Youth Maker Meetup
Monday, March 31, 4:30 to 7:30pm.
YMM is FREE and open to all youth makers, ages 12+, at any level
This Month's Focus: Knit Appliqué with Leah Evans!
At this month’s Youth Maker Meetup, attendees will enjoy a special stitching opportunity with Leah Evans - learning how to do knit appliqué!
Youth should bring a cotton t-shirt or other stretchy cotton garment to embellish. For example, this could be a sweatshirt with a stain, logo, or a hole that they want to cover up. Ideally it should NOT be something you buy. The objective will be to cut and appliqué repurposed fabric pieces onto the surface of the garment in some sort of pleasing way.
Equipment, thread, and additional fabric will be provided.
Youth can also bring their own projects, and work with the guidance of Sarah Best, our Apparel Design & Sewing Instructor, as usual.
Come make with us! Bring your own fiber art or sewing project and work with other youth makers at TAC Madison.
Sarah will lead the group through a brief monthly technical skill or sewing theme. (This month’s technical skill is Intro to Knitting) She’ll also show participants how to use supplies and tools appropriately, offer guidance on other projects, and will help makers develop their creative ideas.
Supplies available to use at TAC include sewing machines, thread, scissors, cutting mats, irons, ironing boards, and access to our little free scrap library. We’ll provide hot tea, hot cocoa, and bubbly waters. Feel free to bring your own drinks, dinner, and snacks as well.
Registration is required.
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About the Instructor:
Sarah Best is an apparel designer, whose focus is on textile design, knitwear, and garment construction. After graduation from UNC Chapel Hill, Best explored the business side of fashion by performing sales and management for Nordstrom. Eventually, her lifelong passion to sew and knit inspired her to pursue the more creative side of the fashion retail industry. She returned to school to complete an Apparel Design degree from VCU Richmond, with a Textile Arts minor. Best’s career has included working for Armani Exchange and Ralph Lauren in New York City, as well as Lands’ End in Wisconsin.
Best is currently expanding her creative interests across textile arts and interiors as a contract designer, and by teaching classes both publicly and privately. Best has taught garment design and construction for TAC middle and high school summer Fashion Camps, where students learned to design, pattern, and sew their own pant or skirt. Best loves collaborating with young people, fostering, and supporting creative ideas and is excited to be partnering with TAC on youth programs.