Crafts Classes in San Francisco, CA

Never picked up a needle or haven’t since you were young? Join us for Bite-Size Embroidery for Beginners. Easy and fun, you will leave with a completed embroidery! Learn chain stitch, satin stitch, whipped back stitch, and French knots as well as basic skills such as how to trace a design onto fabric and thread the needle. Personalize your piece...

The beers aren’t the only thing that are crisp at this event. Beads & Brews is a fresh take on the classic paint night with new ways to have fun and a ton more beads (as you’d expect). Bring your buddies or your boo and make some jewelry with us! This is strictly a no experience necessary event. We provide the expert artists to guide you...

This event is 21+ Yaymaker is all about creating new experiences for you. It’s about you becoming that “Maker” of art. Whether its paint, plant, design a sign or candle, we take you through the process of creating your own masterpiece. At the end of the event, you can say “Yay, I did it!” Here are tips for a successful event: Please...

Sewn board binding is a method of binding a book that gives you a slightly flexible cover and a beautiful spine. Page are sewn as you would a traditional case-bound book but the covers are stitched on as part of your book block. Unlike traditional case-bound books, gluing in your book block to the cover is wonderfully easy and almost mistake proof. ...

The beers aren’t the only refreshing thing at Beads & Brews! We’ve got a fresh take on afternoon crafting and it doesn’t involve paint. With us, it’s all about those…BEADS! Grab your friends and join us for an evening of jewelry-making and a cold one (or two)!  Experience the San Francisco Bay Area’s Micro-Breweries, Tap Rooms,...

Join us this holiday season at our Open Studio! We'll be teaching Ornament Workshops where you can blow your own sparkling glass orb ornament. We hold our workshops during our studio's Open House, where you can support local glass artists by shopping for beautiful, one-of-a-kind gifts for your loved ones this holiday season.  No previous glass...

Candle Maker: Craft your own artisanal candles Yaymaker is all about creating new experiences for you. It’s about you becoming that “Maker” of art. Whether its paint, plant, design a sign or candle, we take you through the process of creating your own masterpiece. At the end of the event, you can say “Yay, I did it!” Here are tips for a successful...

Ecclesiastical Embroidery – How to Cope with a Cope! This Lunch & Learn we will have Anne Holly from Embroiderer’s Guild of America. Anne will share her expertise and discuss her current project, which is a cape she is crafting for the Archbishop of San Francisco,  in conjunction with embroidered for Grace Cathedral. The new Lunch...

Hot Glass Cold Beer is our favorite long-running event, combining glass demonstrations, live music, local craft beer and delicious food.  For a $35 donation, you can select your own hand-blown glass to drink your fill of beer or wine and take it home when the evening is over! VIP Tickets: $65 gets you reserved VIP seats, access to a VIP...

Comprehensive Studies Program in Hand Embroidery: Counted Embroidery Counted thread embroidery is a technique produced on a plain-weave, or an even-weave ground fabric. A wide variety of stitches can be applied to the ground fabric by counting fabric threads, producing a relatively symmetrical image. Cultures from all over the world have traditions...