Workshops and Events at Recycletown

From Rags to Rugs with Thea West

1st Saturday after the 15th of the month in the Education Center. A unique tapestry crochet technique is used to combine strips made from old garments with a variety of other fibers to create rugs. Participants in Thea’s workshop will create interesting and original new patterns and leave with their very own original rug!
The rug projects are ongoing along with any other unfinished projects started in other workshops.
Class is Drop In - Materials provided, or bring your own - Beginners are welcome.
Fee: Sliding Scale
Contact Thea at 707.763.0774
Please dress warmly.

Ongoing "Rags to Rugs"    April - June  Hats
Class begins at 9:00 in the Education Center. Materials provided.

Karen Hungerford ( weaver) and Nassu Born (artist) are other workshop regulars who have joined Thea to share their own expertise, creativity and joy to be creating works of art adding an even broader range of experiences. Projects we have shared in the past are:

• Off loom weaving - bags and dolls
• Felting with our local wools
• Crochet Pins using metallic yarns and raffia
• Berets, using recycled fabrics
• Clothing Reconstruction from cherished garments

Thea has lived in Sonoma County since she was 5 years old. She learned re-use at mom’s knee – literally! One day when she was going through her mother’s crochet books, a newspaper clipping from 1945 slipped out. It was an article describing how to cut a lady’s suit (jacket and skirt) from a man’s suit. Wool is a fiber that has many lives. It amazed Thea’s 11 year-old brain, and still does. Most of Thea’s rugs come out of her many sewing projects, redesign garments mostly. The tapestry style of crochet Thea will be teaching in the workshop at Recycletown was developed from a need to use strips of various length, while developing interesting patterns. Thea has been developing these crochet patterns since the 1980s.

Felted Doll by Karen Hungerford   top