Teacher: Inka Petersen
Cost: $175

Workshop Dates: 1/9, 1/16, 1/23.

Learn how to carve a spoon and how to safely use the tools to do so. We’ll be working with a hatchet to create our spoon blank, and use a carving knife to refine the shape. For the bowl we’ll use a hook knife. Finally we’ll explore traditional and food safe methods of decoration using coffee, milk paint and olive oil. All materials, tools (and bandaids) are provided. We’ll go over resources for tools and materials, look at samples and discuss form and function. 

Dexterity is important, but if you can peel an apple, you can probably carve a spoon.

This is a 3 session class that is separated into fundamentals, detailing, and finishing. You will take home at least one hand carved spoon and handouts you help you make more at home.

Skills

Safe tool use : hatchet, carving knife, hook knife, abrasives. Carving techniques. Finishing techniques: kolrosing, milk paint, burnishing with oil.

take home

A pair of chopsticks, a hand carved wooden spoon, and a resources and techniques handout.

location

This workshop will be held at studio 119 at the Tannery Arts Center. The Tannery Arts Center is located at 1010 River Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060.

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Teacher: Carrie Jones
Cost: $55

Join Hold Fast founder, Carrie Jones, for Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery’s Maker's Night Series kick off and learn how to make your very own beeswax food storage wraps! These endlessly reuasable wraps are a great way to reduce plastic and are made will all natural materials. Make your beeswax wraps for use in your own kitchen or as sustainable gifts for friends and family. Students will select 100% cotton fabric from a variety of prints, cut wraps to size, melt the wax mixture into their fabric, and add embellishments. All students will leave with 3 wraps. Ticket prices include (2) organic pints, (2) n/a organic root beer pints, or (1) cider or wine.

location

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery : 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz C 95060. The workshop will be held in their covered and heated patio.

special note

Please purchase tickets through this link - tickets for this event will be processed by Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery through eventbrite.

Teacher: Inka Petersen
Cost: $45

Learn basic carving skills by creating your own Scandinavian style wooden spreader from a provided mahogany blank. Useful for butter, and soft cheeses this could be your new conversation piece! We’ll go over carving safety and techniques, finishing with abrasives and olive oil.

Skills

Woodcarving with a knife.

take home

Wooden spreader.

location

This workshop will be held at studio 119 at the Tannery Arts Center. The Tannery Arts Center is located at 1010 River Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060.

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Teacher: Nina Marsh
Cost: $75

In this workshop you will learn to make a pair of beaded earrings using brick stitch. You will have the option to follow a pattern or create your own design. Materials provided: needle, nymo thread, seed beads, ear wires. If you would like to bring your own beads, we recommend size 11 Miyuki or Czech seed beads.

Skills

Brick stitch beadweaving

take home

Completed pair of woven bead earring and instruction sheet

location

This workshop will be held at Home/Work in Soquel: 1100 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062

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Teacher: Viviana Renteria
Cost: $55

In this hands on, beginner friendly class, students will design and create two pairs of beautiful brass earrings.

Skills

Basic metal working techniques such as hammering and texturizing and you will learn how to shape 14kt gold filled wire into hoops and ear wires.

take home

Two pairs of custom hammered brass earrings.

location

This workshop will be held at studio 119 at the Tannery Arts Center. The Tannery Arts Center is located at 1010 River Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060.

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Teacher: Jean Vitug
Cost: $75

In this workshop you will learn a natural dyeing technique by simply wrapping a piece of fabric with flowers and leaves.  You will learn how to bundle dye on fabric.  Participants will create their own fabric design using locally sourced flowers and leaves, both fresh and dried.  History and current practices of using plant dyes will be briefly discussed.  You will gain knowledge on how to work with plant dyes as you delve into the basic process of bundle dyeing.

Skills

• how to prepare the fabric

• how to lay the flowers and leaves on the fabric

• how to bundle the fabric

• how to steam the fabric

take home

Your custom bundle dyed fabric

location

This workshop will be held at Flourish Vintage: 1127B (behind Childish - in the same building) Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062.

what to wear?

Something comfortable that you don’t mind getting marked on.

special note

Jean will be donating her proceeds to Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Cruz County.

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Teacher: Bethany Ridenour
Cost: $90

Brooms are used around the world for daily and ritual cleansing of spaces. A broom is an important part of making a safe and sacred space.In this industrial modern world, handcrafts of all kinds are being replaced by machine made goods. The broom is no exception. Handcrafted brooms are on the brink of extinction. In this three hour class you will learn the basics of Broom Craft. We will each make a turkey wing broom like in the picture to take home and use in our own daily cleansing rituals.  

Skills

Skills to hand tie a turkey wing broom.

take home

Your own handcrafted broom.

location

This workshop will be held at The Craftsman Collective at 4600 Soquel Ave, Soquel CA 95073.

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Teacher: Inka Petersen
Cost: $55

Learn basic carving and decorating techniques by creating your own pair of chopsticks from a square blank. In this fun 3hr class we’ll cover safety, form and function as well as the unexpected challenge of making something square evenly round, creating a perfect chopstick, and then duplicating it! Finally, you’ll have the option of using milk paint to decorate you own pair of handmade chopsticks. All materials, tools (and bandaids) are provided.

Skills

Carving with a knife, shaping techniques, milk paint, finishing techniques.

take home

A pair of handmade chop sticks.

location

This workshop will be held at The Craftsman Collective at 4600 Soquel Drive, Soquel CA 95073.

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Teacher: Tina Somers
Cost: $55

It’s so easy these days to snap quick pictures of things that interest us and catalogue them in our digital records. It takes seconds to capture something we find beautiful and we often move on before we really see what we’re looking at. Using a sketchbook or journal as a way to record the same experience slows us down, gets our heads out of our phones and helps us practice being in the moment. In this class we’ll explore the journal as an art form, and how to manually capture scenes and elements from your daily life or from the trip of your lifetime. We’ll look at what elements to draw, how to lay out your sketchbook page, and how to capture a scene quickly before the moment passes or you get too hungry ;)

Skills

Students will be introduced to the concept of having a personal journal as art form. They’ll learn how to compose and layout a page, and learn quick watercolor and pen and ink techniques - hopefully leaving inspired and ready to document any future travels they take.

take home

Travel art kit with journal, pencil, small travel watercolor set, and brush.

special note

We’ll meet at the picnic tables at Steamer Lane Supply shop (located near where Pelton Street meets West Cliff - in the same building as the restrooms) for a talk and demo from Tina and then we’ll have chairs for you to set up wherever along West Cliff you would like to draw and paint. Tina will circulate around to check in with everyone and we will meet again back at the picnic tables at the end of the workshop.

* Consider that parking might be challenging, so arrive early in case you need to walk a few blocks.

** Dress for fog or sun.

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Teacher: Domenique Grillo
Cost: $45

In this hands on, beginner friendly class, students will design and weave their own double wrap beaded leather bracelet.

Skills

-Basic wrap bracelet weave

-How to use a beading needle

-How to tie off/finish wrap bracelet with adjustments

take home

-One custom beaded leather double wrap bracelet

-Loom

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Teacher: Katilin Bonifacio
Cost: $65

Have you ever wondered where the colors in your clothing, food, cosmetics, and paints and pigments comes from? If you’ve ever worn lipstick, eaten a strawberry yogurt or Starbucks Frappucino, or even had a favorite red sweater, chances are it was colored with pigment from cochineal. The commonly used red dye is made from ground scale insects native to South America and the extracted dye yields a range of beautiful red hues from light pink to magenta to royal red. Join me to mix a vat of cochineal dye and color a set of four cotton dinner napkins. We’ll learn about the history of cochineal usage in our own culture and across the world, powder and extract the pigment together, become familiar with the process of treating our fibers before dyeing, use traditional folding techniques to create patterns, and complete a unique and beautiful set of napkins that will be the perfect conversation starter at your next dinner party. 

Students are welcome to bring a small piece from home to dye in the event of leftover time. Keep in mind cochineal and other natural dyes are only effective on natural fibers, so be sure your piece is cotton, linen, silk, bamboo, wool, or leather.

Skills

Dye resist folding techniques, cochineal dye methods and history.

take home

Custom dyed napkin set of 4.

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Teacher: Nina Marsh
Cost: $70

In this workshop you will learn to make a pair of beaded earrings using brick stitch. You will have the option to follow a pattern or create your own design. Materials provided: needle, nymo thread, seed beads, ear wires. If you would like to bring your own beads, we recommend size 11 Miyuki or Czech seed beads.

Skills

Brick stitch beadweaving

take home

Completed pair of woven bead earring and instruction sheet

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Teacher: Nicole Fischer
Cost: $30

The workshop will open with a brief guided meditation to tap into our intuition. Participants will then experience choosing herbs intuitively, blending them while keeping intention in mind, and infusing them with the magic of the sun! Each person will go home with more than one blend, as well as the experience of using tea for ritual and mediation. This workshop promises to be both magical and practical.

Skills

Intuitive tea blending, uses and properties of herbs, and sun tea making

take home

Two personalized tea blends

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Teacher: Kim Denning
Cost: $55

This introduction to macrame workshop will cover four basic knots and various techniques to create a beautiful, customized plant holder.

Skills

Four basic macrame knots and techniques for starting and finishing your piece.

take home

Custom macrame wall plant holder, complete with potted house plant.

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Teacher: Amanda Nguyen
Cost: $75

Learn how to use brush pens to create personalized, creative calligraphy. We’ll cover practice drills to help improve your lettering, letterforms and how to piece together letters in the alphabet. Perfect for brides-to-be and their friends or anyone looking to brighten up their lives with some lovely lettering skills.

Skills

Brush pen calligraphy basics, letterforms, and how to gracefully connect letters.

take home

You’ll be provided various brush pens and worksheets to use in class and take home after.

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Teacher: Viviana Renteria
Cost: $55

No prior jewelry-making experience is needed for this creative workshop. Design your customized necklace with 14k gold filled chain, stamped brass plates, and beads. Stamp your name, your child’s name or your favorite quote onto a simple brass plate.

Skills

Metalworking techniques of hammering and texturizing, plus the basics of metal stamping. Students will also learn how to work with pliers, cut chain, and assemble the necklace step by step.

take home

Custom stamped brass and beaded necklace

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Teacher: Nina Marsh
Cost: $70

In this workshop you will learn to make a pair of beaded earrings using brick stitch. You will have the option to follow a pattern or create your own design. Materials provided: needle, nymo thread, seed beads, ear wires. If you would like to bring your own beads, we recommend size 11 Miyuki or Czech seed beads.

Skills

Brick stitch beadweaving

take home

Completed pair of woven bead earring and instruction sheet

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Teacher: Carrie Jones
Cost: $30

Learn ancient Japanese techniques to artfully dye fabric with indigo. We will prepare an indigo vat together, learn a few basic Shibori dye-resist techniques and then dye our T-shirts. Students may bring one small additional piece of fabric to dye - natural fibers only (cotton, linen, hemp, etc).

Skills

We will cover the indigo vat preparation and learn a handful Shibori techniques to get you started in the art of indigo dyeing.

take home

Your hand-dyed T-shirt plus an additional item of clothing to dye (optional). You may finish before 7, so feel free to take off early to your next Friday night event.

special note

T-shirts are provided - please include what size shirt you would like in the NOTES section as you register. Men’s, Women’s or Unisex sizing. Thanks!

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Teacher: Terry McInerney
Cost: $100

Come create a functional camp stool you can use at home or take on your next camping trip. These also work great as guitar stools. Each stool can be personalized with decorative or letter stamps.

Skills

Leatherworking skills of cutting, beveling, burnishing and riveting

take home

Personalized, portable camp stool

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Teacher: Jo Birns
Cost: $75

Learn how to turn cut flowers into works of art for your home. You will learn how to work with composition, color, shape and various types of vases. This is the best time of year to work with flowers and you’ll have your hands on the highest quality, locally-grown, organic blooms - the best of the best!

Skills

Basic mechanics of floral design in a vase, blending color in flowers, stem selection, creating beautiful shapes, composition, movement, where the raw materials come from, and how to extend the vase life of flowers.

Take Home

Vase and arrangement

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Teacher: Lee DeGraw
Cost: $70

A contemporary approach to embroidery using a hands-on method of teaching in an intimate class environment. Students will learn 3-5 stitches, but are encouraged to explore freestyle methods of stitching as well.

Skills

The workshop will cover the basics of beginning a new embroidery project including purchasing essential materials, how to start a hoop, pattern transfer methods, stitching tips and tricks, and finishing a hoop.

take home

A curated selection of tools and supplies to get your started during the workshop and to continue your project home: embroidery hoop, fabric, embroidery floss, and needles.

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Teacher: Kim Denning
Cost: $65

In this introduction to macrame workshop students will learn a few basic knots and techniques to create beautiful, customized macrame wall hangings.

Skills

Four basic macrame knots and techniques for starting and finishing your piece.

take home

Custom macrame wall hanging mounted on driftwood or a wooden dowel.

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Teacher: Grace Pollack
Cost: $40

This introduction to machine sewing workshop covers all the basics of setting up and sewing on a machine. Reacquaint yourself with your old machine or learn for the first time. Students can choose from a variety of fabrics to make three types of scrunchies, thin, wide, and with a bow.

Skills

Students will learn about different fabrics types, basic sewing machine operation and helpful beginner sewing techniques.

take home

At least 4 scrunchies of whatever style you prefer.

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Teacher: Terry McInerney
Cost: $50

Students will learn how to craft multiple pieces of lightweight leather jewelry, everything from earrings to cuffs to keyrings.

Skills

Leather cutting, designing and riveting

take home

Multiple jewelry pieces to keep or give as gifts - make as many as you like in our 2 hour workshop!

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Teacher: Natalie Burrow
Cost: $70

Harness the power of plants to get clear, glowing skin. Detox your skincare lineup by learning how to make an all natural, plant based detox mask, facial toner, and glow serum using essential oils. You’ll take home all three for a fresh new skincare regimen. Come with a clean face!

skills

Essential oil blending and plant based skin care ingredients and use.

take home

Detox mask, mask brush, facial toner, and glow serum

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Teacher: Viviana Renteria
Cost: $50

In this hands on, beginner friendly class, students will design and create two pairs of beautiful brass earrings.

Skills

Basic metal working techniques such as hammering and texturizing and you will learn how to shape 14kt gold filled wire into hoops and ear wires.

take home

Two pairs of custom hammered brass earrings.

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natural home cleaning products

Teacher: Natalie Burrow
Cost: $55

Ironically, our cleaning products are often some of the most toxic products in our lives! Clean up your home environment by learning how to make natural, non toxic cleaning products to replace those common cleaners full of harmful chemicals.

skills

Learn about non-toxic cleaning ingredients and product recipes.

take home

All purpose cleaner, glass & window spray, air freshener and carpet powder

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Teacher: Terry McInerney
Cost: $90

This class will cover wallet making from design to creation. Design templates will be available and creativity is encouraged. A variety of different leathers will be available to create the perfect personalized wallet.

Skills

Wallet design and leatherworking skills of cutting, hole punching, riveting, and stitching

take home

A functional, personalized leather wallet.

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experience a little plant magic via pure, therapeutic essential oils. Feel them, smell them, even taste them!

Join Natalie Burrow (natalie-dressed.com) at Holdfast Studio for First Friday on May 3rd to experience essential oils for free or make your own custom roller bottle for sleep, stress/anxiety, skin, energy, or immunity. $5 for the first roller and $2 to add on more rollers (these would make great Mother's Day gifts!). Drop in for Natalie's workshop any time between 5:30-7:30pm. For a more in-depth experience, join Natalie + Holdfast later in the summer for a Natural Home Cleaning workshop on June 1st and a Plant-Based Skincare workshop on June 15th.

We will also feature Vanessa LeJeune's beautiful hand-dyed quilts (lejeunetextiles.com) in the studio for First Friday event and, as always, Humble Sea Brewing Company will be selling their delicious brews.

First Friday
5-9pm

Workshop
5:30-7:30pm