John C. Campbell
Folk School
Online Classes
2024-2025

Learn with the instructors you love from wherever you are.

We're excited to offer online classes in cooking, fiber arts, music, dance, painting, woodworking and writing. Join instructors from John C. Campbell Folk School for classes that can be enjoyed from the comfort of your home.

 
 

Fiber Arts: Sewing, Quilting, Knitting

 
 

Music and Dance

 
 

Writing & Storytelling

 
 

More About the Classes

  • Click the class links above to see complete details for each class, and feel free to contact us with any questions. We are available seven days a week.
  • Student attendance will all be online.
  • Students can connect to the online classes using most any tablet or computer with reliable internet.
  • Most of the classes will be recorded. Those classes will be available for access by enrolled students for 30 days following the live class.
  • To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact support@lessonface.com. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date. Materials kit fees are non-refundable.
  • Optional Orientation and Closing Ceremony hosted from the Folk School campus will be offered for all classes that students can attend online.
  • Many John C. Campbell Folk School instructors are available for 1:1 online lessons.
 

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Folk School Class Calendar

Tapestry Skill Builders: Nordic Mug Rugs

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $310
  • • Starts: July 29

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...

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Stash busters: Embroidering with Loose-ends

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $165
  • • Starts: August 16

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...

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Bespoke Patchwork Skirt

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $178
  • • Date: August 22

The Bespoke Patchwork Skirt is both charming and versatile. Dress it up, dress it down, make it short or long — this skirt is fun. Use precut charm packs or bust your stash to use a variety of sensational fabrics. The skirt can be made in multiple sizes and lengths. Show off your...

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Monthly Fiddle Meetup

  • • Instructor: Sally Jablonsky
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: September 1

Continue your Oldtime fiddle journey with Sally Jablonsky online! Learn how to play a new tune a month and play previous projects in review. All kinds of fiddle sounds are welcome! This class is geared toward those students who've completed an intro class with Sally previously, so...

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Block Prints in Brilliant Color

  • • Instructor: Jessica White
  • • Price: $275
  • • Starts: September 3

Find inspiration in the textures and patterns you see in the nature to create multi-color block prints. Learn how to print in layers of colors made from a single block as well as how to combine blocks in a single composition. You’ll use these blocks to create prints as well as to...

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"Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking, Level-1"

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $390
  • • Starts: September 4

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...

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Learn to Design Weaving with Fiberworks

  • • Instructor: Jen Weber
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: September 4

Are you still doing your weaving drawdowns with a pencil and paper? Then it's time to trade in that pencil for a computer mouse! Learn to save time and explore endless drafting possibilities using the weaving design software Fiberworks PCW. Just like learning a musical instrument,...

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Oil Painting for the Total Beginner

  • • Instructor: Emily Fox King
  • • Price: $60
  • • Starts: September 5

Unleash your inner artist and embark on a mesmerizing journey into the world of oil painting. Take the overwhelm away and jump into the rich medium of oil paints with the masterful Emily Fox King. This course is designed with beginners in mind and aims to provide an easy-to-follow...

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"Scandinavian Loom Beading, Level-1"

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $285
  • • Starts: September 6

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...

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English Country Dance on the Lever Harp

  • • Instructor: Lorinda Jones
  • • Price: $55
  • • Starts: September 7

Learn to play an English Country Dance tune on the lever harp and simultaneously improve learning to play by ear. Right and Left hands taught separately with the goal of putting the two together by the end of the course. Music will be provided at the end of the class and made available...

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Flavor Profile World Tour 2

  • • Instructor: Christy Seelye-King
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: September 8

Join Chef Christy on a tour of cuisines from around the world! In this 4-session class, you’ll learn the significant seasonings and ingredients that typify the flavors of the cuisine and lifestyle of each area. This time around we’ll be visiting Germany, Mexico, Oceania, and of...

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Intro to Tapestry Level 3 - Intermediate Pictorial Techniques

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $550
  • • Starts: September 9

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...

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Watercolors Made Easy! (September 2024)

  • • Instructor: Joe Synan
  • • Price: $300
  • • Starts: September 9

Watercolors are not difficult! This carefully designed class will allow all participants to become comfortable creating watercolor paintings of various subjects and sizes, using a variety of painting methods. The class will explore background washes, color contrasts and complements,...

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These Haunted Hills: The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry

  • • Instructor: Lyn Ford
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: September 9

Discover tales and folklore from haunted hills and valleys. Use these as prompts to create or develop short stories and verse from the dark shadows of your imagination. Share with fellow story lovers from the safety of your home.

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Book Making: Inbetween Binding

  • • Instructor: Sara Dismukes
  • • Price: $145
  • • Starts: September 9

Incorporate several different techniques into this innovative structure. Create a hardcover case-wrap bookbinding combined with basic leathercraft. Belted hardcover books feature a decorative lay-flat binding and leather closure. Any skill level welcome; requires good hand-eye ...

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Intro to Broom Making: Turkey Wing Whisk Broom

  • • Instructor: Nam Joti Kaur Khalsa
  • • Price: $150
  • • Date: September 14

Learn to weave an old traditional Appalachian style whisk broom! Whisk Brooms are handheld tools for the home and can be used in many different ways, from sweeping up small messes to dusting mantles and countertops. In this hands on class, each participant will learn to weave with...

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Ornamental Wheat Weaving: Learn to Plait Straw

  • • Instructor: Linda Beiler
  • • Price: $280
  • • Starts: September 16

Unique Offerings: Wheat weaving and straw art In this introduction to straw art class, you will learn how to prepare straw for plaiting. Over the course of the week, several plaits will be taught. The plaits will be shaped into harvest tokens. Bring your imagination, and you will...

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Greenhouse Mixed Technique Quilt

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $295
  • • Starts: September 16

Greenhouse is a wonderful blend of piecing blocks and applique quilting. Techniques include y-seam construction, drafting a block and creating templates for piecing, an introduction to machine applique, and an option to use the pattern's borders or design your own. Instruction is...

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Crochet a Spiral Beret

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: September 19

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...

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Binding Options for Quilt Makers

  • • Instructor: Teri Lucas
  • • Price: $150
  • • Starts: September 19

Completing a quilt with binding is that step that crosses the finish line in quilt making. Our quilt is then d o n e! Make three different types of binding strips: grain, cross-grain and bias. Explore a couple of options for joining the strips together. With each progressive week...

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Introductory Sewn Books

  • • Instructor: Anne Murray
  • • Price: $270
  • • Starts: September 24

This class introduces several relatively simple sewn bindings where the stitching is a decorative element. There will also be options for variations on each stitching style covered. Four styles will be covered: Pamphlet stitch with 3 variations; Japanese stab binding with 2 variations;...

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Class Performance – These Haunted Hills: The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry

  • • Instructor: Lyn Ford
  • • Price: FREE
  • • Date: September 30

Join the class performance for These Haunted Hills: The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry

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"These Haunted Hills, Level 2: More on The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry"

  • • Instructor: Lyn Ford
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: October 1

Revisit these haunted hills and valleys. Gather more tales, folklore, tips, resources and reflections to use as prompts for your own short stories and verse. Creatively write and share with fellow story lovers from the safety of your home.

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Continuing at Home: Pottery Beyond the Basics

  • • Instructor: Maggie Connolly
  • • Price: $250
  • • Starts: October 2

Elevate your wheel throwing skills to the next level. Over the course of the class, you will receive instruction on how to throw more advanced forms, such as bottlenecks, lidded vessels, altering and the wheel, as well as tips and tricks about how to throw larger - 5-10 lbs. This...

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Carve a Wooden Cooking and Serving Spoon

  • • Instructor: Mike Cundall Jr.
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: October 2

Learn how to carve wooden cooking and serving spoons from green wood. Functional, beautiful, and fun woodenware that you'll use every time you cook.

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"Wool Embroidery, Level 1"

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: October 4

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...

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Traditional Old-Time Fiddling for Beginners and Beyond

  • • Instructor: Kenny Jackson
  • • Price: $125
  • • Starts: October 6

Come to class prepared with a few basic skills (like how to hold the fiddle and bow, and get into standard tuning), a willingness to learn short phrases of music by ear, and with a few tunes already under your belt, and you’ll come away knowing a few more great old-time tunes sourced...

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Smartphone Storytelling

  • • Instructor: Stephen Knifton
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: October 7

You can work for a corporation, thrive as a creative entrepreneur or do anything in between. But one thing is certain: if you’re entrusted with a brand or promoting your craft and skills -- everything begins and ends with social media. We showcase our art and design, celebrate our...

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"Celtic Ballads - Songs, Poems, and Stories"

  • • Instructor: Bobbie Pell
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: October 8

Bring your guitar, fiddle, dulcimer, wooden spoons, voice, or just a good sense of humor to this workshop on traditional Celtic folksongs. Songs of betrayal, comedy, love, and romance will fill the air. Students will be exposed to the popular tunes and learn to compose narrative...

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Unlocking True Crime in Traditional Murder Ballads

  • • Instructor: Cate Clifford
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: October 9

Using a traditional Appalachian ballad chronicling a true crime committed in North Carolina, attendees explore the history and basics of broadside ballads, the subgenre of “good nights”, and what they can tell us about crimes and criminals of the past. Participants receive resources...

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Stash busters: Bead a Shawl Pin

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: October 11

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...

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Banjo Songs: Sing & Hear the Banjo Ring!

  • • Instructor: Susan Pepper
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: October 13

Explore a diverse selection of mountain songs that pair well with clawhammer banjo from mournful ballads to rollicking Old Time songs. Options will be provided for backing songs with chords as well as picking out the melody. Learn songs by ear with lyrics provided. You will come...

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Make Sheepskin Mittens with Wool Embroidery

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $315
  • • Starts: October 13

Jump into a cozy, interdisciplinary experience of all things sheep with this unique project! Explore Scandinavian-style wool-on-wool embroidery using hand dyed wool yarns from the instructor’s sheep on upcycled washed wool fabric, as well as learn how to stitch shearling sheepskin...

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Beginning Mountain Dulcimer

  • • Instructor: Anne Lough
  • • Price: $250
  • • Starts: October 21

Got a dulcimer hanging on the wall? Time to take it down and try your hand learning basic melody and strumming techniques by ear or a simple tablature system. No musical experience is necessary to enjoy playing this beautiful, soothing, Appalachian instrument. You'll finish the week...

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"Class Performance - These Haunted Hills, Level 2: More on The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry"

  • • Instructor: Lyn Ford
  • • Price: FREE
  • • Date: October 22

Join the class performance for These Haunted Hills, Level 2: More on The Art of Sharing and Creating Creepy Stories and Poetry

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"Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking, Level-2"

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $375
  • • Starts: October 23

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...

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Ballad Singers Monthly Meet-up

  • • Instructor: Susan Pepper
  • • Price: $75
  • • Starts: October 24

Warm-up your voice and body, learn a couple of new traditional ballads or old songs during each session and enjoy swapping songs with others. These sessions will inspire you to go deeper into your exploration of traditional song and to enjoy your own voice within a fun, supportive...

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"Wool Embroidery, Level 2"

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $295
  • • Starts: November 1

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...

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Beginning Fiddle

  • • Instructor: Sally Jablonsky
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: November 1

Start your Oldtime fiddle journey with Sally Jablonsky online! Learn how to hold the instrument, bowing technique and exercises, ‘what even is fiddle music?!’, and you will learn how to play a handful of tunes all while having fun. All kinds of fiddle sounds are welcome!

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Singing and Playing Traditional Folk Songs

  • • Instructor: Aubrey Atwater
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: November 2

Sit "knee to knee" (or rather, screen to screen!) with Aubrey for a singing, playing, historical, and cultural adventure! Folk songs leave no stones unturned when it comes to portraying the human experience. Aubrey will draw from her extensive repertoire of traditional American,...

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Hammered Dulcimer: Next Level

  • • Instructor: Anne Lough
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: November 4

Now that you can play melodies on your instrument, it’s time to have fun “dressing them up.” Explore basic embellishment techniques and learn the concept of using chord patterns to enhance and create interest in your tunes

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Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging from Scratch (November 2024)

  • • Instructor: Aubrey Atwater
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: November 4

Join renowned dancer, Aubrey Atwater, for a Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging class. Flatfooting is a traditional form of American step-dance with African, European, and Native roots. This class is open to all! Aubrey has joyfully and successfully taught many dancers online.

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Decorative Bookbinding

  • • Instructor: Anne Murray
  • • Price: $335
  • • Starts: November 6

Learn 3 styles of decorative binding: Multi-needle Coptic Stitch with 2 variations and Long-Stitch variations. This class is for people who have had some introduction to sewn bookbinding and who are willing to work independently between classes. All materials will be provided to...

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Courthouse Cabin Quilt

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $180
  • • Starts: November 6

Learn accurate yet simple piecing techniques to create this fresh vintage quilt. Annie will teach you quick Strip piecing and perfect seam alignment using cornerstone squares. The quilt top is made with assorted Fat Quarter fabrics and allows for all skill levels -- beginners to...

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Crochet a Twisted Headband

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: November 7

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...

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Sashiko Stitching: An Introduction

  • • Instructor: Beth Ross Johnson
  • • Price: $167
  • • Starts: November 7

This class will introduce Sashiko, a technique of Japanese functional embroidery that combines embroidery, patchwork mending, and quilting. Students will explore the history which is rooted in Buddhist textiles and the folk traditions of northern Japan, and learn the basics of two...

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Tapestry Skill Builders: Folk Rooster

  • • Instructor: Laura Berlage
  • • Price: $350
  • • Starts: November 10

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...

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Let There Be Light: Glass Block Mosaic Lamp

  • • Instructor: Linda Pannullo
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: November 12

Light up your home with a mosaiced glass block. Great class for the student with glass tools to expand their basic mosaic skills while creating a FUNctional piece of art. We’ll start laying out our pattern and cutting on the 1st class. Students will finish adhering the glass at home...

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A Mountain Dulcimer Christmas

  • • Instructor: Anne Lough
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: November 16

“Christmas Time’s A-Comin!” It’s never too early to start working on those Christmas tunes so let’s get going on some holiday favorites. Enjoy learning a variety of classic and timeless celebratory tunes of the season as we focus on right and left hand technique, chord variations...

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Shibori

  • • Instructor: Jessica Kaufman
  • • Price: $75
  • • Date: November 16

Shibori dyeing with fiber reactive dyes: easy, effective, gorgeous! Break out of the indigo-only box and learn to clamp, bind, fold, or twist fabric to achieve dozens of variations on traditional Shibori patterns. And because we are using low-impact fiber reactive dyes, you can create...

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Weave a Herringbone Seat on a Simple Stool Kit

  • • Instructor: Sue Muldoon
  • • Price: $155
  • • Date: November 30

Learn how to weave the step-up pattern of a herringbone weave (also known as a twill) using flat reed. Reed may be dyed before class if desired, A kit with reed , a stool kit, instructions to weave, dye and stool assembly will be sent 2 weeks prior to class. Sue will also show examples...

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Make Your Own Batik Fabrics Using Beeswax

  • • Instructor: Jessica Kaufman
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: December 7

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Chair-Caning Project on a Simple Stool Kit

  • • Instructor: Sue Muldoon
  • • Price: $240
  • • Date: December 14

Learn the basic 7-step pattern of hand-caning on a stool kit. Kit will include unassembled stool, cane, awl, caning pegs and instruction booklet. This is a great introduction to caning a chair.

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Blacksmith a Viking Padlock

  • • Instructor: Beth Holmberg
  • • Price: $250
  • • Starts: January 13

Viking-era Scandinavians (8th-11th C) kept their goods locked in wooden chests- the size of your key ring was an indication of your wealth. Open the mysteries of lock making and explore historic blacksmithing by forging a fully-functional reproduction padlock using traditional...

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Lyric Writing: Composing Original Works

  • • Instructor: Bobbie Pell
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: February 3

Have you ever felt so filled with insights and emotions that you want to share them with others? In this class we will look at how to create original songs based on personal responses to life, reactive interests, and traditional categories. Consider whether the work is for personal...

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Poetry of the Natural World

  • • Instructor: Bobbie Pell
  • • Price: $140
  • • Starts: February 4

POETRY OF NATURAL WORLD For those who love a well-turned phrase inspired by strong connections to nature, this class provides foundational information about poetry: style variations, imagery techniques, prose to poem mapping, and revision considerations. Uncloak the mystery of turning...

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Quiltmaking 101

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $378
  • • Starts: February 6

Quiltmaking 101 is a sampler of techniques: quick-piecing, accurate seam allowances, hand applique, hand piecing, curved seams, y-seam construction, pattern drafting and quilt finishing. You will make one block using each technique and build your quilting supplies as you go. Complete...

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Creating Garment Patterns from Your Closet

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $280
  • • Starts: February 11

Learn how to create patterns from your existing clothing without taking the garment apart! Annie will teach you how to inspect the garment for all of the fashion details and copy them to your pattern. You will learn how to adjust the garment to suit you based on your preferences....

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"Mountain Dulcimer: Next Level Tricks, Chords, and Skill-building"

  • • Instructor: Anne Lough
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: February 17

As you approach new tunes, continue to refine basic techniques and skills on the dulcimer with a focus on strumming and finger placement. Broaden your experience by exploring other tunings and basic chords.

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Writing a Life: Crafting a Memoir

  • • Instructor: Barbara Presnell
  • • Price: $200
  • • Starts: February 17

Everyone has a story to tell, and most of us have several. We’ll begin by finding those memorable people and moments within the many chapters of our lives. We’ll then practice and apply the essential elements of storytelling—character, plot, scene, setting, dialogue, detail, and...

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"Pitches, Platforms, and Proposals—Your Author Toolbox"

  • • Instructor: Sarah Loudin Thomas
  • • Price: $180
  • • Starts: February 17

Writing the book can feel like the easy part when you realize you now have to “sell” it to an agent or editor. This four-part class provides an overview of the basic tools fiction/non-fiction authors need while seeking publication. You'll dig into where to find an agent or editor,...

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Continuing Sashiko

  • • Instructor: Beth Ross Johnson
  • • Price: $167
  • • Starts: February 18

Continue your exploration of the folk stitching methods of sashiko. You will start by by learning some new approaches to Hitomezashi stitching including irregular block sizes and using Kuguri to produce wavy designs. Continue exploring the more freehand styles of Moyouzashi by planning...

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Catch the Story! Gathering Oral History Through Conversation

  • • Instructor: Bonnie East
  • • Price: $125
  • • Starts: February 18

Engage in conversations that unlock the extraordinary story inside the ordinary person. Develop skills to prepare for the interview. Know how to be in the moment and "unprepare," so that you discover the unknown gems. Save the past for our future!

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Watercolors Made Easy! (February 2025)

  • • Instructor: Joe Synan
  • • Price: $305
  • • Starts: February 24

Watercolors are not difficult! This carefully designed class will allow all participants to become comfortable creating watercolor paintings of various subjects and sizes, using a variety of painting methods. The class will explore background washes, color contrasts and complements,...

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"I am Here, Improv Mapping"

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $375
  • • Starts: March 4

Capture the memories of a special place by making a map quilt of that place and its surrounds. Choose a map, enlarge it in fabric, add special touches like hand sketched buildings, landscaping, and such. Annie will help you step through the process, making your map a treasured heirloom,...

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Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging from Scratch (March 2025)

  • • Instructor: Aubrey Atwater
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: March 5

Join renowned dancer, Aubrey Atwater, for a Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging class. Flatfooting is a traditional form of American step-dance with African, European, and Native roots. This class is open to all! Aubrey has joyfully and successfully taught many dancers online.

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Stripe Tricks: Nifty Tips and Design Inspiration for Knitted Stripes

  • • Instructor: Margaret Radcliffe
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: March 5

Explore techniques for knitting single-row stripes without cutting the yarn! Learn to manage multiple balls of yarn and create reversible striped patterns. Discover creative ways to design your own appealing striped patterns, embed coded stripes into your knitting, and integrate...

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Pastels Made Easy!

  • • Instructor: Joe Synan
  • • Price: $305
  • • Starts: March 24

Pastels are not difficult! This carefully designed class will allow all participants to become comfortable creating pastel paintings of various subjects and sizes, using a variety of painting methods. The class will explore pastels layering, color contrasts and complements,...

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I-Cord Tips & Tricks

  • • Instructor: Margaret Radcliffe
  • • Price: $100
  • • Starts: April 9

I-cord makes great drawstrings and ties, but it’s also fantastic for so many other uses! Start by learning basic I-cord, then turn it inside out for a purled version and add another color for striped I-cord. Along the way, learn to make bigger tubes (for mitten thumbs, glove fingers,...

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Ancestral Quilting

  • • Instructor: Annie Smith
  • • Price: $255
  • • Starts: April 24

Learn the fine art of crafting traditional quilts by hand, using a needle and thread, just like our ancestors did. Annie will take you through all of the details of patchwork quilting, english paper piecing and hand applique -- All easy! All techniques will be by hand without using...

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Edges Bordering on Perfection: An Introduction to Knitted Borders

  • • Instructor: Margaret Radcliffe
  • • Price: $50
  • • Date: May 7

Perfect borders can be a pain to pick up. Learn to prepare for borders with neat edges on your knitting and how to pick up perfectly every time. You’ll work swatches with four different types of edges as homework, then in class learn to determine the right number of stitches to pick...

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Advanced Knitted Borders: Bindings for Enclosed Edges

  • • Instructor: Margaret Radcliffe
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: May 10

Knitted bindings are the perfect finish to enclose an edge if you want to make a project reversible, to enclose cut edges at armholes and neck on a stranded sweater, or to hide (and avoid weaving in) a multitude of ends on a striped project. Learn three ways to pick up and work borders...

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Acrylics Made Easy!

  • • Instructor: Joe Synan
  • • Price: $310
  • • Starts: May 12

Acrylics are not difficult! This carefully designed class will allow all participants to become comfortable creating acrylic paintings of various subjects and sizes, using a variety of painting methods. The class will explore acrylic surface preparation, brush selection and care,...

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