Plant Lover Bundle

Create one-of-a-kind plant pots as you explore white cement and large-scale molds, allowing for lots of creativity with color. Christie Lothrop, the artist and green thumb behind MadPotters, teaches marbling and layering techniques, how to work with molds, and finishing techniques to create unique pots and trays. This thoughtfully curated kit has everything needed to create several different plant pots and trays, including high-quality molds and pigment powders along with plenty of white cement mix.

This workshop includes: 

• A complete hand-poured cement kit with materials to make four large pots
• A detailed digital workshop led by Christie Lothrop
• A Maker Chat Q&A with the artist

The specialty tools and materials in our cement planter kit include:

• Large square pot mold, ~4.7x4.7x4,7"
• Large circular pot mold, ~5.9x4.7"
• Large rectangular pot mold, ~7.5x3.9x3.5"
• Large circular spiral tray mold, ~9.8" diameter
• Pigment powders, 25g each of: azure, fern, crimson, goldenrod, and papaya
• White cement concrete mix, 12 lbs
• Four pairs nitrile gloves
• Sandpaper, 100 grit and 80 grit
• Disposable face mask
• Five mixing containers, 3.5 cups each 
• Five wooden tongue depressors
• Five mixing knives
• Two plastic drop cloths
• Round tub, 80oz
• Two plastic cups, 16oz each

Welcome to our Handcrafted Paper Foliage Workshop led by life-long crafter Corrie Beth Hogg. Corrie’s current art practice combines two of her biggest passions… paper crafting and plants! Always falling in love with the intricacy of a new species of plants, Corrie replicates them into sustainable design pieces that are ready to adorn any table, shelf, or mantle.

We are exploring two beautiful paper plants: the black gold philodendron (which is actually that beautifully variated green, yellow and red trailing vine!) and the perfectly on-trend silver dollar eucalyptus. This workshop explores texture, color and paper art in a truly beautiful way. Through carefully layered techniques of wet-on-wet watercolor, colored pencil shading, painting, drawing and wire manipulation, Corrie aligns various crafting materials to construct a life-like botanical display.

This kit includes the materials to build a full trailing philodendron houseplant plus sprigs of the silver dollar eucalyptus (explore our add-on kit to dive further into this variety).

Happy making!

Artist Sarah Benning leads us through the intricacies of embroidery. This workshop features an instructional digital video accompanied by a curated kit of tools and materials to complete a Sarah K. Benning pattern.

With a custom stitch booklet built by Sarah to continue to guide us, we explore a variety of beginner, intermediate and even advanced techniques. For travel purposes, we have partnered with Brooklyn-based French designer Amelie Mancini to create carryall bags for all of our embroidery supplies, they're beautiful!

This workshop includes:

• A detailed, digital workshop on the techniques and execution of contemporary embroidery by Sarah Benning
• A live & recorded Maker Chat Q&A with our artist
• Tools and materials from artisan suppliers, curated for you, by Sarah

The tools & materials included in this kit:

• A custom intermediate pattern by Sarah
• 2 wooden hoops to choose for your design: a 7" and 9"
• A swatch of unbleached cotton fabric
• 13 different unique colors of embroidery floss (Please note that due to an embroidery floss shortage, one color is substituted for a very close match.)
• A length of size 8 black pearle cotton thread for outlining
• An embroidery needle
• Sarah's favorite thread snips
• A complete Stitch Glossary designed by Sarah

A special addition:

• Our small business collaboration for this kit includes a hand printed embroidery carryall bag in natural oatmeal/cotton-blend linen designed and produced by Amelie Mancini in her NYC studio. These pouches feature black organic cotton lining, a sturdy brass zipper and a brown leather pull. They are screen printed using a non-toxic, water-based black ink in Amelie's wonderful cactus motif. Amelie has partnered with us to create a custom size and bag just for this project!

Happy making!