KIM G.

Five star stellar learning experience! Kim is an ace at sewing (and probably many other things) but I wAs most struck by how well she teaches. She is a for real capital T Teacher. There are geniuses out there in the world who cannot explain something to another human in a way they can actually understand. At that particular skill, Kim Grant is masterful. She instantly (intuitively?) understood where I was stuck and explained the next part or showed me a way of looking at it that made it perfectly clear. She came to where I was in my sewing knowledge and brought me a little closer to where she is. I took sewing lessons for 1.5 with a very fine Teacher but I feel like I learned more in those 2 hours with Kim than in a year with the other (very smart and extremely capable) sewing teacher. Kim was also extremely encouraging and reassuring and confidence boosting. I was thankful for that. I’m a huge fan.

Kim is super knowledgeable and great at connecting tools, skills and goals. I have learned a lot more already in one lesson than I would have expected, all of it relevant to what I want to be able to sew for myself on my machine. Thank you, Kim! Looking forward to my next lesson :)

I found Kim after looking for someone to make me some custom athletic tank tops for the gym. After meeting her, I chose to learn how to sew instead, because she did a good job of making sewing make sense to me. To say I felt awkward my first time in a sewing store as a 6'6" bodybuilder the understatement of my life.

She took me from knowing nothing at all about sewing to being able to make my own work-out tops. Then she taught me how to make work shirts, and soon together we will start making my first pair of pants. (If you're as tall as I am, you know this is a very big deal.)

Friends and coworkers, for the first time, they're seeing me in clothes that fit my arms and shoulders properly and they ask where I got them. I feel really good about that, and I don't have rashes under my armpits from too-tight "XL" shirts.

If she can get my burly dopey butt to learn to sew, she can teach anyone.

She also has a stocked sewing studio. Most lessons I go there to learn, but I've also had her visit my place. I prefer to go there, if you need a button or fabric, she probably has it, and will let you buy muslin from her instead of taking a special trip to the Garment District to get it.