All upcoming Studio Arts: Fiber Arts classes

Create spectacular color combinations in your quilts as you build your color theory vocabulary and learn how to beautifully incorporate many types of printed fabric through exercises presented in this class for quilters ready to level up.

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.

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.

The knitting doctor is in: Bring a project that you want help starting, one that you are stuck on, or something you would like advice on. Draw on the instructor’s expertise and fellow students’ ideas to brainstorm solutions and suggestions.

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.