In this unique mixed media class, you will create a personal story told through layered paper, fabric, and hand stitching, all wrapped around two beautiful one of a kind handmade wooden spools (3" tall). Like thread winding around a bobbin, your memories, symbols, textures, and words will slowly gather to form a visual narrative.
Using a combination of your own designed papers, altered fabrics, lace, and simple stitching techniques, you’ll build a long strip of mixed media that represents moments, emotions, or themes from your life. Dye, scrape, etch, and wax your papers and fabrics to create a vintage look and feel. Use your own photographs to transfer images that help tell your story. Marks, imagery, fragments of text, and symbolic materials become part of the story you tell.
As your piece grows, it will be gently wrapped around the wooden spools—transforming your artwork into a tactile object that can be unwound and revisited, revealing your story layer by layer.
This class is both a creative exploration and a reflective process, inviting you to slow down, work with your hands, and honour the threads that make up your journey.
No advanced sewing experience is needed—just a willingness to explore, layer, stitch, and tell your story through art.
Reflect your personal season of becoming through this open ended creative class, no matter where you are in your creative journey. Come as you are, trust what is unfolding, and allow yourself to slowly and gently bloom.
Materials Fee $20 paid in cash at beginning of class includes:
2 wooden spools
fabrics
lace
papers
doily
thread, needle
embroidery floss
gel medium
brushes
plaster
gesso
sandpaper
beeswax
paint
metal pins
PDF
pens
Supplies Needed to bring for Class:
scissors
two photos of people in your family you would to use in the project. ***Either print them out on your ink jet printer right before you come so they are fresh (no bigger than 2x3” each) or email them to Chris at chriskar@shaw.ca.
an awl or something pointy that will pierce fabric
heat tool
a few rusty objects for dying if you have some
To pre-order supplies, click on this link for Cobblestone Creek Studios.