TOYS For You!

Presenting a 10 week online course where you will learn how to make shapes and create crochet toys. Pattern free! Only in the first class will we follow a pattern in order to learn an important basic shape. Every week you will receive a worksheet with photos, diagrams and written instructions that relate to that…

FREE Puffy Valentine Heart Crochet Workshop

On Wednesday 9th February – During a Zoom class I recorded a FUN, FREE Crochet Walkthrough Demonstration of 2 x Hearts. #1 – ‘3D Amigurumi Heart’ designed by Garnknuten – PATTERN LINK – VIDEO LINK #2 – ‘Love Hearts Ornament’ by Yarnspirations – PATTERN LINK – VIDEO LINK These two demos are a great lead…

Crochet Toy Workshops

In the first quarter of this year, 2022, I conducted toy workshops conducted online! Sign up for my newsletter to receive alerts about future programs. Those workshops are completed and we had a great time making toys. Enjoy the gallery of toys that show the wonderful world of crochet!! I was also awarded an artist…

CROCHET SNOWFLAKES

Online Crochet Workshops x 3 for the Holiday Season 2021 Ruth Marshall is excited to teach 3 online Zoom classes where participants will learn to read crochet charts so that we can create, fun, colorful, snowflakes for the 2021 holiday season.   Where: Zoom, Fridays 10-11AM, Eastern Standard Time.When: October 29th, November 5th, November 12th.What: some crochet skills, yarn,…

Su Casa & NYPL crochet programming

For the months of May and June I will be teaching FREE ONLINE crochet programs for older adults. Two different types of crochet workshops held on different days, I’m sure there will be a time slot that will suit you πŸ˜‰ All classes are one hour long, all classes are held online. All classes require…

Crochet bags – from plastic

I have been crocheting with plastic bags for over a year now and have become obsessed with creating and designing attractive bags for every day use. (I have ‘plarn’ – plastic yarn patterns available in my store) These bags are strong, durable, different, eye catching, perfect for supermarket trips and moving your stuff around town!…

YES to plastic!

Yes to reducing, reusing and recycling plastic bags that is! In 2020, New York City, (where I live), will transition into a plastic bag free world! I am very excited about this, and I have ideas to reduce, reuse, recycle plastic bags by creating temporary art installations using this maligned item from our daily lives….

Plastic bag yarn – Workshops!!!

I was delighted to be invited by New York Public Library to hold a series of six workshops in 2019 at four different branch locations in the Bronx and Manhattan. So…… Let’s make Plarn! Plastic yarn made from plastic bags. Local Bronx artist Ruth Marshall will teach you how to crochet using this FREE yarn…

Art Recycled

I was glad to be back at Morris Park Library in the Bronx to run a new program funded by Bronx Council on the Arts through New York State Council on the Arts. ‘Art Recycled‘ was all about reuse, reduce, recycle, an environmentally friendly art program that was FREE. You know all of those plastic…

Hanging Garden

At the start of the year I got a strange phone call from Jodi Moise, the curator of the fine art program at Montefiore Health System, asking if I would consider an outdoor commission of my floral work. I wasn’t really sure since I’ve always worked with woollen yarn for my knitted artwork. But that’s…