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  • “Loved Clothes Last” Mending Bar

    California College of the Arts SF 1111 8th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Each year the United States sends 12.8 million tons of textile waste to landfill. As style turnover has accelerated, so has our appetite for new, trendy clothing. Today we buy 4 times as much clothing as we did two decades ago, yet we get 36% less wear out of our garments before we discard them.   […]

  • Duckworth Farm’s Annual Sheep Shearing

    Duckworth Farm 3200 Canfield Road, Sebastopol, CA

    It’s that time of year again! Please join us for our annual Sheep Shearing Day on Duckworth Family Farm.   This year our shearer is John Sanchez, truly one of the best in the industry. Watch and learn as he shears sheep with compassion and such skill that he makes it looks easy.   Our […]

  • Sewing Lab

    O'Hanlon Center For the Arts 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA, United States

    SEWING LAB A love of adornment is one of our most basic tendencies. It exists in all cultures, telling stories about who we are and how we see ourselves. Come together in this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of personal style. Be inspired to develop your skills in a […]

  • Community Knitting

    A Verb for Keeping Warm 6328 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    Connect with your fellow Bay Area knitters! Need some pattern or yarn advice for your next project or just looking for a friendly group to chat with while getting some rows done? Come to our free community knitting event and share your latest WIP! Everyone is welcome -- feel free to bring a friend and […]

  • Sewing Lab– Garment Construction

    NorCal Sewing and Vacuum 909 D Street, San Rafael, CA, United States

    Sewing Lab– Garment Construction—All levels—On-going class.  A love of adornment is one of our most basic tendencies. It exists in all cultures, telling stories about who we are and how we see ourselves. Come together is this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of personal style. Be inspired to develop […]

  • Sewing Lab

    O'Hanlon Center For the Arts 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA, United States

    SEWING LAB A love of adornment is one of our most basic tendencies. It exists in all cultures, telling stories about who we are and how we see ourselves. Come together in this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of personal style. Be inspired to develop your skills in a […]

  • Weave a Soft Twined Basket

    We will begin small, twined baskets made with a diminutive relative of tule, known as “sweetgrass” among native weavers in the Pacific Northwest. As well as being fragrant, it is strong and soft, and lends itself to a variety of weaving strokes and color treatments. Instructed by Charles Kennard   Youth, ages 12 and up, […]

  • Color and Hand Papermaking

    The Studio Santa Rosa 3840 Finley Ave, Bldg 32, Studio 107, Santa Rosa, CA

    Create your own handmade paper with colored pulps using Western and Japanese techniques. Learn to use dyes and pigments to color pulp as well as natural dyes and the natural color of different plant fiber pulps. Your handmade paper can be used for painting or drawing with watercolors, inks, dry media, acrylics, oil, encaustic, and […]

  • Dye Self Patterning Yarn (Using Blanks)

    Fiber Circle Studio 113 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA, United States

    Come explore the fun of dyeing Sock Blanks! Sock blanks are pre-knitted rectangles that allow the dyer to create patterns and random designs. We will go over techniques for gradients, geometric patterns, random shapes and patterns, speckles, and stripes. Sock blanks, though often used for knitting socks, can also be knit into any project! You'll […]

  • Learn to Purl [Level 2]

    Fiber Circle Studio 113 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA, United States

    Learn to Purl Ready for endless texture combinations? Already know how to knit, but that's it? Step 2 of our knitting series teaches you how to purl! Knitting is comprised of two main stitches - the knit & the purl. With these two stitches, there are hundreds of ways to combine them to create different […]