Home Ec. Workshop

with Anna

Wednesday, July 6, 6 – 9 p.m.

$25, all supplies included

We loved Anna’s bike seat so much we asked her to teach us how to make our own! Use your favorite oilcloth to sew a fun and functional cover for your bicycle seat. Please ride your bike to Home Ec. or bring in your seat for this class so we can get a custom fit.

With Grace

Monday, July 18, 1 – 3 p.m.

$25 supplies included

When Leslie and the Lys tour, we enjoy a good travel game to pass the time. Turn your vacation van into a hardcore competitive cage with this easy-to-make time-passing felt checkers game! Personalize it with your favorite animals or designs and sew a pouch for easy carrying and tidy storage.

With Grazie (aka Grace Locke Ward)

Monday, July 25, 1 – 3 p.m.

$40 all supplies and Pizza included!

There are so many ways to appreciate pizza! You will study this favorite saucey subject by making your very own life-size plush pizza (complete with box)! “Stuffed crust” takes on a whole new meaning. Real pizza eating break included!

Make your own sidekick!

With Ramona Muse

M,T,W July 11,12,13 10 a.m. – noon

Ages 7+

$75 (supplies included)

In this class each child will make their own doll that looks just like them!  Then each child will make 2 skirts, one for them and one for their new doll.  We will use the sewing machines, hand stitching, buttons, recycled and vintage materials in this class.  If skirts aren’t your thing, we can make matching vests. Once we finish your skirts and doll the rest of the summer can be spent making tiny doll accessories!

With Ramona Muse

Mondays, June 20 & 27, 6 – 9 p.m.

$45 (supplies included)

We will use paint, vintage fabric, embellishments, and beyond to create our own unique portrait quilt. Each quilt will be 12″X12.”  We will use embroidery floss to hand stitch these beautiful small works of art.  You will find in the end that the front and back are equally beautiful.

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printing

$40, all supplies included

Saturday, June 25, 1 – 4 p.m.

Spend the afternoon learning two different printing techniques.  Carve your own stamps that can be printed on fabric and paper and create designs with foam and print them on fabric.  Use the fabric that you print in class to make dishtowels, pieced pillowcases, or stretch it over a canvas t

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KIDS KNITTING FRIDAYS (Ages 6 & up)

Fridays, June 17, 24, July 1, 8 10 a.m. – Noon

$45 + supplies

Four Fridays.  Three great projects.  Spend Friday mornings knitting with friends at Home Ec.  We will knit a pair of fingerless mitts, a handy wallet and knit (then felt) a bouncy ball.

KIDS PRINTING CAMP (Ages 8 & up)

June 20, 21, 22, 1 – 3 p.m.

$85 all supplies included

Learn various types of printing in this three-day camp.  Take your drawings and create screens that can be printed onto anything.   Print with cut stencils and found objects as well as hand made stamps designed by you! We will be printing on t-shirts, bags, cloth and paper.

KIDS SEWING: SKETCHBOOK BAG (Ages 8 & up)

Monday, June 27, 1 – 4 p.m.

$45, all supplies included (including a sketchbook)

Make a bag to keep your sketchbook and pencils organized while you are on the go!  This bag has plenty of room on the inside to keep a few sketchbooks and coloring books and on the outside is a pocket to hold pencils, colored pencils and crayons.  This bag is perfect for summer roadtrips.

DESIGN YOUR OWN BEAN BAG GAME (Ages 6 – 10)

Tuesday, June 28, 9 a.m. – Noon

$35, all supplies included

Make your own sidewalk game!  Everyone will decorate, machine sew and stuff two sets of bean bags and design their own target mat out of chalkcloth to play a tossing game.

BICYCLE POUCH (Ages 8 & up)

Thursday, June 30, 3 – 5 p.m.

Ages 8 and up

$25, all supplies included

Sew a handy waterproof, oilcloth, zipper pouch for your bike that will hang right from the handlebars.

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Kids Camp:  Dye It, Sew It, Felt It (Ages 8 & up)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, July 11, 12, 13, 1 – 3 p.m.

$75, all supplies included

Dye fabric, yarn and roving!  Sew a bag or notebook cover with the fabric you dye and create needle felted drawings and creatures using your dyed yarn and roving.

Kids Camps:  Wooden Spoon Creatures (ages 5 and up)

Saturday, July 23, 10 – 11:30 a.m.

$20, all supplies included

Use your imagination to turn ordinary wooden spoons into people, dinosaurs, and creatures from outer space…you imagine it and use paint, fabric, yarn, buttons, thread etc to make it happen!

Kids Camp:Full of Hot Air (ages 7 & up)

Tuesday & Wednesday, July 26 & 27, 1 – 3 p.m.

$40, all supplies included

Make a magical Hot Air Balloon using paper mache, paint, fabric, buttons, yarn and trims.

Summer Sleepover Set (Ages 10 & up)

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 6, 7, & 8, 3 – 5 p.m.

$75, supplies included (bring a solid color T-shirt)

Sew a pair of summer sleep shorts, a bed pillowcase and applique a t-shirt.

Crochet Camp (7 & up)

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, July 25, 27 & 29, 10 a.m. – Noon

$75, all supplies included

Learn the basics of crochet and make a beaded crochet necklace and a colorful granny square lap blanket.

You are invited!

THE ROAD HOME

an evening of stunning visuals and storytelling

presented by quilter Erick Wolfmeyer

Friday, May 27 at 7 p.m. @ home ec. workshop

After completing his first quilt in 1998 with the help of a pattern, Erick would spend the next 13 years creating original designs of his own.  In “The Road Home,” Erick embarks on a journey to mend early losses, and along the way discovers quilting as a path to beauty and meaning.  He explores his inspirations, which while rooted in traditional quilts, range from architecture, nature, and current events to spirituality, literature, and memory.  “The Road Home” celebrates quilting as a fitting metaphor for a life, well-lived.

Erick’s quilts have sold to collectors throughout the US, and have been featured in Architectural Digest, The Quilt Life, and the AQS book, Men & the Art of Quilting.  He currently lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa.  More information can be found at www.ewolfmeyerquilts.com.

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Receive 10% off all class supplies!  We request that you register and pay for classes at least one week in advance of start date to reserve your spot.   Call us at (319) 337 – 4775 to register.

DROP SPINDLE SPINNING

KIDS KNITTING CLUB

LEARN TO KNIT (ANYTHING)

VINTAGE DRESS RECONSTRUCTION

SKIRT-IN-A-WEEK

SOCKS: TOE UP, TWO AT A TIME

CANVAS PARTY

HOT STUFF APRON

PERFECT PICNIC BLANKET

SEWING BASICS: TOTE BAG

SCREENPRINTING