Class Description

This two hour block will be set aside for people to drop in to wrap their holiday gifts using different sustainable techniques, such as reusable bags, scrap fabric cordage, furoshiki, reusable bows etc. Different stations will be set up for participants to try their hands at these techniques. Please bring along any fabric you wish to use (as well as the gifts you wish to wrap!) however there will also be sustainable materials provided.

Class cost: Free!

Class length: 2 hours, drop in

Spots: -

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.