kwartzlab

Coming up next weekend! Be Gay Do Crafts, our monthly q***r crafternoon is happening on May 30th from 2-4pm!

This month we’ll be making our own colouring pages! Supplies, guidance and inspiration will be provided! We’ll be photocopying the finished colouring sheets so that everyone can go home with their own colouring booklet.

Supplies will be provided and you’re welcome to bring your own activity to work on instead if you’d prefer! RSVP at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

ICYDK... also has leather tooling and sewing and die cutting equipment. Here, Michelle shows us her skills in leather tooling !

These are exciting times. Through a lot of hard work and dedication, our Pottery studio is up and running with a slab roller and multiple pottery wheels and the kiln and drying racks and tools. Wow! This is what can be accomplished when you have an enthusiastic and diversely-talented collaborative maker space. Our maker space is one of the largest in Canada 🇨🇦 and growing. Congratulations to the whole team that made this happen. And continuously improving each of our sections 🎊 👏

Many thanks to for organizing live model drawing classes - email to register and keep an eye on our post for future dates.

Wowie! Can you believe the last Saturday in April already (almost) here already??

Be Gay Do a crafts, our monthly q***r crafternoon is coming up on April 25th from 2-4pm. This month we’ll be making lunch cards! Use it to motivate you to do your chores, or set a goal or remind yourself to go eat more ice cream and maybe treat yourself with a sticker for treating yourself.

Supplies will be provided and you’re welcome to bring your own activity to work on instead if our idea doesn’t sound fun to you! RSVP at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

Sally Gray has been working on her textile arts at

A piece of bobbin lace just finished. This is in the Idrija style (idrija is a regionally protected term). She started 2 weeks ago and have been chipping away at it. She tends to work on lace at home but winds the bobbins while chatting at kwartzlab. She chose this piece as it's the most complicated one of its style that she has done yet. Pointed corners are a new technique for her!

Next Live Model Drawing Session

Location: Main room
Date: Thursday May 7th, 7-9pm
Cost: $8 members, $10 non-members, 15 spaces

Description:

Join us for a drawing session for adult artists of all skills! The session will feature drawing exercises and a model with multiple poses and costumes. Please bring your own art supplies.

Please note that this session will feature a n**e artist, so all participants must be adults.

Email:Theo
[email protected]
to register

Join us on the 3rd Thursday each month for Repair Cafe

This month it falls on April 16th - this week!

This is why a maker space community is so vital. One of our members (Huge shout out and thanks to Colin Powell) decided to make a lid for our cart to have moveable surface space in our shop.

Our members are a wonderfully diverse group of minds and skills and everyone pitches in to make better and help each other build on ideas and solve challenges. Plus there is more equipment here than you could ever keep in your home.

Drop in any Tuesday evening between 7-10pm for a tour and meet some of our people.

We have a flat bed knitting machine in -textiles. Elysha from completed these wonderful machine knit socks to learn how to set the guage, calculate the size and work out the techniques.

We are always adding new equipment and tools to so if you haven't been in a while, drop in on one of out Tuesday Open Nights (7-10pm) to see how we've grown lately!

Cutest tool ever! Not only is it a very cute 3d printed screen printing rig but it is actually a functional mini screenprnting rig! It now lives in ? zone and you can use it with emulsion, stencil paper, or painting directly onto the screen to make mini prints. The community at never ceases to amaze.

Print design by .n.mouse