Happy New Year! How about learning a new skill for the New Year? one of our January events can help you with that!
Let’s Get Organized!
January will kick off our monthly “Let’s Get Organized” challenge. Stay tuned for the details in a blog I’ll post on January 7. This month’s challenge is fabric organization!
Special January Events
Bernina Overlocker Lab
Learn how an overlocker can make your sewing more fun, professional, and durable at our January 11th Bernina Overlocker Lab! Get hands-on time with a Bernina overlocker as a Bernina expert guides you to create your own Lab Workbook. You will experience a variety of overlocker stitches and techniques, such as seams, rolled hems, flatlock, and decorative thread applications.
This January special event will be held at our Aurora store on Saturday, Jan. 11. Join us at one for the 3-hour sessions: 9am-12pm or 1:30pm-4:30pm. Cost is $49.99 and includes machines for use, kits and snacks!
Kimberbell Tea Party
No Mad Hatters here! Nope, we’re throwing a different kind of tea party.
This party is all about saying “I made this for you” which is just like saying “I love you”. If you ❤️ machine embroidery, then this is the event for you!
Join us for two days, January 31 and February 1, from 10 am until 5 pm, at our Event Center. Make six exclusive projects and decorate your own tea party, or share them with someone sweet. Create a quilted candle mat, a tea cup mug rug, and a zipper pouch that anyone would love.
Improve your embroidery skills, learn new techniques, and have your cup of tea too!
We provide kits, thread and machines along with lunch, drinks and snacks, so sign up today. Cost for the event is $149.
Sew Fun
Join us for our monthly Sew Fun sessions in January and start the new year with some new ideas. We’re mixing things up a little this month, so be sure to attend! Mark your calendars now!
Aurora: Tuesday: 1/14: 10a-12p or 2-4p or 6-8p
Littleton: Wednesday: 1/15: 10a-12p or 2-4p or 6-8p
Arvada: Thursday: 1/16: 10a-12p or 2-4p or 6-8p
Colorado Springs: Friday: 1/17: 1-3p or 5-7p
If you haven’t joined Sew Fun for 2020, do so now. You can order your sewing discount and membership card online and pick it up in your favorite RMSV store on your next visit. The cost for the year is $69.99.
In-Store Classes
Spectacular Savannah Quilt, Aurora
Month-by-month, piece a spectacular sampler quilt featuring iconic savanna animals including an elephant, lion, rhino, gazelle, wildebeest, hippo, giraffe, and zebra.
All blocks are sewn using conventional patchwork techniques. One piece (the rhino’s horn) uses a cutting guide a shortcut method to make this shape without the bother of paper piecing or matching points. The pattern book includes complete instructions for making a 64″ x 84″ sampler quilt, plus bonus quilt and pillow projects using the individual blocks.
Get the pattern, buy some fabric and join us at our Aurora store on January 9 to begin the project. Cost for the first session is $20.
Kimberbell: Do You Want to Stitch a Snowman?, Colorado Springs
In a floppy hat with embroidered pom poms, this stitched snowman just might pass for a ski bunny, plus he is guaranteed not to melt under your steaming cup.
Mug rugs make a perfect gift paired with hot cocoa mix or coffee cup. Or embroider a set so the whole family has one to use after a day of snow play.
So, join Jordan at our Colorado Springs store on January 10 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Cost of the class is $30 and includes fabric kit and thread. Bring your embroidery machine and at least a 5×7 hoop.
Open Sew at Arvada
Do you have some unfinished objects (UFOs) hanging around? Did you buy a pattern, or a design at a Sew Fun event and never actually make it? Did you miss one of our One Yard Wonder classes but want to make something from the book? Do you just want to come hang out with some fellow crafters to make something fun? This is the place for you!
Join Brenda at our Arvada store on January 22 from 6 to 8 pm for some sewing fun. Cost is $15, and she’d just love to see you there.
Paper Piecing, Littleton
Learn to paper piece in this class with confidence! Grow your foundation paper piecing skills with Learn Foundation Paper Piecing, a comprehensive guide that takes you through this classic technique from start to finish.
Pick up the book from our Littleton store before the class and gain the confidence and skill to paper piece any project you want.
Email our instructor, Terry at rockymountain.terryg@gmail.com for more information. Cost of the class is $20; register here.
But Wait…There’s More January Events
Of course, we’re offering our usual machine usage classes, ScanNCut classes, and other in-store classes in January. Just check out our January class calendar, and find one right for you.