In April, we were thrilled to bring Leiko Uchiyama to The Thimble Classroom to share her unique felting technique, Pine Needle (or “Matsuba” in Japanses) Felt. The results were FABULOUS!A hearty “Thank You!” to Leiko for traveling over our way an…
Reflections
April 7th was the anniversary of an AMAZING 6 years in business for The Little Thimble That Could. We celebrated with our yearly tradition (since we moved to High Hand) of a Student Art Show and Reception. It has been such a blessing to hav…
Reverence for the Vat
It is always a lovely, heart warming experience to have Melissa Arnold in the classroom. This past weekend, she shared her love of the Indigo Vat with us. It was such a privilege for me (Emma) to get to spend two days preparing the vats wit…
Lisa’s Adventures with Irit Dulman and Vilte
Hello,This time it is Lisa writing to you.In January, I went to my first out of town workshop all by myself. I loaded my jeep with all my felting and dyeing supplies and set off to the Monterey Peninsula. The workshop was with I…
Old World, New Age Felting with Marilou Moschetti
Hello long lost blog friends!!I wanted to share some photos from the fantastic workshop that we had with Marilou Moschetti back in March. I apologize for the delay in sharing – time to blog continues to elude me but I’m hopeful that with Hannah g…
Melissa Arnold and Embellishment Machines.
We are thrilled to have Melissa Arnold returning to The Tin Thimble Classroom to teach “The Embellishment Machine Unplugged” in February. Here in the shop I must admit we’ve all been a bit skeptical of embellishment or felting machines – go …
Batik
Haripriya Raghavan was in the classroom two weeks ago and she taught a wonderful little Batik class. This was the first time Batiking (I think I may be making that word up) for both the students and The Tin Thimble and I’m just in love with what …
