Mending - Creative and Practical
with Michelle Fay of Chrysalis Creative
August 3, 7:00
Michelle grew up on a dairy farm in Addison County, where do-it-yourself wasn't just a weekend hobby but a daily way of life. She loves learning new techniques and challenging herself. Her awareness of the toll the garment industry has on people and the planet led her to launch Chrysalis Creative, envisioned as the hub of a regional sewing community that supports more sustainable practice. In addition to operating Chrysalis, she works in public policy and is renovating an old farmhouse in Waterford with her spouse.
Repairing, recycling and mending are old skills enjoying a recent resurgence. Whether it is upcycling out of date clothing or repairing your favorites, making clothes and cloth items last longer is just another way of "going green". Join Michelle for mending help from practical to creative and suggestions on ways you can mend your "old favorites". Bring along your items that need mending.
DON'T FORGET THIS THURSDAY at 7 PM
July 27
Justin Squizzero, The Burroughs Garret
Weaving Before the Revival
The Arts & Crafts revivals of the 20th century transformed the tools and techniques of contemporary American handweaving. Justin's talk looks at the nuts and bolts of how cloth was woven when handweaving existed in the world of trade by tracing a web from start to finish.
Justin Squizzero is a handweaver based in Newbury, Vermont who recreates historic textiles on 18th and 19th-century equipment. Squizzero's textile training began as a child under his grandmother, followed by an apprenticeship to Kate Smith and Norman Kennedy of Marshfield, Vermont. Having previously worked at living history museums including Plimoth Plantation and Coggeshall Farm Museum, Justin returned to weaving full-time in 2013. Through his business The Burroughs Garret, he weaves historic reproductions and figured damask using a 19th-century Jacquard machine on an 18th-century handloom, and teaches British/American handweaving at The Marshfield School of Weaving.
Coming Up
August 8
Ikebana with LJ Stewart
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Class size limited to 12
$15 per person in advance for materials (non-refundable)
Ikebana is the art of specifically arranging cut stems, leaves, and flowers in containers that evolved in China and Japan over seven centuries.
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802-592-3216
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