Name: Trans Tailoring - Free Sewing Meetup
Start: 2024-10-06T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-06T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 606 Main St

This is a free casual meetup to work on alterations and other sewing projects, workshop projects with others and share skills and techniques
About this Event

AT NEW SHARPSBURG LOCATION: 606 MAIN ST, PGH, PA 15215
This is a free casual meetup to work on alterations and other sewing projects, workshop projects with others and share skills and techniques. Trans Tailoring is a body-neutral and gender-neutral clothes-sewing workshop and skill-share in an informal workshop style, bringing sewing experts and novices together in the same room to work on projects. Guest instructors are welcome to get in touch if you want to get involved!
FACILITATOR BIO
Gene Anderson (they/he) is a self-taught stitcher, quilter and designer who learned to sew clothes that fit his trans body from the generosity of queer sewing mentors, and Trans Tailoring was created as a way to continue and expand that journey with others. Gene is the creator of The Jilt and other upcycled denim creations, as well as a local bookkeeper, plant dad, and part-time queer brunch host.