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Flour Sack Embroidery – November 11, 2023

Nov 11, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine St. Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

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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…

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Hardanger Embroidery: Make a Bookmark – October 7 & 14, 2023

Oct 07, 2023 10:00AM—4:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine St. Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

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  Hardanger embroidery is named for the Hardanger region of Norway where this style of embellishing clothing and home goods flourished. Students will create an embroidered bookmark incorporating several traditional stitches and the distinctive cutwork that makes Hardanger embroidery so beautiful. Stitches will include: kloster blocks, woven bars, wrapped bars, tailored buttonhole, divided branch, buttonhole…

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Intro to Floral Embroidery (In-Person) July 22 and 30, 2023

Jul 22, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine St. Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

Learn the art of embroidery and creating something by hand. In this class, students will learn to embroider six different stitches from the most basic to a little more challenging. Using only these six stitches, students will learn variations and how to combine stitches to create a colorful floral design. This class will focus on…

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Intro to Hardanger Embroidery (In-Person) June 3 and 10, 2023

Jun 03, 2023 10:00AM—4:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine St. Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

Hardanger embroidery is named for the Hardanger region of Norway, where this style of embellishing clothing and home goods flourished. Students will create an embroidery design incorporating several traditional stitches and the distinctive cutwork that makes Hardanger embroidery so beautiful. Stitches will include: kloster blocks, dove’s eyes, corner dove’s eyes, cable stitch, Algerian eyelents, woven…

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Beginning Primitive Rug Hooking, (In-Person) May 6, 2023

May 06, 2023 9:00AM—3:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine St. Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

Students will learn rug hooking with wool fabric strips on a linen backing to create a beautiful landscape design. Topics covered will include: hooking straight and curved lines; using hard and soft edges; and understanding atmospheric perspective. At the end of the day, students will leave with a hooked 4-by-6-inch landscape ready to be framed,…

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Past | Archive

Tuesday Knit Night – October 3, 2023

Oct 03, 2023 6:30PM—8:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine Street Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

(Waitlist) Herbal Remedies: A Foraging Walk (Intergenerational) September 30, 2023

Sep 30, 2023 11:00AM—1:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine Street Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047

Beginning Beaded Kumihimo Bracelet (Intergenerational) – September 30, 2023

Sep 30, 2023 11:00AM—3:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine Street Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

(Waitlist) Knife Skills are Life Skills with Fred Livesay (Intergenerational) – September 30 and October 1, 2023

Sep 30, 2023 9:00AM—5:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine Street Marine on St Croix, MN 55047

Learn to Knit: The Great Pumpkin, September 30, 2023

Sep 30, 2023 9:30AM—12:30PM

Marine Mills Folk School 550 Pine Street Marine on St. Croix, MN 55115

Introduction to Inkle Weaving, September 30, 2023

Sep 30, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM

Marine Mills Folk School Marine on St Croix, MN 55047