A five-week pottery class in Houston is already sold out for September, and in Greeley, Colorado, every session at one clay studio has gone waitlist-only, with current students given first dibs on the fall lineup. Sewing and ceramics sections at community colleges in Illinois, Washington and Massachusetts are filling just as fast, even though none of these are hobbies people can pick up in an afternoon. A scarf takes weeks to finish, a bowl needs a full firing cycle, and this fall more people than the studios expected showed up wanting to start anyway.
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