Participants will make a 28x40 rag rug. Students will choose and buy their own fabric (or use rags they have collected). Students will learn to warp their loom, cut the rag strips, join rag strips, and weave these to make a beautiful rag rug.

This fun and exciting class will guide you though the process of creating a colorful terracotta mosaic bird bath for your garden that will attract gorgeous birds and butterflies. You will learn how to cut/nip glass, lay out your desired design, gluing, grouting and finishing your project. As you will be working with adhesives and … Continue reading "Mosaic Birdbath"

This class is designed for students who have either been through the Beginning Watercolor levels I and II or have had enough experience in watercolor to paint independently from photos or sketches of their own.

Learn the art of Japanese crimp cloth: create a Shibori scarf.

Participants will create a 20x30 wall hanging/rug using techniques of design, layering fabric, cutting thru the fabric design, ragging edges and machine quilting. Participants choose from three provided designs, using a variety of beautiful batik fabrics and threads.

We will learn about different kinds of knitting needles, yarns, yarn needles, stitch holders, markers and place holders. We will talk about different knit stitches. You will also receive many sources of knitting help, advice and patterns. We will learn the basic knit stitch by making a project bag. If time and interest allow, we … Continue reading "Introduction to Knitting"

Digital field photography on Jekyll Island - it doesn't get any better than that. Treat yourself to three field shoots - a sunrise shoot, a sunset shoot, and a mid-day shoot - at three separate venues on Jekyll Island. After each shoot, we will download and critique the images, and offer suggestions on how to … Continue reading "Digital Field Photography"