1138Z Button It Up: Isa's Yarn
Class | This program is completed
We think of buttons as purely functional, a way to secure a shirt or jacket. While we may spend time searching out the perfecto button for a blouse we've sewn or a sweater we've knit, we rarely consider making a button for that garment. In this class you'll use yarn and simple stitching/weaving techniques on the base of a homemade template to creat a unique button. Then you'll turn your 2 dimensional yarn work into a 3 dimensional button! Once you've mastered the basics, you can make buttons of varying sizes, using yarns of different thicknesses, and adding beads or other bling as you choose. In addition to being functional, you can use your buttons to decorate the brim of a hat, add a special touch to an accent pillow, finish a tote bag and more.
Age: Teens through Adults
- Note: Instructor will notify students of Zoom link before class.
- Plastic lid from a cottage cheese or similar container, scissors, ballpoint pen or fine line Sharpie, straight edge, blunt point yarn needle, 6-8 yards of smooth yarn [suggested 3/2, 5/2 or 8/4 cotton or sock yarn] and filling [polyester fiberfill, wool roving, thick-ish fabric or old button]. A drawing compass is helpful but not essential.
Peg Cherre
My mother taught my two sisters and me to knit and sew at an early age. I spent a lot of years sewing clothes for myself and my family. Then, while living deep in the sticks in the early 2000s I decided I wanted to weave. A loom from Craigslist and a few hours of instruction and I was off and running, mostly self-taught due to my remote location. SO many “learning opportunities.” For several years I wove full-time while working for a paycheck part-time. Once I could finally retire and move to Rochester, my fiber interests expanded. And reverted to things I’d done in my teens. And morphed as I saw what other creators were making. Now you never know what I might be doing: weaving on my floor loom or my 4” pin loom, knitting, sewing, embroidery, thread wrapping, and more. I just make things that amuse me.