ABOUT THIS EVENT
Event Category
Arts & DIY
Event Overview
About once or twice a year we make our workshop studios and our expert instructors available for D-I-Y wedding fun.
From immortalizing a treasured wedding dress by upcycling, to incorporating pieces of your mother's wedding dress into your own, or making decorations for your wedding backdrop, our studio can help turn your imagination into reality. If you are out of imagination we can show you the possibilities.
You can blow your guests away with your cleverness by using our tools such a block printing, screen printing, dyeing, appliquéing, or quilting for tableware. Or use our sewing lab to create Japanese gift sachets for wedding or shower favors. You can craft white felt on white silk for a veil, small quilts, pillow shams, hair ornaments, making wedding Temari balls, wedding book covers, shadow boxes as gifts and so much more.
We want your wedding to be personalized and beautiful, and can help you turn your "something old" into something truly breathtaking.
What to Bring
Vintage fabric, thrift shop items, mom's bridal dress
Minimum age
All ages welcome
What's Provided
Our entire arsenal of tools, supplies, equipment, fabric and expertise will be at your disposal
Cancellation PolicyLocation
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MORE ABOUT YOUR HOST
We are a Not For Profit organization whose mission is "Textile Art for All". If it is textile based and you can make it by hand, we want to teach it in our studios at the beautiful Bridgeport Art Center! Our philosophy is to run contemporary, hands-on, project-based workshops, so that you can come along, learn something new and go home with a finished product or a new skill. Why? Because there is tremendous power in making something yourself. You will learn new skills or revisit old ones; you will discover the joy of working with your hands and you will find an outlet for your creativity. Along the way you will review your spirit and perhaps make a few new friends. All of our classes are taught by visiting artists and/or experts in the field. We offer adult workshops in beginning sewing, intermediate sewing, couture sewing and 45 different surface design techniques. For kids we offer Saturday programs and summer camps. We also offer textile art events for birthdays, bridal showers, girls night out etc. so ask Dabble about group pricing.
All of our classes are offered at a nominal fee and all proceeds are used to bring textile arts to urban youth in Chicago in form of after school programs, summer programs, apprenticeships and internships.
We look forward to welcoming you in our studios.
Your Urban Threads Studio Team