Start your holiday season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by Kirsten Skoglund and Ann Machmeier. Offered over three weekends, choose the time that works for you to create holiday memories and a beautiful wreath…

Start your holiday season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by Kirsten Skoglund and Ann Machmeier. Offered over three weekends, choose the time that works for you to create holiday memories and a beautiful wreath…

Learn to needle felt a realistic three-dimensional bird from Corriedale wool roving and apply lifelike characteristics using merino wool prefelt, merino wool roving, and wool hard felt. Learn finishing details for glass bead eyes, mounting, and hanging. Students can finish a cardinal that stands on its own, or mounts on a branch and hangs as…

Start your gift-giving season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery, then take home both the knowledge to make more wreaths plus other handmade gifts from our Holiday Makers’ Market! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by one of our most popular…

Start your holiday season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by Kirsten Skoglund and Ann Machmeier. Offered over three weekends, choose the time that works for you to create holiday memories and a beautiful wreath…

Learn the art of stained glass design and building with John Hanson, owner of Longfellow Soap Company, who has been designing, making, repairing, and restoring antique stained glass windows for 23 years. All tools and materials will be provided and each student will take home a small window.  You will learn how to make, cut, and…

Start your holiday season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by Kirsten Skoglund and Ann Machmeier. Offered over three weekends, choose the time that works for you to create holiday memories and a beautiful wreath…

Start your holiday season off right! Handcraft a beautiful holiday wreath with fresh greenery! Invite your friends and family to join you for a fun, informative, and festive class guided by Kirsten Skoglund and Ann Machmeier. Offered over three weekends, choose the time that works for you to create holiday memories and a beautiful wreath…

Guess what?  We have Deb and Pete Oswald hosting a monthly Sock Machine Crank-in gathering at Marine Mills Folk School  Beginning on Saturday, Oct 5th and every first Saturday of the month going forward,  MMFS invites all you “Crankers” to the Folk School beginning at 9:30 to 3:30.  This will be a time for gathering…

Norwegian Skinnfell entails hand-stitching and wood block printing on tanned sheepskins. Traditionally used for an entire family’s warm bedding on cold winter nights, skinnfell traps were created from muiltiple hides that were carefully stitched together and then decorated with motifs meant to convey good wishes to the receiver. In this introductory class, we will turn…

Learn basic rib basket-making techniques and take home your first Ribbed Egg Basket!  Join Kirsten, a student-favorite experienced instructor who will have you laughing and learning, she’ll help you ease into basket weaving with no stress, you’ll be amazed at how fast the time goes. You will learn basic rib basket-making techniques. Thoughts on this…

Join experienced embroidery instructor Alycen Brothen for a day of traditional embroidery on flour sack towels.  This class will cover: selection of flour sack towels for embroidery, prepping towels for embroidery, transferring designs, and stitching.  Your instructor will provide the following materials: flour sack towels needle selection of embroidery threads design Students are asked to bring: embroidery hoop (3.5-5 inches in diameter)…

What is a Shirred Rug you ask?  Shirred rugs appear around 1870, but few examples survive since most relied on sewing thread to hold the rugs together. By the 1890s, elaborate examples of shirred rugs were made and specialized tools began to be marketed, but most rugs continued to be made with needle and thread…

Create a woven scarf on a rigid heddle loom! In this two-session workshop, learn to warp a loom, wind a shuttle, hem stitch, weave and discuss troubleshooting, on the first day. During the second session learn several fringe options and how to wet finish. Discuss how to plan for future projects on the loom including…

Join potter Kim Burnham of Imokim Pottery to try out decorating a ceramic mug with carved and decorated details.  Students will have the opportunity to sketch out their own designs or use a provided template. Kim will throw a selection of mugs before class and then share tips and tricks for adding simple images to…

Watercolor Batik has become one of our most popular classes at Marine Mills Folk School.  Kim Gordon is a fantastic instructor who guides you expertly through this process.  You will not be disappointed! Try your hand at watercolor batik, a modern twist on the ancient Javanese art of batik. You will work with an image…

Learn the art of stained glass design and building with John Hanson, owner of Longfellow Soap Company, who has been designing, making, repairing, and restoring antique stained glass windows for 23 years. All tools and materials will be provided and each student will take home a small window.  You will learn how to make, cut, and…

Botanical printing is a form of bundle dyeing where textiles are tightly bundled with plants and steamed; releasing naturally occurring tannins, pigments, and acids to create one-of-a-kind prints. In this introductory class, students will learn how different mordants influence the colors produced, as well as two techniques for creating crisp prints from local foliage. Students…

Guess what?  We have Deb and Pete Oswald hosting a monthly Sock Machine Crank-in gathering at Marine Mills Folk School  Beginning on Saturday, October 5th and every first Saturday of the month going forward,  MMFS invites all you “Crankers” to the Folk School beginning at 9:30 and running until 3:30.  This will be a time…

Amaze your friends by making this easy but looks difficult Steel Rose! This class will introduce you to TIG welding and hand tool use for metal work. TIG welding uses an inert gas (argon) and bonds metal to metal without a wire feed, rods or sticks. You must have some hand strength to use the cutting…

Join instructor Katherine Buenger and learn how to make an elegant bracelet. These bracelets are based on the designs of the Sami people, who are the native people from the far northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The bracelets are constructed with traditional materials including reindeer leather, tin thread (4% silver), and reindeer…

Carve one of the first tools we come into contact with as a child: the ancient and glorious wooden spoon! This is a great class for anyone interested in diving right into the world of spoon carving and the rich tradition of green woodworking. The focus of this class is to develop the student’s confidence in…