Learn Fiber Arts with Laura Berlage
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Set your creativity free with live online classes with Laura Berlage! Laura offers a variety of classes on Lessonface in collaboration with John C. Campbell Folk School. The classes are taught live, via Zoom, and are also recorded for review after the live sessions. Join us for a group class and expand your creative skills!
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Upcoming Classes

Stash busters: Felt on a Bar of Soap

Looking for a fun and easy project that will help you declutter your stash? Little bits of wool roving can have a way of stacking up after several kits or projects, and this is a fun and decorative way to use them up! Felted soaps last longer as well, and are beautiful in your home,...

Monday, July 8, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Stash busters: Stitch a Flower Pin Cushion

Looking for a fun and easy project that will help you declutter your stash? Pin cushions are both decorative and useful (or yours could be a miniature pillow), and they are delightful to make. This vintage design is great for using up small quantities of fabric that you’ve kept because...

Wednesday, July 10, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Shepherding the Full Experience: Transforming the Wool from Our Sheep to Fiber Arts Education Online

Join Laura Berlage, farmer, fiber artist, and contemporary Renaissance woman on an exploration of her sustainable homestead farm in northern Wisconsin, the sheep she and her family raise, and how the wool becomes an integral part of her diverse online fiber arts courses. From lambing...

Thursday, July 11, at 7 pm ET | 4 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Tapestry Skill Builders: Nordic Mug Rugs

Inspired by traditional Scandinavian folk motifs, this course is great practice for weaving with hills and valleys pictorial technique as well as exploring how you can make all 4 mug rugs on your loom at once! Finished dimensions for the tapestries are approximately 4.5 inches wide...

Starts Monday, July 29, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Stash busters: Embroidering with Loose-ends

Embroidery doesn’t have to be just for cotton floss. You can use all kinds of leftover threads and strings for embroidery! In this fun and explorative class, Laura will show you how to take your stash and turn it into a beautiful stitchwork. Explore 15 different stitches from...

Starts Friday, August 16, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking, Level-1

Explore the beauty and process of Oxford style punch needle rug hooking with a fine point punch (the “Mini” #14), which uses wool yarn in worsted to aran weight to create a delightful zinnia motif. For this technique, we stretch a monk’s cloth backing over a frame, then use our...

Starts Wednesday, September 4, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Scandinavian Loom Beading, Level-1

Explore the beauty and fun of beading on a loom in the Scandinavian tradition! Inspired by designs from Nordic bandweaving, this class will take you from start to finish for making your own sparkly beaded bookmark. Learn about the historic use of loom beading and how a remarkably...

Starts Friday, September 6, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Intro to Tapestry Level 3 - Intermediate Pictorial Techniques

Building on the skills and techniques we’ve developed in Levels 1 and 2, Intro to Tapestry Level 3 dives deeper into pictorial techniques. Expanding our warping repertoire, we’ll use a wool warp at 10 epi, along with doubled selvedge warps for a stronger edge for this finer weaving...

Starts Monday, September 9, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

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...

Starts Thursday, September 19, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Wool Embroidery, Level 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...

Starts Friday, October 4, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Stash busters: 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...

Starts Friday, October 11, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Embroidered Sheepskin Mittens

Starts Sunday, October 13, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking, Level-2

Ready to add to your Oxford style fine point punch needle rug hooking skills? This Level-2 course in a cheerful cardinal 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...

Starts Wednesday, October 23, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Wool Embroidery, Level 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.” Learn how to reimagine classic favorites and interpret...

Starts Friday, November 1, at 11 am ET | 8 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Crochet a Twisted Headband

Dive into this 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 pattern because the texture appears like the classic "moss stitch" while still being crochet, and the twist at the front...

Starts Thursday, November 7, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Tapestry Skill Builders: Folk Rooster

This course offers great practice for weaving "hills and valleys" and "meet and separate" techniques, as well as keeping your sides nice and straight. It also will push the boundaries of tapestry by integrating embroidery stitches onto the surface of the piece. This project is designed...

Starts Sunday, November 10, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

It was wonderful. Laura is a masterful embroiderer and teacher and enthusiastically shared her skills and passion. The sampler project was perfect for beginners - practical and pretty - and Laura’s live demos, plus clear, written/illustrated instructions, PLUS video stitch library were amazing resources. Laura also sang to us and shared a story! All that was missing was a fire on the hearth and a cold winter’s night.

John C. Campbell Folk School

Laura Berlage's classes are presented in collaboration with John C. Campbell Folk School

Since 1925, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina has transformed lives, and brought people together in a nurturing environment for experiences in learning and community life that spark self-discovery.

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