Free After Three: Style Club - Body Mapping & Alteration

Want to learn how to take your measurements and make small but mighty alterations to your most beloved pieces of clothing? Fashion designer Emma Doyle will walk you through properly measuring your body and how to dart and hem your garments to create a better fitting wardrobe!

**Please bring with you a garment or two from your closet that needs slight alteration to help your clothing live it’s best life!

Limited to 20 spaces, first come first serve.

Free After Three: House Dancing with Warehouse Jacks

Learn House dance styles and techniques while hanging out in an inclusive environment. Led by House Dance crew Warehouse Jacks.

Free After Three: Skateboard Building with Oasis Skateboard Factory

Learn how to make a board from scratch and take it home for keeps with youth from Oasis Skateboard Factory.

Limited to 25 spaces, first come first serve.

OSF is a Toronto District School Board alternative school reengagement program where students run a skateboard business / professional design studio.

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Free After Three Tuesdays: Screen Printing

Create your own designs and screenprint them with fabric ink onto tote bags, or t-shirts using print gradients (rainbows!), and your own designs.

Free After Three Tuesdays: Improvisational Quilting

Using improvisational quilting techniques, arrange fabrics for interlaying and hand sewing to make quilt patches. These patches may begin your larger project of making a quilted blanket or wall hanging!

Anni Spadafora is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Toronto. She is a member of the no-wave band, New Fries. Recent project and performance sites include Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Sled Island.

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Free After Three Tuesdays: Macramé

Welcome to the world of knotting! Learn a variety of decorative and functional knots to build plant hangers, wall hangings, and other accessories.

Anni Spadafora is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Toronto. She is a member of the no-wave band, New Fries. Recent project and performance sites include Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Sled Island (Calgary). Anni is also a hand weaver and was in residence at the Marshfield School of Weaving (Vermont) in Fall 2017.

Free After Three Tuesdays: Rag Rug Braiding

Join us as we learn how to transform scraps of fabric using crochet braiding techniques to create rag rugs and many other home textiles.

Anni Spadafora is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Toronto. She is a member of the no-wave band, New Fries. Recent project and performance sites include Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Sled Island (Calgary). Anni is also a hand weaver and was in residence at the Marshfield School of Weaving (Vermont) in Fall 2017.

Free After Three Tuesdays: Tapestry Weaving

Learn how to build a picture frame tapestry loom to create a wall hanging. Through a variety of weaving techniques, your wall hanging will incorporate found or created patterns and images.

Free After Three Tuesdays: Leather Patchwork

Want to create a leather patch for your jean jacket or learn how to patch your own worn out jeans? Using high quality leather scraps to patch and decorate your own clothing, local artist Anni Spadafora will teach you how to prepare leather for hand sewing projects. Leather provided!

Free After Three Tuesdays: Natural Dyeing

Experimenting with turmeric, onion skins, and hibiscus flowers among various dyeing techniques, you will learn how to use household food and spices to create dye baths for fabric dyeing . You are welcome to bring your own fabrics to dye.

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