1/2 Day Classes - Friday (June 7) AM
Check-In Begins: 8:00am
Class: 9:00am-12:00pm
Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm
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The online registration deadline is May 25, 2024
Class: 9:00am-12:00pm
Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm
(Back to Workshop Home Page)
The online registration deadline is May 25, 2024
English Longdraw vs American Longdraw
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INSTRUCTOR: Maggie Casey
CATEGORY: Spinning SKILL LEVEL: Beginner PREREQUISITE: Beginning spinning skills and can spin a continuous yarn. MATERIAL FEES: $15.00 Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Spinning wheel and all its parts Lazy Kate and 3 bobbins DESCRIPTION: What is the difference between English longdraw (double drafting) and American longdraw? It depends. We will spin wool and cotton both ways and you can see the difference yourself and add another drafting method to your spinning repertoire. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Maggie Casey has been addicted to spinning since the last century and while some people are proud of their wine cellars, she much prefers her fleece basement. She was co-owner of Shuttles Spindles & Skeins until it closed in 2020. Besides teaching spinning at Shuttles, she also teaches at the Estes Park Wool Market, John C Campbell Folk School, Maryland Sheep & Wool, PlyAway and SOAR. She holds Part 1 of HGA’s COE in Handspinning and is the author of START SPINNING, EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE GREAT YARN and several LongThread downloads. Contact Instructor |
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Successful Yarn Substitution
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INSTRUCTOR: Kira Dulaney
CATEGORY: Knitting AND Crochet SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: None MATERIAL FEES: $3.00 for yarn and fiber samples Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Optional: 1-2 patterns for which you'd like to find substitute yarns, and info on yarns you are considering. DESCRIPTION: It can be nerve-wracking to switch the yarn on a project, but sometimes necessary. Learning how to pick a successful substitute yarn means you’ll never have to abandon a pattern written for a discontinued yarn, knit a sweater too warm for the climate, or choose from a line of colors you don’t like. We’ll talk about all of the considerations, with a special focus on fiber content and yarn construction. This class will be helpful for knitters, crocheters, and weavers. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes and hosting crafty events in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond since 2002. As a teacher, her focus is on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment, and supporting students through the learning process. She is also the designer behind Kira K Designs, a line of original knitting and crochet patterns and kits featuring clean lines and intriguing details that are both interesting to make and easy to wear. Kira has taught at Lambtown Festival, Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the Natural Fiber Fair, Stitches events, and TNNA, as well as numerous guilds and yarn shops. Contact Instructor |
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Needle Felting in 3D
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INSTRUCTOR: Andee Graves
CATEGORY: Felting SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: Some familiarity with needle felting is helpful but not required. Students under 14 years old need to be accompanied by an Adult student. MATERIAL FEES: $20.00 Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Sharp pointy scissors, craft knife {like a #11 Exacto}, measuring tape, yarn needles and sewing needles in a variety of sizes. Optional: swatches of crochet or knit fabric in wool or wool blend yarn (any size from 2-6 inches square), piece of lightweight denim or calico fabric (around 4 inches square), scraps of wool yarn tails in colors that you love. DESCRIPTION: Needle Felting is the perfect way to create sculptural objects. You don’t have to worry about expensive tools, materials or finding a kiln to fire your pieces. With Needle Felting you can play with shape and color easily and affordably. Make everything from toys to jewelry to art. The possibilities are endless. Come join Andee for a workshop on creating fun and engaging 3D characters and sculptures with confidence. Learn everything you need to use your felting needle safely and ergonomically. This workshop covers creating different shapes from loose fiber and joining them together to make an object that can stand up; using a "frame” to create the base of your 3D pieces; making both “hard” and “soft” felt; and embellishing your sculpture with yarn, beads, and fabric. You’ll leave the workshop with a full color booklet of how-tos, your own felting needle, and a bag full of fiber to practice with. Andee will provide felting surfaces for working on during the workshop. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Andee Graves is a crochet designer, writer, teacher and artist living in the mountains of Colorado with her family and an evolving menagerie of 4-legged friends. She combines a life-long passion for crocheting, sewing, and crafting with a strong interest in mathematics and medical science. She is endlessly intrigued by the "magic" of creating fabric or an object from nothing but fiber and string, and invites you to join her in a class to expand your own crochet and crafting journey. Andee enjoys teaching crochet and needle felting classes to students of all ages. She is a Craft Yarn Council certified Crochet Instructor. She has taught classes and private lessons at her local yarn shop and schools, as well as at national festivals and conferences. She loves the versatility of crochet and enjoys designing projects that are entertaining to work up. She is passionate about passing on the crochet techniques that she has learned and teaching others the joy of working with yarn and hook. She has been a member of the Crochet Guild of America since 2008 and served on the National Board of Directors from January 2018 through July 2020. Andee has been writing about crochet techniques, designing, and healthy crafting practices for her blog and other publications since 2009. Her articles and designs have been published in Interweave Crochet, Crochet World, Crochet! Magazine, ILikeCrochet.com, and RedHeart.com. Her independent pattern line M2H Designs was launched in Fall 2010. Social Media URLs Website & Blog: https://mamas2hands.com/ FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/mamas2hands Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/andee.graves/ Ravelry - https://www.ravelry.com/designers/andee-graves Contact Instructor |
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Woolen Watercolors - Painting with Wool
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INSTRUCTOR: Tammy Jordan
CATEGORY: Felting SKILL LEVEL: Beginner PREREQUISITE: No prior painting or needle-felting experience needed. MATERIAL FEES: $25.00 Material fee includes felting mat, felting needles (multi-tool and single needles), frame, frame mat, fiber, and printed resource guide. Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Students should bring an inspiration photo or have access to photos on their phones or tablets. They are welcome to bring their favorite felting needles, but it is not required. DESCRIPTION: Come create your very own masterpiece while learning to paint with wool. We’ll start with needle-felting your design, building color and textures, and then we’ll finish it off with a steam wet-felt before matting and framing your work. I’ll provide everything you need, including colored fiber, felting needles, foam mats, picture mat and frame, and you bring your love of color and a willingness to learn and create! No prior painting or needle-felting experience needed. Suitable for children ages 8 and older with parental supervision also taking the class. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Tammy is a fourth-generation fiber artist who enjoys sharing her passion with everyone she meets. She has a fiber-arts business, Goldieknots Montana, specializing in Montana-grown wool, yarn, spinning fiber, and Made in Montana gift items. Prior to moving to Montana, she lived in Southern California and the Pocono Mountains where she was a former Humane Education specialist for the SPCA. Her teaching style is fun, creative, and interactive. When she’s not on the road teaching or in her studio creating, spinning, knitting, or felting, you can find her spending time with her dogs, sheep, horse, and other barnyard critters. Contact Instructor |
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Fractally Speaking
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INSTRUCTOR: Amy Manko
CATEGORY: Spinning SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: Must be able to spin and ply. MATERIAL FEES: $25.00. Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Functional wheel, extra bobbins, niddy noddy. DESCRIPTION: Tired of your usual and predictable barber pole skeins? In this class, we will look at hand-dyed fiber braids differently. Create spectacular skeins by learning to control the color repeats in your fiber through fractal spinning. We will prepare and spin samples to find our new favorites. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Amy Ross Manko travels the country (and now the world) teaching, researching and writing about her favorite topic – Rare Breed Sheep! When she’s not on the road, spreading the gospel of critically endangered livestock, she’s managing her historic farm with her son Drew, raising 9 breeds of heritage and rare breed sheep, as well as cattle, draft horses, mini-donkeys and poultry. She is the owner of Ross Farm Mercantile Inc,, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, and provides love and shelter to homeless fiber equipment in her small studio there. Contact Instructor |
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Intuitive Wet Felt Collage
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INSTRUCTOR: Janelle Sowers
CATEGORY: Felting SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate PREREQUISITE: Some wet felt experience advised. MATERIAL FEES: $15.00 for roving and olive oil soap All other materials are provided to use during the workshop with resources on how to source supplies to further one’s exploration. Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: N/A DESCRIPTION: Come play with an array of rovings, pre-felts, yarns and other goodies to discover a new approach to wet felting. Experienced artist and felter, Janelle Sowers will guide and encourage you to work freely with the materials, resulting in a collage-like design at the end. Participants will gain insights into creating imagery for fine art and craft through wet felting without the use of the needle. Borrowing from central asian rug making techniques, we will work from foreground to background to develop a design. Some of knowledge of wet felting advised, in order to dive further into these skills:
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Janelle Sowers is an avid lover of all things flora and fauna, owing to her work with wool and natural dyes. Her motivation is from the colors extracted from the dye garden and the natural world, crafting images inspired by her innate longing to commune with nature. Janelle has over 20 years of experience in art education with children to adults, eight of them spent internationally. Two of those years were in Mongolia, affording the opportunity to develop her feltmaking with master artisans. Her main technique is wet felting imagery that seeks to showcase the wild quality of the fiber as well as exact edges through specific techniques gained in Mongolia and observed in traditional central asian rug making. Janelle is delighted to share her discoveries with the Estes Wool Market. Participants will gain insights into creating imagery for fine art and craft through wet felting without the use of the needle. In her workshops, participants will learn drafting for pre-felts, color blending, how to exact edges or contours, and finishing or fulling techniques. Resources will be shared to further individual inquiry on techniques. Contact Instructor |
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Electric Sheep: Basic Experiential E-spinning
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INSTRUCTOR: Liza Q. Wirtz
CATEGORY: Spinning SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: No previous experience required; class is specifically designed for new spinners who want to explore e-spinning. Class open to students 12 years old and up. No adult accompaniment necessary. Students must have enough manual dexterity to hold and draft wool roving and must be able to to focus for the duration of the class. MATERIAL FEES: $50.00 will cover: cover shared use of instructor’s herd of e-spinners–including models by Ashford, Daedalus, Dreaming Robots/EEW, Hansen, and more–and use of wool and wool-blend roving from various breeds for spinning. Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: No participant-provided materials required. Students just need to bring their curiosity and willingness to learn–and their patience with the process and with themselves. DESCRIPTION: Tempted by spinning but not sure a regular wheel’s for you? Intrigued by the idea of making just the yarn you want but not sure where you’d put a wheel if you had one? Feet/knees not doing what you want as painlessly as they used to, making the whole treadling part of wheel spinning look less than fun? Take an e-spinner for, well, a spin! Try several out in this experiential, process-oriented class for folks just starting their spinning journey. E-spinners are small, tabletop-friendly, juiced up and ready to go–you might discover one that’s just right for you! INSTRUCTOR BIO: Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business The Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of partners Fiber J and Maker J and the help of a fluctuating number of cats. Having spent several past lives in other occupations–including bookseller, lawyer, and professional singer–Q now works fulltime towards earning her living as an artist and a creative. Q has been weaving in a freestyle/free-spirited tradition since 2015, carding for five years, spinning for more than four years, and dyeing for a year and a half. She teaches freestyle weaving, art-batt carding, and basic experiential spinning with the same philosophy that infuses her praxis: create from your heart, make what gives you joy, and put beauty into the world. Q wholeheartedly believes that everyone's an artist and that giving people access to fiber-arts tools and learning lets them prove it to themselves. Q also makes and sells one-of-a-kind art batts built from the Foldout Cat's unique Batt Buffet, handspun yarn, hand-dyed microbatch yarn and fiber, finished fiber-arts items, and simple fiber-arts tools. She has taught, vended, or both at fiber events and workshops in multiple states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Contact Instructor |
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Other Classes:
Thursday, June 6 |
Two Day Classes |
Friday, June 7 |
