Embroidery Classes in Chicago, IL

Create wonderful décor for your home – custom floor coverings!   Learn to use Jelly Rolls (or your own 2½” strip scraps) to create colorful area rugs for all the rooms in your home. No wrapping, braiding, weaving or crocheting. Just pure sewing bliss!   Inspired by antique rugs, this is a fun sewing project FOR ALL!

Are you curious about Viking’s Epic and New Epic2? Are you interested in trading up to this innovative, new machine? Don’t have a machine but want to delve into what's new in the sewing world? Join us and Viking Educator, Nancy Bronstein, to explore the new Viking Sewing & Embroidery Machine and Sergers! Nancy will discuss, share, teach,...

Interested in what Premier+2Embroidery Software can do?  Haven’t been able to use Premier+2 because you don’t know where to start?  Then this PREMIER+2 EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE CLASS you do not want to miss! You will be WOWED by what you can do EASILY, what you can do BEAUTIFULLY, and what YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO...

Where the Classroom meets the Playground... Sewing, Quilting, Crafting, Embroidering! Join us, along with, Kathi Quinn & Clarrisa Gossett, national educators for Floriani and enjoy 3 days of ideas, prizes, learning & fun! You will be inspired to find your unique creativity.  At Hands-On Schoolhouse you will get to stitch on a top-line...

Don’t let your Floriani Embroidery Software skills go to the dogs! … or the cats for that matter! Don’t let software be intimidating! Use your software to it’s fullest! Join us to OPEN UP THE POSSIBILITIES! LOVE YOUR SOFTWARE! These classes are two-hour, hands-on classes to learn the AMAZING functions in your Floriani U software. These...

This class is for new prospects looking for an embroidery machine. Are you curious about Brother’s new XP1 Luminaire sewing, embroidery & quilting machine? Are you interested in trading up to this innovative, new machine? Don’t have a machine but want to delve into what's new in the sewing world?

Join us as we unveil & demonstrate some of the AWESOME AND EXCITING NEW ITEMS we’ve brought back from the recent BROTHER CONVENTION!   We are SEW EXCITED - we can’t wait to show you WHAT’S NEW!   Be ONE OF THE FIRST to find out about the latest innovations from Brother!   Get an INSIDE...

Join Debbie, our very own certified Kimberbell educator, and Darrelle, premier educator from SVP, as they take you step-by-step through Kimberbell’s FUN projects! You’ll be thrilled to be using a NEW Pfaff Icon or Viking Epic & may even be tempted to take one home with you! Park your broom at the door & gather with your ghoul-friends for...

Did you just get the Floriani software and don't know where to start? Have you had the software for a while and haven't taken any classes yet? Then this is the class for you. Bring your laptop with software loaded and we will start you out with the basics in an easy to understand format. Don't put it off - come to class now!

Through handwork and machine stitching, this course will cover a variety of traditional and experimental techniques for fabric embellishment and manipulation. Technical processes to be explored may include embroidery, cording, applique, trapunto, pleating, tucking, smocking, gathering, darting, and ribbon work.  This course will include frequent...

We are so excited to have Trevor Conquergood with us for a Hands-On Embroidery Workshop! Trevor, and his family before him, have created embroidery designs for a long time. He is passionate about the craft and about sharing his experience & knowledge with as many people as he can.   Regardless of what kind of machine you own, or...

Need to satisfy your sweet tooth & machine embroidery addiction? Come sew with us in Kimberbell’s Kitchen, where you can have your cake and stitch it too!   No matter your experience, this is the perfect event to learn where you might journey with an embroidery machine. Improve your embroidery skills and learn new techniques...

Embroidery is widely used today in contemporary art, especially in combination with other media, such as painting, sculpture, and even ceramics. Taking inspiration from the use of stitch in contemporary art and historic embroidery traditions from around the world, you will develop your individualized stitch “vocabulary” and deepen your artistic...

Get Hands-On A Multi-Needle, With A Software Demo! Make it your business! Make money with Multi-needle embroidery! Join us, and Michelle Gillmartin, premier embroidery educator from Brother, as we share the benefits of embroidery on multi-needles… Learn how to embroider items not possible with a single-needle, home machine, how to embroider efficiently,...

Print& Stitch: Relief, Screen Printing and Embroidery for Textiles  Explore woodcut and screen print in combination with embroidery to create wearable objects and artworks. You will learn basics of screen printing, relief printing and hand stitching and complete 3 projects.  Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate