Cozy season is upon us and we have a fun and easy way for you to be indoorsy this winter, and all you need is your library card! Craft & Hobby offers over 20 different categories in the creative space to help you find or start a new hobby at your own pace with step-by-step tutorials. Just login with your RCL barcode number and pin on any internet-connected device to take as many classes as you want for free!
Not sure where to start? Here’s 10 classes that library staff have recently enjoyed.
- Give future you a gift by learning how to make mealtime simpler by cooking meals that can be used for more than one meal by using leftovers to create completely different but equally outstanding dinners in Cook Once, Eat Twice, opens a new window.
- Stay warm this winter by learning how to knit a warm beanie in Hat knitting 101, opens a new window.
- Kids can create cool gadgets, enhancing tech, or design fun games in Hack Along, opens a new window, a girl-powered DIY show with fun STEM projects, cooking how-tos and activities to do at home.
- Learn how to build a Little Library, opens a new window to benefit your community using a few basic woodworking skills.
- Add a personal touch to your home with a small amount of fabric and basic sewing skills over at 1 Yard Projects, opens a new window.
- Make cakes that draw delicious inspiration from six different regions of the world and learn to create your own flavors in Beyond Vanilla: Flavors from Around the World, opens a new window.
- It’s a dance party over at Hip-Hop Grooves With tWitch, opens a new window where you’ll learn steps from the master himself how to incorporate easy-to-learn steps into your freestyle or show off at a dance party.
- Get started with crochet with a class on handy crochet techniques every crocheter should have in their toolkit in Crochet Technique Toolkit, opens a new window.
- Preschoolers and kindergarteners can explore nature's charm with crafts that sparkle and shine by creating their own Whimsical Worlds, opens a new window.
- Join a sketch artist learn the ins and outs of sketching buildings, no matter the aspects or features over at The Essentials of Sketching Architecture, opens a new window.