Community Craft

This week several popular workshops return to the calendar at Community Craft! Swipe to read more details for each.

Our Beginner Sewing Classes will help you learn how to wind a bobbin, thread your machine, set a consistent seam allowance, pin and sew a seam! All materials are included, and you will make a clever little coaster project to take home with you. Bring your own machine or borrow one of ours! With Emily Landry Emily Landry

Snail Mail School with Whitney Wade of Ruby 👩🏼 & Whitney 👩🏻 and Laurel & Marie. A crafty class for paper, lettering, and stationery lovers! Bring a friend and get ready to delight each other with snail mail 🐌

eburkmartin returns with another relaxing and creative stitching workshop this weekend! Morning Mending Lab is an opportunity to learn techniques for patching, repairing and reinforcing your well-worn garments with artistic stitches and embellishment.

Emily Emily Landry is the Knitting Fairy on Saturday morning for Knit Lab! Now just $15 for 2 hours of knitting with hands on support, skill sharing, and help with any fiddly bits. Sit around the coffee table with us and we will do the scary steps together!

Jen Marquez Ginn Morel Fiber Arts will help you take your crochet skills to the next level with this amigurumi class! Let us help you pick out some cotton yarn from our plentiful supply of second hand yarn balls! Less than $5 will give you plenty to work with.

mary perisho and Emily Landry co-lead this whirlwind workshop to sew your very own witch hat! Bring fabric, a quilt, or other upcycled textiles from home, or come a little early to select your fabrics from amongst our stock of modern quilting fabric from Owl & Drum - Sew Very Modern, vintage picks from Briana, or secondhand fabric in store!

Lots of opportunities to craft and learn with us this week at Community Craft!
🪡 Intro to Quilting with mary perisho begins tonight! This six week series will take you through alllll the steps to make your own quilt.
🎞️ Special Reel Crafts screening of Practical Magic 2 at Circle Cinema Wednesday at 7pm!
🫶🏽 Kit making with Take Control Initiative—Birth Control & Emergency Contraception Thursday evening during Third Thursdays on Admiral Blvd with other Kendall Whittier Main Street shops also staying open til 8:30!
⚡️ bolt drop with new fableism supply co fabrics, Saturday 10am-2pm
🧶 Saturday Knit Lab with Emily of Emily Landry 10am-12pm
🪝Beginner Crochet with Jen of Morel Fiber Arts Saturday, 1-3pm
🧵Saturday Studio, 1:30-3:30 with mary perisho and Emily Landry

If you want to make sure you don’t miss any of our classes or events, visit our website to join the list for weekly class and shop announcements!

Every week we have workshops, events and classes to help you learn or practice new craft skills, support your projects, and make new crafty friends! Swipe to see what this week has in store for you. Which class will we see you at?!

First up: the first of TWO Reel Crafts in September! Our monthly series with Circle Cinema features fun throwback movies screened with the lights up so you can craft while we watch! You’ll find a selection of our kits and products in the pop-up shop in the lobby starting at 6:30, with a giveaway and the film screening at 7! Go back to school with us for Grease 2 🏍️

The popular 3-part sock knitting workshop with Emily of Emily Landry begins this Thursday! The class meets 3 times, every other week, so you have time to work on your socks between classes. Learn to knit two socks at the same time on circular needles for perfectly matching socks every time — and no second sock syndrome!

We are thrilled to have Taylor Painter-Wolfe returning to teach Needle Felting this Saturday morning! Have fun with colors and textures as she walks you through this relaxing technique.

New class alert! eburkmartin is holding down the fort in the front window for this handsewing class on making a Log Cabin Coaster.

You can also bring any current knitting project Saturday morning for hands on assistance from Emily during Knit Lab!

It’s the perfect time to start knitting or pick it up again! Join Jen of Morel Fiber Arts to get the hang of casting on and knitting with bright chunky yarn on Saturday afternoon 🧶

Saturday Studio is also on this weekend! Join mary perisho and Emily Landry for help with your sewing projects in a group setting. Work on a skill building project with our guidance, check in on a pattern or project that’s stumping you, or just stitch with company (and help with seam ripping, deciphering steps, etc!)