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Sewing Activities at ABQ Studio

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Folding fat quarters is just a small part of what’s been happening lately at the ABQ Sewing Studio. We have lots of sewing activities going on year-round, but here’s what we’ve been up to recently.

pile of fabric
Fat Quarter Fabric Pile-up

Sewing Café

Sewing Café takes place the first Wednesday morning of each month from 9 am till 12 pm. I do some baking and you bring in your UFO. I help you with your UFO and you eat cake.

What could be nicer? We only have room for eight, so it is always a good idea to check in at least a day ahead to save your seat.

March 2019 Sewing Café

Debbie working on making an apron
Debbie worked on the Ruby Apron. I think one eyeball is on the Hazelnut Chocolate Cake.
Nula cutting fabric for a pillow
Nuala , above, created a couple of roll pillows. While both Janet and Karen (below) worked on binding.
Janet makes binding for a baby quilt.
Janet makes binding for a baby quilt.
Karen at the ironing board with binding.
Karen zooms to the ironing board with her binding.
Merle working on making an apron.
Merle was finishing up her brightly colored Crossback Reversible Apron.
Merle modeling her finished apron.
Here’s how spiffy it looked finished up.

How to join us for Sewing Café

Next month we’ve changed our date for the Sewing Café from April 3rd to the 10th. If you find you’ll be free, call 519-914-0523 to book your space! Cost is $10.

Beginning Quilting Class

Beginning Quilting Class is into its third exciting week. So far, students have learned about fabric, thread, rotary cutting, rulers and more.

They’ve created two blocks styles: Nine Patch and the Monkey Wrench Block. Triangles and can be created in a number of ways and are kind of tricky, so that’s what we concentrated on in our last class.

"Monkey Wrench" quilted block
Bev’s first Monkey Wrench Block
Students in quilting class
Mary, Merle and Val.
Three students trimming fabric in quilting class
Mary and Val trimming sets.

A little help with sewing projects

Sometimes I’m asked to help out with a challenging project. I charge $10 per hour to get you through your problem spot.

Nancy had purchased some fabric years ago for a Buggy Barn Quilt and on Friday I got her started with her cutting. It’s going to be a cute dog themed quilt, but the cutting was pretty complicated.

Sewing projects at ABQ Studio
Janet and Nancy

Janet also popped in to work on pre-cutting for her upcoming Voyager Bag Class coming up on March 29th and 30th, 2019. There’s still space in this class if you’d like to make the bag with us in a class setting. If you sign up for the Voyager class and would like to cut your fabric in a supervised setting, there’s a special Tuesday cutting session at the studio for just that purpose.

Voyager Bag Class


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