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Needle Felting Animals (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Create your own fuzzy wool friend! Students will learn how to use colorful wool fibers and tools to create 3D felted animals. Needle felting takes soft wool roving and uses a small needle in order to mat wool fibers together to make objects.

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Fuzzy Art: Working with Wool (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Create your own soft little friends and sculptures! Learn how to transform natural wool fibers into soft sculptures and hand-made fabric with basic needle-felting and wet-felting techniques.

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Loom Weaving (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Learn how to weave on a rigid heddle loom, or table-top 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'll finish the class with a plain weave scarf, but don’t let […]

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Fashion Design (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Calling all fashion designers! Learn the basics of machine and hand sewing while designing and creating one-of-a-kind special design pieces. We'll explore simple silhouettes using woven fabrics for tops and skirts. We'll also touch on closures such as zippers, buttons, elastic and more.

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Basket Weaving (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Make a basket of your very own! Learn to hand weave a container from vines, grasses, and hardwoods. Students will learn fun dyeing techniques with kool-aid or natural dyes like beets and turmeric to enhance their basket creations as well!

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Nature Inspired Art (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Gather flowers, leaves, rocks, sticks, and more to create art inspired by the great outdoors! Each day we'll go on an adventure to find materials for a project. From luminaries to dying fabric, we will explore conservation, the beauty of nature and the different ways we can interact with it.

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The Dye Days of Summer (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Discover the wonders of color and cloth by exploring fabric dyes and tie-dye techniques. At the end of the week, we'll use our collection of dyed fabric to create a tote bag using the sewing machine.

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Learn to Quilt (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Learn to quilt! We'll cover the basics of using a sewing machine to create quilts, including some of the most popular stitches, different types of fabric, and more! We'll use simple quilt patterns to make a small lap quilt or quilted wall hanging.

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Learn to Quilt (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Learn to quilt! We'll cover the basics of using a sewing machine to create quilts, including some of the most popular stitches, different types of fabric, and more! We'll use simple quilt patterns to make a small lap quilt or quilted wall hanging.

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Make Your Own Patches (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Make patches to sew on clothes by upcycling material such as old denim! We will use paint pens and learn to draw designs and lettering to create awesome wearable art!

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Sewn Sculpture (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Experiment with fabric and other fibers to create sculptural forms and transform clothing. Mark making will be explored through hand stitching and painting. Basic stitching and weaving will be covered. Students are welcome to incorporate other media and pieces of clothing for decoration and reconstruction.

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Improvisational Quilting (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Improv quilting is quilting with freedom in mind. Beginning 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.)

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Basket Weaving (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Make a basket of your very own! Learn to hand weave a container from vines, grasses, and hardwoods. Students will learn fun dyeing techniques with kool-aid or natural dyes like beets and turmeric to enhance their basket creations as well!

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Creating With Fiber: Knitting, Weaving + More (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Explore how you can use a variety of yarns and threads to express yourself, by making colorful objects you can wear, use to decorate your room, or give to family and friends. In this class, we'll be weaving, knitting, and more. Come ready to have fun and try new things!

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Make Your Own Felted Animal Masks (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Explore old needle felting techniques! Needle felting takes soft wool roving and uses a small needle in order to mat wool fibers together to make objects. In this class, students will utilize basic sewing and appliqué skills to transform themselves into furry tigers, sleek dragons, or any creature they dream up!

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The Dye Days of Summer (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Discover the wonders of color and cloth by exploring fabric dyes and tie-dye techniques. At the end of the week, we'll use our collection of dyed fabric to create a tote bag using the sewing machine.

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Learn to Hand Sew: Plushies + Pillows (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Learn to hand sew and make small projects like a decorative pillow or soft and snuggly plushy. We'll cover several hand sewing techniques including the running stitch and slip stitch and complete a few small projects.

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Learn to Knit (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Who doesn't love the idea of knitting a horse, unicorn, or other four-legged friends? With plain or fancy stitches, they'll be as unique as you are. We'll provide the knitting needles and yarn for you!

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Contemporary Embroidery (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

We'll learn basic embroidery stitches (including back stitch, running stitch, and more), and express ourselves by stitching words and pictures with thread and fabric. We'll also see how to design our own pieces, to create a one-of-a-kind piece. Lots of bright colors, lots of opportunities for self expression!

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Basket Weaving (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Make a basket of your very own! Learn to hand weave a container from vines, grasses, and hardwoods. Students will learn fun dyeing techniques with kool-aid or natural dyes like beets and turmeric to enhance their basket creations as well!

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Paint + Sew: Make Your Own Leather Tote (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

We will paint flower motifs on white vegan leather, precut in a tote bag shape. On the flat surface, we'll begin by sketching the flowers with pencil, and then we'll start painting using acrylic paints. We’ll apply several layers of paint until it's finished. While the paint dries, we’ll cut out the straps, inside lining, […]

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