All upcoming Studio Arts: Fiber Arts classes

Let your creativity flow as you slow stitch a fabric journal composed of your favorite embroidery stitches, embellishments, and fabric scraps. Build a repertoire of embroidery stitches combined with other textile-based elements to produce a finished, bound fabric book with a personalized cover by the end of the class.

This class is for those who feel utterly untalented at sewing yet want to make a quilt. Journey from not knowing to bold experiments, finding your sense of quiltmaking confidence as you learn strategies for piecing, appliqué, quilting, and finishing.

Use basic stitches to create an embroidered patch to embellish a favorite jacket or pair of jeans. Learn how to prepare fabric with a simple design, then ready a hoop and begin stitching.

Explore basic techniques of lace crochet and tatting while learning about the historical context of lace and its creation.

Apply the technical and artistic principles of drawing or painting to take advantage of wool fiber’s magical properties. Mimic layout, arrangement, color blending, and shading to create realistic or abstract painted images with felt. Your artwork is not limited to a flat surface: Play with the possibilities of felt to create 3D and relief effects.

In this workshop, beginners are introduced to surface freestyle hand embroidery. In this style, the stitches are applied freely, disregarding the weave or structure of the ground cloth. Students learn how to select and prepare fabric using a simple design, ready their hoop, and begin stitching.

Pull your loom out and weave a houndstooth scarf just in time for the fall season. Warp your loom and explore color options to construct your custom woven piece.

Dip your toe into the world of weaving and create a miniature woven tapestry on a small frame loom after you learn techniques to manipulate the yarn to make stripes and shapes and mix colors.

Learn to apply the principles of abstract art to making embroidery. Develop a free-flowing approach to embroidery that emphasizes form, color, line, texture, pattern, composition, and process.

Discover the joy of this craft characterized by colorful floral designs embroidered in wool, a style that originated in the Andean mountains of Peru. The course offers one-on-one teaching.