Classes & Workshops & Such

The Exquisite-Telephone Quilt Workshop

Originally an experimental quilting game using the principles of the dadaist drawing technique: the exquisite corpse; now revamped with the connotations of the game of telephone.

The aim of this approach will be to inspire each other to create an intuitive work by reacting to what is immediately given to us.

This workshop will consist of timed rounds: sew a quilt block, pass it to the next quilter. Each round the quilter must piece a quilt block connecting to the block before it. At the end of 6 rounds each participant will have a row of 6 blocks to take home: a collaborative catalyst for your next quilt!

At the EASTHAMPTON LIBRARY ANNEX
The Annex is located on 52 Main Street, Easthampton

Preregistration is required, materials and sewing machine not provided

SATURDAY July 19th & September 20th 10 am- Noon

WORKSHOP IS FREE!

Sewing Evenings & “Tutoring” NOW FIBER ARTS NIGHT!

As of Tuesday July 22nd at the Easthampton Public Library Annex, I will be hosting a monthly evening of not just sewing but all Fiber Arts! Sewing and knitting and spinning and weaving and all your heart desires. Me and a rotating band of skilled creative co-hosts, will be present for all problem solving and tips— a study hall of sorts but mostly a place to build connections across mediums and catch up on projects.

Sewing night turns into Fiber Arts Night STARTING July 22nd at 5:30 until 7:30

& then every month after on the Fourth TUESDAY OF THE MONTH
(future dates are thus: 8/26, 9/23, 10/28, not 11/25 BUT 11/18 instead, etc)

The Annex is located on 52 Main Street, Easthampton

No sign ups, all free but bring your own sewing machines, equipment, projects & otherwise

Intro to Improvised Quilting:an 6 Week Course

The aim of this course will be to introduce improvised quilting in the structure of a sampler. New and experienced students are invited to attend this course as it introduces beginner friendly ideas and new methods of reflecting on the sewist’s instincts. The class will go through all aspects of making a quilt from piecing to quilting and binding. Each week students will make a sampler block investigating a new improvisation prompt, skill or concept. The finished project will be a table runner or small wall hanging showcasing these experimental sampler blocks.

Quilting is as much about the process as it is about the finished quilt. It is an exercise in exploring one's relationship to navigating entropy: finding narrative and pattern in chaos. Playing with how many possibilities and pieces and colors and textures are before you and empowering oneself to make decisions and be flexible to change.

At HOOP & BEE in EASTHAMPTON, MA
Space provides sewing machines, tools and almost anything you could ever need!

6 Weeks of Classes Starting on October 11th 2025

Improvised Projects:an 6 Week Course

This course is a supportive class for improvised projects on varying scales, suited to help students pursue a project of their own design. We will investigate improvised practices and explore the journey of this type of quilting while learning how to give the process of creating a supportive structure. The six weeks will center on the student discovering their own personality as a quilter, particularly as an improviser, and find confidence there. The aim of this course will be to help students build an understanding and relationship with their own quilting personality. They will learn to set strategies for their process while also learning to cope with the evolutions and shifts that come up in the work. Students will also learn how to share work and get feedback from other students and build community in making.

Quilting is as much about the process as it is about the finished quilt. It is an exercise in exploring one's relationship to navigating entropy: finding narrative and pattern in chaos. Playing with how many possibilities and pieces and colors and textures are before you and empowering oneself to make decisions and be flexible to change.

At HOOP & BEE in EASTHAMPTON, MA
Space provides sewing machines, tools and almost anything you could ever need!

SPRING 2026 SESSION ANNOUNCED SOON

Memory Quilting:
3 Week Workshop

Clothing and napkins and bed sheets and aprons and towels and pillow cases hold us through all kinds of memory. This 3 session workshop is built around creating narrative and object from the materials of our memories. Students will be taught and guided through how to engage with and deconstruct challenging materials into usable fabric pieces while also being guided through questions and meditations of how memory is informing the work itself and the future of the finished piece. Be it memories of last summer, your grandmother, your ex, your trip to Greece, your eating disorder, your old apartment: memories that you want to hold onto, process through or else lay to rest, these workshops will support you both technically and mindfully on how to create while engaging with memory.

52 Main Street, Easthampton, The Library Annex

Wednesday August 6th, 13th and 20th from 5:30-7:30pm

NOW FREE!!!
materials and sewing machines not provided. Venue has tables, iron and limited cutting mats and scissors.

  • Teaching at Hoop & Bee

  • Students work at Hoop & Bee Intro to Improv Class

  • Teaching at Hoop & Bee

  • some work in progress

  • Sewing at the

  • Teaching at Hoop & Bee

  • Teaching at Hoop & Bee

  • some work in progess