City Sewing Room: Stitching, Teaching, Sharing GREEN

Earthworms

Would you like to learn to: Sew from a pattern? Customize a thrift-store find? Replace a busted zipper? You can do all this and more in a lively, well-stocked compound on St. Louis' near-south side. Welcome to City Sewing Room!

Creative Director Rita Hunt shares the what-why-how of this non-profit community sewing center, where adults and kids can take classes and create in professional-grade studios, and you can score great deals on fabric, notions and sewing machines donated to their Makers' Mart. A new Quilting Studio features a state-of-the-art longarm quilting machine and skilled quilter volunteers ready to help you craft your vision in fabric.

Many hands give an ancient art a DIY revival at City Sewing Room and sister locations, like Sew Hope in Florissant, MO. Well-lit parking and day, evening and weekend hours make fun at City Sewing Room accessible for walk-in and class-registered sewists at all skill and interest levels.

Earthworms host Jean Ponzi discovered this maker-culture gem through the Missouri Recycling Association. We bet you'll take a notion to check it out yourself - and pin it to your activity faves.

Thanks to St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste District for grants augmenting members' support for City Sewing Room.

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