Urban Craft Uprising is Seattle's largest indie craft show! At UCU, now in its eighth year, fans can choose from a wide variety of hand-crafted goods, including clothing of all types, jewelry, gifts, bags, wallets, buttons, accessories, aprons, children's goods, toys, housewares, paper goods, candles, kits, art, food, and much, much more.

Take a break from the Memorial Day winery tours to meet the colorful alpacas of EasyGo Farm and Alpacas of Oregon. The Open Barn is located in Sherwood, Oregon, just off Hwy 99, in the midst of wine country.
Hand feed alpacas, get your hands on their soft fleece, and watch fiber demos. The Barn Store will be stocked with teddy bears, sweaters, scarves, & other alpaca products, many hand-crafted.
Hand-spinners, knitters, & other fiber artists will find fleece and yarn. Bring your camera and get a shot of the alpaca who provided the raw material for your next project.

Simple Felted Handbag
Make a simple and elegant felted handbag out of wool roving. You’ll learn how to use a plastic resist to felt a seamless vessel—no side sewing required! For beginners or those with some felting experience.

Sunday, May 5, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

Felted Slippers
Learn to make slippers using a plastic resist as the pattern. Stuents will come away with one completed pair of slippers and the know-how to make more for any sized foot. Suitable for adventurous beginners or those with some felting experience.

Sunday, May 19, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

Holey Felt Scarf
This traditional feltmaking technique to creates a holey felt scarf—without using scissors. You will use just dyed wool roving, hot soapy water and the agitation of your hands to make a one-of-a-kind piece. After taking this workshop you will be armed with the skills to make many more on your own.

Sunday, April 14, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

"DIY Hems and Alterations"
on 3-hour class $34 (including $2 materials fee)
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Want your pants to fit? Combine technical skills and rule breaking to foster creativity -- learn to hem pants, adjust side seams for fit, add darts or elastic, adjust the armcye, insert a gusset and techniques for refashioning garments. This course is as varied as the garments brought to class, encouraging Seamsters to come back with new alterations time and again!

"Decorative Finishing"
on 3-hour class $47 (including $6 materials fee)
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The perfect way to start sewing -- or to get back into it! Learn techniques for sewing French Seams, Elastic smocking, lace appliqué, sewing with the bobbin thread, using the feed dogs to ease as well as gathering and ruffling feet. In a French seam, the raw edges of the fabric are fully enclosed for a neat finish. Machine smocking is a technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Appliqué involves pieces of fabric, embroidery, or other materials which are sewn onto another piece of fabric to create designs, patterns or pictures. Learn all this and so much more!

"Hand Sewing Fundamentals"
four 3-hour classes $39 (including $4 materials fee)
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Make and take home your own needle wallet! Learn how the professionals sew on buttons as well as an assortment of basic hand stitches that will repair your clothes and give you a quality finish on your sewing projects. In this class we will teach you to sew a back-stitch, pick-stitch, slip-stitch, slanted hem stitch, uneven slip-stitch and the cross-stitch!

"Get Up and Sew #2 Intermediate"
four 3-hour classes $134 (including $15 materials fee)
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Continue your understanding of new materials and the machine: Learn to cut and sew knit fabric, how to clean and oil your sewing machine as well as how to work with and modify sewing patterns.

"Get Up and Sew #1 Beginner"
four 3-hour classes $134 (including $15 materials fee)
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The perfect way to start sewing -- or to get back into it! Gain confidence with the machine, new fabrics, techniques and applications! Learn to use the machine, sew zippers, buttons, buttonholes, casings, darts, bags, pouches, and handsewing -- and wrap it all up by altering your own clothes in the fourth class!