Embroidery Workshop with A. Laura Brody

Get started with embroidery basics! Learn chain, stem, and your basic stab stitch to outline images or spell out your deepest desires and fill them in with ladder and satin stitches. If there is time, we'll cover feather stitching and french knots. Create your own small artwork and get out some built up rage by stabbing fabric multiple times.

To join in the fun, bring embroidery needles, embroidery floss, fabric, and scissors. Nice to have but not required is thread wax. If you have an embroidery hoop, great, but if not I'll show you how to fake an embroidery hoop with cardboard and straight pins or tape.

Instructor A. Laura Brody has 30 years experience as a costume crafts person, designer, and maker. She's made costumes for LMFAO, the Black Eyed Peas, and Rhianna, among others. She has worked for Netflix, Disney Imagineering, the LA Opera, Disney and Nickelodeon TV, Diavolo Dance Theatre, and many specialty costume houses. Her relaxed, encouraging, and adventurous approach to teaching makes pattern making, draping, crafts, and sewing accessible and fun.

If you can dream it up, she can make it- and show you how to make it too.