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2008 Taos Wool Festival Workshop Categories:
This year, we are happy to be able to offer a limited number
of looms for rent from the
Weavings for the
Body in Ethnic Designs
Instructor: Judy
Ditmore
3 Days, Wed-Fri, Oct 1-3 $270 Max
Students: 20
Description: Get the most form your
loom without having to sew on a machine to make striking garments in the ethnic
tradition, such as ponchos, ruanas, and rebozos. You can use your handspun or
any commercial yarn to produce dramatic results with simple patterns. If you
only have a 15 inch loom, no problem.
Color, texture and use /function of the finished fabric will be the main
focus in this class. Some production skills will be discussed as needed by the
individual student. Join Judy for
this 3-day workshop which will also include dressing the loom. Once you sign up Judy will help you
decide what yarns, sett and pattern you will use. A packet of choices will be
sent in advance of the class for your selection.
Materials Fee: $10.00 for notebook
with all the projects that will be done in class.
Students Bring: Loom, dressing tools,
shuttles, winders, swift, ball winder, scissors and a bench if they have
one. Yarns for the project. I will have additional yarns available for sale in
the class room.
Judy L. Ditmore has made fiber her
life for the last 28 years. Owning a retail store, being and artist and now
having a dye company for the last 12 years have paved the path of her
journey. She is known for teaching
weaving, dyeing and knitting across the
Hachure, Hatching
and Color Gradation for Tapestry
Instructor: James Koehler
3 Days, Mon – Wed Oct 6-8 $270 Max
Students: 18
Skill Level: All levels – a basic knowledge of tapestry weaving is
helpful.
Description: Participants will weave a sampler to learn various color
gradation techniques and their uses in tapestry. Techniques taught in the workshop will
include: hachure, hatching, the use
of demi-duites, horizontal and vertical color gradation, and color mixing in
weft bundles. A small scale
tapestry will be woven incorporating the various techniques.
Materials Fee: $15,
includes various colors of hand dyed weft yarn and handouts
Students Bring: Graph
paper, 8 squares per inch, tracing paper, straight edge, Compass,
pencil/eraser, colored pencils or markers, scissors, calculator, T-pins,
tapestry needles, and fine point indelible markers (Sharpies). Looms will need
to be warped in advance, and warping instructions will be sent out on
registration.
Internationally recognized tapestry artist, James Koehler has been weaving since
1977. For many years he has taught weaving, tapestry, and design principles and
is a mentor to many of his students. Koehler’s tapestries can be found in
several private, corporate, and museum collections including the Renwick
Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Additional information is found on his website: www.jameskoehler.com. Southwest
Tapestry
Instructor: Rose Vigil
2 Days, Wed & Thu, Oct 1-2 $185 Max
Students: 12 Skill
Level: Beginner to advanced weavers
Description: Workshop participants will have an opportunity to create a small tapestry
with their own unique design.
Participants will be taught many tapestry techniques from around the
world, with a focus on those most commonly used here in the
Material Fee: $25 for one half
pound of hand dyed woolen weft material.
Students Bring: pre-warped loom
(your own portable tapestry loom, pup or baby wolf, or a Navajo
loom), warped at eight ends per inch using a 2/12 (warp material can
be ordered from Rose), notebook, graph paper, color pencils, drafting tools,
sketch or design
idea. Rose has looms
available to rent for her class, unwarped (50$) or warped ($75). For further instructions, contact Rose
at warpweave@cybermesa.com.
“Now Let’s Get Serious”
Southwest Tapestry
Instructor: Rose Vigil
At Los
Vigiles Weaving Studio in
5 Days, Mon Oct 6, 1pm-5pm – Sat Oct 11,
9am-noon $425 Max
Students: 8 Skill
Level: Beginning tapestry weavers & beyond
Description: Workshop
participants will have the opportunity to design and create a Southwest
tapestry which is uniquely their own.
We will use tapestry techniques from many different cultures to achieve
the best results in producing the textile. In the workshop you will learn
design, color theory, and many cultural aspects of Southwest tapestry while
weaving on stand-up Chimayo production counterbalance looms.
Materials fee: $65--includes warp and use of looms and a large
variety of hand dyed yarns to choose from for one tapestry. Students can elect to enjoy a hot,
Students Bring: Notebook, graph paper (8/inch), color pencils,
drafting tools, shuttles if they have them, sketch or idea for design and
comfortable shoes.
Rose Vigil has an AAS in
Fiber Arts and has been working in
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Descriptions
-FELT
MAKING TECHNIQUES-
Felt Jewelry:
Foundations and Innovations
Instructor: Lisa Klakulak
3 Days, Wed-Fri Oct 1 - 3, 9-4 $270 Max
Students: 15 Skill Level: Any
Description: Gain an in-depth understanding of the biological, chemical and
physical reasons for felting, allowing for masterful control of this remarkable
medium. Explore wet felting at the
tips of your fingers to achieve finely crafted solid felt forms such as balls,
discs, barrels, rings, cords and clasps. Participants will be encouraged to
explore and innovate basic felting techniques to create unique jewelry
compositions enhanced with needle felted and stitched embellishment that
visually communicates their personal aesthetic.
Materials fee: $30 – a vast sampling of colors
in Merino fleece, fulling mat,
agitating tools, STRONGFELT Moroccan Olive Oil Soap, single replaceable needle
felting tool and foam, poly compressing fabric.
Students Bring: sketch book and
writing utensils, small bowl/container (approx. 6”dia, 3”deep),
sewing and embroidery threads and corresponding sizes of needles for hand
stitching, a semi-precious stone cabochon or flat disc of a water proof
material such as stone, bone, horn, metal, glass (approx. 1.5” in dia)
for encasing with a felt bezel, additional beads or objects to incorporate,
additional threads of any material, single plied wool yarns, and/or novelty
yarns for embedding in the felt.
Optional: tight fitting plastic gloves if sensitive to the alkalinity of
soap, plastic apron.
Sculpting Fiber:
Techniques for Felting Forms
Instructor: Lisa Klakulak
5 Days, Mon – Fri, Oct 6-10, 9-4
$425 Max
Students: 15
Skill Level: Any
Description: Gain an in-depth understanding of the biological, chemical
and physical reasons for felting, allowing for masterful control of this
remarkable medium. Participants will explore the three foundational methods for
manipulating wool fleece into three-dimensional forms: wrapping a form,
wrapping a flat resist and solid form felting. With a focus on designing resist
patterns, varying the thickness of layering and methods of agitation, each
participant will complete a uniquely sculpted lidded vessel and a handbag with
a single cord handle and felted closure.
Materials Fee: $40 includes a vast sampling of colors in Merino fleece,
balloon, duct tape, fulling mat, agitation tools, roller, poly compressing
fabric, STRONGFELT Moroccan Olive Oil Soap, single replaceable needle felting
tool and foam. The STRONGFELTER, a
hand turned wood agitation tool, will be available for $30.
Students Bring: 2
pair of waist high nylons, a large bowl (approx. 15” dia x 6”deep), 12”x 15” piece of heavy
duck canvas, 1 piece of small bubbled bubble wrap measuring 12” x
90”, sewing and embroidery threads and corresponding sizes of needles for
hand stitching, additional threads of any material, single plied wool yarns,
and/or novelty yarns for embedding in the felt.
Lisa Klakulak, studio artist
and educator, operates her business, STRONGFELT, out of Asheville, NC. Klakulak
has a BFA in Fiber from
Make a Felted Hat
Instructor: Mary
Curik
1 Day, Thu Oct 2
$95
Max Students: 6 Skill
Level: Any
Workshop description: Learn
wet felting techniques while creating your one of a kind felted hat. You’ll work with alpaca
fiber to create felt, and use a variety of felting techniques and tools to make
your finished hat look fabulous.
Materials Fee: $20.00
for felting fiber and finishing supplies for hats.
Students Bring: clothing that can get wet, apron, two towels, rubber gloves
if desired.
Getting Started
with Needle-Felting
Instructor: Mary
Curik
½ Day, Sun Oct 5 AM $50 Max
Students: 12
Skill Level: Beginner
Workshop description: The
workshop will provide an introduction to needle-felting tools and
techniques. Learn how fiber
felts, different needles used for felting, using cookie cutters for shape
forms, adding designs to fabrics or felt pieces, adding dimension to a piece,
and embellishing needle-felted items.
You’ll complete one or two needle-felted pins that will give you
practice in using the needle-felting techniques, and will be sure to be noticed
by other festival goers!
Materials Fee: $15.00
for felting fiber, needles, felting foam, cookie cutter shapes
Students Bring: paper, pencil, any pictures of designs for needle felting
Mary Curik has raised alpacas,
llamas, and angora goats in Los Lunas, New Mexico for over ten years. She developed her Fiber and Friends
workshop there, getting people off to a good start in all things fiber,
offering fiber arts classes and alpaca fiber products from their farm. She has also taught seminars at the
national alpaca breeder’s fiber conferences.
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Creative Knitting
Instructor: Valentina Devine
1 Day, Thu Oct 2 $95
Max Students: 25 Skill Level: All
Description: Knit
without a pattern! Learn to combine linear shapes such as rectangles, squares,
and stripes, enhanced by choices of color. Be prepared to go beyond the
"lines" into the realm of irregularity by fitting these shapes
together. Explore wherever your creative juices will take you. Expect free-form results ranging from
dramatic to simple, elegant to funky. Work on designing your own garment and begin
a project in class. Shed your fears about fiber, texture and most of all,
gauge. Valentina will be guiding
students through free form knitting and exploring the world of abstract color
combinations.
Materials Fee: None
Students Bring: Odd ball
yarn, appropriate size knitting needles, crochet hook, darning needle.
Beyond Creative
Knitting
Instructor:
Valentina Devine
1 Day, Fri Oct 3 $95 Max
Students: 25 Skill
Level: All
Description: In
this class, the next step beyond Creative Knitting, Valentina guides you
through free-form knitting, such as circles, swirls, scrumbles and more. Discover how to create extraordinary and
beautiful designs while using all those wonderful yarn snippets left over in
your stash. Learn to create
eye-catching fashions using Valentina’s methods.
Materials fee: None
Students Bring: Odd
ball yarn, appropriate size knitting needles, crochet hook, darning needle.
Valentina Devine has
always knitted! Born in
Design a Norwegian
Pullover
Instructor: Donna Druchunas
2 half days, Sat & Sun AM Oct 4-5 $95
Max Students: 20 Skill Level: Adv.
Beginner - Intermediate knitter
Description: If you've always wanted to design
your own sweater but you didn't know where to start, this workshop is your
answer! Using the techniques I developed for my book Ethnic Knitting Discovery, we'll work through the preparations
required to plan and design a sweater. We'll make a headband as a sample
project to step through the process, and you'll be ready to cast on for your
sweater after the class is over.
Materials Fee: None
Students Bring
Fingering-, sport- or worsted-weight yarn in several colors for swatching,
knitting needles in a size appropriate for yarn (circular or double-pointed
needles recommended), stitch markers, colored pencils and an eraser, a
calculator (optional), and a sense of adventure! If you have other books on
Norwegian knitting bring them along.
Explore Japanese
Knitting
Instructor: Donna Druchunas
1 Day, Mon Oct 6 $95 Max
Students: 20 Skill
Level: Intermediate
Description: Japanese knitting books are hot right now. Although the
patterns are written entirely in Japanese, they are not impossible for American
audiences to read. Very light on text and very heavy on charts and schematics,
with a cheat sheet of translations, any adventurous knitter can enter the world
of Japanese knitting. In this class we will learn how to read Japanese
patterns, focusing on the charts and schematics. Because Japanese patterns
usually are written for one size -- small or extra-small -- we will also learn
how to resize the patterns for larger American bodies. In addition, we will
learn a few interesting Japanese stitches and techniques that can be used to
add an extra level of finesse to any project.
Materials Fee: None
Students Bring: About 50 yards of worsted or sport weight yarn and size 7 or
5 needles for swatching, pencil and eraser, calculator, basic knitting tools.
Donna Druchunas left the corporate
world some 20+ years ago to pursue her love of fiber art, knitting and fiber
history and is a popular teacher as well as author. She is the author of the popular Arctic
Lace and Knitted Rugs books and her latest book, Ethnic
Knitting Discovery will be out in October. Donna lives in
Color Knitting Techniques and More
Instructor: Suzann Thompson
1 Day, Fri Oct 3
$95 Max Students: 12 Skill
Level: Intermediate
Description: Increase
your repertoire of knitting techniques with lots of ways to knit color. We will practice the most common color
knitting techniques, like slipped stitch color knitting (sometimes called
mosaic technique),
Materials
Fee: $3 for a ball of yarns
so you can try the Seveness color technique.
Students Bring: 6 or more colors of leftover yarn, in the range of DK to worsted
weight (more colors = more fun); knitting needles, the size to knit a relaxed
gauge (not sloppy, not too tight) with your chosen yarn; three long stitch
holders, in case you want to start a new sample before finishing the old one,
tapestry needle, scissors. Optional:
three yarn bobbins.
Oak and Maple
Crocheted Leaves
Instructor: Suzann Thompson
½ Day, Sun Oct 5, PM $50 Max
Students: 12
Skill Level: Intermediate
Description: Leaves
of the oak and the maple are instantly recognizable and intertwined in many
cultures around the world. Learn to crochet these two leaves, using
Suzann's unusual shaping methods. These are the best leaf patterns you've
ever seen!
Materials Fee: None.
Students Bring: Smooth
DK or worsted weight yarn in two or three of your favorite leaf colors, crochet
hook(s) to give you a firm gauge when used to crochet the yarn you bring,
tapestry needle, scissors.
Crochet a Bouquet
Instructor: Suzann Thompson
1 Day,
Mon Oct 6 $95 Max
Students: 12
Skill
Level: Intermediate
Description: Decorate your clothing, accessories, greeting cards, and home with beautiful crocheted flowers! We'll make three different styles of roses, plus several other flowers, using traditional and novel techniques from Suzann's new book Crochet Bouquet (Lark, 2008). Learn applied crochet embellishment, ribbon flower technique, how to use padding threads, and how to join a line of petals into a perfect round. Suzann will present many ideas and examples for using crocheted flowers.
Materials
Fee: None.
Students
Bring: at least 8 colors of yarn for flowers, in the range of DK to
worsted weight—leftover yarns are fine, different textures alright, too;
one or two colors of yarn to make leaves, same weight range as for flowers;
hooks in sizes appropriate for the yarn you bring; scissors, tapestry needle.
Pleats, Darts, and Other Knitted
Oddities
Instructor: Suzann Thompson
1 Day,
Tue Oct 7 $95 Max
Students: 12 Skill
Level: Intermediate
Description: Improve fit and add detail to garments with pleats and
darts. Learn three different pleats, and how to incorporate them into
garments. Learn how to measure and
calculate darts, how to construct a dart with short rows, and how to use short
rows for other kinds of shaping and garment detail.