Name: Make a Traditional Hmong Woman's Outfit
Start: 2024-07-13T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-14T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Room B22, 1001 Johnson Parkway, Saint Paul, MN, USA

Learn to make a Hmong women's outfit with guest artist Kia Xiong from Xiongseams.
About this Event

Make your own Hmong women's outfit

Join us for a two-day class where you learn how to make your very own Hmong Woman's Outfit! Kia Xiong from Xiongseams will be teaching how to measure, create a pattern, and make a box shirt and sev. This is an intermediate class. Students should have experience with using a sewing machine.

Space is limited, get your ticket soon.

Kia is a seamstress based out of Milwaukee Wisconsin. She has 10 years of sewing experience and learned how to sew Hmong clothes from her mother. She has taught in-person classes on how to sew a variety of Hmong clothes since 2019 and now teaches Hmong clothes pattern making via online Zoom classes. Kia and her mother manage XiongSeams - a US based business that makes modern and traditional Hmong clothes, and sells Hmong clothes patterns.