North Country Fiber Fair
September 17 - 19, 2010
Codington County
Extension Complex
Watertown, SD
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2010 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. Class fees are non-refundable.
*many of the classes also include a materials fee to be paid to the instructor on the day of the class.* Friday Classes FAIR ISLE KNITTING IN A DAY (6 hour class) Instructor: Kathleen Taylor class fee: $70.00 materials fee: none Time: 1 pm to 4 pm & 5 pm to 8 pm Skill Level: Familiarity with knitting in the round (circular or dpn) 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 (please bring the following to class with you): 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, many magazine articles, and has designed exclusive sock and sweater patterns for the Knit Picks yarn company. She is a featured guest teacher at the 2010 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/
INDIGO SHIBORI DYEING (6 hour class) Instructor: Grete Bodøgaard class fee: $70.00 materials fee: none Time: 1 pm to 4 pm & 5 pm to 8 pm Skill Level: Intermediate The Japanese word “Shibori” translates to wring or squeeze, it also encompasses different forms of tie dying. Fabric or yarn may be bound, stitched or gathered, folded or clamped, wrapped around poles, pleated and each method produces a different type of pattern. In this class the students will be folding, wrapping, clamping with coins, wooden blocks and more and then stitching, tying knots and pleating before dying with indigo, a dye plant that gives a blue to dye for! There will be some dripping and splashing, so dress in old dark clothes
Students will need to bring the following items to the class: scissors, notebook, pen and rubber gloves.
Grete Bodøgaard immigrated to the United State from Norway with her spinning wheels, yarn and looms in 1969. Her weavings have been commissioned throughout the Midwest, including St. Michael's Church in Sioux Falls and Rapid City Regional Hospital. Her exhibitions include A Line Line, a touring exhibition to the Portland Center for the Arts and to the Center for Tapestry Art, New York; The Human Weft at the American Renaissance Gallery in Portland; Beyond the Spill, and environmental exhibit at the Alaska Fine Arts Center in Anchorage; Norwegians in America in Hamar, Norway, and World Wide Weavers Wall at the Gryphon Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Bodøgaard's residencies cover all stages in the spinning, dyeing with natural dyes, design and weaving of a wide range of natural fibers. Students may create individual designs or a class project that can be displayed in the school. Bodøgaard is the recipient of the 2002 South Dakota Governor's Award for Creative Achievement. Her 2005-06 exhibits include Endless Possibilities, the Governor’s 2nd Biennial Art Exhibition, Norwegians in America: the Evolutions of a Folk Art Tradition, and American Tapestry Biennial SIX.
DOUBLE DEALING (an introduction to Double Faced Card Weaving) (4 hour class) Instructor: Janine Sandstedt class fee: $40.00 materials fees: $10.00 Time: 1 pm to 5 pm
Skill Level:
Intermediate An introduction to double faced card weaving. Students will learn to wind a continuous warp and design and weave a double faced bookmark.
Students will need to bring the following items to the class: 2 C-clamps, pencil or dowel or inkle loom, tapered edge shuttle.
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. 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.
MITERED SQUARE PUZZLE BOWL (4 hour class) Instructor: Torri Hanna class fee: $40.00 materials fee: none Time: 1 pm to 5 pm
Skill Level:
Intermediate Explore form construction using the mitered square! We will knit this fast and fun bowl using one pair of short, single point needles and just a few stitches at a time. Lots of tips and tricks on picking up stitches, keeping track of what comes next and alternative uses for shaping with mitered square knitting. Let the creativity flow!!!
Students will need to bring single point needles one size larger than recommended for the yarn they want to use (can be 4 – 6 oz of fairly soft handspun singles, medium wt) – size 10 to 11 good for boku, 3 or 4 for sock yarn (bowl will be much smaller), basic knitting skills, cast on, knit and purl stitch. Yarn needle and scissors.
The materials fee is none but if you want to buy yarn from the instructor it is about $7.00
Torri Hanna owns Briar Rose Fibers in Canby, MN where she just finished knitting a mitered square afghan. The bowl takes less time and is a lot more fun! She has been spinning everything except the kitchen sink, including Baby Doll Southdown for a friend. She also spins lovely hand dyed silk singles to use in embroidery and she Navajo plies when she needs to clear a bobbin in a hurry (and gets a great yarn in the process).
BIRCH BARK SOAP DISH (4 hour class) Instructor: Phyllis Knutson class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $12.00 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm
Skill Level:
Beginner The birch tree is a very unique tree and we will explore and discuss some of it! We will learn how to prepare the bark first then weave a Birch Bark Soap Dish that is very unique - homemade soap will not get slimy in it... Not hard to weave but very useful.
Students will need to bring the following items to the class: scissors, pencil, clothes pins (12 snap), 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 (3 hour class) ONLY 5 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Susan Brugger class fee: $35.00 materials fee: none Time: 5 pm to 8 pm Skill Level: Advanced 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 playing and planned thick ‘n thin yarn will be explored as well as the long draw with the goal of being able to spin a balanced yarn.
Students will need to bring a working 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 attained the master’s level in The Knitting Guild of America and has taught knitting and spinning in eastern SD for more years than she’d like to admit. In 2009-2010 she dove into the 52 Pair Plunge challenge on Ravelry to make 52 pairs of socks in a year. She is a member of the Crossthreads Fibersworks Guild in Sioux Falls as well as the Brookings Fiberworks Guild, and sells her hand knits, hand spun and hand-painted fibers through her Etsy shop, Sheepish Hand Knits.
SILK SPINNING (1 1/2 hour class) ONLY 4 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Torri Hanna class fee: $20.00 materials fee: $10.00 for 2 oz of silk fiber Time: 6 pm to 7:30 pm Skill Level: Advanced Bring your high speed whorl and bobbins for lots of twist with this luxurious fiber! We will discuss and experiment with a variety of different silk fibers including bombyx, tussah and silk caps, both dyed and natural. Plying and finishing techniques will also help you to learn to love the strength and consistency of your silk yarn.
Students will need to bring a working spinning wheel or drop spindle, fiber to blend with the silk if desired, carders if you have them.
Torri Hanna owns Briar Rose Fibers in Canby, MN. She has been spinning everything except the kitchen sink, including Baby Doll Southdown for a friend. She also spins lovely hand dyed silk singles to use in embroidery and she Navajo plies when she needs to clear a bobbin in a hurry (and gets a great yarn in the process).
Saturday Classes
PLANT DYEING: HOW TO GET 25+ COLORS FROM THE PRIMARY THREE (2 DAY class) Instructor: Grete Bodogaard class fee: $150.00 materials fee: none Time:
Saturday 9 am
to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Beginner Natural Dyes will dye wool, cotton, linen, silk or synthetic nylon. Whatever you prefer, a few simple steps will prepare it for dyeing. Using cochineal for red, indigo for blue, goldenrod for yellow and then over dyeing these primary colors students will get the secondary colors orange, green, violet and then tertiary colors and on and on... Dyeing is a wet and at times messy art, dress in old and dark clothes. Each student will get samples of all of the colors.
Students need to bring rubber gloves, pen, notebook and scissors.
Grete Bodøgaard immigrated to the United State from Norway with her spinning wheels, yarn and looms in 1969. Her weavings have been commissioned throughout the Midwest, including St. Michael's Church in Sioux Falls and Rapid City Regional Hospital. Her exhibitions include A Line Line, a touring exhibition to the Portland Center for the Arts and to the Center for Tapestry Art, New York; The Human Weft at the American Renaissance Gallery in Portland; Beyond the Spill, and environmental exhibit at the Alaska Fine Arts Center in Anchorage; Norwegians in America in Hamar, Norway, and World Wide Weavers Wall at the Gryphon Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Bodøgaard's residencies cover all stages in the spinning, dyeing with natural dyes, design and weaving of a wide range of natural fibers. Students may create individual designs or a class project that can be displayed in the school. Bodøgaard is the recipient of the 2002 South Dakota Governor's Award for Creative Achievement. Her 2005-06 exhibits include Endless Possibilities, the Governor’s 2nd Biennial Art Exhibition, Norwegians in America: the Evolutions of a Folk Art Tradition, and American Tapestry Biennial SIX.
BEGINNING SOCK KNITTING (6 hour class) Instructor: Susan Brugger class fee: $70.00 materials fee: none Time: 9 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Beginner This class is for knitters who are comfortable with casting on, knitting and purling. A miniature sock will be knit using double pointed needles, two circulars or the magic loop covering all basic areas of sock construction. Once that sock is completed a larger sock will be planned and started.
Students should bring: knitting needles: dpn, 2 short circulars or one long circular in size 0, 1 or 2. Please contact instuctor regarding appropriate size. Contact Susan at bruggerknits@yahoo.com
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 attained the master’s level in The Knitting Guild of America and has taught knitting and spinning in eastern SD for more years than she’d like to admit. In 2009-2010 she dove into the 52 Pair Plunge challenge on Ravelry to make 52 pairs of socks in a year. She is a member of the Crossthreads Fibersworks Guild in Sioux Falls as well as the Brookings Fiberworks Guild, and sells her hand knits, hand spun and hand-painted fibers through her Etsy shop, Sheepish Hand Knits.
WOOL DRYING BASKET (6 hour class) ONLY 2 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Phyllis Knutson class fee: $70.00 materials fee: $25.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone You can
dry wool in this basket but you can also store your yarn, spinning wool or
even a knitting project in it. It is 14" x 14" x 8" high plus leather
handles and legs.
Students should bring: pruning shear or sharp heavy scissors, clothes pins (25-30 snap), 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.
BEGINNING SPINNING (3 hour class) Instructor: Myra Olson class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm Skill Level: Beginner This is a n 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.
Myra Olson is the owner of Prairie Comforts Fiber Arts and More where she sells yarns, roving, batts and hand woven items that are mostly made using quality ND grown wool and fiber. She also makes and 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 has been an instructor at numerous Fiber Festivals across MN, ND and SD teaching classes on 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.
NAVAJO PLYING (1 1/2 hour class) ONLY 4 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Torri Hanna class fee: $20.00 materials fee: none Time: 9 am to 10:30 am Skill Level: Advanced Beginner Bump up your yarn thickness and easily create a three ply yarn from a single bobbin. Learn how to maintain control of the yarn look and practice different techniques for texture galore! Really smooth is a texture too! We will also discuss amazing color change effects that can be achieved from variegated dyed rovings.
Students should bring: spinning wheel or Navajo support spindle (2 oz + drop spindle if you are fairly proficient), full bobbin (or 2) or fairly finely spun singles, any fiber, any color (or lots of colors!) with just a hint of over twist, Lazy kate and scissors.
Torri Hanna owns Briar Rose Fibers in Canby, MN. She has been spinning everything except the kitchen sink, including Baby Doll Southdown for a friend. She also spins lovely hand dyed silk singles to use in embroidery and she Navajo plies when she needs to clear a bobbin in a hurry (and gets a great yarn in the process).
NEEDLE FELT: FANTASY FIGURES (4 hour class)
Instructor: Helen Hopkins
class fee: $40.00
materials fee: $20.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 3 pm Skill Level: Beginner In this class, you will learn to needle felt a figure with body parts which can be made as "fantastical" as you like.
Helen Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales, UK, and this 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 4 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.
SAORI FREE-STYLE WEAVING (2 hour class) (2 classes offered on Saturday) ONLY 3 OPENINGS LEFT FOR AFTERNOON CLASS Instructor: Chiaki and Dan O’Brien class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm or 2 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone SAORI Free-Style Weaving brings out the inherent creativity of the individual. One's "inherent creative sense" comes into play while weaving, creating a unique work of art. If you like to have fun, explore and you want to make something completely original for yourself or as a gift for someone else, come weave and take away your very own fresh work of art! We'll bring materials including cotton and wool thread and looms for you to use in class. All you need is a willingness to explore!
There is nothing that participants need to bring, however, participants many bring things they would like to weave into their work. This will not affect the materials fee.
Dan and Chiaki O’Brien are SAORI Leaders Committee Certificate recipients. Chiaki worked as an instructor for the SAORI head office in Japan, and Dan is the only non-Japanese certified instructor. They have taught at schools for artists in residence, in several community education programs for people with or without disabilities, at the Minnesota Children’s Museum, at NCFF and at art shows. Chiaki’s woven items are sold at art galleries around MN and WI. Their studio-SAORI Studio FUN is in their home in Chaska, MN.
WRITING PATTERNS FOR PUBLICATION (2 hour class) Instructor: Kathleen Taylor class fee: $25.00 materials fee: none Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Skill Level: none, just your own designing ability Lean tricks and tips for writing up your own original pattern for publication, from 29-year pattern writing veteran, Kathleen Taylor, author of five knitting books, over 500 magazine articles and many other original sewing and knitting patterns. Whether you plan to submit your design to a magazine, or will publish and sell it yourself, you need to know about pattern format, photography, pattern testing, copyright information and contacting editors and publishers. Q & A time provided at the end of the class
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, many magazine articles, and has designed exclusive sock and sweater patterns for the Knit Picks yarn company. She is a featured guest teacher at the 2010 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/
HAND-PAINTED YARNS: A NEW APPROACH (3 hour class) Instructors: Sue Grant & Diane Corson class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $20.00 Time: 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Skill Level:
Beginner Paint yarn like you’d paint on canvas. In this hands-on class, participants will learn to make unique self-patterning yarn by applying color to pre-knit undyed “blanks”. When the finished blank is unraveled it is ready to re-knit into truly one-of-a-kind wearables – scarves, socks, shawls or whatever seems appropriate. An instructional video will be shown to give an overview of the whole process before class members are turned loose to try it themselves. The outcome is always a surprise, and you can’t make a mistake. No previous dye experience is needed– just a sense of creative adventure.
The $20 supply fee includes one 100-gm blank and all dye materials. Additional blanks may be purchased. Bring an old shirt or apron to wear during class – dye stains are permanent
Sue Grant is a multimedia artist from Brookings, SD. She works primarily in digital photography and animation videography, and knits and dyes fiber for relaxation. Sue has won numerous awards for her photographic work, including the Washington Post Photo Contest (2004) and the Brookings Community Cultural Center Photo Competition (several times). Her work has been shown in galleries in Brookings and Sioux Falls. This workshop and the instructional video she produced for it is her first collaborative project in the fiber arts field.
Diane Corson has been fascinated with fibers since age 10, when she was taught to knit by her grandmother. Since then she has continually pushed the envelope of conventional design, re-inventing familiar forms in new ways and never leaving anything the same for long. She regularly teaches classes and leads workshops in knitting, felting, dyeing and mixed media at Rose Tree Fibers in Ames, IA. Other Midwestern teaching credits include the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival in Adel, IA and the South Dakota State Art Museum in Brookings, SD. Diane has won awards for her work in shows throughout the Midwest, including South Dakota’s North Country Fiber Fair (2009). Her work is currently on display at Gallery 319 in Ames, IA and the South Dakota State Art Museum, Brookings, SD. She writes about her experiences in the fibersphere on her blog, The Yarna Chronicles (http://theyarnachronicles.blogspot.com).
MEDITATION FOR ALL (SEEKING UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES) (2 hour class) Instructor: Dan O’Brien class fee: $25.00 materials fee: none Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone This class will consider some of the reasons people meditate, the several approaches to meditation and teach practical applications in several styles of meditation that can be recreated on one’s own at “home”.
Dan O'Brien is the only non-Japanese certified SAORI instructor. He is widely experienced in meditation styles and has worked with a qualified meditation teacher for more than 12 years.
DEALING THE CARDS (CARD WEAVING) (3 hour class) Instructor: Janine Sandstedt class fee: $35.00 materials fees: $5.00 Time: 1 pm to 4 pm Skill Level: Beginner
Students will learn how to thread the cards and how turning them produces
patterns. The class will make a bookmark or key ring.
Students will need to bring an Inkleloom or 2 C clamps and a pencil or dowel, tapered edge shuttle and a comb.
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. 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.
WOOL SPINNING (1 1/2 hour class) Instructor: Torri Hanna class fee: $20.00 materials fee: $3.00 Time: 1 pm to 2:30 pm Skill Level: Advanced Beginner Learn to relax and feel the wool flow through your fingers! Not Zen and art of spinning, but great preparation is the key! Tune up your wheel to produce the yarn of your dreams. We will discuss carding and cleaning your wool with comments on heritage breeds such a Babydoll Southdown wool, while we spin a great yarn!
Students need to bring a working spinning wheel or drop spindle, any fiber they want to analyze and spin, empty bobbins, scissors, carders if they you have them.
Torri Hanna owns Briar Rose Fibers in Canby, MN. She has been spinning everything except the kitchen sink, including Baby Doll Southdown for a friend. She also spins lovely hand dyed silk singles to use in embroidery and she Navajo plies when she needs to clear a bobbin in a hurry (and gets a great yarn in the process).
GOING BATTY (2 hour class) Instructor: Myra Olson class fee: $25.00 materials fees: $25.00 Time: 3 pm to 5 pm Skill Level: Beginner who knows how to spin Students will spend the first half of this fun class making batts! Students will pick their own ingredients and then get a chance to beautifully blend them together using a drum carder. The second portion of the class will be spent discussing the variety of different ways to spin the batt (spinning from the fold, dizzing strips and other approaches) to produce very original yarn from the created batts.
Students need to bring either a spinning wheel in good working condition or a drop spindle that they feel comfortable working with. The instructor will provide an array of colorful wool and fiber as well as sparkle for each student.
Myra Olson is the owner of Prairie Comforts Fiber Arts and More where she sells yarns, roving, batts and hand woven items that are mostly made using quality ND grown wool and fiber. She also makes and 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 has been an instructor at numerous Fiber Festivals across MN, ND and SD teaching classes on 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.
Sunday Classes DESIGN YOUR OWN FAIR ISLE HAT IN A DAY (6 hour class) Instructor: Kathleen Taylor class fee: $70.00 materials fee: none Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Skill Level: Intermediate Expand on your Fair Isle skills, and design your own Fair Isle hat in this all-day workshop with author, knitter, and designer Kathleen Taylor. In the morning, we'll discuss color choices, design elements, and motif repeats. And then each student will design an original Fair Isle hat. In the afternoon, we'll begin knitting our original designs. Homework required (see below)
Students should bring to class: Up to six colors of worsted weight wool yarn, in various solid colors- you can use leftover balls of yarn, totaling 200gr. It helps to have a couple of shades of several of the colors (light blue and dark blue; light green, and dark green, for example), a pencil and eraser, a set of colored pencils in the same colors as your yarns; 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)
Materials Provided: Handout with blank chart and pattern for a toddler and an adult size hat, basic Fair Isle designing instructions and hints will be provided.
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: Please bring the following to class with you: Decide which yarn will be your MC and 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 that 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, many magazine articles, and has designed exclusive sock and sweater patterns for the Knit Picks yarn company. She is a featured guest teacher at the 2010 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/
WET FELTING A VESSEL (3 hour class) Instructor: Helen Hopkins class fee: $35.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Skill Level: Beginner Students should bring to class 2 old towels, plastic jug and large plastic bowl, and aprons as you may get wet.
Helen Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales, UK, and this 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 4 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.
RUG HOOKING (3 hour class) 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 since 2002. Tracy hooks mainly with wool fabric but her mother, Darlene, hooks with her hand spun wool yarn. The pair finds every aspect of rug hooking enjoyable – designing the pattern, dyeing the wool and hooking the rug.
SPINNING AND PLYING NOVELTY YARNS (1 1/2 hour class) ONLY 3 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Torri Hanna class fee: $ 20.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 9 am to 10:30 am Skill Level: Advanced Beginner Back by popular demand, this class was so much fun the last time that we wanted to do it again. Add beads, feathers, sequins, buttons, noils, mohair locks, sewing thread, metallic yarns, fabric scraps to 2 or 3 bobbins full of base yarn and your imagination to create your one of a kind novelty art yarn. You never knew spinning could be this much fun!
Students will need to bring a working spinning wheel or drop spindle, fiber to spin, hand cards if you have them, empty bobbins to ply to, lazy kate, scissors, one or more bobbins with singles spun clockwise, at least half full. Materials fee is for “embellishments” package – you will take plenty home with you to play with!
Torri Hanna owns Briar Rose Fibers in Canby, MN. She has been spinning everything except the kitchen sink, including Baby Doll Southdown for a friend. She also spins lovely hand dyed silk singles to use in embroidery and she Navajo plies when she needs to clear a bobbin in a hurry (and gets a great yarn in the process).
SAORI FREE-STYLE WEAVING (2 hour class) Instructor: Chiaki and Dan O’Brien class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm or 1 pm to 3 pm Skill Level: Available for everyone. SAORI Free-Style Weaving brings out the inherent creativity of the individual. One's "inherent creative sense" comes into play while weaving, creating a unique work of art. If you like to have fun, explore and you want to make something completely original for yourself or as a gift for someone else, come weave and take away your very own fresh work of art! We'll bring materials including cotton and wool thread and looms for you to use in class. All you need is a willingness to explore!
There is nothing that participants need to bring, however, participants many bring things they would like to weave into their work. This will not affect the materials fee.
Dan and Chiaki O’Brien are SAORI Leaders Committee Certificate recipients. Chiaki worked as an instructor for the SAORI head office in Japan, and Dan is the only non-Japanese certified instructor. They have taught at schools for artists in residence, in several community education programs for people with or without disabilities, at the Minnesota Children’s Museum, at NCFF and at art shows. Chiaki’s woven items are sold at art galleries around MN and WI. Their studio-SAORI Studio FUN is in their home in Chaska, MN.
BEGINNING SASHIKO (2 hour class) Instructor: Amy Vander Vorste class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $10.00 Time: 10 am to 12 pm Skill Level: Beginner Sashiko is a quilting and embroidery technique from Japan. It’s a running stitch originally used to mend and reinforce garments and textiles. Today it’s used for decorative purposes. It is simple to learn the beginning technique and you will enjoy the traditional patterns too! The class will learn the stitch, start a sampler and learn more about the history of sashiko.
Amy Vander Vorste is an avid fiber arts fan dabbling in spinning, knitting, weaving, dyeing, and anything else fiber related that comes her way. She has fallen in love with Japan and its rich textile history. In Japan, like most of the world, many handcrafts are dying out. Amy hopes to revive interest in these arts. She first came across sashiko after picking up a book in a Japanese bookstore and wanting to know more about the beautiful pictures inside. She is the owner of ojamiya.com and ojami.etsy.com where she promotes interest in Bento, Otedama, and Sashiko.
SPINNING CHIENGORA (4 hour class) Instructor: Myra Olson class fee: $40.00 materials fee: $25.00 Time: 12 pm to 4 pm
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner Spinning Chiengora (defined as wool or yarn made from dog fur) is very personal and commemorates a very meaningful relationship between friends. Sometimes it’s a memorial to a friend who has passed on, but often it is a way to honor a present companion. Learn a new way to appreciate human’s best friend by spinning that wonderful fur that flies around the home, sticks to our clothing and tickles our nose! In this class, students will determine what fur is for spinning and why, experiment with a variety of breeds’ fur and for those who would like to bring fur from your own pet; we’ll examine it and get started on your own one of a kind skein of yarn. Students should bring a spinning wheel in good working condition or a drop spindle that they feel comfortable working with and any fur from pets at home.
Materials fee includes everything needed to spin a beautiful skein of chiengora that can later be used in a one of a kind project.
Myra Olson is the owner of Prairie Comforts Fiber Arts and More where she sells yarns, roving, batts and hand woven items that are mostly made using quality ND grown wool and fiber. She also makes and 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 has been an instructor at numerous Fiber Festivals across MN, ND and SD teaching classes on 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.
PICKING SIDES (3 hour class) Instructor: Rick Mondragon class fee: $35.00 materials fee: none Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Skill Level: Intermediate You can easily create vertical stripes just by working in the sideways direction. Here is a chance to design a simple and easy sweater, this approach is perfect for knit and crochet garments and by special request we will focus on crochet for this workshop. Bring your collection of handspun yarns and see how easily they can come together into a stunning and fun crochet or knit sweater.
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 crocheting journey
DROP SPINDLING (2 hour class) ONLY 2 OPENINGS LEFT Instructor: Rita Nauman class fee: $25.00 materials fee: $15.00 Time: 1 pm to 3 pm Skill Level: Beginner Students will learn to spin with a drop spindle. Also discussed will be various techniques for spinning different fibers. Examples of several fibers will be given for the class to use.
Rita Nauman has been spinning for about 12 years and has taught numerous spinning classes, both through several yarn shops and through the Society for Creative Anachronism – a historical reenactment group. She has been selling handspun yarn and hand dyed yarn for about 6 years as Castle Fibers. She also owns C.R. Yarn in Rapid City, SD.
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