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Introduction to Tapestry Weaving    w/ Maria Kovacs         Class size: 12    Where: Garage A/B

Thursday:    9:00 AM    4:00 PM (1 hour for lunch)
    Description: This class will be an introduction to weaving a small tapestry. Tapestry is a specific way of weaving that is usually associated with pictorial wall hangings. We will weave on our own small frame loom- that will be provided. Learn all the basics of dressing the loom, creating a weaving design, weaving techniques, color and finishing techniques. This fun class will be an adventure in creativity. Let's start with a sample and work toward you own expression. It is a great way to try something different all you spinners, knitters and fiber workers. The looms are portable, you can use them anywhere, and also utilize your own yarn stash.

Class fee: $65.00

Materials fee: $25.00 -Stretcher strip loom assembled and marked, warping yarn and limited weaving yarn to try out.

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Yarn Jazz - Creating Unique Yarns with Color Blending w/ Linda Whiting Class size: 12 Where: Arcade

Thursday: 9:00 AM 4:00 PM (1 hour for lunch)

Description: We can’t buy all the wonderful yarns available even though we might want to but we can make our own unique yarns by mixing colors and fibers on a drum carder. We’ll begin the adventure Using one base color in varying proportions with natural colored fibers to create yarns of subtlety and depth of shade and then move on to create yarns using several colors and techniques. As jazz can be cool and smooth or more syncopated and unrestrained, or improvisational so can we make our yarns. Blending colors side by side will allow color personalities to dance to their own rhythms while those same colors blended together will present a more mellow composition.

We’ll learn about proportion, accents, color properties, how to make combinations that “sing’ and why they do. Come prepared to make beautiful yarns that will rival what you see in the shops, to understand the differences between a painted yarn, a heather-blended yarn, yarn from painted roving and more. We will card and spin samples and we will analyze the results. How is the final yarn affected when it is spun, plied and knit? Each person will have a full set of samples to take home at the end of the day along with the class booklet. Expanding color choices is encouraged. Come on – jazz it up!

Class fee: $65.00

Materials fee: $15.00 -All necessary wool and the support to make totaly unique yarns.

Student provides: Spinning wheel (in good working order), drum carder or hand cards, pencil and paper.

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Click for an Application. Class proposals will be juried by committee by March 15th, 2009. 2008 classes are still listed below as a reminder of the fun we had last year.

Click for an Application. Class proposals will be juried by committee by March 15th, 2009.
2008 classes are still listed below as a reminder of the fun we had last year.