Basket Making 101 – Instructor: Roberta McClellan                             Enrollment: 4

As an introduction to basket making you will choose to make either a simple “berry basket” or a “bun basket”. While getting comfortable with the materials and the process of weaving you may find making these baskets can be quite addicting.

This is a Beginner level class. 

Workshop fee: $45 - Includes all basket making supplies.

Half day class offered Friday AM, Friday PM, Saturday AM (Full), Saturday PM 

Extra kits will be available for purchase from the instructor.

Materials student must bring to class: 5 Gallon bucket for soaking, a long, thin screwdriver

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Basket Making 201 – Instructor: Roberta McClellan                           Enrollment: 4

If you have had some basket making experience and want to try a larger, more involved project you have the choice of making either a “wool basket” or a “market basket”. Learn about shaping, handles and finishing techniques as you create a basket you’ll be proud to display.

 This is an Intermediate level class.

Workshop fee: $65 - Includes all basket making supplies.

Sunday  - All day class

 Extra kits will be available for purchase from the instructor.

Materials student must bring to class: 5 Gallon bucket for soaking, a long, thin screwdriver

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Color Blending for Spinners – Instructor: Linda Whiting                     Enrollment: 6

Using handcards and a drum carder learn how to create unique spinning fibers by combining warm and cool colors, dyed and natural colored fleece and other fibers to give your handspun yarns greater depth and variation. Students will be spinning their carded fibers and making sample cards to take home.

 This class is suitable for all levels. Must be able to spin a yarn.

Workshop fee: $65 - Includes fiber, sample cards and handouts.

Friday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class: Spinning wheel or spindle, hand cards and/or drum carder if you have them

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Creating Felted Creatures – Instructor: Julie Yarbrough                    Enrollment: 7

A variety of colorful wool will be presented to the class to help us with this lighthearted approach to creating fanciful creatures. We will be twisting and turning wire to create an armature over which we will be needle felting our little lovelies. As time allows we may also make accessories to complete our newbies. This will be a larger creature so some prior experience is required.

 This is an Intermediate level class.

Workshop fee: $60 – Kits to be purchased at class time: Whole kit: $25, Wool only: $15

Sunday - All day class

Materials student must bring to class: If you have needle felting supplies feel free to bring what you are comfortable working with. If you need supplies I will have kits available that will have everything included, or you can buy the wool alone.

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Designing for Rug Hooking and other Fiber Arts – Instructor: Rikki Gallagher     Enrollment: 8

This class is designed to bring out your creative spirit.  Utilizing assorted pencils and markers students will play with simple design elements to create miniature masterpieces.  Multiple designs can be made for a variety of textile arts (hooking, punch needle embroidery and appliqué). 

All class materials will be supplied!  However, If you want to begin a project, then linen backing and weavers cloth will be available at a reasonable cost.  Contact the instructor if you have plans to begin an actual piece so she can instruct you as to what else you might want to have with you to start your work.

 All levels of experience will get something from this workshop.

Workshop fee: $40

A half day class - Friday AM

Materials student must bring to class: Sketchbook, favorite colored pencils or markers but ample paper and pencils will be available to share

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Felted Tapestry Effects - Instructor: Leslie Samson                          Enrollment: 10

Recreate a photograph of your choice using an assortment of colored fibers and wet and dry felting techniques. Begin by making a wet felted base and add the finer details with felting needles to create a ‘one of a kind’ picture. Edge treatments, mounting suggestions and embellishment techniques will be discussed, including working with beads and embroidery.

 This is class is suitable for the Beginner to the Totally Obsessed

Workshop fee: $85 – Includes pre-dyed wools and an assortment of dyed wools and exotic fibers for embellishments, and felting needles

A one day class - Friday or Sunday

Materials student must bring to class: Three photos or sketches of an image which you would like to translate into felt. One will be selected. Bring any special fibers you might like to include and two thick bath towels to blot your work. Please bring a hard sided container in which you can safely take your needles home. The needles are approximately 4" long and very sharp.

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Knitting Heirloom Rugs - Instructor: Rose Ann Hunter                   Enrollment: 10

Using only basic knit stitches, learn various 18^th century techniques brought to modern day. Five different types of rugs will be taught in this all day workshop. We will cover heart shaped rag rugs, coiled rugs, corded coiled rugs, confetti rugs and knitweaving. Fibers used will be wool and cotton, fabrics will be wool, cotton and silk. You will take home a small sample of each made in the class, so that you can go on to making your own large heirloom rug of your choice.

Workshop fee: $70 Includes small sample kit

Sunday - All day Class

Materials student must bring to class: Size 7 or 8 10” needles and size 7 double pointed needles, a pair of scissors and a yarn needle. Lots of bits of leftover yarn from other projects, could be any type. Bits and pieces of wool and cotton fabric.  Old clothes can be recycled into this to make a true memory rug. Your daughter’s old wool jumper, your mother’s old wool skirt, your husbands old wool shirt.

Making Faces – 3D Felting – Instructor: Leslie Samson                                  Enrollment: 10

A light-hearted introduction to needle felting in which you will learn to make three-dimensional and sculptural forms. Using natural fibers and specialized needles you will learn the techniques to create facial structures with correct proportions, and make expressions and details that can be applied to making dolls, ornaments and other constructions.

This class is suitable for all experience levels.

Workshop fee: $85 – Includes all necessary materials and tools.

Saturday – All day class

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Methods of Dyeing – Instructor: Linda Whiting                              Enrollment: 10

There is more than one way to dye your wool. Learn a variety of methods using acid dyes and different tools and containers to create colorful fiber to take home. We will cover immersion in a single color dyepot, doing a light base color and then adding colors by hand painting as well color mixing in the pot, microwave dyeing, oven dyeing, sprinkle dyeing, blending in the pan, squirting and mixing, and others.  This is a chance for you to discover options – what results when you do certain things, how you can shift colors, and what utensils, containers and pots can be utilized. We’ll talk about how to protect your fiber from felting, getting the most from your dyes and try to answer whatever questions you bring to the class.

 This class is suitable for all experience levels.

Workshop fee: $65 – Includes dyes, two skeins of yarn and some fleece

Sunday – All day class

 Materials student must bring to class: While fleece and yarn will be provided, students are encouraged to bring some of their own roving, and other clean protein fibers to add to the dyepots. This will be a chance to experiment with different techniques. Old clothes, an apron, and protective gloves, if you choose to wear them, are also good to bring.

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Natural  Dyeing 101 – Instructor: Michelle DeLucia                         Enrollment: 10

Learn the natural way to dye your favorite fiber using flowers you grow and plants that are native to our landscape. In this workshop you will learn the basics of setting up a safe dyeing environment at home using a safe mordant. We will use local wool and everyone will bring home samples of natural dyed wool.

 This class is for Beginner level dyers and anyone who wants to add to their experience.

Workshop fee: $45: Includes fleece, plant dyes, and mordant.

Saturday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class: Pencil and a notebook. Old clothes, an apron, and protective gloves, if you choose to wear them, are also good to bring.

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Nuno Wet Felting Techniques – Instructor: Michelle DeLucia               Enrollment: 10

Learn the ancient technique of wet felting using sheep's wool with silk, cotton and mohair. Discover which wools felt fast and hard and which ones felt soft and drapey. Students will have the opportunity to see demonstrations of felting techniques and then apply them to their own sample of work. The softer Nuno felting technique makes lovely scarves and other accessories.

 This class is suitable for Beginner level and others who want to play.

Workshop fee: $65 – Includes 4 oz. of material

Sunday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class: Apron, hand towel, and a large old towel.

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Over the Rainbow Dyeing – Instructor: Linda Whiting                      Enrollment: 10

Using just three primary colors learn how to create rainbows and shift colors to create your own unique palette. Working with complementary colors, gradations and the triad formulas create a set of samples that will lead you to limitless possibilities in your dyeing.

 This class is suitable for all levels of experience.

Workshop fee: $75 – Includes dyes, sample yarns and cards, information booklet.

Saturday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class:  Roll of paper towels (Bounty is the most absorbent), an apron, and a pen for note-taking. This process is neater than you might think, but wear older clothes and bring an apron just to be on the safe side. Gloves are optional but not necessary.

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Punchneedle as Miniature Art – Instructor: Rikki Gallagher              Enrollment:: 8

This workshop will take the morning class a step further. Punch needling is a revived craft that is all a buzz these days.  Students will design, choose a color palette and work on a small punch needle embroidery.  If you stay quite small, a finished piece can be created in the time allowed.  Otherwise, you will have all that you need to complete your miniature fiber art on your own.  Punching is fun and fast.  Anything can be decorated with this technique from boxes and bags to jewelry or framed artwork! 

This class is suitable for all levels of experience.

A half day class - Friday PM

Workshop fee: $40  and materials fee: $25– Includes frame, needle ($15), fabric and threader and a variety of embroidery floss,  paper, pencils, etc for designing your work, scissors.

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Rug Hooking Basics – Instructor: Connie Schmotzer-Fletcher             Enrollment: 8

Working a design on linen students will learn the basic skills needed to hook a rug just as it has been done for countless years. Designs are hooked in a “primitive” style with wider strips and simpler patterns using 100% wool in traditional colors to create a small project to take home with you.

 This class is a Beginner level class.

Workshop fee: $65 – Includes a pattern on linen, wool for hooking, hook, instructions and use of hooker frame for the class.

Friday – All day class or Saturday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class:  Scissors

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Shawl Pin Making – Instructor: Leslie Wind                                        Enrollment: 8

Geared for knitters, crocheters and weavers, this workshop teaches simple metalworking techniques using only hand tools and no electricity or gas.  Using copper, bronze and nickel wire in a variety of gauges participant will learn forging, surface texturing and finishing  to make an unlimited variety of shawl pins and orifice hooks.  Although the focus is on fiber related items, the basic skills and available materials can be used to create earrings, necklaces and other decorative items.

 No metal working experience necessary

Workshop fee: $50 – Includes wire for shawl pins, use of tools

Friday – All day class,  Saturday – All day class or  Sunday – All day class  (Saturday is Full)

Materials student must bring to class:  Nothing needed but a willingness to learn.  

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Spinning 101 – The Mysteries of Twisted Fiber – Instructor: Rindy O’Brien    Enrollment: 6

If you are new to spinning this is the class for you. Come learn about how to choose and prepare fiber for spinning, how to draft and spin yarn on a drop spindle in the morning and then learn to use those skills spinning on a wheel in the afternoon. Learn about different types of wheels, the many varieties of wool and other fibers. You’ll be glad you did.

 This is a Beginner level class.

Workshop fee: $75 – Includes spinning fibers and handouts.

Friday – All day class

Materials student must bring to class:  Please bring a wheel if you have one. (Wheels may be rented for $20 – see registration form)

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Spinning 201 – Fiber Adventures – Instructor: Rindy O’Brien            Enrollment: 6

Try your hand at spinning a variety of fibers. You will explore the best techniques for spinning different types of wool, silk, other animal fibers and some of the plant fibers as well. Working with these varied fibers will introduce ways to improve and refine your spinning skills.  This is a good follow-up class to Spinning 101.

 This class is suitable for Advanced Beginner to Intermediate level.

Workshop fee: $40 – Includes spinning fibers and handouts.

A half day class - Saturday AM

Spinning 301 – For the Really Twisted – Instructor: Rindy O’Brien       Enrollment: 6

This workshop will take you beyond the single ply yarn with techniques such as Andean and Navajo plying to making yarns of multiple plies with discussion of their suitability for different uses. Further expand your skills as you learn to make a variety of novelty yarns from simple to the complex in structure. Let your fingers play. This is a good follow-up class to Spinning 201, Fiber Adventures.

 This is an Intermediate level class.

Workshop fee: $40 – Includes spinning fibers, oddments for novelty yarns.

A half day class - Saturday PM

Materials student must bring to class:  Spinning wheel. (Wheels may be rented for $20 – see registration form)

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