COS to offer sewing and knitting classes

The College of the Sequoias Training Resource Center will be offering sewing and knitting classes for children and adults starting in June and July, as well as a Sewing Camp for children this June.

This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in learning the basic fundamentals of sewing and knitting. The class will begin with the proper use of a sewing machine, threading, safety, proper posture, stitch drills and how to make three different seams. Students will start with simple projects and then move on to more complicated ones. Classes will explain the proper terminology of knitting and quickly go into finger-knitting and creating scarves.

The COS Training Resource Center has partnered with Eric W. Styles to offer these classes. Eric was formerly the master tailor and fitter and supervisor for Brioni, Giorgio Armani, Polo-ralph Lauren, Bigsby & Kruthers as well as assistant head tailor and fitter for Marshall Fields, Brittany Ltd., Whitehouse and Hardy, Turner Brothers, Robert Vance Ltd. and others.

His expert online classes were offered through more colleges and in more locations than any other online instructor in the United States or Canada. He has also taught live face-toface sewing, tailoring, and pattern-making classes in 10 elite Illinois colleges. Now he is making his way to other colleges in the nation, hiring local instructors to teach the classes and spread his passion for sewing and knitting.

The cost and schedule for all classes vary. They start on June 14 and go until July 27 with various durations for each class. The cost of these classes ranges from $35 to $90 for the classes. The Children and Teens Summer Sewing camp is $150 for six days of instructions, two hours each day.

The classes will all be held on the Visalia COS Campus at 915 S. Mooney Blvd., Visalia.

For more information about the classes, or to register, visit www.cos.edu/communityed and look under, “Current Classes.”