Here is a not-at-all-comprehensive list of classes I’ve taught and would love to teach again! Reach out to me through my email (shannonsq@gmail.com) to book me at your shop today!
MACHINE SEWING
Beginning Sewing Workshop: Make a Book Sleeve
This workshop is a great intro sewing class! If you are a newer sewer, or just want someone to hold your hand while you sharpen your skills, this class is for you!
Beginning Sewing Workshop: Make a Pillowcase
This workshop is a great intro sewing class! If you are a newer sewer, or just want someone to hold your hand while you sharpen your skills, this class is for you!
Fanny Pack/Crossbody Bag
Make the cutest fanny pack ever and learn tons of bag-making skills in this day-long workshop.
Intro to Quilting, 4-week series
This 4-week class will show you the basics of quilting, and you’ll have the cutest little throw quilt at the end of it!
Class overview:
- Week 1: choosing fabric, cutting & piecing quilt top. We’ll discuss best practices for cutting, and the chain piecing technique.
- Week 2: laying out quilt top, assembling, and sewing your backing. We’ll discuss ways to piece your quilt, including web piecing. We’ll discuss how to sew your backing together (and if we don’t get to it during class, you can do it in the week between classes)
- Week 3: making a quilt sandwich and making binding.
- Week 4: quilting the quilt and attaching binding.
You Can Quilt That! Patchwork on Sweatshirts
This is a beginning sewing class, with the first class devoted to learning how to use a sewing machine. The 2nd 2 classes will cover basics of creating a patchwork for the front of a sweatshirt, and many basic quilting techniques will be covered.
HAND SEWING
English Paper Piecing basics
Learn this fun, easy, and very portable quilting technique! We’ll talk tips and tricks, best practices, and how to use your sweet little hexagons in so many ways! (I’ll bring a bunch of samples, including things like sweatshirts that I’ve sewn my English Paper Piecing projects to, quilts-in-progress, pin cushions, and more!)
BASKET MAKING
Fabric-Wrapped Rope Basket
This is such a fun way to use fabric scraps to make something adorable AND useful! We’ll use our 2 hours to get started on our basket, cut/prepare enough fabric to make one, and start our stitching!
Yarn-Wrapped Rope Basket
Using cotton clothesline and scrap yarn, make an adorable, useful basket for your notions (or whatever!). We’ll get started on our basket (and new obsession), and you’ll leave with the know-how to make a billion cute baskets!
EMBROIDERY
Intro to Embroidery
This is an overview of embroidery, focusing on tips and tricks and foundational stitches. Folks will get a printed sampler that features the following basic stitches: running stitch, backstitch, chain stitch, french knots, and satin stitch. No embroidery knowledge is necessary, and best practices/tips and tricks will be shared as well.
Next-Steps Embroidery Stitches
This is a next-steps embroidery workshop, building on the basics with some next-level stitches. The pre-printed sampler includes the following stitches: stem stitch, bullion knots, blanket stitch, couching, and woven circles/spiderwebs (we’ll go over 2 different ways to make these, each with very different aesthetics).
Felt & Beads & Flowers, oh my!
We’ll be cutting felt into flower shapes and stitching them onto a fabric background, embellishing with beads (and sequins and wee buttons if y’all have them) in this fun class.
Friendship Bracelet Embroidery
This is a fun little ditty, and would be great as a make-and-take I think! It’s super simple, just plotting out a design and sewing it down onto fabric, but could be a fun wee project to make. It’s basically friendship bracelet beads sewn down onto fabric using embroidery hoops & needles & thread.
WEAVING
Circular Weaving on CDs
This is a fun intro to circular weaving, using something most of us have lying around, CDs! (We knew that Columbia House membership from the 90s would come in handy at some point).
Circular weaving is such a fun technique, and using a CD as your canvas opens up so many creative possibilities! We’ll be weaving with yarn and roving to create lovely pieces of art in this fun workshop.
Weaving on a Round Necklace Loom
Make a sweet necklace while learning round weaving techniques. This workshop will walk you through warping and weaving on a small wooden round loom, and you’ll end up with a unique and very pretty necklace. Weaving on small looms is the best! Circular weaving on a loom like this is oodles of fun, and a fantastic way to stretch your skills and play with color. This loom is not meant to be reused; you’re making a necklace keepsake.
Weave Yourself a Rainbow
Learn basic weaving skills to make a sweet little rainbow. The loom is reusable, so you can fill your world with rainbows of all hues and textures. It’s oodles of fun and very portable. Small-loom weaving is one of my favorite things to do, and I love sharing that love with others. The fact that the loom is reusable is super fab, because students can make a rudimentary chunky-yarn rainbow in class, and then go home and play with yarn weights, textures, adding things like beads, etc, to their looms.
Bookmark Loom Weaving
Learn to use this versatile and very portable little loom to make bookmarks, bracelets, and anything else your crafty brain can think up! The workshop will go over warping, weaving, taking your piece off of the loom, and best practices for weaving on a little loom.
Intro to Rigid Heddle Weaving
A day-long class to get you started on your rigid heddle weaving journey. Students need to have their own rigid heddle loom (15″ width is ideal) with an 8-dent heddle and 2 skeins of worsted-weight yarn, preferably one solid and one variegated that are complementary.
OTHER CRAFTY CLASSES
Make a Book: Bookbinding Basics
In this workshop, we’ll make our very own book for journaling or sketching! Using simple bookbinding techniques and supplies we probably have at home, we’ll spend a bit of time making our covers, then folding our pages to create signatures (groups of pages found within a book), and finally, using the coptic stitch technique to bind our books.
Make Cute Fabric Stamps
This is a super fun little workshop getting you started on making the cutest little embellishments you ever did see! Fussy cut your fave fabrics and create stamps that you can iron or sew onto bags, garments, cards, and more!
Bargello for Beginners / Bargello Bangles
This class is an intro to the Bargello stitching technique, using plastic canvas and yarn to make colorful bangles.
The class will overview what bargello is, and how the technique works. During class, attendees will make a bargello bracelet, while learning best practices and techniques to make the crafting process easier.