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Twist and Shout! Baking Challah and Babka
Rich in flavor and tradition, challah is a central part of every Jewish Shabbat observance and babka is its sweet chocolatey cousin.
Students get hands-on experience mixing, kneading and braiding loaves of babka and challah and learn about the traditions behind them.
Wild Mushrooms 101
During this class, students learn about foraging and identifying wild mushrooms. Discussions include basic information, steps for identification, steps for foraging, which ones are edible and which are not, recommended resources and more. Students also handle real mushrooms to get some hands-on experience. This class takes place in a classroom but teaches the skills and knowledge to find and identify mushrooms in the wild.
Hat Making for Everybody
Hey there lords and ladies of the craft! There’s a new series of hat workshops about to blossom. I’ll be starting a second series of beginning hat classes on Tuesday, June 19, from 6-7:30. There will be 6 weeks to the course.
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Millinery classes begin
I’ll be teaching a beginning millinery class on Mondays, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., May 7 to June 11 (no class on Memorial day).
We’ll begin with the easiest material to work with: millinery-grade felt. This is not the same process as “felting” a hat. Picture the material used to make a fedora. That’s the stuff. You will learn to make a hat from the very beginning: blocking the felt, to the end: lining the hat. In the middle there are a whole bunch of steps that generally involve a needle and thread and some ribbon. Some proficiency with said needle and thread is helpful but not necessary.
Classes will take place at Otlak Felt Studio in the DeWitt-Seitz building and will cost $150 plus $56 in supplies. You can email me at emily @ moesewco.com for questions and to register. Space is limited, so jump right in there.
Millinery Classes? Learn to make hats?
I’m gauging interest in the notion (ha!*) of teaching some small classes in millinery — that is, traditional hat-making. Not so traditional that you knit and then felt, but rather the kind that leads to possibly a fedora, but with many other shapes and options.
If I find that there is interest, I will go forth and find an appropriately sized space. You can see my work at moesewco.com, which I just mentioned in another post on a mostly unrelated subject, so please bear with me.
* A notion is a sewing item that is not fabric or thread — like buttons or scissors.