Workshops
Interested in learning to make a broom of your own? AWESOME! Let's make it happen. Here are some of my upcoming workshops and links for enrollment. If you are interested in scheduling a workshop please send an email to vagabondspun@gmail.com
2024 workshops
6 month Broom making course.
In this course we will meet once a month (twice in June as I’m traveling all of July) from 10-5 with a break for lunch. We will start from the begining with whisk brooms working through several shapes and weaving handles and move through handled brooms and finish the course out making a decorative handled broom just in time for spooky season.
Class one
May 4th or 5th
intro to whisk making
Working on Turkey wings and Hawks Tails
Class Two
June 1st or 2nd
Working on Hen’s wings and Bundled whisks
Class Three
Stitched whisks and weaving handles on, break for lunch Head down to the river to collect materials for handled brooms.
Class 4
Intro to tying handled brooms starting with cob webbers and hearth sweeps.
Class five
Tying a fullsized sweeper
Class 6
Stitching Handled brooms tied in previous sessions and tying decorative Handled broom