Stitch Cleveland is a workshop space in Cleveland, Ohio. We teach all things stitchy, including sewing, knitting, spinning, dyeing, felting and embroidery. Private lessons are available, and we also have special guest instructors, from nationally-known authors to local favorites.
We are located at 1387 Sloane Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio, next to the Rocky River-Lakewood bridge. Our phone number is 216-220-4808, or you can contact us on Skype with username stitchcleveland.
Join us in the sewing lounge and make yourself at home! Bring your sewing machine or use our sewing machine, blind stitch machine, or D-1 embroidery machine (for a small fee). You’ll also find cool handcrafted stuff for sale.
Stitch Cleveland is home to the studios of knitwear designer Shannon Okey and fashion designers Megan Engelmann and Heidi Massingill.
Shannon Okey
Shannon, sometimes better known as Knitgrrl, is the author or co-author of many crafty books for various publishers, including the Knitgrrl series (Watson Guptill), Spin to Knit and Felt Frenzy (both Interweave Press), AlterNation (North Light Books) and The Pillow Book (Chronicle Books). She has previously owned and operated anezka handmade, an online artists’ cooperative shop founded in 2004. Shannon also owns anezka media, an independent publishing company, is a columnist for knit.1 magazine, and organizes the Cleveland editions of Bazaar Bizarre and Swap-O-Rama-Rama. She maintains a blog on the Stitch Cleveland site at shannon.stitchcleveland.com.
Heidi Massingill
Heidi Massingill is an experienced dressmaker and fiber artist, her design studio specialized in special occasion wear and fine tailoring. Her resume includes The Phantom of the Opera, The Cleveland Ballet, Peter’s Store for Women in Chagrin Falls, Margaret’s Fine Tailoring for Women in Rocky River, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and more. She also designs and creates a line of children’s knitwear, Chikadee Handknits, and holds Knitting and Crochet Instructor certification with New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. She maintains a blog on the Stitch Cleveland site at heidi.stitchcleveland.com.
Megan Engelmann
Megan Engelmann is a Cleveland-based fashion designer and graduate of Kent State University’s Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. She has been sewing for nearly twenty years and specializes in women’s clothing design and illustration. As a working fashion and accessories designer for a large Ohio-based company, Megan keeps her skills as sharp as her scissors! She has been teaching sewing, illustration, and design for six years.
Megan is the Cleveland coordinator for Church of Craft. She is a talented fine artist as well, and designs most of our postcards and other visual material. She maintains a blog on the Stitch Cleveland site at megan.stitchcleveland.com.
We are Stitch Cleveland!
…and so are you!
