Spring 2021 Updates For Sewing With Cinnamon

 

Hi Everyone!

It's the 5th Tuesday of the month (which means no new content posted) which is the perfect opportunity to share with you updates for Spring 2021.

Next Tuesday, we kick off the April topic Small Scale Smocking For Dolls! I'm super excited to learn from smocking expert Kathy Dykstra and even more excited to have you learn from her too!

More about Kathy: Kathy  learned to sew at the age of 12 by  taking classes with the 4-H club and then continued taking many more classes over the years.  She continued sewing for herself and then took pattern drafting classes in college.

After the birth of their first 2 daughters, Kathy learned how to smock and do French machine sewing.  These quickly became her preferred sewing and she pursued classes over the years from many of the icons in the heirloom sewing world.  

Kathy has been teaching smocking, French machine sewing and related needle arts since 1984 both locally as well as nationally.  She is a SAGA (Smocking Arts Guild of America) certified teacher and has taught at smocking guilds around the country, Martha Pullen’s School of the Art Fashion as well as the national SAGA conventions and retreats.

In addition to teaching, Kathy’s patterns have been featured in Australian Smocking and Embroidery, Les Smocks (French publication), Sew Beautiful and more recently in Classic Sewing Magazine. Smocking and sewing for children continue to be her favorite pastime and passion.

Get prepared for the course: Being that this is a new skill for many of you, I thought it would be helpful to post the list of supplies that you will need to have on hand ahead of time. I encourage you to read over the list and gather up these items so you're ready to jump right in next Tuesday.

Note: The pattern can be redeemed for free with your coupon code, the April code will be posted on April 1st on the Sewing With Cinnamon Bonuses page.

Supply list:

 

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SWC Spring 2021 Updated Calendar

Here is an updated calendar of the topics for the remainder of 2021. We've moved the Fairytale wedding theme to August to give us more time to really perfect the art of tambour embroidery and capture more "in-studio" pattern creation! So in may you'll see we've added an Aussie Theme, which has been highly requested since the release of Kira bailey as the 2021 Girl of the Year doll. This will be alot of fun to explore together! We may move things around depending on schedules and content creation, but for the most part, this is what we have planned for the coming year - yay!

• April - Small Scale Smocking For Dolls
• May - New! Themed Wardrobe Aussie Style (fun styles with Kira Bailey in mind. New LJ Alice Springs dress pattern will be released with a sew along too!)
• June - Sewing With Stripes
• July - Miniature Millinery Summer Hats
• August -(Moved from May) Themed Wardrobe "A Fairy Tale Wedding", The Gown, The Prince, The Finishing Details, Tambour Embroidery
• September - Sewing Outerwear. Sew Along New LJ Pepper Hill Raincoat pattern (sewing with ripstop, oilcloth, etc.)
• October - Sewing with Cricut, Silhouette, and other cutting machines
• November - Themed Wardrobe "Tiny Gifts", sewing the smaller items (dolls for dolls, tiny purses or bags. Making gifts for dolls to open, etc.
• December - Machine Embroidery basics (tentative)

We hope this gives you something to look forward to and plan around! If you really want to see us focus on something not mentioned above, feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments below. We may be able to work things in here and there as we fill out each monthly topic!

Thanks, everyone! This community is amazing because of all the amazing people like you that are here!

Cinnamon & The Team Pixie Faire

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