Arbutus is hosting an "Embroidery Circle" for those who want to meet up with other stitchers in the community. We meet on a Sunday each month for 2 hours, from 10:30am -12:30 pm. If you have questions, need guidance, or just want to come share - this is the group for you! All levels of experience are welcomed! While the group will have a knowledgeable "guide," we will all learn from each other! Bring in your ideas and projects: let's talk Embroidery!! There is a minimal charge of $5 for each session to help with Arbutus overhead.
Drop-ins are welcomed as space allows. However, we strongly recommend registering in advance: if there are no advance registrations, that month will be cancelled. Also, space is guaranteed for those who register in advance.
Fee: $5.00
Instructor: Roberta "Bobbi" Chase
Capacity Remaining: 8
Schedule Details:
Dates: 6/9/2019 - 6/9/2019
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Su
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Front Classroom
Join us for a fun evening of weaving and yarn play. In this class, you’ll learn all the basics you need to create one of a kind woven wall hangings. We’ll start with the basics: warping a frame loom, starting out with weaving, and planning out your design. There will be demos for ways to accomplish interesting shapes and textures, ways of getting experimental, as well as techniques for finishing and displaying your finished piece. Yarn will be provided, and we’ll have a discussion about different yarns and how they behave when woven. The simple frame loom is yours to keep and use again!
Fee: $57.00
Instructor: Annette Harrison
Capacity Remaining: 6
Schedule Details:
Dates: 6/7/2019 - 6/7/2019
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Front Classroom
In this fast-paced 2-day class, students will learn how floor looms are set up and discover the wonder of creating their own cloth. The instructor will guide students through all the basic steps of weaving from preparing a warp and dressing a loom to reading a weaving draft and finally, weaving their scarf. Students will purchase yarn as directed in the supplies list and leave class with a woven scarf. (Final finishing of the scarf will be done at home.)
Fee: $226.00
Instructor: Marjorie Erickson
Capacity Remaining: 2
Schedule Details:
Dates: 6/22/2019 - 6/23/2019
Times: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Su Sa
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Weaving Loft (upstairs)
Hand weaving images with fiber is one of the world's most ancient art forms, yet the endless possibilities continue to inspire artists worldwide. In this class, you will learn all of the basic building blocks for getting started in weft-faced tapestry weaving: warping a frame loom, techniques for transferring designs, building shapes, color blending, and some of the many ways to finish and display your woven art.
During the first session, we will talk about the basic structures of tapestry, and each student will get started weaving a practice tapestry using a copper frame loom. You will take your work in progress home and keep weaving over the course of the intervening week - even five minutes a day can yield surprising amounts of progress! When we come back together in the second session, there will be more demos guided by the class’s interests, we’ll do some more weaving together, and we will finish our pieces for display.
If you grow attached to your borrowed tapestry loom, they will be available for purchase at the end of the class (we’ll even re-warp it so you’re ready for tapestry #2!). All weaving yarn and tools will be provided, and we will have some discussion about what to look for when shopping for yarn for weft-faced weaving.
Fee: $180.00
Instructor: Annette Harrison
Capacity Remaining: 2
Schedule Details:
Dates: 6/22/2019 - 6/23/2019
Times: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Su Sa
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Front Classroom
Come meet your fellow crafters as we knit and purl! Ask other community members for advice, show off your latest project, or just enjoy the sound of needles as we work together.
$5 Suggested Donation
Fee: $0.00
Instructor:
Capacity Remaining: 12
Schedule Details:
Dates: 6/23/2019 - 6/23/2019
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Su
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room:
One of the most useful and historically the most common ways of recycling used clothing is to weave rag rugs with it. Sturdy rugs to cover our floors and decorate our homes. This class is designed so that students can recycle some of the clothing they haven't quite been able to give away. Day one will have us preparing for weaving on Day two. We'll cut our "saved" clothing into strips, roll them into balls and get ourselves ready to weave our rag rugs. Students will bring CLEAN, freshly laundered and unwrinkled clothes, ready to be cut up. These can be blue jeans, T-shirts, sweatshirts, dresses, shirts, pajamas, etc. They just need to be ALL the same kind of fabric. If using jeans, it all has to be jean-type cloth. If using finer cloth (like shirt/blouse/dress fabric), it all has to be finer cloth. The same with T-shirts. It all has to be T-shirt type cloth. How much?? Pants--4-5, Shirts--7-10. Day two will be dedicated to weaving our fabulous rag rugs.
Fee: $206.00
Instructor: Marjorie Erickson
Capacity Remaining: 4
Schedule Details:
Dates: 8/3/2019 - 8/4/2019
Times: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Su Sa
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Weaving Loft (upstairs)
In this class, students will learn basic weaving techniques using both stick and boat shuttles on pre-warped looms. They will also learn the parts of a loom and how they work, weaving language, how to read weaving drafts, wind a bobbin and stick shuttle, throw a shuttle, maintain an even weaving beat, keep neat selvedges and finish their completed projects. Students will take home a minimum of 4 completed handwoven pieces.
Fee: $226.00
Instructor: Marjorie Erickson
Capacity Remaining: 5
Schedule Details:
Dates: 9/28/2019 - 9/29/2019
Times: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Su Sa
Building: Arbutus Folk School
Room: Weaving Loft (upstairs)
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Surrounded by an abundance of spring flowers, this is a wonderful time to create "shades of spring" on sample yarn and fabrics as well as to play with local spring plants to create beautiful, individualized eco-print scarves. On Sunday, we'll learn (or review) basic dye techniques and dye with 4 or 5 spring plants. We'll then create two eco-print silk scarves, which will process overnight. On Monday evening, we'll gather to reveal the results of our eco-print adventures. When we leave class, we'll be prepared to continue exploring dyeing with local plants as well as to create our own eco-prints. All levels of experience are welcome.
Fee: $135.00
Instructor: Marja Eloheimo
Capacity Remaining: 10
Dates: 5/19/2019 - 5/20/2019
Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Su M
Building: Natural Dye Workshops
Room:
