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Upcoming sewing sessions, atelier rules, and other relevant information for Community Members.

Calendar

The Spring Semester of 2025 starts on 27th of January and runs until 29th of June.

The Autumn Semester of 2025 starts on 18th of August and runs until 14th of December.

Calendar

Community Rules

Rules, Initiatives, and other relevant information.

In the atelier, you will find a green community planner. Let the team know that you were participating in the course by writing your name under the current day.

Nametag

Wear a nametag and introduce yourself. Get to know others. The nametag can be made either by hand from felt and thread or temporarily crafted with tape and pen.

Cleaning

We sew together, we clean up together. Take care to clean up after yourself. Put tools back in their proper place, and clean the floor of pins, threads, etc.

Upcycling Initiative

We kindly ask everyone to cut their fabric leftovers into small pieces (approximately 5 x 5 cm) before dropping them into the grey “fabric leftovers” bin. The pieces do not need to be precise, or “well cut”, but just that they would not be larger than 5 x 5.

The small fabric pieces can be re-used as fillings for meditation cushions. It also promotes a moment of reconsideration: Is the leftover piece too large to be cut into pieces? Then it shouldn't be thrown out in the first place. Keep and use it in your future project.

Cleaning rules

Before you plan to leave the atelier, please stop sewing 10 to 20 minutes before and tidy up properly. Here are the main points:

Tidy up:

Return sewing machines without thread and bobbin to the shelf
Turn off stationary machines after use
Clean the atelier floor of pins with magnets (so that they don't get into the vacuum cleaner)
Clean overlock machines with bellows in the hook area (ideally by the person who used the machine)
Wipe tables with a wet towel
Vacuum or clean with a broom

Reset overlock machines to basic setting:

2 jersey needles 75 (pink/yellow marking)
Thread tension between 3-5 for both needles and looper
Stitch selection dial set at the back (this regulates the width of the stitch)
For info:
➝ if front setting: for rolled hem
➝ When set at the back: for normal seam

Kitchen:

If used, rinse your dishes and lay them out to dry
Clean and rinse the coffee french press if you used it

18 - 21 o’clock • Social Sewing Course Social Sewing Course runs weekly during the two semesters per year. It functions as the main social get-together for the members. Community Members work on their own sewing projects, while the course is led by an expert teacher offering guidance on the projects.

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