The Folk School Online

John C. Campbell Folk School Online Classes

We're excited to offer online classes in cooking, fiber arts, music, dance, painting, woodworking and writing. Join instructors from John C. Campbell Folk School for classes that can be enjoyed from the comfort of your home.

Upcoming JCCFS Classes

Mending across the Globe: Boro, Swiss, and Scotch Darning

Fiber Arts with Riley Kleve

Get clothes out of your mending pile and back into rotation with this new class! Dive into three techniques from around the world week-by-week, with expert help from instructor and fierce mending advocate Riley Kleve. Starting with Japanese Boro, you’ll learn how to patch holes...

Starts Thursday, October 8, at 5:30 pm ET | 2:30 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Book Making: Inbetween Binding

Book Making with Sara Dismukes

Incorporate several different techniques into this innovative structure. Create a hardcover case-wrap bookbinding combined with basic leathercraft. Belted hardcover books feature a decorative lay-flat binding and leather closure. Any skill level welcome; requires good hand-eye c...

Saturday, October 10, at 10 am ET | 7 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Color Fluency: Design and Practice

Fiber Arts with Laura Berlage

Color is a huge part of how a design concept grows muscle, flesh, and bones. It's essential for making your idea manifest, and yet it can be so elusive. Essentially, color is a form of language, and this course is all about building fluency in that language as well as putting it...

Starts Sunday, October 11, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Woven Sashiko-ori Sampler - Koginzashi style [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST]

Weaving with Phyllis Miller

Learn Koginzashi (one of the three main styles of sashiko-ori) and weave patterns in three different threadings in that style. Experiment with pattern yarns of various sizes and colors. Plan on having a set of mug rugs or three samplers when you’re done.

Starts Monday, October 26, at 7 pm ET | 4 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Wool Embroidered Sheepskin Winter Hat

Embroidery with Laura Berlage

Jump into a cozy, interdisciplinary experience of all things sheep with this unique project! Explore Scandinavian-style wool-on-wool embroidery using hand dyed wool yarns from the instructor’s sheep on upcycled washed wool fabric, as well as learn how to stitch shearling sheepskin...

Starts Sunday, November 1, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Reminders - Building Piecing Skills One Block at a Time

Quilting with Teri Lucas

Skill building in piecing and quilting takes time and practice. What better way than making a quilt that is colorful and fun? "Reminders" is that quilt pattern where you will build skill in selecting fabrics, pressing, rotary cutting, measuring, and piecing. Each block increases...

Starts Friday, November 6, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Pyrography 101

Pyrography with Janice Levi

Learn to enhance wood with pyrography! Students will not only burn on wood, but also use pyrography on leather, gourds, and dry magnolia leaves. One of the joys of this class is that it can be accomplished from your most comfortable chair! No previous skills required.

Starts Monday, November 9, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Knit Two Socks at Once

Knitting with "Dawn, The Stitching Coach"

Learn to knit two socks at once with the seamless knitting technique known as magic loop method. This class will use the Basic Ribbed Sock pattern found in the book Custom Socks by Kate Atherley. You will learn how to cast on both socks toe-up, take measurements for better fitting...

Starts Tuesday, November 10, at 4 pm ET | 1 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Needle Felted Gnome

Felting with Laura Berlage

Needle felting is fun and accessible! Learn the art of taking hand dyed wool roving from the instructor’s sheep and use a barbed needle to transform it into an adorable, little, felted friend. No previous experience necessary, and all that tiny stabbing with the tool can be excellent...

Wednesday, December 2, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Wool Embroidered Heart Ornament

Embroidery with Laura Berlage

Make a cozy and cute heart embroidered with wool yarn and stitched onto a piece of curly sheepskin from the instructor’s flock. Learn how to work satin and stem stitch “in the hand” on washed wool fabric, as well as how to assemble the finished ornament. Finished piece is approximately...

Thursday, December 3, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Danish Stars

Fiber Arts with "Dawn, The Stitching Coach"

Let Dawn, The Stitching Coach, teach you how to fold fabric strips into a patriotic star for Veteran's Day or, if you are already bingeing Christmas movies, use your favorite Christmas fabrics. This 1-hour class is simple enough for beginners yet fun for any crafting level.

Tuesday, December 8, at 10 am ET | 7 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Needle Felt an Arctic Fox

Needlework, Embroidery & Thread Art with Laura Berlage

Wednesday, December 9, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Needle Felt a Reindeer

Needlework, Embroidery & Thread Art with Laura Berlage

Thursday, December 10, at 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Angels we have Heard on High! Angel Ornaments

Fiber Arts with Margaret Willingham

We’ll make an angel ornament to fly on your tree this holiday season and learn how to apply our easy, 4-step technique! Reverse appliqué gives an elegant, dimensional look using just two fabrics. The angel design is created in the background fabric peeking out of the top fabric....

Wednesday, December 16, at 9 am ET | 6 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Stash Buster: Novelty Fibers Flower

Rug Hooking with Laura Berlage

Curious how to use some of the other, interesting, quirky, shiny, or just plain fun fibers in your stash? This design invites you to do that! Explore ways to play outside the typical wool box with yarns in pine punch needles, including working with multiple strands at once, using...

Starts Thursday, January 14, at 7 pm ET | 4 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Express Yourself with Beads

Jewelry with Elaine Robnett Moore

Express Yourself with Beads invites students into a creative journey where color, texture, and unexpected materials become the language of artistic expression. Under the guidance of master teacher Elaine Robnett Moore, participants will discover and refine a design voice that is...

Starts Saturday, January 16, at 1 pm ET | 10 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Foundations in Free-Motion Quilting

Quilting with Teri Lucas

Join us for a beginning machine quilting class to get the most out of your domestic home machine. Quilt making is a combination of skills coming together to create and make something beautiful and practical. This class covers the practical means to achieve beautiful work; from accurate...

Starts Wednesday, January 20, at 7 pm ET | 4 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Mixed Media Folklore Illustration

Mixed Media with Addie Hirschten

Enjoy hearing a new folktale each session and illustrating the images using cut paper collage and painting. In addition to discussing the meaning behind the stories with the group, students will weave together traditional cut paper silhouettes, mixed media, and modern painting techniques...

Starts Sunday, January 24, at 2 pm ET | 11 am PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Bind that Quilt

Quilting with Teri Lucas

Explore all the fun ways to make binding and enclose those raw edges on variety of shapes. Learn to make cross-grain, bias binding, layered bindings, and how to face (binding doesn't show) a quilt. There's also the zigzag stitch trick that is a new feature this time around!

Starts Thursday, January 28, at 7 pm ET | 4 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Cardinal, Fine Punch Needle Rug Hooking

Rug Hooking with Laura Berlage

Painting a picture in yarn with this looped pile method is fun and playful! Certified Oxford punch needle rug hooking instructor will share every step of the process, whether you are fairly new to the medium or looking to up your skills via this delightful cardinal design. And the...

Starts Sunday, April 4, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

Sun and Moon Zippered Pouch: Continuing Beginner Fine Point Punch Needle Rug Hooking

Rug Hooking with Laura Berlage

Inspire the balance between night and day with this delightful class that also creates a useful piece that is the perfect size for storing your Oxford punch needles and bent scissors! Using the Oxford fine point punch needle (the “Mini” #14), and wool yarn from the instructor’s...

Starts Sunday, June 6, at 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT - Learn More and Sign Up

More About the Classes

Click the class links above to see complete details for each class, and feel free to contact us with any questions. We are available seven days a week.
Student attendance will all be online.
Students can connect to the online classes using most any tablet or computer with reliable internet.
Most of the classes will be recorded. Those classes will be available for access by enrolled students for 30 days following the live class.
To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected]. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date. Materials kit fees are non-refundable.
Optional Orientation and Closing Ceremony hosted from the Folk School campus will be offered for all classes that students can attend online.
Many John C. Campbell Folk School instructors are available for 1:1 online lessons.

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Promo Codes

Discounts are available for Folk School staff members (60% off), Folk School teachers (25% off), and students under 26 (15%).

If you'd like to take advantage of any of these discounts, please inquire via email at [email protected]