Denise Ambrosi, who started the collective about five years ago, opened the current space — a sunny, open workshop on Washington Boulevard — last April. With craft supplies for sale, co-working stations for artists-in-residence and large tables for classes, These Hands draws neighbors and crafty friends from around the city. It’s also home to Moving Thread, which hosts sewing workshops for all different skill levels.

“I want it to be a creative community,” Ambrosi said. “I want people to be able to come here and feel like it’s a place where they can come and relax, and just kind of get out of their heads and get off their phones.”

Though many of the classes at These Hands are focused on fiber arts — weaving, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, punch needle and fabric dyeing are just a few of the options — you can also try courses like jewelry making, paper cutting and even chocolate tasting. (The company also hosts corporate team-building events.)

“We have a chocolate teacher who works with us from [the] Gourmandise School of cooking,” Ambrosi explained. “It’s a mixture of creative tasting, where you taste a piece of chocolate and then you paint what you taste.”

I stopped by on a Sunday morning for a bundle dyeing class, in which we learned how to use flowers, plant matter and small bugs to dye cotton and silk bandannas. As we began laying out petals and wood chips to create designs, we could hear the resident jewelry maker begin her own work.

After steaming our bundled, decorated fabrics, it was time to unfurl them for the big reveal. As we brushed off the dyeing materials, everyone seemed eager to share and compliment one another’s work. Before the class was even over, half of the students had already signed up for the next fabric dyeing event.

“I just feel like we need this more than we know,” Ambrosi said of the workshops she hosts. “The anxiety levels are so high right now, and I think this is certified treatment.”