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Spinner’s Color Workshop II @ The Clearing
The Clearing Folk School 12171 Garrett Bay Road, Ellison Bay, WI, United StatesEnter our fiber color studio where we will spend the week learning to create and manipulate color during all phases of the yarn design process including preparation, spinning and plying! We will explore how to apply color theory in your yarns and how one color adjustment can change the whole look of your spun yarn. If you have previously taken the Spinner's Color Workshop, this will be "part two" with all new color experiments to add to your design tool … Continue reading →
Rigid Heddle Weaving @ Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Sievers School of Fiber Arts 986 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island, WI, United StatesThis class offers instruction for “beginning and beyond” rigid heddle weavers. Beginners will start with a basic scarf followed by a sampler of pick-up and lace techniques to experience the versatility of the loom. There will be time to weave one or more additional projects you choose to expand your learning even further. Those with experience on the loom will learn rep weave, a double heddle technique. We will begin by weaving a rep runner. Then you’ll design your own … Continue reading →
Weaving – August 2024 CANCELLED
Fiber Garden Address will be provided after ticket purchase, Black River Falls, WI, United StatesCome weave with us in rural Wisconsin! We have welcomed many new and experienced weavers here over more than 25 years and we’d like to welcome YOU! Read on for all the details… This is a four-day class, giving you extra time (vs. three-day workshops) to do more weaving! Multiple weaving classes will be offered concurrently and student starting times will be staggered on the first day. You will be asked to select which workshop you’d like to register for … Continue reading →
Spinners’ Color Lab @ Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Sievers School of Fiber Arts 986 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island, WI, United StatesStep into our color laboratory where we will spend our first two days of class as “mad color scientists” mixing and creating dozens of color formulas and dyeing pounds of fiber, yarn, and roving until the studio is overflowing! But what to do with all this color? The second half of the class will immerse us in spinning exercises combining all this color in ways you may never have thought of! Bring along your knitting needles, crochet hooks, or sample … Continue reading →
Beginning Spinning @ the WI Sheep & Wool Festival
Jefferson County Fair Park 503 N. Jackson Avenue, Jefferson, WI, United StatesLearn to turn wool into your own unique yarns! You’ll try many different spinning wheels during the class, learn the basic skills to spin a single yarn, and create a two-ply finished skein. No previous spinning experience required. The all-day workshop is designed for the person who has never tried spinning before! Spinning wheels will be provided. Materials fee of $20 covers a generous supply of spinning fiber and spinning wheel rental. (Fee is $10 for those who bring their … Continue reading →
Beginning Spinning @ the WI Sheep & Wool Festival
Jefferson County Fair Park 503 N. Jackson Avenue, Jefferson, WI, United StatesLearn to turn wool into your own unique yarns! You’ll try many different spinning wheels during the class, learn the basic skills to spin a single yarn, and create a two-ply finished skein. No previous spinning experience required. The all-day workshop is designed for the person who has never tried spinning before! Spinning wheels will be provided. Materials fee of $20 covers a generous supply of spinning fiber and spinning wheel rental. (Fee is $10 for those who bring their … Continue reading →
Beginning Spinning @ the WI Sheep & Wool Festival
Jefferson County Fair Park 503 N. Jackson Avenue, Jefferson, WI, United StatesLearn to turn wool into your own unique yarns! You’ll try many different spinning wheels during the class, learn the basic skills to spin a single yarn, and create a two-ply finished skein. No previous spinning experience required. The all-day workshop is designed for the person who has never tried spinning before! Spinning wheels will be provided. Materials fee of $20 covers a generous supply of spinning fiber and spinning wheel rental. (Fee is $10 for those who bring their … Continue reading →