The act of hand-stitching is a meditative and relaxing process that produces beautiful and unique results without any machine required. Learn the techniques of slow-stitching by creating your own small-sized (wall-hanging) quilt. All techniques will be taught by hand, but students are welcome to bring personal sewing machines if they wish. The following methods will be taught: Patchwork, Applique (raw edge and turned edge), Traditional quilting and tied quilting, and Binding. Benefit by working alongside other participants, to enjoy conversation and company and to learn from, and admire, each other’s work!
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sheryl Kessler
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

"When I knit, there's nothing I love more than a challenge," says Berta Karapetyan. Karapetyan has spent the past decade designing high-fashion knitwear collections for Karabella and working as a technical knitwear developer for the best fashion houses in New York including Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco and others. She believes that as a designer, her strength has always been her ability to master difficult techniques and when she has been approached by design houses in the past, it was usually because the work involved something special or complicated.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Berta Karapetyan
Cost: $60
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

For kids age 6-16 only. Using Bruno Munari’s classic book as inspiration, students will discover the art of printmaking & fabric dying using everyday vegetables to a create t-shirt and one-of-a-kind prints on paper. Basic principles of design will be taught and students will be led via a variety of prompts to keep them focused while pressing the edges of their creativity. All supplies included. Students may bring in additional light or white fabrics to create with.
 
Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Cricket Desmarais
Cost: $125 / $105 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

Try the classic textile art form that originated on the island of Java, Indonesia. Learn to create designs with wax and dye on fabric. Students must arrive with 3 pencil drawings on white cotton fabric. The rest of the materials are included.
 
Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Wendy Tatter
Cost: $145 / $110 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

Learn a new technique – wet-felting – by creating a small fiber vessel. Fiber artist Vogel’s professional background in weaving and graphic design influences her treatment of textile works through a keen sense for composition and line and the haptic aspects of fiber. All materials included.
 
Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Marianne Vogel
Cost: $155 / $135 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

Learn a new technique – wet-felting – by creating a small fiber vessel. Fiber artist Vogel’s professional background in weaving and graphic design influences her treatment of textile works through a keen sense for composition and line and the haptic aspects of fiber. All materials included.
 
Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Marianne Vogel
Cost: $155 / $135 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458