Please join us for our April 2024 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters by Barbara Burman. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our March 2024 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. Keen to demonstrate his new-found favor with the King, rising nobleman Jean le Viste commissions six tapestries to adorn the walls of his château. He expects soldiers and bloody battlefields. But artist Nicolas des Innocents…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our February 2024 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe by Dr. Kate Strasdin. In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments – some her own, others donated by family and…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our January 2024 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our November 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Seams Deadly by Maggie Bailey. Lydia Barnes is excited for a fresh start when she moves to the quaint mountain town of Peridot, Georgia. Her friend, Fran, offers her a job at the Measure Twice fabric store and even sets her up…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our October 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. Rick Rubin is known for creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can hone in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our September 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History by Esther Rutter. Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter – who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spin, weave and knit as a child – travels the…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our August 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our June 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes. Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our June 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Art of Collaboration: An In-Depth Look at Creative Practices for Creative People by Sydney Elizabeth Welch. Enter a new renaissance with The Art of Collaboration: a collection of interviews from business owners and artists about their group efforts in their personal…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our May 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our April 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Worn Stories by Emily Spivack. Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our March 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing A Common Thread: A Collection of Quilts by Gwen Marston. Explore a life lived in stitches and witness the aesthetic evolution of a treasured quiltmaking artist. Immerse yourself in the beauty of detailed, up-close photos that will inspire and delight you. Revel…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our February 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley. The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create Jackie Kennedy’s famous wedding dress. Raised in…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Bricolage is simply using what you have to make something new. Most of us have an inventory of craft supplies, fabrics/clothes we no longer wear, and household items we no longer use just waiting for a project. So, let’s make it happen! In this class – which is also a challenge – you’ll find the…

Please join us for our January 2023 Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter. At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the color of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol…

Learn how to wet felt a beautiful flower in this fun online class. Then, wear your flowers in your hair, pin them to your outfit, or create an everlasting bouquet. The possibilities are endless! Start by laying out your wool roving and embellishment materials. Then use water, soap, and a bit of agitation to turn your roving…

Choosing eco-friendly materials and working with sustainable suppliers are good places to start minimizing your creative environmental impact. But, there are other considerations: What are you making? Why are you making it? How will you use and care for what you make? What will ultimately happen to what you make? Please join us virtually as…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our November Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser. In this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our October Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color by Susan Brandeis. Whether your particular interest is pictorial, portraiture, abstract compositions, or actual text, you can “say” almost anything with thread. Learn to communicate your ideas using line, shape, color, and texture with this…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Tapestry today is incredibly diverse. Whether you weave tapestry or just enjoy looking at it, it’s good to be aware of what is being woven here in the US and around the world. Join us for a slide tour of tapestry today that will make you a more informed viewer and/or designer of tapestry art.…

Many of us find choosing and working with color to be one of the most exciting—and challenging—parts of making fiber art.  How can we take the inspiration we find in nature, in photographs, in cityscapes, in fashion and design, or in our own emotions—and turn it into a color scheme with a big impact? In…

Please join us for our September Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Piecing Fabrics – Mending Lives: The History, Philosophy and Ingenuity of Quilters by Cleo Lampos. Every quilt tells a story. Within its stitches are the dreams, the challenges, the tears, and the joy of the quilter. Binding the fabric is the history of…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our August Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts by P. L. Henderson  P. L. Henderson unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities, and representations. Entertaining as…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our July Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair. From colorful threads found on the floor of an ancient Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that fueled the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread illuminates the myriad and fascinating histories behind the cloths that came…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our June Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts by  Johanna Amos and Lisa Binkley. The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form…

If you hand stitch, this fun, free, monthly virtual gathering is for you. Share your work(s) in progress, seek and share creative and technical advice, and enjoy time with others who share your stitch passion. Sign up to receive the Zoom link and then grab your beverage of choice on the first Wednesday of each…

Please join us for our May Book Club Meeting! We’ll be discussing A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard. This free-ranging survey of the huge impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history is addictive! From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep…