In this multi-session hand-sewing class, we will create a small heirloom bunny and a handmade outfit. This class is rooted in slow craft traditions and invites attention to detail, care, and storytelling through making.
Participants will learn basic hand-sewing and embroidery techniques while working with natural fibers such as wool, cotton, and linen. We will also explore simple patterning for miniature garments and how small-scale textile work can be a playful space.
This class is appropriate for beginners and intermediate sewists, and is designed as a gentle, immersive making experience. Each participant will leave with a complete handmade character and the beginnings of its small world.
Dates
Saturdays, December 12th & 19th, 2026
Time
12:00-4:00 pm ET
Location
Tatter Textile Library: 505 Carroll Street, #2B, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Class Materials
All materials are included with ticket purchase, but we encourage you to bring any scraps you’d like to play with.
Cost
$300
Our Teacher
Hannah Straubel is a Brooklyn-based textile artist and Waldorf teacher working across hand-sewing, weaving, and slow craft traditions with an emphasis on process. Her practice is grounded in sustainability, seasonal rhythms, and staying playful.
Hannah’s background spans curative education, sociology, and anthropology, shaping an ongoing interest in how people learn, make meaning, and transmit knowledge through embodied practice across generations. She is especially drawn to textile arts as living cultural forms where geopolitics, migration, labor, and history are deeply interwoven into materials, traditions, and lore.
She is passionate about reconnecting with her own cultural heritage through craft, and about how textile practices can hold memory, continuity, and adaptation across time and place. Simplicity, time, and intentionality are central to how she approaches both making and teaching.
Alongside her studio work, she teaches middle school, where storytelling, observation, and project-based learning inform her broader approach to education and making.
She continues to study textile traditions through travel and workshops, including upcoming time in South America focused on Andean pebble weaving and backstrap weaving.