Workshops
A GOOD HARVEST - A harvest basket weaving workshop
This five hour workshop offers a space to gather together with the soulful practices of harvesting plant material from the land and working it to become a rustic and beautiful autumn harvest basket.
Making use of Common ivy sourced on site, we will work with a pan cultural twining technique to weave our baskets. Using this invasive and fast growing plant, we will offer support to the land, even if in a minute way, to move towards balance. The rhythmic process of weaving will simultaneously work some balance into us through the slow and mindful work of our hands.
This workshop will be offered on the following dates:
Sundays: Nov 8th
11am - 4pm
Tuesdays: Nov 17th
11am - 4pm
Private Warrandyte location given upon booking
$120 standard / $100 concession or bring a friend / $80 supported or returning weaver
Full details and bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/a-good-harvest
The Fibre Cycle - Seasonal gatherings for learning, making and shared practice.
The Fibre Cycle is an invitation to cultivate the sensitive eyes and attentive hands of the seasonal maker.
It is an opportunity to notice what is plentiful, what is ripe for harvesting, what has fallen or been pruned, and what a particular material might be asking of us. As we move between basket weaving, eco-dyeing, mending, spinning and other earth-based creative processes, we begin to discover the possibilities held within different fibres, and to feel into which materials, techniques and ideas draw us in.
Each season brings its own offerings and limitations, rhythms and invitations. The Fibre Cycle creates space to follow those shifts, turn ideas over in our hands, explore unexpected connections between practices, and allow our making to be guided by curiosity, inspiration and a deepening attentiveness to the living world.
A Year of working with fibres.
Each season brings together project days, where a particular basket weaving technique or textile process is introduced and explored, and open studio sessions, offering time to continue your work, ask questions, experiment share ideas and make alongside others.
Project days offer focused teaching, demonstrations and time to settle into a process. Open studio sessions provide a more spacious counterpart: a chance to return to something you’ve begun, experiment with an idea, work through a tricky part, or simply give yourself time to play.
Four seasonal journeys throughout 2027. You can join for a single season or the whole year.
Private Warrandyte location
Full details and bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/thefibrecycle
Weaving Space - Riverside weaving circles
A three-hour basket weaving circle for those who have previously attended a basket weaving workshop or have a weaving practice of their own.
Weaving Space is an informal gathering for returning to your basket weaving practice. Bring along a basket you’ve already begun, revisit a technique you’d like to strengthen, or start something new. There will be space to ask questions, explore materials, revisit aspects of harvesting and preparation, and receive support as your weaving unfolds.
These circles have grown from a longing expressed by many who have attended my workshops: for opportunities to keep weaving beyond the workshop itself, to return to the skills and techniques we’ve begun to learn, and to spend unhurried time making alongside others.
There is no formal project to complete and no expectation to keep pace with anyone else. Just time, materials, shared knowledge and the quiet pleasure of weaving together.
Sunday Dec 20th / Sunday Jan 17th 2027
Full details and bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/weavingspace
Are you interested in a custom workshop?
Workshops can be designed to suit your group;
Gatherings of family and friends, staff events, birthdays, baby blessings, retreats and more