Have fun poking paper and stitching colorful rows in this creative exploration. We will use homemade paper, postcards, photographs, and overlay patterns or freestyle stitching to create one-of-a-kind textural pieces.

We’ll chat, share stories, sip tea, and relax, and try not to prick our fingers. If you chose to make a postcard or note card, then stay a bit longer to write a message to a loved one. (I’ll have plenty of stamps!)

Learn how to make your own beautiful home-made paper from recycled materials like bits of yarn, your kid’s old math homework - and flowers from my garden. Using moulds and deckles, we’ll swish, press, and flip our way to gorgeous sheets of paper.

With tea, sweets, and good conversation, this will be an engaging and relaxing time to learn a new craft technique and make something you can use for cards, gifts, or other artistic endeavors.

In this immersive, hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to create paint pigments from plants, earth, and everyday natural materials. You’ll learn simple methods for extracting color, mixing pigments with binders, and how to use your paints on paper.
Together we’ll slow down, experiment, and embrace the beauty of natural variation. Everyone will leave with a small palette of handmade paints, swatch samples, and the knowledge to continue making pigments at home.

This two-part visible mending workshop introduces simple, coloful techniques for repairing and strengthening well-loved clothing. The first workshop session focuses on mending woven fabrics—shirts, trousers, and household textiles—using patches, darning, and reinforcement stitches.

The emphasis is on practical skills you can use again and again. We’ll work slowly, using thoughtful materials and straightforward techniques that extend the life of your clothes while embracing repair as a visible, intentional choice. Everyone is encouraged to bring one or two items to mend and will leave with repaired garments, a small set of sample stitches, and the confidence to continue mending at home.

This hands-on workshop introduces the basics of kokedama, a Japanese method of growing plants in moss-wrapped soil. We will go through how to prepare soil, position the plant roots, and bind each piece with natural twine (or colorful wire!) to create gorgeous natural art.

We’ll chat, get dirt under our finger nails, and drink some tea. Everyone will leave with a finished kokedama and guidance for keeping it looking happy and healthy.

This second visable mending workshop will focus on building sturdy, reliable repairs that stand up to everyday wear. We’ll cover techniques designed specifically for denim, emphasizing reinforcement, but making sure to have fun with color and unique stitching techniques like Shashiko.

Everyone is encouraged to bring a pair of jeans to work on and will leave with mended garments and the skills to confidently repair future wear at home.

In this hands-on Basket Making Workshop for parents and their teens, we’ll use colorful yarns to build coiled sculptural baskets — perfect as small homes for beautiful things.

With tea, snacks, and family banter, you’ll spend a relaxed evening learning simple basketmaking techniques that can be adapted endlessly for your own and your teen’s creative projects.

Just bring curiosity and a willingness to get a little tangled.

This workshop begins with a pile of yarn and the true belief that it might become a basket. Using ancient coiling and stitching techniques, we’ll wrap, shape, and persuade yarn into a small, functional form.

The work is slow, repetitive, and unexpectedly absorbing. We’ll focus on tension, structure, and a handful of stitches that help the basket hold its shape and purpose. You’ll leave with a very nearly finished basket, plus the know-how to keep coiling long after the workshop ends. Tea, snacks, and good conversation round out the evening.

This hands-on workshop invites parents and teens to spend time together learning how to make simple, nourishing lip balms using all natural ingredients, including herbs from my garden! Working side by side, we’ll explore basic recipes, melting and mixing oils and waxes, and adding subtle scents.

We’ll put our phones down, chat, munch on snacks, and make something you’ll use every day. Everyone will create several lip balms to take home, along with a straightforward recipe if you did want to tackle the mess at home.

This three part workshop invites you to slow down and connect with color and texture through the ancient art of tapestry weaving. In this first session we will learn: how to warp (wind yarn on) our small tapestry looms, understand weaving-specific vocabulary, practice basic techniques, and create a bookmark to showcase what you have learned.

Together, we’ll get into the slow rythm of weaving, while chatting and snacking, and generally just enjoying the cozy moment.

You will go home with your own small tapestry loom, needle, and enough yarn to make a second bookmark.

(See the listings for Tapesty Weaving #2 & #3 to begin to “paint” with yarn. It’s super cool!)

This hands-on workshop invites parents and teens to spend time together learning how to make simple hand-drawn prints from trash and pasta makers!

Come put down your phones (yes, you parents too!) and get a bit messy scratching, inking, and pressing ink to paper to make art on the postcards and paper provided. We’ll drink tea, experiment with our repurposed printing presses, and enjoy a creative break from our routines.

This three part workshop invites you to slow down and connect with color and texture through the ancient art of tapestry weaving. In this second session we will learn how to “paint” an image with yarn on our looms. We’ll start with warping, planning our image, and picking our yarn - we may even get started on the weaving.

Come chat and snack, and enjoy the relaxation that comes from slow, cozy creativity.

You will go home with your own small tapestry loom, needle, and enough yarn to make progress on your “painting.”

(Sign up for Tapestry Weaving #3 to learn how to transfer your ideas onto the loom and proper techniques for creating interlocking shapes of woven yarn.)

This two-part visible mending workshop introduces simple, coloful techniques for repairing and strengthening well-loved clothing. The first workshop session focuses on mending woven fabrics—shirts, trousers, and household textiles—using patches, darning, and reinforcement stitches.

The emphasis is on practical skills you can use again and again. We’ll work slowly, using thoughtful materials and straightforward techniques that extend the life of your clothes while embracing repair as a visible, intentional choice. Everyone is encouraged to bring one or two items to mend and will leave with repaired garments, a small set of sample stitches, and the confidence to continue mending at home.

A Saturday afternoon for people who like tea, quiet projects, and doing things at a human pace. This four-hour retreat weaves together tea blending, slow mending, and time for reflection and letter writing—no rushing, no optimizing, no pressure to be productive.

You’ll mix your own herbal tea, spend time repairing something that’s been waiting in the mending pile, and sit down with pen and paper to write—maybe to someone else, maybe to yourself. The afternoon is structured, but loose enough to let you linger where you want.

All materials are provided. You’ll leave with a custom tea blend, a mended piece, a few written pages, and the pleasant feeling of having spent a Saturday doing something quietly useful.

This three part workshop invites you to slow down and connect with color and texture through the ancient art of tapestry weaving. In this last session we will “paint” an image with yarn, learning the techniques needed to weave interlocking shapes of color on our looms creating abstract or simple pictures.

Come chat and snack, and enjoy the relaxation that comes from slow, cozy creativity.

You will go home with your own small tapestry loom, needle, and enough yarn to finish your “painting.”

This second visable mending workshop will focus on building sturdy, reliable repairs that stand up to everyday wear. We’ll cover techniques designed specifically for denim, emphasizing reinforcement, but making sure to have fun with color and unique stitching techniques like Shashiko.

Everyone is encouraged to bring a pair of jeans to work on and will leave with mended garments and the skills to confidently repair future wear at home.

Spend a slow Saturday afternoon working with fiber. This four-hour retreat is an open, hands-on exploration of basket making, small-scale tapestry weaving, and an introduction to fiber spinning. Rotate through techniques, try your hand at each process, and settle into whatever draws you in most.

There’s no rush to “master” anything. The focus is on learning through making, working with natural materials, and enjoying the quiet rhythm of repetitive handwork. You’ll explore new crafts, chat with lovely people, sip tea, and find your calm.

All materials are provided, and the pace is intentionally unhurried. Come curious, comfortable, and ready to spend an afternoon making things with your hands.

This open studio session is for anyone who has previously attended a workshop and would like time, space, and light guidance to continue working on their project. Whether you’re finishing a tapestry, working on a basket, perplexed by a mend, or revisiting a technique, this is a chance to return to the work without starting from scratch.

There’s no formal instruction—just shared studio time, access to tools and materials, and support as questions come up. The pace is relaxed and flexible, and you’re welcome to move between projects or simply settle in with one.

This session is meant to support ongoing practice and help skills take root beyond a single class.

A small loom, a pile of yarn, and a very fun project. In this parent + teen workshop, you’ll learn a simple tapestry weaving technique while making a woven bookmark that will keep your place in a real book (remember books?).

We’ll cover the basics—warping the loom, weaving a few core stitches, and playing with color and texture—at an easy, no-rush pace. Expect a little trial and error, a lot of hands-on time, and something useful to take home. Everybody leaves with a tapestry loom, a finished (or very nearly finished) bookmark, and the skills to keep weaving beyond the workshop.

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll use plants, kitchen scraps, and natural dyes to transform plain fabric into something beautiful. You’ll learn the basics of preparing fabric, creating dye baths, and coaxing color from natural materials—no synthetic dyes, no rush.

Expect a bit of unpredictability, plenty of experimentation, and the kind of results that can’t be exactly replicated (that’s the point). Everyone will go home with a set of newly colorful fabric pieces that can be used for other projects.