Hello to all of you sewers who are looking for quality fabrics right here in your hometown. Stitch Cleveland is now working with Cutting Room Fabrics, a fine fabrics store in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Cutting Room is a locally owned business… that’s one of the reasons we love it! The store’s owners, Sam and Lorraine Broida, purchase high quality imported and domestic fabrics and bring them right to you at great prices. You can check out the selection we have available here at Stitch Cleveland (we will be refreshing our stock monthly) or you can visit them online/in person! Looking for something special? Stitch Cleveland and The Cutting Room are happy to help your next project become your favorite project!
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
There are still spaces left in the sock classes starting tomorrow and we will be taking walk-ins, so if you’ve ever coveted your very own pair of handknit socks, you know where to be at 10:00 a.m. (beginner), 1:00 (intermediate) and 2:00 (advanced) tomorrow! See you then.
Come together at Stitch Cleveland two weekends this September to raise funds for breast cancer research!
September 21-23 is Quilt Pink Weekend, a fundraising event created by American Patchwork & Quilting magazine to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In 2006, more than 1,000 shops across the country held Quilt Pink events, uniting 100,000 stitchers of all ability levels in the fight against breast cancer.
During Quilt Pink Weekend, stitchers make quilt blocks at local shops. Stitch Cleveland and other retailers nationwide will piece them together and send the finished quilts to American Patchwork & Quilting magazine for an online auction in May 2008. (Check out the current 2006 quilt auctions here!)
The weekend after, September 28-30, is Stitch Cleveland’s Knit for the Cure event. Shop co-owner Shannon Okey has been raising money for breast cancer research as part of Team Knitty for the past four years. Team Knitty, founded by Knitty.com magazine editor Amy R. Singer, participates in the annual CIBC Run for the Cure in Toronto, where Knitty is based. Last year, Team Knitty raised over $13,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
To encourage participation in both events, Stitch Cleveland is raffling off two large specialty gift baskets designed to appeal to sewers and knitters, including several hundred dollars’ worth of class gift certificates, craft materials and other items. Raffle entries can be earned with financial donations to Team Knitty via the link above and by volunteer hours at both Stitch Cleveland events. Stay tuned for other opportunities to earn raffle entries, too.
We’d like to encourage local HR managers who want to combine a team-building exercise with a worthy cause to contact the shop to set up times for their employees to participate. (See here for more information on these kinds of activities at Stitch Cleveland).
If you’d like to help us promote these fun events, you can cut and paste this code into your website, blog, etc.
Thanks to all who made it out to Stitch Cleveland for Church of Craft. If you missed it, our next official meeting will be on August 19th from 1-4pm. However, we had such a great time that we decided to meet on a more frequent basis. We will gather on Sundays from 1-4pm!
Don’t forget that all types of crafters are welcome to this event! As a show of support my wonderful husband (Dave) attended the first meeting. He and Marc (who allowed his fiancée to teach him to crochet during our crafting) decided to organize crafts that are more “manly.” Hmmm… something involving power tools and our parking lot, I guess! I’ll bring the first aid kit… Stay tuned to see what they’re up to during the next month!
We had such a great time at this weekend’s grand opening party — thanks so much to all of you who came out! If you missed it, you really did miss out. For one, there was this cake:
Tasty, but it turned your mouth some very funny colors. I think it was Megan who first called it “goth mouth.” Heidi’s friends sent her these gorgeous flowers to celebrate:
Check out the pincushions for sale in the bowl next to the flowers — people have really been loving those lately. And speaking of loving… how’s this?
These are by a local artist named Pavia Lewis. They’re handknit pins, and they are beyond adorable. She’s taking them to Stitches this year but you heard about them here first!
Here’s a link to the ones we have in stock right now. If you want to order one via mail order or reserve a particular color for pickup here, click the buy now link. (Specify which color in comments, or let us choose)
(Note: I am so excited about this, I am jumping up and down, leaving our summer intern Jodi to price the actual bottles)
Stitch Cleveland is proud to announce we are now carrying Soak fine fiber wash. If you haven’t used it before, believe me, you’re going to want to, because it’s the highest quality, nicest-smelling, most effective fiber wash I have ever found.
If you’ve just spent endless hours knitting, crocheting or quilting something, why would you entrust it to other fiber washes when you could use Soak? Seriously, you have no idea how great this stuff is. It will leave your masterpiece clean, fresh smelling and in one piece (and it works great on lingerie, too)!
We’ve got the large 14 oz bottles for $16, the starter kits for $29 (these include 3 smaller bottles of Flora, Aquae and Citrus that are 4 oz per bottle — each bottle will do 24+ washes), and the minis for sampling at $1.95 each or 3 for $5.
Most excitingly, we’ve got the Amy Butler limited edition Soak scent called Sola (8.4 oz for $12). It’s a fresh floral, not heavy at all, almost like walking through a grassy meadow.
If you can’t make it into the shop, you can order it here and we’ll send it out to you.
Tomorrow we’ll be demo-ing nuno felt and talking about this weekend’s grand opening party on That’s Life, with Robin Swoboda. If you need to set your TiVo, it’s FOX 8 at 10:00 a.m.
Rumor has it there may be something about us in the Wednesday Fashion section of the Plain Dealer, too. We’ll post the clipping on the Press page if so!
Updates:
- Here’s the TV show clip!
- Here’s the clipping from the Plain Dealer. It’s on page E4 of the Arts & Life section if you’re a subscriber. Or, here on cleveland.com
You asked for it, you got it! Stitch Cleveland is excited to announce three new sock workshops with two fabulous guest teachers. Covering beginner and intermediate-level, Andi Moon Smith of KnitBrit, and teaching the advanced course is Amy Gumm of I Heart Knitting — both have oodles of expertise to share. Sign up now, because you won’t want to miss this!
The first sock workshop series takes place on Saturdays: 28 July, 4 August and 11 August. Each is three sessions long.
Beginning socks — $45 for three 2-hour classes, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Intermediate socks — $60 for three 3-hour classes, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Advanced socks — $75 for three 2-hour classes, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
For all the details about these workshops, including supply lists, curriculum and more see this page.
Check it out here, there are some interesting quotes, like this one:
Needlework hobbyists have become more savvy, said Joelle Hoverson, an owner of Purl and Purl Patchwork, neighboring yarn and fabric boutiques in SoHo. “A lot of that is driven by fashion,” she said. Ms. Hoverson has noticed that designers like Mr. Jacobs inspire her customers. “But they’re also looking at clothes from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s,” she said. “And they’re looking at each other. It’s very cool.”
“… and that is what the Church of Craft is for, to help us remember how to find moments of creation in our lives. We come together, and we make things, and we affirm the craft we see in each other. Then we go home inspired, confident, peaceful, and we live our lives with all the happiness and love we can.”
Become a part of craft history! Help Cleveland get creative again! We are starting Cleveland’s only chapter of Church of Craft and we need you to help us inspire our city! We unite fashion designers with paper artists, sewers with fiber artists and idle hands with the art of craft.
Our first meeting will be on July 22nd from 4-6pm at Stitch Cleveland.
what’s everyone saying?