1/2 Day Classes - Thursday (June 6) PM
Check-in Begins: 11:30am
Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Class: 1:00pm-4:00pm
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The online registration deadline is May 25, 2024
Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Class: 1:00pm-4:00pm
(Back to Workshop Home Page)
The online registration deadline is May 25, 2024
Don't Go There! An Introduction to Resist Dyeing
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INSTRUCTOR: Peggy Doney
CATEGORY: Dyeing SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: None MATERIAL FEES: $23.00 Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Apron, pen or pencil, and should wear dye-worthy old clothes and comfortable close-toed shoes (not sandals). We will require students to complete a safety review as homework. DESCRIPTION: This is a workshop where you can be knotty, zippy, and resist! Using pre-dyed base yarns, in order to layer colors where you want them, you will use a variety of methods to tell the dye, “Don’t go there!” You will go home with three 4 oz Superwash Merino/ Silk/ Bamboo/ Nylon skeins that you have dyed to show off! Welcome to the resistance! INSTRUCTOR BIO: Peggy Doney has been fascinated with color since her first box of crayons. For many years, she has been discovering color recipes using triad, value, and gradient studies. If there is anything that Peggy enjoys as much as creating with fiber and color, it’s sharing that passion with others. From an annual fiber arts gathering in her backyard to teaching workshops for guilds, retreats, festivals, and one-on-one sharing, Peggy likes to pass on her excitement for fiber and color. Peggy knows all the dyeing jokes, has a plethora of dye pots, and now uses her big box of crayons as a reference material. She makes her home in Colorado Springs with her fiber-enabler husband, Jeff, and two undyed white dogs. Contact Instructor |
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Seaming and Finishing for Knitting and Crochet
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INSTRUCTOR: Kira Dulaney
CATEGORY: Knitting and Crochet SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate PREREQUISITE: None MATERIAL FEES: None STUDENTS TO BRING: Three stocking stitch or single crochet swatches made with similar weight yarns, additional yarn in a similar size, knitting needles or crochet hooks in an appropriate size for your yarn, darning needle. Optional: a project ready to seam and finish, swatches in other stitch patterns. DESCRIPTION: Neat seaming and finishing make such a difference in a handmade project, but so many knitters and crocheters don’t feel confident in their finishing skills. You will learn how to weave in yarn ends, seam in various directions, pick up stitches, and make buttonholes. We will also talk about when seams are helpful, and when they can be avoided. 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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Inside Out Rectangles
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INSTRUCTOR: Andee Graves
CATEGORY: Crochet SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate PREREQUISITE: Proficient with chain, slip stitch, single, half double, double crochet stitches and comfortable with reading a crochet pattern. MATERIAL FEES: $10 00 Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Approximately 200 yards smooth worsted weight yarn, appropriate size crochet hooks for yarn: size G - J, Locking Stitch markers (4 in one color, 2 in 2nd color), Scissors, tape measure and/or ruler, Yarn needle for sewing in ends, Calculator, Pen and pencil. DESCRIPTION: Rectangles are one of the most useful shapes to crochet, depending on their size they can be a scarf, wrap, throw or blanket. You can even combine different rectangles to make garments. Working in the round, from the inside out like a granny square, makes it easy to change colors and add a fun border. But how do you get the rectangle started, and how do you determine how big your finished project will be? In this workshop you will learn everything you need to know to make the size rectangle you want. We will cover beginning your project with the Stacked Rows Foundation and how long you need it to be. A No Math version for figuring out your rectangle size, as well as learning how to determine the size project you can create with the yardage you have available. Materials fee is for a full-size color workbook. The workbook has 3 different stitch patterns, including the “Round the Square Scarf”, that you can use to make loads of different projects. 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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Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit
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INSTRUCTOR: Liza Q Wirtz
CATEGORY: Weaving SKILL LEVEL: All PREREQUISITE: No previous experience with weaving required (though experienced weavers are as welcome as complete novices). Freestyle weaving is intended to be accessible to everyone, no matter their level of skill or knowledge. Class open to students 8 years old and up; students must be tall enough to reach the floor pedals on the looms and able to focus for the duration of the class. MATERIAL FEES: $50 will cover: use of warped two-harness floor loom; use of associated tools (shuttles, bobbins, etc.); access to and use of a wide variety of different weaving materials, including yarn in various fibers, colors, and textures, embroidery floss, fabric scraps, fiber, trim, beads, wire, Mylar, etc. Each student will also get a bag of fibery treasures to keep; these can be used in class, in a future weaving project, or both. Fee collected by the Instructor at the Workshop. STUDENTS TO BRING: Scissors DESCRIPTION: Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple, easy-to-use floor loom. Honor your inner sense of beauty and truth as you play with color, texture, and technique, and come away with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn the basic skills of freestyle weaving on a highly approachable two-harness floor loom. The class will emphasize play, experimentation, and individual exploration of color and texture in the service of personal expression; a few simple weaving techniques will be taught along the way. Students will take home what they weave. 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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