Introduction to Tufting – Take Time and Tuft
Update: This workshop has sold out/
Please contact Isabelle Sain at isain@textilemuseum.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Friday, October 23, 2026
1-4 PM
FREE
This workshop was designed for 2SLGBTQI+ community members and is generously sponsored by Community One Foundation.
In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to centre slowness and intention while creating tufted art conceived of their own emotions and experiences. Participants will be led into a session that asks them to ground their creations in feelings, memories, and desires that they’d like to honour, let go of, or call into being.
Facilitated by terra Mitchell-Baisden, this workshop will teach participants the fundamentals of tufting, the joy of watching a 2-D design come to life in colour/texture/shape, and the groundedness that can come with such an intentional, slow craft.
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- Learn the fundamentals of tufting
- Create or begin their own tufted creation
- Understand tufting as a tool for mindful grounding and expression
- Have materials that they can take home to independently engage with their projects
- Explore the craft with other textile-enthused community members
This is a beginner-friendly workshop with no previous experience required. All materials and step-by step guidance will be provided.
For any accessibility needs, please contact Isabelle Sain (isain@textilemuseum.ca)
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 2026, 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, artist 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 fibre practices.
Facilitator Bio:
terra Mitchell-Baisden(he/they) is a Toronto-born, Black, gender explorative, queer, chronically-ill peer supporter and artist. While he enjoys engaging with tactile art of all kinds, in the past few years, he has found quite a home in textile arts; tufting, crocheting, and weaving alike! In addition to his personal artistic practice, terra has spent over 4 years coordinating community workshops for Friends of CAB (a Black peer support group) including their Fibre Arts program, a 6-month program wherein participants are taught the fundamentals of various textile art modalities. Currently, they are using fibre arts as a way to ground, explore, and accept their experiences of disability, “ugliness”, and undesirability. terra strives to continue to centre his community-based and personal artistic practices in exploration, mindfulness, and inevitably, deviance.
The Crip Art Collective is a working group of Disabled, Mad, and chronically ill QTBIPOC artists based out of Tkaronto, colonially known as Toronto. Our collective mixes mediums, skills, approaches, and abilities to express our unique perspectives. They make everything from multi-meter fabric sculptures, pocket size zines, and lots in between. Follow @CripArtCollective for more.
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