North Country Fiber Fair
September 19 & 20, 2009
Codington County
Extension Complex
Watertown, SD
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2009 NCFF Fiber Workshops Pre-registration is encouraged. Class size is limited for all the classes and we encourage you to pre-register to ensure your class choice(s) will be available. We reserve the right to cancel any classes which do not meet the minimum number of students.
*many of the classes also include a materials fee to be paid to the instructor on the day of the class.* Friday Classes COLOR OPTIONS FOR SPINNERS (6 hour class) Instructor: Pasty Zawistoski class fee: $110.00 materials fee: $15.00 Time: 1 pm to 4 pm & 5 pm to 8 pm Skill Level: intermediate Spinning painted roving can give unexpected results. This class will explore the wide variety of pleasing and coordinating yarns that can be spun from a single painted roving. The "Color Options" booklet is included in the fiber fees.
List of equipment and supplies the students need to bring to class: a wheel in good working order or a selection of hand spindles, hand cards, about a dozen 3x5 file cards and sandwich baggies, hand towel, scissors, hole punch or tape and note paper. Also bring your usual oil and tools for your wheel.
**UPDATE** Students should also bring lazy kate and 2 bobbins
Materials Fee: $15.00 includes fibers for spinning, worksheets and “Color Options” booklet.
Patsy Zawistoski received her Certificate of Excellence in Hand-spinning for technical skill from HWG of America & in 1987 she earned a Masters Certificate for her study in novelty yarns. She has produced 3 spinning videos & has authored numerous articles that have been published in major spinning publications including “Spin Off”, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, as well as Creative Fiber a New Zealand magazine. Patsy has held workshops & seminars throughout the US, New Zealand & Canada. As an accomplished textile artist & seamstress, she creates unique liturgical weavings & appliqués for use by churches across the nation. Her work is recognized for its use of color through a wide variety of styles.
BIRCH BARK BERRY BASKET (4 hour class) Instructor: Phyllis Knutson: class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $12.00 Time: 4 pm to 8 pm
The birch tree is a very unique tree and we will explore and discuss some of it! First we will take a piece of bark to make a ring. As we learn about the bark and how to prepare it, we’ll make a small square berry basket. You will find out how amazing and fun it is to work with birch bark! I never get tired of learning more and more about the bark as well as the useful things you can weave from it. This is only the beginning!!
Students will need to bring the following items to the class: scissors, pencil, clothes pins (12), plastic measuring tape.
Phyllis Knutson found her passion for weaving with rattan reed in 1992 and has taught since 1995. In 1998 she was introduced to birch bark and in 1999 she found a new excitement in working with this beautiful, leather-like bark. She has been privileged to teach at the annual Heikinpaiva Mid-Winter Festival at Hancock, MI, John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC, North House Folk School at Grand Marais, MN, Vesterheim, Decorah, IA, basket weaving guilds and community ed classes. She sells her baskets at art shows and galleries in the area. She also does cane, splint, Danish rope and rush chair seats.
DEALING THE CARDS (CARD WEAVING) (3 hour class) Instructor: Janine Sandstedt class fee: $35.00 materials fees: $5.00 Time: 5 pm to 8 pm
An introduction to card weaving. This class will give you tips on getting started and how the cards function. The class will be making a bookmark, key chain or bracelet.
Students will need to bring the following items to the class: comb, shoe strings, tapered edge shuttle, inkle loom or belt loom.
Janine Sandstedt is a self taught fiber artist from Omaha, NE. She has worked with knitting, crochet, macramé, counted cross-stitch and ridged heddle weaving over the last 40 years. After becoming involved with black powder shooting 13 years ago, she discovered weaving. At first the more portable types of weaving held her interest, like finger weaving, inkle weaving and card or tablet weaving. She finds the variety and complex patterns of card weaving the most fascinating. She has been marketing many different styles of finger woven and card woven belts, sashes, guitar straps, powder horn straps and bookmarks on her website. She has done research and re-created ancient patterns for reenactors. Janine is a member and officer of the Omaha Weavers & Spinners Guild. And like so many others after being bitten by the weaving bug, she now collects and weaves on table looms and floor looms.
Saturday Classes FAIR ISLE KNITTING IN A DAY (6 hour class) Instructor: Kathleen Taylor class fee: $70.00 materials fee: none Time: 9 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm
Discover, or improve, your Fair Isle skills by knitting a toddler-size Nordic-Style Snowflake hat in this all-day workshop with author, knitter and designer Kathleen Taylor. This workshop will cover chart-reading and yarn wrangling, as you work on a two-color hat (don’t let the pictures fool you, students will be using one solid color yarn and one self-striping yarn). Choose to work the folded hem with a Picot edging, or a smooth edge. Homework required (see below).
Students should bring to class: Materials Needed: 100 gr solid color worsted weight wool yarn (170-220 yds, depending on maker), 100 gr self striping worsted weight wool yarn whose colors do not match the color of the solid yarn (high contrast is desired). May substitute 2 – 100 gr balls of solid color, contrasting worsted weight wool yarn; 16” size 5 circular needle, set of 5 – size 5 dpns (or size needed to obtain gauge listed below), safety pin, 3 small stitch markers, 1 large stitch marker, large-eye blunt needle, ruler, scissors, pad of Post-it notes (for use as row markers on the chart). Note: there will be enough yarn to knit both featured versions of the Snowflake hat.
Materials Provided: Handout with Toddler Snowflake Hat pattern and chart, basic Fair Isle knitting instructions, and additional chart/pattern for hats to fit larger children and adults.
Gauge and Measurements: Gauge over Fair Isle Section: 6 sts=1”, 7 Rnds=1”, Finished Hat Size: 8” across laying flat, 7 ½’long.
Homework: Decide which yarn will be your MC, and which will be your CC. With MC, CO 90 sts. Without twisting the sts, join. K 8 rnds. Choose Picot Fold or Straight Fold, work appropriate rnd. Picot Fold Rnd Variation: *YO, K 2 tog*, rep around*. Straight Fold Rnd Variation: P around. Next Rnd All Versions: K. Increase Rnd All Versions: *K 15, Inc 1*, rep around (6 sts inc – 96 sts). We will continue working on the hat in class, from this point.
Kathleen Taylor is a writer, spinner, crafter, wife, mother, grandmother, and life long knitter. She has written six Tory Bauer Mysteries, 4 knitting books: Knit One, Felt Two , Yarns to Dye For , and I Heart Felt (February 2008, The Taunton Press) and The Big Book of Socks (will be published September 2009 by the Taunton Press), many magazine articles (most recently: Spindle-Spun Christmas Stocking, Spin-Off, Winter 2006), and has designed exclusive sock and sweater patterns for the Knit Picks yarn company. She is a featured guest teacher at the 2009 South Eastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF) in Asheville, NC. She lives in north eastern South Dakota. Visit her blog: Kathleen Taylor’s Dakota Dreams http://kathleen-dakotadreams.blogspot.com/
FELTED WINE BOTTLE COVERS (3 hour class) Instructor: Geri Rutledge class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $15.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm Skill Level: Beginner and beyond Students in the class will learn to use hot water and soap to felt and make a creative cover for a wine bottle. We will use crock pots to keep the water temperature warm, pre-filled with water and soap. Fiber will be washed, carded and dyed ready for your process. We will make the wine covers using a bottle you bring to class or one that I have for you. Finishing techniques will be discussed to complete your project. The Instructor will provide fiber, written instructions and other necessary supplies.
Students should bring: Waterproof apron or change of shirt that can get wet.
Geri Rutledge of Bucks Hollow Alpaca Llama and Paco ‘Vicuna Ranch, Waco, NE along with her husband, Jim and son, Marshal have a herd Alpacas, Llamas and Paco ‘Vicunas numbering around 50. Geri has been interested in Fiber Arts for years and teaches through Community College and various Conferences throughout the winter. Finding new projects, new ways or two ways to accomplish a project is always fun and interesting. When the show season starts in the spring they are off to many different states to show the animals in Performance and Halter Classes. Along with this is the funniest group of 4-H kids you ever met. Camelid Kids has a youth show and they enter a lot of fiber projects at the Polk County Fair. Geri is also a Certified Fleece Judge for ALSA Alpaca Llama Show Association. So while Marshal shows animals, Geri judges shorn fleece and walking fiber classes. Having fun and meeting new people along the trail that share our common interest is always fun.
BEGINNING NAALBINDING (4 hour class) Instructor: Myra Olson class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $25.00 Time: 9 am to 1 pm Skill Level: Beginner This is a beginning class where students will learn about this ancient textile technique that is so popular. Naalbinding originated in Norway and pre-dates knitting and crocheting and most who learn this technique say it is faster. Students will be constructing a scarf for their first project using the Oslo stitch. We will also be learning 2 other stitches that can be used to create a variety of garments and accessories. Please join us for this fun class!
Students should bring: scissors
Materials fee includes naalbinding needle/case and yarn to complete the project.
Myra Olson is the owner of Prairie Comforts Fiber Arts and More where she sells handspun yarns, roving, batts and hand woven items that are mostly made using quality ND grown wool and fiber. She also sells goat milk soap and lotion and a variety of other all natural products that are straight from the prairies of ND. Myra loves to share her passion for fiber arts with people of all ages and has made numerous presentations and workshops available to 4-H clubs, women’s ministry groups and schools. Myra also teaches adult enrichment classes through Bismarck State College on a variety of topics including spinning, tri-loom weaving and Naalbinding. When she is not busy teaching or tending to the families array of farm animals she enjoys spending time with her husband, Robert and their children Brandon, Brianna and Travis.
NUNO FELTING (3 hour class) Instructor: Helen Hopkins class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $5.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Learn how to felt through silk and create a scarflette to wear.
Materials students will need to bring to the workshop: 2 old towels, pair of old hosiery, basin or bowl.
Helen Hopkins - Born and brought up in Wales, UK, is where a lot of inspiration comes from for Helen’s creative felt making. She was introduced to felt making by her best friend, and she finds it very addictive and therapeutic. Helen moved to Sioux City, IA nearly 3 years ago and has continued to develop her felt making. She uses both wet and dry felt making techniques. She loves creating animal sculptures, vessels, purses, slippers and wall hangings. Helen has attended many workshops in the UK and hopes to bring some new and interesting ideas to this workshop.
DESIGNING ACCESSORIES WITH HANDSPUN YARN (3 hour class) Instructor: Rick Mondragon class fee: $35.00 materials fee: none Time: 9 am to 12 pm Skill Level: Intermediate Do you have an assortment of handspun yarns? A couple of ounces of this, 50 yards of that, an exotic that is just to pricey for a full blown project? Are you a little shy about combining different handspuns together for a big project?
Bring your handspun treasures, a spindle or wheel, and your knitting or crochet tools. We are going to explore ways to make your little gems work for you while learning a technique or two (stripes, knitting back and forth, brioche stitch, miters and more).
And if you have a few singles lying around... bring them, we are going to talk companion yarns and more. Get ready, this is going to be fun!
Rick Mondragon is passionate about fiber – be it sewing, knitting, crochet, spinning of dyeing. He finds sharing his ideas and skill in the classroom to be the best part of his career. Rick is the Editor of Knitter’s Magazine, is a knitwear designer and an exceptional teacher with plenty of enthusiasm to get you going on the next level of your knitting journey
SAORI FREE-STYLE WEAVING (2 hour class) Instructor: Chiaki and Dan O’Brien class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $5.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm or 2 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone. SAORI is very different from the traditional weaving, placing more importance on free expression and creativity than on technical skills or regularity of the woven cloth. Students in this class will relax, enjoy, explore and have positive thinking through weaving. This is a therapeutic/healing weaving. Even though there are only two harnesses, students can still enjoy weaving with many colors and textures. Students will take home whatever the length they wove. The ward will be set for students so they can start weaving right away. The finished project might be a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Dan and Chiaki O'Brien are SAORI Leaders Committee Certificate recipients. Chiaki worked as an instructor for the SAORI head office in Japan. They have taught at schools for artists in residencies, Weavers Guild of MN, Shepherd’s Harvest, Community Education programs for people with and without disabilities, at the MN Children’s Museum, NCFF and art shows. They have a studio in their home in Chaska, MN. One of their dreams is to have SAORI inclusive classrooms where people with and without disabilities learn together side by side just like they learned SAORI back in Japan. The have been enjoying meeting people through SAORI.
CLASS FULL TOTE BASKET (4 hour class) CLASS FULL Instructor: Phyllis Knutson class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $20.00 Time: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
This basket will be at your side on many trips to town shopping or can be used to carry your lunch, knitting or papers to work. The strap will be shaker tape, the size approximately 12” long x 5” wide x 9” tall. Materials to bring to class: pruning shear, or sharp heavy scissors, clothes pins (12), plastic measure tape, pencil, dish pan, spray bottle, old towel, old shirt or apron.
Phyllis Knutson found her passion for weaving with rattan reed in 1992 and has taught since 1995. In 1998 she was introduced to birch bark and in 1999 she found a new excitement in working with this beautiful, leather-like bark. She has been privileged to teach at the annual Heikinpaiva Mid-Winter Festival at Hancock, MI, John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC, North House Folk School at Grand Marais, MN, Vesterheim, Decorah, IA, basket weaving guilds and community ed classes. She sells her baskets at art shows and galleries in the area. She also does cane, splint, Danish rope and rush chair seats.
FINE SPINNING (3 hour class) Instructor: Patsy Zawistoski class fee: $55.00 materials fee: $15.00 Time: 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Don't be intimidated by spinning fine yarns. Learn the techniques needed to gain confidence so that you can create that special shawl or scarf from spider weight yarns that you spun yourself.
List of equipment and supplies the students need to bring to class: a wheel in good working order or a selection of hand spindles, hand cards, about a dozen 3x5 file cards and sandwich baggies, hand towel, scissors, hole punch or tape and note paper. Also bring your usual oil and tools for your wheel.
Materials fee includes fiber for spinning, worksheets and the "Spinning Fine Wool Yarns" booklet.
Patsy Zawistoski received her Certificate of Excellence in Hand-spinning for technical skill from HWG of America & in 1987 she earned a Masters Certificate for her study in novelty yarns. She has produced 3 spinning videos & has authored numerous articles that have been published in major spinning publications including “Spin Off”, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, as well as Creative Fiber a New Zealand magazine. Patsy has held workshops & seminars throughout the US, New Zealand & Canada. As an accomplished textile artist & seamstress, she creates unique liturgical weavings & appliqués for use by churches across the nation. Her work is recognized for its use of color through a wide variety of styles.
BEGINNING SPINNING 101 (3 hour class) Instructor: Susan Brugger class fee: $35.00 materials fee: none Time: 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Beginner This is an excellent spinning class for the very beginning spinner. Students will learn the basics of spinning prepared wool – first by hand and then by wheel or hand/drop spindle. Please note on the registration form if one or the other is needed.
Students will need to bring a spinning wheel or hand/drop spindle.
Susan Brugger is a life-long knitter who began spinning about 25 years ago as a way to create yarns for her hand knits. She has taught knitting and spinning in eastern SD for more years than she’d like to admit. She is a member of the Crossthreads Fiberworks Guild as well as the Brookings Fiberworks Guild and she sells her hand knits, hand spun and hand painted fibers through her website.
EMBROIDERY ON EGGS or WINE COVERS or OTHER FELTED PIECES (3 hour class) Instructor: Geri Rutledge class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $5.00 Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Students in this class will learn how the Felted Easter Eggs were made. They may have made a Wine Cover in the morning session. Or have something they needle felted that has just been sitting around and want/need to get it finished. The eggs will already be prepared so students can move right into decorating. Students of all ages will enjoy using beads or embroidery thread to create delicate, funny, bright or “bling bling” designs on their felted pieces.
All supplies will be available. You bring some scissors and/or your reading glasses for threading the needles!
Geri Rutledge of Bucks Hollow Alpaca Llama and Paco ‘Vicuna Ranch, Waco, NE along with her husband, Jim and son, Marshal have a herd Alpacas, Llamas and Paco ‘Vicunas numbering around 50. Geri has been interested in Fiber Arts for years and teaches through Community College and various Conferences throughout the winter. Finding new projects, new ways or two ways to accomplish a project is always fun and interesting. When the show season starts in the spring they are off to many different states to show the animals in Performance and Halter Classes. Along with this is the funniest group of 4-H kids you ever met. Camelid Kids has a youth show and they enter a lot of fiber projects at the Polk County Fair. Geri is also a Certified Fleece Judge for ALSA Alpaca Llama Show Association. So while Marshal shows animals, Geri judges shorn fleece and walking fiber classes. Having fun and meeting new people along the trail that share our common interest is always fun.
INSIDE OUT SCARF (2 hour class) Instructor: Celeste Suter class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $12.00 Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
This amazing scarf from ‘Knit One Below’ uses long repeat variegated yarn. The colors can merge and shift to make magical color changes! Students should bring to class size 9, 10 or 10 1/2, 24 inch or longer circular needles.
Materials fee is for yarn with long repeats (2 skeins), knitting needles will also be available to purchase in class.
Celeste Suter has lived in the Midwest for more than half of her life. Her life objective is to creatively express and to be joyfully connected to all that is. While she has been sewing since she was in the 3rd grade, crocheting for over 30 years, crafting for more than 20 years and working with fiber for the last 6 years, Celeste has found her passion in working with the spinning wheel, loom and “pointy sticks”. Celeste has designed more than forty knitting patterns, many of them for felted purses and is expanding into scarves, hats and mittens. Her work with fiber, spinning, weaving and knitting, help her feel connected to the animals which provide her with wool, some of whom she has met personally. In her studio and shop in Montevideo, she sells her own handspun yarn and fiber creations.
NAVAJO WEAVING (1 hour class) Instructor: Geri Rutledge class fee: $15.00 materials fee: $5.00 Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Students will be taught basic skills using sticks to weave a bracelet. Once they have learned the basic pattern they may advance to belts and other projects. This weave is great for making purse straps that you attach to felted hand bags and other creative projects. It is also a great 4-H group project that you can take to your group. Students will get to keep the sticks they learn to weave on, so they are ready for their next project. Written instructions are also sent home with you. Visual hands on learning will be done during the class.
Students should bring: Scissors and good humor!
Geri Rutledge of Bucks Hollow Alpaca Llama and Paco ‘Vicuna Ranch, Waco, NE along with her husband, Jim and son, Marshal have a herd Alpacas, Llamas and Paco ‘Vicunas numbering around 50. Geri has been interested in Fiber Arts for years and teaches through Community College and various Conferences throughout the winter. Finding new projects, new ways or two ways to accomplish a project is always fun and interesting. When the show season starts in the spring they are off to many different states to show the animals in Performance and Halter Classes. Along with this is the funniest group of 4-H kids you ever met. Camelid Kids has a youth show and they enter a lot of fiber projects at the Polk County Fair. Geri is also a Certified Fleece Judge for ALSA Alpaca Llama Show Association. So while Marshal shows animals, Geri judges shorn fleece and walking fiber classes. Having fun and meeting new people along the trail that share our common interest is always fun.
Sunday Classes FIVE QUICK NOVELTY YARNS (6 hour class) Instructor: Patsy Zawistoski class fee: $110.00 materials fee: $15.00 Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Spend a day learning how to create basic novelty yarns. Learn to do a worsted slub spiral, a core spun bouclé, a knotted yarn, a cable yarn and a lopi style singles yarn. This class works mainly in wool and mohair, teaching a few designer basics to spark your creativity.
List of equipment and supplies the students need to bring to class: a wheel in good working order or a selection of hand spindles, hand cards, about a dozen 3x5 file cards and sandwich baggies, hand towel, scissors, hole punch or tape and note paper. Also bring your usual oil and tools for your wheel.
**UPDATE** Students should also bring lazy kate and 2 bobbins
Materials fee includes fiber for spinning, worksheets and the “Quick Novelty Yarns” booklet.
Patsy Zawistoski received her Certificate of Excellence in Hand-spinning for technical skill from HWG of America & in 1987 she earned a Masters Certificate for her study in novelty yarns. She has produced 3 spinning videos & has authored numerous articles that have been published in major spinning publications including “Spin Off”, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, as well as Creative Fiber a New Zealand magazine. Patsy has held workshops & seminars throughout the US, New Zealand & Canada. As an accomplished textile artist & seamstress, she creates unique liturgical weavings & appliqués for use by churches across the nation. Her work is recognized for its use of color through a wide variety of styles.
BIRCH BARK BERRY BASKET (4 hour class) Instructor: Phyllis Knutson: class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $12.00 Time: 9 am to 1 pm
The birch tree is a very unique tree and we will explore and discuss some of it! First we will take a piece of bark to make a ring. As we learn about the bark and how to prepare it, we’ll make a small square berry basket. You will find out how amazing and fun it is to work with birch bark! I never get tired of learning more and more about the bark as well as the useful things you can weave from it. This is only the beginning!! Students will need to bring the following items to the class: scissors, pencil, clothes pins (12), plastic measuring tape. Phyllis Knutson found her passion for weaving with rattan reed in 1992 and has taught since 1995. In 1998 she was introduced to birch bark and in 1999 she found a new excitement in working with this beautiful, leather-like bark. She has been privileged to teach at the annual Heikinpaiva Mid-Winter Festival at Hancock, MI, John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC, North House Folk School at Grand Marais, MN, Vesterheim, Decorah, IA, basket weaving guilds and community ed classes. She sells her baskets at art shows and galleries in the area. She also does cane, splint, Danish rope and rush chair seats. ADVANCED BEGINNING SPINNING 102 (3 hour class) Instructor: Susan Brugger class fee: $35.00 materials fee: none Time: 9am to12 pm Skill Level: Beginner This is a spinning class for the advanced beginning spinner. Students should be able to spin a single ply yarn prior to class. In this class, students will learn the basics of plying. Navajo plying and planned thick n’ thin yarn will be explored as well as the long draw with the goal being able to spin a balanced yarn.
Students will need to bring a spinning wheel, 2 bobbins of spun single ply wool, and an empty bobbin.
Susan Brugger is a life-long knitter who began spinning about 25 years ago as a way to create yarns for her hand knits. She has taught knitting and spinning in eastern SD for more years than she’d like to admit. She is a member of the Crossthreads Fiberworks Guild as well as the Brookings Fiberworks Guild and she sells her hand knits, hand spun and hand painted fibers through her website.
CANCELLED RUG HOOKING (3 hour class) CANCELLED Instructors: Tracy Kellen and Darlene Hofius class fee: $ 35.00 materials fee: $20.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Learn how to make hooked rugs with wool fabric in the primitive style. Students will make a 7" x 7" mat of a primitive flower.
Equipment and supplies students need to bring to class: scissors and a 10” or 12" embroidery hoop.
Materials fee includes the pattern on Monks cloth, wool strips, hook and material to finish the mat.
Darlene Hofius and her daughter Tracy Kellen, have been primitive rug hooking for 6 years. They both hook mainly with wool fabric but have incorporated wool yarn into some of their rugs. The pair finds every aspect of rug hooking enjoyable – designing the pattern, dyeing the wool and hooking the rug.
BEGINNING TRI-LOOM WEAVING (3 hour class) Instructor: Myra Olson class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $45.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm Skill Level: Beginner and up Have you ever wanted to learn to weave but felt intimidated by the costs involved? Tri-loom weaving is an inexpensive and fast way to break into the world of weaving. Students in this class will be working on a generous sized 18” tri-loom (which is included in their supply fee) to make several squares which will then be stitched into a table runner or can be a start to a small blanket. The technique that is learned on the 18” tri-loom, is the same technique that is used on bigger looms which are available for purchase from the instructor.
Students will need to bring scissors to class.
Materials fee includes an 18” tri-loom, weaving hook and yarn to complete the project.
Myra Olson is the owner of Prairie Comforts Fiber Arts and More where she sells handspun yarns, roving, batts and hand woven items that are mostly made using quality ND grown wool and fiber. She also sells goat milk soap and lotion and a variety of other all natural products that are straight from the prairies of ND. Myra loves to share her passion for fiber arts with people of all ages and has made numerous presentations and workshops available to 4-H clubs, women’s ministry groups and schools. Myra also teaches adult enrichment classes through Bismarck State College on a variety of topics including spinning, tri-loom weaving and Naalbinding. When she is not busy teaching or tending to the families array of farm animals she enjoys spending time with her husband, Robert and their children Brandon, Brianna and Travis.
SAORI FREE-STYLE WEAVING (2 hour class) Instructor: Chiaki and Dan O’Brien class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $5.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm or 1 pm to 3 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone. SAORI is very different from the traditional weaving, placing more importance on free expression and creativity than on technical skills or regularity of the woven cloth. Students in this class will relax, enjoy, explore and have positive thinking through weaving. This is a therapeutic/healing weaving. Even though there are only two harnesses, students can still enjoy weaving with many colors and textures. Students will take home whatever the length they wove. The ward will be set for students so they can start weaving right away. The finished project might be a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Dan and Chiaki O'Brien are SAORI Leaders Committee Certificate recipients. Chiaki worked as an instructor for the SAORI head office in Japan. They have taught at schools for artists in residencies, Weavers Guild of MN, Shepherd’s Harvest, Community Education programs for people with and without disabilities, at the MN Children’s Museum, NCFF and art shows. They have a studio in their home in Chaska, MN. One of their dreams is to have SAORI inclusive classrooms where people with and without disabilities learn together side by side just like they learned SAORI back in Japan. The have been enjoying meeting people through SAORI.
FELTED LACY SCARF (2 hour class) Instructor: Aleta Van Kampen class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $12.00 Time: 1 pm to 3 pm
Learn to make a fluffy, lacey but Felted scarf using hand dyed fibers, metallic threads & designer yarns.
Students should bring: 3 bath size towels, coat hanger to hang scarf for drying.
Materials fee is for the kit which includes netting, roller, fibers, soap, plastic.
Aleta Van Kampen has taught quilting classes, felting and knitting classes. Last year at NCFF she taught an I-cord basket weave wrist warmers class from one of her own designs. She has done demonstrations of spinning to grade school students giving students hands-on freedom to make their own yarn. Aleta has also taught felted scarves to the young adults at the Nemo Job Core in the Black Hills.
NEEDLE FELTED BAG (1 hour class) Instructor: Celeste Suter Time: 2 pm to 3 pm class fee: $15.00 materials fee: $10.00
Practice needle felting skills to make an ornament and then try learned techniques to decorate a small pouch just right for a wallet or to hold your knitting notions.
Students should bring their creativity and willingness to play with color!
Materials fee is for needle felting kit & notions bag.
Celeste Suter has lived in the Midwest for more than half of her life. Her life objective is to creatively express and to be joyfully connected to all that is. While she has been sewing since she was in the 3rd grade, crocheting for over 30 years, crafting for more than 20 years and working with fiber for the last 6 years, Celeste has found her passion in working with the spinning wheel, loom and “pointy sticks”. Celeste has designed more than forty knitting patterns, many of them for felted purses and is expanding into scarves, hats and mittens. Her work with fiber, spinning, weaving and knitting, help her feel connected to the animals which provide her with wool, some of whom she has met personally. In her studio and shop in Montevideo, she sells her own handspun yarn and fiber creations.
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Skill Level: must be
able to cast on, knit and purl
Skill Level: Beginner –
Children are welcome ages 7 and up