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Needlework

Embroidery, sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet and mending on Tuesday mornings, with Deborah Bohnenstiehl at the table and the thread, needles, hoops and frames already out.

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Watercolor of the needlework table at Riverhouse Create

What happens at the needlework table

Needlework Open Studio runs on Tuesday mornings, the same hours the pottery open studio is running, so Tuesday is the busiest morning of the week here. Deborah Bohnenstiehl of Stockton runs it, and the Riverhouse Needlework Collective fills the chairs around her — embroidery, machine sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet, cross-stitch and mending, all going at once. Bring the seam that will not lie flat, the pattern you have read four times and still can't follow, or the quilt top that's been folded in a bag since spring. Someone pulls the chair up next to you, looks at it, and shows you the next stitch.

If you have never held a needle, you'll still be started on something the same morning. Thread, needles, hoops and frames are already there, so you can walk in with nothing. Deborah will hand you a hoop and set you going on a few inches of a simple stitch, or a straight seam on the machine, or a first row of knitting, whichever you came in curious about. Nobody is graded and nobody hurries you. You leave with the piece further along than it was when you sat down, and with the next row already started.

Everyone is welcome at this table, whatever you can and can't do yet. Jewelry artist Diana Yum-Bucher also brings her bead work into this room on two Tuesday mornings in November, 10 AM to 1 PM.

Next times you can come

Pick a date to see the time, who is teaching, and how to book it.

6OctNeedlework Open StudioTuesday · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM · 3 hours · Deborah BohnenstiehlPlaces openSee this class →13OctNeedlework Open StudioTuesday · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM · 3 hours · Deborah BohnenstiehlPlaces openSee this class →20OctNeedlework Open StudioTuesday · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM · 3 hours · Deborah BohnenstiehlPlaces openSee this class →27OctNeedlework Open StudioTuesday · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM · 3 hours · Deborah BohnenstiehlPlaces openSee this class →

Every one of these costs one class credit. Single Class Credit — $50. Member Four-Class Pack — $130. See the whole schedule.

From the needlework table

Work made by the people who come to this table, shown whole and uncropped.

A stitched and printed textile panel of blackbirds, with a verse worked into one corner.
A crewel embroidery of trees, roots and mushrooms worked on linen.
A small log-cabin quilt pieced in blues and creams, bound in deep blue velvet.
A beaded collar seen close up, worked in seed beads around small painted faces.
A maker holding up the beaded collar she has just finished.
A cross-stitch panel of three tulips outlined in fine blackwork.
Finished quilts spread out on the studio floor while two people work at the machines.
A sampler quilt of pieced blocks, every one a different pattern.
A treadle sewing machine set up and threaded on the work table.
Two children holding the stitched toys they made.

Who teaches needlework

One teacher, one table, and whatever you have brought with you.

  • Deborah BohnenstiehlDeborah Bohnenstiehl