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  • Saturday, October 29, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Decorative Copper for Your Garden

    Is your garden or landscape lacking some special accents? This Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop, co-sponsored by the Worcester Center for Crafts, could be the answer as you hammer on copper and brass sheet and wire to craft some delightful, eye-catching leaves and flowers. Use these organic designs to create hooks, vines and other hardware to decorate your walls, trellises, railings and downspouts. Back home, you will be able to apply your new cutting, forging, riveting and soldering skills to fashion an unlimited variety of garden embellishments. Students need to bring their own leather work gloves, eye safety protection, tape measure, Sharpie marker and a bag lunch. All other tools and materials will be provided. John Stevens of Dancing Hammer Forge will instruct, and the class will take place in the Metals Studio at the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road in Worcester. Visit www.worcester.edu/wcc for directions. THBG members $130, non-members $140. Register at www.towerhillbg.org, or call 508-869-6111.

  • Sunday, March 20, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Copper for the Garden

    In this one day workshop on Sunday, March 20 from 10 – 3, instructor John Stevens of Dancing Hammer Forge will teach you to create a small copper trellis or edger and gain the know-how to fashion an unlimited number of exciting new practical and decorative structures.  The class, limited to six participants, will take place at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, and there is a members fee of $120, and a non-member fee of $130, which includes all materials. Students will use torches, pipe cutters, brushes and other basic plumbing tools as they learn how to plan, cut and solder with commonly available materials and equipment. No experience is necessary – just some ideas and the desire to make something clever and pick up some useful new skills. More experienced hands can use the workshop to refine and add to their skills as they plan more ambitious projects. All participants need to bring their own leather work gloves, eye safety protection, tape measure, Sharpie marker and a bag lunch. All other tools and materials will be provided. To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.