This is a two session online workshop.
 

Let’s embellish old photos with colorful thread! Learn the basics of sewing on paper to transform photographs and postcards, or design your own.  

In our first session we will start with the basics of embroidering on paper while thinking about drawing, linework and simple fills, practicing and using a found image or creating our own design. For our second session we will add additional patterns and fills to our repertoire, then bring our skills to vintage photos and postcards.

You will finish the class with at least one card and we will discuss ways to mail your creation… if you can part with it!

The workshop fee includes a mailed kit from the instructor containing all necessary materials.
 

Materials to Bring: 

• Mailed materials kit from the instructor

AND

• Scissors, pencil, something for taking notes, and a ruler.

Workshop Fee: $80
Tuition assistance is available; please apply here.

Date & Time: Tuesdays, September 27 & October 4, 2022 :: 4-6pm Pacific time

Location: Online over Zoom.

SFCB online workshops are recorded; all registered students will have access to the videos for a month after the final class meeting.

Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class. Registration closes September 16.
 

About the Instructor | Hope Amico

Hope Amico (she/her) is a visual artist, writer and educator based in Portland, OR.  Through classes, zines and the Keep Writing postcard project, she is excited to share ways we can support each other creatively. Previously known as gutwrench press, she has led classes online and in-person through the San Francisco Center for the Book, the IPRC, Blackbird Letterpress, Ladies of Letterpress Conference and privately through her own studio.

Past Student Reviews:

“Hope was engaging and fostered a light and collaborative atmosphere.”

“Hope is lovely and funny and engaging. Great teacher.”

“Hope was great, and I'd like to spend more time in her artistic orbit. She's very chill and reassuring.”