Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon and The Warm Ewe invite the public to join a series of free knitting workshops offered on September 7, 21, and 28, between 2pm and 4pm. Each workshop will take place at the Mount Lebanon historic site at 202 Shaker Road in New Lebanon, NY. The staff of The Warm Ewe will provide free yarn and needles to the participants of the workshop for the project. Participants of all skill-levels, under the guidance of the organizers, will create individual knitted squares which will be joined together to create blankets to be donated to the Family Resource Center of Columbia County.
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Sharon Duane Koomler is a Shaker scholar and traditional letterpress printer living in upstate New York. She has academic degrees in American Folklore from Indiana University and Western Kentucky University. Sharon has worked at Shaker Museums from Kentucky to New Hampshire as an educator, curator, consultant, and director. She has written and published on Shaker material culture and spirituality, and lectured widely on Shaker art, life, and belief. Sharon has a particular interest in the under-researched social aspects of Shaker life and ways in which Shakers practiced inclusion and intentionality.