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Seamrippers Craft Collective Our Calendar To find out more information about particular events, just click the date on the calendar, or use this handy little reference list. How to Register Workshops
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How to Register Call 604-689-SEAM or email seamrippers@gmail.com Please register at least 48 hours before the scheduled workshop time. Donations and material fees will be collected on the workshop day. Our suggested donation is $30. All proceeds go towards Seamrippers reopening our community craft resource centre and gallery. However, our priority is to pass on the crafty skills, so please pay what you can and do not be discouraged by the suggested donation. No one will be turned away.Craft Socials Alternating weeks starting in March we will be hosting hand craft social evenings at Rhizome Café and the Brickhouse. Whether you are a novice or a pro, grab your hand craft project and come and join us for a beer or cup of tea. I Heart Crafts Bazaar April 15th at the Ukranian Cultural Centre, 11-6pm Workshops Lino Block Printing Introduction to Relief Printing with Tania Willard Material Fee $5 Beginners Knitting With Kirsten Pudas Wed March 7th, 6-9 at Spartacus Books Knitting is fun, relaxing and useful. Learn the basics of knitting now so that you can spend the spring and summer honing your skills and stockpiling your goods for the next cold season. This workshop will serve you tea and cookies, and teach you some knitting basics, like casting on, knitting, purling and binding off. Plus you'll get to walk away with a pair of your very own needles and a ball of yarn! Material fee: $5 (If you don't have your own set of 3-6mm straight needles and a ball of "practice" yarn) Hand Felted Flower Pin With Tanis Laird Sat March 10th 3-6 & Sat April 7th 3-6 at the Purple Thistle In this workshop you will learn the two techniques in making Handmade Felt. Starting with wool roving, we will start with the wet felting process to make different shapes and textures, and finish the project using the Needle Felting process. Lots of information about wools, resources and other alternative fibers will be shown. Material Fee $10 Embroidery With Charlotte Hewson Thurs, March 13th 6-9pm at Spartacus Books Embroidery is fun! You will be amazed at how easy it can be to create beautiful stitched designs. The workshop will cover several basic stitches and explain techniques for creating you own designs. Material fee $5 Living and Cultured and Foods With Chrissy Poulos Sunday March 18th, call for location info Come learn to make foods with living microorganisms that make them the healthiest foods in the world. The workshop will cover the basics making yogurt, sauerkraut and sprouts. There will be lots of hands on prep work as well as plenty of snacking, hurray! Material fee $5 Hand-Sewn Hardcover Books With Kirsten Pudas Sat. April 21st 3-6, call for location info No more will you need to buy expensive journals and sketchbooks! With a little dental floss, scavenged paper and some cardboard, you will have a great hardcover book made exactly the way you want. Learn how to stitch signatures, make a cover, and put the whole thing together. Material fee $5. Hand Made Dolls With Aja Bond and Charlotte Hewson #1 - Sat. March 24th 3-6 pm at the Purple Thistle #2 – Sat April 28th 3-6 pm, call for location info There are a few special people out there who are attracted to the process of making soft little beings. Come out come out where ever you are! Fabric scraps notions and stuffing supplied but feel free to bring some sentimental bits to inspire your doll. Workshop #1 –Human Dolls Will cover the basics of making a simple "gingerbread style" human doll, including attaching hair, creating a face, and dressing 'em up. Workshop #2 – Animals Explore the more complex shapes of animal like creatures. Patterns and examples will be provided. Material fee, $5 Knitting Mittens With Kirsten Pudas Thurs. March 29th 6-9 at Spartacus Books There are few things in life as satisfying as slipping on a pair of mittens made by you. Knitters, don't fear the mitten! This workshop will teach you to knit in the round, how to do a MK1 increase a k2tog decrease, how to do a thumb, and will look at both the traditional and fingerless variety of mitten. This is a workshop for those that know their knitting basics, and that like tea and fresh bread. Unfinished project coaching will move to Seamrippers Craft nights if needed. There is no material fee, this means that everyone will need to bring a set of 3 - 5mm double pointed needles and some worsted-weight yarn (for the warmest mittens, use animal fibers, not acrylic). Beginners Crochet With Kirsten Pudas Tues. April 10th 6-9pm at Spartacus Books There's something a little wild and impulsive about crochet. Learn the basics and you can turn yarn into pretty much anything. This workshop also loves tea, but prefers cupcakes, and will teach you a basic chain, the single, double and triple crochet plus how to crochet a rectangle, a circle and maybe even a granny square. And, of course, you'll get a hook and some yarn to call your own. Material Fee $5 (If you don't have your own 3-6mm crochet hook and a ball of "practice" yarn |