• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

The workshop will be led by artisan basket weaver Karen Wychock who has chosen a wall basket design for the workshop project.

Is the junk mail piling up on your kitchen counter or your entryway table? This basket could be the secret to turning your pile of mail into a legitimate design statement. It can sit on your kitchen counter, fit right over a door knob or even be mounted on the wall! This basket also looks great filled with flowers

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

Led by fiber artist Lisa Haldeman, participants will learn the art of needle felting and create two fun projects – a pumpkin and a sheep.

Needle felting is a craft that involves repeatedly stabbing a needle into a piece of wool in order to stiffen and shape it into the desired form. A special type of needle is used to manipulate the fibers by repeatedly poking itself into the ball of wool. The tip of the needle features small barbed notches

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

In the 18th century, country cabinetmakers grain painted utilitarian objects to imitate the grain of wood. Softwoods were false grained to mimic expensive hardwoods often not available and the technique soon evolved into a folk art form. Homemade paints and tools were used to create finishes as varied as the minds and hands of imaginative folk artists. Antiques of great value today have wildly grained surfaces that in no way try to mimic the graining pattern of real woods.

Participants will

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

Popular paper cutting artist Pam Hults will teach the workshop. Participants can choose from several patterns that include both seasonal and traditional paper cutting designs.

Students will take home a finished piece along with a finished grain painted frame provided by the instructor. Workshop fee is $65 ($60 for members) plus a materials fee of $40 that includes the designs and frame. Participants should bring along a cutting surface, exacto knife or small scissors and small paint brushes.  All other materials

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

This is a two-part workshop:
Session I: Friday, Nov 6 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Session II: Saturday, Nov 7 from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm

Fraktur was created by Pennsylvania Germans during the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries and features calligraphic text decorated with colorful birds, hearts and flowers. The tradition has its roots in the illuminated manuscripts of medieval Europe but evolved into a distinctive part of the local Pennsylvania German culture. Today, those who appreciate this colorful

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

This is a two-part workshop:
Session I: Friday, Nov 6 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Session II: Saturday, Nov 7 from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm

Fraktur was created by Pennsylvania Germans during the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries and features calligraphic text decorated with colorful birds, hearts and flowers. The tradition has its roots in the illuminated manuscripts of medieval Europe but evolved into a distinctive part of the local Pennsylvania German culture. Today, those who appreciate this colorful

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