Class Description

This open workshop is designed to help you get all your clothes and textiles ready for the next season. If you are struggling with that mending pile, not sure how to fix or alter a garment this open workshop is for you! Sewing machines will be set up, pin looms will be available, baskets of beautiful scrap fabric, thread and other patching materials will be free for use in the textile studio. Drop in for an hour or stay for the entire time, this time is set aside for you. Instructors will be around for advice and help, but the idea is to share your skills and learn from others in a comfortable and motivating environment.

Please register at least 24 hours in advance by either emailing heronsllyn@gmail.com or texting (970)-471-4691, the sooner the better!

Class length: 3 hours

Spots: Unlimited

Cost: $5 donation

Instructor Bio

Aja Ewing (she/her) is a 3rd generation fiber artist who specialises in fiber education and how textiles are connected with our natural resources. She has a BS in Natural Resource Management from Green Mountain College and a MS in Wildlife Conservation and Management from Unity University. She has 20+ experience in spinning and dyeing as well as knitting, crocheting and weaving. She's spent the last 5 years in pollinator studies, including her masters course, Cornell's Master Beekeepers course, as well as working for commercial native plants nurseries and apiaries. Through her education she has focused on ways that our textile industry impacts our natural environment and ways to improve the ways we source, process and market textiles in a method that can reduce harm or even benefit native pollinators. Aja's teaching style is engaging and hands-on and she takes care to create a learning environment that is a safe place for all. She raises sheep and bees as well as sells her handspun yarn out of her farm in Orwell, VT.