Craft 'n' Crop Creatives Group at Heritage House Arts & Civic Center is held the first Thursday of the month from 6-9:30 p.m. and the next one will be Aug. 3.
Craft 'n' Crop is a relaxed artist/crafter mixer designed for creatives of all "stripes."
Participants each bring a potluck dish to share for dinner and then work on their various individual projects (any format -- scrapbooks, bead looms, and clay sculptures are but a few of the materials seen in the past) while sharing conversation and positive feedback.
There is no agenda and no structure, so attendees are free to come and go as their schedules require.
For those not currently working on anything, but would like to hang out with fellow creatives, the August Craft ’n’ Crop at Heritage House is extending an open invitation to all local crafters to join in a mass effort to send some ‘crafted love’ to our troops overseas. The group recently began a project with the local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution and hope to finish a couple of special projects to send to our soldiers and sailors overseas.
Participants will be completing the stuffing of and sewing up of numerous “mini hearts” which will travel with the troops. The hearts are designed to be small enough to be easily carried in the breast pocket so as to remind the troops that people are thinking of them back home.
Once the mini-hearts are completed, participants will embark on its next soldier and sailor-related project -- creating miniature “tree skirts” to accompany miniature Christmas trees which will be shipped out this fall in time for the holidays. There will be a "no-sew" pattern that can be used, or crafters may get as fancy as they like with the tree skirts. Pinking shears are needed for working on the no-sew tree skirts.