Weave a Miniature Tapestry

Create a small woven masterpiece using a laser cut bamboo loom. These playing card sized looms are easy to learn and you can finish your woven project in just an afternoon. Learn how to combine and weave with yarns, wool roving, beads and textured threads to create a landscape or abstract design.

Embroidered Ledger Book

Make a pair of small notebooks with embroidered Kraftex paper covers. The notebooks are 3×5 inches each and stitched at the top to make a ledger style book. You will learn an embroidery stitch called the sorbello stitch to embellish the covers.

Gathered Bead Edge Basket

Using a gathering stitch with wooden beads, you will learn to create a wool felt basket with a reverse appliqué design. This fun technique makes a double layered felt bowl shaped vessel which is sturdy enough to hold jewelry or odds and ends on your desk or dresser or make an abstract sculptural art object.

Modern Blackwork Embroidery

Unleash your creativity with modern blackwork embroidery, a twist on a classic backstitch technique. These mesmerizing designs evoke the intricate patterns of contemporary zentangle patterns, but are made with thread.

Folded Paper Window Stars

Learn to make folded paper stars from translucent glassine paper. These stars look complicated but use lots of simple layered repeating shapes to create the complex designs. Your completed stars can be hung in a window for a colorful display.

Sparkling Sea Monster

Make a felt sea serpent embroidered with sparkling sequins. You’ll learn three different hand embroidery stitches and make your own ornament (or you can finish it as a pin or magnet).

Waterlily Trinket Box

Learn to stitch a small trinket box with a waterlily or sunflower in full bloom on the lid. This little box is the perfect size for tiny gifts or storing odds and ends.

Folk Art Blackbird

Learn to craft a vibrant folk-art style red-winged blackbird, using felt fabric and hand embroidery. You’ll learn several decorative stitches and a plied cord technique to create your design.

Fabric Design Inspired by Your Gallery

Get a taste of creating your own fabric designs inspired by an exhibition, book, or photo. No drawing skills are needed; we’ll work from a recycled paper collage. Using a digital kaleidoscope tool, we’ll virtually cut and repeat your design to make a geometric pattern. Student will get a swatch of their design printed on fabric (mailed after class). In person class only.

Embroidered Sheep

Make a bead embroidered sheep from layered wool felt, beads and sequins. Learn the backstitch to do some contrasting stitching. You can choose to finish your sheep into a pin, keytag or holiday ornament.

Embroidered Felt Toad

Stitch your own charming frog from wool felt and sparkling sequins. Learn basic decorative embroidery stitches including the whip stitch, running stitch and French knots. See demo of how you can finish your frog into a magnet, pin or ornament.

Nesting Doll Ornaments

Design and create your own nesting doll from wool felt and hand embroidery. You’ll learn three different embroidery stitches to make a vibrantly colored ornament. Embellish it with sparkling sequins and novelty trims.

Animal Portrait Ornaments

Traditional art meets technology in this class. First, you’ll design and digitally print patterned art paper. Next, you’ll wrap a bookboard ornament, using a traditional technique used for making handmade book covers. Add an animal illustration inspired by your pet or found-art collage to your design and a ribbon hanging loop. In person class only.

Stained Glass Silk Pin

Stitch a tiny improvised patchwork of iridescent silk scraps. Add a pin back and finish with a wool felt border to create a stained glass window effect.

Newsletter & Blog Basics for Artists

Your email newsletter list is your most valuable social media tool as an artist. Learn how to write a newsletter that people will be excited to see in their inboxes. A newsletter and blog go hand in hand to give your art a home in cyberspace that’s not influenced by social media algorithms. Get tips for how to write it, what to include, the tech skills and apps you’ll need to get started.

Etsy Behind the Scenes

Learn tips, techniques and words of wisdom from a long-time Etsy Seller about what it takes to run an Etsy shop and sell your art online. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the technical side of running your shop, creating shipping profiles and what it takes to manage an online storefront. We’ll also talk about search strategies and pitfalls to help your shop get started on the right foot.

Bead Embroidered Bouquet

Learn eight different beaded embroidery stitches in this modern twist on a sampler. You’ll stitch a floral bouquet using beaded versions of a french knot, pistil stitch, buttonhole, four-legged knot, running stitch and three variations on stacked sequin flowers. 

Sashiko Inspired Squares

Traditional sashiko is often stitched with white thread on indigo fabrics, but in this class students will create three animal sashiko-inspired squares to explore modern variations of the traditional stitches using multiple colors. Your completed squares can be finished into coasters, quilt blocks, decorative pockets, or framed as a piece of embroidered art.

Intro to Fabric Design

Have you ever dreamed of designing your own fabrics? Come to get a taste of creating your own custom fabric designs from start to finish. Work from a paper collage to create some source material. Then, virtually cut and repeat your design to make a repeating geometric pattern by using a digital kaleidoscope tool. Each student will get swatches mailed to them after class. In person class only.

Tea Towel from a Recipe Card

Make your own keepsake tea towel by scanning your grandmother’s handwritten recipe card and learning how to scale it up to fill a fat quarter of fabric. See how to upload and digitally print it on to linen-cotton fabric with Spoonflower to make a one-of-a-kind tea towel. In person class only.

Metallic Mosaic Notebooks

First, you’ll create custom repeating surface patterns using a digital kaleidoscope tool, black and white sketches, and scrap paper. Choose three of your designs and we will send them off to print on metallic wallpaper. We’ll meet back with our finished prints and make chain stitched pamphlet notebooks using the custom wallpaper for covers. 

Making Monochromes

Learning surface pattern design can be complex. This class is about the surface design process focused on the design and simplifying the color so you only have to make one color choice. Monochromatic prints are one of the most versatile kinds of surface designs. Monochrome means one color, so you can use them to accent and compliment other more complex prints when you are making any kind of project that combines different patterns all together. No matter if you want to design fabric, paper, wallpaper, or just to incorporate more pattern into your own art pieces, you will learn something you can use in this class.

Fabrics from Scratch: An Intro to Designing & Printing Your Own Fabrics

This class is packed with projects you can design using simple and low-cost digital design tools, most that work just from your web browser. You will learn how to create a variety of projects, from repeating geometric patterns to a faux batik print, and gain the confidence you need to build on those basic instructions to make your own designs. Then, we’ll take a tour of everything you need to know about printing with Spoonflower, including pro tips about working with color, resolution and scale.

Collage Cover Mini Coptic Sketchbook

Create a mini coptic-bound sketchbook or journal with a hand-embroidered paper collage cover. We’ll start with a paper collage: layering handmade, hand-painted, and recycled papers and adding accents of hand embroidery stitches. You’ll use this collage to wrap your book covers. We’ll tear down drawing paper for the interior pages and you’ll learn to do a coptic stitch to bind the covers and pages together. Coptic books can open and lay flat, which makes them ideal for sketchbooks, journals and art books.

Strawberry Needlebooks

Make a wool felt needle book, a classic sewing notion to store your needles and pins. You can choose from three different designs: Dog, Cat or Rabbit. No matter which animal you choose, the lessons and stitches will all work the same for everyone. The finished books are 2.5 x 3.5 inches with a snap closure and three felt pages for storing needles. You do not need embroidery experience for this class. Featured stitches in this project: blanket stitch, figure eight knot, rope stitch, whip stitch, back stitch, pistil stitch, fly stitch, and cross stitch.

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