We are very excited to welcome Jeannine Stein, author of the book Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials into our studio for a brand new bookbinding class! In her book, Jeannine demonstrates 16 step-by-step projects of bookmaking using recycled/repurposed materials, from potato chip bags and sweaters, to record albums or gift cards. The illustrations are beautifully done, including a 14 project section in the back that showcase artists’ handmade books.

On Sunday, February 7th Jeannine will be teaching the Bingo Book in our studio. This class is fit for a beginner and books will be created from scratch, using vintage papers and materials. Create your book cover out of Bingo cards, and the inside pages of your book using papers from vintage fashion magazines. Lastly, you will learn the beautiful Romanesque stitch to bind the pages of your book to the cover. Attach with a button closure and you’ll be set with a handmade, vintage, one-of-a kind journal!

The Bingo Book class is on Sunday February 7th from 11am-3pm. The cost of the class is $80 – members receive a 15% discount! Please drop by the studio or give us a call to reserve your spot – space is limited!

We just unpacked the cutest load of new needle felting kits! We’re now happy to be selling WoolPets kits in 18 different varieties. Each one comes stuffed with tons of roving, needles, and super easy instructions with lots of pictures. There’s a chickadee, a sock monkey, a baby penguin, a fox…a whole zoo of little animals to take home. Come check them out!

Now available at the UCC – make your own valentine kits! This year, opt for handmade, not mass produced. These kits have all the supplies you need to make yarn embroidered envelope style valentines that are the perfect size for special mix CD. Show the special people in your life how much they are loved!

We just inventoried a whole new order of awesome Alexander Henry fabric! We’ve added some adorable new home decor weight fabric, including two big owl prints, a vintage circus design, and some cool pirate themed skulls:

We’ve also added a batch of quilting weight fabrics…sunshine lemons, bright strawberries, calico cats and fluttering butterflies:

Shannon Richards taught her laminated cotton Cosmetic Bag class this week. Students learned about bag construction, sewing on zippers and working with tricky fabrics. Look out for the Pleated Clutch class in February!

Elaine Layabout recently posted some live footage from band performances at the Hella Hipster Hoedown event this past November. If you missed out, check out this video of the band Freaky Mountain performing “Freaky Dog” here at The U.C.C! They even invited some very talented little ones on stage to share in the music.