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Aug22

New fall hours & schedule

New fall hours start next Monday, 27 August. They are:
Monday — closed
Tuesday — 11 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday — 11 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday — 11 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday — 11 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday — 11 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday — noon - 4:00 p.m.
We’ll be open 11 to 6 pretty much all […]

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Aug15

Hand-dyed yarn & our Etsy shop

Do you like handpainted yarn? If you’d been in our parking lot a week ago, you’d have seen these being colored after one of Stitch Cleveland’s dye classes! We’ve posted them on Stitch Cleveland’s Etsy shop so that the poor stitchers who aren’t nearby can have a look and a chance at buying them, too. […]

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Jul31

Cutting Room Fabrics… right here on the west side!

Hello to all of you sewers who are looking for quality fabrics right here in your hometown. Stitch Cleveland is now working with Cutting Room Fabrics, a fine fabrics store in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Cutting Room is a locally owned business… that’s one of the reasons we love it! The store’s owners, Sam and Lorraine Broida, […]

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Jul23

Grand opening party

We had such a great time at this weekend’s grand opening party — thanks so much to all of you who came out! If you missed it, you really did miss out. For one, there was this cake:

Tasty, but it turned your mouth some very funny colors. I think it was Megan who first called […]

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Jul12

NY Times article: “The Knitting Circle Shows Its Chic”

Check it out here, there are some interesting quotes, like this one:
Needlework hobbyists have become more savvy, said Joelle Hoverson, an owner of Purl and Purl Patchwork, neighboring yarn and fabric boutiques in SoHo. “A lot of that is driven by fashion,” she said. Ms. Hoverson has noticed that designers like Mr. Jacobs inspire her […]

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Jun26

Stitch Cleveland launch party 21 July

Yes, we’ve been open since the beginning of June, but you know how it is — finally we get to take a quick breather and host a grand opening extravaganza! We’ll be in the shop all day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the 21st doing demos, drawing for prizes and celebrating, so stop […]

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Jun16

Contribute to our shop art journal

We know a lot of fiber people who also cross over into fine art and paper-based forms of expression, so we’ve signed up for an art journal to be kept here at Stitch Cleveland on 1001 Journals, the successor to the 1000 Journals project. Follow its progress here, or stop by the shop to contribute. […]

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May23

Mark your calendars: Knit in Public Day

Stitch Cleveland and our neighbor River Colors Studio will be hosting an all-day knit-in event for Worldwide Knit in Public Day June ninth. Drop by with your latest project or cast on something new, enter our drawings for free classes and other goodies, and have a snack or two! See you there.
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May4

Welcome to Stitch Cleveland!

Stitch Cleveland is northeast Ohio’s creativity central, a space where fiber and fabric come to play.
Among our inspirations: NYC’s make workshop (hi Diana!), San Francisco’s Stitch Lounge, Boston’s Spark Craft Studios (hi Jan & Amy!) and Etsy Labs.
What can you do at Stitch Cleveland? Learn how to sew, knit or felt. Get together with friends […]

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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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