Bee-utiful Bounty: Bee-utiful Bounty celebrates the blackberry. In this class, we’ll create a not quite miniature book with plump, juicy blackberries and dancing bees that skirt the velvet fruit of summer’s promise. We’ll use contemporary Stumpwork techniques to pad the blackberries and bees to create a beautiful dimensional effect. Then, we’ll create a text block using the web link stitch and sew endbands on the top and bottom of the text block before finishing our embroidered bookcloth into a case bound book.

Floral Threads: Floral Threads is a charming twist on an open spine binding, featuring delicate floral embroidery stitched directly on the spine. Needle lace flowers with wrapped green stems and needle woven leaves wind gracefully down the spine. The covers are made from matboard wrapped in decorative paper.

Field Thistle: Thistle flowers represent strength, courage, and protection. The sharp and prickly foliage reflects its resilience and determination in the face of adversity. Native thistles such as the Field Thistle play an important role in our ecosystems. The seeds of native thistles help sustain songbirds, who line their nests with the fluffy material of the fruits and feed the seeds to their young. The nectar and pollen feed bees and bumble bees. They also help to fuel the Monarch Butterfly migration because they bloom in late-summer and fall, when other native species may not be in flower.

Pacific Treasure Box: Create a beautiful box adorned with a starfish and seaweed to hold your precious treasures. In this class, you will use contemporary Stumpwork techniques on nontraditional embroidery materials.

Summer Garden: Summer Garden is a charming tunnel book that captures the warmth of a cottage nestled in a garden in full bloom. Embroidered sunflowers, tulips, and lavender burst with color, layered within a box structure bringing the garden to life. Embroidered trees frame the box opening, giving it a storybook-like feel.

Sweet Pea Journal: If only we could capture the fragrance of sweet peas! Sweet Pea Journal is a tribute to my sister’s garden filled with beautiful sweet peas. In this class, you will first learn beginner level contemporary Stumpwork padding techniques, dimensional stitches and surface embroidery stitches. You’ll then learn the sewn boards binding technique to turn your stitched book cloth into a sophisticated journal.

Wild Berries of the Pacific Northwest: Berries grow wild in the Pacific Northwest. In late Summer, plump and juicy berries can be found along roadsides, on the river banks and in the forest. In this class, you will learn intermediate Stumpwork embroidery while couching wire, creating padded slips, wrapping beads and wire, and using needle lace techniques to create wild blackberries, huckleberries and strawberries.