✂️ Open Sewing Studio ✂️

🧵 From Alterations to Custom Creations — We’ll Help You Sew It! 🧵

Work on your own projects — with expert help!

When: 📅 Tuesday, September 30 - 🕕 6–9 PM

Where: 📍 Trailside Café at Full Circle - 297 Bruynswick Rd. Gardiner, NY 12525

How: 💲 $45 per session; click link below to register and pay in advance.

What’s included:

    •    3 hours of open studio time

    •    Guidance on sewing, patternmaking & custom pieces

    •    Use of sewing machines & materials (or bring your own)

    •    Personalized tips from industry professionals

    •    Light refreshments

✨ A supportive space to create, connect, and bring your ideas to life ✨

🍽 Grab dinner or drinks at Benton before the session!

About Your Instructors

Nicole Foti has over a decade of experience working in the fashion industry. As a Marist University alumna, Nicole fell in love with the Hudson Valley. In 2017, after years working in New York City, Nicole moved to Upstate NY full time to teach Fashion Design and Merchandising at the Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Center. As an educator, Nicole hopes to help others build sustainable practices into their day-to-day lives and teach valuable and empowering skills to the community. 

Angela Kunz has over 18 years of teaching fashion design and before that had her own clothing line selling both wholesale as well as had a storefront in the LES of NYC.. Angela  is a Pratt Institute graduate (in 2000) and has loved all the different places fashion design has taken her. She started sewing, designing and pattern making at 12 years old and has never looked back. Her true passion and mission in life is to keep the world sewing and bring people back to the basics of slow fashion, sustainability, repaired, reused and loved clothing and move the world away from the incredibly wasteful and environmentally damaging world of fast fashion.