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Stitched Spirit Cloth 2 Day Workshop with Susan Pesti-Strobel!
March 8, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
An event every week that begins at 1:30 pm on Saturday, repeating until March 8, 2025
2 Saturdays
3/1 & 3/8
1:30- 3:30pm
Join award winning fiber artist Susan Pesti-Strobel for a two-day workshop in which you will make what is best described as a spirit cloth. Employing simple techniques of designing, cutting, layering, and stitching you will create a textile piece that represents who you are, what you are, or what you feel like in the moment. You will be able to learn or practice diverse stitches, such as running stitch, blanket stitch, herringbone stitch, fly stitch, couching, and others, based on your interest (and your instructor’s ability!)
You do not need any prior knowledge of any of the above, only a healthy helping of interest and enthusiasm for expressing yourself in a soft and versatile medium.
Your instructor will supply a selection of fabrics, yarn, needles, and scissors, but feel free to bring your own materials you wish to employ on this journey. You will be able to take home materials needed to finish your project.
This workshop is sponsored by the Soroptimists of Wallowa County.
Pre-registration required.
Minimum number to run class is 6
Attention! Class ticket sales end 48 hours prior to class start time!
Be sure to sign up ASAP!
About the instructor:
From early childhood, Susan has been fascinated by the luxurious feel of textiles, the generative capacity of sewing, and the magic of embroidery. She learned a lot from her mother, a self-taught seamstress, then built on that knowledge in school, and though she abandoned her dream to become an artist in order to get a degree in teaching English and history, she never really abandoned her love of creating. She fashioned her own clothes, knitted and crocheted garments for herself and later for her children, but doing so always under the pressure of perfection. Only recently did she discover the liberating practice of creating textile art, in which it mattered more what she wanted to express rather than the absolute perfection of each stitch.
