Embroidery 101: First Stitches

Schedule

Sun Nov 29 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00
Location

3325 W Wrightwood Ave | Chicago, IL

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A beginner embroidery class where you stitch and take home your own freestyle embroidered swatch of fabric to display or use as a patch!
About this Event

Learn the basics like how to use an embroidery hoop and about needle/fabric/thread choices. You'll learn a few different stitches and create personalized designs with them!

All materials are included.

We will have a Bob Ross-like, no mistakes only happy accidents approach to embroidery, it's like sketching on fabric! Come make a cute little piece of art with us :)

You will learn:

  • choosing needle, thread, and fabric
  • putting fabric in hoop
  • preparing embroidery floss,
  • threading the needle
  • how to knot the end
  • different types of stitches and ways to use them to create different effects

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Gallery Wrightwood is: an anti-capitalist, artist-led gallery project inside a 100-year-old church building in the heart of Logan Square that hosts art shows, workshops, and social gatherings. We're focused on making approachable creative spaces and showing human-made artworks that speak to urgent social issues. 

The gallery has been running since October 2023 on volunteer passion and power! Learn more about us on Instagram at @gallerywrightwood or at https://www.stlukesls.org/gallerywrightwood

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Where is it happening?

3325 W Wrightwood Ave, 3325 West Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, United States

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Tickets

USD 10.00

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