In this playful and layered textile class, students will create a richly textured still life composition using fabric, lace, and found textile fragments. Inspired by traditional still life imagery—flowers, vessels, and domestic objects—you’ll learn how to build an image by collaging fabric pieces and stitching them into a cohesive artwork.

Working with vintage textiles, printed fabrics, lace, embroidery, and paper ephemera, students will explore techniques for layering, composition, and storytelling through cloth. We’ll discuss how to balance pattern, color, and texture while creating depth and focal points in a small-format textile piece.

Students will learn:

• How to compose a still life using fabric collage

• Techniques for layering textiles and mixed materials

• Simple hand-stitching methods to secure and enhance the composition

• Ways to incorporate vintage imagery, printed motifs, and embroidered details

• How to create visual depth using transparency, overlap, and texture

The projects combine traditional quilt-inspired piecing with contemporary collage, resulting in expressive textile artworks that feel both nostalgic and fresh.

This class is perfect for beginners and experienced makers alike—no advanced sewing skills required. If you love fabric, texture, and mixed-media art, you’ll leave with a finished textile still life and new ideas for transforming scraps into art.

Materials will include: assorted vintage fabrics, lace, embroidery pieces, printed cotton, paper ephemera, notions, thread, and basic hand-sewing tools. 

Bring your favorite scissors for cutting fabric and paper. Additional materials welcome but not required. Bring your favorite fabric scraps to personalize your piece if you’d like! 

Come experiment, play with textiles, and discover how fabric scraps can become a beautiful still life.

$100

Please send payment via Venmo to Katie Hardin at: @katyfhardin with the class title, Textile Still Life, as the subject