Friday Workshops
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Dyeing with Fresh Indigo
Spend the morning gathering indigo from the Small Acre Farm dye garden, preparing it, and dyeing 2 silk scarves.
Half-Day 9:00-12:00
Instructor: TeDi Jansen
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Foraging the Garden for Color
Spend the afternoon gathering, preparing, and dyeing sample yarns and silk scarves with plants from the Small Acre Farm dye garden. Plan to get messy!
Half-Day 1:00-4:00
Instructor: TeDi Jansen
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Introduction to Tape Weaving
Before buttons, before zippers, and before velcro, most garments and items had simple woven bands or tapes to secure them. This workshop will teach the basics of setting up, threading, and weaving a simple band.
Half-Day 9:00-12:00
Instructor: Kathy Sparks
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Pre-warped Weaving
Let’s skip the steps of dressing the loom and go straight to making cloth on a pre-warped loom.
I will have the looms dressed and ready for you to relax and weave.
Half-Day 1:00-4:00
Instructor: Anne Sammons
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Carding Art Batts
Learn to make art batts for spinning or felting. This class will teach you how to use a drum carder while exploring color and texture in various styles of art batts.
Full-Day: 9:00-4:00 (Lunch 12-1)
Instructor: Erika Lindgren
Saturday Workshops
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Spinning Art Batts
Intimidated by art batts? Unsure how to spin them? This is the class for you. We’ll explore the construction of art batts, discuss some of the approaches to spinning and plying them, and then practice the different techniques.
Half-Day 9:00-12:00
Instructor: Erika Lindgren
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Knitting Basics
Learn the fundamentals of knitting in this intro to knitting, including casting on and off, increasing, and decreasing and simple knit and purl stitches
Half-Day 1:00-4:00
Instructor: Julie Koeppen
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Dyeing Red with Botanicals
This workshop will explore the natural sources of red from plant, animal, and mineral sources. We will expand our red options using different modifiers and additives and look at the importance of temperature and water in this deep dive into one of the most important historical colors.
Full-Day 9:00-4:00 (Lunch 12-1)
Instructors: Kathy Sparks and TeDi Jansen
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Introduction to Warping and Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom
Talk like a weaver, direct warp a rigid heddle loom like a pro, and create something beautiful. We will work through the direct warping steps and create a short table runner or placemat.
Full-Day 9:00-4:00 (Lunch 12-1)
Instructor: Anne Sammons
Sunday Workshops
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Acid Dyeing Techniques
Have you ever wondered how those fancy dyers can achieve cool looking dyed yarn?
Let’s experiment with different yarn dyeing techniques to achieve a variety of looks.
Speckled yarn, ombré, and others
Half-Day 9:00-12:00
Instructor: Anne Sammons
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Learning to Spin on a Spinning Wheel
Learn to spin your own yarn! This class teaches you how spinning wheels work and how to use them.
You will learn the basics of spinning and plying yarn, including how to select spinning fiber.
Half-Day 1:00-5:00
Instructor: Erika Lindgren
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Intro to Mushrom and Lichen Dyeing
The woodlands around us contain a trove of natural dye materials. Typically thought of by foragers as edibles, mushrooms can produce amazing colors. When lichens are collected as dye stuffs, the color palette expands, containing some phenomenal colors.
Full-Day 9:00-400 (Lunch 12-1)
Instructor: Kathy Sparks
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Adventurous Blending and Spinning
Spinning adventurous blends and at yarns is as much about changing your perspective and letting go of conventional spinning expectations as it is about technique. Let’s let go and get adventurous!
Full-Day 9:00-4:00 (Lunch (12-1)
Instructor: TeDi Jansen