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Beginning Tatting 3/15 • Embroider on Clothes • Beginning Tatting Part II: Chains & Things • Embroidery Lettering • Freestyle Flower Embroidery • Bullion Embroidery • Crazy Quilt Stitching • Armenian Needlelace • Beginning Tatting 5/17 • Strawberry Pincushions • 4-Day Irish Crochet Workshop • 1920s "1-Hour" Dress
Beginning Tatting
with Kevin Baum
Saturday, March 15 — 12:30 to 4:00 PM
$46
Have you admired tatting and wondered if you could be able to tat? Very few stitches must be mastered to create beautiful tatted works of art. This beginner class will get you on track for shuttle tatting by teaching you the tools and techniques.
You will concentrate on learning the double stitch, which all shuttle tatting is based on. Once the double stitch has been mastered, you'll learn to make rings and picots. The goal of these classes is to create, with practice, a simple edging of connected rings and picots.
How to Embroider on Clothes
with Laura Tandeske
Tues., Mar. 11 -or- Sat., Mar. 15— 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$45 + $5 optional kit fee
Embroidering on clothes is a great way to express yourself! The embroidery can be a decorative border, a meaningful symbol, fun flowers, or anything else you can think of. We will go over the best clothes to embroider on and how to do it, including how to transfer a design. This is a perfect class for the beginner or experienced embroiderer. Please bring any clothes you would like to embroider.
Beginning Tatting Part II: Chains & Things
with Kevin Baum
Tuesday, March 18 — 12:30 to 4:30 PM
$46
After Beginning Tatting Part I with Kevin Baum, check out the next step in skill-building and creating beautiful tatted works of art. This workshop will teach you to refine the tools and techniques for shuttle tatting.
In this session, you will learn to make tatted chains. The goal is to create a medallion of joined rings and chains. We will also discuss how to read various tatting instructions, introduce new threads as necessary, finish piec es, block, and stiffen completed work.
MATERIALS: Small scissors, tatting shuttle, and size #3 / #10 / #20 cordonnet thread in white, plus a color of your choosing. (#3 is larger, for easier visualization and manipulation; #20 is the finest option, for those who are more comfortable with a lighter-weight thread.) A large-eye needle is useful for finishing.
Embroidery Lettering
with Laura Tandeske
Tues., Mar. 18 -or- Sat., Mar. 22— 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$45 + $5 optional kit fee
In this course you will learn multiple techniques to do embroidery lettering. You will be able to personalize your embroidery with names, dates, poems, statements, any kind of writing you can think of! This class is perfect for beginners or experienced embroiderers alike. You will learn techniques and tips that you just can’t get from books!
Freestyle Flower Embroidery
with Laura Tandeske
Tues., Mar. 25 -or- Sat., Mar. 29— 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$45 + $5 optional kit fee
Flowers are so much fun to embroider! Bring color and joy to any embroidery project by adding flowers. Laura will teach basic stitches used to make flowers, leaves, and stems. We will talk about basic design practices to make your design really pop. This course is perfect for the beginner or experienced stitcher.
All About Bullions
with Laura Tandeske
Tues., April 1 -or- Sat., April 5— 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$45 + $5 optional kit fee
In this course you will learn how to create embroidered bullion knots. There are many different variations on this technique that are surprising and so fun! There is no set design for this class, just practice and discovery of the bullion knot. Experience threading a needle, tying a knot, and a few embroidered stitches is advised for this class.
Crazy Quilt Embroidery Stitches
with Laura Tandeske
Tues., April 8 -or- Sat., April 12— 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$45 + $5 optional kit fee
Crazy Quilts were popular in the Victorian era when every scrap of fabric was too precious to waste. Quilts were made out of small pieces of fabric and embellished with embroidery stitches on all the seams. This class teaches the basic stitches and how to put them together for an endless variety of beautiful edges. Here's a workshop good for beginners and experienced stitchers alike!
Armenian Needlelace In this intimate two-part introductory workshop, students will explore fundamentals of Armenian needlelace by making foundational knots and loops on fabric edges to begin a sampler of key patterns, and become familiar with integral symbols, terms, and methods. Also included: a preview of the exhibit, Armenian Needlelace: Poetry in Thread, curated by Elise. Returning students will build on the fundamentals to grow their skills through more complex designs and techniques, including needlelace medallions.
with Elise Youssoufian
Sat., April 19 and Sat., April 26— 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
$150 (10% discount for returning students)
This workshop includes all materials needed: needles and threads in several sizes, scissors, and fabric. Use the week between sessions to practice what you learned in part one, so you can be ready for next steps in part two.
Prerequisite: To learn this craft, you'll need basic needlework skills. Unfamiliar with threading a needle? Unsure which is the "working end" of your thread? Never fear! Everyone has to start somewhere! All you need to do is practice making several rows of blanket stitches, and then you'll be ready for the joys of the two-day workshop.
Beginning Tatting
with Kevin Baum
Sat., May 17 — 12:30 PM to 4 PM
$46
Have you admired tatting and wondered if you could be able to tat? Very few stitches must be mastered to create beautiful tatted works of art. This beginner class will get you on track for shuttle tatting by teaching you the tools and techniques.
You will concentrate on learning the double stitch, which all shuttle tatting is based on. Once the double stitch has been mastered, you'll learn to
make rings and picots. The goal of these classes is to create, with practice, a simple edging of connected rings and picots.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Kevin is a freelance professional singer with Bay Area groups like Clerestory and Endersnight. He learned tatting in order to keep the tradition alive and as a viable activity that could be done while traveling.
Strawberry Fields Forever:
Make a Vintage Strawberry Pin Cushion
with Catherine Scholar
Sat., Mar. 10 — 1:00 - 4:00 PM
$46 + $40 kit fee (payable to instructor)
Come make a beautiful velvet strawberry, based on an original vintage pincushion in the Lacis collection. The strawberry can be a pincushion, sachet, or decoration. Bring a friend and make strawberries together!
In class, we will hand-sew a large silk velvet strawberry pincushion and an adorable mini strawberry. We'll learn several different sewing stitches, how to play with beading, and how to tie beautiful bows.
KIT INCLUDES: Fabric, ribbon, thread, millinery leaves, stuffing, beads, needles, needle threader, glue, and pattern/instructions. The fabric and ribbon will be cut and ready to use.
SUPPLIES: Bring your sewing basket including embroidery scissors, sewing pins, beeswax for thread, and a thimble if you use one.
INSTRUCTOR: Catherine Scholar read Little House on the Prairie at age five and has been obsessed with historic clothing ever since. She learned to sew at her mother's knee and to embroider at her grandmother's. She has pursued the historic costuming hobby for thirty years. She has taught many costuming workshops for the Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (GBACG) and Costume College and served on the GBACG board for 10 years as Newsletter Editor, Events Coordinator, and President.
4-Day Irish Crochet Workshop
with Máire Treanor
Wed., May 21 to Sat., May 24 — 10 AM to 5 PM (with a break from 1:00 - 2:00 PM)
$300 for all 4 days, or $200 for any 2 days; returning students receive 10% off
Máire is excited to return to Lacis once again!
Students should be familiar with the basic crochet stitches of chain, single crochet and double crochet in yarn. Durin
workshop, Máire encourages students to work at this special
craft at their own pace, with individual help and encouragement. In the first two days, newcomers will work on Clones lace jewelry, learning the basic stitches of Irish Clones lace, before progressing to traditional motifs of wild rose, shamrocks, vine leaves and grapes, other motifs familiar in Irish Crochet, which use packing cord, as well as the unique Clones knot filling stitch and edging. Returning students can bring a project on which they have been working, getting advice and help on finishing it.
Students will discuss how to read antique Irish Crochet patterns and the international charts used in Ukrainian, Russian and Japanese books, with samples of garments in Modern Irish Crochet.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Máire is a treasured instructor at LMLT, giving annual workshops and supporting interaction of all those involved in Clones lace making. She revived Clones Irish Crochet lace in the late 1980s and has been teaching and writing about this beautiful freeform style of crocheted lace since then.
She is the author of Clones Lace: The Story and Patterns of an Irish Crochet, republished by Lacis in 2010. The Lace Museum in Fremont published the third edition of this book this year. She is currently working on her second book on how Irish Crochet lace saved communities throughout the world in the early 20th century and how it has become popular in the 21st century in Eastern Europe and South America.
1920s "1-HOUR" DRESS — A 2-SESSION WORKSHOP
WITH CATHERINE SCHOLAR
Sat., June 14 and Sat., June 24 — 10 AM to 5 PM
$175
Want to clothe your inner flapper? Get your Downton on? Or just experience the chic of simplicity. The "One-Hour" dress was developed in 1923 by Mary Brooks Picken as a simple and versatile style that can be made
into a tailored wool day dress, a breezy cotton summer frock, or a dramatic silk evening gown. On day one we will review the style and look at extant and reproduction gowns in thee same style. You will then draft a pattern of yourself, make mockups, and then adjust carefully to perfect the fit. On the second day you will make your dress.
PREREQUISITES: Students must know how to use a sewing machine.
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