I am excited to announce a visiting artist workshop with Adriana Torres, artist, illustrator and founder of Miga de Pan. studied architecture and graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. Adrianna is on a world tour and will be stopping by our Toronto studio (Oct. 18-19) to teach a 3 day exploration on creative and clever ways to embroider letters of the alphabet, you will also learn endless creative possibilities for mending the things we love and on the last day learn high raise stitches and knots. On Oct. 17 she will teach 2 half day introductory to embroidery workshops. Please click the link for more details.

This virtual botanical embroidery course explores the intersection of art, science, and folklore. Join famed author and artist Arounna Khounnoraj, along with herbalist and professor Katherine Elmer and lecturing mycologist Ari Rockland-Miller, for a three part workshop designed to elevate our stitching through a deep investigation into plant structure and potentials. Express your newly discovered knowledge in thread, elaborating an original abstract botanical design by Arounna with your own stitches.

In this workshop we will use different printing and painting techniques like mark making to create surfaces and textures that we will use to create a small quilt. We will also explore natural dyeing and use modifiers and binders to create patterns. The piece will be sewn into a wall hanging and the sewn elements will be combined with embroidery.