Megan Avery, your instructor and owner of Hipstitch Academy has been cultivating sewing community, as well as teaching and encouraging people to make their own clothing since 2001. Her sewing school, once located in Hoboken, NJ, now resides here in the Catskills in Harpersfield NY.

Megan teaches weekly sewing classes & lessons, as well as host weekend sewing retreats. Hipstitch Academy also offer clothing repair and alteration services, in addition to helping other sewing businesses grow by offering online training course & class friendly sewing patterns.

Megan's creative vision is to help people embrace alternatives to fast fashion by teaching people to sew, encourage thrifting, mending & altering clothes. She designs and produces alternative fashions & goodies made from items that already exist in the world.