This course was offered at a local senior’s residence and to the community at large. Participants wove mats made from recycled clothes. These mats were then donated to a local cat shelter and were used by the cat shelter as a means to raise funds.
About this class
Class taught by Lorie Pierce
Born in Toronto, Lorie Pierce comes from a family whose members always had several creative projects on the go, including woodworking, gardening, sewing, knitting, painting, weaving and model-making, often using repurposed materials.
After graduation from Ryerson University, Lorie had careers in urban planning, chronic pain treatment, medical research and museum education in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.
Lorie is a columnist with the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph newspaper and is an English conversation monitor with the non-profit group APPEAL. Her current interests include genealogy, climate change activism, local history and paper crafts.
Participants
Jan Anderson, Katherine Burgess, Madelaine Bedard, Micayla Webster, Andrew Paré, Elsa Moreau, Catherine Baboudjian, Susan Langford, Jennifer Makarawicz, Jeannine Pageau, Michelle Pelletier, Susan Olson, Denise Bellemare
