Do you wish you could sit down with some paints and create a beautiful scene, but find that you are uncertain of how to begin? If you want to learn how to set fear aside and experience the joy of putting paint onto canvas in a loose approach, creating a fresher and more intuitive painting,…

Learn basic crochet techniques while making these adorable crocheted ornaments! Once you finish your ornaments, you will want to make more and more. They make great holiday gifts, too. Instructor Cara Corey will show you how to form rounds, increase and decrease, stuff your ornaments, and embellish them with tiny faces. You will start with mittens…

Cables, bobbles, and traveling stitches have adorned the sweaters of fishermen in the North Sea for centuries. Students will learn these skills while making a tote bag using a pattern they can adjust to their individual skill and comfort level. Options include easier/more difficult cables, using/omitting bobbles, learning traveling stitches in one/both directions. Each student’s…

This class is designed to introduce students to needle felting with a simple, seasonal project. Perfect for beginners. No experience necessary. Felting is older than spinning or weaving and found in many world cultures. Felting wool means to agitate the fibers so that they bond together into a non-woven fabric or a three-dimensional form. Dry…

Students enjoyed Katherine’s sami-inspired bracelet class so much that we decided to bring her back for another class! Using tin thread, a fine wire made of pewter and 4% silver that is wrapped around a fiber core, you will learn to make a 7-strand braided necklace with a silver-plated magnetic clasp. Students should bring:  Small…

***This event requires NO registration! Just come if you can and enjoy. Calling all menders! Do you have a pile of mending you’ve been meaning to get to, but haven’t quite gotten to yet? Get support from other menders at our monthly “Mend with Friends” events on the first Saturday of every month. Share mending…

Rye flour combined with spices makes flavorful holiday breads. Imagine those fresh-baked smells coming from your kitchen during the holidays! You’ll make Bryce’s Swedish Limpa, as well as a honey-sweetened rye spice bread. Join Master Bakers Bryce Johnson and Ross Safford for this hands-on class. You’ll get your hands messy, laugh, and learn a lot.…

***This event requires NO registration! Just come if you can and enjoy. Come as you are and bring a knitting project — whether you’re in the middle of one, or have a project you’ve been meaning to start. If you don’t knit, bring your crochet or embroidery, spinning, or weaving. Find a new friend or…

Build your own bent shaft canoe paddle. Students will learn about wood selection and grains, use of hand tools and skill saw, paddle design and considerations, and paddle sizing.  Each student will leave with a completed bent shaft paddle ready for varnishing. This class will take place over 3 days for a total of 9…

In this class, we will learn the basic skills of leather working while sewing a classic 100% leather tote bag. Learn about cutting leather, preparing it for stitching, saddle-stitching and riveting handles. Leave with a beautiful Market Tote of your very own and the skills to do countless leather working projects for a lifetime! Tote…

Learn how to give old or broken jewelry a second life! In this class you will learn how to make you own jewelry tree, heart, or whatever shape you like. Instructor Judy Sell will provide a felt lined 8”x10” black frame, tools, adhesive and small jewelry to fill the gaps. You provide jewelry you have…

Hanji, Korea’s amazing handmade paper, has provided both usefulness and beauty to Korean culture for well over a thousand years. The paper’s strength makes it ideal for papercutting, as well as calligraphy, painting, and so much more. Join The Hanji Crew, your instructors Libby Pomroy and Kat Wesley, for an afternoon of creative holiday ornament…

***This event requires NO registration! *** An essential skill of bluegrass music is the ability to take part in informal playing situations, also known as a “jam session”. Participants arrange themselves in a circle, choose a song from a common repertoire, sing, accompany each other, and play solos. Often, they do this despite no previous…

This Free Open Carving will meet once a month on the 2nd Saturday of each month!  Mark your calendars!  No need to register, Just join us! Calling all wood carvers! Join us in creating a local community of carvers, to share knowledge, help and friendship with other wood carving artists. Free to anyone who is…

***This event requires NO registration! Just come if you can and enjoy. Come as you are and bring a knitting project — whether you’re in the middle of one, or have a project you’ve been meaning to start. If you don’t knit, bring your crochet or embroidery, spinning, or weaving. Find a new friend or…

Marine Mills Folk School will be closed for the Holidays from December 17, 2022 to January 2, 2023.    We can be contacted by emailing us at info@marinemillsfolkschool.org or call 612-314-6295 and leave a message!

Learn about Tunisian crochet, which is like a cross between crochet and weaving that produces a waffle-like texture. Tunisian crochet is believed to be started by the French in the early 1800s. In this class, students will learn the process of working Tunisian crochet stitches in the round, which can be useful for hats, headbands,…

Come join local herbalist, Heather Mashuga, in a hands-on salve-making class. Want to take that next step and feel comfortable turning all the amazing herbs you have learned about into topical remedies? We will make a couple of different herb-infused oils, turn those oils into salve, and learn how to utilize them. Each participant will…

Come join master cheesemaker Gary Colles for this class making your own feta cheese! Feta (Greek: φέτα, féta) is a brined curd white cheese made in Greece from sheep’s milk or from a mixture of sheep and goat milk. It is a crumbly aged cheese, commonly produced in blocks, and has a slightly grainy texture…

***This event requires NO registration! Just come if you can and enjoy. Calling all menders! Do you have a pile of mending you’ve been meaning to get to, but haven’t quite gotten to yet? Get support from other menders at our monthly “Mend with Friends” events on the first Saturday of every month. Share mending…

Check out this Bean Pot Basket! It has a wire handle and a simple offset twill weave around the basket. Add a bit of dyed reed and you have a great basket. A simple yet functional basket. In this class, you will create a round, twined bottom basket which measures 9” in diameter and 7.5”…

Envision your best year yet! Be intentional and get the most out of your time and energy!  Join local and online master coach, Jen Bertsch, for a mini-vision board workshop.  Jen was last here in-person in 2020, and our students absolutely loved her class – don’t miss this wonderful start to a new year! Explore your…