Cloverdale Home Economics Day

Meet at 9:15 at Essem Textiles in Cloverdale. 5625 176 St, Surrey

9:30-11:30 NEEDLE FELTING, with Pearl Chow

This workshop will teach you the basic skills of need felting to learn to teach this activity to students. Make wool sculptured fruits, veggies, animals, and/or add designs to fabric. Needle felting is a portable craft taking up little space and time. Create what you imagine!

11:30-1:00 Lunch at Ruby Siam Thai Kitchen

1:00-2:00 TOUR OF THE TEXTILES CENTRE at the Museum of Surrey, with Joan Miller

Joan will take us on a tour the Textiles Centre Studio, where she will show us some machines for spinning and weaving, have a look at the Textiles Library and weather permitting, a look at the plants growing in the Textiles Dye Garden.

Target Audience

8-12

To Bring/Important Notes

Hi there,

Thanks for signing up for the Home Ec Excursion workshop. We will start our day at 9:15am in Essem Textiles in Cloverdale. The address is 5625 176 Street in Surrey. There is a lot of free parking around Cloverdale but if you don't want to move your vehicle, look for free parking in the parking lots, which allow you more parking time.

See schedule below:

1. 9:30-11:30 NEEDLE FELTING, with Pearl Chow - This workshop will teach you the basic skills of need felting to learn to teach this activity to students. Make wool sculptured fruits, veggies, animals, and/or add designs to fabric. Needle felting is a portable craft taking up little space and time. Create what you imagine!
2. 11:30-1:00 Lunch at Ruby Siam Thai Kitchen - Lunch specials will be paid for by the STA, any beverages are at your cost.
3. 1:00-2:00 TOUR OF THE TEXTILES CENTRE at the Museum of Surrey, with Joan Miller - Joan will take us on a tour the Textiles Centre Studio, where she will show us some machines for spinning and weaving, have a look at the Textiles Library and weather permitting, a look at the plants growing in the Textiles Dye Garden.

You should expect about a kilometre's worth of walking through the day. All 3 locations are close to each other in Cloverdale but be prepared for rain and wear comfortable shoes. You should also bring a bag or tote bag to take home your supplies you'll receive from the needle felting workshop! 

If you need to get in touch, email winstone_d@surreyschools.ca or reach me at 778-386-0758 on the day of. Have a great week and we'll see you on Friday!