From 2:00 pm until 4:30 pm
At Brigid's Loft
$95 (includes materials)
Handcraft everlasting fabric specimens of your favorite fall and winter foliage to
decorate your home, adorn a wrapped gift, or ornament your holiday table. Join artist
Robert Mahar in learning clever construction techniques to craft wired, posable sprigs
and branches from a beautiful buffet of linen/cotton textiles, along with felted wool for
berries and nuts. Instruction will equip you to fully customize the color, scale, and
function of your project. Select a fantasy palette or hues truer to nature for a bundle of
doorway mistletoe, a small wreath of holly to encircle a candle or clusters of leaves to
tie around napkins. To guide your creative decisions, we’ll explore a brief history of
botanical recreations and view a slide show of samples for inspiration.
This workshop focuses on the creation of mistletoe, holly, maple, and oak leaves - with
templates provided for each of these - however the process can be applied to almost any
type of foliage.
All materials (a limited selection of high-quality linen/cotton blend fabric, twill
tape, jute twine, floral wire, adhesive, glue brush, wool felt balls, needle and thread)
along with templates are provided and included in the cost of the class. However, if you
have favorite light- to mid-weight fabrics, and ribbon or twill tape that you’d like to utilize,
you are encouraged to bring these items to the workshop. Please bring a
pair of paper scissors and a pair of sharp fabric scissors with you.