Blanket Coat:
An Online Beginner Hand-Sewing Workshop
1 Live Demo, 3 Live Q&As
Create Your Custom Winter Style.
Get endless compliments on your unique one-of-a-kind coat with this fun and easy project—no experience necessary.
In this workshop, you’ll learn to transform a blanket into a custom coat that suits your personal style. Whether you prefer bold colors, neutral tones, or intricate stitching, your coat will be a true reflection of you.
When leaving bed feels impossible
Wrap it around you instead—with style.
Life is hard. You’re tired. Why not bring a piece of your bed everywhere you go? This workshop lets you combine fashion and comfort so you can face the world when you really don’t want to.
Tell Me More
What is a Blanket Coat?
Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like—a coat made from a blanket. When you sign up, you’ll receive a list of resources with links to find the perfect blanket for you within the parameters of what’s required for the class.
What supplies will I need?
A Felted Wool Blanket
A Tapestry (Yarn) Needle
Yarn
Straight Pins
Tailor’s Chalk
Fabric Scissors
A Little Stack of Paper
Pencil or Pen
A coat that you like the fit of (This will be used for exploratory purposes and modeling. It won’t be cut or anything.)
Helpful Optional ToolsA straight edge of some type—T-square, yard stick, etc.
Magnet for holding straight pins
Mirror
Are supplies included in the workshop price?
No. You’ll purchase your blanket & supplies for class separately, but I’m available for support. You’ll get a resource list to help you find everything you need with ease, and can ask any questions you have too. Find your full supply list with links in the class portal after registering.
Why don’t we meet until January?
I want to make sure you have plenty of time to collect your supplies, and given the holidays are just around the corner, this seemed like the best choice.
When you need to get dressed but best you can do is wrap yourself in a blanket—now you can do both.
Program Overview
This program meets live and recordings will be available once complete.
The live session is designed for you to be well. There is no wrong way to participate and I expect that you’ll take care of yourself. Stretch, eat, cook, be on camera, be off camera—you decide.
Come with what you have and go after what you want.
If you can’t attend any sessions live, there will be a place to write questions and have them answered in the next session so you can get your answers in the recording.
In This Program You’ll:
Learn how to design a unique blanket coat.
Learn how to assemble your blanket coat.
Explore a fluid style of clothing construction not using a pattern.
Finish a one-of-a-kind winter coat!
Fall Dates:
Rather than doing one workshop day and multiple different sessions, I’ve decided to combine all workshop dates into one cohort offering you multiple opportunities to meet for a live Q&A.
Saturday 11 January 2025, 12-3pm PT: Live Demo
Monday 13 January 2025, 3-4pm PT: Live Q&A One
Monday 20 January 2025, 3-4pm PT: Live Q&A Two
Monday 27 January 2025, 3-4pm PT: Live Q&A Three
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Design Your Chic and
Comfortable Winter Style
Pay What You Can • Learn more about the ‘community care in capitalism’ model below.
Starting at $85+ • Full Price: $180
Community Care within Capitalism
Pay What You Can Pricing Model
Community care is at the center of my work in this world—which means we all win together. My workshops and programs are financially designed to focus on us as a community rather than as siloed individuals. The ‘pay what you can model’ is an invitation to consider how you exist within the whole, and how you can use what you have to seed acts of social equity. Here’s how it works:
Full price for this program is $180, however sliding scale starts at just $85.
There are guidelines below for determining what you choose to pay.
This model is built on the balance of time & money. The closer to full price you pay, the less time you spend building reciprocity, and vice versa.
To create equity when paying below full price, spend time to invite your community to the program. Consider how you and the people you know could add up to a full priced ticket across multiple people. This allows you all access the content at a price you all can afford while ensuring I too am cared for in the process.
This isn’t about posting once on social media and calling it quits. Community Care requires care from both of us.When participating in this system, the goal is to create reciprocity.
Some Things to Consider:
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Pay Full Price/Closer To It If You Are:
• white or white passing
• comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs such as food, housing, and transportation
• have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
• own you home or property -or- rent a higher end property
• fully employed or do not need to work to meet you needs
• have access to some financial savings and/or generational wealth
• have expendable income–can afford vacations, and/or to take time off from work with worry -
Calculate your discounts based on your access and social privileges.
• Race
• Gender
• Disability
• Neurodivergence
• Financial Instability
• Language
• No access to familial support
• No access to generational wealth
• You work in a highly stigmatized industry such as SW
• Trauma history
• Housing Access
• Ability to take time off without financial ramifications that would destabilize you or your family. -
You can also consider my access points.
• single mother
• chronic illness
• PTSD, & C-PTSD
• Healing from Intimate Partner Violence
• Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia
• No access to financial support outside of what I make in my business
• No generational wealth
• No family close to me as a childcare resource
• Genderqueer
• Contentious Co-parenting Dynamic
Testimonial from Kate Bowdren
Vyana guides students in a way that makes huge concepts and deep thinking manageable with accessibility for all learners in mind every step of the way.
