Looky Here

Make Our Merch! A free up cycling workshop!
2025-01-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

Quilting with Rae Heller Part 1: (3 week series with Rae Heller Saturdays, 3:30-6:30 $155)
2025-01-25 15:30 - 18:30
3 week Quilting with Rae (Part 1): Saturdays 3:30-6:30 1/25, 2/1, 2/15
Part 1: Creativity is held well through soft materials, creating something of nothing, and slow stitching. Part 1 of this foundational quilting course will be focused on traditional quilting techniques. Learn how to build a quilt block using checkers, half square triangles, strip piecing, chain piecing, nesting seams, improv quilting, and creating larger patterns to form your quilt top. This class is not project based. Students will have the space to follow their creative dreams!
Then, we will build on learned techniques and explore “sandwiching” your quilt, binding, and finishing your quilt. We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. A few sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own if they have one! Sewing skills are helpful but not a must. Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice!
Most Materials included – you are encouraged to bring fabric that makes your heart sing. Head to Swanson’s Fabrics! Looky Here does have plenty of scraps as well. Batting/thread/scissors/everything else included.

Make Our Merch! A free up cycling workshop!
2025-02-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-28 15:00 - 17:00
Learn different methods of up-cycling clothing to creator line of Looky Looks! All items made will be sold as merchandise in our shop!

Quilting 101 - Part 2: (3 week series with Rae Heller 3/9, 3/16, and 3/23 3:30-6:00 $155)
2025-03-09 15:30 - 18:00
Quilting 101 – Part 2: SUNDAYS 3/9, 3/16, and 3/23

Part 2 will build on learned techniques and explore “sandwiching” your quilt, binding, and finishing your quilt. We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. A few sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own if they have one! Sewing skills are helpful but not a must. Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice!

Quilting 101 - Part 3: Office Hours with Rae - 4/6, 4/13 and 4/27 (no class 4/20) 3:30-6:00 $155
2025-04-06 15:30 - 18:00
Quilting 101 – Part 3: Office Hours with Rae – 4/6, 4/13 and 4/27 (no class 4/20)

Part 3 offers one-on-one attention, community support, and cheerleading to help you FINISH your project!

Limited to six students.

Make a Beret with Estha Amar (1/11)
2026-01-11 12:00 - 14:00
Learn to make a beret!
A beret is only three circles and some very simple math.
In this class you will learn how to make a basic beret and then how to do a contrasting lining and an edging.
Practice fabric will be available but feel free to bring your own to work on a final piece.
This hat can be made by hand or on a sewing machine. We will work on both techniques.
You will receive a paper pattern with instructions and a digital file of the pattern.

Make Our Merch! A free up cycling workshop! (1/25)
2026-01-25 13:00 - 15:00

*Make Our Merch! A free up cycling workshop! (2/22)
2026-02-22 13:00 - 15:00

Improvised Quilting: The Sampler Class (8 wks - 7/9/26-10/28/26, 5:30-7:30pm, $200)
2026-09-09 17:30 - 19:30
This is an 8 week long quilting course with Sarah King from 7/9/26-10/28/26 from 5:30-7:30pm
This course is a supportive class for improvised projects on varying scales, suited to help students at the beginner level and the experienced pursue a project of their own design. We will investigate improvised practices and explore the journey of this type of quilting through the structure of a sampler quilt. The 8 weeks will center on each student discovering their own personality as an improvised quilter and find confidence to explore their instincts. The hope with this course is to help students understand their own quilting personality while also developing skills on sewing and accomplishing a finished work. Each week students will be led with a new improvising prompt, skill or concept that will be turned into a block. Through these blocks, students will learn to set strategies for their process while also learning to cope with the evolutions and shifts that come up in improvising. Students will also learn how to share work and get feedback from other students and build community in making.

Quilting is as much about the process as it is about the finished quilt. It is an exercise in exploring one’s relationship to navigating entropy: finding narrative and pattern in chaos. Playing with how many possibilities and pieces and colors and textures are before you and empowering oneself to make decisions and be flexible to change.
