Create A Tea Cozy With A Story By Christine Johnson
Oxford Level 3 Course - Regular Oxford Punch needle Instructor Designed and Fulfilled
Course Fee: $180
Prerequisite: Minimum of one full length Level 2 Regular Oxford Punch Needle course, or equivalent experience and confidence in basic punch needle skills
Size: 10 students maximum
Length: 8 hours total Divided into four 2 hour sessions.
Date/time: January 8, 15, 22, 29 at 6:30 ET
Learn to design and punch a special ‘Tea Cozy with a Story’ with Oxford Instructor Christine Johnson.
For many years, I’ve been making tea cozies because I love tea and punch needle rug hooking is well suited to making these functional and beautiful objects. In this course I will teach you how to design a tea cozy with a story that reflects and celebrates the person for whom it is intended. These meaningful tea cozies make excellent gifts for someone special- or maybe you want to create a special one just for you.
You’ll learn to design a 9” by 13” half-moon tea cozy with two sides, to choose a color palette that enhances your design, and to transfer your design onto your monk's cloth. Then students will be shown the necessary techniques to punch both sides, and how to hem and neatly finish your project. The aim is to finish the piece together but if that’s not possible, written instructions for finishing will be provided.
A digital download of the half-moon foundation to design on is included in your registration.
Two 24” pieces of monks cloth #10 regular punch needle, Gripper frame- ideally 16” to 18” recommended Scissors
Additional materials provided by student:
Blank paper, Pencil, drawing/ coloring supplies Black Sharpie Marker, Suitable yarn for their project (details will be provided by instructor) Thread Hemming needle (for sewing your project together).
Learn to design and punch a special ‘Tea Cozy with a Story’ with Oxford Instructor Christine Johnson.
For many years, I’ve been making tea cozies because I love tea and punch needle rug hooking is well suited to making these functional and beautiful objects. In this course I will teach you how to design a tea cozy with a story that reflects and celebrates the person for whom it is intended. These meaningful tea cozies make excellent gifts for someone special- or maybe you want to create a special one just for you.
You’ll learn to design a 9” by 13” half-moon tea cozy with two sides, to choose a color palette that enhances your design, and to transfer your design onto your monk's cloth. Then students will be shown the necessary techniques to punch both sides, and how to hem and neatly finish your project. The aim is to finish the piece together but if that’s not possible, written instructions for finishing will be provided.
A digital download of the half-moon foundation to design on is included in your registration.
Christine Johnson is a Certified Oxford Instructor and has been a fiber and mixed media artist for over 30 years. She teaches fiber arts and exhibits her work at the Treehouse Art Studio and Gallery in Calabogie, Ontario. In April 2024, she won the Multi-cut category at the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild annual for the piece Fancy Stitches, designed by Simone Vojvodin. She hosts Fibre Art Tuesdays, a weekly community gathering at the studio. From her early career as an arts journalist and administrator, she has experience as a curator, in particular, the exhibition “Picking Up the Pieces: Quilted Stories” at A Space Gallery and Harbourfront Gallery in Toronto.
In December 2016, she participated in a group show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte. Her passion is to expand the use of fiber, especially wool, in the contemporary art world. She lives on the beautiful Madawaska River in the Ottawa Valley with her husband, James and dog, Coco.