Blooms & Stitches: Textile Art with a Kaffe Fassett Flair

Join us for a joyful, hands-on workshop where you’ll create a vibrant still life using Kaffe Fassett’s fabulously colorful floral fabrics. This is your chance to play with bold prints, lively textures, and eye-catching layers to design your very own fabric masterpiece.

We’ll guide you through techniques for layering, texture, and composition as you dive into the world of expressive fabric collage. You’ll learn how to turn your fabric scraps into sustainable textile art, then bring your piece to life with hand-stitched embellishments that add depth, texture, and your unique touch.

Whether your piece becomes a stand-alone work of art, a study for something bigger, or the stunning centerpiece of a quilt, you’ll leave inspired—and probably a little bit obsessed with fabric collage!

Come ready to explore, stitch, and create something beautifully you.

Supply List:

• Fabric scissors with fine sharp points
• Glue pen & refills (Sewline or other brands)
• Assorted needles and pins
• All-purpose thread (50wt) in grey
• Kit

Kit is $50 and includes: all material necessary to complete your collage (background, vase and flower composition) and includes access to a large selection of Kaffe Fassett’s fabrics, Steam a Seam 2 Lite, templates and embroidery threads.   Pick up kit in class, cash only please.

Seaside Stitches: Pebbles from the Caribbean

Play with color, pattern, and texture in this vibrant workshop!

Inspired by the soft, rounded shapes of beach pebbles and the joyful palette of the Caribbean, this hands-on class will show you how to turn fabric scraps into a stunning wall hanging full of movement and personality.

You’ll dive into raw edge appliqué techniques while exploring how to use color confidently—learning to mix bold prints, scale, and texture to create visual flow and balance. With no templates and no rules, you’ll cut and compose freely, discovering how to let the fabrics guide you in a design that’s completely your own.

Supply List:

• Fabric scissors with fine sharp points
• Glue pen & refills (Sewline or other brands)
• Assorted needles and pins
• 12wt cotton threads or stranded embroidery threads in various colours
• Sharps needles with large eye
• Kit

Kit is $50 and will be available to purchase and collected on the day of the workshop.

Cash only, please.

2 Day — Pinyon Jay Pincushion

Join Sue for 2 full days of stitching focused on bringing your Pinyon Jay to life! This little guy is achieved through wool appliqué and embellishment stitches. Feel inspired every time you reach for a pin by the adorable surprise token featuring one of many special power words.

Kit: $30 available at suespargo.com  Please purchase for delivery to you prior to the cruise at https://www.suespargo.com/shop/pinyon-jay-pincushion-46635?search=pinyon#attr=23636

Supply List:
Pinyon Jay Pincushion Kit
#24 Chenille needle
#18 Chenille needle
#3 & #1 Milliners needles
Bullion Knot Long/Regular and Short/Fine
Freezer Paper
Wool Drizzle Pad
1/2” Stitch Spacing Ruler Set
Sewline Trio Chalk Pencil
Embroidery scissors
Fabric scissors
Clover applique pins
Applique Threads: EN08, 30, 47, 50
Embellishment threads: #8 EZ09, 18 and #5 EZ14, EZM20, 29
Creative Stitching Book

*All supplies available at suespargo.com prior to class*
Contact: Abby at shop@suespargo.com or 330-899-9454 ext 114

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2 Day — Blooming Bungalow Pincushion

Join Sue for 2 full days of stitching focused on creating a quaint, 3-dimensional Bungalow with wool applique and layering. Utilizing several embroidery stitches, create
unique flowers, leaves and buds by filling the window boxes with an abundance of blooms.

Kit: $22 available at suespargo.com. Please purchase for delivery to you prior to the cruise at  https://www.suespargo.com/shop/blooming-bungalow-46640?category=103&search=blooming&order=name+asc#attr=23568

 
Supply List:
Blooming Bungalow Pincushion Kit
#24 Chenille needle
#18 Chenille needle
#1 Milliners needles
Bullion Knot Long/Regular and Short/Fine
Freezer Paper
Wool Drizzle Pad
1/2” Stitch Spacing Ruler Set
Sewline Trio Chalk Pencil
Embroidery scissors
Fabric scissors
Clover applique pins
Applique Threads: EN27, 42
Embellishment threads: Size 8: EZ09, 10, 15, 21, 22, 26, EZM12 and
Size 5: EZ13, EZM75
Creative Stitching Book

*All supplies available at suespargo.com prior to class*
Contact: Abby at shop@suespargo.com or 330-899-9454 ext 114

2 Day — Birds On Parade Zippered Bag

Join Sue for 2 full days of stitching to bring your little chics to life. In this class you will learn cotton, wool and velvet appliqué and all the embroidery stitches to enhance your parade of birds!

Kit: $42 available at suespargo.com.  Please purchase for delivery to you prior to the cruise at https://www.suespargo.com/shop/birds-on-parade-46598?category=103&search=birds+on+parade&order=name+asc#attr=23660
Supply List:
Birds On Parade Kit
#24 Chenille needle
#18 Chenille needle
#3 Milliners needles
Bullion Knot Long/Regular and Short/Fine
#11 Short Darner
Freezer Paper
Wool Drizzle Pad
1/2” Stitch Spacing Ruler Set
Sewline Trio Chalk Pencil
Embroidery scissors
Fabric scissors
Clover applique pins
Ellana Wool Thread #: EN59, EN49, EN39, EN23
Efina Cotton Thread #: EF06, EF47, EF58
Embellishment threads: #8: EZM04, EZM20, EZM31, EZM32 and #5: EZM36, EZM33
Creative Stitching Book

*All supplies available at suespargo.com prior to class*
Contact: Abby at shop@suespargo.com or 330-899-9454 ext 114

2 Day — Stitched Needle Roll

Join Sue for 2 full days of stitching focused on our Creative Stitching tools, the Spoke Easy and Loop Easy, the possibilities for these tools are endless! Create unique flowers, leaves, and stems to design a fantasy garden all of your own. Get creative and experiment with embellishing threads in varying weights, exploring stitches and stitch
combinations that will add incredible depth and texture to your work.

Leave this workshop with a beautiful cloth to turn in to a needle roll!
Kit: $30 available at suespargo.com.  Please purchase for delivery to you prior to the cruise at https://www.suespargo.com/shop/teaching-stitched-needle-roll-54263?category=103&search=stitched+&order=name+asc#attr=35382   

Homework: No
Supply List:
Stitched Needle Roll Kit
#9 Short Darner needle
#24 Chenille needle
#18 Chenille needle
#3 #1 & #15 Milliners needles
Bullion Knot Long/Regular and Short/Fine
#24 & #20 Tapestry needles
Spoke Easy Templates
Loop Easy Templates 
Circles Easy
1/2” Stitch Spacing Rulers
Bohin Glue Stick Pen
Embroidery scissors
Fabric scissors
Clover applique pins
Sewline Trio Chalk Pencil
Efina Cotton Thread #: EF49
Embellishment threads: #8, #5 and #3 Eleganza Thread, Other threads of your choice
Creative Stitching Book

*All supplies available at suespargo.com prior to class*
Contact: Abby at shop@suespargo.com or 330-899-9454