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Category Archives: Events and Classes

Trained Sewing Instructor workshop scheduled for San Francisco

We’ve finalized the details for the Trained Sewing Instructor workshop in San Francisco. The dates are June 10-12, 2010 at the Hilton Garden Inn, San Francisco Airport North, 670 Gateway Blvd,  South San Francisco, CA 94080.
The TSI workshop was recently noted in an ASG Notions article on Sewing for Fun… And Profit. Here’s your chance [...]

Amish Country Quilt Show update

We’re expecting the Buckeye Event Center in Dalton, OH to be a busy place at the Amish Country Quilt Show this year! As some of you know, we moved the event to Dalton from Walnut Creek – the site of last year’s Expo – because the Expo Center we were using has closed. The new [...]

Trained Sewing Instructor Program teaches business skills for becoming a sewing teacher

2010 Locations include Dalton, OH; Orlando, FL; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA; and coming soon to the Midwest
If you are interested in a business or career teaching sewing to others, you may be interested in the Trained Sewing Instructor program. The intense 3-day workshop, located in various cities each year, is business training to help [...]

Fall Quilt Market 2009

Each fall quilt shop owners descend upon Houston, Texas for the extravaganza of the season–Quilt Market. They come to buy things that they later sell to us in their stores. As a writer, I’m allowed in to look for new products and network with the various companies in attendance, so I can share their news with you [...]

Reuse, Remake, Restyle Challenge

We want to see your most creative ideas! How have you implemented environmentally-sound sewing into your life? Have you designed a clever method to reuse a garment that you made and no longer wear? Do you shop thrift stores and garage sales for designer cast-offs that you restyle into bags, totes or ‘vintage’ style garments [...]