 Gallery North in Bemidji is filling February with free, unique craft classes any art lover would enjoy. Lakeland news reporter Cheryl Moore has the details for this week's in focus. These classes are just great. It's great to see people involved in the arts community. Gallery North in Bemidji is bringing a little heat to winter with their warm your heart with the little art classes that free to the public and are taught by members of the community. I'm a quilter and a carver and I'm thinking I didn't want to drag a sewing machine in here for a sewing class. So I was just looking for something we could do with fabric. It wouldn't be February without a few hearts. Today's class took a challenging skill and made it easy to do for anyone at any craft level. It's called a Swedish heart. It's weaving with an extra step in it, going in and out and in and out and in between. And it's easy once you catch on, but catching on sometimes a little trick. So I brought my husband along to help. After going over, then under, then over again and adding a few pieces of crumpled paper along the way, everyone finally started to get it. We started out with paper one to practice with and then we did this foamy stuff, two pieces of fabric with a stabilizer on them and a piece of red and white felt. From feather painting to iris paper folding to fabric weaving and dream catcher making, the warm-your-heart with some art classes offer a variety of different crafts to boomagee community members. And all they have to do is sign up. And it's just great that they teach us all these different varieties with all these different people in the community. And it's just a great way to get out and get out of this cold and snow and come in and do a heart-warmish class. At the end of the day, everyone goes home with a keepsake. Can put goodies in here. Husband could put a ring box or something in here. Or a jewelry box or chocolates or you can just kind of hang them up for a decoration. Reporting in Bemidji with this week's In Focus, Cheryl Moore, Lakeland News. People can sign up for other February craft classes inside Gallery North. Space is limited and they are filling up fast. So for a list of those classes, check out this story that you just saw on lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.