Knowing how to sew can come in handy in numerous scenarios, such as patching up a favorite pair of pants or performing an emergency fluffendectomy on teddy bears. Practice suturing skills with today's Groupon.
The Deal
$36 for Learn To Sew Workshop, a four-week introductory sewing course (an $80 value)
- Machine, sewing, and patterning basics
- Includes kits and supplies
- Weekly 2.5-hour sessions
$40 for Hearts a Plenty, a four-hour quilting workshop (an $80 value)
- Measuring, cutting, and piecing basics
- Create your own tablemat
- Pattern, fabric, and supplies included
- May opt for one-day, four-hour session during the day or two-day, two-hour session in the evening
$45 for Basic Pattern Fit Workshop, taking place in two consecutive days (a $90 value)
- One pattern altered in class
- Supplies and materials included
- For beginners through advanced
- Eight-hour workshop split into two days, four hours per day
Eden Creative Sewing Center
Aiming to reinvent the ambiance of an old-fashioned sewing outlet, the family-owned-and-operated Eden Creative Sewing Center is the craft-based center for all sewing, quilting, or garment-construction needs. A certified dealer of Pfaff and Bernina embroidery machines, Eden Creative Sewing Center keeps customers abreast of the latest stitching technology while permitting patrons to trade their used machines toward the newest models. Thimble-thumbed staffers readily assist customers in navigating the store’s extensive array of fabrics, cottons, and additional supplies. A brigade of expert sewers instruct Eden Creative Sewing Center’s classes and workshops, which cover such skill sets as pattern fitting, embroidery, quilting, and stitching.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Astronaut Training
NASA's manned shuttle program ended not because of a lack of interest on the part of astronauts but because so few people could complete the rigorous astronaut training process. Here's a look at the extreme tests given to would-be space jockeys:
Human Centrifuge: This giant man-spinner rotates thousands of times per minute to simulate the effects of the space shuttle accidentally getting caught in a giant centrifuge.
16-Minute Mile: Would be easy except that the astronauts have to race while simultaneously writing an essay-length evocation of the perfect sunrise
A Series of Riddles: To prepare for the riddles that the real space station will ask after it comes alive
Media Training: Helps returned astronauts face reporters even after learning the horrible truth that the back half of the moon is simply not there anymore
Forlornness Simulator: Not for space, where astronauts stay occupied with work, but for their return to Earth after the empty vastness of space has opened their eyes to human existence's overwhelming lack of meaning
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