Crochet: Chunky Yarn Headband Workshop (Beginner)
Few spots remaining for February 11!
Wednesday, February 11, 18, & 25 | 1-4 PM
FREE
Our sustainability workshop series, Second Life, will be hosting our second iteration of Second Life with artist Chason Yeboah. Chason will be facilitating a beginner crochet workshop creating a headband with recycled and natural yarns.
Participants will learn foundational crochet techniques and transform them into a functional, chunky-yarn headband. This beginner-friendly session is designed so that everyone, whether you are new to crochet or seasoned makers, can enjoy a refreshing creative experience.
All materials will be provided through the Textile Museum’s ReUse program, using repurposed and recycled fibres. By working with these materials, participants will not only develop textile-making skills but also explore the artistic possibilities of sustainable practices. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a completed headband, a foundational understanding of crochet, and new insights into how textile-making can support environmentally conscious creative practices. Each attendee is encouraged to continue experimenting, practicing, and developing personal material-making techniques.
Throughout the session, we will also consider broader themes of sustainability in textile arts, including:
- Slow fashion and the handmade: the value of creating durable, meaningful items.
- Conscious Materials: the role of recycled or natural fibres in reducing environmental impact.
- Sustainable skill-sharing: how knowledge and creative skills last far longer than any single material object, fostering long-term, community-based sustainability.
Open to all skill levels, with instruction provided by Chason.
About Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops
Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops is a series of free; sustainability focused workshops developed with the Textile Museum of Canada and contemporary local artists. The series converges ecological thinking with art-making opportunities for our community. Starting in January, each month, the Museum will bring in an artist who confronts the climate crisis by rethinking materials and reimagining textile processes, decolonial methodologies, and sustainable craft traditions. Together, artists and participants will reform reused materials to create new works of art through a variety of techniques. These textile-focused artistic mediums will include weaving, embroidery, crocheting, quilting, natural dyeing, felting, upcycled fashion, or mixed-media fiber practices.
Facilitator Bio
Chason Adjoa Nana Yeboah-Brown (she/her b. 1991, Toronto) is a self-taught textile sculptor, doll maker and story-teller, exploring the oscillation of ancestral ritual through reconstructed, (un)woven and crocheted structures. Many of her works directly focus on themes of shame, loss of identity, sexuality, the notion and practice of “self-love”, hybridity, energy transference, and acknowledgement of the human form, with a primary focus on marginalized humans. Her desire is to traverse the interconnectivity of these themes, and from those travels – be it through her inclusive dolls, personification soft sculptures or “safe space” creations, provoke more conversation and thought on communal awareness.
This program was generously funded by Canada Council for the Arts.
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