Open 7 days a weekClearview Mall, Butler PA(724) 679-9931

Class gallery

Real classes, real students, real finished work. This is what an afternoon here actually looks like.

Hours
Mon – Sat, 11 – 7Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm. Open 7 days.
Find us
Clearview Mall #325101 Clearview Circle, #325, Butler PA 16001
Get in touch
(724) 679-9931info@makersmarketpa.com

Basket Making 2024

Full-day weaving sessions where everyone starts with a flat bundle of reed and leaves carrying a finished basket. Clothespins do most of the clamping; patience does the rest.

  • Five women lined up in front of the shop's chalkboard wall, each holding a finished woven basket.
    Everyone with their finished basket at the end of the day.
  • Two women seated at a table weaving spoked rattan basket bases, with mall storefronts behind them.
    Starting the base. The spokes go down first.
  • Top-down view of hands arranging a starburst of flat reed spokes into a woven base.
    The starburst layout that every basket begins from.
  • A round basket with upright spokes standing on a floral tablecloth inside the shop.
    Spokes turned up, ready for the sides.
  • Two women at a table with a well-advanced basket, clothespins clamping the rim.
    Clothespins hold the rim while the lashing goes on.
  • Woman standing at a work table weaving a tall basket held together with clothespin clamps.
    Working a tall basket standing up for better reach.
  • Woman seated behind a large flat woven piece with clothespins and pliers on the table.
    A wide woven base, flat on the table.
  • Woman handling a clothespin-clamped basket at a table in the mall corridor.
    Shaping the rim.
  • A woman in a green hoodie leaning over her work, finishing the rim of a basket.
    The last few inches of rim.

Beaded Pumpkins 2024

An autumn evening of wire, glass and wood beads. Every pumpkin came out different, since colors are picked at the table, not assigned.

  • Two finished pumpkins made from natural wood beads and twine, topped with orange and yellow silk maple leaves and berry sprigs, lit from inside by a small LED tealight.
    Wood-bead pumpkins with an LED tealight inside.
  • Close-up of a completed beaded pumpkin ornament in purple and green glass beads with a wire stem.
    Purple and green glass beads, wire stem.
  • Man in a blue t-shirt holding a completed white and blue beaded pumpkin toward the camera.
    Finished and held up for inspection.
  • Woman in a purple 'Hocus Pocus' t-shirt assembling a beaded pumpkin at a floral-cloth table.
    Threading beads onto the wire ribs.
  • Woman with glasses working on a teal-and-white beaded pumpkin, a finished gold pumpkin beside her.
    Teal and white, with a gold one already done.
  • Close crop of hands attaching autumn leaves and berries to the top of a beaded pumpkin.
    Leaves and berries go on last.
  • Two women at the class table with several finished beaded pumpkins in front of them.
    Most of the table finished at once.
  • Woman leaning over the table assembling a multicolor beaded pumpkin, wire and scissors beside her.
    Assembling a multicolor pumpkin.
  • Several women around a long white table with a supply box of paint and bead bottles in the foreground.
    The full table, mid-project.

Scarecrow Faces 2024

A shorter session under the Halloween balloon arch, using burlap, markers, paint and raffia hair. No two faces came out alike.

  • Four participants holding finished burlap scarecrow face crafts under a purple, green and orange Halloween balloon arch.
    Finished scarecrow faces under the balloon arch.
  • Older woman drawing on a burlap scarecrow panel with a marker, a marker set and raffia on the table.
    Drawing the face freehand.
  • Woman drawing large black eyes onto a green-painted scarecrow face with raffia hair.
    Outlining the eyes.

Finished Class Projects 2024

The projects themselves, photographed after the fact. These are the patterns our basket classes work through.

  • Finished round natural-reed basket with a bent wood swing handle and a chevron accent band, against a brick wall.
    Country Round, from the August 31 class, $45.
  • Finished rectangular market basket with a tall arched handle and plain woven body, on a slate surface.
    Simplicity, from the September 21 class, $45.
  • Finished tall cylindrical basket with a textured twill center band and dark accent stripe, on a marble counter.
    Bathroom Wastebasket, from the October 12 class.
  • Finished tall rectangular basket with a dark-accented rim and swing handle, beside a decorated Christmas tree.
    Mule Skinner, from the November 9 class.

Want to be in the next one?

Classes run through the year and the walk-in craft table is open whenever the store is. No experience needed for any of it.

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