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  • button maker

    Makerspace With Sewing and Button Making

    Join us during our drop-in hours to use our button makers and zine supplies. Don’t forget to book an appointment to access our sewing, embroidery, and Cricut machines.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Location: West Los Angeles
  • sewing materials

    Quilting and Fiber Arts Club for Adults

    Quilters, embroiderers, and all other fiber artists welcome. Beginners welcome too! Feel free to bring projects to work on. Share patterns, projects, and ideas.Please note that there are no meetings in April or October.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Location: Playa Vista
  • Balls of Yarn

    Unwind With Yarn and Thread


    Whether you knit, crochet, embroider, or more, join our new monthly fiber arts social club. Meet other slow stitchers from the community of all experience levels. Please bring your own supplies.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Location: North Hollywood
  • Setup for a ceramics program with clay and other ceramics tools on the tables

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    Ceramics for Adults

    Come create your own ceramic masterpiece!

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
    • Location: John C. Fremont
  • a women displaying clay sculptures

    LA Made: Indigenous Futurism: Storytelling & Clay Workshop

    Artist and educator Taty Hernandez will guide you through an introduction to Indigenous Futurism for (re) imagining and dreaming up new worlds.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
    • Location: Junipero Serra
  • Scissors, sewing materials, and cloth

    Sewing Club: Hemming and Cropping

    FoSLL Sewing Club: Hemming and Cropping series.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Location: Silver Lake
  • collaged artwork with the text "collage jam" overlayed.

    Collage Jam

    Come create collage art and listen to music together. We’ll have lots of cool stuff to cut up for your collages including magazines, comics, and cards from Central Library’s old card catalog.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
    • Location: Central Library
  • button maker

    Makerspace With Sewing and Button Maker

    Join us during drop-in hours to use our button makers and zine supplies. Sewing, embroidery, and Cricut machines available by appointment.

    • Date: 11/9/2026
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Location: West Los Angeles
  • Sewing tools and fabric cut from a pattern.

    Stitcher's Space

    A weekly fiber arts meetup where participants can share projects, socialize with other fiber artists, and work on their crafts. Bring your own supplies. No registration is required, but schedules may change, so call the Washington Irving Library at…

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Location: Washington Irving
  • bundles of yarn

    Fabric Arts Meet Up

    Do you sew, knit or crochet? Join us for a fabric arts meet up. Come and work on your projects with other art crafters in the community. All skill levels are welcome.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 1:30 PM
    • Location: Studio City
  • crafting fiber arts knitting crocheting crafts projects

    Crafter's Corner

    Join us for a fun crafting session! Bring a project from home or use our supplies for a guided craft. All ages are welcome.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    • Location: Sunland - Tujunga
  • coloring sheets and crayons

    Children's Coloring Afternoon

    Coloring can be a form of therapy, and we always want to promote different ways to de-stress in the library.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Location: Ascot
  • man making a mobile craft

    La Made: Exploring Abstract Collage & Color

    Patrons will use a range of mixed-media materials to create a hanging mobile consisting of wire, string, buttons, and pieces of handmade paper.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Lake View Terrace
  • Close up of a woman crocheting

    Fiber Arts Social

    Books, Hooks, & Needles!

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Jefferson
  • Taty (performer) is smiling while admiring clay creations.

    Teen Council Presents: Sensory Friendly Hands on Ceramics - Clay Inventions!

    Come learn about the development of the technology that is ceramics from the Mesoamerican time period to today! This sensory friendly program will give attendees the opportunity to make ocarinas (clay whistles) that they can take home.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Wilshire
  • Six children in a row, smiling, wearing colorful shirts, with trees in the background.
    Six children in a row, smiling, wearing colorful shirts, with trees in the background.

    Try-It Tuesdays

    Enjoy a weekly drop-in program intended for kids aged 5-11, including activities like brick building, crafts, games, and more.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Central Library
  • Four popsicle sticks with multicolored designs on them and a cluster of blue marbles

    Chekutnak - Stick Dice

    Participants will make their own dice set and learn a fun cultural game.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Atwater Village
  • Warpath Marvel Indigenous Superhero

    How to Draw Warpath: An Indigenous X-Men Superhero With Evan Burse

    Join Animation Professional Evan Burse for a fun drawing workshop in honor of Native American Heritage Month, and learn to draw Warpath: An Indigenous X-Men Superhero.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Platt
  • Hands hold two human shaped dolls made out of corn husks

    Corn Husk Dolls for Teens

    Make a corn husk doll in honor of Native American Heritage Month.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Los Feliz
  • Crochet Needles

    Crochet Club

    Come Crochet with us!

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Chatsworth
  • a black and white illustration of a spider crawling to its web

    Native American Heritage Month Story and Craft

    Celebrate Native American Heritage Month for kids.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Fairfax
  • an example of a neurographic drawing

    Adult Art: Neurographic Drawing

    Join us for a meditative hour of drawing.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Pio Pico - Koreatown
  • A diverse group of children sit together, smiling and listening attentively to an off-camera librarian, creating a joyful scene.

    Storytime and Craft

    Join us for amazing stories and a craft to take home!

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
    • Location: Junipero Serra
  • multi colored yarn

    Knitting Social Club

    Join our knitting and crochet social club. We meet weekly, and people of all levels are welcome, including beginners. Please bring your own supplies. Registration is not required, just drop by.

    • Date: 11/10/2026
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Location: Sun Valley
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