The Sewing Room News from Columbia River Sewing

September 2016 Quarterly with Dana Bontrager

Join us for a day with Dana Bontrager of Dana Marie Design Co.  Dana has made a career of “thinking outside the fashion box,” constantly stretching design and sewing conventions to develop new skills...

Special Event with Katrina Walker – June 2016

Morning Trunk Show, 10 AM-Noon (Open to All) Silk: From Cocoon to Cloth and Wool: From Sheep to Suit  “WOW! I never knew fabric could be so interesting!” – That’s what everyone is saying about this amazing...

What's Out There: Online Magazines

We all love our sewing and craft magazines. I’ve subscribed to quite a few off and on and picked up a few on the newsstands. Threads, of course, Vogue Patterns, BurdaStyle, Sew News, and...

May Quarterly 2016 with Helene Knott

Morning Trunk Show, 10 AM-Noon (Open to All) Meet renowned fabric artist Helene Knott. Garment sewers and quilters alike will enjoy her talk on The Art and Craft of Quilting. This program focuses on...

February 2016 Quarterly with Marla Kazell

For our February Quarterly meeting on February 16, 2016, Marla Kazell gave us a wonderful presentation on Koos van den Akker’s fabric collage jackets. Koos (March 1939 – February 2015) was a Dutch-born fashion...

What's Out There: Scissors

Since I’ve been sewing for quite a while, and my grandmother sewed, and my mom likes to go to antique-ing and yard-sale-ing, I have come into rather a lot of pairs of scissors. Or...

Spring Fling 2016

Join us on Saturday, March 12, 2016 for our tenth Spring Fling to learn something new or brush up on a skill. Columbia River Sewing boasts an extraordinary number of great sewing instructors, including...