The Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting (SCH) meeting schedule is listed below. View the meetings page for directions to the meeting. Please arrive fragrance-free out of respect for others with sensitivities.
SCH Meetings and Meetups for 2025-2026
Make Your Decorated Letters Dance! with Kathy Barker
Date: Thursday September 18, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online and in-person at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
Explore techniques to add color and embellishment to your decorated letters.
Building upon the Designing Decorated Letters theme from our Fall’ 2024 presentation, we will learn how to “make our letters dance” by adding color, decorative embellishment and details. Included will be a historical overview of Versals (decorated letters) through the centuries.
A printable sample letter will be drawn up for you; or you can choose to do a letter of your own choosing.
Handouts and a sample sheet will be provided to download and print for all members before the presentation.
Supplies:
- 0.5 mm fine mechanical pencil
- Paints: white gouache, a light and dark gouache (Suggested: Zinc white, cobalt and ultramarine blue.)
- Brushes: fine pointed brush (suggested: Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 sable brush or Pentel Aquash water brush (small brush.)
- Paper: hot press watercolor paper (Suggested: Canson XL multimedia paper 9” X 12” pad.)
- Small palette: suggested six wells or whatever you have
- Small water container, soft cloth or paper towels
Brand Ambassadors Workshop
with Jenna Roby from Holbein, General & Legion.
Date: Thursday October 16, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online and in-person at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
Experiment with papers, water media with brand ambassador Jenna Roby. Kits will be provided to all in-person attendees (while supplies last, 30 kits provided).
Whimsical Letters with Christy Schroeder
Date: Thursday November 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online only
This demo will put a whimsical spin on traditional formal Roman letterforms—a fun and creative lettering option enhanced with color, on their own or as contrast with monoline or pointed pen lettering.
Bister-Brusho Letters with Violet Smythe
Date: Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online and in-person at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
In this meeting we will explore the wonderful world of powdered inks. Members will get to learn different techniques with different tools and a funky letter style using a Pilot Parallel Pen to boot!
Supplies:
- Bister or Brusho powder ink
- Pilot Parallel Pens (suggest sizes 6.0mm to 3.8mm)
- Paper – whatever you like that will take the inks
- Palette with deep wells and or inky dips
- Fine mist spray bottle
- Paper towels, water containers, brush (round) for loading if you don’t like to dip
- Optional: to use as a carrier color you can use walnut ink, quite diluted or Ecoline Watercolour #718 or #728
Brand Ambassadors Arylic Medium Workshop with Jenna Brechbiel from Holbein, General & Legion.
Date: Saturday January 17, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: In-person only at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
This Brand Ambassador Materials Workshop is a hands-on workshop for artists of all levels and experience from beginner to professional. Along with the instructor Jenna Brechbiel, this guided workshop is a learning experience where participants have the opportunity to experiment with many different materials. The Acrylic Family Workshop will focus on several types of acrylic paint, including Holbein’s Heavy Body Acrylic, Fluid Acrylic, Acrylic Ink, “Mat” Matte Acrylic, Colored Gesso, and Acrylic Mediums, as well as Legion’s 100% cotton Stonehenge Aqua White and Black papers, Yupo White paper, and an assortment of General Pencil materials.
Shimmer and Shine Meetup
Date: Saturday February 7, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: In-person only at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
Play with gold foiling, glass pens, and metallic inks. Bring some projects that you’d like to add some sparkle to and we can bling them up! ATCs will be available for you to test the foiling on. You can also recycle cards by adding some extra sparkle and gluing them onto new cardstock. If you have any media that has metallic sheen and can share with the group, please bring it for us to try.
Zine Cards for Scribes with Carol DuBosch
Date: Thursday February 19, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online only
Learn to make a simple folded book that only needs one page and single side printing.
No previous experience required. Take a sneak peak here.
Sculptured Roman Letters Meetup
Date: Sunday March 8, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: In-person only at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
A Cricut machine will help in cutting the letters and embellishments which saves a lot of time. Students can bring: cutting mat, scissors, X-acto knife, embossing stylus, glue stick, rubber mat (if they have one), and decorative paper.
Origami Meets Snail Mail with Debbie Gallas
Date: Thursday March 19, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online only
Learn how to fold delightful origami designs and turn them into one-of-a-kind greeting cards! These are as much fun to make as they are to give.
Weaver Writing with Brigitte Hefferan
Date: Thursday April 16, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: In-person only at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
Try this fun pointed pen variation that showcases the strength & versatility of the pointed pen tool. Supply list to follow on the week before the class.
Swiss Cross Flexigons with Anne Bingham
Date: Thursday May 21, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Online and In-person at the Titan Robotics Warehouse in Redmond, WA
Swiss Cross Flexagons! We’ll make this surprising card that can turn itself inside out. The playful change of structure mixes up the faces and planes of the card. The images and wordplay create magical combinations. I’ll bring the cardstock and lots of Thank You and decorative stamps. Bring double-sided tape, stamps or other decorative elements, and of course your patience and humor as usual!
Annie Bingham is a book artist and school librarian. She loves teaching, eating kale, cold water swimming, and paper crafting of all kinds.