2012 KSFF Workshops
Classes start Friday May 18th and continue through Sunday May 20th.

Workshop Registration Form

Warp, Weave, and Wrap It Up Friday 10a-1p
Instructor: Liz Gipson
Class Description: Learn how to get those yarns on your loom, weave fabulous cloth, and finish your project all in a day! No experience required
Materials you need to bring to class: Loom or you may rent a loom for a day.
Material Fee: $20
Instructor fee: $55.00

Advanced Techniques Weaving Saturday 10a-12p-Lunch-1p-5p
Instructor: Liz Gipson
Class Description: Have you mastered the basics of rigid heddle weaving and are interested in stretching your wings a bit? Does using two heddle confound you? Want to perfect the use of pick up stick patterning? This class will show you how. Previous weaving experience required.
Materials you need to bring to class: Loom or you may rent a loom for a day.
Instructor fee: $75.00

Simply Weaving Laces  (Intermediate needs to know how to warp loom)  Friday 9a-1p
Instructor: Barb Gallagher
Class Description: Ready to move beyond scarfs on your rigid heddle loom?
Weave a sampler to learn how to hand manipulate warps and wefts to create
beautiful laces. Learn to weave Danish Medallions, Leno, Mexican Lace, and Brooks Bouquet. If time, you will also weave some of the Pile Techniques
Materials you need to bring to class: Pre-warped loom, Instructions will be emailed with a list of supplies needed.
Instructor fee: $60.00

Sheep Ornaments  (Beginner)  Friday 9a-1p
Instructor: Martha Richard
Class Description: Woven Sheep. Weave a cute sheep for your studio or Christmas tree. Student will warp loom, weave several sheep, assemble the sheep while at class. Project suitable for both new weavers and experienced ones. Each woven sheep will have his own personality.
Materials you need to bring to class: Loom with 12 dent reed (rigid loom, okay)
shuttle, scissors, roving.
Material fee: $10.00
Instructor fee: $45.00

Punchneedle Embroidery  (Beginner)   Saturday 10a-2p
Instructor: Nancee Ariagno
Class Description: “Hooter’s” Owl Pin
Each student will receive the pattern printed on weaver’s cloth, instruction sheet, Valdani thread kit, pin clasp, stuffing, and wool for backing and wings. A size #3 punchneedle and a no slip hoop will also be provided. Most students will be able to finish punching and assembly of pin.
Materials you need to bring to class: Small Embroidery scissors, crewel needle or a large
eyed sewing needle.
Materials fee: $55.00
Instructor fee: $55.00

Wreath from Wool Roving  (Beginner)   Friday 10a-2p
Instructor: Debbie Rapp
Class Description: This is about making a beautiful 16 inch wool roving wreath with needle felted flowers and leaves for accent. The wreath has several shades of red, gold, white and green. The flowers require some needle felting skills.
Materials you need to bring to class: NONE
Materials fee: $35.00
Instructor fee: $46.00

Cherokee Market Basket  (Beginner)  Sunday 10a-2p
Instructor: Bev Larson
Class Description: Weave a traditional market basket to hold all your festival goodies in a Cherokee pattern. Basket will be 8x10”.
Materials you need to bring to class: NONE
Materials fee: $25.00
Instructor fee: $35.00

Irish Knitting Basket  (Beginner)  Saturday 9a-4p
Instructor: Bev Larson
Class Description: Weave a traditional Irish (or Scottish) Knitting basket.
Approximate size 12 inches in diameter.
Materials you need to bring to class: NONE
Materials fee: $36.00
Instructor fee: $50.00

Fundamentals of Dyeing  (Beginner)  Sunday 1p-5p
Instructor: Traci Bray
Class Description: Foundations of Dyeing is a class intent on exposing students to the basics of protein fiber dyeing. Utilizing dyes with no heavy metals that are light-fast and eco-friendly, Students will learn the techniques of hand-painting and kettle dyeing.
Materials you need to bring to class: Safety glasses, Waterproof rubber gloves.
Materials fee: $60.00
Instructor fee: $45.00

Fleece Prep. 101  (All skill levels)   Sunday 9a-12p
Instructor: Traci Bray
Class Description: In this interactive lecture, learn how to take raw fleece and make it spinable. We will talk about the different types of wool, what to look for in a good fleece, how to avoid the felting, how to know when the fleece is clean (but, not too clean), drying, and we’ll talk a little about different types of fiber processing. You’ll get to take home a full color booklet to help with your endeavors at home.
Materials you need to bring to class:  Excitement of Learning
Materials fee: $25.00
Instructor fee: $35.00

Pattern Theory  (Intermediate)  Saturday 9a-12p
Instructor: CJ Bloomer
Class Description: This lecture will help you understand the hidden workings of fabric structures in relation to weaving patterns. Hone your skills in reading the modern standardized weaving pattern and utilize them by unlocking the secrets that lay within. We’ll start a simple and work our way up into limitless possibilities, including making your own patterns. Even if you have a 2, 4, or 8+ harness loom you’ll take away valuable new information, as well as a full color booklet and specially designed chart paper to help you in your own discoveries.
Materials you need to bring to class: Pen, notebook and ready to think.
Materials fee: $25.00
Instructor fee: $35.00

Mosaic Knitting  (Beginner to Advanced)   Friday 1p-5p
Instructor: Stephanie Russo
Class Description: Students will learn mosaic knitting techniques developed by Barbara Walker. It is a two-color knitting using one color at a time.( Students need to know how to knit and cast on)
Materials you need to bring to class: To make a sample—2 highly contrasting colors and needles appropriate  to the yarn. To make a washcloth—2 highly contrasting cottons and needles appropriate to the yarn.
Usual knitting supplies.
Materials fee: NONE
Instructor fee: 45.00

Sock Knitting Skills ( All Skill Levels)  Sunday 10a-2p
Instructor: Pamela Mahan
Required Skills: This class is aimed at the first-time sock knitter or those who want to expand their knitting skills that would apply to socks. Students should be competent with knitting, purling, casting-on, increasing, and decreasing. Familiarity with knitting in the round would be helpful.
Class Description: This class will cover all sock knitting techniques needed to complete a classic sock constructed from the cuff down. We will use double-pointed needles to knit in the round. Through the creation of a sample mini sock, we will explore appropriate cast on methods, use the heel-stitch for a cushioned heel flap, learn to shape the heel with short rows, use symmetrical decreases for the toe, and finish with the kitchener stitch. A sock pattern for an adult sized sock will be included in the class handouts and students may choose to start the adult sock in class once the sample is completed. Other topics of discussion can include alternate methods of knitting in the round, such as magic-loop or using two circular needles; toe-up construction; alternate heel and toe construction; types of yarn appropriate
for socks; choosing your own stitch patterns.
Materials you need to bring to class: Sock, fingering, or sport weight yarn to use for class samples. Appropriate size double-pointed needles to use with sample yarn. Basic knitting tools. Optional: Sock yarn and needles to begin full sized sock, if desired and time permits.

Materials fee: NONE

Instructor fee: $45.00

Beginning Spindling  (Beginner)   Friday 10a-12p
Instructor: Leslie Bebensee
Class Description: This will be a class beginning with wool-working in general, from washing on, then focusing on spindling in particular. Face and lose our fears. Even if you’ve tried before, I guarantee you will learn to spin in just this class. Do this before your try a wheel! You will understand better and get a solid foundation to work from. I’ll supply everything. Just show up with a smiling attitude!
Materials you need to bring to class: NONE
Materials fee: $5.00
Instructor fee: 45.00

‘Fun Felted Flowers’  ( All Skill Levels)   Friday 10a-2p
Instructor: Nicola Brown
Class Description: :  Felt flowers make wonderful jewelry, scarf closures, hair accessories and other colourful accents to brighten an outfit; alternatively they are perfect for adding a decorative element to any interior or exterior design scheme!  Using her favorite short fibered merino and a selection of silk, tencel, linen and Firestar fibers Nicola will share with participants how to create stylish flowers with or without stems.  Intermediate felters will learn the techniques necessary to add multiple stamens, felt ring backs or several layers of petals all at once; each flower will be created totally from wet felting, no need to sew a stitch!  For participants who like to stitch however, Nicola will have a selection of beads and brooch backs with which the flowers may be turned into beautiful sparkling pieces of jewlery.
This basic skills covered in this workshop are perfect for the total beginner but more experienced felters may enjoy experimenting with the short fibered merino and felting beautiful rings complete with multiple stamens and ring backs!
Materials you need to bring to class:  An old towel, a rectangle of bubble wrap or solar pool cover, a small basin or mug and some mild olive oil/goats milk soap or similar.
Materials fee: $10.00
Instructor fee: $40.00

‘Fun Felted Flowers’  ( All Skill Levels)   Sunday 10a-2p
Instructor: Nicola Brown
Class Description: :  Felt flowers make wonderful jewelry, scarf closures, hair accessories and other colourful accents to brighten an outfit; alternatively they are perfect for adding a decorative element to any interior or exterior design scheme!  Using her favorite short fibered merino and a selection of silk, tencel, linen and Firestar fibers Nicola will share with participants how to create stylish flowers with or without stems.  Intermediate felters will learn the techniques necessary to add multiple stamens, felt ring backs or several layers of petals all at once; each flower will be created totally from wet felting, no need to sew a stitch!  For participants who like to stitch however, Nicola will have a selection of beads and brooch backs with which the flowers may be turned into beautiful sparkling pieces of jewlery.
This basic skills covered in this workshop are perfect for the total beginner but more experienced felters may enjoy experimenting with the short fibered merino and felting beautiful rings complete with multiple stamens and ring backs!
Materials you need to bring to class:  An old towel, a rectangle of bubble wrap or solar pool cover, a small basin or mug and some mild olive oil/goats milk soap or similar.
Materials fee: $10.00
Instructor fee: $40.00

‘Introduction to Felting with Raw Wool in the Grease!’ (All Skill Levels) 
Saturday 9a-4p
Instructor: Nicola Brown
Class Description: Felting with raw wool in the grease is very rewarding especially if you produce your own fiber and leads to stunning felt that looks as if it has just leapt straight off the animals’ back!  During this workshop Nicola will share with participants how she likes to combine raw fleece with a light layer of easy to felt merino or other fiber to create beautiful shaggy rugs, wall pieces, blankets, large bags, purses and other three dimensional pieces.  Using this method, participants will have the choice of experimenting with samples or felting a small wall piece, simple change purse or similar depending on previous felting experience. 
Materials you need to bring to class: Their own raw fleece if possible (see materials fee), two medium/large pieces of bubble wrap or solar pool cover, a couple of old towels and some olive oil/goats milk soap or similar.  An old net curtain is also helpful!
Materials fee: $10.00
Instructor fee: $90.00

Coming Unspun
Friday 2p-4p
Instructor: Stephanie Stratton
Class Description: How to use unspun fibers such as roving, combed top & silk hankies for knit and crochet. Learn how to malnipulate the lovely unspun wool and silk fibers so that you can knit beautiful hats, mittens, accessories, sweaters and more! We will also touch base on what to look for when purchasing unspun fibers .
Materials you need to bring to class: Knitting needles and/or crochet hooks.
Instructor fee this includes material fee: $45.00

The Shepherd’s Rug “MUG RUG” (Basic sewing skills needed)
2 separate classes Saturday 3p-4p & Sunday 1p-2p
Instructor: Annie Brown
Class Description: Make a colorful mug rug to match your favorite coffee mug or give as a gift. Learn to braid, sewing and finishing skills before leaving the class. With sewing skills learned you will be able to use your own roving to make a chair pad, round rug or oval rug at home.
Materials needed to bring to class: NONE
Instructor fee this includes material fee: $30.00

Fearless Dyeing on wool with mixed dyes
Saturday 1p-5p
Instructor: Mary Nehring
Class Descritption: Have you ever wanted yarn in a particular color, wanted to “tweak” your existing yarn color, or wanted to rescue a favorite sweater because of a stain?  Come learn how easy it can be to hand paint your yarns and/or sweaters.  Mary will bring everything that you need to dye two skeins of yarn with fiber reactive dyes.  You will learn how to effortlessly steam in a vegetable steamer, microwave or large pot.  Directions will also be given on how to salvage a sweater.  The $20.00 kit fee will include all chemicals, two skeins of yarn (one a super wash sock yarn, the other a bulky weight merino), and use of all equipment.  This class is for all levels of experience.  Participants are advised to wear old clothes.
Materials you need to bring to class: WEAR OLD CLOTHES or Bring old clothes to change into.
Materials fee: $20.00
Instructor Fee: $50.00

Spinning Wire Core Yarns
Saturday 1p - 5p
Instructor: Robin Wade
Class Description: Come learn to spin wire-core yarns! Great for projects where a structural component plays a strong role, such as jewelry, bowls, or other three-dimensional objects, wire-core yarns are an exciting addition to your spinning repertoire. In this class you will learn to spin fiber around a wire core, creating a yarn with the flexible stiffness of wire and a soft exterior. You will learn techniques to control the wire and prevent twisting and kinking and to provide enough twist to keep the fiber firmly in place. We will spin two yarns, one smooth and one textured, around two different sizes of wire, giving you a firm overview of the process and the confidence needed to experiment further on your own. For this class, you don't
need to be a great spinner, but you will need to be comfortable spinning on a wheel. Please bring 2 oz. of the fiber of your choice; wire and a small assortment of textured fiber, ric-rac, sequins, and other fun spin-ins will be provided.

Materials you need to bring with you: Spinning Wheel and 2oz of your fiber choice

Material Fee: $10.00
Instructor Fee: $30.00

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