October 26, 2024: Broom Making Workshop – Afternoon

Description

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Instructor: Eva Gaultney

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024

Duration: 2.5 hours

Morning Session: 10AM to 12:30PM EST

Afternoon Session: 1:30PM to 4PM EST

Location: 80 Bassett Road, Shelburne MA 01370

Cost (includes materials): sliding scale of $60 – $90

# of Participants in each session: 8

Experience Level: All are welcome. Open to children ages 10+ with an adult.

Eva found her love for broom craft, weaving, and fiber design while earning an education degree at Berea College. She brings her love of math, learning, textiles, and craft to you in this fun workshop.

Program Description

Attend a 2.5 hour workshop and learn the craft of broom making. You will learn the basics and weave one broom that will be cut into three brooms.

Participants will learn the process of broom making and weave their own shaker combo broom.  They will be able to make one broom through binding broom corn and then weaving broom stalks. That skill will be repeated three times and then the broom will be cut into three parts. There will be a cake tester, pot scrubber, and a hand broom. Cake testers were used to check the done-ness of a cake by removing one broom straw from the broom and inserting it into the cake. A pot scrubber is used on pots or cast iron to scrub away cooked on food. The hand broom is used to sweep away small messes. No experience necessary.

Read more about Eva and her Broom Making Workshops.

Please contact us with any questions at office@fabric-of-life.org.

Our sliding scale fee allows us to keep these programs accessible to a wide range of individuals. The ‘admirer’ option covers the cost of the instructor fee, program support, marketing, and administration. The ‘friend’ option covers all of this and allows for a small profit margin to be contributed towards sustaining Fabric of Life programming for next year. The ‘enthusiast’ option covers all of this and allows for us to begin to sustain Fabric of Life programming for generations to come.

FOL will refund 90% of your fee if you cancel more than 30 days before the beginning of the program. 10% will be retained for administrative services. Cancellation with less than 30 days notice will automatically be rolled over as a credit for another program of your choice within the next year from the date of the original program. FOL will maintain the funds and carry them forward once you determine what program you would like to utilize them for. If there is a balance after paying for the second program, it will not be refunded. If a program does not run due to circumstances beyond our control, participants will receive a full refund of the fees paid.