Hello all! As many of you know, 2025 is my first year of motherhood! I’m excited to return to teaching after taking the last year off, but it will require figuring out how to balance being a full time mom while evolving my career and as basketry teacher in the small ways I can. I’ll be teaching several workshops at my studio through the summer and fall and will post them here on a rolling basis. I miss teaching basketry and all the wonderful students and community so much after taking a year off and can’t wait to weave together! 

Saturday June 28th 2025

10:00am – 4:00pm 

Stone Ridge, NY

Have you ever looked outside and wondered what you could make with the abundance of natural materials growing in your own yard? In this workshop you will learn how to take iris, grasses, cattails, daylily leaves, and many other natural materials and create coiled baskets. Coiling is an ancient and versatile basketry technique in which a wrapping strand is sewn around coils of material to build a form. It is used all over the world to create beautiful vessels that can be either decorative or functional. During the workshop we will discuss how to identify, harvest, and prepare a variety of local materials all while coiling baskets using a variety of stitches. If you are excited about using found natural materials to create art and learning a fun and unique new skill, then join us! Everyone will leave with a basket, the skills to create more pieces in the future, and inspiration to explore your local natural landscape.