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Sun Oct 25 2026 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-04:00

Embroidery: Introductory Stitches to Sew a Portrait

  • Cherry Street Pier · Philadelphia
  • From USD 39.19
Bonnie MacAllister: Studio 16 @ Cherry St Pier Publisher / Host Bonnie MacAllister: Studio 16 @ Cherry St Pier
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Embroidery: Introductory Stitches to Sew a Portrait
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Using a spectrum of basic to more involved sculptural stitches, practice on an embroidery hoop and guided sewable patterns. All ages
About this Event

Experience a portable lesson in a variety of important embroidery stitches. Create a sampler book using sewable tutorials and practice on an embroidery hoop. We will sew in Studio 16, tour the pier, and move outside next to the bridgescape on Cherry Street Pier. All materials included. All ages and abilities.


Bonnie MacAllister iis a fourth year Resident Artist at Cherry Street Pier. Her studio practice involves interactive collaborative workshops demonstrating her studio practice of embroidery, felting, natural dyeing, and recycled textiles. Her embroidery has been exhibited at the New York Public Library, McLean Project for the Arts, the New School / Parsons, the State Museum of Pennsylvania. the Woodmere Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, Trenton City Museum, and Sandy Spring Museum. Bonnie is the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays to Ethiopia (2009) and a 2019-2022 40th Street AIR Fellow.


Directions: https://www.cherrystreetpier.com/getting-here/

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Cherry Street Pier, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, United States

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