Inspirational Mandala Art Play
2025-01-11 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Silver Bowerbird Gallery, Back door 479 4th St., Courtenay, british columbia, V9N1G9, Canada
Join Margaret for a relaxed workshop creating your own inspirational mandala to help raise your energy to a new level.
Uncover your inspiration, wishes and vision for 2025 – and beyond – in this meditative mandala class. Enjoy the art of zen-dooodles and watercolour, a simple art technique that produces amazing imagery with your story embedded withn it. No art experience needed and all materials provided.
The venue is in the studio at Silver Bowerbird Gallery, home to local west coast artists’ rotating exhibitions. Enter from the back lane of 479 4th St. Downtown Courtenay. Some parking available beside the studio and on Fitzgerald Ave..

Slow Stich Series
2025-01-16 10:00 - 13:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Jan 16 – Jan 30
If you find yourself seeking a chance to slow down, to deepen your relationship with your garments and with your self, this 3-4 week series is an opportunity to do just that.
Join costume maker and artist Lori Kenney for a deep breath and many small stitches.
The practical side of this course is one of basic sewing skills many of us are missing, taking care of our clothes to make our wardrobe last longer.
The artistic side of this course will help you add character and understand traditional textile art practices from around the world, connecting you to the way humans have worked with fibres through history.
The meditative elements of this series will help you slow down, connect to your breathing and the rhythm of stitching.
Take inspiration from global textile traditions such as Kantha
techniques, mending and darning, and Japanese Boro, which focuses on re-purposing old textiles, re-piecing fabrics and building texture with stitch. Bring awareness to the calming repetition of hand stitch rhythms and discover the simple pleasure of making.
There will be time in this class for connection with each other, and portions of silence and breath.
The goal is to leave this series with a set of skills and abilities you can carry with you to calm your heart in times of need.
Please bring some worn and loved garments, as well as any scraps you would like to incorporate.
We will include materials to use, and have additional supplies available for purchase to bring home.

Intro To Quilting- A Simple Sampler
2025-02-04 18:00 - 20:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Feb 4 – Mar 11
Feeling intimidated about quilting? It can feel scary, but a calm and compassionate teacher with a plan will help you work through the step to succeed! Enter Lorraine! Please read the complete description before registration!
This multi-week class is a great primer, encompassing the basic skills you need for almost any future quilt.
Prerequisite: Students should have some experience on a sewing machine (within the last year or so), some comfort with straight line sewing.
You’ll learn about fabrics, colours, print and how many different ways you can make something look great!
You’ll gain confidence with measuring and cutting with the rotary cutter and learn chain-piecing and pressing.
You’ll learn the tips and tricks to make 4-squares look great, how to make log cabins and the essential- half square triangles!
The pattern we’ve created for this class is somewhat modular- if you want to play with the design, you may. However, if you know yourself to be indecisive or perfectionist, we invite you to make it as designed to take that pressure off you, and to spend your energy learning, not thinking!
Next, you’ll construct your whole quilt top, quilt and bind it.
Some people (like Nicole) love piecing quilts but don’t enjoy the actual quilting part- so you’ll have the option to have it long-arm quilted by Lorraine (for a fee), and then you’ll bind it!
The thing about quilts- they are infinite. One design can be made so personally and so uniquely time and again!
Batting and thread is included in the cost of the class, but fabric is not. We know many people have their own fabric they want to use, and using the collected stash is a great way to get started!
You can use as few as two fabrics for a very graphic look, or 50 for a scrappy look.

Unsculpted
2025-02-16 13:00 - 16:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
This afternoon workshop will connect you with the joy of creating for the sake of exploration, humour, and collaboration. Primarily utilizing modelling and assemblage, we will cultivate a sense of possibility, adventure and imagination.
Creating with unexpected materials can lower our inhibitions, giving us the playful experience of creating with curiosity and openness to the unexpected…just for the pleasure of it!
Unsculpted is not about learning to sculpt with skilled technical expertise; it will expand your creativity though, just not in the ways you might expect!
The activities in Unsculpted are intended to guide you back to your creative heart. The act of (art) creation can get so twisted up in our judgments of what constitutes ‘good’ that we completely lose touch with the joy of creating for the sake of exploration and playfulness.
​This one-session workshop runs from 1 to 4pm with a mid-way break. Feel free to bring drinks and snacks. The $105 workshop fee includes GST and all materials supplied. Email kristinacampbellart@gmail.com to register.

Spoken Word: An Oral Excursion From Page to Performance
2025-03-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
A workshop led by poet and performer Steven J. Thompson.
Email to reserve your spot: stevenjthompsonpoet@gmail.com
Steven J. Thompson is a writer, spoken word artist and poet. He has written
articles for Monday Magazine and 11th Transmission, and participated in the
2007 CBC Poetry Face-off. Steven’s poetry has appeared in print, in publications
such as Oratoriallis and MuseMedusa.

As a three-time member of the Victoria National Poetry Slam team, Steven has
performed at festivals and events across Canada including The Pacific Festival
of the Book, Vancouver’s Word on the Street Festival, The Canadian Festival of
Spoken Word and The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival. He is a
graduate of the Banff Spoken Word Program where he studied with Sheri-D
Wilson and Juno Award winner Lillian Allen.

Steven is co-founder of the long-running, award-winning Tongues of Fire spoken
word/poetry series in Victoria. As executive director of the Victoria Poetry Project
Society he worked as a liaison with arts organizations across Canada. In 2009
Steven was the festival director of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

Bag Making With Lorraine
2025-03-05 18:30 - 20:30 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Mar 5 – Mar 19
Join Lorraine for this great bag-making class!
You will use the Traverse Bag by Noodlehead Patterns, with a small modification to make it even more beginner-friendly.
Choose from two sizes!
This class is a great way to keep practicing those straight lines, sewing zippers, and making accurate measurements and cuts. You’ll learn how to use bag patterns, rotary cutters, and hardware.
For your convenience, we have included all the hardware, straps, zippers (with a few colours to choose from) and interfacing, so all you need to buy is your fabric. Use a lovely canvas or even a linen!
The only prerequisite: Basic knowledge of the sewing machine (Foundations, Get to Know your sewing machine class or Fundamentals are a great start.). If you are still beginner, Lorraine can help set up your machine, but there isn’t time to explain how to thread the machine, in order to keep the class focused on bag making!

Introduction to Chalk Pastels with Sandra Lamb
2025-03-22 13:30 - 2025-03-23 16:00 | The Genoa Room, Sail Buildings, Marina Park, Comox, BC, Canada
Dates: March 22 & 23, 1:30 – 4:00 PMLocation: The Genoa Room, Sail Buildings, Marina Park, ComoxLevel: Beginner
Cost: $125 per person

Discover the expressive possibilities of chalk pastels in this two-part beginner-friendly class. Learn about mark-making, surface techniques, pastel types, and layering while exploring the unique qualities of this versatile medium. Instead of completing a single artwork, participants will create small studies on different surfaces to build confidence and technique.

About the Instructor
Sandra Lamb has been teaching art in the Comox Valley for over 20 years, offering instruction in a wide range of mediums, including watercolors, chalk pastels, oils, acrylics, pen & ink, portraiture, landscape, figurative work, cartooning, book illustration, and drawing. After a short hiatus, she is excited to reconnect with familiar students and welcome new ones.

What to Bring

11″ x 14″ (or larger) watercolor paper (student grade is fine)
Basic soft chalk pastel set (10-15 colors)
Three primary colors in watercolors or acrylics (only if you already have them)
Medium-sized watercolor brush
Cheap brush for applying gesso
Water container, rags, apron
Table easel (if you have one)
Optional: Old shower curtain or plastic sheet, pastel paper, pastel crayons, or Nupastels
Sandra will provide additional materials.

Plenty of parking is available at Marina Park.
For more information and registration visit our website at www.pearlellisgallery.ca/art-classes

Layering Colours for Luminosity: A Watercolour Class with Alora Griffin
2025-03-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Lion’s Den, 1729 rear, Comox Ave, Comox, BC, V9M 3M1, Canada
Date: Sunday, April 13, 1 to 5 pm
Location: The Lion’s Den, Comox
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $100 per person
Students will learn how to layer transparent watercolour paints to achieve a luminous effect on paper, much like layers of stained glass. The instructor will illustrate the technique which the students will try out in the first half of the class. In the second half of the class, students will create a painting of a simple landscape or seascape by layering colours. Students can work from their own photo or print although prints will be provided.
About the Instructor
Alora is a skilled watercolourist who has recently returned to Vancouver Island to retire. She was previously a practicing architect in Toronto, Prince Rupert and on Salt Spring Island and prior to this taught high school art in New Zealand and Vancouver. She was recently accepted as an exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

What to bring

PAINTS: We will be using a limited palette of transparent colours. (If you wish to substitute other primary colours they have to be transparent, not opaque.)

Aureolin Yellow
Rose Madder Genuine or Permanent Rose
Cobalt Blue
Viridian

PAPER: We will be painting on 2 blocks of 140 lb. watercolour paper, which have 3 or 4 sides glued. Sizes may vary depending upon the manufacturer.

1 block – 7” x 9.5” ( 18 x 24cm )
1 block – 9.5” x 12.5” ( 24 x 32cm )

BRUSHES: Brushes can be natural fibres ( the most expensive ) synthetic ( the least expensive ), or a blend:

1 Pointed #8 or #10
1 Round #12 or #14
1 Flat 1/2” or 3/4”.

Small roll of paper towels and a soft graphite pencil

NOTE: Palettes for mixing paint and containers for rinsing brushes will be supplied.
Where to purchase

PJ’s Art Supply, 1365 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)
Monk Office, #3-2760 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)
Benjamin Moore House of Color, 249 5th St (Pearl members receive a discount)
Valley Art Supply, Comox Mall, lower level

Layering Colours for Luminosity: A Watercolour Class with Alora Griffin
2025-04-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Lion’s Den, 1729 rear, Comox Ave, Comox, BC, V9M 3M1, Canada
Date: Sunday, April 13, 1 to 5 pm
Location: The Lion’s Den, Comox
Level: Intermediate – participants should be familiar with colour theory and mixing.
Cost: $100 per person

Students will learn how to layer transparent watercolour paints to achieve a luminous effect on paper, much like layers of stained glass. The instructor will illustrate the technique which the students will try out in the first half of the class. In the second half of the class, students will create a painting of a simple landscape or seascape by layering colours. Students can work from their own photo or print although prints will be provided.
About the Instructor
Alora is a skilled watercolourist who has recently returned to Vancouver Island to retire. She was previously a practicing architect in Toronto, Prince Rupert and on Salt Spring Island and prior to this taught high school art in New Zealand and Vancouver. She was recently accepted as an exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
What to bring

PAINTS: We will be using a limited palette of transparent colours. (If you wish to substitute other primary colours they have to be transparent, not opaque.)

Aureolin Yellow

Rose Madder Genuine or Permanent Rose

Cobalt Blue

Viridian

PAPER: We will be painting on 2 blocks of 140 lb. watercolour paper, which have 3 or 4 sides glued. Sizes may vary depending upon the manufacturer.

1 block – 7” x 9.5” ( 18 x 24cm )

1 block – 9.5” x 12.5” ( 24 x 32cm )

BRUSHES: Brushes can be natural fibres ( the most expensive ) synthetic ( the least expensive ), or a blend:

1 Pointed #8 or #10

1 Round #12 or #14

1 Flat 1/2” or 3/4”.

Small roll of paper towels and a soft graphite pencil

NOTE: Palettes for mixing paint and containers for rinsing brushes will be supplied.
Where to purchase

PJ’s Art Supply, 1365 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)

Monk Office, #3-2760 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)

Benjamin Moore House of Color, 249 5th St (Pearl members receive a discount)

Valley Art Supply, Comox Mall, lower level

Cancellation & Refund Policy:
Cancellations must be made at least 24 hours before the event.
If Pearl Ellis Gallery must cancel and is unable to reschedule, or if the new date does not work for you, you will receive a full refund.

Layering Colours for Luminosity A Watercolour Class with Alora Griffin
2025-04-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Lion’s Den, 1729 rear, Comox Ave, Comox, BC, V9M 3M1, Canada
Date: Sunday, April 13, 1 to 5 pm
Location: The Lion’s Den, Comox
Level: Intermediate – participants should be familiar with colour theory and mixing.
Cost: $100 per person
Students will learn how to layer transparent watercolour paints to achieve a luminous effect on paper, much like layers of stained glass. The instructor will illustrate the technique which the students will try out in the first half of the class. In the second half of the class, students will create a painting of a simple landscape or seascape by layering colours. Students can work from their own photo or print although prints will be provided.
About the Instructor
Alora is a skilled watercolourist who has recently returned to Vancouver Island to retire. She was previously a practicing architect in Toronto, Prince Rupert and on Salt Spring Island and prior to this taught high school art in New Zealand and Vancouver. She was recently accepted as an exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
What to bring

PAINTS: We will be using a limited palette of transparent colours. (If you wish to substitute other primary colours they have to be transparent, not opaque.)

Aureolin Yellow

Rose Madder Genuine or Permanent Rose

Cobalt Blue

Viridian

PAPER: We will be painting on 2 blocks of 140 lb. watercolour paper, which have 3 or 4 sides glued. Sizes may vary depending upon the manufacturer.

1 block – 7” x 9.5” ( 18 x 24cm )

1 block – 9.5” x 12.5” ( 24 x 32cm )

BRUSHES: Brushes can be natural fibres ( the most expensive ) synthetic ( the least expensive ), or a blend:

1 Pointed #8 or #10

1 Round #12 or #14

1 Flat 1/2” or 3/4”.

Small roll of paper towels and a soft graphite pencil

NOTE: Palettes for mixing paint and containers for rinsing brushes will be supplied.
Where to purchase

PJ’s Art Supply, 1365 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)

Monk Office, #3-2760 Cliffe Ave (Pearl members receive a discount)

Benjamin Moore House of Color, 249 5th St (Pearl members receive a discount)

Valley Art Supply, Comox Mall, lower level

words + images: collage poetry workshop
2025-04-13 13:30 - 16:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
Celebrate National Poetry Month by exploring this year’s theme, “family,” to create your own collage poem, as well as to contribute to a collaborative poem.
All materials will be provided, just bring your own scissors and any extra special bits you want to use for your creation.

Email wordsandimagescollagepoetry@gmail.com to register.

Step-by-Step Acrylic Painting with Alexander Campbell
2025-04-27 13:30 - 15:30 | Lion’s Den, 1729 rear, Comox Ave, Comox, BC, V9M 3M1, Canada
Dates: Sunday, April 27th, 1:30-3:30 PM
Location: The Lion’s Den, Comox
Level: Beginner
Cost: $45
Join Alexander Campbell for a guided acrylic painting experience, perfect for beginners. In this step-by-step class, Alexander will demonstrate a painting while participants follow along on their own canvases. By the end of the session, each participant will leave with a completed painting.
About the Instructor:
Alex Campbell is a Comox Valley artist known for his vibrant West Coast-themed paintings featuring wildlife and wilderness. Skilled in multiple mediums, he has experience painting on rock, wood, glass, fabric, and canvas. As a dynamic Paint Nite host and tour guide, Alex is adept at leading groups through creative activities in a fun and engaging way.
All materials are provided, including aprons, brushes, paints, canvases, easels, water cups, and tablecloths.

Bag Making With Lorraine
2025-05-02 10:00 - 12:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
May 2 – May 16
Join Lorraine for this great bag-making class!
You will use the Traverse Bag by Noodlehead Patterns, with a small modification to make it even more beginner-friendly.
Choose from two sizes!
This class is a great way to keep practicing those straight lines, sewing zippers, and making accurate measurements and cuts. You’ll learn how to use bag patterns, rotary cutters, and hardware.
For your convenience, we have included all the hardware, straps, zippers (with a few colours to choose from) and interfacing, so all you need to buy is your fabric. Use a lovely canvas or even a linen!
The only prerequisite: Basic knowledge of the sewing machine (Foundations, Get to Know your sewing machine class or Fundamentals are a great start.). If you are still beginner, Lorraine can help set up your machine, but there isn’t time to explain how to thread the machine, in order to keep the class focused on bag making!

Slow Stich Series
2025-05-02 18:30 - 20:45 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
May 2 – May 23
If you find yourself seeking a chance to slow down, to deepen your relationship with your garments and with your self, this 3-4 week series is an opportunity to do just that.
Join costume maker and artist Lori Kenney for a deep breath and many small stitches.
The practical side of this course is one of basic sewing skills many of us are missing, taking care of our clothes to make our wardrobe last longer.
The artistic side of this course will help you add character and understand traditional textile art practices from around the world, connecting you to the way humans have worked with fibres through history.
The meditative elements of this series will help you slow down, connect to your breathing and the rhythm of stitching.
Take inspiration from global textile traditions such as Kantha
techniques, mending and darning, and Japanese Boro, which focuses on re-purposing old textiles, re-piecing fabrics and building texture with stitch. Bring awareness to the calming repetition of hand stitch rhythms and discover the simple pleasure of making.
There will be time in this class for connection with each other, and portions of silence and breath.
The goal is to leave this series with a set of skills and abilities you can carry with you to calm your heart in times of need.
Please bring some worn and loved garments, as well as any scraps you would like to incorporate.
We will include materials to use, and have additional supplies available for purchase to bring home.

Natural Dye; Deep Dive!
2025-05-10 14:00 - 17:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
May 10 – Jun 7
If you love natural dyes, working with fibre and exploring colour, you’ll love this six week course with Eloise Holland!
Take control of your dye work and look more closely at the processes and chemistry behind the colours. This six-week intensive course is geared for fascinated beginners. You will finish this course feeling more confidence in your ability to safely and beautifully use natural dyes at home, with resources to continue building your skills!
On day one we will touch on best practices for a safe and efficient dye process, and look at the different materials to dye including recycled fabrics, wool, cotton and silk. We will cover tannin dyes with either Sumac or Walnuts
On day two we learn about the charm of red dyes. Madder is one of the oldest reds, and is a plant that can be grown locally. Coccineal is derived from an insect that feeds on cactus. These reds will bring us a variety of tones using modifiers and post mordants
On day three we cover the various yellows that are so abundant in the plant world. From Goldenrod to Tansy and Chamomile we look at the subtle shade variations these flavonoid dyes produce.
On day four is an introduction to Indigo which is always magical and exciting. We will touch on the basics of this vat dye, exploring resist dyeing and giving you the grounding for your own experiments.
On day five we will build on our previous work by looking at overdyeing. This is a day of experimentation.
On day six we will touch on dyeing with mushrooms and lichen. We are blessed with several locally available dye mushrooms and this is your chance to learn to coax colours from them.
-All materials will be provided, but please bring gloves and a face mask (to protect against small airborne particles). Feel free to bring a notebook, and please dress for mess. If you have some small fabrics or textiles you would like to dye, please feel free to bring them (doilies, scraps, small pieces only. No yardage!)

Adult/Teen Intro To Crochet
2025-05-28 18:30 - 20:30 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
May 28 – Jun 11
Ready to get crocheting? You will love this three-class session! This class is for Teens (14+) and Adults!
Starting with some simple stitch trials,you will gain experience and confidence in crochet, and then make this adorable cat plushy!
Learn to work in rows, circles and make a granny square!
All materials are included, with a range of colours to choose from.
You will be able to bring the project home to work on between classes, and keep your new crochet hook and yarn!

Natural Dye; Deep Dive!
2025-06-12 15:00 - 18:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Jan 12 – Feb 16
If you love natural dyes, working with fibre and exploring colour, you’ll love this six week course with Eloise Holland!
Take control of your dye work and look more closely at the processes and chemistry behind the colours. This six-week intensive course is geared for fascinated beginners. You will finish this course feeling more confidence in your ability to safely and beautifully use natural dyes at home, with resources to continue building your skills!
On day one we will touch on best practices for a safe and efficient dye process, and look at the different materials to dye including recycled fabrics, wool, cotton and silk. We will cover tannin dyes with either Sumac or Walnuts
On day two we learn about the charm of red dyes. Madder is one of the oldest reds, and is a plant that can be grown locally. Coccineal is derived from an insect that feeds on cactus. These reds will bring us a variety of tones using modifiers and post mordants
On day three we cover the various yellows that are so abundant in the plant world. From Goldenrod to Tansy and Chamomile we look at the subtle shade variations these flavonoid dyes produce.
On day four is an introduction to Indigo which is always magical and exciting. We will touch on the basics of this vat dye, exploring resist dyeing and giving you the grounding for your own experiments.
On day five we will build on our previous work by looking at overdyeing. This is a day of experimentation.
On day six we will touch on dyeing with mushrooms and lichen. We are blessed with several locally available dye mushrooms and this is your chance to learn to coax colours from them.
-All materials will be provided, but please bring gloves and a face mask (to protect against small airborne particles). Feel free to bring a notebook, and please dress for mess. If you have some small fabrics or textiles you would like to dye, please feel free to bring them (doilies, scraps, small pieces only. No yardage!)

M/other Zine Workshop
2025-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Comox Valley Lifelong Learning Centre, 1507A McPhee Ave, Courtenay, BC, V9N 3A6, Canada
Come for two hours of creativity, and connection to generate a contribution to a local zine honoring the often invisible work of m/others and the concept of caregiving (See event photo for detailed project description).

– All materials will be supplied.
– There will be child-minding onsite and a
– Snacks, pizza and drinks will be provided!

***If you can’t attend the workshop, you can still contribute by sendingfiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, recipes, letters, book/website/blog reviews, comic strips, rants, day dreams, random lists, collage, art, drawings, art work and writing of any kind to: butchanko@hotmail.com
by September 15th, 2025

Intercultural Weaving Project @ 4 two 5 Studio
2025-08-25 13:00 - 15:00 | BC
An artistic space where local artists gather weekly to creatively weave visual and narrative threads, exploring and expressing intercultural stories through textiles and mixed media in a spirit of collaboration and shared learning.
Where & When

Venue: 4 two 5 Studio, Courtenay
Frequency: Weekly open studio sessions, drop‑in style
Duration: Mondays and Saturdays, August 25th – October 4th, 1-3pm

Why join in?

Experiment collaboratively in a supportive, low-pressure environment
Share and learn from diverse materials, techniques, and cultural stories
Partner with CV/Arts, whose mission emphasizes equity, inclusivity, accessibility, and community engaged artistic practice

What’s provided

All weaving materials tools will be supplied. There is no need to bring materials unless they are specific to your project
Optional: bring a memory, poem, personal story, or cultural theme you’d like to visually

Who’s welcome

Artists of all experience levels and cultural backgrounds.
Whether you’re into textiles, visual arts, craft, story-based media, or if you’re simply curious and creatively inclined, you belong here.

How to sign up

Please email: ameet@ameetart.com. Include:

A brief description of your artistic practice and interest in the project.
Which weekly sessions you can attend and any accessibility accommodations you may require.

Intercultural Weaving Project @ 4 two 5 Studio
2025-08-30 13:00 - 15:00 | 4 Two 5 Studio, Courtenay, BC, Canada

Intro To Quilting- A Simple Sampler
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Oct 9 – Nov 13

Feeling intimidated about quilting? It can feel scary, but a calm and compassionate teacher with a plan will help you work through the step to succeed! Enter Lorraine! Please read the complete description before registration!

This multi-week class is a great primer, encompassing the basic skills you need for almost any future quilt.

Prerequisite: Students should have some experience on a sewing machine (within the last year or so), some comfort with straight line sewing.

You’ll learn about fabrics, colours, print and how many different ways you can make something look great!

You’ll gain confidence with measuring and cutting with the rotary cutter and learn chain-piecing and pressing.

You’ll learn the tips and tricks to make 4-squares look great, how to make log cabins and the essential- half square triangles!

The pattern we’ve created for this class is somewhat modular- if you want to play with the design, you may. However, if you know yourself to be indecisive or perfectionist, we invite you to make it as designed to take that pressure off you, and to spend your energy learning, not thinking!

Next, you’ll construct your whole quilt top, quilt and bind it.

Some people (like Nicole) love piecing quilts but don’t enjoy the actual quilting part- so you’ll have the option to have it long-arm quilted by Lorraine (for a fee), and then you’ll bind it!

The thing about quilts- they are infinite. One design can be made so personally and so uniquely time and again!

Batting and thread is included in the cost of the class, but fabric is not. We know many people have their own fabric they want to use, and using the collected stash is a great way to get started!

You can use as few as two fabrics for a very graphic look, or 50 for a scrappy look.

New Moon Meditation Mandala
2025-11-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Silver Bowerbird Gallery, Back door 479 4th St., Courtenay, british columbia, V9N1G9, Canada
November 20th. Night of the New Moon
Discover the joy of creativity at the Mandala Art Workshop! Learn to design intricate patterns that inspire mindfulness and relaxation. Suitable for all skill levels, this calming experience nurtures self-expression, focus, and artistic exploration in a supportive environment. Explore colour, unleash your imagination, and connect with like-minded individuals.
This is an evening workshop 5:30-7:30pm
Supplies & Refreshment included.
Cost $50. Email to register
