Sandwich Home Industries
2016 Craft Workshops for Adults and Teens
SHI-01 Five-Day Summer Weaving Intensive –
5 Warps in 5 Days
June 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 9:30 - 4:30
Sara Goodman
Tuition: $475.00 / Materials: $10.00+
A weaving class for all ability levels. Students will be instructed on the following:
basic warping of the loom, elements of pattern, color, and design, reading pattern
drafts, basic weave structures, finishing hand woven cloth: fringe, hemming,
washing, and pressing. Students will leave with a finished hand woven product.
Open studio time included in this fee.
SHI-02 Making Stamped Jewelry
July 7 10:00 - 12:00
Ann Mandancini
Tuition: $45.00 Materials: TBD
Make a beautiful stamped bracelet. Hand stamp your own bracelet with a favorite
name, phrase or inspirational words of wisdom! It’s a fun workshop and
participants will leave with a special piece of jewelry with a very personal meaning!
SHI-03 Nuno Felted Scarf
July 9 10:00 - 3:00
Nancy Evans
Tuition: $95.00
Learn the basics of Nuno Felting as you create a beautiful piece of wearable art.
Participants will combine beautiful silk chiffon with soft Merino wool roving using
wet felting techniques to form a new soft, durable, luscious fabric. You will leave
class with a textured colorful one of a kind scarf.
SHI-04 Chair Caning For Beginners
July 14, 21, 28, Aug 4, 18 9:30 - 11:30
John Worthington
Tuition: $65.00 / Materials: $30.00
Learn all eight steps in the chair caning process using natural cane. Bring your chair
and take home a newly woven seat that you will be proud of.
SHI-05 Traditional Basket-Making
July 15 9:00 - 5:00
Ray Lagasse
Tuition: $110.00 / Materials included
Make a basket using traditional methods. Choose from four styles: Double-Pie
basket, Pack basket, Woolgathering basket or Laundry basket all with wood or
leather handles. Use of tools included in workshop fee.
SHI-06 Embellished Chevron Bracelet
July 16 10:00 - 1:00
Deb Fairchild
Tuition: $60.00 / Materials:$15.00
Use seed beads and fire polished beads to create a supple and beautiful base for
this lovely bracelet. Then embellish it according to your whim to make it your own!
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SHI-07 We Are Painting Loons!
July 18 9:30 - 12:30
Maureen Bieniarz-Pond
Tuition: $60.00 / Materials Included
You will be painting a 16” X 20” acrylic painting on canvas. It will be finished in just
3 hours! Leave with a finished piece of art! No painting or drawing experience
necessary! You will be amazed at what you can do. If you want to match your color
scheme and already have paint, bring your paints along.
SHI-08 We Are Painting a Sunflower!
July 18 1:30 - 4:30
Maureen Bieniarz-Pond
Tuition: $60.00 / Materials Included
Another chance to complete a finished work of art - a 16” x 20” acrylic painting on
canvas in just 3 hours! No painting or drawing experience necessary! You will be
amazed at what you can do. We will be painting the sunflower together. Bring a
friend and enjoy!
SHI-09 Watercolor Landscape Painting
July 19 10:00 - 4:00
Robert O’Brien
Tuition: $95.00 / Materials and Supply List Provided
This workshop will cover various techniques used when painting in the watercolor
medium. They include: glazing techniques, use of color, value study, composition,
light and shadow and drybrush technique. The focus of study will be landscape.
(Students will need to bring their own materials and supplies. Recommended list is
available on our website.)
SHI-10 Painting Water With Watercolor
July 20 10:00 - 4:00
Kathy Hanson
Tuition: $95.00
Whether a tranquil pond or a lake on a breezy day, water can play a dominant role
in a painting. Students will explore techniques specific to painting water creating
calm reflections, ripples, sparkle and surface patterns.
(Tuition includes watercolor paper only. Students will need to bring their own
paints and supplies. Recommended list is available on our website.)
SHI-11 Kiln Fired Glass Pendants
Aug 1 10:00 -12:00 & Aug 3, 10:00-1:00
Lynn Haust
Tuition: $95.00 / Materials: $30.00
Melting glass, also known as the ancient art of kiln forming, is fun and addictive!
This fast paced class will give you a chance to explore kiln-fired glass and many of
the techniques that make melting glass so exciting. Create several kiln-fired
pendants, working with both clear and black dichroic glass. In the first class, we
will be cutting the dichroic glass to create color and design. In the second class you
will cut and shape the glass into pendants. Students will leave class with a beautiful
finished pendant.
SHI-12 Fiber Rush Chair Weaving for Beginners
Aug 2, 9, 16, 23 10:00 - 12:00
John Worthington
Tuition: $65.00 / Materials: $30.00
Learn all steps in the rush weaving process using natural rush. Bring your chair and
take home a newly woven seat that you will be proud of.
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SHI-13 Felted Cows
August 13 2:00 - 4:00
Diane Johnson
Tuition $25.00 (includes materials)
Start your own herd of soft sculpture cows and learn the art of needle-felting. Your
choice of breed and colors - make them as natural-looking or as whimsical as you
wish.
SHI-14 Let’s Explore Color in Pastel
August 17 10:00 - 3:00
Elizabeth Craumer
Tuition $75.00
This workshop will concentrate on using color, and becoming more confident with
your color selection, while concentrating on breaking down some of the color
mysteries and doing color exercises. Instructor will demonstrate techniques and
assist students at their easels. The day will end with a critique, along with some
framing tips. Students will leave with new insights of various pastel techniques to
improve their work.
(Students will need to bring their own materials and supplies. Recommended list is
available on our website)
SHI-15 Make Your Own Wire Chain
August 20 10:00 - 5:00
Joy Raskin
Tuition $95.00 (includes materials)
Chains such as Egyptian spiral chain, Viking (knitted) chain, wire-wrapped links with
beads chains, basic link chains will be covered. Using 14g. to 26g. round wire, we
will wrap, bend, knit, hammer, spiral our way to make your own chain samples, and
a chain to be worn.
SHI-16 Indigo and Shibori
Sara Goodman
NEW DATE September 25 10:00 - 5:00
Tuition $95.00 (includes materials)
A one day class in the ancient art of Japanese resist and natural indigo dyeing.
Japanese shibori is an ancient technique for creating patterns on cloth. The focus
will be using various ways of reserving portions of cloth with folds, pleats, pulled
stitches, and wrapped string. In this class we will learn the three essential methods:
mokume (stitching), arashi (pole wrapping) and itajime (fold and clamp). An indigo
vat will be available for dyeing once the cloth is prepared. Students may also bring
their own fiber, yarn or cloth for dyeing in the vat.
SHI-17 Indigo, Shibori & Clay Resist Dyeing
NEW CLASS September 24 - 25 10:00 - 5:00
Sara Goodman
Tuition $190.00 (includes materials)
An expanded version of SHI-16; this two day workshop is for those students who
wish to learn the art of clay resist dyeing. Use clay to create your own fabric
designs. In clay resist dyeing the areas covered with clay remain undyed, creating
your own unique patterned fabric. On Saturday you will create your own designs
that need to dry overnight before the actual dying the next day. On Sunday you
will dye your clay resist fabric and also learn the Shibori techniques described in
SHI-16.
These 2 class will be held at the artist’s studio in Center Harbor, NH.
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