All day

 

Bjeaux Tapestry Embroidery
Child Friendly
The Bayeux Tapestry is a 230 foot long embroidered fabric that relates the story of the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066 in England. It was created by the long labor of legions of skilled seamsters hundreds of years ago.

We invite all Fiber Frolic Attendees to come add a few stitches (or an entire embroidered figure)!

BRING: Enthusiasm for embroidery!

 

Spinning Circle
Bring your wheel or drops. Sit and spin, learn, teach, help, inspire others.

We have a number of experienced and talented spinners to help you learn or improve your techniques.

 

 

 

Navajo Plying by Ruth Northrop
Learn to keep your colors together and yet blend into each other using Navajo or chain plying. Drop in anytime at Ruth “The Dizzy Ewe” Northrup’s booth in the main hall for a lesson.

 

 

 

 

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Morning – 10AM til 1PM

Color Blending … No dyes just fiber! by Ercil Howard-Wroth
Feed your color obsession!!! No experience necessary! Color Blending – No dyes just fiber!!! will delight your eyes and provide yet another way to create the custom color of your hearts desire. Using a variety of different tools – cards, combs, and a blending hackle (both the more expensive type hackle and the FunHouse alternative style) – you will learn to blend colors to achieve that painterly feeling of mixing your own colors using paints – except we will be using fiber!
BRING: Cards, Combs, blending hackle or diz if you have one. (blending hackles will be provided in limited quantity)
NOTE: For students who wish to invest in a new tool I recommend purchasing a set of combs and a comb pad/stand since this will give you more versatility.  IF you wish for a few sources for hackles, combs, or comb pad/stand, and clamps check out these websites:
http://store.valkyriesupply.com/combs.html
http://www.susansfibershop.com/combs.htm
http://halcyonyarn.com/products/equip/68900020.html
Class Length: 3 Hours
Class Fee: $10.00
Max students: 10

Card Weaving 3/1 Twill by Roberta Brubaker
This is a Card/Tablet Weaving class to learn the 3/1 Broken Twill technique. Students will learn the ancient “Hallstatt” pattern, recreated from textiles recovered from 2,000 year old a salt mine in Austria. This type of weaving is the next step in Card Weaving after Double-Face, Double-Turn, and YOU can learn how to do it! Students should know basic Card/Tablet weaving.
BRING: Students will be speed-warping their looms class, so bring an empty inkle/card loom, shuttle and 13 cards. If you do not have these, notify the instructor in advance so loaner equipment can be arranged.
Students will be provided with: Pattern spreadsheet, weaving cord, magnetic pattern-holder.
Class Length: 3 Hours
Class Fee: $15.00

Indigo Dyeing by Bjo Trimble
Child Friendly (Ages 10+)
Indigo has been used as a beautiful blue dye for at least 5000 years, in most parts of the world. It has one of the oddest histories of any natural dyes. Overdye with kamala for green, with brazilwood for purple, with logwood for black. This dye works best on cellulose fiber. Class needs no special skills except curiosity.
BRING: No more than 1 pound of cotton, linen or hemp yarn or yardage. Overdye printed cellulose fibers, too.
Class Length: 2-3 Hours
Class Fee: $0

“Gypsy Eyeball” –Understanding Ram’s Horn Cardweaving by Cat Ellen
Teen friendly
Ram’s Horn: An exciting threaded-pattern for card-weaving that seems to stump beginning weavers. In this hands-on class, you will learn how to analyze what the threaded colors are doing, how to remember which cards to turn next, and how to improvise on the fly with this card-weaving pattern.
BRING: Nothing! Warped looms are provided.
Class Length: 2 hours
Class Fee: $10
Class Size: 6

Free Form Crochet by Dawn Jeffory-Nelson
Child Friendly
FreeForm Crochet is the wonderfully freeing creation of clothing, fabric, accessories and the like through the creative and pattern-less attaching of fun crochet motifs and open work crochet. Patterns ARE used to create the motifs – but not the final product.
The class is for advanced beginning crocheters and above – able to single, double and treble crochet, and able to read simple motif patterns. We will be able to fashion the start of any number of possible creations from what we complete in class . . . and examples of different possibilities will be on hand. FreeForm is a wonderful way to play outside the box – there are no mistakes, and no hard and fast rules: just joyous, infinite possibilities of creativity!
BRING: Students should bring scissors, note-taking supplies, and are encouraged to bring their own yarns in their favorite color ways if they prefer their own materials to the “pot luck’ of instructor provided yarns or they can purchase beautiful yarn and fancy crochet hooks from our wonderful vendors!!
Class Length: 3 hours
Class fee: $10 -$12
Class Size: 15

Multi-stranded Knitting by Theresa Wollenstein
Want to try Fair Isle or Intarsia knitting, but not sure how to read a chart or when to twist your yarn (or what that means)? All your questions will be answered! A simple sample chart will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pattern and questions. Students should be comfortable casting on, knitting, and casting off.
BRING: Knitting needles size 6-10 and two colors of yarn (small balls/scraps ok)
Class Length: 2 hours
Class fee: $0
Class Size: 6

 

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Afternoon – 2PM – 5PM

Two Color Cordmaking on the Lucet by Debbie Coyle
Learn how to make two color cords on the Lucet, which can be used for drawstrings, trim, shoelaces, etc. We’ll also learn how to make buttonholes in the cord, especially useful for decorative edging and wedding gowns. And how to add a third color, beads, and other fun stuff!
Students will take home a dinner fork Lucet, bobbins, and enough yarn to keep you happy with your new toy.
Class Length: 2 hours
Class Fee $2.00
Class size: 10

Basic Card / Tablet Weaving by Roberta Brubaker
Make that big jump form inkle to Card Weaving. Students will learn to “speed warp” their looms and how to turn, rotate and flip the cards to get hundreds of different designs. Advanced students can use this same warping to learn how to create patterns and write words with string.
BRING: card weaving loom, 2 balls each of 2 colors of yarn / thread and at least 20 weaving cards. Cards can be obtained at www.mielkesfarm.com/small_looms.htm
Class Length: 2 hours
Class Fee: $0
Class size: 10

Dust Dyeing with modern acid dyes by Elena Dent
Child Friendly
Protein fiber (wool, silk, camelid, angora etc) yarn or clean loose fiber or roving will be dyed in shallow pans using Cushings dyes cut with corn starch. This method results in a mottled appearance when the colors chosen spread and blend. White and natural colored fiber will work. Fiber that is already dyed may or may not work and may contaminate the dyebath – if you must overdye something we’ll work something out. Each colorway used will tint the bath, so some cooperation is needed.
BRING: CLEAN protein fiber – max of 4 oz (fiber will be available for sale on site). Protein blended with cellulose will work but will be frosted since the cellulose won’t take the dye. Bring dishwashing rubber gloves if you need to be civilized at work – the examining gloves usually break. A plastic bag or three to hold damp fiber for the trip home if we dye late in the afternoon.
Class Length: 2 hours
Class fee: $0
Class size: 12

A Rainbow Runs Through It ~ Pin-Woven Tapestry by Ellen Shipley
Child Friendly
Let’s add a rainbow to our starry sky.
Learn to paint with yarn. We’ll make our own looms from foam core board, straight pins and dental floss (yes, dental floss!), and learn a free-form, textured way to weave postcard-sized tapestries.
We’ll use an assortment of weaving yarns in different sizes, textures and colors, along with buttons and beads.
BRING: scissors; (you might like to bring interesting textured non-stretchy yarn and beads to play with)
Class Length: 2 hours
Class Size: 6-8
Class Fee: $10

Cozy with Cochineal by Ercil Wroth
Learn the techniques taught by Demetrio Bautisto Lazo of Oaxaca at SOAR 2010. Using simple ingredients we will create a variety of different shades of cochineal. Sample yarns will be provided. Students may bring their own YARN to dye in play pots or after our samples are done.
BRING: Notebooks and pencils for notes, aprons, rubber gloves if desired.
Class Length: 3 Hours
Class Fee $8
Max students: 20

 

Weaving with Color by Therese Calhoun
Child Friendly
How does color affect your cloth? Let’s play and find out. Using different colors in the warp see how colors can change with different color wefts on both a patterned and plain weave. One half of the table loom will be set up to weave a patterned cloth, while the other half is set up as a tabby or plain weave, Weaving with different colors of weft see how your cloth takes on a different look.
Class Length: 2 hours
Class size: 6