2026 Class List

  • Fiber Blending Tools and Techniques with Sylvia Smith - Saturday 9-12:00
    Part of the allure of the fiber arts is taking a lump of fluff and turning it into something both unique and beautiful.  With the right tools, fiber artist can blend lumps of fluff into the exact fiber they want to use for a spinning or felting project.  Sylvia will teach class participants to use their hand carders to to become proficient at using your hand carders regardless of their design. We’ll practice the basic movements to card wool, and then do some fun blending. We will create rolags for woolen spinning, carded sliver for a worsted style yarn, and little batts for either spinning or felting. 
    Participants will also learn how to use their blending boards to do similar preparations, but on a larger scale.  Blending on a blending board yields best results when used with ready-to-spin fibers rather than unprocessed fiber.  It’s a great way to re-imagine the colors in handpainted braids, or to deal with roving made by blending fibers of different lengths.  We’ll create our custom blends with the help of some atypical tools like a paintbrush, pet slicker brush and dowel rods or old straight metal knitting needles.  Sylvia will also demonstrate how to create artful batts that can then be used in textured yarns from carding and combing waste.
    Participants will also get to learn and practice making blended tops on a blending hackle.  Like the blending board, this tool yields beautiful results when used with ready-to-spin fibers that you wish to blend to create a unique and beautiful roving.
    Participants will leave this class with inspiring skills to create fiber preparations for their spinning or felting masterpieces. 
  • Beginning Drop Spindle with Sylvia Smith - Saturday 2-5:00
    While spinning fiber on spinning wheels is a comparatively modern innovation, spinning fibers together to use for cloth has been done for at least 20,000 years. Prior to the development of spinning wheels, threads and yarns for all textiles were spun on spindles. This class gives you the opportunity to reconnect with your ancestral heritage by learning to spin on a drop spindle. Sylvia will teach you how to spin different types of wool on a drop spindle, and you’ll also learn how to create a plied yarn with this tool. At first glance, spinning on a drop spindle appears slower and more primitive than using a spinning wheel to create yarn. Looks can be deceiving, as a spindle is an effective tool for making yarn and it is more affordable and portable than a spinning wheel. No spinning experience is necessary. A handout with resources and terminology will be provided. Bring your own spindle to use in class, or borrow one of Sylvia’s. Spindles may be available for purchase at vendor booths.  Students will also be provided with take-home spindles as part of the materials fee.   
  • Beginning Spinning Wheel with Sylvia Smith - Sunday 9-5:00 (2 hour lunch) 
    People who are passionate about either yarn or their own fiber animals often feel the pull to start making their own yarns. Spinning wheels are an elegant and versatile tool for this purpose. Regardless of the wheel’s size or appearance, its purpose is to add twist to fiber to make it into yarn. Watching a spinner turn a handful of fluff into a strong yarn is like watching a magical transformation, and it’s very alluring to want to learn this art. 
    Participants in this class will learn the basics of spinning yarns on their own spinning wheels. We will start with a brief discussion of wool fiber characteristics and practice drafting. We will then move into learning about spinning wheel mechanics. We’ll combine the two skills of drafting and managing the movements of the spinning wheel to make some singles yarns. We will end the class by creating some beautiful plied yarns, and discuss yarn finishing techniques.
  • Goat Milk Soap Making and Felting with Kandi Dodrill - Sunday 9-12:00 
    Goat Milk Soap Making & Soap Felting Escape the everyday and immerse yourself in the cozy, creative craft of soap making.  This engaging 1.5-hour workshop will guide you through the satisfying process of crafting your own natural goat milk soap.
    We provide everything, including your own mold, ppe, and all supplies to create (approx. two pounds!) of rich, moisturizing soap.
    Plus, Customize Your Bar! As an exciting addition, you will learn the art of wet and needle felting on soap using a pre-made, cured bar. We will provide colorful wool roving for you to create a beautiful, custom landscape scene or design that acts as a decorative, built-in wash cloth and scrubber.
    Leave inspired with:
    A fantastic 2-pound block of custom soap (to cure at home).
    One completed felted bar of soap (ready to use immediately!).
    The detailed recipe and the confidence to make it again at home!
  • Bounce, Roll, Felt a Bowl with Kandi Dodrill - Saturday 9-12:00 Get ready for a hands-on, high-energy fiber adventure! Wet felting is messy, fun, and totally transformative. You start with soft, fluffy wool, and three hours later, you walk away with a functional, sturdy object. Learn the secret to bouncing your project into existence as we use water, soap, and elbow grease to shrink and sculpt the wool. We will be completing a beautiful seamless bowl that is ready to use or display. This process opens the door to creating larger items like hats, purses, and cat caves! No experience necessary. Supplies are included.
  • Dyeing to Nuno Felt with Anna Anderson - Saturday 2-5:00 This is the perfect class for anyone who wants to learn to dye silk and to learn Nuno felting.  We cover both in this fun beginner friendly Class. Students will take home a beautiful silk nuno felted scarf that they created using acid dyes and dyed wool. Bring an apron or old longsleeve shirt to protect your clothes from dye.
  • Fluffy Critters with Anna Anderson - Saturday 1-4:00
    This is a beginner friendly, needle felting class where students can choose from one of 4 different fluffy, whimsical animals. Students can choose a sheep, Angora Goat, Angora rabbit, or a Highland cow. 
    I will walk you through each step as you create an adorable fluffy friend to take home.
  • Band Weaving with Joanne Hall - Sunday 9-12:00
  • Pick Up Band Weaving with Joanne Hall - Sunday 1-4:00                                This is a continuation of the other band weaving class.  Looms with warp ready for weaving and supplies are provided for learning how to do pick up weaving on the band loom.  Any level of weaving experience is appropriate.  Warping the loom will be demonstrated.  
  • Keep Your Scales to Yourself with Peggy Doney - Saturday 9-5:00 with 2 hr lunch The “Unfelting” Workshop.
    Wouldn’t it be lovely dyeing your own wool top and not felting it?  How do you wash dyed wool fiber and not mat it?  How about keeping it from BLEEDING?  How do you get fluffy fibers?  Let’s sort out how to dye, heat set, and wash feltable wool and end up being able to spin it!  We will practice dyeing on several fiber types so you can take home samples to play with.
  • Grand and Glorious Gradients with Peggy Doney - Sunday 9-5:00 with a 2hr lunch. We've all drooled over gradient yarns, fiber, and items made from their gorgeous colors. Join us as we explore, hands-on, a method for building a 36 color gradient from two base colors. After covering some basic safety, equipment, and dye stock mixing, you will measure out from the solutions using the formulas provided. Experience the
    wonder of the hues and values as they shift across the gradient study. With the 36 new recipes, students will paint and/or immersion dye a skein of yarn or fiber. Everyone will leave with their own recipe book and 36 sample swatches, notes, and a link to a helpful spreadsheet that can do
    the math for you.
  • Punch a Tiny Rug with Una Walker - Saturday 9-5:00 with a 2 hr lunch.            In this class you will learn all the basics of Punch Needle rug hooking by completing a trivet sized piece that uses the same techniques you will find in much larger projects. There will be many designs to choose from and a plethora of color combinations to play with. We will be finishing the project as if it were a larger rug, and discussing how you can apply what you’ve learned to not only rugs, but a variety of applications of Punch Needle rug hooking.
  • Weave a Scarf with Stephanie Flynn - Sunday 9-5:00 with a 2 hr lunch       Weave a Scarf in a day,
  • Fiber Art Illustration with Eric Johnson - Sunday 9-12:00 In this class, children's book illustrator and Craftsy instructor Eric Johnson will share how to envision and develop a charming fiber art animal portrait character of your very own. Starting with sketches and concepts and then adding in personality, props, and accessories, this class will help you master the art of developing a unique illustration full of whim and whimsy. Eric will cover color theory, working with different colors of media, and troubleshooting. Suitable for ages 12 and up.
  • Core Spun Art Yarn Basics with Tammy Jordan -  Saturday 9-12:00                Ever wondered what it takes to make core-spun yarns with basic coils, slubs, and bobbles?  Have you considered what you would use those artful yarns for?  In this class we’ll answer your basic art yarn questions and I’ll teach you the beginning skills of core-spinning gentle and tight coils using techniques I’ve learned along the way. You’ll leave with a better understanding of not only how to make art yarns your way, but you’ll know how to use them in your knitting, crocheting,  weaving, and other fiber arts. This class is open to all spinners who are already able to spin a consistent single and know how to ply.
  • Woolen Watercolor with Tammy Jordan - Saturday 2-5:00                           Come create your very own masterpiece while learning to paint with wool.  We’ll start with needle-felting your design, building color and textures, and then we’ll finish it off with a steam wet-felt before matting and framing your work.  I’ll provide everything you need, including colored fiber, felting needles, foam mats, picture mat and frame, and you bring your love of color and a willingness to learn and create! No prior painting or needle-felting experience needed. Suitable for children ages 8 and older with parental supervision also taking the class.
  • Chain-plying Essentials with Tammy Jordan - Sunday 9-12:00 
    Have you wanted to get learn how to chain ply or become more proficient in your chain/Navajo plying techniques?  This is the perfect class to learn, or brush up on your chain plying skills.  We’ll go over the benefits and drawbacks of chain plying, what it’s best used for, and when to use this plying technique.
    This class is best suited for those students who can already spin a consistent single and know the basics of plying.  

     

  • Turkish Drop Spindle with Sue Linzer - Sunday 9-12:00                                        If you have always wanted to try the Turkish spindle but it's been a bit of a mystery to you, in three hours I can take the mystery out of this little spindle and you'll be on your way to spinning yarn.

    Part of the beauty of the Turkish spindle is the beautiful design that comes on your "cop" as you spin so we will use handpainted roving. You will learn to get your yarn started  and the special technique of wrapping it onto the arms of your spindle to build a nice cop. We will spin for the first half of the class, I will show you how to unload your cop and then start the second ply. I will demonstrate plying on the Turkish spindle, (although you can also ply on a wheel at home if you'd rather.) 

    A gorgeous handcrafted spindle is included in your materials fee.

    Sunday 9-12:00