Class Times • Payment • Missing a Class • Transfers • Refunds • Class Cancellations
additional information may be found in the FAQ's
Classes are held at our Retail Store location:
Sew L.A.
1637½ Silver Lake Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323.665.7097
Class Times:
All classes start and end on time. Please be prompt! If you use freeways to get to us, be aware of the rush-hour traffic for evening classes and plan accordingly. If you will be over 1/2 an hour late for a class, you will need to schedule a private lesson to make the class up as you will miss a significant portion of the class.
Payment:
You can pay for a class via our shopping cart linked to this website here, or you can call us at the store at 323-665-7097 or e-mail us to reserve a class. At our discretion, a reservation can be held for 24 hours so you can drop by the store to pay with cash or a check. You can also just drop in the store to register for a class! Note: returned checks are subject to a $20 fee.
Missing a Class:
If you have to miss a class, you will want to schedule a private lesson to make the class up. Private lessons are $45 per hour. We generally build upon skills in all of our classes, so if you miss one you’ll definitely be behind. If you will be missing the last class of a series and that class is offered again within the next three months, you are welcome to sit in on the class you missed free of charge. Please let us know beforehand so we are prepared!
Transfer:
If you have signed up for a class and then can’t make it, you may transfer your tuition to another class up until 5 days before the first class would have commenced. This gives us enough time to contact a waiting list person so we can offer them your spot. If the second class is less expensive, then you will have a Sew L.A. store credit for the difference good towards classes, private lessons or Sewlab time only. If you will only be missing one class from a series, see above for "Missing a Class". To transfer, call us, e-mail or stop by. If you can’t make the class and it is less than five days before the class, the following transfer fees will apply:
5 days or more, no charge.
4 days – 2 days before class begins: 25% of tuition transfer fee
Day before the class: 50% of tuition transfer fee
Day of the class or after the class has occurred: your tuition is forfeit
One transfer is allowed per tuition payment regardless of when you contact us.
Refunds:
If you sign up for a class and then can’t make it at all, you must inform us at least five days before the class begins. You will be issued a Sew L.A. store credit for the amount of the class (less a $10 administrative fee) good towards another class of your choice, private lessons or machine time in our Sewlab. No cash refunds! If you must cancel within four days of the class, the percentages listed above for transfers apply to the store credit amount you will be issued.
Class Cancellations:
Please register early for classes! We know you are all chomping at the bit to learn how to sew, but if you all wait till the day before to sign up that class will most likely be canceled. If a class needs to be canceled, we’ll contact everyone who has signed up beforehand as soon as we know and issue a store credit or a full refund for that class. But we don’t want to cancel classes, so sign up! Yes siree!
Please note that not all classes are offered at all times. If you’d like to take a class on a day or at a time we don’t offer, don’t hesitate to ask us! Odds are we can work out an arrangement to accommodate you.
