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Find Your Spot! Up ahead - this winter/spring there are 150+ courses open for you to get your hands on new skills, relish time on the North House campus, and reaffirm the importance of lifetime learning. Click the link to learn more and register today! Follow the Courses by Calendar link above to see how classes and our events & thematic weekends weave the seasons together.
October
Pole Lathe Turning Oct 22 Woven: Traditional Swedish Table-Made Hair Bracelet Oct 22 Making Hide & Canvas Boots Oct 23 Exploring Woven Structures: Plaited Twill, Rosepath, and More Oct 28 Frightful Forging Oct 29 Natural Wet Felting with Local Wool Oct 31November
Handwoven Pillow Nov 5 Scandinavian Inspired Boxes with Sliding Dovetailed Lids Nov 5 Primstav: Tattoo Your Stories in Wood Nov 6 Needle Felting & Bead Embroidery: Bead, Felt, & Frame Nov 13 Wood Carving Tutorial Nov 17 Event: Winterers' Gathering and Arctic Film Festival Nov 20–22 Sewing a Viking Age Woolen Hood Nov 21December
Anishinaabe-Style Bead Embroidery & Moccasin Sewing Dec 3 Bowl Carving with Axe, Adze, and Gouge Dec 4 Loop-in-Loop Chain Bracelet Dec 4 Processing Wild Foods and Homegrown Grains/Legumes Dec 4 Sugar Coat Sweater Dec 5 Rosemaling Holiday Ornaments Dec 12January
Handspinning Yarn: Unraveling Woolen and Worsted Textures Jan 8 Minnesota Loons Sweater: A Colorwork Knitting Adventure Jan 8 Norwegian Needlecraft: Taking the 'Hard' out of Hardanger Jan 9 Deerskin Mittens with Anishinaabe-Style Beadwork Jan 14 Masonry Heater Building Jan 15 Introduction to Rosemaling Gudbrandsdal Style Jan 16 Puzzles in Wood and String Jan 16 Fancy Butter! Butter Molds and Butter Sampling Jan 22 Making Hide & Canvas Boots Jan 22 Après-ski Jan 25 Adirondack Chair Building Jan 27 Wooden Spoon Carving Traditions Jan 28 The Art of Beverage-making: Teas, Herbs, Water, and Bubbles Jan 29 Adirondack Chair Building Jan 30 Hand-Sewn Leather Tote Bag Jan 30 Winter Natural Dye Exploration Jan 30February
Skill Building in Anishinaabe Beadwork Feb 6 Technique Building in Anishinaabe Beadwork Feb 7 Event: Fiber Week Feb 9–16 Carve and Weave: Exploring Tension-Based Weaving Traditions Feb 9 Creative Color for Fiber Artists Feb 9 Hand Knit Azerbaijani Slippers Feb 9 Scandinavian Roots: Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom Feb 9 Bead Weaving from Western Ukraine Feb 13 Build Your Own Drum Carder Feb 13 North House Fair Isle Project Feb 13 Weaving Gamps: Twill, Sett, and Color Feb 13 Knitted Longwool Locks Scarf Feb 14 Stitching a Folk Battle Vest Feb 17 Carved and Kolrosed (Tattoos for Wood) Cutting Board Feb 19 Straw, Paper, Reeds: Mobile-Making Traditions of Europe Feb 20 Birch Bark Boxes: Scandinavian Bark Basketry Feb 25 Hedeby Bags: The Ancient Art of Sprang Feb 26 Masonry Heater Building Feb 26 Sewing a Simple Garment: Introduction to Sewing Feb 26 Trees of the North Woods Feb 27March
Crossbody Saddle Bag Mar 5 Rigid Heddle: Beyond Plain Weave Mar 5 Giizhik Anaakananens: Weaving a Small Cedar Mat Mar 6 Event: Wood Week Mar 9–16 Kuksa Carving: Traditional Scandinavian Drinking Cup Mar 9 Kolrosing Nordic Runes Mar 13 Swiss-Style Coopering: Flat Backed Wooden Staved Vessels Mar 13 Coopering: Buckets in the Western European & American Style Mar 18 Cases, Covers, and Sheaths: Protect Your Tools Mar 19 Rosemaling Plants from the Boreal Forest Mar 19 Rya Rugs: Painterly Designs through Knots Mar 25 Pysanky: Ukrainian Egg Painting Mar 26 One Pot, Many Colors Mar 27 Wet Felted Hand Puppets and Oven Mitts Mar 27 Narrative Storytelling with Pebble Jewelry Mar 29April
Grow Your Own Sweater: Shepherding, Spinning, Stitches Apr 1 Blacksmithing: Women & Non-Binary Session Apr 2 Healing Through Craft: Jewelry Fabrication Apr 2 Jewish Baking Apr 4 Sew Your Own Scandinavian Work Shirt Apr 13 Wood and Wool: Carve and Spin Apr 13 Damascus Knife and Leather Sheath Apr 15 Creative Mending Apr 16 Intro to Inkle Weaving Apr 16 Swedish Dalmålning with Homemade Casein Paints Apr 16 Card Weaving: Beginner & Intermediate Apr 17 Plant Proteins from Scratch: Tempeh, Seitan, Tofu and More! Apr 17 Scandinavian Pick Up Band Weaving Apr 19 Playful Freeform Embroidery Apr 20 Child's Windsor Side Chair Apr 23 Needle Felting & Bead Embroidery: Bead, Felt, & Frame Apr 23 Tackle Box Tank: A Stash-Busting Knitting Retreat Apr 23 Wood, Linen, Leather, Wool: A Handcraft Sampler Apr 23 Trees of the North Woods Apr 24 Wild Yeast: The Art and Science of Sourdough Bread Apr 26 Blacksmithing: Crafting The Tools of the Trade Apr 27 Woven: Table-Made Hairwork Sampler Apr 29 Loop-in-Loop Chain Bracelet Apr 30May
Birding and Botanizing Through May May 1 Soapmaking: The Old Fashioned Way May 1 Soapmaking: The Old Fashioned Way May 2 Event: Building Traditions: Tools and Techniques from Norway May 4–12 Forager and the Cook May 4 Traditional Building: Grindbygg Construction May 4 Traditional Forged Tools for the Woodworker May 4 Traditional Tools: Norwegian Wooden Hand Planes, Scrub Planes May 4 Traditional Tools: Pjål May 4 Medicines of the North: A 5-Day Boreal Botanical Experience May 5 Natural Paints and Plasters May 7 Birding and Botanizing Through May May 8 Traditional Tools: Bench Plane and Pjål Irons May 9 Traditional Tools: Frame Saws May 9 Traditional Tools: Norwegian Wooden Hand Planes, Moulding Planes May 10 Lantern Puppet Design and Construction May 14 Birding and Botanizing Through May May 15 Viking Axe Heads May 15 Asparagus May 17 Forging A Mjolnir: The Blacksmith's Rounding Hammer May 21 Juggle Braiding May 21 Leather and Wood Backpack May 21 Naturescapes in Fiber May 21 Refine Your Bowl Design Through Production Methodology May 21 Birding and Botanizing Through May May 22 Hand-Sewn Leather Laptop Case and Wallet May 22 Wattle Fences and Garden Trellises May 22 Rosemaling: Os Style May 25 Spindle Turning: An Introduction to the Lathe May 25 Blacksmithing: The Basics & Beyond May 27 Foraging for Spring Wild Edibles May 27 Event: Northern Landscapes Festival May 28–30 Spring Birding on the North Shore May 28 Beekeeping Basics May 29 Birding and Botanizing Through May May 29 Discovering the Language of Birds May 29 Spring Birding on the North Shore May 30June
Foraging for Spring Wild Edibles Jun 1 Designing a Landscape Using Edible and Medicinal Plants Jun 4 Northwoods Nature Through the Lens Jun 4 Spring Birding on the North Shore Jun 4 Welcome to Blacksmithing! Jun 4 Custom Leather Sandal Construction Jun 5 Discovering the Language of Birds Jun 5 Indigo 1,2,3 Jun 5 Lichens and Mosses of the North Woods Jun 5 Pajaki: Making Polish Mobiles Jun 5 Lichens and Mosses of the North Woods Jun 6 Spring Birding on the North Shore Jun 6 Intermediate North Shore Pebble Jewelry Jun 8 Forge a Railroad Spike Knife Jun 9 Custom Color: Woven Summer Scarves Jun 10 Leather Messenger Bag Jun 10 A Midsommar Feast Jun 11 Tiny Forests: Macro Photography of Moss and Lichen Jun 11 Families at the Forge Jun 12 Midsommar Herbs: Wild Medicine Workshop Jun 12 Families at the Forge Jun 13 Rhubarbarama Jun 13 Composite Canoe Repair and Maintenance Jun 15 Hand-Forged Using Knife Jun 15 Mending: Hand-Sewn Techniques Jun 16 Everything Agate: A History, a Hunt, and Felting Your Own Jun 17 Introduction to Rosemaling Jun 17 Event: Summer Solstice and Wooden Boat Festival Jun 18–20 Hand-Sewing the Sailor's Ditty Bag Jun 21 Beginning Telemark Rosemaling Jun 26 Blacksmith's Folding Knife Jun 26 Trees of the North Woods Jun 26 Lichens and Mosses of the North Woods Jun 27
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