Festive Fall Workshop Series 2026: Everything You Need to Know Before It Starts
The first genuinely cool morning shows up and something switches over. The pumpkin ideas you saved back in July suddenly feel urgent, the craft closet gets opened for the first time since spring, and there's a short stretch between now and Halloween where fall projects actually get made instead of just saved for later.
That stretch is only a few weeks long, though, and that's the problem. By the time you've found a tutorial you trust, gathered the supplies, and cleared an afternoon, the season has moved on and the project goes back in the closet until next year.
At HobbyScool, we've been running free online creative summits since 2022, and 111,308 makers have come through our events, so we've watched this same fall crunch play out every October. That's exactly what the Festive Fall Workshop Series is built for: three days, 26 workshops, and projects short enough to finish while the season is still here.
Here's everything you need to know before it starts.
What the Festive Fall Workshop Series Is
The Festive Fall Workshop Series is a free three-day online workshop event running October 13 to 15, 2026. Twenty-six creative educators each teach one prerecorded workshop, and the whole thing happens from wherever you already are. No travel, no supplies required to watch, no credit card to register.
Each day has its own theme, so you can follow the whole event or pick the one day that matches what you actually want to make this month. Day 1 is home and harvest. Day 2 is paper and fiber. Day 3 is kitchen and Halloween.
How the Three Days Work
Every workshop is prerecorded, which means nothing is scheduled against your dinner or your work day. Here's the rhythm:
- A new email arrives each morning of the event with that day's workshop links. Every one of them comes from Destini | HobbyScool, so watch for that name in your inbox.
- Day 1 goes live at 9am ET Tuesday, October 13 and stays free to watch until 9am ET Wednesday, October 14.
- Day 2 runs 9am ET Wednesday to 9am ET Thursday.
- Day 3 runs 9am ET Thursday, October 15 to 9am ET Friday, October 16.
Inside each 24-hour window you watch whenever it suits you, pause as often as you need, and rewind the part where the instructor does the thing you couldn't quite see the first time.
The free windows don't overlap. Once Day 1 closes at 9am ET Wednesday, those six workshops are done for the week, so if a Day 1 project is the reason you registered, watch it Tuesday rather than saving it for the weekend.
Day 1: Harvest Home (Tuesday, October 13)
Day 1 is about the house: the table, the mantel, the front door, and the closets behind all of it. Six workshops, and every one of them makes something you'll actually use between now and Thanksgiving.
- Curve Confidence: Master Inset Curves with this Festive Pumpkin Wall Hanging with Carli Marsico
- Stop Buying Expensive Centerpieces: Mix Real & Faux Materials Like a Pro in 30 Minutes with Victoria Buker
- Grow It. Use It. Preserve It. with Sheri Ann Richerson
- High-End Fall Decor on a Dime: Dollar Store & Thrift Store Upcycles with Chas Greener
- Canned Pumpkin Three Ways: Dip, Dinner, and Dessert with Amy Katz
- Prepare Your Home for Autumn with Simple Organizing Systems with Shanice Bannis
If you only have time for one day this week, this is the one that changes what your house looks like by Friday.
Day 2: Paper & Thread (Wednesday, October 14)
Day 2 is the biggest day of the event with ten workshops, and it covers the crafts people tend to pick up when the evenings get dark: cardmaking, quilting, crochet, scrapbooking, and a few things you can finish in one sitting.
- Create a Stunning Bay Window Fall Card with Floating Elements with Toni Chowdhury
- Crochet a Cozy Mini Pumpkin: A Charming Fall Decoration in Just 30 Minutes with Huipei Zhang
- Festive Fall Holiday Mug Rugs with Alexis Galloway
- Leafing Through Creativity with Vicki Bell
- Autumn Layers: Crafting Scrapbook Journal Pockets, Slots, and Space with Adeline Ma
- Easy DIY Fall Earrings: Create Trendy Leopard Print Earrings in Under 2 Hours with Melissa Power
- Cozy Corner to Corner for Fall: Create Textured Scarves, Cowls and Blankets with Agat Rottman
- Learn How to Put Photos Inside Your Favorite Clipart with Custom Canva Frames with Brandi Kabacinski
- Make a Festive Fall Pumpkin Mug Rug with Me with Jennifer Strauser
- Making a Fall Tablescape with Simple Paper Folds with Megan Chamberlin
Several of these double as holiday gifts, which is worth keeping in mind in the middle of October. A mini crochet pumpkin, a mug rug, and a pair of earrings are all small enough to make in multiples.
Day 3: Cozy & Spooky (Thursday, October 15)
Day 3 splits between the kitchen and Halloween. Ten workshops, and this is the day that smells the best.
- Boo to You: Spooky Watercolor Cat with Elyse Dean
- Elevated, Not Complicated: Create a Fall Gift Set with GeeGee Johnson
- A Little Fall in the Air: Simmer Pot Recipes & Gift Tags with Cyndi Gagen
- Painted Glass Poison Apple DIY with Morena Hockley
- Make 3 Fall Spice Blends, Bake All Season Long with Madison Wetherill
- 3 Easy Crescent Roll Halloween Recipes (Ready in Under 30 Minutes) with Emily Hunsaker
- Misty Not Messy: An Easy Fall Decoupage Project with Whitney Walsh
- Sew a Custom Felt Trick-or-Treat Basket in an Afternoon with Heather Paulsen
- High-End Fall Decor from Everyday Items with Gina Tepper
- One Pumpkin, Endless Fall Fun: Turn a Single Theme into Games, Crafts, Parties and More with Barb King
Day 3 lands two and a half weeks before Halloween on purpose. The felt trick-or-treat basket, the poison apple, and the crescent roll recipes are all still useful on October 31 if you watch them on the 15th.
What to Do Before October 13
The event is easy to attend badly. You register, three emails show up during a busy week, and you watch one workshop out of 26. A little setup ahead of time is the difference.
1. Register now so the supply list has time to be useful
Your supply list arrives with your confirmation email as soon as you register for the Festive Fall Workshop Series, which means you have weeks rather than hours. That matters most for the sewing and fiber projects, where you may want to order a specific yarn weight or fabric.
2. Pick three workshops, not 26
Twenty-six workshops in three days is a lot to look at, and the most common mistake is trying to watch all of them. Go through the list above, circle one project per day that you genuinely want to end up with, and treat everything else as a bonus. Three finished projects beats 26 half-watched videos.
3. Put the three mornings on your calendar
Not because you have to watch at 9am, but because a 24-hour window disappears faster than it sounds like it will. An hour blocked on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday is usually enough for one project plus a second workshop you watch while you work.
4. Set up your space once
Clear the table, put your supplies in one basket, and prop your laptop or tablet where you can see it from where you're working. Doing that once on Monday means you're not doing it three separate times during the week.
You don't have to make along in real time. Watching a workshop through once and making the project on the weekend is a completely normal way to use the event, and some projects are easier that way.
Free Pass or VIP: Which One Fits You
Some people register, watch two workshops, and are happy. Others get to Thursday and realize they want the crochet pumpkin, the mug rug, and both quilting sessions, and there isn't enough of October left to make all of them.
That's the difference the two passes come down to. The free pass gives you the whole event inside the daily windows. The optional VIP All-Access Pass takes the deadline off and takes the ads out. Here's how they compare:
| What's included | Free pass | VIP All-Access |
|---|---|---|
| Watch during the event | Yes, each day for 24 hours | Yes |
| Watch after the event | No | Yes, lifetime access |
| Ad-free viewing | No | Yes, no ads at all |
| Downloadable resources | Supply list only | All 26 workshops |
| Speaker bonus resources | None | 17 patterns, ebooks, planners and guides |
The ad-free part matters more than it sounds like it should. When you're making along with a workshop, your hands are covered in glue or holding a crochet hook, and stopping to sit through an ad in the middle of a step is where people give up on a project. VIP takes that out of the whole event.
You add the pass after you register for your free seat, it's a one-time payment rather than a subscription, and it comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. The price goes up once the festival ends, so if you already know you want to keep the workshops, it costs less to decide before October 15 than after.
If you're the kind of maker who saves projects for the right weekend rather than the right day, that's the version of the event that fits how you actually work.
Register free for the Festive Fall Workshop Series
26 workshops, October 13 to 15, 2026. Your supply list arrives as soon as you sign up.
Get My Free Seat See All Upcoming EventsWhat's Coming Next at HobbyScool
The Festive Fall Workshop Series is one of twelve free events we run every year, and the two after it are the ones most people ask about, because they land right when holiday making starts.
Elves' Workshop Summit
Handmade Holidays Made Easy
Three days of handmade gift projects, holiday decor, and the kind of small makes you can finish in multiples before December.
Create & Reflect Retreat
Reflect, Create, and Cozy Up
A slower event to close the year, with projects meant for the quiet week between the holidays and the new year.
If you'd rather not keep track of the dates yourself, you can get on the list for every HobbyScool event and we'll send each one as registration opens.
If You Teach, There's a Door Here Too
Every workshop in this event is taught by someone who does that craft all the time and decided to show a few thousand people how. Some of them teach with us once a year, and some of them are in nearly every event.
If that sounds like something you'd want to do, we take speaker applications for the summits and workshop submissions for the Craft & Create Club membership year-round. You don't need a big following to apply. You need a craft you know well and the ability to teach it clearly on camera.
Teach with HobbyScool
Reach makers who are already looking for what you know how to do.
Apply to Speak at a Summit Submit a WorkshopThe Short Version
Three days, 26 workshops, free to register, October 13 to 15, 2026. Each day opens at 9am ET and stays free for 24 hours. Your supply list comes with your confirmation email, so the earlier you register, the more time you have to get ready.
Pick three projects you actually want, block an hour on each of the three mornings, and you'll come out of the week with fall decor on the table and a head start on handmade gifts. That's a good return on a week in October.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is the HobbyScool Festive Fall Workshop Series in 2026?
The Festive Fall Workshop Series runs Tuesday, October 13 through Thursday, October 15, 2026. Each day's workshops are released at 9am ET and stay free to watch for the next 24 hours, so Day 3 sessions are available until 9am ET on Friday, October 16.
Is the Festive Fall Workshop Series free to attend?
Yes. Registration is free and no credit card is required. You get access to all 26 workshops during each day's 24-hour viewing window, plus a supply list that arrives with your confirmation email.
Do I need to buy craft supplies before the Festive Fall Workshop Series starts?
No. Your supply list arrives as soon as you register, which gives you weeks before October 13 to gather what you need. Plenty of people watch a workshop first and collect supplies afterward for the projects they actually want to make.
What is the difference between the free pass and the VIP All-Access Pass at the Festive Fall Workshop Series?
The free pass gives you all 26 workshops during each day's 24-hour window, plus the supply list. The VIP All-Access Pass gives you lifetime access to the workshops with no 24-hour window, completely ad-free viewing, downloadable resources from every workshop, and 17 bonus resources from the instructors such as patterns, ebooks and planners. You add it after you register for your free pass, and the price goes up once the festival ends.
What crafts are taught at the Festive Fall Workshop Series?
Day 1 covers fall centerpieces, seasonal decor, thrift store upcycles, pumpkin recipes and home organizing. Day 2 covers cardmaking, quilting, crochet, scrapbooking, earrings and paper folding. Day 3 covers simmer pots, spice blends, Halloween recipes, watercolor, decoupage and felt sewing.
