With Ayrin Gharibpour

Bring your favorite sketches to life through the meditative art of needle felting! In this hands-on session, you’ll learn to sculpt loose wool into a solid, three-dimensional character based on your own doodles or designs. We provide a vibrant palette of wool colors to help your creation burst with personality. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a unique fuzzy companion to guard your desk or wear as a custom bag charm.

About the Artist:

Ayrin Gharibpour is a fabricator, animator and educator based in Los Angeles. Ayrin was born and raised in Iran and attended the Art University of Tehran where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. She has ten years of experience in illustrating children's books and performing as puppeteer for theaters both in Tehran and Los Angeles including Aran Marionette Theater, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, the Skirball Cultural Center and Redcat Theater. Learn more

Workshop Details:

• Date: Saturday, September 19th

• Time: 11:00am - 1pm

• Address: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

led by Malavika Rao

In this workshop, participants will create a handmade slow stitch journal, learning foundational hand-sewing techniques while practicing intuitive patchwork and fabric collage. We’ll bind the journals together in class and design personalized fabric covers, creating tactile objects meant to be returned to, added onto, and lived with over time.

Slow stitching is a fiber art practice grounded in attention, repetition, and radical slowness. In this session, we’ll emphasize process over perfection, approaching fiber as a contemplative, intuitive material rather than a means toward a polished end result. The journals we create can function as memory books, processing spaces, or sites for ongoing stitching, reflection, and experimentation.

All materials will be provided, including fabric scraps and sewing notions. Participants are welcome to bring their own scraps to incorporate into their journals. Everyone will leave the workshop with a bound journal to continue filling and stitching into over time. No prior sewing experience is necessary — this workshop is beginner-friendly and open to all.

Workshop Details:

• Date: Sunday, September 20th

• Time: 12pm - 3pm

• Location: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Duration: 3 hours

• Skill level: No sewing experience required!

With Michelle Nieweg

Transform a tarot card into your own personalized piece of art! You'll start by selecting a card at random from a deck, then cutting away and rebuilding imagery using collage techniques to create a tarot card that reflects your own story, emotions, or intentions. No art or tarot experience needed - all materials are provided, and each attendee will leave with a one-of-a-kind customized tarot card. 

Workshop Details:

• Date: Sunday, September 27

• Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

• Address: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

Join multidisciplinary healer and herbalist, Allie Brown, for an incense crafting and mindfulness workshop. Learn to craft hand rolled and cone incense blends inspired by the energetic transition from summer to fall, using resins, powders, herbs, such as sandalwood and frankincense.

Burning incense can be used as a mindfulness practice, transforming the sensory experience of smoke and scent, to one of present-moment awareness and grounding. Explore the spiritual science behind incense, and discover how this ancient practice can support emotional transformation, energetic cleansing, intuition and more. 

Smoke moves in fluid, ever-changing patterns—rising with warmth and gently dispersing as it cools. Across many spiritual traditions, it is seen as a bridge between the physical and unseen realms, carrying prayers, intentions, and offerings while symbolizing purification and transformation.

Allie will guide us in meditation with sound healing instruments. 

Tea will be served, to keep us nourished and grounded. 

No prior experience is necessary.

Workshop Details

• Date: Friday, October 2

• Time: 6:30pm - 8:15pm

• Address: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

With Jamie S. Maloney @faultlinesfiberart

Have fun with the monkeyflower, a beautiful and whimsical California wildflower, while you master both foundational embroidery stitches and a special 3-D stitch. 

After practicing the fundamentals, you’ll learn stem stitch, satin stitch, and a technique for lively, animated leaves. Then you’ll learn the highly dimensional woven picot to help your embroidery leap off the fabric. You’ll also get tips and advice on how to make your piece special and how to use what you learn to make almost any flower you see. 

At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home a unique piece to finish and instructions for how to display it.

No previous experience needed. This beginner-friendly workshop includes all supplies. Just bring yourself. 

Workshop Details:

• Date: Saturday, October 3rd

• Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

• Address: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

Join us for a free fiber craft circle loosely guided by Isabelle Caldwell

Bring your own knitting, crochet, or mending projects! Isabelle will be available to help with troubleshooting or brainstorming ideas, and some materials will be available to use.

This is a recurring, free community craft night held on bi-weekly and sometimes monthly basis.

UPDATE: September’s Fiber Friends has been rescheduled to 9/29

Details:

• Dates: September 29

• Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

• Location: 850 N Virgil Ave

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

Enshrine a photograph in a stained glass picture frame

In this workshop led by Inessa Illes, you'll work with a selection of pre-cut glass shapes to build a frame sized to hold a favorite photo, polaroid, or photobooth strip.

Inessa will guide you through each step of the process, from selecting and arranging your pieces to soldering them together into a finished piece.

Bring your own photo to use for the sizing of the frame!

Workshop Details:

• Date: Sunday, September 6th

• Time: 12pm - 4:30pm

• Address: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

• Duration: 4.5 hours

• Class size: Limited to 6 participants

• Skill level: Beginner-friendly - no experience required

Note: tickets are transferable but not refundable. Cancellations within 24 hours are not eligible for transfer.