Workshops
Upcycled Rag Rug Weaving
This project is still under development! We shall have some sort of homemade looms, and weave T-shirt yarn to make our very own upcycled rag rugs. Have a click around online to see some of the techniques out there. This project is likely to be a longer workshop, so plan on skipping half of Zumba. Supply fee TBD, but start saving jersey!
Sewing 101: Origami Market Bags
Rachel Nascimento will guide us in a beginner sewing session making snazzy market bags! This workshop is great for beginner machine sewers who'd like to build your confidence and skills! 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: Simple Pants
Custom clothing! How couture! Do you dream of a capsule wardrobe, made up of practical, stylish, simple pieces? Learn how to measure, make a pattern, and sew a comfortable pair of cropped pants 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.
Enameled Jewelry
Copper tubing is not just for plumbers! Maryann Carroll is joining us for her first FLAIR! Using different sizes of copper tubes, powdered enamels, hammers and lots of torch heat, discover the colors formed when heat and enamels meet. Once getting the desired colors on your hammered tubes, you will use your flattened copper wire, patina and wax to shine them up! Attach the earrings to sterling silver ear wire and the pendant to some ball chain to walk out this workshop stylin’!
Material fee $10
Turkey Wing & Cobweb Brooms
Fancy yourself a pioneer? Well you better not be relying on your Roomba when the End Times roll around. Learn how to make your own broom out of broom corn with Emily R! You will learn some decorative techniques to create a pretty piece that will look stunning next to your incredibly messy wood stove. Beauty + Functionality= Heaven. Supply fee $20, or $30 if you make two.
Textile Collage
Self expression and fun are the 2 essential ingredients here! Whatever you can dream! Have you ever made a vision board? A collaged self-portrait? Drawing, painting, stamping, embroidery, appliqué, trapunto, embellishment, quilting, you name it! All options are on the table. I can help you brainstorm, or help you hone in on your particular vision. If you want to work with photo transfers, let’s chat ahead of time, to help me understand your vision, and help you determine materials. $10 supply fee, and feel free to bring special fabrics to incorporate! We can also raid the FLAIR stash.
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)
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.
Metalwork Jewelry: Stacked Rings (Sat am & pm)
Learn to solder a set of 5 fabulous stacking rings using a micro torch with Kelly Diemond! Silver, bronze or copper wire will be available to choose from. You'll have a chance to texture and add an antique finish to make them uniquely yours. Wear them on your fingers, knuckles or toes! Keep them all for yourself or give them as gifts! $15 class fee includes materials and supplies to make 5 rings.
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!
There will be two sessions of 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...)
Soft Circuitry and LEDs!
Using an interesting mix of high/low-tech processes, tools and materials we will create felt cuff bracelets that will light up our worlds! No previous electronics or sewing experience required. We will be hand stitching and working with felt, conductive thread, coin cell batteries, battery holders and LED lights. There will be a $10 materials fee.
Woodworking
Do you pine for your good ole days in middle school shop class? Well, here's your chance to get your hands on some power tools! Bryn will lead us in making live edge coat racks. You will choose from a selection of boards and hooks, sand by machine or hand as you see fit, drill holes and install hooks, finish, and drill hanging spots in the back. There will be two sessions of this in-demand workshop! Supply fee: $30.
This project is still under development! We shall have some sort of homemade looms, and weave T-shirt yarn to make our very own upcycled rag rugs. Have a click around online to see some of the techniques out there. This project is likely to be a longer workshop, so plan on skipping half of Zumba. Supply fee TBD, but start saving jersey!
Sewing 101: Origami Market Bags
Rachel Nascimento will guide us in a beginner sewing session making snazzy market bags! This workshop is great for beginner machine sewers who'd like to build your confidence and skills! 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: Simple Pants
Custom clothing! How couture! Do you dream of a capsule wardrobe, made up of practical, stylish, simple pieces? Learn how to measure, make a pattern, and sew a comfortable pair of cropped pants 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.
Enameled Jewelry
Copper tubing is not just for plumbers! Maryann Carroll is joining us for her first FLAIR! Using different sizes of copper tubes, powdered enamels, hammers and lots of torch heat, discover the colors formed when heat and enamels meet. Once getting the desired colors on your hammered tubes, you will use your flattened copper wire, patina and wax to shine them up! Attach the earrings to sterling silver ear wire and the pendant to some ball chain to walk out this workshop stylin’!
Material fee $10
Turkey Wing & Cobweb Brooms
Fancy yourself a pioneer? Well you better not be relying on your Roomba when the End Times roll around. Learn how to make your own broom out of broom corn with Emily R! You will learn some decorative techniques to create a pretty piece that will look stunning next to your incredibly messy wood stove. Beauty + Functionality= Heaven. Supply fee $20, or $30 if you make two.
Textile Collage
Self expression and fun are the 2 essential ingredients here! Whatever you can dream! Have you ever made a vision board? A collaged self-portrait? Drawing, painting, stamping, embroidery, appliqué, trapunto, embellishment, quilting, you name it! All options are on the table. I can help you brainstorm, or help you hone in on your particular vision. If you want to work with photo transfers, let’s chat ahead of time, to help me understand your vision, and help you determine materials. $10 supply fee, and feel free to bring special fabrics to incorporate! We can also raid the FLAIR stash.
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)
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.
Metalwork Jewelry: Stacked Rings (Sat am & pm)
Learn to solder a set of 5 fabulous stacking rings using a micro torch with Kelly Diemond! Silver, bronze or copper wire will be available to choose from. You'll have a chance to texture and add an antique finish to make them uniquely yours. Wear them on your fingers, knuckles or toes! Keep them all for yourself or give them as gifts! $15 class fee includes materials and supplies to make 5 rings.
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!
There will be two sessions of 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...)
Soft Circuitry and LEDs!
Using an interesting mix of high/low-tech processes, tools and materials we will create felt cuff bracelets that will light up our worlds! No previous electronics or sewing experience required. We will be hand stitching and working with felt, conductive thread, coin cell batteries, battery holders and LED lights. There will be a $10 materials fee.
Woodworking
Do you pine for your good ole days in middle school shop class? Well, here's your chance to get your hands on some power tools! Bryn will lead us in making live edge coat racks. You will choose from a selection of boards and hooks, sand by machine or hand as you see fit, drill holes and install hooks, finish, and drill hanging spots in the back. There will be two sessions of this in-demand workshop! Supply fee: $30.