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Stecoah Valley Center offers life-long learning opportunities
and services to meet a variety of community needs, including
an after school program, and classes in the culinary arts as well as traditional crafts classes and business workshops. |
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Stecoah Valley Cultural
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 The Center offers a variety of adult classes from culinary retreats to arts and crafts classes, as well as learning opportunities in how to market and run your craft-based business. Click on a tab below to find the right class for you. And check back often, or give us a call to find out what classes are planned for the future. The Center offers a variety of adult craft classes. You could learn jewelry making, soapmaking, gourd crafting, knitting, quilting, beginning watercolor and more. The Textile Studio offers business and technical assistance to develop textile entrepreneurs in the community. The Studio offers classes to help you develop artistic techniques in sewing, quilting, weaving, knitting, crochet and more. Prices and hours vary; please note details before you register. Pre-registration is required. Register online (see below) sign up in the Gallery or call to register. Payment upon registration is preferred. Scroll down and click on any headline to view other classes.
Have you wanted to learn how to piece a quilt but didn't have someone to teach you? In this class Patti Simpson will teach the basics of piecing a quilt top using a sewing machine, including how to properly use a rotary cutter to cut your fabric. You will make the top for a small quilt (34" x 40") using the Rail Fence Block, suitable for a baby gift, lap quilt, or wall hanging, depending on your choice of fabric. Students should be comfortable using a sewing machine. Don't have a portable sewing machine to bring to class? Don't let that stop you. Stecoah Textile Studio has two machines available for students. To complete the quilt you may take additional classes in basic machine quilting and binding, or pay a professional quilter to quilt your masterpiece.
Instructor Rob Withrow will bring mugs pre-prepared for you to add your own face design – a self portrait; a caricature; your favorite animal; something whimsical – the choice is yours to create. After class, Rob will take your creation back to his studio, add a handle, glaze and fire it. He will then bring the finished mugs back to Stecoah for you to pick up (usually takes a week). If you can't pick up your finished mug, we will mail it to you. Participants will need to wear clothes they don't mind getting messy and/or bring an apron.
Make a beautiful pansy wall hanging using machine piecing and quilting techniques. You will create the picture, then layer, quilt and bind. Some beginning quilting/sewing experience needed. Don’t have a sewing machine to bring to class? The Textile Studio has several available for you to use. Just let us know if you need to use one of our machines when you register. A supplies & materials list will be provided when you register.
Learn the basics for planning and laying out a design for a small landscape quilt, considerations for selection of fabrics, and constructing the quilt using Karen Tunnell's unique quilt-as-you-go method. Don't have a portable Karen Reese Tunnell is a contemporary quilt artist who has exhibited her work in art centers in the United States and England and has taught at many museums, art centers, and schools. The Center offers a variety of culinary workshops throughout the year. With these hands-on workshops, you will not only learn how to create a dish, but also take home what you make. Classes might include making sweets like pie or strudel or chocolate truffles, or mastering the art of creating sushi, or an elegant assortment of appetizers. Prices and hours vary; please note details before you register. Pre-registration is required. Register online (see below) sign up in the Gallery or call to register. Payment upon registration is preferred. Scroll down and click on any headline to view other classes.
Do you love strudel? Have you ever wondered how the dough is rolled out to such thinness that you could read a newspaper through it? Kim Hendrickson will show you! Watch her demonstrate the strudel technique and then participate in preparing one yourself. Participants will need to bring an apron and paring knife to class.
Master making delicious pie crust and make a pie to take home to cool (and eat). First a demonstration of making pie crust and a detailed conversation about why technique matters when making a great crust. While the demo pie is being baked, individually everyone will be making either a pumpkin, nut, blueberry walnut crumb, or apple pie for themselves. All recipes will be distributed. Participants will need to bring an apron and container to take home a hot pie.
Class will begin immediately making a variety of chocolate ganache. While that is cooling a demonstration of how to temper chocolate will be offered, then instruction how to mold the ganache. The balance of the time will be spent molding the shapes and coating them with chocolate for you to take your Easter chocolates home! |
Saturdays, Feb. 11, 18, 25
Saturday, February 11
Saturday, March 3
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
sewing machine to bring to class? Let us know & you can reserve one of the Textile Studio's machines.
Friday, March 16
Friday, March 16
Saturday March 17The Stecoah Valley Center is classified as an IRC Sec. 501(c)(3) Not-For Profit corporation and all gifts are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Click here for information on how you can contribute to the preservation of the Stecoah Valley Center.
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