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April 2026 Textiles Sig Meeting
Tuesday, April 21st 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Meeting start – quick intro of everyone with names (5 minutes)
Budget update – breakdown of current budget (5 minutes, informative)
Year focus overview (quick, 5 minute overview)
- Basics quarter
- Cosplay quarter
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- Focus on collaborating with 3D printing and laser SIGs
- Garment construction – sleeves, structured layers, edge finishes
- Attaching 3D prints or EVA foam to garments
- Professional class – cosplay focus + eva focus (2 classes)
- Ren Faire quarter
- Focus on leatherworking – another 3D printing and laser SIG focus
- Leather cutting class + laser leather cutting
- Professional class for leathermaking
- Weathering
- Holiday quarter
- Unique structural base for masks, large wing elements, furry masks, etc
- Functional items for gift giving and personal use
- Fitting class to assist with Halloween costumes
- Open working hours to assist with costume making
Quarterly focus for April-May-June (5 minute overview)
- Cosplay focus, meaning learning how to make and adjust garments
- Attach items to clothes using embroidery, cricut, and sewing
- Emphasis on using industrial machine and sergers
- Garment construction – skirts, pants, attaching zippers and sleeves
- Work with us office hours for on the spot assistance
Classes – authorization / instructional (15 minutes combined)
- Industrial Sewing Machine (2 classes)
- Danielle – 3rd Monday of the month
- Sable
- Serger (1 class)
- Jamie
Classes – make and take / workshop
- Make and take
- Level 100
- Level 200
- Level 300
- Weekend Workshop
- Professional – Brittany – EVA foam
- Non-sewing classes
- Cricut 101 – Robin
- Bookbinding is coming to Denhac! – Rory + Craig
- Potential classes:
- Instructional: disability in cosplay – using tricks to make cosplay more disability friendly with picture and item examples (examples of items to use, not done projects) magnets, snaps, magic release and other quick release tricks is a very in depth topic that I think we can tie those two together
- Fabric introduction – what they feel like and what to use them with
- Monthly general themes
- April garment construction
- May stretch material/ alterations
- June unusual construction/really big proportions/ unique designs as fashion.
Train the trainer for Feb/March
- Daniel and Nick have completed the first embroidery train the trainer
- Obv designs to check in
- Build out the guide to train
- Andrew is the genuine pig
Hackdenhac day: (15 minutes to allow discussion and additions)(28th)
- Sewing machine kits – make the pattern and actually doing the things
- Start sorting fabric and figure out long term storage options
- storage !!!!
– Mohr will be looking for as many additional shelvings in preparation - Work towards leatherworking station
- Mohr- wood working sig is looking to get a larger work tables. I already called dibs for us to take their wooden table for the leather station
- Move all embroidery thread over to embroidery station
- Move denhac rug elsewhere to make room
- Take random wood down + white board down
- Remove as many random un assigned knicknacks from sig textile as possible
- Rolling bin under metal shelves – put the stuffing in it
- How to handle vinyl + cricut storage
Updates:
- Trying to get together a list of everyone with training privileges
General discussion points: (20 minutes or whatever time we have left)
- Zippers – Mohr + Sable
- Zach for photography
- Hat = cut out
- How to help people opt out
- Talk to Ian about this
- Shopping list
- More timer stoppers for the irons
- Iron matt
- How much do we want to spend on shelves (we have budgeted 770 of our annual budget for space organization)
- Cricut discussion overall
- Pegs for thread (lots of it)
- Discuss organization for fabric so we can get through it + organize it in a spreadsheet
- Do we continue keeping the cut off fabrics
- Short and long term project storage discussion
- Bar that gets put down and hung back up
- Remove the clothing rack
- Remove the 24 hour storage as it’s not being used
- Put the bolts in a sturdier container
Leather thing -> up by June
Getting the needles
Jamie will be making a stand
Wiki -> ‘i have finished this in slack’
Pop up changing tent – 6’7”
‘I used this many buttons and this is what I made’
How to design a rug – two classes
First class – design a rug, choose your colors, cut your yarn in preparation for for class
Kits use 3 ½ or 3 inch yarn
Starting the project and going forward on your own
Classroom
One week apart
4 people in class
Print out all the designs and instructions