Slow Stitched Book Covers
Art + Wellness | Registration opens 2/10/2026 9:00 AM EST
This class will guide you in creating a hand sewn and embellished book cover to enhance and protect your treasured tomes! Collage together beautiful pieces of fabric, lace and ribbon to create a one of a kind book cover. Raw edge applique and slow stitching will be used to embellish the fabric, and basic hand sewing techniques will be taught. Open to all skill levels. All supplies included. Ages 14 and up.
Andrea Raines
Originally from Alexandria, VA, Andrea earned her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Smith College in 2002, and her Masters in Arts of Teaching Art in 2003. Since then, she has taught art to students k-12 for 20 years in schools and camps in Northern Virginia and Yadkin County, landing at the Career Center in Winston-Salem in 2018. Her favorite thing in the classroom is challenging her students to think of materials and techniques in new ways, and to do things they didn’t think were possible!
In her own work, she loves combining materials (fabric, clay, yarn, found objects and textiles) and techniques (weaving, sewing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking) in new unexpected ways.