Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Midwest Mod from Amy Butler

Published on May 18, 2009 in Amy Butler. 0 Comments

If you haven’t seen Amy Butler’s Midwest Mod collection, you don’t know what you’re missing.  Lots of way cool vintage looking prints-excellent for the Easy Peasy Quilt class scheduled for Thursday nights June 25 & July 2 from 6-9pm.  Yep, I said easy peasy, if you can sew a straight line you can make this quilt-I’m not lyin’!!  

 

Church of Craft this Sunday

Published on May 14, 2009 in Church of Craft. 0 Comments

Attention crafters… We’re meeting on Sunday from 1 – 4pm for our monthly Church of Craft meeting. Bring your projects to share and work on or just come to see what’s been going on! You can even meet our newest member, Rex. Come join in the craftivities… see you there!

our newest member, rex

Sock knitters take note

Published on May 13, 2009 in Guest teachers, Knitting and Socks. 0 Comments

 

Good news, sock fans! Infamous, fabulous sock designer Cookie A of Knitters Anonymous and author of amazing, amazing, amazing new book Sock Innovation, is coming to Stitch Cleveland and River Colors Studio in June to teach three classes:

Wednesday 10 June 2009      

  • 12:00-3pm   Traveling Stitches: Learn how to add curves and angles to your knitting by using traveling stitches. Cookie will go over the different methods for making stitches travel, effects on the fabric, and how to incorporate traveling stitches into a basic knitting pattern. (3 hrs, $55)
  • 4-7pm  Intuitive Chart Reading: Learn how to read charts intuitively. Students will spend an hour focusing on lace charts, an hour on cable charts, and then students will practice working from sample charts or create their own charts to work from. Students will see the connection between charts and the resulting knitting, how to read their knitting to determine where they are within a chart, various types of chart symbols (including Japanese and German), and how to read cable charts without a key. (3 hrs, $55)

Thursday 11 June 2009    

  • 12:00-7pm  Sock Innovation: Top Down Sock Design. This workshop is geared towards intermediate to advanced sock knitters who are interested in a hands-on approach to designing their own socks. Students can bring in stitch patterns or choose stitch patterns from books during class. We will go over key calculations that need to be made for a standard top down sock using the students’ chosen stitch patterns. By the end of this class, students should have a good start on their very own sock, and the necessary tools to complete the sock on their own. (6 hrs, $85)
Call River Colors at 216-228-9276 to save your spot!

 

We’ll be closed for Mother’s Day!

Published on May 9, 2009 in Church of Craft, Events and News. 0 Comments

Hi all you stitchy stitchers! We want you to take Sunday to appreciate all of the mothers in your life. We will be honoring our mommies, our friends that are moms, our moms of moms, and even mommies of fur babies! Enjoy the beautiful weekend and we’ll see you back at the shop on Tuesday – business as usual! Don’t forget about Church of Craft next weekend! Sunday, May 17th from 1 – 4pm!