Up Shirt (2 day intensive)
Sun 11/8 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Sun 11/8 6:30pm-8:30pm
✨NEW✨ Upcycling: Bead-dazzel
Sun 11/15 3:30pm-5:30pm
Mending: Darning
Tue 11/17 6:30pm-9:30pm
Hand Sewing
Wed 11/18 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Sat 11/21 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Tue 11/24 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
December ⛄️
Tue 12/1 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sun 12/6 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
Sun 12/6 3:30pm-6:30pm
Alterations - Hems
Sat 12/12 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sat 12/12 3:30pm-5:30pm
Mending: Darning
Thur 12/17 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sewing 101 - Stripe Patch Pillow
Sun 12/20 11:30am-2:30pm
Sewing 101 - Reversible Tote Bag
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