HobbyScool: Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys
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27 free workshops in 12 days, starting December 1 at 9 AM ET
Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Is your December calendar already filling up? Before it does, I want to give you the dates for everything we have planned at HobbyScool between now and January, because most of it is free. Here's what's coming, so you can write down the ones you want before the holidays get busy. Your free holiday calendar · November to January Four free things to put on your calendar Thursday, November 26: a free gratitude journal On Thanksgiving morning...
You can make the same thing for everyone
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Are you making any of your gifts this year? If you are, you'll want to know about Tuesday, because that's when 32 free workshops open up and you can pick whichever ones match what's still on your list. Starts in 2 Days · Free to Attend Elves’ Workshop Summit 📅 November 10–12, 2026 | 🕘 9:00 AM ET each morning | 💻 100% Online | 🎟 Free to Attend There are 32 workshops across three days, a new set goes live at...
Eight tree cards from one pile of paper scraps
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys If you send Christmas cards, how many do you actually need this year? Most people land somewhere between 12 and 40, and that number matters more than you'd think, because it's what decides whether you make them one at a time or all at once. Making one card is a lovely afternoon, and making thirty of them one at a time is how half-finished card projects end up in a drawer by the first week of December....
The handmade gift that goes straight into a closet
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys You've probably made a gift once that ended up in a closet. It looked nice and it took you hours, but it just didn't fit that person's life, so they never really used it. The handmade gifts people keep using are the ones that do a job for them. Something warm to grab on the way out the door, or something that makes a drawer smell nice, or a basket that's still holding the mail long after the cookies are...
One leaf has your whole fall palette in it
Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Starts Tuesday · Free To Attend Festive Fall Workshop Series 📅 October 13–15, 2026 | 🕘 9 AM ET each day | 💻 100% Online | 🎟 Free to Attend Festive Fall Workshop Series starts this Tuesday and it's free to join. There are 26 workshops over three days, and you'll make things like fall centerpieces, cards, mug rugs, a crochet pumpkin and Halloween treats right along with the teachers. Each day's workshops are released at 9 AM ET and stay free...
Thousands have registered — have you?
Here's what you can make at the Festive Fall Workshop Series Festive Fall Workshop Series · Starts Tuesday Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Free · October 13–15 Here's everything you can make in three days Hey Reader, The Festive Fall Workshop Series starts Tuesday, October 13, and thousands of makers have already saved their free spot. If you haven't registered yet, I wanted you to see exactly what's on the schedule. There are 26 workshops, and here's what you'll make in...
One sheet of black paper, three Halloween decorations
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Have you pulled the Halloween box out of the closet yet and then just stood there looking at it? It happens to most of us, because the box is usually full of small things in a lot of different colors, and once they're all out on the shelf the whole thing looks busy. Here's the thing. You probably don't need to buy anything else, because what makes a shelf look cluttered is usually the colors and the spacing...
She hadn't touched her loom in years
She hadn't touched her loom in years Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys It's a Wednesday morning and I'm reading through replies to one of our emails. There are hundreds of them. One-word answers, mostly: quilting, watercolor, clay. I asked people what they make, and they told me. I'm scrolling through, smiling at all of them, when one stops me completely. Her name is Linda. She tells me she used to quilt: appliqué, piecework, counted cross stitch. She belonged to quilt...
Most Halloween crafts get thrown out November 1
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool The Creative Corner · Sunday, September 20 Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys Does it feel like fall where you are yet? Some of you are already wearing sweaters and some of you still have the air conditioning on, and either way October is less than two weeks away. And fall decorations stay up a long time. You put them out now and they're still sitting there after Thanksgiving, which is about ten weeks, and that's longer than most of us leave...
The craft with no loom, no pattern, and one knot
The Creative Corner · HobbyScool The Creative Corner · Sunday, September 6 Where Creative Passions Become Life-Changing Journeys The Art of Handmade Summit starts a week from Tuesday, and I want to tell you why we built this one the way we did. We keep hearing the same sentence from this community in different words: I just want to make something with my hands again. Not scroll past someone else's project, not save it for later, but actually sit down and make the thing. So that's what the...
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