Workshops
Sewing 101: Aprons
Rachel Nascimento will guide us in either Mobious aprons, or vintage 50s style. This workshop is great for beginner machine sewers who'd like to be able to read a pattern better. We have a stash of fabric, but feel free to bring your own if you find something special! Rachel will be in touch with specific pattern requirements. You will need a sewing machine--your own or contact Heather to arrange to borrow one.
Sewing 201: Skirt Design
Custom clothing! How couture! Learn how to measure, make a pattern, and sew a jersey skirt for yourself with Natasha Keller of Clotheshorse Studio. You choose the length! Materials fee $10. Supply details will be provided by Natasha. You will need to bring your sewing machine with you to FLAIR.
Intro to Leatherwork : Cuffs
Each participant will make 2 or 3 cuffs (bracelets) as an introduction to leather crafting. We will discuss the 2 main types of leather used and their properties. Participants wil1 cut out cuff blanks using a strap cutter or a sturdy straight edge and box cutter or knife. We will then bevel the strap edges on all four edges. Participants can then stamp the blanks if desired. Then we edge dye or polish the straps and then pull the straps 3 or 4 times between duck (canvas) cloth to slick the edges. Then we punch holes in both ends of the cuffs and attach the closures, such as snaps or thongs. BTW, belt making entails a very similar process. Supply cost: $20.00. If you have a metal straight edge and box cutter that would help but it is not necessary to bring them.
Handmade Books & Paper making
Learn the art and craft of handmade books and papermaking! In this workshop participants will learn how to create their own Coptic-Style journals. This book is made by covering boards with decorative cloth or paper, punching holes in sections and covers, and sewing along the spine to create linked stitching. This book structure is great for writing and drawing because it lies flat. Students from Sarah Gotowka's dye workshop are welcome to use their dyed cloth. A variety of cloth and paper will be available for all to use.
We will also learn and explore handmade paper! Participants will learn a brief history of papermaking and practice the steps of making sheets of paper, pulped from recycled cotton clothing. Supply fee $15.
Dried Flower Wreaths
We will demonstrate and help you to create your own beautiful dried flower wreath, made from flowers grown on our very own farm. Think about color & texture while making a gorgeous wreath that will last for years!
Supply fee: $40 (we will provide wreath bases, wire, clippers, and dried flowers)
High Tea: Custom Tea blends & Treats
This is tea time, FLAIRina- style. We will work on creating a selection of tea-time treats – sweet and savory, and gluten free if the crowd desires. Smitten Kitchen, a favorite recipe source of mine, is likely to supply at least one of the recipes.
While those are baking or resting, we’ll experiment with different flavor profiles of loose leaf organic tea, herbs and flowers (think peppermint, lemongrass and licorice root --- or an earl grey with lavender --- or jasmine with rose hips --- or your own spicy chai concoction). Participants can make their own tea blends; everyone will be able to take home at least 5 half pint gift jars (that we can adorn) of tea to share or to keep.
Supply fee - ~$30 depending on desired tea mixes. I’ll be in touch post-registration for preferences and a more specific estimate. I’ll supply all ingredients, organic teas and herbs, steeping bags, mixing bowls, etc, and gift jars.
Eco Prints
Create your own unique botanical printed scarf using locally grown plants! During this workshop you'll have an opportunity to learn about and experiment with pigment producing plants from Remembrance Farm in Trumansburg NY. Supply fee $40.
Witch 101: Broom Making
Come explore this homestead craft --make your own hand broom! Emily Reardon will be the one to follow at the end-of-days. She will provide you with your tools and patterns! Supply fee $15-25 if you really go to town!
Wet Felted Vessels
Make your very own vessel..out of felted wool! Will it hold your kitty? Or some other delights? We will use roving to make large and small felted vessels. Yes! Multiple pieces of art!! We will start by making a small vessel to learn the technique. Then move onto larger vessels. Make as many as you wish and take home the knowledge to make more!!
Please bring $20 / person for materials with you to the workshop.
Jewelry
Fine Silver Hoops (Sat AM)
Learn to form, forge, fuse and hammer fine silver wire into beautiful jewelry. You will have the option of embellishing with beads if desired. You will leave class with a pair of .999 silver earrings and a necklace on a silver-filled chain. Use of a butane torch for fusing is involved, but no previous jewelry making experience is required. Materials fee: $20.00
Patterned, Textured Earrings (Fri PM)
Learn to cut, add textures, pattern and color to copper sheet metal to make a pair of custom earrings. You will use metal shears, an embossing machine, heat gun and various coloring agents to create your very own design. Beads can also be added for a little extra FLAIR. You will leave class with a pair of copper earrings on sterling silver ear wires. No previous jewelry making experience needed. Materials fee: $15.00
Gourd Art
Graham is coming back! We will have TWO gourd workshops to ensure that everyone gets a chance to get their hands on some gourds and power tools! Friday will be gourd planters. Make a gourd succulent planter, or two! Choose from a variety of gourds, then stain and wax, and plan the openings. Graham will help with the sawing. Add some carving or burning for a little extra pizzazz, and maybe some wooden ball feet for stability. Two succulents plants are included in the material fee ($10 per planter).
Saturday will be the Holey Gourd Buffet. Make a pendant lamp (dangling), a freestanding gourd globe light, or a nightlight or two! Materials cost: $20 for lamps, $10 nightlights. Please bring goggles if you have them, and a dust mask. No need to buy these, I'll have extras.
Improvisational Quilting
This is a class for advanced beginner sewers who'd like to step it up a notch! Robin will guide us in creating improvisational quilt blocks, which might become a potholder, trivet, or wall hanging? Or keep building on to your creation until it's a whole quilt! Please start gathering scrap fabric...this could get interesting! If you register for this class, you will need to bring your sewing machine with you to FLAIR.
Other supplies:
Fabric (we have a stash for the truly wild-n-crazy)
Seam ripper
Scissors
Pins
Extra sewing machine needles
cutting mat/straight edge if you've got one
Printmaking Making Mania
Sink your carvers into an inviting block of rubber and set yourself up for mass production of your designs. This workshop is great for beginners and more advanced print-makers. For those just starting - bring your design ideas - maybe print out some images that you like - and carve a beautiful block that can be used over and over to create paper prints or to embellish fabrics and clothes. For the more advanced printers out there, maybe you'd like to try your hand at two-color prints, where you create two blocks that accent each other!
Whatever your fancy, we'll have a great time turning ourselves into an obsessive print factory.
Supply Fee: $10
I will provide:
- newspaper and plastic tablecloths to protect tables and surfaces
- printing blocks - enough for everyone to do multiple designs
- brayers (for rolling out ink)
- block-printing (oil-based) ink that can be used for fabric or paper
- scrap fabrics
- paper
- pencils
- carvers
- books for inspiration
You should bring:
- design ideas (printed out or on your phone)
- clothes/linens you want to print on (underwear, t-shirts, yoga pants, curtains, pillow cases, bags...)
Rachel Nascimento will guide us in either Mobious aprons, or vintage 50s style. This workshop is great for beginner machine sewers who'd like to be able to read a pattern better. We have a stash of fabric, but feel free to bring your own if you find something special! Rachel will be in touch with specific pattern requirements. You will need a sewing machine--your own or contact Heather to arrange to borrow one.
Sewing 201: Skirt Design
Custom clothing! How couture! Learn how to measure, make a pattern, and sew a jersey skirt for yourself with Natasha Keller of Clotheshorse Studio. You choose the length! Materials fee $10. Supply details will be provided by Natasha. You will need to bring your sewing machine with you to FLAIR.
Intro to Leatherwork : Cuffs
Each participant will make 2 or 3 cuffs (bracelets) as an introduction to leather crafting. We will discuss the 2 main types of leather used and their properties. Participants wil1 cut out cuff blanks using a strap cutter or a sturdy straight edge and box cutter or knife. We will then bevel the strap edges on all four edges. Participants can then stamp the blanks if desired. Then we edge dye or polish the straps and then pull the straps 3 or 4 times between duck (canvas) cloth to slick the edges. Then we punch holes in both ends of the cuffs and attach the closures, such as snaps or thongs. BTW, belt making entails a very similar process. Supply cost: $20.00. If you have a metal straight edge and box cutter that would help but it is not necessary to bring them.
Handmade Books & Paper making
Learn the art and craft of handmade books and papermaking! In this workshop participants will learn how to create their own Coptic-Style journals. This book is made by covering boards with decorative cloth or paper, punching holes in sections and covers, and sewing along the spine to create linked stitching. This book structure is great for writing and drawing because it lies flat. Students from Sarah Gotowka's dye workshop are welcome to use their dyed cloth. A variety of cloth and paper will be available for all to use.
We will also learn and explore handmade paper! Participants will learn a brief history of papermaking and practice the steps of making sheets of paper, pulped from recycled cotton clothing. Supply fee $15.
Dried Flower Wreaths
We will demonstrate and help you to create your own beautiful dried flower wreath, made from flowers grown on our very own farm. Think about color & texture while making a gorgeous wreath that will last for years!
Supply fee: $40 (we will provide wreath bases, wire, clippers, and dried flowers)
High Tea: Custom Tea blends & Treats
This is tea time, FLAIRina- style. We will work on creating a selection of tea-time treats – sweet and savory, and gluten free if the crowd desires. Smitten Kitchen, a favorite recipe source of mine, is likely to supply at least one of the recipes.
While those are baking or resting, we’ll experiment with different flavor profiles of loose leaf organic tea, herbs and flowers (think peppermint, lemongrass and licorice root --- or an earl grey with lavender --- or jasmine with rose hips --- or your own spicy chai concoction). Participants can make their own tea blends; everyone will be able to take home at least 5 half pint gift jars (that we can adorn) of tea to share or to keep.
Supply fee - ~$30 depending on desired tea mixes. I’ll be in touch post-registration for preferences and a more specific estimate. I’ll supply all ingredients, organic teas and herbs, steeping bags, mixing bowls, etc, and gift jars.
Eco Prints
Create your own unique botanical printed scarf using locally grown plants! During this workshop you'll have an opportunity to learn about and experiment with pigment producing plants from Remembrance Farm in Trumansburg NY. Supply fee $40.
Witch 101: Broom Making
Come explore this homestead craft --make your own hand broom! Emily Reardon will be the one to follow at the end-of-days. She will provide you with your tools and patterns! Supply fee $15-25 if you really go to town!
Wet Felted Vessels
Make your very own vessel..out of felted wool! Will it hold your kitty? Or some other delights? We will use roving to make large and small felted vessels. Yes! Multiple pieces of art!! We will start by making a small vessel to learn the technique. Then move onto larger vessels. Make as many as you wish and take home the knowledge to make more!!
Please bring $20 / person for materials with you to the workshop.
Jewelry
Fine Silver Hoops (Sat AM)
Learn to form, forge, fuse and hammer fine silver wire into beautiful jewelry. You will have the option of embellishing with beads if desired. You will leave class with a pair of .999 silver earrings and a necklace on a silver-filled chain. Use of a butane torch for fusing is involved, but no previous jewelry making experience is required. Materials fee: $20.00
Patterned, Textured Earrings (Fri PM)
Learn to cut, add textures, pattern and color to copper sheet metal to make a pair of custom earrings. You will use metal shears, an embossing machine, heat gun and various coloring agents to create your very own design. Beads can also be added for a little extra FLAIR. You will leave class with a pair of copper earrings on sterling silver ear wires. No previous jewelry making experience needed. Materials fee: $15.00
Gourd Art
Graham is coming back! We will have TWO gourd workshops to ensure that everyone gets a chance to get their hands on some gourds and power tools! Friday will be gourd planters. Make a gourd succulent planter, or two! Choose from a variety of gourds, then stain and wax, and plan the openings. Graham will help with the sawing. Add some carving or burning for a little extra pizzazz, and maybe some wooden ball feet for stability. Two succulents plants are included in the material fee ($10 per planter).
Saturday will be the Holey Gourd Buffet. Make a pendant lamp (dangling), a freestanding gourd globe light, or a nightlight or two! Materials cost: $20 for lamps, $10 nightlights. Please bring goggles if you have them, and a dust mask. No need to buy these, I'll have extras.
Improvisational Quilting
This is a class for advanced beginner sewers who'd like to step it up a notch! Robin will guide us in creating improvisational quilt blocks, which might become a potholder, trivet, or wall hanging? Or keep building on to your creation until it's a whole quilt! Please start gathering scrap fabric...this could get interesting! If you register for this class, you will need to bring your sewing machine with you to FLAIR.
Other supplies:
Fabric (we have a stash for the truly wild-n-crazy)
Seam ripper
Scissors
Pins
Extra sewing machine needles
cutting mat/straight edge if you've got one
Printmaking Making Mania
Sink your carvers into an inviting block of rubber and set yourself up for mass production of your designs. This workshop is great for beginners and more advanced print-makers. For those just starting - bring your design ideas - maybe print out some images that you like - and carve a beautiful block that can be used over and over to create paper prints or to embellish fabrics and clothes. For the more advanced printers out there, maybe you'd like to try your hand at two-color prints, where you create two blocks that accent each other!
Whatever your fancy, we'll have a great time turning ourselves into an obsessive print factory.
Supply Fee: $10
I will provide:
- newspaper and plastic tablecloths to protect tables and surfaces
- printing blocks - enough for everyone to do multiple designs
- brayers (for rolling out ink)
- block-printing (oil-based) ink that can be used for fabric or paper
- scrap fabrics
- paper
- pencils
- carvers
- books for inspiration
You should bring:
- design ideas (printed out or on your phone)
- clothes/linens you want to print on (underwear, t-shirts, yoga pants, curtains, pillow cases, bags...)
