Create a Top Hat Style Fascinator with Needle Felting
Summary:
Needle felting is used to sculpt with wool. Felt & decorate a tiny top hat to create a personalized fascinator. Or, turn it into a top hat for your pet.
Description:
Needle felting is extremely fun, but creating something detailed the first time you experiment with it can be frustrating. We will start with a simple form to create the base of our project. You will learn the basics of felting without the fear of creating something unrecognizable. From there you can choose to continue felting to create the decorations for your hat or choose from an assortment of other materials Whatever you create will look awesome!
Create a Top Hat Style Fascinator with Needle Felting
Summary:
Needle felting is used to sculpt with wool. Felt & decorate a tiny top hat to create a personalized fascinator. Or, turn it into a top hat for your pet.
Description:
Needle felting is extremely fun, but creating something detailed the first time you experiment with it can be frustrating. We will start with a simple form to create the base of our project. You will learn the basics of felting without the fear of creating something unrecognizable. From there you can choose to continue felting to create the decorations for your hat or choose from an assortment of other materials Whatever you create will look awesome!
Custom Doll Wig: How to Create a Wig Base & Wig Out of Any Material
Summary:
Custom doll wigs allow you to turn almost anything into a whimsical new do for your doll. When you get sick of it, you can just switch it out for a different one!
Description:
Because the wig base needs to be made ahead of time, you will receive a head form and pre-made wig base plus instructions on how to make one yourself. You will get to keep the head form which can be used to show off your wig or make a new one. Basic hair options will be provided, but if you want to get funky, feel free to bring your own materials. Feel free to email me first if you need advice.
Custom Doll Wig: How to Create a Wig Base & Wig Out of Any Material
Summary:
Custom doll wigs allow you to turn almost anything into a whimsical new do for your doll. When you get sick of it, you can just switch it out for a different one!
Description:
Because the wig base needs to be made ahead of time, you will receive a head form and pre-made wig base plus instructions on how to make one yourself. You will get to keep the head form which can be used to show off your wig or make a new one. Basic hair options will be provided, but if you want to get funky, feel free to bring your own materials. Feel free to email me first if you need advice.
Epoxy clay is fun! Inspired by last year's free spirits, this year, we will supply the materials, ideas, & advice you need to make a Dragon Egg, but let you experiment on a project of your choice.
Description:
Making a dragon egg is a fun and foolproof project for using epoxy clay for the first time. We suggest first timers stick with this project, but for those of you who have some experience with the material, have researched the material a lot, or have a specific goal in mind, feel free to go off track! We will provide the materials for the dragon egg project. If you want to do a different project, please contact us ahead of time so that we can plan accordingly or tell you what you should bring. If you are taking our “Thermo Plastic 101” class, think about using the Thermo Plastic to create a base structure of your epoxy clay creation!
Epoxy clay is fun! Inspired by last year's free spirits, this year, we will supply the materials, ideas, & advice you need to make a Dragon Egg, but let you experiment on a project of your choice.
Description:
Making a dragon egg is a fun and foolproof project for using epoxy clay for the first time. We suggest first timers stick with this project, but for those of you who have some experience with the material, have researched the material a lot, or have a specific goal in mind, feel free to go off track! We will provide the materials for the dragon egg project. If you want to do a different project, please contact us ahead of time so that we can plan accordingly or tell you what you should bring. If you are taking our “Thermo Plastic 101” class, think about using the Thermo Plastic to create a base structure of your epoxy clay creation!
Intro to Weaving - Pinweaving, Nail Loom, Patterns & Materials
Summary:
Weaving is a fun & easy way to play with beautiful yarns. We will create 2-3 small woven projects as we learn the basics of weaving. The tools you get in class are yours to keep!
Description:
We will start by using a nail loom to create a simple weaving that you can easily make a mountain of woven squares out of all your favorite yarns and bind them together to make a larger project. Then we create a pinweaving - a fun free-form method of weaving that allows you to create fun shaped projects, like jewelry!
Intro to Weaving - Pinweaving, Nail Loom, Patterns & Materials
Summary:
Weaving is a fun & easy way to play with beautiful yarns. We will create 2-3 small woven projects as we learn the basics of weaving. The tools you get in class are yours to keep.
Description:
We will start by using a nail loom to create a simple weaving that you can easily make a mountain of woven squares out of all your favorite yarns and bind them together to make a larger project. Then we create a pinweaving - a fun free-form method of weaving that allows you to create fun shaped projects, like jewelry!
Leather Roll-up 17th Century Pirate Inspired Travel Journal
Summary:
Using just leather & paper, we will create a historically inspired refillable travel journal. The cover will double as a pencil holder while the leather lace we make will both bind & close our book.
Description:
For this book, we will learn a variety of bookbinding techniques that can be used to accentuate many of the other book styles I teach. We will prepare pages from larger sheets of paper, create leather lace, and experiment with the function and structure of the cover. This book will have less pages than the other books I teach, but the pages are much bigger and of higher quality.
Leather Roll-up 17th Century Pirate Inspired Travel Journal
Summary:
Using just leather & paper, we will create a historically inspired refillable travel journal. The cover will double as a pencil holder while the leather lace we make will both bind & close our book.
Description:
For this book, we will learn a variety of bookbinding techniques that can be used to accentuate many of the other book styles I teach. We will prepare pages from larger sheets of paper, create leather lace, and experiment with the function and structure of the cover. This book will have less pages than the other books I teach, but the pages are much bigger and of higher quality.