Workshops
DIY button carving
Learn to make special buttons for your handmade creations! Christina from Hammerstone carpentry school will have us carving away so your clothing can truly be "me-made" when you finish it with a DIY button! Class fee:
Celtic Knot Drawing
Learn how to draw Celtic knots with Brenna O'Toole! After you learn the basics, you’ll add more complexity to your designs by making knots in different shapes and sizes, adding break lines, and splitting the bands. You’ll end the workshop with a new skill and a finished bookmark to take home. All materials included. $75
Embroidery on Knits
Learn how to add embroidered details to sweaters and knit accessories with Betz White!
Cost: $40 includes class instruction, handout, needles and printed stabilizer. Pay in advance - https://shop.betzwhite.com/products/flair-embroidery-on-knits-workshop
Homework:
Please bring a practice swatch measuring approximately 8” x 8” plus a second swatch or knit garment/accessory to stitch on. Swatches can be hand knit, an old sweater, a piece of a felted wool sweater, etc.
Other Materials Needed:
Yarns from your stash (sock or worsted weight) or tapestry wool yarn
Scissors
Tote Bags
We'll be upcycling sails into rugged totes with Robin! Alternatively, use any fabric you like. You will master the square bottom bag trick and be delighted when grocery shopping forevermore. Class fee: $20 if you are using sail. $5 for webbing, or BYO! We'll recruit our hardiest machines for this job.
Tapestry Weaving
Stephanie will lead us in creating a textural masterpiece! Beginner weaver friendly. $75 fee.
Gourds
A gorgeous gourd project with Graham! Make a gourd nightlight ($40), a gourd globe light ($65), or gourd pysanky (wax resist) ornaments ($10 each)!
Batik
Create your own original fabric designs for quilting or other projects with the wax resist process of batik. Using beeswax we will create designs on the surface of the fabric using brushes, stamps and other tools that will resist the next layer of dye. The fabric is finished by boiling the wax out. Most likely this step will take place after class but your fabric will be ready by the end of FLAIR.
Supplies: $35 for multiple pieces of fabric to work with. You may also bring your own 100% cotton to batik and any objects you might like to use with the wax. Cork shapes work well to dip and stamp as well as sponge brushes but feel free to bring anything to experiment with.
Alcohol Ink Jewelry
Alcohol Inks are vibrant inks that mix in unpredictable ways to create amazing designs/ patterns that are one of a kind. The ink dries fast, so when making your design it is best to let go of expectation, use your intuition and enjoy seeing the colors mingle and then settle into something totally different than you expected. We will be making a design with alcohol ink and then choosing areas of your design to cut out and make into earrings. Resin will be used to finish the earrings. The resin needs to sit undisturbed until Sunday morning and then you will be able to put ear wires on your earrings to complete them. I will provide all the supplies you need to make earrings or necklace pendants. Alcohol ink will stain fingers and clothes, (I will provide gloves). The ink and blending solution fumes smells like rubbing alcohol. Class fee: $35
Dried Flower Wreaths
Plenty of Posies will demonstrate how to assemble a gorgeous arrangement of their locally grown dried flowers! This is the most satisfying craft you can imagine, and keeps for years!
Class fee: $85
Carved Ceramics
The intrepid Jenny Pope is bringing us into the world of clay! We will be working on sculpting and carving ceramic spoons or totems or other small sculptures. They will then be painted and sgrafitto carved and brought home to Ithaca to be fired in Jenny's kiln. Exciting! Materials including clay/underglaze/firing is $85 You can make 1-2 small sculptures/spoons. If you need your object shipped after the workshop it will be $15.
Basketry with Natural Materials
Emily Hirshorn will lead us in turning the invasive paper mulberry into baskets! Learn the basics of basket building and weaving, and go home with a handy tote. Will it hold junk mail or treasured feathers? You decide!
Learn to make special buttons for your handmade creations! Christina from Hammerstone carpentry school will have us carving away so your clothing can truly be "me-made" when you finish it with a DIY button! Class fee:
Celtic Knot Drawing
Learn how to draw Celtic knots with Brenna O'Toole! After you learn the basics, you’ll add more complexity to your designs by making knots in different shapes and sizes, adding break lines, and splitting the bands. You’ll end the workshop with a new skill and a finished bookmark to take home. All materials included. $75
Embroidery on Knits
Learn how to add embroidered details to sweaters and knit accessories with Betz White!
Cost: $40 includes class instruction, handout, needles and printed stabilizer. Pay in advance - https://shop.betzwhite.com/products/flair-embroidery-on-knits-workshop
Homework:
Please bring a practice swatch measuring approximately 8” x 8” plus a second swatch or knit garment/accessory to stitch on. Swatches can be hand knit, an old sweater, a piece of a felted wool sweater, etc.
Other Materials Needed:
Yarns from your stash (sock or worsted weight) or tapestry wool yarn
Scissors
Tote Bags
We'll be upcycling sails into rugged totes with Robin! Alternatively, use any fabric you like. You will master the square bottom bag trick and be delighted when grocery shopping forevermore. Class fee: $20 if you are using sail. $5 for webbing, or BYO! We'll recruit our hardiest machines for this job.
Tapestry Weaving
Stephanie will lead us in creating a textural masterpiece! Beginner weaver friendly. $75 fee.
Gourds
A gorgeous gourd project with Graham! Make a gourd nightlight ($40), a gourd globe light ($65), or gourd pysanky (wax resist) ornaments ($10 each)!
Batik
Create your own original fabric designs for quilting or other projects with the wax resist process of batik. Using beeswax we will create designs on the surface of the fabric using brushes, stamps and other tools that will resist the next layer of dye. The fabric is finished by boiling the wax out. Most likely this step will take place after class but your fabric will be ready by the end of FLAIR.
Supplies: $35 for multiple pieces of fabric to work with. You may also bring your own 100% cotton to batik and any objects you might like to use with the wax. Cork shapes work well to dip and stamp as well as sponge brushes but feel free to bring anything to experiment with.
Alcohol Ink Jewelry
Alcohol Inks are vibrant inks that mix in unpredictable ways to create amazing designs/ patterns that are one of a kind. The ink dries fast, so when making your design it is best to let go of expectation, use your intuition and enjoy seeing the colors mingle and then settle into something totally different than you expected. We will be making a design with alcohol ink and then choosing areas of your design to cut out and make into earrings. Resin will be used to finish the earrings. The resin needs to sit undisturbed until Sunday morning and then you will be able to put ear wires on your earrings to complete them. I will provide all the supplies you need to make earrings or necklace pendants. Alcohol ink will stain fingers and clothes, (I will provide gloves). The ink and blending solution fumes smells like rubbing alcohol. Class fee: $35
Dried Flower Wreaths
Plenty of Posies will demonstrate how to assemble a gorgeous arrangement of their locally grown dried flowers! This is the most satisfying craft you can imagine, and keeps for years!
Class fee: $85
Carved Ceramics
The intrepid Jenny Pope is bringing us into the world of clay! We will be working on sculpting and carving ceramic spoons or totems or other small sculptures. They will then be painted and sgrafitto carved and brought home to Ithaca to be fired in Jenny's kiln. Exciting! Materials including clay/underglaze/firing is $85 You can make 1-2 small sculptures/spoons. If you need your object shipped after the workshop it will be $15.
Basketry with Natural Materials
Emily Hirshorn will lead us in turning the invasive paper mulberry into baskets! Learn the basics of basket building and weaving, and go home with a handy tote. Will it hold junk mail or treasured feathers? You decide!