Learn how to artfully burn patterns onto wood. On the first night, each participant will get one board or round to draw out/ transfer an image to and start burning the first night.  If you don’t think you are much of a drawer, bring a design to transfer and follow!  On the second night, students will finish burning, then varnish the board and put a hanging on the back.  Students may also make a coaster or bring wooden pieces of their own to decorate (such as a cutting board, scrap wood, picture frame, box or spoon), if time permits.

Instructor:  Beth Cowan

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $101 (includes materials and use of woodburning tools)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  September 25, 2025

This fun and challenging program introduces you to textures and colours of stained glass, glass working tools, and patterns.  You will also learn skills like glass scoring, breaking, grinding, copper foiling, soldering, and finishing.

Instructor:  Anna-Maija LaFlamme

Prerequisites: No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $290 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  October 5, 2025

Scheduling Note:  Class schedule includes November 11 (Remembrance Day).

Learn how to bind your own books using the “traditional” method.

All supplies will be provided. Take home your handmade notebook, journal, recipe book – you decide how you want to use it!

Instructor:  Jacquelyn Burles

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $129 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  October 16, 2025

Remember Grandma’s slippers? Wish you still had a pair of those colorful, hard-wearing, warm and washable footsies?   Using vintage and reproduction patterns with the traditional Phentex yarn, you’ll learn to knit these retro slippers and adorn them with sassy pompoms.  Homework will be required between sessions.

Instructor:  Cynthia Levy

Prerequisites:  Basic knitting skills including casting on, knit and purl stitches, and casting off.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $86 (includes knitting needles and Phentex)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  October 23, 2025

Learn the basic principles of weaving while making a cozy wool scarf! This class provides an introduction to weaving on a rigid heddle loom. The project is a plain (tabby) weave scarf made interesting by a combination of solid and self-striping yarn.

Instructor:  Cynthia Levy

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $145 (includes materials and use of loom)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  November 4, 2025

Spend three consecutive afternoons making a round willow market basket with or without a handle, using willow from the instructor’s seemingly bottomless stash.   The basket will have about a 10 inch diameter base and be about 5 inches tall without the handle and 12 inches in diameter at the top.  The basket will use the stake and strand technique and participants will learn twining, 3-rod wale, French randing, 3-1 rim, and wrapped handle.

NOTE:  Please take into consideration if you have any of these conditions before you register:
1.  An aspirin allergy could be challenging as the willow will be twisted at times and the bark  could crack releasing oils and scents that could flare up an allergy.  Willow is the original source of aspirin.
2.  Arthritic hands could be problematic as hand strength is needed.

Instructor:  Cathie Harper

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $247 (includes materials and use of tools)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 at 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  November 5, 2025

Learn more about the possibilities of rigid heddle weaving while making some pretty and functional placemats or tea towels!  This class builds on the basic skills involved in weaving on a rigid heddle loom.  The project is a pair of placemats or small tea towels featuring a 2-colour houndstooth fabric. 

Skills to be taught include direct warping of a rigid heddle loom with 2 colours, weaving houndstooth in 2 colours, and finishing with tidy hems or hemstitched fringes.

Instructor:  Cynthia Levy

Prerequisites:  Completion of "Introduction to Rigid Heddle Weaving" or equivalent experience approved by the instructor.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $140 (includes materials and use of loom)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  November 7, 2025

Personalize your holiday greetings!  Learn how to carve and block print beautiful holiday cards. Print them over and over again or make custom bookmarks and gift tags.

Each participant will be given one rubber mat and learn how to use linoleum cutters to carve out a design. They will then learn to ink and print onto cardstock cards using various colours of block printing ink.

All supplies will be provided. Take home your handmade block printed cards to give away for the holidays. Your custom printing block is yours to keep.

Instructor:  Beth Cowan

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full or casual membership.

Cost (Full Members):  $60 (includes supplies)
Cost (Casual Members):  $70 (includes supplies)

Registration Opens:  September 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am
Registration Closes:  November 19, 2025