Your Secret Admiral

You’re invited! For this month’s free Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop, we’re exploring a technique to dye for! Come on by and learn all about rust dye, a natural dye technique that uses metal + moisture + time to transform fabrics with rusty hues.

Bring along natural fabrics to dye, such as a hanky, fabric scraps, or a garment. White, cream, or light colored material will work best. Got some miscellaneous hardware lying around (nails, screws, steel wool, etc - does not need to be rusty yet), feel free to bring that along too.

When: Saturday, April 6 from 12-2 p.m.
Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
RSVP, please.

Hello, Brooklyn kids (and their loving parents)! This weekend is the fourth annual Inventgenuity Festival. Try saying that five times fast, and make it your business to be there. This free two-day event is all about empowering kids to make things and make things happen, and the roster of workshops and projects is brimming with possibility around this year’s theme: Digital By Hand.

Last year I had a ton of fun leading workshops in Brooklyn and Boston on making pouches from recycled bike tubes. This year I’ll be there running workshops on making embroidered emoticon badges, and I hope to see your :) faces!

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You’re invited! In celebration of Greenpoint Hand Skills’ 1st anniversary (the paper anniversary!), we invite you to join us for an afternoon of bookbinding. I will be leading a bookbinding and book folding lesson. Expect to go home with your own hand stitched calendar or notebook and a folded week planner. We’ll go over the basics of bookbinding, and explore variations on the pamphlet stitch and an instant book.(It’s free!)

When: Saturday, January 5 from 12-2 p.m.
Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
RSVP, please.

P.S. Can’t make it to the workshop? You can always purchase a calendar or a weekly mini planner from my shop!

You’re invited! Cure your cabin fever with me at this month’s Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop on Saturday. We’ll be knittin’ up a storm. Total beginners and seasoned knitters welcome. (It’s free!)

When: Saturday, November 3 from 12-2 p.m.
Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
RSVP, please.

Hello, friends! I am teaching two fun and budget-friendly classes in Brooklyn, NY within the next week, and you’re invited.

Sew a Merit Badge

When: Saturday, Sept 22, 12-2 p.m.

Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Join us for an afternoon of making Girl Scout-inspired merit badges at this month’s Greenpoint Hand Skills meeting at the Greenpoint Library. Free admission includes supplies, CUP coffee, and Peter Pan doughnuts! Sign up here.

Bike Tube Projects: The Silver Lining of Flat Tires

When: Monday, September 24, 8:30-10pm Where: Brooklyn Brainery, 515 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

What: We’ll start with humble, unwanted bike inner tubes and end the evening with fully customized and useful accessories. Along the way you’ll learn tips for working with this material, ideas for embellishing, and plant seeds for future creative reuse projects. Ride on! ($14) Sign up here.

I hope you’ll join me!

Listen up parents & kids! This weekend is the Inventgenuity Festival at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, NY. It will explore the theme DIS/ASSEMBLY with two days of hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers, unmakers and re-makers of sound, electricity, food and objects of all kinds.

I’ll be there both days leading workshops on how to make handy pouches from busted bike tubes. This is going to be a grand ol’ mad scientist beehive of activity not to be missed. But, don’t take it from me, take it from the New York Times article all about Inventgentuity!

Interested? Resister here, and come say hi this weekend.

I’m helping start this new craft group in Greenpoint. All are invited! This month’s theme is Snowy Day Skills. The first workshop is on Saturday, and we’ll be crocheting and sewing coffee cup cozies.

Where: Greenpoint Public Library, 107 Norman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

When: Sunday, January 7 & 28 from 12-2 p.m.

RSVP here.

Supplies will be provided, though bring a crochet hook & yarn if you have one!

A Room of My Own (3 Days Per Week)

I’ve just embarked on a studio adventure. I’m sharing a space in Greenpoint with a writer. She uses the space four days a week, and the other three are all mine. We have the space through December for certain. After that we can decide what to do next.

The building used to be a maritime rope factory and diamond factory. This morning I got up early for my first day in the studio. I love that I can see the Williamsburg Bridge from the window, Manhattan across the water, and the East River Ferry zooming by outside the window! I’m excited to spend time in the space focusing on having fun, being playful, and making new artwork. Stay tuned!

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