DCL Online: Corded Silk Jewelry

Zoom/Online Event

In this class, you'll get your hands busy learning two ancient techniques for making plied cording from silk and other fibers. Turn your creations into chic modern jewelry that's as unique as you are – a mix of tradition and your personal style!

DCL Online: Corded Silk Jewelry

Zoom/Online Event

In this class, you'll get your hands busy learning two ancient techniques for making plied cording from silk and other fibers. Turn your creations into chic modern jewelry that's as unique as you are – a mix of tradition and your personal style!

DCL Online: Embroidered Ledger Books

Zoom/Online Event

Make a pair of small notebooks with embroidered paper covers. These small notebooks are embellished with a sorbello stitch. Learn to tear down paper from larger sheets, a great skill for recycling paper to make more notebooks. For this class, you will need to provide a 12” metal ruler.

Photographing Small Objects for Online Sales and Marketing

Zoom/Online Event

This is a quick crash course in photographing your small-scale artwork and other objects using your smartphone or a small point-and-shoot camera to capture and edit images. Learn tips and watch a demo for using a light box and everyday materials to light your work. Then we’ll switch gears to do some basic photo edits that can help your photos shine on your website, social media or Etsy shop. Presented by Teaching Artist Becka Rahn. Not able to make the date and still want to view the class? Register anyway, we'll send out a link to a video of the class when available, you get two weeks to watch it. Please register for in person if you plan to show up in the Zoom live, and online if you plan to watch the video. This program is funded by MELSA and hosted by Carver County Libraries.

Sashiko Inspired Squares: Woodland Creatures

Zoom/Online Event

Spend an hour each week stitching in this fun hand embroidery sampler class, held online via Zoom. This is an 11 week class, starting July 18, 2024. Each week, you will learn a new sashiko-inspired stitch, a Japanese embroidery technique where the stitches are based on combinations of running stitches and threaded running stitches, placed on a grid. Class dates: Thursdays July 18 – September 26, 12:00 – 1:00 pm Central Time. Your registration for this class includes access to pre-recorded lessons, so if you need to miss any class, you can catch up with the recording on your own schedule. Your class fee includes a pre-printed panel with six woodland creature blocks. Each includes grid patterns and/or placement markings to help with your stitches. The animals include a rabbit, duck, fox, hedgehog, toad, and squirrel printed in navy blue. These were designed by Becka and printed on 100% cotton fabric from Spoonflower. Each finished block is 5 inches square and can be finished to make into coasters, pockets, the center of a patchwork pillow or quilt block. You provide the rest of the materials and tools for class. See list below. You do not need embroidery experience for this [read more...]

$45.00

DCL Online: Embroidered Ledger Books

Zoom/Online Event

Make a pair of small notebooks with embroidered paper covers. These small notebooks are embellished with a sorbello stitch. Learn to tear down paper from larger sheets, a great skill for recycling paper to make more notebooks. For this class, you will need to provide a 12” metal ruler.

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