Category: DIY/Craft

Thursday, Dec 19, 11:30 am – Stop by the library for a festive gift wrap party. Enjoy coffee and tea, treats, holiday music and company! Bring your gifts to wrap, we’ll provide the paper, ribbon, scissors and tape. Donations of wrapping paper and ribbon also gratefully accepted. Drop...

Friday, Sept 20, 12pm – Learn the art of Shibori – a Japanese shape resist dye technique – using traditional indigo dye. We’ll bind our fabric to make a resistance pattern using wood blocks, rubber bands, and popsicle sticks. Then we’ll head outside to...

Friday, August 30th, 1pm – Learn the basics of knitting in this introductory session. Librarian Sarah Hogan will teach us how to cast on and knit. Participants will leave with a beginner set of knitting needles and a skein of yarn to practice with....

Monday, July 22nd, 3:00pm – Cut! Paste! Create! Let your creativity loose in our collage workshop! Workshop leader Corey Purcell will give a brief overview of collage as an art form and then we’ll have fun cutting and pasting from magazines and maps! Ages...

Sat, June 8, 1pm – Registration full – add your name to the waitlist! Ebru is the traditional Turkish art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper. Known...

Saturday, May 18, 2:00pm – Using Mod Podge and choosing from a broad selection of special papers, including maps, musical scores, children’s books pages, etc., participants will create a Decoupage Tray. Wooden  trays will be provided. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own...

Monday, Jan 7, 2:30pm – Cut! Paste! Create! Let your creativity loose in our collage workshop! Workshop leader Corey Purcell will give a brief overview of collage as an art form and then we’ll have fun cutting and pasting from magazines and maps! Ages 12...