Do you create art with fiber, including art quilts, freeform crochet, embroidery, needle felting, and mixed media involving fiber (fabric, wool, etc)? Do you enjoy seeing what others are doing, sharing techniques and working in a fun, supportive environment? Join us Sunday June 9th from 2-3:30pm at CraftWorks at Cool Spring (an arts and nature nonprofit) for a meet & greet to gauge interest in building this community. Bring samples of your work for show & tell. If there is sufficient interest, t …

This group is to get kids and parents together to do fun crafts and have hands on learning and sensory play. We will meet up 1-2 times a month. Sometimes more when the weather is nice outside.

Are you passionate about your art or craft? Are you into mixed media, painting, sewing, crafts, knitting, drawing, or photography. Would you like to share your experiences?  If you are looking to meet and network with other artists and crafters in the area this group is for you. We will have meet and greets, show and tell, and visit local art events. Also, once you join you will have access to information about selling your arts and crafts at some of the local shows.

KatEli Studio is a fun and friendly home based place where you will learn the basics of glass cutting, creative two-dimensional design and fusing (combining colors).Our class is a great way to enter the world of glass art. There's no experience necessary... we'll show you how! We supply the materials, tools and instruction, and you bring your creativity and an open mind! Create your own design using cut glass! We fire it in the kiln and it's ready to take home in a few days.

Lovers of jewelry, art, beads, creations, exploration, learning, teaching, sharing and more... our members' experience ranges from complete beginner to professional jewelry artist. Join us for jewelry making circles, free classes, workshops, jewelry and bead exchanges, field trips, fun, talking and laughing.  An escape from the every day, a journey into the joy of making jewelry and arts. Kaleidoscope:  from the Ancient Greek καλός (kalos), "beautiful, beauty", εἶδος(eidos), "that which is seen: …

Dear Creative Jewelry Friends, This Meetup is sponsored by the Northern Virginia Bead Society (NVBS), a Non-Profit organization created in February of 1992. Our purpose is to encourage members of the community to appreciate and participate in the visual arts through beads. We endeavor to provide a network for education opportunities and the exchange of ideas about beads and techniques in beading. We sponsor a bead and jewelry Auction (May) and a full scale Bead and Jewelry show (Sept/Oct) every …

My goal for this group is to bring together woman in the community who are running their own business making homemade goods or selling vintage goods. (ETSY shops) A tight knit community and bond between women in the area can  provide an amazing creative atmosphere! However it's not required that you have a business, if you are just interested in knitting, scrap-booking, and other crafts then this is the group for you!

Looking for a group of people to get together to scrapbook, make cards, and any number of other paper crafts. Meeting at a local place like a restaurant or library or at one of our homes, without being hassled to buy products.

Calling all entrepreneurs in the craft / designer / maker / artist fields! This group is not for hobby designers but for the person who wants to make a real living or is currently making a living in their chosen craft! What I hope to achieve through this meet up group is to create a community for us creative souls to get together and talk shop, design together and grow our businesses through helping each other!

We are a welcoming and inviting group of (mostly) stay at home moms! Come to a any of our local meet-up  for friendship, play dates and Mom's Night Out activities. We try to keep a full calendar that includes a variety of events. Our day time meet-ups range from a baby’s only playgroup, afternoon/afterschool pizza, pasta, pot luck play dates, crafts, holiday parties  and numerous other activities where little ones can have fun with their peers! We also have private story times, attend local Park …

Welcome! The Carriage House Studio and Gallery is pleased to announce that in response to demand from participants in our past workshops, we will offer our next Fine Art Nude Photography Course! Photography Course: The Figurative and Fine Art Nude / Fall-Winter 2011/2012 Dates: September 2011 - March 2012 Enrollment: Limited to 6 Photographers Description: Here is your opportunity to in the short period of time (6 months Sept - Feb) develop an complete, diverse and high quality portfolio of fig …

We will be meeting to learn Spanish, French, and/or Mandarin Chinese in a fun, motivating way through through an engaging mix of games, songs, puppet shows, arts & crafts, cooking projects, treasure hunts, movement and drama, all in the foreign language. Our unique, high-energy method is the best way for kids to learn a foreign language! Follow us on twitter for free community events that we participate in @LStarsBETH!!

This is a FREE monthly gathering for community artists working in polymer clay or mixed media. It meets the last Sunday of the month. Bring your lunch, a project to work on, your supplies and come enjoy the sharing and conversation. Please be sure to register at www.wvCraftworks.org so we'll save a place for you.

Meet other local Scrapbookers for conversation, inspiration and fun! Come to a Scrapbookers Meetup to swap techniques for preserving your treasured moments, share keepsakes, trade tips on page layouts and embossing! Even discover new ways to scrap! Fredericksburg Scrappers meet the first weekend of each month. A gathering place for scrappers. go to www.FredericksburgScrappers.com for more information

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This group is for anyone interested in sewing! All skill levels are welcome to join so we can learn from each other. Similar to a book club, where a project is selected, disscussed, and we will join together in a months time to bring any and all fabric, completed or not! It will be fun to get together with other people that enjoy sewing. Happy Sewing! Jill & Victoria!

Would you like to join others interested in sewing in a more social setting? Have you always wanted to learn to sew or been curious about what it takes?? Are you a serious seamstress, a novice, or you dabble a little?? Whatever your sewing level or interest we would love to have you join us for fun and creative sewing activities and classes. Join our Facebook Group: Silver Spring Sewing This is your chance to meet up with up with others in the Silver Spring, DC, VA area who love to sew. Make fr …

GGE is an group designed around life, socializing, networking, and creating something! Good times and self-enrichment can happen around a table working together towards a common goal/project with good conversation and a glass of wine/beer in hand! Together we can come up with projects/ideas that we've seen on the internet (or something original) and discuss life, headlines, healthy living, experiences, or just go wherever the topics flow! So let's see where this leads and what we can create! And …

This Group has been closed to all members.  If you would like to find out more info about Beading in Circles please send a message and I can give you more details about other groups. Thank you to all the members who I met throughout the couple of months that I spent in Damascus.  If you can't travel to Savage Mill, please contact Fireworks Art Cafe to see if there are any groups that you might like to join Happy Beading everyone! kathy

Everyone is welcome here. We invite artists, sculptors, doodlers, and paint-slingers of ALL skill levels to join Unique Perspectives (UP) Meetup. We welcome members of MeetUp groups, DRAW, Sketch On, the Lodge, and the DC Plein Air Painters! Unique Perspectives is a SOCIAL group that uses our common interest in creating art to draw us together. Our socials and semi-structured activities will help give you the support you need to open yourself to your inner creator! ******************** …

This group is for Moms in the ADAMS community with children ages 0-4. Please join us and give your children an opportunity to have fun in a healthy Islamic atmosphere, make new friends, and develop new skills through play. This playgroup will provide children with a wide range of activities, such as field trips to local parks, museums & farms, in-home playdates, playground visits, picnics, crafting playdates, and much more. We will also occasionally meet in ADAMS Center where we will have circle …

The purpose of the group is to gather people together who want to work on album projects, paper crafts, or digital albums. Anyone with an interest in preserving their family history or photos should come join us for the fun.

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats Whether you're third generation Waldorf or just came across the concept recently, whether Waldorf principles shape or only vaguely influence your lifestyle and parenting, we hope that you'll find a supportive community in this group. We hold shared festivals to celebrate the seasonal changes in the natural world, Waldorf craft and story-telling times, informal playgroups, and structured Waldorf-inspired l …

Get together with other local crocheters to learn from and teach each other about the art of crocheting. Beginners, intermediates, and experts welcome. Bring your current project and share patterns, tips and techniques. Knitters, sewers, and other crafters welcome to join in as well.

This is a secular, non religious and not affiliated to any other group, family oriented volunteer with kids group. The objective is to get together and make a difference as a group. Examples of activities include using arts & crafts, collecting items and visits to nearby hospitals, shelters or assisted living communities. All ages welcome.

Sewing-Classes: It's about Inspiration, Creativity, Laughter! Sewing-Classes! Sewing is one of the most rewarding skills one can have. It changes even the way we walk when wearing our Sewing creations. Sewing enthusiasts, Let's meet!! Share! Create! have FUN!  All levels. Sewing Classes. Learn to sew. Beginner / Basic Sewing class. Advanced Sewing Class. Sewing Instruction. Sewing Training. Sewing Education.  At your fingertips!!  ALL LEVELS WELCOMED!! Sewing-classes-md-Maryland-Silver Spring-Ro …

In 2009, after looking for a group in the Fairfax City area for sewers/knitters/quilters, etc. and not finding one quite close enough, I figured why not start one? Our group is for people looking to stitch with a group to complete all those projects we've started and not completed, and to gain inspiration from others on new projects. Our group is very diverse in experience level, age, and craft. I think that has led to the most fun! No two meet ups are ever the same.

Hi all, As a divorced baby boomer thinking about retirement I'm interested in finding an alternative to living alone or in a high-rise retirement building. An alternative that allows several women to live together and have separate 1-2 bedroomn apartments while also sharing some common space like kitchen, dining, deck, garden, craft/art studio space, etc. for enjoying each others company. The research I've done shows that co-housing communities tend to be expensive and they often have long w …