Big Hello from Sue, our new Floor Supervisor

 

 

"Welcome to Craftland. Is there anything I can help you with?"  These are the words you’ll hear when you come to Craftland and be met by me, Sue, the new Floor Supervisior. I am new to the shop, but have been with Craftland since November 2012, working at the warehouse as manager of our sewing room.  Im pictured here at our demonstration table in the shop in Jumeirah featuring some of our recommendations for knitting and crochet, including beautiful yarns, introductory kits and samples of patterns available in the shop.

I not only here to greet and help you, I also co-ordinate classes and help book private classes. If you’re a club member, I also host all our clubs on a Wednesday morning. I work Sunday to Thursday and Monday evenings. So if you have any questions about anything in the shop or want help booking a class, please do not hesitate to ask for me. I look forward to meeting and greeting all of you.

Crafting Is Cool!

Need help keeping busy over the hot Dubai summer? We're presenting a fun & varied set of classes throughout July & August.



many of the summer projects on display in the window



During the regular season, our classes run weekly over several weeks, but during July and August our workshops will take place during one week - very convenient for those of us traveling for part of the summer!

As a special treat, Brother sewing machines will be sponsoring two of our classes, Sewing Zakka Style and Quilting Whirligig. Brother will be providing the fabulous new V7 machines for students to use, a Brother specialist will be on hand to help use the machines, and they will offer a fantastic discount on the machines at the end of the class so that when you fall in love with it you can take it home with you!



try machine embroidery with the Brother-sponsored Sewing Zakka Style class

discover the fantastic quilting features on the new Brother V7 with the Whirligig Quilt class

use this superb machine for free in the Brother-sponsored classes!

  We've got some fun classes for kids - Kids Can Sew intro and part 2 classes for machine sewists, and Kids Crafting for hand work. Kids ages 8 and above can learn to sew, knit, crochet and hand embroider.

Kids' Crafting - hand embroidered cloud pillow



Kids Can Sew! Part 2 - My Own Backpack


We're holding 2 sessions of our Beginners' Quilting class over the summer, as well as three different quilt project classes.

detail from the Floral Applique quilting class



Double Wedding Ring Mini quilting class

  Learn to hand embroider and improve your skills with our summer embroidery classes - an interesting variety of ribbon and classic embroidery styles.

learn Canvas Work hand embroidery in the Bunting Sampler class

take your hand embroidery 3-D with the Stumpwork class

hone your knitting skills in Knitting Part 2 - Baby Knits

knit these cute puppy slippers!

We also hold clinics during the summer months, where you can bring along your current project and a teacher is there to help.

You can see the full schedule on our website, click on "Schedule" for the calendar and "Descriptions" for all the juicy info on pricing, class content and timings.

Mid-Summer update

We're having a full summer here in Craft Land, with classes going strong, and quite a few days left on our Summer Offers promotion!

Check our full schedule on our website for class detail, www.mycraftland.com

This week, we have a fully booked beginner's quilting class, a third week of learning to sew for our younger crafters, and a fun afternoon quilted pillow class. Next week's our last week of sewing classes for the summer, so sign up now before it's all over! We have one more session of learning to sew, another fun project (quilted tote bag) for intermediate sewists, and in the mornings, some hand work with a full week of Silk Ribbon Fairies, what could be better?

Noa (with her mom) modeling the dress she made

Once August starts, we're all about the hand crafting, with beginners classes in Knitting and Crochet (some are full or filling fast, so sign up soon!), and Crafting camps for kids 8+ and even craft mornings for tots 4-7.

We've added a few general clinics for those of you who are missing our clinic sessions...For July, they're Sunday and Wednesday 4-6:30pm, and in August they'll be Monday and Tuesday 9:30-12noon. Join us for help with whatever you're working on! You can call first to confirm who the teacher will be (and to make sure your fave craft will be covered), but no need to pre-register. Check out today's fun clinic in the photo at the top!

Our Summer Saturdays all-day quilting classes are also popular, check the schedule to see what's being taught each Saturday. The first two sessions were very fun, with lots of happy sewing going on!

Some of the kits on offer this month

SUMMER OFFERS
Don't forget, the Summer Offers continue through July, with 20% discounts on a whole bunch of things:

• Jelly Rolls & Layer Cakes
• Pre-Cut Quilt kits
• Craft Land packaged Knitting kits
• Craft Land packaged crafting kits for kids
• Addi Click interchangeable knitting needle sets
• Permin cross-stitch kits
• Craft Land packaged Ribbon Embroidery Fairy kits
• Latch Hook kits

Addi click interchangeable needles...20% 0ff!

Summer Program

Our summer classes are nearly here! Our regular class schedule is suspended for July & August, to make way for our special summer programming. See the schedule for children's classes, adult classes, and introducing classes for 4-8 year olds...we will have mini classes dedicated to the littlest crafters: the Wee Ones!

Children & teens (eight years old and above) will have July classes in learning how to sew on a machine, and intermediate sewing classes too with classes on sewing a super cute jumpsuit, quilted pillows and a fab tote bag. For August, there are knitting and crochet classes, and week-long Crafting Camps for handwork like cross stitch, applique and weaving.

Adults will be able to take sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet and hand embroidery, with full day classes in quilting every Saturday.

Wee Ones classes are two mornings a week in August. The little guys have many craft kits to choose from and will be able to learn some fun new craft skills.

Class sign up is available now, just come on in to Craft Land to get registered!