ONSITE: Needle Felt Your Pet
Learn how to make a mini, needle felted sculpture of your furry friend. We’ll start with a basic shape, build on details, then incorporate wire and other details needed to bring your pet to life.
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ONSITE: Family Studio: Fabric Collages Inspired By Faith Ringgold
Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Come learn about the incredible artist and children's book author Faith Ringgold! We will look at her beautiful story quilts for inspiration and then make our own story quilts using paper, […]
read moreONSITE: Learn to Knit Cables + Make a Hat
Do you know how to knit and purl? Then you can learn to cable! We will make a beautiful cabled hat while you learn to use a cable hook with one type of cables. We will use a little class time to explore different types of cables and try out a few more on scrap […]
read moreONSITE: Weekend Quilt Coat Workshop
For this design and sew weekend, we will use the Hovea Quilted Coat Pattern to plan an improv pieced design for your coat. Choose “Party on the Back" or “Party All Over” for your design layout. Explore fabric color, value and pattern scale combinations for a coat that is uniquely YOU! This class requires prep […]
read moreONSITE: Continuing Sewing
Improve your sewing skills or use class time for guided practice. Work on your own projects and explore more advanced techniques with weekly demonstrations. Demonstrations may include specialty seaming, pockets, elastic, zipper applications, sleeve insertion or other student requests.
read moreONSITE: Intermediate Sewing + Patternmaking
Improve your sewing skills or use class time for guided practice. You can work on your pre-approved projects and explore more advanced techniques after weekly demonstrations. Demonstrations may include specialty seams and finishes, making fit adjustments to sewing patterns, drafting simple sewing patterns, and other student requests.
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Loom Weaving
Learn to weave on a floor loom. You’ll enjoy warping demonstrations and plenty of practice time, along with tips for achieving smooth selvages and an even beat. Plan to design and complete at least one plain weave project—a rag rug, a scarf or a table runner. Returning students will take on more complex projects.
read moreONSITE: Sewing for the Table
Learn how to sew a set of custom linens for your table. You'll have the choice of sewing either a 72-inch long runner and four napkins or four placemats and four napkins. You will also receive the patterns and knowledge to make more at home. You do not need to have any extensive sewing experience to […]
read moreONSITE: Sew a Beautiful + Sturdy Market Bag
Learn to make a beautiful and sturdy market bag that doubles as a storage basket when the handles are not in use. This market tote has a generous, square, flat bottom that allows you to bring your delicate market purchases home with ease. You'll love this unique design so much that you'll want to make more! And […]
read moreONSITE: Yarn Dyeing
Learn to dye your own yarn with an assortment of natural dyes commonly found at the grocery store! We'll will guide you through the entire dye process in this super fun class. Expect to complete this class with personally hand-dyed yarn hanks!
read moreONSITE: Beginning Punch Needle Embroidery
Learn the art of punch needling! We'll learn how to use a frame, use the needle, thread their yarn, and how to make designs and patterns. The teacher will show students how to use the special needle tool for the best result. We will do a different project each class and get creative with our […]
read moreONSITE: Felted Picnic: Needle Felting Foods + Animals
Summer fun picnic-style is a great way to explore this typical winter hobby in the summer months! We will collaboratively felt a picnic! Decide what side dish you are bringing because we will be felting everything for a proper picnic from the table cloth to the dogs in attendance! This class will be a fun […]
read moreONSITE: Walk, Clip, Print: Ecoprinting on Fabric
In this one-day workshop, mindfulness, natural-dyes, and textiles collide to create a communal art-making experience. Students will be taken on a guided walk around The Fan District and learn how to identify plants that can be used for natural dying and eco-printing. Students will explore and create eco-prints on fabric, ink-transfer prints on fabric, and […]
read moreONSITE: Rigid Heddle Loom Weaving (B)
Learn how to weave on a rigid heddle loom! We'll warp a rigid heddle loom using the direct warping method. This method is unique to rigid heddles and quick to set up so you can start weaving in no time. You can expect demonstrations on maintaining straight selvages, dealing with weft tails, changing colors, and […]
read moreONSITE: Rigid Heddle Loom Weaving (A)
Learn how to weave on a rigid heddle loom! We'll warp a rigid heddle loom using the direct warping method. This method is unique to rigid heddles and quick to set up so you can start weaving in no time. You can expect demonstrations on maintaining straight selvages, dealing with weft tails, changing colors, and […]
read moreONSITE: Knitting Lab: Guided Studio
Learn to knit, or learn more about knitting. Need help with a tricky pattern or project? Want to add to your skillset? Or start from the beginning! All levels welcome – materials provided, and/or bring your works in progress.
read moreONSITE: Improvisational Quilting
Improv quilting is quilting with freedom in mind. Beginning a quilt with no real concept, quilters will spin the fabric into an ever-evolving fabric tapestry. We’ll dive into improv quilting blocks of our own while talking about the pioneers of this technique (Rosie Lee Tompkins, Quilters of Gee’s Bend, Etc.)
read moreONSITE: Sculptural Basketry
Learn the basics of basketry with an emphasis on using the techniques to make 3D sculptural forms. We will cover the basics of weaving and dyeing with reed, coiling with raffia, and looping with waxed thread. We will use these skills as the starting point for thinking about baskets as sculptures. Plan to leave class […]
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Natural Dyeing
Anything can be a thread and anyone can be weaver. This class is designed for anyone who has a desire to weave in a creative and artistic way of making. The instruction will focus on methods for warping and weaving with a frame loom, and traditional tapestry weaving techniques. Gather mixed materials from nature or […]
read moreONSITE: Round Reed Basket Weaving
Learn the basics of basket weaving. We will use round reed to make baskets or sculptural forms. Techniques covered will include weaving, twining, and dyeing your reed. Students can expect to leave class with one or two completed forms.
read moreONSITE: Learn to Knit in a Weekend
Learn the basics of knitting while completing a small project. With the skills you acquire in this class you will have the basic building blocks for the vast world of creating garments, toys, and household accessories.
read moreONSITE: Embroidery Weaving (Only offered twice a year)
Explore the possibilities of the embroidery stitch in order to create shaped weavings. We will learn three weaving stitch variations to create a sampler and take what we've learned to design and finish an embroidery weaving on canvas.
read moreONSITE: Frame Weaving with Unconventional Materials
Anything can be a thread and anyone can be weaver. This class is designed for anyone who has a desire to weave in a creative and artistic way of making. The instruction will focus on methods for warping and weaving with a frame loom, and traditional tapestry weaving techniques. Gather mixed materials from nature or […]
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Sewing (A)
Learn basic sewing techniques and create a project of your choice with instructor guidance. Weekly demonstrations will include sewing machine basics, fabric basics, simple seams, simple hems, zipper application, how to take body measurements, and how to follow a sewing pattern. The first classes will be demonstration-based and the final classes will focus on the […]
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Sewing (B)
Learn basic sewing techniques and create a project of your choice with instructor guidance. Weekly demonstrations will include sewing machine basics, fabric basics, simple seams, simple hems, zipper application, how to take body measurements, and how to follow a sewing pattern. The first classes will be demonstration-based and the final classes will focus on the […]
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