Hello Everyone,

We hope you are keeping warm wherever you are. We have some snow dusting the ground here and a few days of pretty chilly weather. All the better to cozy up at home and plan wonderful things for the year to come.

I just wanted to explain a few things about registration for those of you planning to come for a workshop this year.

We are excited to share the details of our 2025 weekend classes with you—basketry, wood carving, indigo dyeing, leather sewing, and woodturning…Registration opens January 1, 2025. Spaces are limited, so register early. Our one room craft school is located on the shores of Lake Superior. We hope to see you this year!

Summer days have been busy with students weaving and carving up a storm. We met wonderful people from near and far in the last few classes—Birch Bark Plaited Basketry, a Birch Bark Canister Private Class, and Knutkorg: Scandinavian Knot Basket.... Exciting events are on the horizon with special guest Willow Basketry Wizard Steen Madsen from Denmark arriving on Monday. We will have a Craft Night Potluck Reception for him on Wednesday—All Welcome. Barn the Spoon from UK arrives shortly afterwards to...

Summer is in full swing—the sweetest days in Northern Wisconsin. The garden is full and Chequamegon Bay is calling for swimming, boating, and beach days.

In June we (Jarrod & Jazmin) returned from Scandinavia all fired up about split wood basketry with some plans to add those techniques to future basketry classes. We gave a slideshow presentation about our trip at Craft Night in June...

Greetings from an almost Spring on the shores of Lake Superior, Chequamegon Bay, Northern Wisconsin. Birds are flocking to the area and peeper frogs have started serenading the evenings. We recently hosted two wonderful classes and look forward to many more this summer.

We recently spent a week in Grand Marais, MN at North House Folk School where Jarrod taught End Grain Electric Lathe Turning and Knutkorg: Scandinavian Knot Baskets as part of Wood Week 2024. We stayed at our friend, Woodspirit School instructor, Mike Loeffler’s house for the week where I took some pictures of his bird carvings…

Find out about craft events and workshops at Woodspirit School—Northern Wisconsin’s Craft School—focused on traditional craft skills and high quality craft instruction in the Chequamegon Bay Region. This season’s classes include Textile Arts, Wood Carving, Wood Turning, Basketry, Furniture Building, and Leather Work.

Winter Greetings!

It has been a good while since we last wrote about our little Northern Wisconsin Craft School. Which means we have a lot of news to catch up on including all the classes that happened after July, events, travels, and some details about our third season of classes in 2024. Here we go!

We’ve had refreshing swims in Lake Superior, delicious local white fish for Fish Fry Fridays in Washburn, and noodled about on the bay in our sailboat—all the signs that summer here is in full swing. We are excited to show our guests from Japan all the goodness that is Chequamegon Bay.

We recently hosted three great classes: Willow Basketry with Scogin Zimmerman-Mayo, Spoon Carving Intensive with Jarrod Dahl, and Danish Cord Stool with…

We are in our second year of running the school and have now hosted six classes this season: Spoon Carving Masterclass with Barn the Spoon and Jarrod Dahl, Backstrap Weaving with Louise Young, Danish Cord Stool with Dawson Moore, Bird Carving with Mike Loeffler, Shibori and Indigo with Jazmin Hicks-Dahl, and Spoon Carving with Jarrod Dahl. Next up is Willow Basketry with Scogin Zimmerman-Mayo.

We met some lovely people from all over…