Campbell School, part 1

From September 16 to 25, I was teaching my "Fabric Pages ©" workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School, in Brasstown, NC (Western-most tip of NC). If you don't know about it, the Campbell school is a wonderful place to spend 5 days and learn about all kinds of crafts, arts and traditional occupations. Classes range from blacksmith to quilting, felting, jewellery making, cooking. dulcimer playing...and building, all kinds of woodwork and pottery, painting...the list is too long to include here. Students and instructors stay on campus, have meals together in the dining hall and enjoy seeing what everyone else is doing.

This is a closed page


And this is what it looks when it is opened

So my class was about creating a sort of fabric envelope, as you can see, that includes photos transfers, embroidery, surface design and other embellishments. The 12 people in my class (which is the maximum) were an extremely creative group and the pages they created were wonderful. The quilting studio at the school is quite large, well lit and a great place to work. Here they are at work.

Our class picture at the student exhibit

On Friday, all the classes gather in the big community hall and there is a student exhibit of all the work which was produced that week. It is an amazing sight, what people can accomplish in a few days and how much creativity there is around when people let it out!

PS: If you would like to find out more about the school or ask for their catalogue, visit http://www.folkschool.org.

Also, a short "pub spot": I am teaching there again in a couple of weeks, starting on November 16 (surface design class called Fiber Fun and there is still room in the class!) and then again from March 29 to April 4, 2009 a class called "hand quilting: old technique, new possibilities". Check it out!