Create & Contemplate

With Katherine Ferrier at Make it Sew

We’re so excited to share that Katherine Ferrier will be teaching a few classes at Make It Sew in November.

She’s teaching three classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 12-14, and will be bringing a trunk show of her creations—textile and of the written word—to share with students and customers.

On Friday, she’ll lead Making, Being, and Being Made: Contemplative Writing for Makers from 5-7 p.m. This workshop is one part making, one part meditation, and one part contemplative/creative writing. Participants should bring a notebook or journal as well as hand work. Sign up here.

On Saturday, we have Following the Thread: Explorations in Improvisational Patchwork from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Using improvisational approaches to design as metaphors for composing our lives, Katherine will teach us to cultivate mindfulness as we play with fabric, hand-piece either a small wall hanging, or “mug rug” and exploring several methods of backing and finishing our work. Sign up here.

The Sunday class is Felted and Stitched: Abstract Landscapes with Fiber and Thread, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Students will create a wet felted landscape, completed with embroidery. Sign up here.

Katherine is a poet, dancer, maker, teacher, curator, and community organizer, and has been the Director of the Medomak Fiberarts Retreat since 2018. Her research grows out of a deep practice of paying poetic attention to the world, and lives in the intersecting communities of movers, makers, writers and activists. She regularly teaches and performs throughout the US and abroad, and believes in patchwork as a radical practice of being patient, saying yes, and making space for everyone at the table.