SAFF

About SAFF

SAFF will be held October 22-25, 2026 at the WNC Agricultural Center, in Fletcher, NC.

WNC Agricultural Center
761 Boylston Hwy-GATE 7
Fletcher, NC 28732

Classes by Subject

Spinning

Thursday, October 22

Color Blending – Let Me Count the Ways, with Terri Guerette - 9am-4pm
Get Hooked on Spinning Supported, with Cynthia Haney - 9am-12pm
Hand Carding and the Long Draw, with Martha Owen - 9am-12pm
Plying Yarn on a Spindle, with Cynthia Haney - 1-4pm
Cotton the Old-Fashioned Way, with Susannah Johnson - 1-3pm

Friday, October 23

Electric Sheep: Exploring E-spinners (A), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 9am-12pm
Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (A), with Julie Wilson - 9am-12pm
Handspinning for Fair Isle, with Martha Owen - 9am-4pm
Spinning for Lace, with Terri Guerette - 9am-4pm
Making Yarn on a Spindle, with Cynthia Haney - 9-11am
Electric Sheep: Exploring E-spinners (B), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 1-4pm
Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (B), with Julie Wilson - 1-4pm

Saturday, October 24

Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (C), with Julie Wilson - 9am-12pm
Charkha Spinning, with Peyton Waggener - 9am-1pm
Spindle and Wheel- Spinning on a Walking Wheel, with Martha Owen - 9am-1pm
Fractal Spinning for Your Odds & Ends, with Terri Guerette - 9am-12pm
Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (D), with Julie Wilson - 1-4pm
Color Blending on Handcards, with Terri Guerette - 1-4pm

Sunday, October 25

One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (A), with Julie Wilson - 9-10am
Birth of an Art Yarn, with Katelyn Dunn - 9am-12pm
C&C (Crepe and Cable) Yarns, with Terri Guerette - 9am-12pm
Spinning by Ashford Spinning Wheel, with Emily Simon - 9am-12pm
One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (B), with Julie Wilson - 11am-12pm
One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (C), with Julie Wilson - 1-2pm
Spinning by Drop Spindle, with Emily Simon - 1-4pm
What Every Spinner Needs to Know, with Terri Guerette - 1-4pm
 
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Knitting

Thursday, October 22

Stunt Knitting Safety Lines, with Jolie Elder - 9am-12pm
This is an Easy Top Down Boot Sock Recipe, with Martha Owen - 1-5pm
Small Rounds + Two at a Time, with Jolie Elder - 1-4pm
Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Getting Started (A), with Varian Brandon - 1-4pm
Get Started with Knit Companion (A), with Heidi Sunday - 2-4pm

Friday, October 23

Get Started with Knit Companion (B), with Heidi Sunday - 9-11am
Cable Ready, with Melanie Koenig - 9am-12pm
Scheherazade Intarsia, with Jolie Elder - 9am-12pm
Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Getting Started (B), with Varian Brandon - 9am-12pm
Continental Knit & Purl, with Heidi Sunday - 12-2pm
Give It the Slip (AKA Two-Color Knitting the Easy Way), with Melanie Koenig - 1-4pm
Looping Back, with Jolie Elder - 1-4pm
Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Deep Dive, with Varian Brandon - 1-4pm
Beginner Brioche Cowl, with Heidi Sunday - 3-5pm

Saturday, October 24

Continental Crossover (A), with Beth Remhof - 9-11am
Knit Faster with Combination Knitting, with Jolie Elder - 9am-12pm
Using Steeks Stitches, with Varian Brandon - 9am-12pm
Advanced Knit Companion, with Heidi Sunday - 9-11am
Embroider Anything on Your Knit & Crochet, with Heidi Sunday - 12-2pm
Continental Crossover (B), with Beth Remhof - 1-3pm
Now How Do I Finish?, with Jolie Elder - 1-4pm
Ribbings and Edges for Added Color, with Varian Brandon - 1-4pm
Avoid CarPURL Tunnel Syndrome - Ergonomics in Knitting, with Meg Evatt - 1-3pm
2 Fleegle Heel Socks on One Circular, with Heidi Sunday - 3-5pm

Sunday, October 25

Design a Sweater in the Round, with Varian Brandon - 9am-12pm
Oops! Now What Do I Do?, with Jolie Elder - 9am-12pm
Beginning Knitting, with Melanie Koenig - 1-4pm
Introduction to Versa Lace, with Jolie Elder - 1-4pm
Holding Yarns in Two Hands for Stranded Colorwork Knitting, with Varian Brandon - 1-3pm
Get Started with Knit Companion (C), with Heidi Sunday - 2-4pm
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Felting

Thursday, October 22

Hop in to Felting!, with Beth Collier - 9am-1pm
Fun Felted Hats, with Patti Barker - 9am-4pm
Nuno-felted Collage Scarf, with Vickie Clontz - 9am-4pm
Needle-Felted Landscape: Farm Fields, with Jennifer Costa - 9am-1pm
Needle Felt (2-D) Wool Slippers, with Sheena O'Shea - 1:30-5:30pm
Needle Felted Fall Miniatures, with Jennifer Costa - 2-3pm

Friday, October 23

Mosaic Nuno Felt Vest, with Patti Barker - 9am-4pm
Nuno-felted Scarf, with Vickie Clontz - 9am-4pm
Needle Felting Sunrise Sunset, with Cecilia Ho - 9am-12pm
Needle-Felted Woodland Critters, with Jennifer Costa - 9am-12pm
Needle Felting Simple Object in a Hoop, with Cecilia Ho - 12:30-2:30pm
Hatmaking on a Beach Ball, with Deborah Robertson - 1-5pm
Needle-Felted Landscape: Sheep Pasture, with Jennifer Costa - 1-5pm
Nuno Felting Landscape with Merino/Silk, with Cecilia Ho - 3-6pm

Saturday, October 24

Felted Wrist-warmers, with Vickie Clontz - 9am-4pm
Stained Glass Tunic, with Patti Barker - 9am-4pm
Needle felt a Lamb, with Meg Evatt - 9am-12pm
Needle Felting Colorful Sky, with Cecilia Ho - 9am-12pm
Get Wired! Adding Armiture to your Felting, with Beth Collier - 9am-1pm
Needle Felting Rainbow Forest, with Cecilia Ho - 12:30-2:30pm
Needle Felting as Garment Repair: Make Patches, Pockets, and More, with Jessica Kaufman - 1-4pm
Wet Felted Pumpkin, with Julie Adams - 2-5pm
Wet Felting Landscape with Merino/Silk, with Cecilia Ho - 3-6pm

Sunday, October 25

Needlefelt a Chorus Froglet, with Melissa Gray - 9am-2pm
Nuno Felt a Trellis Scarf, with Patti Barker - 9am-1pm
Needle Felted Funny Fish, with Julie Adams - 9am-12pm
Felted Soap, with Vickie Clontz - 9-11am
Needle Felted Jewelry, with Alesia Moore - 9-11am
Wet-felted Flower, with Vickie Clontz - 1-4pm
Needle Felting for Beginners, with Beth Collier - 1-4pm
A Tree-mendous Holiday: Needle Felted Gnomes, with Alesia Moore - 1-3pm
 
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Crochet

Saturday, October 24

Get Hooked On Crochet, with Melanie Koenig - 9am-12pm
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Dyeing

Thursday, October 22

2-Day Marble your Tannins, with Eileen Hallman - 9am-4pm
Natural Ecoprinting on SIlk and Wool, with M. Theresa Brown - 9am-4pm
Introduction to Dyeing - Ice, Indigo and Reactive, with Helen Boyle - 1-4pm

Friday, October 23

Ecoprint in Color on Silk and Wool, with M. Theresa Brown - 9am-4pm
Growing a Dye Garden, with Bethany Hebbard - 1-4pm

Saturday, October 24

Ecoprint on Leather-Naturally and in Color, with M. Theresa Brown - 9am-4pm
Dyeing Self Patterning Sock Yarn (A), with Melanie Koenig - 1-4pm

Sunday, October 25

Kaleidoscope Ecoprinting, with M. Theresa Brown - 9am-4pm
Ice Dye Your Clothes & Fabrics, with Jessica Kaufman - 9am-1pm
Pink to Purple with Indigo, with Eileen Hallman - 9am-1pm
Dyeing Self Patterning Sock Yarn (B), with Melanie Koenig - 9am-12pm
From Blue to Yellow with Indigo Leaves, with Eileen Hallman - 1:30-5:30pm
Make Batik Fabric with Woodblocks and Beeswax [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], with Jessica Kaufman - 1:30-5:30pm
 
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Weaving

Thursday, October 22

2-Day Continuous Strand Weaving on the Large Adjustable Loom, with Bex Oliger - 9am-4pm
FUNdementals of Weaving, with Julie Benac - 9am-1pm
Beginner Tablet Weaving, with Kristine Shumway - 9am-12pm
Introduction to Weaving on an Inkle Loom, with Roiana Buckmaster - 1-5pm
Intermediate Tablet Weaving, with Kristine Shumway - 1-4pm
Twig Weaving, with Betty Ann Winters - 1-4pm

Friday, October 23

Beginning Tablet Weaving, with Bethany Hebbard - 9am-12pm

Saturday, October 24

Beginning Tapestry Weaving, with Susannah Johnson - 9am-12pm

Sunday, October 25

Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit (A), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 9am-12pm
Baltic Inkle Weaving, with Barbara Hoffman - 9am-4pm
Handwoven Couture: Seaming, Finishing, and Innovative Design for Handwoven Garments, with Julie Benac - 9am-1pm
Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit (B), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 1-4pm
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Fiber Prep

Friday, October 23

Exploring the Drum Carder, with Henry Clemes - 9am-4pm

Saturday, October 24

Gettin’ Batty with It: Art-Batt Tools and Techniques (A), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 9am-12pm
Adventures in Drum Carding, with Henry Clemes - 9am-4pm
Gettin’ Batty with It: Art-Batt Tools and Techniques (B), with Liza Q. Wirtz - 1-4pm
Blending Basics, with Peyton Waggener - 1:30-5:30pm

Sunday, October 25

Blending Board Basics, with Roy Clemes - 9am-12pm
 
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Other Subjects

Thursday, October 22

Extruded Cane Buttons, with Susan Dial - 9am-4pm
Cotton Spun Opposum Ornament, with Sheena O'Shea - 9am-1pm
Hands on Angora Rabbits, with Elaina Kenyon - 1-4pm

Friday, October 23

Polymer Clay Covered Crochet Hook, with Susan Dial - 12-4pm
An introduction to Bobbin Lace, with Beth Collier - 2-5pm

Saturday, October 24

Polymer Clay - Mokume Gane Shawl PIN, with Susan Dial - 9am-4pm

Sunday, October 25

Basic Cane Slice Buttons, with Susan Dial - 9am-4pm
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Cancellation and Refund Policy

For 30+ days before, receive a 95% refund. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date.

To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected].

About SAFF

SAFF is committed to all people feeling safe and respected regardless of their race, color, creed or sexuality. Our fiber community is open and welcoming to all humanity. We at SAFF hope to be leaders in bringing together artists, vendors, instructors, producers and processors of all different backgrounds to celebrate fiber.

SAFF 2026 will be held October 22-25, 2026 at the WNC Agricultural Center, in Fletcher, NC.

 

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Classes in Chronological Order

2-Day Continuous Strand Weaving on the Large Adjustable Loom

  • • Instructor: Bex Oliger
  • • Price: $360
  • • Starts: October 22

Complete a large triangular shawl, a baby blanket or a rectangular scarf using the magical Continuous Strand Weaving Method on our large, adjustable frame looms. This ingenious technique warps the loom as you weave – and you only have to do half the weaving! Basic weaves, color changes,...

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2-Day Marble your Tannins

  • • Instructor: Eileen Hallman
  • • Price: $395
  • • Starts: October 22

Natural dyers may be familiar with mordant printing; this workshop provides a novel approach to tannin printing. Marbling is a monoprinting technique achieved by floating paint or ink on a thickened water solution, then placing the textile on the surface to absorb the color. We will...

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Color Blending – Let Me Count the Ways

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $215
  • • Date: October 22

There are many ways to blend pre-dyed fibers together to create different colors (optical blends). In this workshop, we will play with different blending methods (including blending boards, combs, drum carders†, hackles, handcards, and blending directly at the wheel) to determine...

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Extruded Cane Buttons

  • • Instructor: Susan Dial
  • • Price: $195
  • • Date: October 22

students will create a set of buttons from an extruded cane they'll create in class. We'll talk about color theory and mixing custom shades of polymer clay.

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Fun Felted Hats

  • • Instructor: Patti Barker
  • • Price: $225
  • • Date: October 22

Choose from four different style hats and have fun creating your newest wearable art piece. Felting & shaping techniques help bring your vision to life.

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Natural Ecoprinting on SIlk and Wool

  • • Instructor: M. Theresa Brown
  • • Price: $205
  • • Date: October 22

Join us for a workshop on creating stunning natural plant designs on silk and wool! In this ecoprinting workshop (also known as botanical printing), you’ll learn how to collect leaves, plants, and flowers to imprint their images directly onto fibers. Students will explore techniques...

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Nuno-felted Collage Scarf

  • • Instructor: Vickie Clontz
  • • Price: $220
  • • Date: October 22

Wet-felt a beautiful, wearable work of art of silk chiffon, wool and novelty fibers. We'll start with a hand-dyed silk chiffon base, add flourishes of silk chiffon printed fabrics along with merino wool fibers, and embellish with bamboo and Angelina fibers along with curly mohair....

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Cotton Spun Opposum Ornament

  • • Instructor: Sheena O'Shea
  • • Price: $160
  • • Date: October 22

I’m bringing it back! Cotton Spun Ornaments with a modern twist. Come join this unique class and create a Opposum character with me.

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FUNdementals of Weaving

  • • Instructor: Julie Benac
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 22

Have you ever been curious about weaving? Have you wanted to try, but don't have a loom or a lot of time? This FUN class will get you up and weaving in no time, learning all the skills you need on a miniature real loom! You'll learn all the parts of a loom, how to create a warp,...

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Hop in to Felting!

  • • Instructor: Beth Collier
  • • Price: $135
  • • Date: October 22

Hop in this class to felt a cute whimsical frog. Students will learn the basics of felting and a bit of simple armature. Each frog will hold something of your choice, such as a knitting project, or fishing pole etc. If you want to make the knitting or crocheting frog, you must be...

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Needle-Felted Landscape: Farm Fields

  • • Instructor: Jennifer Costa
  • • Price: $140
  • • Date: October 22

Learn how to create beautiful landscapes with wool! Needle felting is a fun and versatile skill which can be used successfully by beginners and experienced crafters. In this class you’ll work through basic techniques while creating an unframed 8 by 10 inch blue sky and hilly farm...

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Beginner Tablet Weaving

  • • Instructor: Kristine Shumway
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 22

Welcome to the world of narrow band weaving. Students will learn the basics of tablet/card weaving, including warping a loom using tablets/cards, reading a simple pattern, tension & beating tips, finishing your band. Students will either make a single band, or up to 3 bookmarks.

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Get Hooked on Spinning Supported

  • • Instructor: Cynthia Haney
  • • Price: $225
  • • Date: October 22

Discover the fluid process of drafting fiber with the twist into yarn. Cynthia designs and makes your spindle with a hook, simplifying the learning process. You will flick the spindle so it spins while supported in a bowl. Draft moving the fiber supply away from the spindle. ...

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Hand Carding and the Long Draw

  • • Instructor: Martha Owen
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 22

Survey and Explore the art of efficient hand carding and learn to spin fast and with your hands far apart! Hand carding takes practice but it is worth it. Fiber preparation has the greatest impact on a peaceful spinning experience. Discover alternative hand positions to create lofty...

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Stunt Knitting Safety Lines

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 22

You've seen the stunt knitters' projects — grafting 500 stitches in pattern, hidden cast-ons, smooth pick-ups, elegant edgings, blocking lace in half an hour, and perfect seams on the first try. Learn their savvy tricks! No, they aren't smarter than you. And they haven't been knitting...

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Introduction to Weaving on an Inkle Loom

  • • Instructor: Roiana Buckmaster
  • • Price: $165
  • • Date: October 22

Have you ever looked at the big looms and wondered if weaving was for you? This class is your chance to find out! We will use a Mini Inkle Loom to explore weaving with a simple heddle system to create a basic warp-faced fabric that will introduce you to some of the principles used...

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This is an Easy Top Down Boot Sock Recipe

  • • Instructor: Martha Owen
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 22

From cast on to toe shaping, there is a lot to learn while making a sock! Knit in the round using double pointed needles to learn all the steps to create a custom fitting sock. Learn where to measure your foot and how to measure your gauge. Notice how your needles help you keep track...

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Hands on Angora Rabbits

  • • Instructor: Elaina Kenyon
  • • Price: $85
  • • Date: October 22

Have you seen angora rabbits and been captivated by their beauty and lovely soft fiber? In this class you'll have the opportunity to handle the different breeds of angora rabbit, learning what makes each breed and their fiber unique. We'll talk about care and grooming, as well...

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Intermediate Tablet Weaving

  • • Instructor: Kristine Shumway
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 22

Students will dive into more complex weaving skills, including working with split pack turns (some tablets rotating forward, while others rotate backwards), skip hole designs, understanding the counting shifts in the pattern needed to work with a more complex pattern. Note: If the...

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"Introduction to Dyeing - Ice, Indigo and Reactive"

  • • Instructor: Helen Boyle
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 22

Introduction to Dyeing Technique – ice, indigo and reactive The workshop is a colorful, hands-on introduction to three dyeing techniques: ice dyeing, natural indigo dyeing, and reactive dyeing. In this workshop, we’ll explore how each method works, the pros and cons, and how different...

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Plying Yarn on a Spindle

  • • Instructor: Cynthia Haney
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 22

Plying is the second step in spinning yarn. The first is taking fiber, wool, and adding twist to make a handspun singles yarn. To achieve a plied, multistrand, yarn two or more singles are spun together in the opposite direction. Discover the freedom a spindle provides for plying,...

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Small Rounds + Two at a Time

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 22

What’s your favorite way to knit small circumferences in the round? In this class, we will explore knitting in the round with double-pointed needles, a small circular needle, two circular needles, and a magic loop. We’ll even look at some very clever ways to make big i-cords (such...

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Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Getting Started (A)

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 22

The class is designed to help the knitter who wants to try stranded colorwork knitting. You’ve seen all of those lovely stranded and Fair Isle designs and want to be able to cast one on for yourself. In this class, students will be working on a simple colorwork cowl…no increases…no...

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Twig Weaving

  • • Instructor: Betty Ann Winters
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 22

Twig Weaving ~ Blending Nature with Art Join me as we blend Nature with Art in this fun, and sometimes challenging art form! This class is not about perfection; it’s about relaxing and allowing yourself to play with fiber and have a little fun! You will learn how to weave directly...

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Cotton the Old-Fashioned Way

  • • Instructor: Susannah Johnson
  • • Price: $80
  • • Date: October 22

Learn to spin cotton straight from the boll! This is the way women in the past spun, and it puts store-bought cotton sliver to shame. Experience different kinds and colors of cotton, as well as techniques that best suit your spinning style.

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Needle Felt (2-D) Wool Slippers

  • • Instructor: Sheena O'Shea
  • • Price: $245
  • • Date: October 22

Needle felt onto wool slippers with mushrooms and other fungi. Mushroom/ fungi images will be given as a guide for you to use, as well as all materials needed to complete this workshop. The Wool slippers will be wet felted, green and have leather soles. You are authorized to bring...

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Get Started with Knit Companion (A)

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 22

Learn the basics of Knit Companion. The free app download is enough to do this class. Download the add to your phone, tablet or laptop prior to class, and create a login id.

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Needle Felted Fall Miniatures

  • • Instructor: Jennifer Costa
  • • Price: $40
  • • Date: October 22

Looking to try your hand at needle felting? This class is the perfect short introduction to the craft! We'll learn a few basic skills by creating miniature pumpkins, then felt acorns and top them with real acorn caps. You'll leave with cute fall decor--just in time for the cooler

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Electric Sheep: Exploring E-spinners (A)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $150
  • • Date: October 23

Tempted by spinning but not sure a regular wheel’s for you? Intrigued by the idea of making just the yarn you want but not sure where you’d put a wheel if you had one? Feet/knees not doing what you want as painlessly as they used to, making the whole treadling part of wheel spinning...

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Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (A)

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 23

Do you ever wonder how yarn is made? Twist the fibers and you will make yarn. Guaranteed! Learn the basics of a spinning wheel (double treadle Lendrums wheels will be provided for you in class). Learn how to draft the fibers and allow the twisted fibers to slide through your fingers...

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Get Started with Knit Companion (B)

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 23

Learn the basics of Knit Companion. The free app download is enough to do this class. Download the add to your phone, tablet or laptop prior to class, and create a login id.

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Ecoprint in Color on Silk and Wool

  • • Instructor: M. Theresa Brown
  • • Price: $210
  • • Date: October 23

Discover the art of ecoprinting in Color! In this workshop, you will learn how to create stunning plant designs from nature and develop rich, colorful backgrounds on silk and wool. Ecoprinting (also known as botanical printing) involves collecting leaves, plants, and flowers to imprint...

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Exploring the Drum Carder

  • • Instructor: Henry Clemes
  • • Price: $225
  • • Date: October 23

Drum carders are a mystery to the average fiber artist: fiber is fed into the carder, ends up on the big drum, and something magical happens in between. In our ‘Exploring the Drum Carder’ class, students begin the day by learning the history of drum carders, how they work, and why...

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Handspinning for Fair Isle

  • • Instructor: Martha Owen
  • • Price: $145
  • • Date: October 23

Start with a naturally dyed "fleece palette" from common and historic renewable dye sources and combine with home grown natural Shetland shades for blends to spin and knit. Produce a small array of heather and multi color yarns to then design/knit a "Fair Isle" inspired pouch in...

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Mosaic Nuno Felt Vest

  • • Instructor: Patti Barker
  • • Price: $275
  • • Date: October 23

Learn mosaic nuno felt techniques while creating a beautiful, light-weight piece of wearable art. Provide your size (for resist pattern) and choose from a variety of color options.

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Nuno-felted Scarf

  • • Instructor: Vickie Clontz
  • • Price: $215
  • • Date: October 23

Wet-felt a beautiful scarf of sumptuous hand-dyed silk chiffon, hand-dyed merino fibers, silk, curly mohair, and sparkly Angelina fibers for a unique wearable work of art that’s light as a feather! This technique is fun and a bit messy, also somewhat physical. Kit required, I have...

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Spinning for Lace

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $220
  • • Date: October 23

Have you ever seen a lace shawl and wished that you could spin yarn that fine? In this class, you’ll learn techniques that will have you spinning fine yarns in no time at all! We will cover some of the different elements that can determine the characteristics of your yarn, including...

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Beginning Tablet Weaving

  • • Instructor: Bethany Hebbard
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 23

Learn the basics of an ancient, intricate, and wonderfully portable form of weaving! Tablet weaving (also known as "card weaving") dates back at least to the Iron Age, and is practiced in cultures around the world. Participants will learn to create a simple warp that is capable of...

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Cable Ready

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 23

If you can knit and purl, you are ready to knit cables and braids. They look a lot harder than they really are. You will learn to knit several types of cables, with and without a cable needle. Melanie will teach you how to read those intimidating charts and gain the confidence you...

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Needle Felting Sunrise Sunset

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 23

Friday 9am-noon Needle Felting Sunrise Sunset *** This workshop is open to ALL levels (Age 8 & up) to follow the step-by-step instruction *** Wool can be transformed into a painterly Landscape image using the needle felting technique. With 30+ Ashford NZ Corriedale wool color...

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Needle-Felted Woodland Critters

  • • Instructor: Jennifer Costa
  • • Price: $105
  • • Date: October 23

Join me in learning how to use wool roving and a felting needle to create cute woodland critters. We’ll begin by crafting a fox together, then I’ll help you make another critters of your choice--the sky (or the zoo) is the limit! You should have time to complete two animals during...

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Scheherazade Intarsia

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 23

Do you love color? Do you love gradient yarns? Have you wanted to learn intarsia but been intimidated by its reputation? The Scheherazade intarsia approach is an easy system for using colorful yarns to their best advantage. Color block intarsia is even tangle-resistant! The class...

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Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Getting Started (B)

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 23

The class is designed to help the knitter who wants to try stranded colorwork knitting. You’ve seen all of those lovely stranded and Fair Isle designs and want to be able to cast one on for yourself. In this class, students will be working on a simple colorwork cowl…no increases…no...

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Making Yarn on a Spindle

  • • Instructor: Cynthia Haney
  • • Price: $180
  • • Date: October 23

Fall in love with the relaxing art of spinning. Make your first handspun yarn with a drop spindle designed for easy use. Experience various fiber preparations by spinning a sampler. Build skills for confident spinning by using the park-and-draft method. Learn what to do with...

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Polymer Clay Covered Crochet Hook

  • • Instructor: Susan Dial
  • • Price: $133
  • • Date: October 23

Students will decorate a crochet hook with a premade polymer clay cane. They are welcome to bring their own hook if it's metal or wood. The instructor will have several options of hooks and premade canes from which to choose, or students can custom order a color scheme by contacting...

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Continental Knit & Purl

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 23

If you already are comfortable holding the yarn in your right hand, learn continental style, so that you can give your right wrist a break, or even start to hold a different color in EACH hand. Ultimately, with practice, you can become a faster, better knitter. We will start with...

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Needle Felting Simple Object in a Hoop

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 23

Friday 12:30-2:30pm Needle Felting Simple Object in a Hoop No experience necessary! This workshop is for all levels age 8 & up. Learn the basic 2D needle felting technique & create a beautiful Wool Paiting within the 5” wooden hoop. Discover how a felting needle can replace a...

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Electric Sheep: Exploring E-spinners (B)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $150
  • • Date: October 23

Tempted by spinning but not sure a regular wheel’s for you? Intrigued by the idea of making just the yarn you want but not sure where you’d put a wheel if you had one? Feet/knees not doing what you want as painlessly as they used to, making the whole treadling part of wheel spinning...

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Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (B)

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 23

Do you ever wonder how yarn is made? Twist the fibers and you will make yarn. Guaranteed! Learn the basics of a spinning wheel (double treadle Lendrums wheels will be provided for you in class). Learn how to draft the fibers and allow the twisted fibers to slide through your fingers...

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Hatmaking on a Beach Ball

  • • Instructor: Deborah Robertson
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 23

Come and learn the ancient craft of wet felting. Learn all the skills you need to make a hat for yourself using a beachball as the resist. We will use superfine merino wool of the highest quality and comparable in softness to cashmere. Choose from a wide variety of colors.

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Needle-Felted Landscape: Sheep Pasture

  • • Instructor: Jennifer Costa
  • • Price: $135
  • • Date: October 23

Learn the basics of landscape needle felting with me as we create a peaceful 5 by 7 inch unframed pasture scene. We'll learn about color layering techniques and different types of wool along the way. We'll also talk about how to customize your piece with sheep, flowers, or a small

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Give It the Slip (AKA Two-Color Knitting the Easy Way)

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 23

Slip-Stitch Knitting (also called Mosaic Knitting) can be so intimidating with all those confusing charts and colors. In this class, the mysteries will be solved as you will learn to select colors, manage multiple yarns, and confidently decipher those charts. This is the perfect...

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Growing a Dye Garden

  • • Instructor: Bethany Hebbard
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 23

Cultivate a rainbow of dyes in your own backyard! From planning your garden to harvesting brilliant dye pigments, this course covers everything you need to know to raise a crop of indigo, madder, and many other plants you can use to dye, mordant, print, and protect your textiles....

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Looping Back

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 23

Making a loop, knitting with part of it, and then tightening it is a peculiar technique that lends itself to some unusual applications. Work complex intarsia in smaller modules, rather than working across a large piece with many, many bobbins. Control pooling. Work textured entrelac...

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Stranded Colorwork Knitting – Deep Dive

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 23

The class is designed for the knitter who has found the joys of stranded colorwork knitting, but after working stranded and Fair Isle patterns, still have some questions. Is there anything else I can do with this technique? Is there a way to add texture as well as color? What is...

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An introduction to Bobbin Lace

  • • Instructor: Beth Collier
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 23

Have you ever been mesmerized by someone making bobbin lace? In this class students will learn the fundamentals of the beautiful art of making lace by hand and make a small bookmark or pin to take home. Fee includes an instructional booklet, pattern, threads, and use of instructor’s...

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Nuno Felting Landscape with Merino/Silk

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $135
  • • Date: October 23

Friday 3-6pm Nuno Felting Landscape with Merino/Silk ***This workshop is open to All levels (Age 10 & up) to follow the step-by-step instruction *** Fiber artist Cecilia Ho will demonstrate how to combine Merino wool and silk chiffon fabric together to make a seamless piece of...

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Beginner Brioche Cowl

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 23

Make your first Brioche Cowl in the round with 2 contrasting skeins of bulky yarn. Use two solids or a solid and a nice variegated to show off your brioche columns. The contrast also helps you stay on track in nice straight lines from start to finish in just a few hours. Pattern...

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Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (C)

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 24

Do you ever wonder how yarn is made? Twist the fibers and you will make yarn. Guaranteed! Learn the basics of a spinning wheel (double treadle Lendrums wheels will be provided for you in class). Learn how to draft the fibers and allow the twisted fibers to slide through your fingers...

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Gettin’ Batty with It: Art-Batt Tools and Techniques (A)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $155
  • • Date: October 24

Spinners, felters, and fiber artists! Have you ever wondered: What is an art batt? How might you make one? What can you do with it, and why would you want to? How does a dog comb come into the fiber-prep picture? And what in the world is a rolag? If so, come card with Q and learn...

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Continental Crossover (A)

  • • Instructor: Beth Remhof
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Looking to expand your knitting skills and give your hands a break? This class is for English-style knitters ready to add Continental knitting to their skills toolbox. Whether you're dealing with fatigue or just curious about new techniques, learning Continental can open up new possibilities...

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Adventures in Drum Carding

  • • Instructor: Henry Clemes
  • • Price: $225
  • • Date: October 24

This is the companion class to Exploring the Drum Carder. In this class, we continue to de-mystify the drum carder. Batts will be prepared both semi-worsted and woolen. Students will learn different techniques to create an art batt, prepare batts for spinning sock yarn, and learn...

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Ecoprint on Leather-Naturally and in Color

  • • Instructor: M. Theresa Brown
  • • Price: $215
  • • Date: October 24

Join us for a one-day workshop where you'll learn to ecoprint on lamb and sheepskin leather. Ecoprinting (or botanical printing) involves collecting leaves, plants, and flowers to imprint their images directly onto leather using techniques taught in the class. By the end of the workshop,...

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Felted Wrist-warmers

  • • Instructor: Vickie Clontz
  • • Price: $200
  • • Date: October 24

Students will wet-felt a cozy pair of wrist-warmers that will not only enhance their ensemble but add warmth in cooler fall weather! We'll use wool fibers, curly mohair, lustrous bamboo, and sparkly Angelina fibers to make the cuffs in each student's personal color palette. Students...

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Polymer Clay - Mokume Gane Shawl PIN

  • • Instructor: Susan Dial
  • • Price: $180
  • • Date: October 24

Students will create a shawl pin using the mokume gane technique.

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Stained Glass Tunic

  • • Instructor: Patti Barker
  • • Price: $255
  • • Date: October 24

Nuno Felt a sleeveless tunic using mosaic nuno felt techniques. Choose from colorful tunic or neutrals (brown, tan, black). Let instructor know your size (for pattern).

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Charkha Spinning

  • • Instructor: Peyton Waggener
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 24

Cotton spinning is for everyone! Learn some history of this fascinating Indian instrument while we practice spinning on a spindle tip to create a strong fine yarn for weaving or knitting. I value continuing the tradition of handspinning and weaving, expanding my personal connection...

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Spindle and Wheel- Spinning on a Walking Wheel

  • • Instructor: Martha Owen
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 24

A "walking" or "great" wheel is what we think of as the wheel of the olden days. Well! It has a lot to recommend its self as a living working tool of our own age. Learn about this style of wheel and proper fiber preparation of suitable wool with hand cards. Bring yours to be eva

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Beginning Tapestry Weaving

  • • Instructor: Susannah Johnson
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 24

Introducing a very portable, highly addictive form of self-expression! The basics will be taught as well as exploration of color and touch that will make this truly unique to you. The frame and materials go with to continue and expand your weaving experience.

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Fractal Spinning for Your Odds & Ends

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 24

Fractals are never ending patterns found in nature, mathematics, and art. They repeat themselves at different scales or sizes. Fractal yarns are usually created from dyed combed top. However, what if you have separate sources of fiber (i.e, samples from workshops, leftover fiber...

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Get Hooked On Crochet

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 24

You will learn the fundamental skills and techniques to empower you to enjoy a lifetime of crochet happiness. Melanie will teach you all the essential skills you need including the chain stitch, slip stitch, single crochet, and double crochet. You will also learn tips and tricks...

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Knit Faster with Combination Knitting

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Do you dread 1×1 ribbing? Are your ssk decreases less tidy than your k2tog? Are you a continental knitter who hates purling? Do you have trouble working make1-left and make1-right? Do you have tension issues when binding off? Do you know all four needle positions? Do you know the...

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Needle felt a Lamb

  • • Instructor: Meg Evatt
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 24

Make this precious 3-D lamb sculpture. You will leave class with a finished product of which you can be proud. Plus, you gain the knowledge of how to make more lambs for others as that “special gift”.

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Needle Felting Colorful Sky

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 24

Saturday 9am-noon Needle Felting Colorful Sky *** This workshop is open to ALL levels (Age 8 & up) to follow the step-by-step instruction *** Wool can be transformed into a painterly Landscape image using the needle felting technique. With 30+ Ashford NZ Corriedale wool color...

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Using Steeks Stitches

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 24

The class is designed for the knitter who is interested in the use of steek stitches. Maybe you’ve watched all of the steeking videos. Maybe you’ve even cut one yourself. But you are still not convinced your stitches are not going to run. Or perhaps that cut steek looks a bit untidy...

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Advanced Knit Companion

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Knit Companion is an app for managing ALL of your creative work: all you need is a pdf that you want to customize for how you work. If you understand the basics of knit companion, come and learn the finer points, primarily including how to work charts or detailed text patterns

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Get Wired! Adding Armiture to your Felting

  • • Instructor: Beth Collier
  • • Price: $135
  • • Date: October 24

Ready to move to the next level of felting? In this workshop students will learn how to add arms and legs to your felted objects by making a small animal such as a sheep or goat. We will discuss tools, wire sizes, proportions, and stiffening for horns or hooves. Some experience needle...

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Embroider Anything on Your Knit & Crochet

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $65
  • • Date: October 24

Bring a couple of swatches (or just one), and learn how to easily embroider on your knit or crochet. I will provide transfers to use for embroidery.

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Needle Felting Rainbow Forest

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 24

Saturday 12:30-2:30pm Needle Felting Rainbow Forest ***This workshop is open to All levels (Age 8 & up) to follow the step-by-step instruction *** Learn the basic 2D needle felting technique and create a colorful wool painting. Rainbow colors of NZ Corriedale wool will be prepared...

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Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel (D)

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 24

Do you ever wonder how yarn is made? Twist the fibers and you will make yarn. Guaranteed! Learn the basics of a spinning wheel (double treadle Lendrums wheels will be provided for you in class). Learn how to draft the fibers and allow the twisted fibers to slide through your fingers...

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Gettin’ Batty with It: Art-Batt Tools and Techniques (B)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $155
  • • Date: October 24

Spinners, felters, and fiber artists! Have you ever wondered: What is an art batt? How might you make one? What can you do with it, and why would you want to? How does a dog comb come into the fiber-prep picture? And what in the world is a rolag? If so, come card with Q and learn...

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Continental Crossover (B)

  • • Instructor: Beth Remhof
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Looking to expand your knitting skills and give your hands a break? This class is for English-style knitters ready to add Continental knitting to their skills toolbox. Whether you're dealing with fatigue or just curious about new techniques, learning Continental can open up new possibilities...

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Color Blending on Handcards

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 24

Have you ever wanted just a little bit of color for your spinning or knitting project? Have you ever wanted to spin your own gradient yarn? In this workshop, we will play with blending small amounts of fiber to create just the yarn that you want for your color work projects. We will...

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Dyeing Self Patterning Sock Yarn (A)

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $145
  • • Date: October 24

Do you love those sock yarns that make stripes and patterns as you knit? Learn to dye them for yourself! In this class, students will learn two methods of dyeing yarn to achieve stripes and patterns in their knitted socks, shawls, and other creations. Not just for Socks!

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"Needle Felting as Garment Repair: Make Patches, Pockets, and More"

  • • Instructor: Jessica Kaufman
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 24

Needle felting is so fun and easy, but even better, it can be used as a functional (and beautiful!) way to patch holes in sweaters, add pockets to bags or jackets, or just as a beautiful wall hanging piece of art while you decide if it needs anything else! Learn 2D felting and how...

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Now How Do I Finish?

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Seams can bedevil even the best knitter and make a great project merely good. Tame the beast now! In this class students will seam stockinette stitch, garter stitch, and ribbing in pattern. We’ll practice grafting for sock toes, and end with two different versions of three-needle...

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Ribbings and Edges for Added Color

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 24

The class is designed for the knitter who wants to add a bit of color to single-colored garments or to continue the color from a multi-colored masterpiece. During class, students will explore 10 styles of colored edgings and then choose 2 or 3 to work on during class time. A handout,...

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Avoid CarPURL Tunnel Syndrome - Ergonomics in Knitting

  • • Instructor: Meg Evatt
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Can’t finish that perfect project because your wrist/shoulder/neck hurts when you pick up your needles? Or do your hands hurt after knitting too many hours as you try to finish “just one more row”? Come learn simple suggestions for knitters to help you avoid the “repetitive motion”...

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Blending Basics

  • • Instructor: Peyton Waggener
  • • Price: $140
  • • Date: October 24

We can explore the possibilities of blending different types of fibers and colors for spinning or felting. Techniques for mixing colors, combining fiber types, & creating gradients will be taught. You can experiment with hand cards, drum carder, blending board, and your hands to...

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Wet Felted Pumpkin

  • • Instructor: Julie Adams
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 24

It’s the most wonderful time of year, the Fall! Join Instructor Julie as she guides you step-by-step in crafting your own wet felted pumpkin decoration. As a beginner friendly course, you need no experience but will leave feeling like a pro. You will learn workspace prep, different...

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Wet Felting Landscape with Merino/Silk

  • • Instructor: Cecilia Ho
  • • Price: $135
  • • Date: October 24

Saturday 3-6pm Wet Felting Tree Landscape with Merino/Silk ***This workshop is open to All levels (Age 10 & up) to follow the step-by-step instruction *** Wet Felting is an ancient felt making technique to create seamless piece of felt fabric by using natural wool fibers by adding...

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2 Fleegle Heel Socks on One Circular

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 24

Learn how to work the "Fleegle" heel on a magic loop. We work on baby socks in class, and you get a pattern to make other sizes. This is an easier heel, with no holes and less bulk than a flap heel.

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Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit (A)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $160
  • • Date: October 25

Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple, easy-to-use floor loom. Experiment with color, texture, and technique, and go home with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn the basic...

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"One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (A)"

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $40
  • • Date: October 25

So you learned to SPIN this year (or in the past) , you don’t have a wheel yet and you want to practice just one more hour. Take this class. Teacher, Julie Wilson will show you another way, tell you in different words, and/or encourage you to keep spinning. This class is for you...

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Basic Cane Slice Buttons

  • • Instructor: Susan Dial
  • • Price: $180
  • • Date: October 25

Students will combine the skinner blend and the basics of caning with polymer clay to create a set of six buttons.

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Baltic Inkle Weaving

  • • Instructor: Barbara Hoffman
  • • Price: $195
  • • Date: October 25

De-mystify the Baltic Pick-up technique! this technique allows the student to create complex designs in Scandinavian and Lithuanian bands.These warp faced bands can be used as belts, trim on garments and handles on bags and clutches.

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Kaleidoscope Ecoprinting

  • • Instructor: M. Theresa Brown
  • • Price: $215
  • • Date: October 25

Explore Kaleidoscope Ecoprinting! Join us for a unique workshop focused on multi-colored ecoprinting. Learn to imprint beautiful plant designs from nature and create artistic, multi-colored backgrounds on silk and wool.Elevate your ecoprinting skills with a variety of fun techniques...

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Needlefelt a Chorus Froglet

  • • Instructor: Melissa Gray
  • • Price: $165
  • • Date: October 25

Meet Tilly The star of the children's book "Tilly's Muddy puddle" and a real conservation success story. The ornate chorus frog is a native North Carolina species currently listed as a species of concern, and in this class you will bring her to life in wool. Using needlefelting techniques...

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"Handwoven Couture: Seaming, Finishing, and Innovative Design for Handwoven Garments"

  • • Instructor: Julie Benac
  • • Price: $150
  • • Date: October 25

Take your handwovens to the next level with this unique workshop where we will learn how to handle those fragile handwoven fabric edges with various seaming and finishing techniques. We will also discuss and practice simple designs from squares, rectangles, and triangles to create...

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Ice Dye Your Clothes & Fabrics

  • • Instructor: Jessica Kaufman
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 25

Enjoy a comprehensive, colorful exploration of ice dyeing from a local expert! We will explore the differences between dyeing "on the rack" and "in the muck," strategies for dye over ice versus dye under ice, and all the amazing patterns and fabric manipulations you can create. Something...

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Nuno Felt a Trellis Scarf

  • • Instructor: Patti Barker
  • • Price: $140
  • • Date: October 25

Originally designed for my linear friends, the trellis scarf has morphed into an "anything goes" fun and creative class. Work with hand dyed silk and wool to create a one of a kind piece of wearable art.

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Pink to Purple with Indigo

  • • Instructor: Eileen Hallman
  • • Price: $140
  • • Date: October 25

Indigo is much more than blue. We will use dried leaves in simple non-vat blender baths to get pink, lavender, and plum.

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Birth of an Art Yarn

  • • Instructor: Katelyn Dunn
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 25

Get ready for three hours of fiber-filled fun in this creative core spinning adventure! You'll learn how to add all kinds of fabulous flair to your yarn—think beads, sequins, commercial yarn for auto-wrapping, in-line lock spinning, and more—all while spinning dreamy hand-carded...

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Blending Board Basics

  • • Instructor: Roy Clemes
  • • Price: $130
  • • Date: October 25

Learn basic use and techniques of a blending board from one of its designers! In 2011, Henry and Roy Clemes created a new tool that became the wildly popular Blending Board. This hands-on class will not only demonstrate the versatility of the blending board - blending fibers of various...

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C&C (Crepe and Cable) Yarns

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 25

If you looking for new and interesting ways to stretch a braid of fiber, spinning a crepe or cable yarn is a good alternative to a marled yarn. Maybe you’re looking for a different way to combine braids with different colorways. Crepe yarns are a plied yarn and a single plied together....

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Design a Sweater in the Round

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 25

This class is for the knitter who is interested in designing a sweater to be knitted in the round. Do you have some ideas for a design of your own, but don’t know where to start? In this class, we will explore some basic concepts for creating a sweater to be knitted in the round...

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Dyeing Self Patterning Sock Yarn (B)

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $145
  • • Date: October 25

Do you love those sock yarns that make stripes and patterns as you knit? Learn to dye them for yourself! In this class, students will learn two methods of dyeing yarn to achieve stripes and patterns in their knitted socks, shawls, and other creations. Not just for Socks!

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Needle Felted Funny Fish

  • • Instructor: Julie Adams
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 25

Do you enjoy felting but struggle? Are you frustrated and want to learn new and/or better techniques? Do you think fish are cute? Then the Needle Felted Funny Fish class is for you! Perfect for the advanced beginner we will go over; using an armature, wrapping wool, building and...

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Oops! Now What Do I Do?

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 25

You too can be a knitting surgeon! This class will teach you how to fix mistakes. We will explore and practice how to use a lifeline, when to frog (i.e. rip back), when to tink (unknit backward), and when to drop stitches and pick them up. You’ll even practice how to correct an incorrectly...

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Spinning by Ashford Spinning Wheel

  • • Instructor: Emily Simon
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 25

Welcome to the fascinating art of spinning! In this class, we’ll delve into the timeless tradition of creating yarn using Ashford spinning wheels. For centuries, the spinning wheel has been a cherished tool, transforming raw fibers into beautiful, functional threads—and now it's...

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Felted Soap

  • • Instructor: Vickie Clontz
  • • Price: $70
  • • Date: October 25

Have fun wet-felting soap with wool and bamboo fibers for a pretty and practical addition to your washroom - it's like a built-in loofah sponge! Felt 2 bars of soap in your choice of colors - one to keep, and one for a gift. A fun and easy class for all skill levels.

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Needle Felted Jewelry

  • • Instructor: Alesia Moore
  • • Price: $95
  • • Date: October 25

Join new fiber friends as we create a fabulous, felted pendant or brooch. We will combine needle felting with a smidge of embroidery (optional) and then finish the felt as a pendant or brooch. Students will have the opportunity to complete multiple pieces. These would make great...

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"One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (B)"

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $40
  • • Date: October 25

So you learned to SPIN this year (or in the past) , you don’t have a wheel yet and you want to practice just one more hour. Take this class. Teacher, Julie Wilson will show you another way, tell you in different words, and/or encourage you to keep spinning. This class is for you...

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Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit (B)

  • • Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz
  • • Price: $160
  • • Date: October 25

Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple, easy-to-use floor loom. Experiment with color, texture, and technique, and go home with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn the basic...

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"One More Hour, After the Ahh Haa Moment But Before You Own a Wheel (C)"

  • • Instructor: Julie Wilson
  • • Price: $40
  • • Date: October 25

So you learned to SPIN this year (or in the past) , you don’t have a wheel yet and you want to practice just one more hour. Take this class. Teacher, Julie Wilson will show you another way, tell you in different words, and/or encourage you to keep spinning. This class is for you...

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Beginning Knitting

  • • Instructor: Melanie Koenig
  • • Price: $120
  • • Date: October 25

Have you always wanted to learn to knit? Melanie will teach you everything you need to know to get started. You will learn to cast on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, and to cast off. Master these four things and your knitting future is limitless!!!

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Introduction to Versa Lace

  • • Instructor: Jolie Elder
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 25

We love lace! We love the feminine allure of lace shawls and wraps and cowls and scarves. But we do not love the wrong sides of these garments. Phooey! What’s a knitter to do? Did you know you can convert many stockinette-based lace patterns into reversible lace patterns? No, this...

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Needle Felting for Beginners

  • • Instructor: Beth Collier
  • • Price: $105
  • • Date: October 25

Ever wanted to learn how to needle felt? In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of felting by making a little figure like a penguin, bird or ladybug. Students will learn how to safely create a shape, add color and contour. Felters with some experience can choose to...

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Spinning by Drop Spindle

  • • Instructor: Emily Simon
  • • Price: $115
  • • Date: October 25

Welcome to the enchanting world of spinning! In this class, we'll embark on a journey that bridges ancient tradition and modern creativity, as we learn the art of spinning yarn using a drop spindle. For centuries, the spindle has been a symbol of craftsmanship and resourcefulness,...

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Wet-felted Flower

  • • Instructor: Vickie Clontz
  • • Price: $110
  • • Date: October 25

Students will create a luscious wooly flower in their choice of colors that will be the envy of their friends! We'll use hand-dyed merino wool fibers along with novelty fibers such as lustrous silk and sparkly Angelina. They'll learn several skills such as making pre-felt, adding...

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What Every Spinner Needs to Know

  • • Instructor: Terri Guerette
  • • Price: $100
  • • Date: October 25

Do you remember all the advice that more experienced spinners shared with you when you first started spinning? And all those fabulous tips and tricks that they swore by? No? Maybe you have forgotten some of them due to information overload? Yes? Well, fear not! We will cover those...

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A Tree-mendous Holiday: Needle Felted Gnomes

  • • Instructor: Alesia Moore
  • • Price: $90
  • • Date: October 25

Ever wonder what happens when a Christmas tree and a gnome become best friends? You get this adorable, needle-felted masterpiece! Join us for a workshop where we’ll turn unspun wool into the ultimate holiday companion. Look no further for a "Tree-mendous" way to get festive! We’ll...

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Holding Yarns in Two Hands for Stranded Colorwork Knitting

  • • Instructor: Varian Brandon
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 25

This class is for the knitter who has always wanted to learn how to carry yarns in two hands when knitting Colorwork/Fair Isle designs. This 2-hour class will take the mystery out of this traditional way to manage your yarns for stranded colorwork knitting. Holding yarns in two hands...

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From Blue to Yellow with Indigo Leaves

  • • Instructor: Eileen Hallman
  • • Price: $140
  • • Date: October 25

Besides blue, Japanese indigo also contains a yellow dye. We will explore a range from blue to teal, green, and yellow in the same dyebath, using time and temperature to obtain these colors.

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Make Batik Fabric with Woodblocks and Beeswax [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST]

  • • Instructor: Jessica Kaufman
  • • Price: $145
  • • Date: October 25

Learn the craft of wax resist dyeing on fabric with these very special hand-carved wood blocks. Your instructor trained with woodblock batik masters in Gujarat, India, and is bringing 20+ stamps for you to use in your own work. Beeswax, fiber reactive dyes, and cotton cloth are the...

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Get Started with Knit Companion (C)

  • • Instructor: Heidi Sunday
  • • Price: $60
  • • Date: October 25

Learn the basics of Knit Companion. The free app download is enough to do this class. Download the add to your phone, tablet or laptop prior to class, and create a login id.

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