• Embroidery hoop with a colorful stitched design on a wooden surface with embroidery tools.
  • Close-up of embroidered fabric with floral and geometric patterns
  • Close-up of an embroidered piece with floral and geometric patterns.
  • Close-up of an embroidered fabric with floral and geometric patterns
  • Person wearing glasses and a black shirt against a red background
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Painting with Thread - 3 Part Class

Painting with Thread - 3 Part Class

$225.00 CAD
$225.00 CAD
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Expand your skill set and explore your creativity in a relaxed studio environment. Hosted in-person in our studio in midtown Toronto.

Event Details:

Dates: Thursday March 5th, 12th, and 19th
Time: 6-9pm
Location: 1024 Dupont St, Unit 22

Event Description: 

Painting with Thread is an advanced-beginner embroidery course meant to spark your creativity and deepen your engagement with embroidery techniques, leaving you with a piece of wearable art to take home. It is a 3-part class, taught on consecutive Thursday evenings.

This 3-part workshop class will be broken down into two distinct components. The first class will focus on participants exploring and learning 11 different embroidery stitches, experimenting with colours and brainstorming their future designs. Stitches taught in this section include: back, running, chain, satin, long-short, laced running, French knot, lazy daisy, fishbone and wheat. 

The second and third classes will allow participants time and space to create the final design of their choosing, with the teacher's guidance. They do not need to copy the image in the demo photograph, but are encouraged to follow their creativity. 

All participants will receive a material kit which includes two 8" x 8" squares of fabric, ten bobbins of embroidery thread (various colours), a needle, and an embroidery hoop.

Materials: The class fee includes all your materials and supplies.

Cost: $225.00 + HST
 
Bringing a friend? Use discount code "bringafriend" to take $25 off per ticket, with purchase of 2 or more tickets.

Teacher Bio:
 
Sarah Zanchetta (she/they) is a queer textile artist and educator. Her practice dives into their loss of connection and knowledge of poisonous plants that grow in North America. She seeks to foster a relationship with flora without placing the weight of human benefit in the foreground, questioning what it means to seek out a form of kinship and care with the poisonous. Zanchetta's works simultaneously track the development of her hands-on relationship with an individual plant and the unravelling of stories, scientific facts, and myths surrounding them. She uses textiles, texts, and hosts community workshops to create intimate works and spaces where we can unfold our curiosities, care and anxieties about what grows beside our feet.

Zanchetta's recent exhibitions include 2025 Craft Awards at Craft Ontario (2025), Ghost Body at the plumb (2024), Untapped Artists at the Artist Project (2024) and When our steps crackle and dance to the sound of our stories... at the Post-Invisibles Biennial (2024). They have collaborated with several organizations to create community-based work for their permanent collections, including the Kortright Centre for Conservation and Evergreen Brick Works. Their practice has been supported by grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. She holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto (2023) and a BFA from OCAD University (2018). Zanchetta has taught at the University of Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Harbourfront Centre, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and various community hubs around Ontario. 

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