Fabric Jewelry--Who Knew?
3-4 hrs
Create a necklace, a bracelet or a corsage--or one of each! Learn the basic skills for making Ficklesticks--the fabric and wire sticks that can be bent, wrapped, woven and worn! I think this is the perfect new craft for the.fabric fiends among us. Adaptable and even "fickle", Ficklesticks can be used over and over in creating fantastic art jewelry and adornments! Equally wearable with jeans or symphony gowns, Ficklesticks have also been spotted at Burning Man!
The students will easily master the process for making Ficklesticks, and will have plenty of time for experimenting with color and pattern, and for choosing and incorporating their own and shared fabrics into their work. Each student should be able to leave with one or two smaller pieces of jewelry and a good start on a larger project,too. They will also be able to follow their own drummer, if they want, just "ficklesticking around" making a mobile, weaving a wall hanging, creating a bouquet, making a basket or pretty much whatever they can come up with!
Holiday Decorating with Ficklesticks
4-5 hrs
Learn to make Ficklesticks, those bendable, wrapable, weavable and wearable art sticks made of fabric and wire. Instead of jewelry we will be making delightful dec, from outrageous wreaths to tiny poseable santas! Twist and turn your way to stars, garlands, tiny poinsettias--even a free-standing Christmas tree. In this 4 hour class you will be able to make several smaller pieces, and leave with tons of inspiration.
Ficklesticks Does Up the Baby's Room
4 hrs
Learn to make those wonderful fabric and wire sticks-ficklesticks- and use them for fabrilicious building components. We can outfit your favorite baby's room with lots of eye candy! Create a wonderful mobile of hearts, spirals and stars in bodacious colors and patterns, or decorate the walls with giant flowers, lollipops, or "paper dolls". Spell your baby's name in ficklesticks letters. You choose! students will be able to leave with at least one completed project and ideas for more.
Ficklesticks Weavings, Baskets and Wallhangings
4-5 hrs
Learn to make and work with extra-long Ficklesticks, those fabric and wire art sticks.Coil or weave them into a conversation starter of a fruit basket, a cylinder that stands on its own, a stupendous wall hanging or even a macrame thing-y! Make shorter sticks for quicker and smaller "birds nest" baskets, smaller weavings. Some larger projects may need to be completed at home.
Fickleween
3-4 hrs
Outfit and out-adorn yourself for Halloween with Ficklesticks, those bendable, weavable, wrapable wearable fabric and wire sticks. You will learn to make the sticks and then be inspired to wind up goggles, hats, boas, headbands, wigs, feelers, hula skirts, cone bras,
arm bands and whatever else you can dream up! Not going to any Halloween parties? Learn to make adorable Ficklesticks witches that are bendable and poseable, wearing black mini dresses, and orange and white striped stockings.
Moms and Kids Make Ficklesticks
2-3 hrs.
Mom does the machine sewing. The kids finish up. Then the fun begins! Moms and kids bend and and weave stuff together creating everything they can imagine with Ficklesticks, those bendable, weavable, wrapable and wearable fabric and wire art sticks. Take home a bunch for the coffee table. Stick a bundle in your purse for fidgety little ones in the restaurants, too!
"All the Threads All Over My Life" Guild Lecture
and Traveling Exhibit
2-2 1/2 hrs.
Enjoy an entertaining essay about my creative life from stitch-crazy schoolgirl to full-fledged fabric fiend at 50-something. Find out where I went and what all I have created (covered with thread, of course) on my way to becoming the inventor of Ficklesticks and the author of Fast, Fun and Easy Fabric Ficklesticks by C&T Publishing. Treat yourself to a private showing of Ficklesticks Jewelry, Baskets and Wall Art for sale. Signed books are also available, of course. Call or email for more information about having me in. Follow it up with a workshop for a full day of Ficklesticks!
Book Signing and Trunk Show
Just what it says. All the latest in Ficklesticks, plus moi, signing books. Everything in the trunk is for sale. No room for a class? No problem. We can still have plenty of fun. Call or email for more information.
Call me any time with any question!
I look forward to teaching at your shop and helping you sell more books.
Happy Ficklesticking!
Diana Taylor
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