Workshop Descriptions

You will learn the basic techniques of weaving and go home with a very sweet little basket. This is a decorative wall hanging basket suitable for holding in-coming or out-going mail or dried flowers. Colored strips may be added for decoration. You may choose a wire handle or pre-formed wooden handle.

Skill Level: This is a beginner level basket. No experience needed.

Enrollment: 5

Workshop Fee: $35 - Includes all basket making supplies.

Materials student must bring to class: Two willing hands, small hand towel

Time: Saturday AM - Half day class

There are hundreds of ways to bind a book and we’ll be exploring one of my favorites in this class - The buttonhole binding. I love this style because it’s decorative, with lots of opportunity to include beautiful paper and threads, but also very functional and sturdy. In class we’ll start at the very beginning, folding signatures for our pages and designing our own paper covers. We’ll punch sewing stations and bind it all together with the buttonhole stitch. You’ll leave class with a gorgeous blank book to use as a journal, sketchbook or idea book. No previous bookbinding experience needed, folks 15 years old and up welcome, and I’ll bring all the supplies you need!

Have you ever wanted to bind your own books? This is the introductory class for you. We’re going to dive right in and make three small books using three different binding techniques. We’ll start with a traditional Japanese stab binding, using an awl to punch sewing stations and bind loose pages. Next we’ll make a diminutive accordion fold book with a hard cover. Accordion fold books are great fun to write stories in and make illustrations because the fold up like a book but can be pull open to display all of the pages at once. Finally, we’ll fold and bind a decorative pamphlet stitch book. With each book we make, you’ll have a selection of decorative papers for the covers and heavyweight paper for the pages. As we bind, we’ll discuss papers, binding techniques and book forms. You will walk out of class with three beautiful blank books, each about 4” tall which can be used as notebooks, address books, or petit journals, and the skills to keep binding at home. No previous bookbinding experience needed, folks of all ages welcome, and I’ll bring all the supplies you need!

Material fee: $27 includes the size 13, 16” needle (most people don’t have this needle) and 3 skeins of Cascade 220 wool yarn. If students have the needle, the yarn is $18. If they have the yarn, the needle is $9. These prices are simply passing on my cost, no mark up. Because this is a felting project, everyone needs to be using the same yarn or we’ll have a hodgepodge of results.

Have you ever admired the simple and whimsical designs of hand hooked rugs? Genuine hooked rugs use wool fabric strips, not yarn, and are rich with texture and color. Like all old fashioned crafts, rug hooking is low-tech, simple and lots of fun! Learn the sequence and procedure of rug hooking, from start to finish. Every step will be demonstrated. You will choose a 12" hooked chair pad for your project available from the instructor. We will briefly discuss the history and tradition of primitive rug hooking, learn about finding and preparing materials, and research sources for design inspiration.


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