I teach single-day and multi-day Slöjd Workshops for all ages and all skill levels. Slöjd is the Swedish word for handcraft. Modern slöjd education involves craft skills such as woodcarving, sewing, leatherwork, and knitting. Slöjd projects are both useful and beautiful, and come from sustainably harvested local materials!

If you're curious, I have written more about the history of slöjd as well as modern interpretations of slöjd practice.

I love to teach people how to play and make Ancient Games, such as Fidchell, Hnefatafl, Three Man's Morris, Nine Man's Morris, Fox & Geese, Shogi, Senet, The Royal Game of Ur, and more. Old games have so much wisdom to share!

I've taught ancient game-craft with Maeve Gathje at North House Folk School and with Anna Sharratt at Great River School.

During a trip to Sweden in January 2026, I encountered "Boddrakar" or House Dragons at museums and at Sätergläntan Folk School. These carved dragons come from the Viking Age, and people still make them today. I decided to run with the idea and create this one-day dragon project based on the sillier dragons I found on my trip.

In this workshop, students carve the head and tail and limbs of a dragon from interestingly-shaped tree branches, paint the pieces, assemble the dragon, and bring it home to hang up in a room. House Dragons are outfitted with hooks and claws so that they can hold all sorts of things in your home - pens, pencils, toilet paper, salt and pepper, keys, earrings, and any other treasures you might need to dangle from the claws of a fiery beast!

I teach workshops on Natural Basketry by bringing students out into the landscape and harvesting local materials. When we weave a basket, it is a way to connect ourselves to the land on which we live. I've taught basketry workshops at the American Swedish Institute, Minnesota New Country School, the Arts Center of Saint Peter, and the Mankato Makerspace.

They say that Spoon Carving is the gateway drug to all other woodcraft. If that's true - and I think it is - then I've opened the door for students at the Mankato Makerspace and Minnesota New Country School. Like natural basketry, spoon carving requires only simple tools and local materials in order to craft an object that is durable, beautiful, and practical.

Wool Spinning is the process by which a sheep's fleece begins to become a sweater! In 2021, I received the Teaching Tools Grant from the American Swedish Institute in order to purchase a spinning wheel, drop spindles, and wool carders. Since then, I have used those tools to teach a variety of fiber-related workshops to both adults and children.

A very ancient, very fast, and very fun craft, Jugglebraiding is a two-person fiber craft which can be used to create shoelaces, drawstrings, bracelets, ropes, and bowstrings. It is easy to set up and brings a lively energy to any workshop!

In 15th-century Italy, paper became affordable and the new technology of pocket notebooks proliferated around the Mediterranean. Pocket books called Squartifoglia, or waste books, were used to collect the day's transactions, thoughts, and sketches. Once they were filled up, the information from the squartifoglia were copied into more permanent notebooks. Since I learned about the squartifoglia in Roland Allen's The Notebook, I have been teaching others to make their own simple pocket notebooks from scratch.