Old Point Comfort Gallery is in Waldoboro, Maine.
TWIG WORKSHOPS
Build a Tuteur: A Twig Pyramid for Your Climbing Plants with Susy Perrine
Simple materials and skills are all that is needed to create this very useful and attractive garden structure. Build this rustic plant support in a few hours to take home and place in your garden. You'll be the envy of your neighbors and have the knowledge to build a whole herd of them!
Students may bring their own branches or purchase them from the instructor. Materials list sent upon registration.
May 19, rain or shine. sat. 10 - 2pm. $60 Maximum 8 students.
Learn to Weave a Twig Garden Structure with Susy Perrine
Using techniques that perform as well today as they did centuries ago, sturdy twigs and saplings form a strong framework for climbing vegetables and flowers. With sides and a roof, this shelter is also a charming spot to read a book or admire your garden while sipping lemonade. We will build a wattle garden structure onsite to learn these simple techniques; you will leave with information and experience to build your own at home. Local green materials will be used in this one-day workshop.
Bring garden clippers for cutting twigs, work gloves, and a lunch. June 16, rain date June 17. sat., 10-3. $75 Maximum 8 students.
Twig Tapestry Loom with Sara Hotchkiss
These charming tapestry loom frames are made of twigs, which become part of the finished product ready to hang on a wall or sit on a table. Learn a tapestry technique called "hills and valleys" to create interesting organic shapes and images.
Looms and materials provided, bring a lunch.
July 18, rain or shine, wed., 10 - 4 pm. $75 Maximum 8 students.
Susy Perrine is an accomplished twig artist and workshop leader thru out New England. Her large twig hut was recently exhibited at the Inspired Hand V show at the Atrium Art Gallery at USM in Lewiston, ME. She is also an accomplished textile artist.
Sara Hotchkiss owns Old Point Comfort Gallery. She mostly weaves area rugs and wall hangings when she is not distracted by her garden projects. Tapestry weaving has been her passion and practice for over 40 years.
LAVENDER WORKSHOP WITH SARA HOTCHKISS
English lavender grows well in Maine if you take the time to understand this lovely plant and give it what it needs to thrive. Contented lavender will reward you with healing aroma, beautiful colorful blooms, very happy bees, a culinary herb, and potpourri to get you thru the winter months. With little extra care, lavender will come back year after year.
Class includes discussion and suggestions for growing lavender, plus hands on instruction for propagating lavender from cuttings; students will leave with 4 potted cuttings.
July 7, 11, and 14 10 - 12 pm. Limit 12 students. $12 includes materials.
WEAVING WORKSHOPS
Portable Tapestry Loom Weaving with Sara Hotchkiss
Learn the traditional techniques of this ancient textile art form on a small, portable loom using wool yarns. Shading, color, joining, diagonals, stripes, slits, textures, finishing will be covered. Students will leave with a sampler and ideas for future projects. June1and2 10-4pm
August15and16 10-4pm
A rentable loom and materials are provided. Bring a lunch. Maximum 8 students. $100, plus a refundable loom rental fee.
Weave a Rug/Color Your Home with Sara Hotchkiss
My goal is for you to feel relaxed and inspired by the craft of weaving, wonderful textiles, my colorful eclectic studio workspace, and the beautiful landscape that surrounds my home and gardens. We'll laugh, share stories, learn, and eat great food in my cozy sunroom or outdoors in the gardens.
Leave all the arduous prep work to me! I will prepare each students' loom including the warping, threading, winding and tying on. You will be coached and guided thru the actual weaving process from beginning of rug to the end and you will go home with a beautiful, durable, custom designed rug to cherish for many years to come. Here's the special part: you will weave this rug in colors of your desire based on color references you provide to me ahead of time.
A demonstration of a tapestry technique is included in this class and students are encouraged to add a section of tapestry to their rug.
All materials and lunches are included in the price. Maximum of 3 students per class. $250.
Dates to be announced, please inquire.
Twig Tapestry Loom with Sara Hotchkiss
These charming tapestry loom frames are made of twigs, which become part of the finished product ready to hang on a wall or sit on a table. Learn a tapestry technique called "hills and valleys" to create interesting organic shapes and images.
Looms and materials provided, bring a lunch.
July 18, rain or shine, wed., 10 - 4 pm. $75 Maximum 8 students.
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Early registration is recommended. Please make checks payable to Old Point Comfort.
Questions? Call or email Sara. sara@sarahotchkiss.com
Old Point Comfort 28 Pitcher Rd. Waldoboro ME 04572 207-832-8133
