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October 2023
Basic Embroidery Workshop
This workshop is designed to be a fun and informative introduction to embroidery. Students visit the Museum’s new special exhibition "Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread" to see extraordinary examples of needlework in the Concord Museum’s collection, then they will learn fundamental hand embroidery from an Umbrella Arts Center teaching artist. By the end of the class, students will have a lovely embroidery sampler that can be used as a keepsake or as a gift. In partnership with the Umbrella…
Find out more »Strengthen your Parenting Skills: Routine, consistency and effective boundaries/limits
Looking to strengthen your skills around implementing effective routines, consistency, and boundaries/limits from an age-appropriate/developmental perspective? Join us! Allison will provide various question prompts/topics to be discussed (i.e. tips, techniques, and education) and parents are encouraged to share resources and skills. For those families with babies (pre-walkers), your baby is welcome to join parents with you. For children ages 12 mo-3 years, we will have a coinciding playgroup. (Exceptions can be made on a case by case basis if appropriate…
Find out more »December 2023
Sustainable Makes: Visible Mending
Learn how you can use embroidery, patching, and darning techniques to turn your damaged clothes and textiles into unique works of art in this hands-on workshop with local artist Catherine Karp! Free registration required. Recommended for ages 12-112. Participants will learn about materials and methods for mending that will repair and give a creative and unique look to damaged or well-loved items. Patching with running or cleanly whip stitched edges will be demonstrated. Reinforcing from above and below will also…
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