With: Ellen Chase

Class Fee: $40.00 per adult

Class Size: 6 / Adults only (16 and older)

Practice basic woodworking skills using (mostly) traditional hand tools to make a useful tool caddy. Prior experience is useful but not necessary. Materials provided.

Ellen Chase learned the basics of woodworking as a child here in Chase's Mill, then moved up to making furniture for her own family. While living in the Boston area, she built kitchen and storage cabinets for friends and neighbors as "Handy Granny." She has always been primarily interested in the design and problem-solving aspects of woodwork but profited greatly as a participant in the "Fundamentals of Fine Woodworking" at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, learning the conventional ways of joinery. Her occupations have included potter, scientific illustrator, software visual designer.