Spring is in the air and I am so excited for sunny afternoons at our outdoor farmers markets! Equally excited about knitting this farmers market bag under the guidance of our expert knitter Raffaella. This class will introduce you to the basics and well as some intermediate techniques like openwork and circular knitting. Great for beginners or a knitter with a just a little experience. March 31 & April 7th, hope to see you there! #knitting #yegknits #yegworkshops #yegtextiles
Our latest offering of textile workshops is now open for registration and they’re rolling in already! Thank you! We are almost two years old and I’m feeling pretty proud of this sweet line up we have going on. All thanks to you, our students, that have shown you care as much about creating as we do. 🙌🏽 #grateful #yeg #yegsmallbusiness #yegworkshops #embroidery #yegtextiles
Lovely student weaving from our last drop in weave a cushion class! Stephanie took this class twice and in the second round she made this gorgeous and HUGE cushion. Workshop registration for April/May (plus one July Shibori class) opens tomorrow at 8am. Hope you get a seat in that class you’ve been wanting to take! #weaversofinstagram #handwoven #weavingworkshop #textiles #yegworkshops #yegtextiles #weaving
Raffaella has been knitting tirelessly to bring us a spring class! Knit up this market bag while being introduced to intermediate techniques like openwork, dropped stitches and circular knitting. This class takes place over two Sundays and is great for the knitter with a little experience or an ambitious beginner. The spring schedule is on the website with registration opening Wednesday March 13 at 8am! #yegknits #knitting #yegworkshops #marketbag #yegtextiles
A huge thank you to Ash from @fromfieldtoskin for coming to Edmonton to teach us about natural dyes! And thanks as well to all the students whose minds must be like mine and swimming with thoughts on scouring, mordants, dyes, prints, extracts foraging and an ethical practice. Now we wait for spring and hope we can convince them to come back for more? #naturaldye #yegworkshops #madder #marigold #christmas tree #naturaldyeing
Picking up fresh greens today and then picking up Ash from the airport tomorrow! We’re hosting three natural dye workshops this weekend and I’m so excited to learn from them. One spot is available in the Sunday 3pm class in which you could dye three skeins of wool using all natural materials. See you there, folks! #naturaldye #fibreshed #ashalberg #yegworkshops #yegtextiles #wool #ecoprinting
Thanks to @fellaella for teaching another inspiring knitting class! These knitters just learned how to knit last week and finished their toques today. I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, we sure are! We’re putting this workshop on the shelf in hopes of warmer weather so stayed tuned for a spring intermediate knitting class details soon. ➿ #yegknitting #yegknits #yegworkshops
There’s a few spots available in this workshop collaboration with @thehouseofsew ! Over two days we will guide you through hand weaving custom fabric on a four shaft floor loom and then sewing it into a clutch. March 17 & 19 , folks! Hope to see you there. www.fernsschoolofcraft.com #handwoven #yeg #yegworkshops #weaving #yegsmallbusiness #textiles #yegweaving #yegsew #textileworkshop #warpandweft
Hit me up if you want a one on one weaving coach! Heather came by the studio yesterday and we talked about what she wants to weave, got her on a warping board, and did all the math to set up her loom at home. #yegweavers #warpingboard #warpandweft #weaving #textiles
Working on our spring schedule and excited to share a new workshop with you all! Fabric marbling is a fascinating aqueous surface design technique practiced across the globe. Get ready for some mesmerizing process videos and the chance to try it out yourself at Ferns School of Craft. Details coming soon! 💛 #textiles #marbling #fabricmarbling #yegtextiles #textileworkshop #yegworkshops #yegsmallbusiness #surfacedesign #fernsschoolofcraft
The face behind all of our embroidery workshops! We’ve grown to love Alex not only for her steady skills but also for her energy, openness and outspokenness. She’s a real gem, this one. We just added an embroidery workshop to our winter workshop schedule! Join Alex on March 16 to learn the fundamentals of embroidery while stitching your own floral hoop. All details and registration can be done over at www.fernschoolofcraft.com . Come stitch with us?! #embroidery #yegworkshops #yegembroidery #yegtextiles #yeg #yegsmallbusiness
Been so busy I finally finished weaving two scarfs that I set up waaaaay back in November! Lately I’ve only been weaving commissions and samples for workshops so it’s nice to actually finish something for myself :). This one was inspired by all the lovely vintage ledger stationary in a lovely shop in Calgary @recessshop #offtheloom #yegweaving
One spot left in @fellaella ‘s beginner knitting class happening this Sunday and next! Over this two day workshop, learn the fundamentals while knitting your own toque, scarf or headband! #yegknitting #yegtextiles #yegworkshops #knitting
Greasing up the bobbin winder for today’s weavers! #naturalfibers #cotton #linen #silk #metallic #weaving #yegweaving #yegweavingworkshop #yegtextiles #
Just a reminder that when we get a cancellation the first people to hear about that newly available spot are those on our wait list. If you’re hoping to take a class do sign up to that waitlist! Just this week we filled three spots, so there is a chance you could get that afternoon you’ve been day dreaming about ❤️ One lucky person got into Alex’s sold out embroidery workshop happening next weekend! Here is the gorgeous pattern she’s working on for spring workshops. Dates are being locked down and coming at you soon! #yegworkshops #yegtextiles #yegembroidery #embroidery #textiles
Spotted a hand woven cushion of mine living a cute life in a 😍 vacation rental in the Catskill Mountains of New York! #handwoven #weaving #catskillsmountains #victoryfarmhouse
TONIGHT! “From Tehran Streetstyle to the War on Terror : A Conversation on Gender, Feminism, Orientalism, White Supremacy, and Empire through Fashion The Department of Human Ecology and the Faculty of ALES are pleased to include this discussion, presented by Hoda Katebi and a part of UAlberta's International Week, in our biannual Fashion Culture Lecture series!“ This seems a timely lecture given the current conversation happening around global knitting/textile communities. Tix are free, see you there?
Today is day one of a four week sewing class I’m taking @thehouseofsew ! I have no idea what a French seam is but I’m so excited to make one. #yegsewing
Feeling like I unearthed a rare gem in @fellaella who put together one of THE most thoughtful workshops I’ve been to. Lucky for you there are still some spots in the next round of her beginner knitting class running February 24th and and March 3rd! Hope to see you there. #yegknits #yegworkshops #yegtextiles #yegknitting #pompom #knitting
That’s a warp on our first knitting workshop! #yegknitting #yegworkshops #yegtextiles