As the seasons change, I love the chance to decorate with nature. Come learn how to make pinecone garland and bulrush stars to brighten up your home. Minimum age is 8 for this workshop. Great date night for you and your favorite kiddo.

Every good wild crafter should know how to make cordage - this is your crash course! So many great plants to try out too.

Bulrush, tule or schoenoplectus sp…whatever you call it, I love it! Learn to plait and twine with this wonderful native plant and make a useful trivet or piece of art!

A traditional English willow craft - willow swallows - offer a glimpse into willow weaving. Exploring the strength and flexibility of willow while making a whimsical craft. No experience needed.

Learn how to weave willow stars. You’ll take home a 16 inch AND 20 inch star for decorating your home or garden. Don’t have willow? We can explore other harvest-ables you could use.

Let’s explore some of the wonderful plants we can grow and gather here in the PNW for weaving and wild crafts. Get an introduction to some of my favorite weave-able plants with show & tell about basketry techniques that can help you turn those plants into wonderful natural creations.

Dry your herbs and flowers on a weeping willow chain. Bring a little apothecary whimsy to your space! *Minimum student age is 10 years.

Come explore knotless netting and set the groundwork for your own flexible, expandable pouch from plant fibers.

Made to fit willow bark bracelet. No glues, no plastic, just nature! Extra kits will be for sale - make a natural gift for friends.

Bespoke willow bark earrings at Bellevue Botanical Garden. *Extra kits will be available for sale…make a gift for someone else.

Create a one-of-a-kind wild wrapped glass vessel for your home - or to give as a gift. Explore different leaves, stems and barks. No experience needed. Great first basket weaving workshop!

Bulrush, tule or schoenoplectus sp…whatever you call it, I love it! Learn to plait and twine with this wonderful native plant and make a useful trivet or piece of art!

Let's make a sturdy little pouch from one of my favorite wetland plants. Bulrush aka tule aka Schoenoplectus sp.

A special SEASONAL workshop to gather Ponderosa pine needles for our project and for your own crafting! We’ll harvest at a private location in NE Seattle and then head back to the classroom to make adorable pine needle hand brooms. Harvest and craft in the same night!

A special SEASONAL workshop to gather Ponderosa pine needles for our project and for your own crafting! We’ll harvest at a private location in NE Seattle and then head back to the classroom to make adorable pine needle hand brooms. Harvest and craft in the same night!

Create a one-of-a-kind wild wrapped glass vessel for your home - or to give as a gift. You will choose from one of several glass forms to set the shape of your vessel and then explore different leaves, stems and barks. No experience needed.

Every good wild crafter should know how to make cordage - this is your crash course! So many great plants to try out too.

A special SEASONAL workshop to gather Ponderosa pine needles for our project and for your own crafting! We’ll harvest at a private location in NE Seattle and then head back to the classroom to make adorable pine needle hand brooms. Harvest and craft in the same night!

Enjoy an afternoon out on the farm and get to know (and wear) willow bark! Make a pair of custom earrings & a bracelet.

Every good wild crafter should know how to make cordage - this is your crash course! So many great plants to try out too.

Come explore knotless netting and make a flexible, expandable pouch from plant fibers.

What really is a weed? Is it just a plant living its best plant life in the wrong place? Well, I say we make something special out of those overachieving out-of-place plants! Let’s weave with weeds…

Check out Mary Irvin Basket Day - great teachers & workshops all in one place. I won’t be teaching but I’ll be there sharpening basketry tools (and all manor of other knives and goodies).

Bulrush, tule or schoenoplectus sp…whatever you call it, I love it! Learn to twine with this wonderful native plant and make a useful trivet or piece of art!

Learn how to weave willow stars. You’ll take home a 16 inch AND 20 inch star for decorating your home or garden. Don’t have willow? We can explore other harvest-ables you could use.

Come visit our home garden AND have your garden tools sharpened! My spouse and I are participating in the NW Perennial Alliance’s Open Garden Tour and YOU are invited!