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WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! Design and sew a one-of-a-kind cross-body bag to carry your supplies, hands free! No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! Make a special pouch for your favorite tools with this soft roll-up pencil case. No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! This project will come in handy for your Memorial Day party. Make it for yourself, your mom or dad, or a friend. No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! Make a colorful Kimono top that can spruce up your summer wardrobe. No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! It’s a tote. It’s backpack. It’s easy and a perfect companion to your Kimono top. No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS ages 8-14 💃🕺 Welcome to Katy’s PlayHouse! This session is followed by show & tell. No sewing experience is required. Fee includes handouts, fabric and thread. You will need a sewing kit.
Summer Tote & Hair Scrunchie
Two Quilted Fabric Baskets
Design & Sew a Stuffy
Cross Body Bag with Flap
Roll-up Pencil Case & Fabric Book Marker
Skirt with Pockets
Small Projects Day: Coasters, Koozies, Book Marks
Bow Tote & Accessory Pouch
Ruffle Top
Two Bordered Pillow Cases
Create a slouchy, crescent-shaped shoulder bag with a long strap, spacious interior, and often a top zipper or magnetic closure. Your kit includes fun fabric and trims that you can customize with pockets, linings, and bohemian accents like fringe.
Next, make a custom-fit, padded sleeve with a flap closure for your laptop or iPad. Make a "quilt sandwich" of outer fabric, batting, and lining and stitch your own designs.
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Reversible Tote with Pockets
Let your inner sustainable designer break free. Learn how to alter, design, and transform your own clothes.
Take your ideas one step further. Use our box of trims and fabrics to rethink, reimagine and recreate what you wear.
Make whatever you are fixing a work of art with Japanese style. Discover methods to repair pants, shirts, jackets, any woven garment in a beautifully visible way.
Let’s hack our patterns and add some fun details: Ruffles, pockets, collar and sleeve details plus those pesky dress shirt cuffs and gauntlets.
Alterations & Mending with Anna. Do you have a favorite garment that just needs a little love? You have the right to repair! Don’t throw it away. Fix it and wear it another day. Save money & save the planet! Plus you will: — Gain a variety of essential skills centered around adjusting and modifying clothing. — Expand your sewing skills and learn more advanced skills. You’re welcome to use one of our studio machines during class.
Welcome to fashion life drawing with a live, styled model! This workshop focuses on learning to see like a designer. Train your eye to understand the human figure, garment structure, and how fabric behaves on the body.
Solve the mystery of adding sizes to your patterns, digitally. Take PFI’s Optitex class. Then use your patterns to learn the basic principles of changing pattern sizes. Learn the inside secrets of increasing and decreasing sizes and standards for grade rules. Create your own grade rules for cardinal points. Apply these principles to pants, skirts, sleeves and bodices, knits and wovens. ------ May 21, 2-5pm | First session: If you don’t have a personal pattern in Optitex, bring in your simple pattern you have created through flat pattern and get it digitized. Top, sleeve and bottom. No commercial patterns. You will need your own Optitex program on your computer May 22, 2-5pm |Second session: Clean up your patterns to prepare them for grading. Discuss grade rules for different garments, different fabrics whether knits or wovens. May 28, 2-5pm |Third session: Grade and correct tops and sleeves. May 29, 2-5pm |Fourth session: Grade and correct bottoms. Discuss details such as waistbands, pockets and fly fronts. How to use your graded pattern.
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Get your hands blue, and discover the magic of indigo in this 3-hour Japanese Shibori workshop. Designed for beginners and the dye-curious, this hands-on class offers an engaging introduction to resist dyeing with natural indigo. Students will explore the cultural history of Shibori while learning foundational folding, binding, and resist techniques to create a one-of-a-kind indigo-dyed T-shirt. Participants will mix and test indigo, prepare their designs, and experience the unforgettable moment when fabric transforms from green to deep blue through dipping and oxidation. This workshop is both a complete creative experience and a perfect precursor to our Weekend Intensive, where students can continue their exploration of Shibori, tie-dye, and Batik techniques. No prior experience is required—just curiosity, creativity, and clothes you don’t mind getting a little blue. *Fee Includes kit
Extend the Life of Your Clothes is a 4-hour, hands-on regenerative textile workshop that invites participants to reimagine their relationship with clothing. Rather than discarding worn or forgotten garments, students will learn how to revamp, repair, recolor, and transform pieces they already own using dye baths, fabric printing equipment, and image transfer techniques designed for natural fabrics. Blending sustainability with creative expression, the workshop includes a focused lecture on the care and maintenance of natural fibers—such as cotton, linen, wool, and silk—alongside practical, repeatable textile techniques. Participants will experiment with color, texture, pattern, and imagery, leaving with refreshed, wearable garments and the confidence to extend the life of their clothing at home. No prior experience is necessary—just curiosity, a willingness to experiment, and a few well-loved garments ready for a second life. *Fee Includes kit
Create Your Own Fabric Yardage is a hands-on surface design workshop that invites participants to design and produce their own one-of-a-kind textiles. In this creative, process-driven class, students will explore a range of surface design techniques—including block printing, hand-painting, and screen printing—to transform blank fabric into custom yardage. Participants will begin by building rich ground colors using our dye baths, then layer pattern and imagery through block printing, expressive hand-painting techniques, and overprinting with our preset screen designs. Emphasis is placed on experimentation, layering, and developing a personal visual language while learning techniques that are accessible and repeatable. For students who discover a love of screen printing, this workshop serves as an ideal precursor to our Weekend Screen Print Intensive, where techniques are explored in greater depth. Open to beginners and experienced makers alike, the class offers a supportive environment to play with color, pattern, and texture—leaving each participant with truly unique fabric and the confidence to continue designing at home. *Fee Includes kit
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