This workshop will explore the process of making paper by hand.  We will create several pieces of handmade white paper and some coloured sheets as well as some sheets with decorative specks.

Instructor:  Sean Daly

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $94

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  January 22, 2025

Use a variety of barks and other materials to design your own unique cover for an aluminum water bottle.  Your covered bottle will keep drinks cold or hot.  Basic twining and plaiting techniques will be taught.

Instructor:  Cathie Harper

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $162 (includes aluminum water bottle and materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  January 26, 2025

This class is designed for participants who have completed an introductory stained glass class and would like to add a new twist by learning how to make 3-dimensional projects.

Participants will learn how to create a floral wreath and a simple box called a Barry Cavie box.

Instructor:  Francine Dennis

Prerequisites: Completion of Stained Glass - Beginner class at Yellowknife Guild of Arts and Crafts or similar experience with approval of instructor.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $290 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 2, 2025

Learn to cut, solder and shape sterling silver and copper to make jewelry and decorative objects. In a small group, students each work on a project of their choosing.

To the first class, please bring ideas, photos, sketches, a notepad and pencils, an overshirt that can get dirty, and any found objects you'd like to incorporate.

Instructor:  Kris Schlagintweit

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $320 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 3, 2025

Learn to cut, solder and shape sterling silver and copper to make jewelry and decorative objects. In a small group, students each work on a project of their choosing.

To the first class, please bring ideas, photos, sketches, a notepad and pencils, an overshirt that can get dirty, and any found objects you'd like to incorporate.

Instructor:  Kris Schlagintweit

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $320 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 3, 2025

Learn the basic principles of weaving while making a cozy wool scarf! This class provides an introduction to weaving on a rigid heddle loom. The project is a plain (tabby) weave scarf made interesting by a combination of solid and self-striping yarn.

Instructor:  Cynthia Levy

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $145 (includes materials and use of loom)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  January 31, 2025

If you can twist pieces of rope together, you have the basics of making baskets by twining. This technique is the twisting of a minimum of two weavers around the stakes or the skeleton of the basket. We will be using a variety of materials like round reed, locally harvested natural materials (cattails, strawberry runners, dandelion) and more to create these delightful baskets.

Weaves that we will experiment with include basic twining, 3-strand twining, and arrow weave.

Participants will be able to make up to two baskets of approximately 18.5 cm in diameter and 8 cm in height.

Instructor:  Rosanna Strong

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $205 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 8, 2025

Want an excuse to go through the family closets and discard clothing, but would like an actual use for it?  Rug hooking, using recycled clothing as our ancestors did, is the solution. Join us for four relaxing evenings to learn this easy traditional technique.  The final product will be a 14-inch circular rug, which can be used as a wall hanging or jacket embellishment.

Students will learn basic rug hooking techniques, including how to design your own rug, supply collection and preparation, hooking a small rug, and adding finishing touches.

This is a self-motivated class in which students will work on their own projects with the assistance of the instructor as facilitator.  Homework is required between sessions.

The registration fee includes use of a 14” embroidery hoop and rug hook, backing and binding material, and access to a common supply of materials.

Participants are expected to collect most of their own materials.  Materials could include wool cloth, T-shirts and other knit fabrics.  Participants should bring their own good quality sharp scissors or a rotary cutter and mat.

Instructor:  Cathie Harper

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $249 (includes some supplies)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 10, 2025

Make your own beautiful soaps! Students will learn about the different types of soap making (we will make cold process) and advantages and disadvantages of each.  The class will teach students how to safely make their own soap and how to use different combinations of essential oils, water, beer, milk and other additions to make their own all-natural soaps!  The possibilities are endless!

Instructor:  Eva Walker

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $117 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  February 20, 2025

You can do a lot of simple clothing repairs with a few basic tools and skills: sew on a button, restore a hem, fix a seam. You’ll be amazed at what you can repair with just these basics!

We start at square one: threading a needle and securing the end through knotting or whipstitching. You’ll sew a few seams to learn running stitch, back stitch, and hemming stitch. You’ll learn how to hold your fabric and best ways to cut with scissors. We’ll practice until hand sewing starts to become “muscle memory” and even enjoyable. We will also sew on three types of buttons and a snap fastener.

We will also look at whether and how clothes you’ve brought can be mended with these simple skills and you might start on some repairs. We’ll see how running stitches can turn mending into art through simple sashiko stitching. We’ll talk about why mending is good for the planet and how mending is creative.

We will supply some basic tools for you. If you bring any supplies you’ve assembled, we can talk about those, too – having the right tools organized properly really does make hand sewing easier!

Instructor:  Hermina (Minnie) Joldersma

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full or casual membership.

Cost (Full Members):  $55 (includes materials)
Cost (Casual Members):  $65 (includes materials) 

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  March 8, 2025

Feeling stressed?  Come out for some relaxation and stab some wool into a beautiful 3D object. In this class, you will learn how to needle felt and take home an adorable sitting fox.

Needle felting is a textiles craft technique that can be used to create 3D objects.  It involves a special felting needle being used to stab and agitate wool fibers, so they join and bond together.

Instructor:  Andrea Korpel

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Youth aged 12 to 15 with registration of parent/guardian and approval of instructor (see note below).  Current membership at eligible level.

Cost (Full Members):  $60 (includes materials)
Cost (Casual Members):  $70 (includes materials)
Cost (Child Members):  $60 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  March 9, 2025

Note re Youth Participation:  Youth aged 12 to 15 may be permitted to participate in this workshop provided that their parent or guardian has registered for and participates in the workshop.  Email the Guild at ykguildwebsite@gmail.com to arrange for youth registration.

If you are a true Yellowknifer, chances are you own and value some great socks.  And wearing those socks, especially wool ones, inevitably makes them develop holes.  Cheer up – you can darn them and even add some extra character in the process!

In this workshop, you will develop the skills needed to darn socks.  You will learn which needles and yarn work best, how to shape the darn so the sock stays comfortable, where to start the darning, what tools are useful, and how to fill that hole with a woven darn that will give your socks new life.

This workshop includes sock darning tools and materials... everything you need to darn your own socks, except the socks!

Instructor:  Hermina (Minnie) Joldersma

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full or casual membership.

Cost (Full Members):  $51 (includes materials)
Cost (Casual Members):  $61 (includes materials) 

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  March 15, 2025

A tisket, a tasket, you will be making a beautiful egg basket!  This basket features a sturdy handle and "pockets" that are perfect for gathering eggs or whatever you choose to harvest.  Take note all you backyard chicken farmers!

We will be using a rib-style construction with flat reed to create the basket.  Each participant will walk away with a 26 cm x 26 cm basket.

Instructor:  Rosanna Strong 

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $234 (includes materials)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  March 29, 2025

This willow basket is designed for your bicycle or to be used as a market basket. Its dimensions will be 9 inches high x 10 inches wide x 15 inches long.  We will use local willow (provided by the instructor) for this project.

The oval base is an easy base to work with.  Weaves will include twining, 3-rod wale and French randing.  A 4-2 border will be used.

Participants will have the following options for handles:
1.  a rigid willow built-in handle (traditional market basket);
2.  a swing webbing handle (cross body basket); or
3. velcro straps to attach to handlebars (bicycle basket).

Instructor:  Cathie Harper

Prerequisites:  No prior experience necessary.  Age 16 or older.  Adult full membership.

Cost:  $317 (includes materials and use of tools)

Registration Opens:  January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Registration Closes:  April 20, 2025