January 16th, 23rd, 30th 1-3pm

Practice reflective hand stitching while creating a quilted journal to begin 2027. Over three weeks, we’ll reflect on our hopes, aspirations, and intentions for the new year while documenting this moment in time through figurative and abstract stitching. We’ll explore color, stitch density, scale, and applique as tools for translating ideas and experiences into cloth. Participants will leave with a completed four-page cloth book—a small, stitched record of where they are as they enter the new year.

The workshop will be taught by Sylvie Rosenkalt, who has been quilting since childhood. She is an educator, disability cultural activist, and lifelong maker. Her quilting practice embraces odd shapes and asymmetry, allowing the improvisational process to guide the final product. Sylvie machine-pieces and hand-quilts, highlighting irregular beauty with her stitching. She finds joy in embracing improvisation as a quilter, trumpeter and dancer.