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Class canceled by Sybil on 4/24 via email. Registrants have been notified. Awaiting their choice response.~tt
One of our most popular instructors, Sue Skelly, is back at BARN with a new workshop that is bound to delight participants -- Woven Treasure Necklaces.
Start collecting your personal treasures! Buttons, beads, small keys, single earrings, bones, small rocks with holes, charms -- whatever delights you and you want to include in this keepsake necklace. A concept for a color scheme or theme is a good idea as you prepare for Sue's workshop.
About a month before the workshop, you will have the opportunity for a phone consultation with Sue Skelly to discuss your themes for your necklace. Sue will use your ideas to put together the additional materials to add to your necklace.
Specialized techniques you will learn are weaving eight cords at a time, dropping one cord, adding loops of beads and growing the necklace to a centerpiece and then reducing to an end and making a knotted clasp.
Students should bring: Buttons, beads, small keys, single earrings, bones, small rocks with holes, charms, and other things you treasure and want to include in your necklace. Think about a color scheme in deciding what to bring to class.
Details:
- Please note for this class, cancellation requests received 14 days or less before the workshop start date will not be eligible for a refund or credit.
- There is a materials fee of $80 included in the price of class. Materials provided include beads, notions, threads and chords.
- Skill Level: Universal -- All levels of skill welcome.
- Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.
- For directions, transportation, and lodging information click here. Click here for a printable Getting to BARN document.
- Bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator for people to store their lunches and drinks!
Instructor Bio: Sue works with our native Western Red Cedar and vintage buttons. She even manages to combine the two in some of her pieces.
Cedar is her soul work and let’s her get out in the woods to collaborate and harvest sustainably what the tree generously offers.Her work is a contemporary approach on cedar with garden structures and interior 3D sculptures and wall hangings. She has spent 30 years preparing the roots,branches, bark and even old cedar rails for her work. Much of her work is commissioned.
Old buttons are by far a big part of her life long collecting bug. It was hard for her to part with them when she first began to create pieces to sell. Seeing other people connect to her button necklaces changed that. Each of these are made entirely from a beautiful collection of materials from a by-gone era; mother of pearl, horn, porcelain, bone,and vegetable ivory to name a few. Most are double sided. The really elaborate pieces are a made with a woven threads technique combining all shapes and sizes of buttons and many other objects with holes to create the design.
Her work has been published in many garden books and magazines nationally. She sells her work at her studio in Poulsbo by appointment and during Art in the Woods. Her work is also available at Front Street Gallery in Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island Studio Tour, Indianola Holiday Sale and the RAGS show in Tacoma.
