8-part class hosted with Weaver's Guild of Minnesota via Zoom, 10am-noon Central. Build on your Level-1 skills to master 6 vertical joins from different cultures and expand your abilities in geometrics, including working with a grid pattern, making pattern changes, and working points.
Bead a Shawl Pin
Declutter your stash! Beading is beloved the world over, and it is a great way to gather up those odds-and-ends beads from your collection to make a beautiful shawl pin (or brooch, depending on how you finish the piece). We’ll use a single-thread technique to begin beading our design around...
Wool Embroidery L-1
Embroidering with wool has captivated imaginations since at least the Viking Age, offering beautiful and textured means for stitched expression. Dive into this world and learn about its many iterations over the centuries with this immersive introductory class, while stitching your own floral piece. During the course, students will learn...
Wool Embroidered Coin Purse
Embroidery is a beautiful way to make an everyday object feel special—a sentiment that fits perfectly with this course. Inspired by traditional Nordic embroidery designs, explore the world of wool-on-wool embroidery with a variety of stitches and learn how to transform the fabric and liner into the miniature purse, along...
Wool Embroidery L-2
Build on your skills gained in the introductory course on wool embroidery to embrace color, layering, and a host of new stitches. From the painterly “long and short” to the sculped “burden stitch” or layered “battlement couching” and so many more, learn how to reimagine classic favorites and interpret new...
Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking L-2
Ready to add to your Oxford style fine point punch needle rug hooking skills? This Level-2 course in a cheerful owl theme will add to your foundation skills with new twists including stretching the backing on a gripper strip frame (frame not included in kit, and you are welcome to...
Blackwork Embroidery 2-Ways
Embroidery is a beautiful way to make an everyday object feel special—a sentiment that fits perfectly with this course. Explore the world of blackwork embroidery (most popular in the 16th and 17th centuries) both in its counted and freestyle forms using hand dyed wool thread from the instructor’s sheep. While...
Crochet a Spiral Beret
Explore a unique crochet project that will have your friends asking, “That’s crochet?” It looks remarkably like knitting! That's part of the fun of this Spiral Beret pattern because the texture looks like herringbone stitch while still being crochet. Build upon variations of the double crochet to create a beautiful...
Winter Tapestry Prompt, Fjord Horse
Explore a delightful billedvev (Norwegian pictorial tapestry) design in a Fjord horse theme. Students who've taken Intro to Tapestyr (L-2) or beyond can join Laura in exploring this new design! Do it on your own, snag Zoom session, get the yarn selections, or all three! Zoom classes run 10am to...
Wool Embroidery, L-1
Embroidering with wool has captivated imaginations since at least the Viking Age, offering beautiful and textured means for stitched expression. Dive into this world and learn about its many iterations over the centuries with this immersive introductory class, while stitching your own floral piece. During the course, students will learn...