Fall Classes for Kids and Teens

Here is the promised post on classes for everyone preschool to high school. Note that most of Artistree's adult classes allow enrollment of anyone age 12 or older, and that the definition of "adult" for purposes of Sew-op classes is 14 or older. Other locations would probably be amenable to older teenagers participating in adult classes, but I didn't find any posted policies. See the previous post for those class listings.


Artistree, South Pomfret, VT:

• Knitting and Fiber Art: Level I, for ages 7 and up.
  Two offerings, each five Tuesdays 4:30-5:30: Sept 16-Oct 14 and Oct 28-Dec 2.
  
  
• Knitting and Fiber Arts: Level II, for ages 7 and up.
  Two offerings, each five Tuesdays: Sept 16-Oct 14 4:30-5:30, and Oct 28-Dec 2 3:30-4:15.
  
  
• Sewing, for ages 8 and up.
  Two offerings, each five Thursdays 3:30-5:30: Sep 18-Oct 16 and Oct 30-Dec 4.
  
  
• Tween Fashion Studio, for ages 9 and up.
  Alternating Saturdays, Sep 27-Nov 22 10-noon. May sign up for all five or a la carte.
  
  
• Doodle Stitch: Beginning Embroidery, for ages 9 and up.
  Three Wednesdays 3:30-5, Oct 29-Nov 12.

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH:

• Ancient Myths in Sculpture, Costume, and Paint, for ages 5-8.
  Five Wednesdays 3:30-5:30, Sep 17-Oct 15.
  Member enrollment, non-member enrollment.
  
  
• Gift Making: Placemats, Pet Mats, Bookmarks and Coasters (fabric painting), for all ages.
  Saturday Dec 13, 1-5.

Upper Valley Sew-op, White River Junction, VT:

Some classes are described on the Sew-op webpage; descriptions for the rest should gradually appear on the Co-op's events calendar, under which you'll find a form to sign up for Sew-op classes online.

• Basic Sewing for Kids, Part 1.
  Thursday Oct 9, 1-3.
  
  
• Basic Sewing for Kids, Part 2.
  Thursday Oct 23, 1-3.
  
  
• Doll Clothes.
  Four offerings all 10-noon: Friday Nov 7, Saturday Nov 8, Monday Dec 29, Tuesday Dec 30.
  

In addition, there is an Open Hours expressly for kids, 1-3 on Wednesday Oct 29.

Upcoming Events

There is so much going on this fall that I've separated the classes for kids and teens into their own (forthcoming) post and put the adult classes behind a cut. First some non-class events:

The Sew-op is having a "taking session" on Thursday, September 4, from 2-4 PM. Like our yard sale, it's an effort to downsize our stash in advance of our reopening for the fall. The selection is reduced but so are the prices - unlike the yard sale, everything will be free.

The Tunbridge World's Fair is coming up September 11-14. There are always lovely quilts, knitted and crocheted items, embroidery works, and other eye candy. If you want to participate, you'll have to be perky for pre-registration (Sep 1) but you can register on the spot Sep 10 as long as you have no more than 5 items and show up before 5:00 (pre-registered items may be dropped off until 6:30). Here are the details.

Further down the road, Vermont North By Hand is having their Open Studio Tour October 4-5. Most of the participants do not work with fiber, but there are three weavers and a coatmaker among the nineteen of them. The majority of studios are in Corinth, with the rest in an arc to its east. See the online map or look for a red pamphlet about the event.

Finally, White River Yarn's sixth annual Green Mountain Fiber Festival is November 15-16 at the Wilder Center.

Classes for adults

General notes: if I say, for instance, "5 Saturdays" but give a date range containing six Saturdays, there's a skipped Saturday in there. See the linked description for details. "Alternating" means every other, beginning and ending with the listed dates.

Quilting retreats

Unlike the knitting retreats, quilt retreats seem to take a summer vacation. There is a convention this very weekend, though: the World Quilt Show, New England XII at the Radisson Center, Manchester, NH August 14-17. There will be classes, exhibits, competition, shopping, and an ice cream social. A quilt appraiser will be on site so you can have quilts appraised for insurance purposes (by appointment and with a fee). Registration is $20 plus fees for individual workshops and lectures.

If you speak French, there's a French language quilting retreat in September from Quilting in Vermont, at the Strong House Inn, Vergennes, VT.

The remaining retreats are all in November, but it appears there's a tendency for them to fill very much ahead of time, so it's not too early to think about them.

• Quilting in Vermont also has some no-teacher retreats (the first starting Oct 31) and advanced landscape quilting.
• There is a Quilters' Workshop, at the Colonial House, Weston, VT, on the pattern Attic Window.
• There are two Quilting Retreats at Calumet, in Ossipee, NH, each to learn a particular pattern.
• Pearl Hill Quilts retreats at the Silver Fox Inn, Waterville Valley, NH (in White Mountain National Forest, about 90 minutes from Hanover) has a weekday retreat.
• And finally, Mount Washington B&B Quilting Retreats, in Shelburne, NH, has three retreats (the first starting Oct 31), which are Mystery Quilt, Learn to Quilt, and UFO Finishing.

For future reference, quilting events all across New England are listed at the Rising Star Quilters Guild events page. QuiltersResources.net is a website for quilt shows and events internationally; their New Hampshire page is quite a bit more complete than their Vermont page, but both may be worth a look.