Arts & Crafts

Use hand and power tools to build a small box of a design you choose with your choice of materials. The class will run three consecutive nights for two hours each night, for a total of six hours of instruction.   

At the end of the class students will have a project they can take home to finish as they wish.  There is a $25 materials fee to be paid to the instructor the first night of class.  All tools and safety equipment will be provided. 

Instructor Rick Gallion has been a professional woodworker for over thirty years and has taught many students the craft of woodworking. His shop is designed as a teaching facility. 

In this two evening class each participant will make one or more cozy soft small mammals or birds of their choice out of wool and use the needle felting method to create the features of their new friends.

A $10 material fee (included in the cost) covers all wool and armature materials, plus one felting needle. You may create a treasured gift or something to keep for yourself. No experience required! Bring your glasses if you wear them for close vision. Young people aged 12 and up may attend with an adult. Class size is limited to six.

Debra Arter holds a MA in Fine Art and has been teaching adults various art processes for many years. She has worked on her needle felting projects even while on an airplane!

This course will teach how to begin a color plan for your rug. It will cover: how to use a color wheel, the importance of values and intensity; and various color theories such as monochromatic, analogous complementary, split complementary and triadic. Bring an idea for a rug or a rug pattern. 

Janet Williams is a McGown certified Rug Hooking Instructor. She has published in Rug Hooking Magazine, ATHA Magazine, and McGown Newsletter. Her rugs have been featured in “The Secrets of Finishing Hooked Rugs” by Margaret Siano and “Hooked Rug Designs for Baby and Beyond” by Norma Batastini. 

This course will cover some of the most common color mistakes made in hooked rugs: too much or too little contrast; warm versus cool; too many colors; and not following the rule: Light bright, dark, dull and poison. Please bring rugs that you are having difficulty with or know something is wrong with the plan.

Janet Williams is a McGown certified Rug Hooking Instructor. She has published in Rug Hooking Magazine, ATHA Magazine, and McGown Newsletter. Her rugs have been featured in “The Secrets of Finishing Hooked Rugs” by Margaret Siano and “Hooked Rug Designs for Baby and Beyond” by Norma Batastini.

Participants will make a batch of hot press goat milk soap using a variety of molds and having many scents and extra add-ins to choose from. Each person will come out of the class with 4-8 soaps, depending on choice of mold, as well as the recipe and know-how of how to make future batches at home.

Each student will need to bring a dedicated crock pot and submersion blender/hand mixer to class that night. All molds, scents and soap materials will be provided by instructor. Soaps will be ready for pick up the following week, due to curing time.

Heather Emerson is a co-owner of Emerson Homestead in Waldoboro, and has a menagerie of goats and poultry. Emerson Homestead makes and sells handcrafted soaps, lotions, scrubs and soy candles, as well as a number of home decorative items.