Kaler opened Winter Solstice Sewing & Crafts with a class in November 2024 on how to create Ukrainian eggs, or Pysanky, the intricately colored works of art made with wax and dyes.
Creating beautiful art from empty eggs has been a passion for Kaler that began when she was young. Her mom took a class and, while she didn’t love it, she taught Kaler what she had learned. Kaler was fascinated, and it became a craft she came back to again and again.
“Then, you know, fast forward and all of a sudden there are groups of people who do them, and they do them all over the country. There are retreats for these things, and I had no idea. So I wanted to give that back; I wanted to give back with those classes,” she says. “Also part of me getting started was this idea that Anchorage doesn’t really have a good spot for just random crafts. There’s just a lot of specific places, but there needs to be space for random classes too.”
