Level: Able to warp a loom and understand drafts Materials Fee: $5
Learn the basics of this versatile weave structure using various treadling methods, both
traditional and non-traditional. Students will work on their own looms and learn how to use
profile drafts and blocks to design their own patterns. Barb’s been weaving for 30 years
and teaching for more than 15 years; and her focus is primarily on rugs and functional
weaving.
Level: All
Materials Fee: $10
This once-popular technique makes extremely durable and beautiful rugs using fabric for
both warp and weft. Twining on a simple frame produces an astonishing variety of patterns
not found in most other rag rugs. Help preserve this vanishing folk art while mastering
twining techniques that can also be applied to other materials. Making hot-pad samplers
in class will give you the expertise to design and create full-sized rugs at home.
(Breaking the Rules and Solving the Problems)
Level: Able to warp a loom Materials Fee: $35 (warp provided)
Working on your own loom, each student will weave samples and a project with a mixed fiber
warp chosen to explore problems that occur with difficult and unusual fibers. Designing and
making these warps will be covered through demonstration and hands-on exercises. Methods
professional designers use to determine hand, drape and suitability of the finished cloth
will be discussed. Everyone will come away with ideas to add a dash of pizzazz to his/her
next project.
Level: Advanced Beginner or Intermediate
Materials Fee: $48 (handouts & yarns)
What on earth is Tencel? Why would anyone combine cotton, silk, or merino wool with
stainless steel into yarn? Aren’t pineapples and soy beans for eating and bamboo for
building? What does a combination of silk and ramie feel like? We’ll answer all these
questions and more during this fun filled class using new millennium fibres. Each person
will set up a loom with a different yarn and structure and then weave samples on all the
other looms. Just imagine what a unique project you can then weave once you get home!
Level: All
Materials Fee: $10
In Continuous Strand Weaving, weaving is completed using one continuous strand of yarn for
both warp and weft directions of the weave structure. No cutting, measuring or threading
the loom with warp, no winding shuttles, no "loom waste." Triangle, square, and rectangle
shapes will be available for students to learn on during class. Projects from these small
looms may be used as neck scarves, potholders, sewn into pouches, sachet, cell accessories,
quilts, pillow covers, kitchen, dining and bath textiles, and more.
Materials Fee: $25
No prior experience necessary, looms and equipment will be provided if you don’t have one.
Students will learn to prepare a warp, dress the loom back-to-front and understand weaving
drafts that create color and patterns. Students will keep samples and any projects produced
in this class.
Materials Fee: $20
No prior experience necessary, and wheels will be provided. Students will learn how a
spinning wheel functions, to card and prepare fibers, and spin yarn thick and thin, smooth
and bumpy. You will also learn to ply singles, blend colors, and how to finishing yarn.
Level: All
Materials Fee:
Landscape Pin Kit: $26-$31,
Painting with Beads: $30
Landscape Pin (1 Day). Choose one of Jo’s 6 pin kits to bead during the class (Birch Tree
kits in Winter, Summer, Spring, or Autumn; Dragonfly; and Lady’s Slipper) and learn
techniques for beading and finishing. Painting with Beads (2 Day). Practice several basic
bead stitches on fabric, working with bead color and surface texture, simple principals of
composition, pattern transfer, and adding texture, depth, and dimension. Each person will
create a small beaded landscape and wearable piece of bead art.
Levels: All Materials Fee: $5 to $55 depending on in-class purchases Using various weaving techniques, you’ll explore woven, stitched, pieced and assembled jewelry. Wires, linens and soft fibers will be used to stitch, weave, twine, loop, knot, coil, connect and embellish the many pieces of jewelry made during the workshop. Using some commercial connections, such as nuts and bolts, eyelets, brads, jump rings, and rivets students will learn various cold connections and their use with copper foil and sheet copper; found objects (rocks, pods, bark, found glass, and small sticks) will be used as both altered art and the base for woven forms.
Level: all, but may be difficult for someone with arthritis or hand pain
Materials Fee: $30
Students will make a coiled basket using sisal wrapping completely covering a sweetgrass
core. Each wrap is sewn into the previous round. You’ll be shown color changes and
attaching a hanging loop. We should finish a small basket in 3 days.
Level:
All Materials fee: $25 (lathe can be rented for additional $25)
Join Dave to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of wood’s diverse and
beautiful qualities. His experience as an instructor of biology and botany at the college
level has given him an extensive knowledge of growth characteristics found in the variety
of hardwoods in this country. He began turning in 1965 and has pursued it fulltime since
1995. He is a past president and director of the American Association of Woodturners.
Learn to make stripes, zigzags, spirals, shapes and figures in multiple colors using artist Carol Ventura’s techniques. Crochet in the round to make a small 2-color bag and discuss variations for adding more colors & beads to your work. Must know basic crochet. ($6)
Make an ornament from strips of painted paper, woven & folded in a 3 dimensional shape, then embellished with a tassel. Kit furnished will make 2 boats. ($10)
Viking knit is an ancient metal weaving technique based on fragments found in Scandinavian graves. Students will receive enough materials to learn this antiquated weaving technique and complete one elegant silver bracelet. ($40)
Learn to dye your own fabrics, yarn or garments using low-immersion dyeing and handpainting techniques with thin and thickened dyes. All dyes, solutions and tools provided; no experience necessary. ($15)
Weave on a cardboard box (provided) with wool to create a small woven purse which can be felted or left as woven. ($10)
Using a small prewarped weaving structure, a cartoon and a variety of yarns students will learn basic tapestry weaving skills, touching briefly on finishing. All levels welcome. ($28)
Use hot glue to build a "melted" Florida Snowman. Quick and easy lapel pin. ($3)
Hands-on demonstration of how to warp quickly and easily with a paddle, this technique works great with warping boards and warping reels. You can try your hand at the technique on Berna’s warping board during the workshop. ($2)
Learn the history and current uses of sprang and complete a small sampler on a pre-warped loom. All tools and warp threads provided; for $20 additional, build & warp a larger loom, and weave a small bag, suitable for carrying a bottle. ($25)
Learn to spin a nice smooth cotton thread on a takli supported spindle or a charkha wheel (provided). Learn all about cotton fibers available to spinners. ($10)
Turn a cinnamon stick and bits of greenery into a decorated tree. All levels. ($3)
Learn circular warping, a technique Berna invented to easily line the colors of beautiful space-dyed skeins of yarn back up again on a warping board, with no cutting or retying. Try your hand at the technique on Berna’s warping board after the demonstration. ($2)
Soft ruffling at one edge of this narrow knitted scarf gives a gentle curve so it lies on the shoulders nicely. You’ll knit short rows, do “wrap and turns” that prevent holes, and pick up wraps so they’re invisible. Need basic knitting skills. Check materials list. ($5)
Learn Betty TerLouw’s easy method of doing Color & Weave drawdowns, great for designing your own Log Cabin, Shadow Weave, and any structure. Drawups will also be discussed. As a bonus, learn how to make good selvedges when weaving with 2 shuttles. ($2)
Supply list for all classes will be included in your confirmation packet.