Workshops
Sashiko & Visible Mending
A hybrid of mending and embroidery, Japanese Sashiko is a decorative way to repair or jazz up worn clothing and accessories. BYO fabric scissors and clothing or accessories (bags, scarves, socks) to mend. Supply fee of $25 will give you a nice little mending kit to take home with Sashiko needles, thread wax, thimble, thread and transfer patterns.
Time permitting, we will also try our hand at some visible mending for knitted items like socks or sweaters. If you think you’ll want to purchase your own mini darning loom and extra heddles, Rabbit Row Yarns is offering a 15% discount on these if pre-ordered by Oct 15th. FLAIR price $42.
Who Can Resist a Gourd?
Use a resist medium and water-based ink to create your design on a gourd! Graham will saw it open for you, and then you can turn it into a cookie jar, knitting bowl, or vessel of your choice. Dusty, messy fun! Supply fee: $15
Sewing 201: Meadow Skirt
Strive to sassily sashay in me-made style? This is your class! Christina King's gentle guidance will lead us through the construction of a custom pleated or gathered woven skirt. Supply list will be provided closer to the event. You will need a machine for this class, some basic sewing skills, and your courage. Twig and Tale bills this as a project for "adventurous beginners!"
Leatherwork 201
Taking your leather skills to the next level. We will be working on a project that includes embossing and hand stitching. Even if you don't have any leather skills you will still be able to join in! Renee Baum of Uncle Joe's Saddlery is coming to enlighten us! Supply fee: $20. If you've taken leather before, please bring your toolkit!
Kumiko Woodworking
Kumiko is a type of traditional Japanese woodworking used to create decorative infill on shoji screens. Mastering the art of kumiko takes patience and excellent hand tool skills, but modern woodworking tools and some clever jigs help make basic kumiko accessible to all of us. In this workshop, we will cut and assemble a beautiful kumiko panel which is yours to take.
$30 for the kumiko supplies. If you want to purchase a frame to mount it in, those are $40. You can bring fabric for the backing of the frame. Solids are great. Shiny fabrics are extra special. I will have milk paints to paint the frames, although if you have other paint/stain ideas, you can bring them. And finally, if you want to purchase a jig and strips to make more kumiko in the future, the jigs are $75, strips are $30, and frames are $40.
Metalwork Jewelry: Stacked Rings with Gemstone
Bling lovers--take your metalwork game to the next level! Create 3 stacking rings from scratch using sterling silver, bronze or copper wire. Add a fine silver bezel and 4mm cabochon to one of your rings to complete the set. Practice the skills of cutting, forming, filing, soldering and stone setting as you make your stackable rings. $20 class fee includes wire for 3 rings, one bezel cup and one 4mm cabochon.
Sewing Skivvies
Nothing makes you feel more like a superhero than sewing your own undies. The most basic basic and the foundation of every me made outfit, underwear making is far more accessible than you'd imagine. Supply list will be provided closer to the event. You will need a machine for this class, some basic sewing skills, and willingness to work with knits & stretch lace or fold over elastic. Leave wedgies in your rear view mirror.
Papermaking
Emily Hirshorn has another use for the invasive paper mulberry! Paper! Make some artisanal paper and rest easy knowing that come the end times, you can still write your novel! This is an ancient practice used around the world where paper mulberry grows.
Wood Burning
Pyros, look no further. This is the class for you! Kristen O will guide us in burning designs onto wood. Coasters, spoons...you name it. Doesn't everything in your life need a bit of wood burned embellishment?? Supplies TBD, depending on your project dreams. We have loaner burners, so it's the wood that remains to be procured.
Textile Portraits
Capture a beloved pet in fabric and thread. Please send a photo to Louise a week before FLAIR so a custom pattern can be created for you. Louise will walk you through layout, fabric choice, placement, and thread painting. Fusible, batting, pattern, and transfer paper supplied for $10 class fee. Bring backing fabric, fabrics for your pet (chose at least 5), and coordinating thread.
Enameled Jewelry
Enameling has never been easier! Cut your own copper discs (up to 1.25” in diameter) and with a dapping block, dome them as deep or shallow as you would like. Use a Map Pro torch and many powdered enamel color choices to melt onto your discs for one of a kind creations. No jewelry making experience needed. $15 materials fee includes materials needed for enameling, chain and sterling silver ear wires.
Holey Gourd Buffet
Graham is back with an array of gorgeous gourds to choose from! You can make nightlights, a pendant lamp, or a globe light! This fun and noisy project involves a lot of drilling, and dust! Luckily we all own masks nowadays. Supply fee $10-25/gourd-ish. You will have time to do two night lights or one larger gourd project, most likely.
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!
Supply fee: $55
Printmaking
We will make lino-cut prints on paper and fabric. Experiment with two color prints if you like! Bring design ideas and any special papers or clothing you'd like to print upon. Brayers, cutters, ink, some paper, and linoleum blocks will be provided. Supply fee $10. We'll also have access to the FLAIRina library of blocks, so get psyched and bring extra undies!
Spoon Carving
Gather round the campfire with friends and make a small wooden spoon--or knife, or whatever little object your heart desires! You'll learn to use a coal from our fire to burn out the bowl of your spoon, or you can use a carving tool. Dress warmly and bring a mug of pine needle tea. This is a BYO Knife workshop (approx. cost to purchase your own carving knife: $10-$20; there will also be a couple of loaners). Sophie will be in touch with details about the workshop and suggestions for knife purchasing. $10 materials fee.
Foxy Friends (Stuffed Animals)
Have you wished Fantastic Mr. Fox lived at your house? Or his sensible wife? You can make it so! Chantal will share her tips and tricks for making adorable fox stuffed animals. This craft will use both machine and hand sewing, so you will need to either bring or borrow a sewing machine. Supply list will be provided to enrollees.
Woodworking: Live Edge Coat Racks
We'll allow our token man to come with his fun power tools one more time! Bryn O'Brien will be leading us in live edge coat racks. My house will finally be clean forever and nobody will leave towels/coats/etc on the floor ever again, right??? Supply fee: $30
Sashiko Visible Mending
A hybrid of mending and embroidery, Japanese Sashiko is a decorative way to repair or jazz up worn clothing and accessories. BYO fabric scissors and clothing or accessories (bags, scarves, socks) to mend. Supply fee of $25 will give you a nice little mending kit to take home with Sashiko needles, thread wax, thimble, thread and transfer patterns.
Time permitting, we will also try our hand at some visible mending for knitted items like socks or sweaters. If you think you’ll want to purchase your own mini darning loom and extra heddles, Rabbit Row Yarns is offering a 15% discount on these if pre-ordered by Oct 15th. FLAIR price $42.
Danish Cording
We'll be putting our feet up in no time! Emily Reardon will show us the basics of this chair caning/weaving-ish technique and we'll each make a footstool!
Carved Ceramics
We've never had ceramics at FLAIR before! The intrepid Jenny Pope is bringing us a whole new medium. 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 $25. You can make 1-2 small sculptures/spoons. If you need your object shipped after the workshop it will be $15.
Sewing 101: Bubble Pouches
Fear the machine no more! We will review some basic operations and get cookin with machine sewing. Rachel will lead us in making small pouches that can be hung on a hook--great for storing small items in your craft room! (Note to self: build a craft room...) Bring two cute fabrics or raid the FLAIR stash. You will need a sewing machine for this class. Be in touch if you'd like to borrow one.
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!
Improvisational Quilting
Free your mind and your quilting will follow! Learn some tips and try your hand at improv. You will have the opportunity to raid the FLAIR fabric stash and play with color and prints, mixing and matching to your heart's delight. Go bold or stay wimpy--you decide! The end project is up to you--a table runner or a 20 x 20 throw pillow are fun, do-able projects. Inspiration can be found in the writing and blogs of SherriLynn Wood and Cheryl Arkison, among others.
A hybrid of mending and embroidery, Japanese Sashiko is a decorative way to repair or jazz up worn clothing and accessories. BYO fabric scissors and clothing or accessories (bags, scarves, socks) to mend. Supply fee of $25 will give you a nice little mending kit to take home with Sashiko needles, thread wax, thimble, thread and transfer patterns.
Time permitting, we will also try our hand at some visible mending for knitted items like socks or sweaters. If you think you’ll want to purchase your own mini darning loom and extra heddles, Rabbit Row Yarns is offering a 15% discount on these if pre-ordered by Oct 15th. FLAIR price $42.
Who Can Resist a Gourd?
Use a resist medium and water-based ink to create your design on a gourd! Graham will saw it open for you, and then you can turn it into a cookie jar, knitting bowl, or vessel of your choice. Dusty, messy fun! Supply fee: $15
Sewing 201: Meadow Skirt
Strive to sassily sashay in me-made style? This is your class! Christina King's gentle guidance will lead us through the construction of a custom pleated or gathered woven skirt. Supply list will be provided closer to the event. You will need a machine for this class, some basic sewing skills, and your courage. Twig and Tale bills this as a project for "adventurous beginners!"
Leatherwork 201
Taking your leather skills to the next level. We will be working on a project that includes embossing and hand stitching. Even if you don't have any leather skills you will still be able to join in! Renee Baum of Uncle Joe's Saddlery is coming to enlighten us! Supply fee: $20. If you've taken leather before, please bring your toolkit!
Kumiko Woodworking
Kumiko is a type of traditional Japanese woodworking used to create decorative infill on shoji screens. Mastering the art of kumiko takes patience and excellent hand tool skills, but modern woodworking tools and some clever jigs help make basic kumiko accessible to all of us. In this workshop, we will cut and assemble a beautiful kumiko panel which is yours to take.
$30 for the kumiko supplies. If you want to purchase a frame to mount it in, those are $40. You can bring fabric for the backing of the frame. Solids are great. Shiny fabrics are extra special. I will have milk paints to paint the frames, although if you have other paint/stain ideas, you can bring them. And finally, if you want to purchase a jig and strips to make more kumiko in the future, the jigs are $75, strips are $30, and frames are $40.
Metalwork Jewelry: Stacked Rings with Gemstone
Bling lovers--take your metalwork game to the next level! Create 3 stacking rings from scratch using sterling silver, bronze or copper wire. Add a fine silver bezel and 4mm cabochon to one of your rings to complete the set. Practice the skills of cutting, forming, filing, soldering and stone setting as you make your stackable rings. $20 class fee includes wire for 3 rings, one bezel cup and one 4mm cabochon.
Sewing Skivvies
Nothing makes you feel more like a superhero than sewing your own undies. The most basic basic and the foundation of every me made outfit, underwear making is far more accessible than you'd imagine. Supply list will be provided closer to the event. You will need a machine for this class, some basic sewing skills, and willingness to work with knits & stretch lace or fold over elastic. Leave wedgies in your rear view mirror.
Papermaking
Emily Hirshorn has another use for the invasive paper mulberry! Paper! Make some artisanal paper and rest easy knowing that come the end times, you can still write your novel! This is an ancient practice used around the world where paper mulberry grows.
Wood Burning
Pyros, look no further. This is the class for you! Kristen O will guide us in burning designs onto wood. Coasters, spoons...you name it. Doesn't everything in your life need a bit of wood burned embellishment?? Supplies TBD, depending on your project dreams. We have loaner burners, so it's the wood that remains to be procured.
Textile Portraits
Capture a beloved pet in fabric and thread. Please send a photo to Louise a week before FLAIR so a custom pattern can be created for you. Louise will walk you through layout, fabric choice, placement, and thread painting. Fusible, batting, pattern, and transfer paper supplied for $10 class fee. Bring backing fabric, fabrics for your pet (chose at least 5), and coordinating thread.
Enameled Jewelry
Enameling has never been easier! Cut your own copper discs (up to 1.25” in diameter) and with a dapping block, dome them as deep or shallow as you would like. Use a Map Pro torch and many powdered enamel color choices to melt onto your discs for one of a kind creations. No jewelry making experience needed. $15 materials fee includes materials needed for enameling, chain and sterling silver ear wires.
Holey Gourd Buffet
Graham is back with an array of gorgeous gourds to choose from! You can make nightlights, a pendant lamp, or a globe light! This fun and noisy project involves a lot of drilling, and dust! Luckily we all own masks nowadays. Supply fee $10-25/gourd-ish. You will have time to do two night lights or one larger gourd project, most likely.
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!
Supply fee: $55
Printmaking
We will make lino-cut prints on paper and fabric. Experiment with two color prints if you like! Bring design ideas and any special papers or clothing you'd like to print upon. Brayers, cutters, ink, some paper, and linoleum blocks will be provided. Supply fee $10. We'll also have access to the FLAIRina library of blocks, so get psyched and bring extra undies!
Spoon Carving
Gather round the campfire with friends and make a small wooden spoon--or knife, or whatever little object your heart desires! You'll learn to use a coal from our fire to burn out the bowl of your spoon, or you can use a carving tool. Dress warmly and bring a mug of pine needle tea. This is a BYO Knife workshop (approx. cost to purchase your own carving knife: $10-$20; there will also be a couple of loaners). Sophie will be in touch with details about the workshop and suggestions for knife purchasing. $10 materials fee.
Foxy Friends (Stuffed Animals)
Have you wished Fantastic Mr. Fox lived at your house? Or his sensible wife? You can make it so! Chantal will share her tips and tricks for making adorable fox stuffed animals. This craft will use both machine and hand sewing, so you will need to either bring or borrow a sewing machine. Supply list will be provided to enrollees.
Woodworking: Live Edge Coat Racks
We'll allow our token man to come with his fun power tools one more time! Bryn O'Brien will be leading us in live edge coat racks. My house will finally be clean forever and nobody will leave towels/coats/etc on the floor ever again, right??? Supply fee: $30
Sashiko Visible Mending
A hybrid of mending and embroidery, Japanese Sashiko is a decorative way to repair or jazz up worn clothing and accessories. BYO fabric scissors and clothing or accessories (bags, scarves, socks) to mend. Supply fee of $25 will give you a nice little mending kit to take home with Sashiko needles, thread wax, thimble, thread and transfer patterns.
Time permitting, we will also try our hand at some visible mending for knitted items like socks or sweaters. If you think you’ll want to purchase your own mini darning loom and extra heddles, Rabbit Row Yarns is offering a 15% discount on these if pre-ordered by Oct 15th. FLAIR price $42.
Danish Cording
We'll be putting our feet up in no time! Emily Reardon will show us the basics of this chair caning/weaving-ish technique and we'll each make a footstool!
Carved Ceramics
We've never had ceramics at FLAIR before! The intrepid Jenny Pope is bringing us a whole new medium. 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 $25. You can make 1-2 small sculptures/spoons. If you need your object shipped after the workshop it will be $15.
Sewing 101: Bubble Pouches
Fear the machine no more! We will review some basic operations and get cookin with machine sewing. Rachel will lead us in making small pouches that can be hung on a hook--great for storing small items in your craft room! (Note to self: build a craft room...) Bring two cute fabrics or raid the FLAIR stash. You will need a sewing machine for this class. Be in touch if you'd like to borrow one.
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!
Improvisational Quilting
Free your mind and your quilting will follow! Learn some tips and try your hand at improv. You will have the opportunity to raid the FLAIR fabric stash and play with color and prints, mixing and matching to your heart's delight. Go bold or stay wimpy--you decide! The end project is up to you--a table runner or a 20 x 20 throw pillow are fun, do-able projects. Inspiration can be found in the writing and blogs of SherriLynn Wood and Cheryl Arkison, among others.