Love working with Laura's designs (or other designs by your favorite artists) yet feeling the urge to create your own? Have ideas but not certain where to start? In this course, which is the first segment of a 5-part series, it's time to begin your designing adventures! Laura’s approach to...
6-part class hosted by Minnesota Weaver's Guild via Zoom. Dive into the amazing world of tapestry weaving, exploring both geometric and pictorial techniques with Laura. Explore geometric and pictorial techniques. Beginner friendly.
Unravel the mystery of hidden and prominent shapes in Scandinavian folk arts and learn about the messages of protection, fertility, and trickery they relate. This visual code was woven, painted, stitched, and beaded into beautiful and useful objects used and worn for special occasion and everyday. Trace the long history...
The third in a four-part punch-along series, each panel features a tree in a different season, a squirrel is on our cherry tree! Get just the monk’s cloth and pattern and us your own yarns, or snag the yarn pallet Laura will be using, which features100% wool yarn from her...
Monk’s cloth already provides a wonderful grid. This class explores how to use that grid to make beautiful and precise geometric designs that visually pop, influenced by the beautiful textile traditions of the American Southwest. A biscornu is a French shape, of-ten used for making pin cushions, but here we...
Hold your head high in style with this combo sheepskin leatherworking and stash-busting hat-making class. Work with beautiful, naturally bark-tanned shearling sheepskin from the instructor’s farm, combined with an invitation to play with decorative millinery techniques such as bead embroidery, plaiting, and feather accents. Express your individuality by raiding your...
Jump into a cozy, interdisciplinary experience of all things sheep with this unique project! Explore Scandinavian-style wool-on-wool embroidery using hand dyed wool yarns from the instructor’s sheep on upcycled washed wool fabric, as well as learn how to stitch shearling sheepskin pelt to create the comfy chopper-style mittens. The leather...
Jump into a cozy, interdisciplinary experience of all things sheep with this unique project! Explore Scandinavian-style wool-on-wool embroidery using hand dyed wool yarns from the instructor’s sheep on upcycled washed wool fabric, as well as learn how to stitch shearling sheepskin pelt to create the comfy, customized. The leather is...
Needle felting is fun and accessible! Learn the art of turning wool roving into adorable pumpkins! No previous experience necessary, and all that tiny stabbing with the felting needle can be excellent therapy. This dry method of felting truly is a magical experience. Suitable for beginners but also fun for...
Explore the beauty and process of punch needle rug hooking with the Oxford fine point punch needle (the “Mini” #14), which uses wool yarn in worsted to light Aran weight to create a delightful sunflower motif. For this technique, we stretch a monk’s cloth backing over a frame, then use...
We will bring your order out to you at our curbside pickup counter in front of Farmstead Creamery Wednesday through Saturday, 10am-6pm. Just let us know in your order notes what day and when you would like to pickup your order and we will “See you down on the farm !”
