Give yourself a week to play with fabric, plastic, thread, and more. In this five-day retreat, we’ll dig into your supply stash and turn the week into one long, unhurried playdate. You’ll move into a meditative rhythm by hand-stitching with like-minded souls and rediscover your love of play.

Natalya, your instructor, will set up various still-life scenes and guide you in making plastic collages of them. You will learn to build them with hand-stitched details, one layer at a time.

You can bring soft, single-use plastic packaging from home, such as shopping bags, wrappers, and the like, or dip into the stash at the Estelle Center. Natalya will provide needles and thread for stitching, and five days’ worth of tips, tricks, and her favorite stitches for making the most of plastic.

You’ll learn to make collages from plastic waste, gain all her knowledge about this free art supply, and embroider with skill and assurance. Natalya will guide, troubleshoot, and cheer you on throughout the entire week.

By the end of the retreat, you’ll have new skills, a body of work, and friends who understand exactly why a week of stitching trash into treasure is the highlight of your year.