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Oct6

Cleveland Knit Out & Crochet

Don’t forget about this weekend’s big event! We will gather for the Knit Out around noon at Voinovich and have five hours of fun with needles… and hooks. Among the other stores and guilds that will be representing: River Colors Studio, Knitting on Square, the North Coast Knitting Guild. Prizes for attendees were donated by […]

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Sep27

Zero Landfill

Thursday, September 27, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. is the final Match Day for 2007.  There are new materials coming in from architectural and interior design firms. You are invited to collect materials such as empty binders, upholstery samples, wallcovering, ceramic tile, carpet, and brick samples. Business Interiors and Environments is hosting the event in the parking lot […]

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Sep23

Martha, Martha, Martha!

Thanks to all of our friends who came to Stitch Cleveland to help out with our quilt for Quilt Pink this weekend! We will be scheduling more days in the future to complete our project. We had to jet out of town late last night to arrive in New York. The reason for our quick […]

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Aug30

Stitch ‘n Kayak!

What can I say? We bring the fun. On Sunday 16 September at 9:30 a.m. our next-door neighbor River Colors Studio is organizing a stitch ‘n kayak event at the marina down the block. Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery, whatever — we’ll kayak, then stop for a lovely picnic lunch. Cost is $35, you can […]

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Aug22

Rhinebeck bus trip: sign up now

Here’s the plan: we’ll leave from Stitch Cleveland late Friday night 19 October, arriving in Rhinebeck first thing in the morning. Breakfast, then fiber show! At the end of the day, when you’re all super-exhausted, we’ll pile back onto the bus, arriving in Cleveland late Saturday night.
I like to think of it as 24 hours […]

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Aug9

Calling All Crocheters!

One day, five simultaneous parties around the country to celebrate Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution, edited by Kim Werker, and you can be at one of them!
Join us at Stitch Cleveland Sunday, 14 October for the Crochet Me American book launch party and meet book contributor/fellow Ohioan Robyn Chachula!
Robyn will be teaching […]

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Aug7

Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival Trip Signup

If you’ve been, you’ll want to go back; if you’ve never been, believe us, you want to go. Stitch Cleveland is organizing a bus trip to Rhinebeck, NY for the legendary Sheep and Wool Festival. Play a little Rhinebeck bingo, pet the fleeces, drool over (but not onto) the handpainted yarns and other good stuff… […]

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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.

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. She previously owned and operated anezka handmade, an online artists’ cooperative shop founded in 2004. Shannon is also editor of UK-based print magazine Yarn Forward, a columnist for knit.1 magazine, and she 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 which syndicates content from Knitgrrl and from her blog for the book AlterNation.

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.

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