Class Description

Learn how to make a small footer sized quilt using just fabric scraps. This project is perfect for those unloved cotton prints from the 90s, old t-shirts and only requires a little “good” fabric for the outside. This is a perfect project for someone wanting to get into quilting, and/or needs to use up scraps from other projects!

Bring your own fabric or shop our “store” for fabric to use for the project. While this is a beginner friendly class, basic sewing machine skills (such as being able to thread, sewing a straight (ish) and curved line is required. Ages 7+

Registration:

Please register at least 24 hours in advance.

There is a $5 non-refundable registration fee, the remainder of the class price is collected the day of the class.

Class cost: $50

Class length: Two Sessions, March 18th and March 25th 6:00-7:30

Spots: 6

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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.