Conscious Choices in Spinning
Learning to make conscious spinning choices can expand the types of yarn you make and leave you happier with your handspun yarn. Learn about six factors that impact your spinning, how to vary those factors for different fibres and applications (sweater v. shawl), and consciously break out of your default spin into a whole new realm of possibilities!
Type of Workshop: Spinning
Instructor: Vanessa Bjerreskov Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: Must be able to spin a continuous thread and be familiar with the operation of a spinning wheel. If the student wishes to use spindles, familiarity with both suspended and supported spindles is necessary.
Student Supply List: - Spinning wheel with at least four bobbins and a kate or - multiple spindles (suspended and supported) and a kate - something from your stash that is either a mystery (lost tag) or that you are not sure how to spin.
Tuition: $249 + $25 material fee
Beginning Spinning
Whether you’ve never set foot in the same room as a spinning wheel before or you’ve been spinning for a while and just want a refresher, this class is for you! Working with wool rovings and tops, we’ll cover the basics of spinning both woolen and worsted singles, plying those singles together, and how to get a balanced yarn.
Type of Workshop: Spinning
Instructor: Christie Schulze
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 - Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: None
Student Supply List: - Spinning wheel in good working condition - At least three bobbins (bobbins optional) - Lazy Kate (optional) - Sharpie - Notebook and pen - Non-slip mat or rug to put under spinning wheel (optional)
Tuition: $349 + $50 material fee
Let’s Spin Sock Yarn
Do you love knitting socks but want to take your making up a notch by making your own sock yarn? This class is for you. Learn the basics of spinning your own sock yarn as we explore the world of spinning them. We will cover what makes a good sock yarn, blending natural fibres to make a strong sock yarn, techniques and tips that will help you spin your yarn and variations that address durability and comfort in your sock yarn. Although this class focuses on spinning to make sock yarn, we will cover skills that you can bring to other spinning: how to change your spinning to spin fine without losing your bulky spinning skills, blending fibre, basic principles of yarn design and spinning cables and crepe yarns.
Type of Workshop: Spinning
Instructor: Elana Goodfellow
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: This class is suitable for beginner to intermediate spinners. You must be able to spin a continuous single using a worsted style draw.
Student Supply List: - Spinning wheel in good working condition (e-spinners accepted) - Four empty bobbins and a lazy kate. - Pair of hand cards - Diz - Niddy noddy - Small amount of finished yarn - Bags to take blending samples home
Tuition: $129 + $25 material fee
Western Sakiori
Sakiori isn’t just like other rag-weaving! Come and learn how people in rural Japan used this technique to make durable, warm cloth they needed to survive, and how we can use the discarded luxury materials readily available to us today to make our version of sakiori. The class will cover rag selection and preparation, weaving, and finishing techniques.
Type of Workshop: Weaving
Instructor: Amanda Robinette
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: Able to warp and weave independently
Student Supply List: - Silk clothing or scraps (or other fabric) - Ski shuttle or stick shuttle - Boat shuttle/bobbin/bobbin winder - Seam ripper/fabric scissors/Ziploc bags for keeping pieces - Scissors/tape measure/embroidery needle/T-pins - Empty yarn cones or other desired weights for hanging the floating selvedges and repairing broken warp threads, in case of necessity
Optional: - Temple (recommended) - Rotary cutter, clear cutting guide and mat; and/or rag cutter - Dust mask - Fringe twister
Supply List for Rigid Heddle Weavers: - Silk clothing or scraps (or other fabric) - Ski shuttle or stick shuttle - Seam ripper/fabric scissors/ziploc bags for keeping pieces - Scissors/tape measure/embroidery needle/T-pins - Supplementary beater: Weaving sword or other weaving stick or shuttle with beveled edge (such as a belt shuttle) that is wider than your warp - Temple recommended (optional) - Rotary cutter, clear cutting guide and mat; and/or rag cutter, if available - Dust mask - Fringe twister
Tuition: $249 + $0 material fee
Shibori with Indigo
This half-day workshop will introduce students to both Japanese Shibori techniques as well as the process of making an indigo vat. Shibori is a Japanese dye technique which utilizes folding, tying and other forms of resists to create pattern on fabric. Students will learn some common techniques and then use them to create a one-of-a-kind shawl.
Type of Workshop: Dyeing
Instructor: Sara McCourt
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Prerequisites: None
Student Supply List: - Rubber Gloves - Notebook - Plastic bags to take items home - N95 mask
Tuition: $129 + $10 material fee
Percentage Dye the Color Wheel
This half-day workshop will introduce students to the percentage dye system using acid dyes on wool. Students will mix primary colors and then utilizing these colors mix the secondary and tertiary colors of the color wheel. Each student will end up with one mini skein of each colour. This workshop will teach students how to mix dyes, dye safety and how to successfully dye with acid dyes on wool.
Type of Workshop: Dyeing
Instructor: Sara McCourt
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 1:30 pm- 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: None
Student Supply List: - Rubber Gloves - Notebook - Plastic bags to take items home - N95 mask
Tuition: $129 + $20 material fee
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Spin for Embroidery
In this 2 day, project-based, workshop, we will cover yarn design and creation, pattern design, colour theory, basic stitches, and create and frame our own personalized embroidery art. Skills that will be gained include understanding twist, typical and non-typical embroidery yarn creation, basic stitch types, design, and colour theory. You will go home with a completed project.
Type of Workshop: Spinning
Instructor: Kara Perpelitz
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 - Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: Students must have the ability to spin and ply a consistent yarn. No embroidery skills required, just a willingness to learn!
Student Supply List: - spinning wheel in good working condition - spinning wheel maintenance kit - lazy kate - 3-4 bobbins - niddy noddy - 6 inch embroidery hoop - a variety of sharp needles with a variety of eye sizes
Tuition: $349 + $25 material fee
Let’s Spin Spirals
Have you dreamt of beautiful spiral yarns and wished you knew how to spin them? Learn the basic spiral yarn and variations of it as we demystify spinning spirals. We will cover what makes a good spiral yarn, techniques and tips that will help you spin spirals and variations that include the flame spiral and beaded spiral yarns.
Type of Workshop: Spinning
Instructor: Elana Goodfellow
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Prerequisites: This class is suitable for beginner to intermediate spinners. You must be able to spin a continuous single using a worsted style draw.
Student Supply List: - Spinning wheel in good working condition (e-spinners accepted) - A bulky spinning head (optional) - Three empty bobbins and a lazy kate. - Niddy noddy - Small amount of finished yarn
Tuition: $129 + $40 material fee
2 Tied Weave Structures
Students will be introduced to 2 tied weave structures and work with Fibreworks to design threadings and future projects. An understanding of Profile Drafts and Unit Blocks may be beneficial, but we will be covering the basics and experimenting from there. Weaving will be on 6-8 shafts, students will weave on their own loom.
Type of Workshop: Weaving
Instructor: Lynn McEachern
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 - Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: Students should know how to follow a draft, wind a warp and thread a loom.
Student Supply List: - 8 shaft table loom - A laptop with Fibreworks (silver): can download the trial version prior to the class - Cone of natural/white 8/2 cotton to wind their warp (instructions will be sent once registration is confirmed)
Tuition: $349 + $10 material fee
Wet Felted Sampler
Wet felting is a method of creating art using wool as your medium. This felting method is thousands of years old and has a rich history in many cultures. On day 1 we'll start by learning about different breeds of wool and their properties. We’ll move on to making a sample piece of felt to help us understand the unique, natural properties of wool. Then, step-by-step, we will explore more ways to create with wool. We’ll add inclusions, incorporate silks, work with resists and more! This is a relaxed, easy-going, workshop designed for curious participants. Wet felting is a hands-on, sometimes messy art process. Wear comfortable clothes that you can get wet and not worry about. Barbara Leighton, founder of the Leighton Art Centre, believed that every person is an artist - they just needed to find their right medium. Perhaps wool is yours. Try felting and find out!
Type of Workshop: Felting
Instructor: Leah Cathleen Donald
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: Beginner to Intermediate
Student Supply List: - 2 hand towels and one bath towel. These may get dye on them - don't bring your best towels.
Tuition: $249 + $40 material fee
Visible Mending
Learn to mend your clothing while creating a work of art. In this class we will try our hand at sashiko and Boro stitching. Needle felting and darning.
Type of Workshop: Other
Instructor: Jamie Bowen
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: None
Student Supply List: - Scissors - Something to mend if you want to mend something (optional)
Tuition: $249 + $25 material fee
Surface Design and Printing on Fabric with Natural Dyes
In this class, you’ll learn how to make natural dye pastes to stamp, stencil, or paint onto fabric for permanent and colourful designs! We’ll work with natural dyes such as cochineal, madder, lac, and weld to create patterns on fabric using a variety of ready-made wood block stamps or stencils. The dye paste can also be painted on your fabric, or materials for making your own basic stamps will be provided.
Type of Workshop: Dyeing
Instructor: Lorelei Sommer
Date/Time: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Prerequisites: None
Student Supply List: - Apron - N95 type mask - Gloves
Tuition: $249 + $35 material fee
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