Super 17 Challenge Workshops
Do you want to participate, but don't know where to start? Join us at a workshop! We will be giving a workshop each month focusing on a specific division to give you some guidance and a project to enter at the end of each workshop.
Registration is required. Please email if you plan to attend a workshop so we can be sure to have enough supplies for everyone. The deadline for registration is the Wednesday before the workshop. Invite your friends! It's much more fun with more lunatics. Just let us know how many are attending.
Please note the schedule is tentative and subject to change. We are looking for people to help give workshops. If you see a month with no presenter and can help us out, please email your interest.
Upcoming Workshops
June 13, 2010:
Homemade Beer
Presenter: Terry Permenter
10AM in the 4H Building
All the ingredients and supplies will be provided for this workshop - cost TBA
August 16, 2010:
Floral - Floral Design
Presenter: Rhonda Permenter
5PM in the Malone Building
Please bring containers, greenery and embellishments. Flowers and other supplies will be provided - cost TBA. Please register for this workshop by Saturday, August 14. There will be a sign up sheet in the Malone Building on the 14th.
Past Workshops
September 26, 2009:
Food Preservation - Fruit Jam
Presenters: Tarey Kay and Molly Kay
1PM in the 4H Building
Please bring 5 to 7 cups of crushed fruit all other supplies will be provided. The cost is $1.01 a jar and a batch makes about 8 to 10 jars.
We made five different batches: Kiwi Jam, Mint Jelly, Plum Jelly, Raspberry Jam and Grape Jelly.
October 11, 2009:
Homemade Wine - Orange Mead
Presenter: Rhonda Permenter
10AM in the 4H Building
Please bring 1 large orange, 3 1/2 lbs of liquid honey and one gallon distilled water. The cost for the carboy, air lock and other ingredients is $10.00.
Wow! We made 13 batches of mead!
General Mead Information (.pdf, 92.9 KB)
Recipes:
Ancient Orange Mead (.pdf, 40.7 KB)
Bailout Blanc (.pdf, 66.8 KB)
November 22, 2009:
Fine Arts - Relief Printing
Presenter: Diane Divelbess
10AM in the Kiwanis Kitchen
Suggested list of things to bring:
variety of "textured" materials: netting, string, ribbon, tape, paper scraps
pieces of fabric, doilies (paper), etc
corrugated cardboard (from cartons)
mat board/chip board/sides of cereal boxes
styrofoam meat trays (clean)
variety of papers to print on
Tools:
scissors, X-Acto knife &/or single edge razor blade, ball point pen, colored
pencils, no.2 pencils, glue stick, rice paddle &/or large old work shirt
If you don't have a lot of these items, don't panic. Just come and bring a sack lunch. Cost, if any, will be low. Please register for this workshop by 7PM Wednesday, November 18.
What fun and we created some pretty great prints too!
December 13, 2009:
Needlework - Knitted Coffee Cozies
Presenters: Kimberly Fuller and Molly Kay
10AM in the Kiwanis Kitchen
All the yarn and supplies will be provided for this class. If you have yarn at home you would like to use, bring it. Please register for this class by 7PM Wednesday, December 9.
12 needles knitting! Coffee cozies flying off those needles!
January 10, 2010:
Quilting
Presenter: Mary Ann Pintler
10AM in the 4H Building
We will be learning some quilting basics complete with hand quilting. Please bring a lunch and/or snacks. The cost of materials provided is $5.00. If you have the following, please bring it: quilting needles, needle threader, small scissors, and gray or tan quilting thread.
We had a fun time piecing the top. We ran out of time so we will schedule a follow-up workshop.
February 20, 2010:
Educational Displays & Fair Logo Design
Presenters: Leandra Reuble & Sandey Brandon
11:30AM at Midway High School, Oak Harbor
Please bring poster board or a 3-sided display board, scrapbook tools, embellishments and a general idea of what you want your Educational Display/ Poster to be about. Scissors, glue, construction paper, colored paper and access to computer are provided. If you want something specific, please bring it. Contact Tarey Kay if you want to carpool/ caravan. Please bring a lunch.
We canceled this workshop.
March, 2010:
Mead Bottling and Making
Presenter: Rhonda Permenter
Fair Logo Design
Presenter: Sandey Brandon
10:30AM in the 4H Building
For Bottling: 4 to 5 clean, clear wine 750ml bottles or 8 to 10 375ml splits. They can be new or recycled. Please make sure they are for corks and not screw tops. If you want us to provide bottles, it will cost 1.00 per bottle. Please email by Wednesday, March 10 if you need bottles and what size you would prefer. Corks and equipment will be provided.
For Mead Making: Please bring one large orange, 3 1/2 pounds of liquid honey and one gallon of distilled water. The carboy, airlock and the rest of the ingredients will be provided. The cost for the supplies is $10.00.
Please RSVP for this workshop by 7PM Wednesday, March 10 and please let me know if you are bottling, making mead or just coming to watch and hear about logos.
The mead is in bottles now and we all have great tips for the logo design.
Logo Design Handout (.pdf, 40.5 kb)
April 11, 2010:
Arts & Crafts - Jewelry
Presenter: Barbara Pearson
10AM in the 4H Building
All the supplies and tools will be provided to create a piece of beaded jewelry. The cost for supplies is $10.00. Feel free to bring beads from home that you may want to use. Please RSVP for this workshop by 7PM Wednesday, April 7.
May 16, 2010:
Fiber Arts - Shibori Tye Dye
Presenter: Nancy Baggott
10:00AM in the 4H Building
We will be working with silk scarves to create and dye various resist designs. We will learn to make patterns using marbles and rubberbands, stitching and “scrunching” those stitches to make patterns, clamping fabric for pattern and wrapping scarves with cotton yarn around PVC pipe. All of these techniques can create fun and unusual patterns. We will also learn the basics of dyeing with Acid dyes (used on protein fibers such at wool, silk, alpaca, etc).
The cost for the class will be $5.00 for two scarves and dyes. It will start at 10am and we should be done by about 3pm. Please look around your house and find such things as rubberbands, marbles, glass “stones” used in vases or other small, waterproof objects, a needle and thread (and thimble), a seam ripper, small scissors, different sizes of clamps (those used to clamp reports together), and some fairly narrow cotton yarn. Also, be sure to bring your lunch. Please RSVP by 7PM Friday, May 7.
May 22, 2010:
Sewing - Aprons
Presenter: Louise Reuble
11:30AM at Midway High School, Oak Harbor
Please bring 1.5 yards of washed cotton fabric, solid or print, or bring 3 yards if you’d like to line your apron. Patterns will be available for tracing, but you are welcome to purchase your own and bring it with you. Please also bring matching thread and basic sewing notions if you have them. I will provide sewing machines, sergers, iron, and lots of work space. If you do not finish your project, we’ll set up a second date or give you instructions. Contact Tarey Kay if you want to carpool/ caravan. Please bring a lunch.
June 6, 2010:
Fine Arts - Block Printing
Presenter: Diane Divelbess
10AM in the 4H Building
We will be learning linoleum block printing. We will cut and print the linoleum plate. If people have their own lino blades/cutters please bring them! Cost is $10/person. The workshop will go until 4PM so bring a sack lunch and a creative spirit.
Diane has to order supplies for this workshop so we are asking people to please RSVP by 7PM May 1.