Classes
Cold Months 2026 Classes: **list updated 12/2/25
**new class offering!! —>
BEGINNER SALT BOWL CARVING, one day class Saturday, January 4, 10am-3pm
Where: Witching Hour Provisions Coffee Roastery, Contoocook NH
Cost: $75-$95 (sliding scale)
Sign up: email Lee at lee.scheffey@gmail.com
Salt bowl carving (no experience necessary, and experience welcome!) Come carve some small handheld bowls – while spoons are my craft and deep love, small bowls are my heart center – there is something magical about them, and they are a joy to carve. Come learn how! You will learn most all you need to know to carve a spoon (ps a spoon is a bowl with a handle so if you want to put a handle on your bowl……)
***another new class offering!! whoa!! —>
BEGINNER SPOON CARVING, WEEKLY WINTER CLASS! Thursdays, 5pm-7:30 pm, 5 weeks, Jan. 8 -Feb. 5
Where: Witching Hour Provisions Coffee Roastery, Contoocook NH
Sign up: Email Lee at leescheffey@gmail.com
Cost: $150 for 5 weeks; $5 per spoon blank (buy as many or as few as you want) —
** drop-ins welcome (bring own tools, and $20, email/text me)
**no one will be turned away for lack of funds! if $150 isn’t going to work for you, email me and we will figure out an alternative exchange)
Come learn to carve a spoon from a tree! In this 5-week class, we will have the opportunity to make several spoons and small bowls from branches foraged from the woods. This class will focus on gaining skills with two main tools of spoon carving – the sloyd (straight) knife and the hook knife. We will explore wood grain, how to carve a smooth bowl, learn different strokes and maintenance for each knife, and learn how to care for your body while carving. We will carve a small cooking spoon, a tea spoon, some weird curvy branch spoons, and a few small salt bowls.
Students will leave the class with several spoons, a salt bowl or three, and the empowerment to continue learning and making things out of wood. Spoons will be in various states of completion when students leave class. This is a great class for beginners, as well as for folks who have done some carving and want to brush up/reengage! ALL LEVELS
BEGINNER SPOON CARVING, one day class Saturday, January 10, 10am-4pm
Where: Hatchspace, Brattleboro, VT Sign up at Hatchspace’s website here!
Cost: $195
Learn to carve a spoon from a tree. This class will focus on gaining skills with two main tools of spoon carving – the sloyd (straight) knife and the hook knife. We will explore wood grain, learn different strokes and maintenance with each knife, and learn how to care for your body while carving. Students will leave the class with their own spoon, handouts of further resources, and the empowerment to continue learning and making things out of wood. This is a great class for beginners, as well as folks with some experience carving who are looking to brush up/reengage! ALL LEVELS
TEA SPOON CARVING CLASS, one day class Saturday, February 7, 10am-3pm
Where: Witching Hour Provisions Coffee Roastery, Contoocook NH
Cost: $75-$95 (sliding scale)
Sign up: email Lee at lee.scheffey@gmail.com
Tea spoon carving class (no experience necessary – and experience welcome!) Come carve a little teaspoon or two – smaller spoons are definitely not easier than big ones, AND they are adorable and so very useful. I can never have enough, and working on small spoons gives us time to talk about structural parts of the spoon – like the rim and the neck. Maybe we will have some tea as we carve…
SMALL COOKING SPOON CARVING CLASS, one day class Saturday, February 28, 10am-3pm
Where: Witching Hour Provisions Coffee Roastery, Contoocook NH
Cost: $75-$95 (sliding scale)
Sign up: email Lee at lee.scheffey@gmail.com
Small Cooking Spoon (no experience necessary, all experience welcome!) This is my original Beginner spoon carving class, we will learn all about green wood, and carve a very versatile and joyous small cooking spoon, most likely out of white birch, a tree that blesses us with companionship and artistic inspiration on this coast of turtle island. Come learn how!!