FABSCRAP PHL Workshop: Textile Holiday Card Making with Juicebox Workshop!

Using textile scraps and yarn, Julie will demonstrate several variations of a simple, hand sewn card design that is a perfect holiday greeting, however you celebrate the season. Participants are encouraged to bring colorful scraps that are meaningful to them and can choose to further embellish their projects using paper scraps, markers, colored pencils, or paint. Each participant will come away with 5 handmade cards they can mail off to their loved ones.

Special Note: A big part of Julie’s textile practice centers around repurposing items that belonged to her loved ones or were salvaged from interesting places. If you have a sentimental textile that you’d like to transform through this workshop, (non-stretch fibers work best), please bring them along! We’ll share stories as we create!

Please be sure to bring all supplies needed with you! Unless otherwise noted below FABSCRAP will not supply all materials.

Supply List:

FABSCRAP and Julie will provide:

• Blank folding cards and envelopes (5 will be provided to each participant)
• Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Basic yarn and fabric scraps

Participants Should Bring:

• A wide eyed needle for hand sewing
• Textile and/or yarn scraps you’d like to feature (optional, but highly encouraged!)
• Magazines, colorful paper scraps, markers, colored pencils, or painting supplies, any of which can be used to further embellish your cards (optional)

Please consider saving textiles from landfills for your projects! FABSCRAP’s variety of leather skins and scraps are a great choice! Make a shopping appointment before the workshop if you’d like to shop for additional items for use in this workshop!

Your ticket price allows us to provide a stipend to our Workshop Instructors for their time in sharing their skills with the

FABSCRAP Community. All tickets are non-refundable. We encourage you to consider donating as another way to support our work as a sustainable resource – FABSCRAP is the only option available for the fashion industry to recycle and redistribute unused material, and the most accessible way for consumers to find saved-from-landfill fabric, trim, leather, and yarn.

FABSCRAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit working to end commercial textile “waste.” Your donations and purchase of workshop materials from our online store support our work and allows us to continue hosting these workshops. Stay in touch with us at fabscrap.org and on Instagram at @fab_scrap.

Instructor Bio: Artist Julie “juicebox” Woodard splits her time between mountain trails and the streets of Philadelphia.

Using salvaged textiles, Julie creates wearable pieces and impressionistic landscapes that convey her passion for nature, memory, and creative reuse. What began as a way to honor her late mom and repurpose family heirlooms, juicebox workshop collections now also feature vintage goods, damaged textiles donated by community members, cutting room scraps, and reclaimed trash.

Julie’s process incorporates elements of collage, applique, embroidery, quilting, painting, and soft sculpture. The “juice” is the joy Julie seeks to create and the “box” is her platform for storytelling and advocacy. Every piece has a story. Every textile is repurposed with purpose. These values extend to custom projects, where patrons are invited to provide their own treasured textiles to be workshopped into something new.

Learn more at www.juiceboxworkshop.com and @juiceboxworkshop on Instagram and Facebook.

THESE DIRECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT:

The FABSCRAP warehouse is located in Unit 601 within BOK, which is accessible by foot, bike/scooter, car, subway and bus.

SUBWAY: Broad Street Line to Snyder Station

BUS: 45, 47, 47M, 79 Lines

BIKE: Approach BOK’s Pedestrian Entrance on 821 Dudley Street, between 8th and 9th Street. Free outdoor bike parking is available next to the entrance on 9th Street. BOK is an Indego bike share location with a kiosk located on the corner of 8th and Mifflin Street.

DRIVING:

Traveling I-95S, take Exit 20 for Columbus Boulevard towards Washington Avenue. Keep right at the fork, following signs for Snyder Avenue/ Oregon Avenue. Turn right onto South Christopher Columbus Boulevard/ Columbus Boulevard. Turn right onto Tasker Street. Turn left onto East Moyamensing Avenue. Turn right onto McKean Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-95N, take Exit 17 to merge onto PA-611N/ South Broad Street towards Pattison Avenue. Turn right onto East Snyder Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76E, take Exit 350 to merge onto Packer Avenue. Turn right onto South 10th Street. Turn right onto West Oregon Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76W, take Exit 350 for 7th Street towards Packer Avenue. Keep left at the fork to continue towards South 7th Street. Turn left onto South 7th Street. Turn left onto West Shunk Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

How to locate FABSCRAP within BOK:

At the bottom of this page, and in your confirmation email, is a QR code, which works as a virtual key at the 9th Street entrance of Bok.

To the right of the door is a digital screen where you can scan this code.

1) Click the “Virtual Key” button on the home screen.

2) Hold the QR Code in front of the camera, located on the left side of the screen

When you hear a buzz/ding, the door unlocks so you can enter. The west elevator to our space on the 6th floor will be in the first hallway on your right when you enter through the 9th Street doors. The Dudley Street entrance of BOK is open to the public and does not require a key code. If you enter at Dudley, continue down the hallway and up the ramp until you reach the welcome desk. Take a left at the desk and another left right before the double doors. The west elevator is just around that corner- painted yellow and blue. We are on floor 6! Click 6 and eagerly await your arrival at our warehouse!

***(For ramp access, please use the ADA entrance on Mifflin St. The attendant at the Ambassador Desk will guide you to the West Elevator)

Need assistance? Contact us at (445)-300-8980