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Josephine County Fairgrounds
Grants Pass, Oregon
November 10-11, 2012
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Workshops and Demonstrations |
Workshops
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Date:
Saturday November 10, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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| Price: $72 ($65 teaching fee, $7 materials fee)
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| Title: Weaving on an Inkle Loom Instructor: Suzie Liles
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This is a beginning weaving class using an Inkle Loom. we will warp the looms for making a sash or belt. Each student will learn to warp the loom and understand how to put color cominations together to make simple designs. An Inkle loom is required. If you do not have an Inkle loom, please contact Suzie at suzie@eugenetextilecenter.com to arrange the loan of a loom for the class.
Maxium Number of Students: 10 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: Suzie Liles has taught weaving for 23 years. Suzie is very enthusiastic and loves to share her knowledge. She has taught workshops and seminars for adults and children in the United States and Canada. Suzie has a MFA in Fibers from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the Handweavers Guild of America, Surface Design Association, and Spinning and Weaving Association. She is very active in the fiber arts community; she was the chair of the 2001 Northwest Weaving conference assistant chair for the 2007 Surface design conference, Coordinator for the joint symposium Studio Arts Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association April 2008. She chaired the 2011 Northwest Weavers Conference. In March of 2008 Suzie Liles and Marilyn Robert opened the Eugene Textile Center in Eugene, Oregon.
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Date:
Saturday November 10, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
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| Price: $55
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| Title: Herbal Foundations for Fiber Producers Instructor: Kat Drovdahl
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A class that offers alternative choices in the wellness of your fiber animals so that they have the chance to produce the best ever fiber, and to increase the wellness and decrese the workload of the livestock owner due to the increased well being of their flock, herd, or group of fiber producing stock.
Maximum Number of Students: 10 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: Kat Drovdahl MH CR CEIT DipHIr has her Master's degree in Herbology, is a Certified Reflexologist, a Diplomate of Holistic Iridology, a Certified Equine Iridology Technicina and has an International Certification in aromatherapy. She owns Fir Meadow LLC, a whole herb product online business for creature and human wellness, and is the author of "The Accessible Pet, Equine and Livestock Herbal."
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Date:
Sunday November 10, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
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| Price: $50
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| Title: French Birdhouse Basket Instructor: Donna Sakamoto Crispin
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Learn twining and plain weaving while creating a whimsical gourd shaped birdhouse. Donna will talk about collecting, preparation, and weaving natural materials. Participants should bring heavy scissors or garden shears and an old towel.
Materials provided will be vine rattan, iris and daylily leaves, philodendron sheaths, sea grass, and other natural materials.
Maximum Number of Students: 8 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: Donna lives in Eugene, OR. She has been creating baskets since 1986, and started teaching workshops shortly after. She is available to teach most types of basketmaking techniques, and can tailor workshops to meet your needs. This year, she is teaching for the EMU Craft Center/ University of OR., Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology, in Otis, OR, and Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Donna teaches adults and children. She has many years of experience with elementary school age children, as a teaching assistant, plus many art residencies at schools throughout
Lane County.
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Date:
Saturday November 10, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
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| Price: $ 45
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| Title: Top Down Funky Hat Instructor: Janis Thompson
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Learn the "fits every time" way to knit a hat using your own unique stash of leftover yarns from other projects. A variety of design elements and ideas for" fun and crazy" will be explored in class.
Students are to bring a little bag/basket of their own yarn leftovers and a set of 5 dpn's.
Maximum Number of Students: 12 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: A whirlwind of artistic energy ... Janis is always learning and sharing various media ... mostly fibers, spinning, dyeing, knitting, felting, wire twisting, bead craft and RAKU. Janis is the owner of dyelots fiber studio in Eugene, an instructor at the Eugene Textile Center and the Educational Talks and Demonstrations chairperson for the BSG. She teaches, demonstrates and vends at many shows around the Northwest.
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Date:
Saturday November 10, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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| Price: Class $ 85.00 ($60 student fee, $25 for materials)
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| Title: Nuno Felting Instructor:Thalia Keple
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Learn nuno-felting techniques, including how to felt merino wool
onto silk chiffon and incorporate yarns and fibers to make a soft and airy scarf. This fun technique allow you to express your creativity--no two scarf are alike. Students will take home samples as well as their scarf. All experience levels are welcome.
Teacher will supply silk chiffon scarf blanks, merino wool, rolling pipes, soap, tulle, ties, bubble wrap. Students should bring 3-4 old towels.
Maximun Number of Students: 8 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: I have enjoyed fiberarts and crafts all my life. From my early knitting and sewing projects, I have expanded my interest to weaving, nuno felting, and jewelry making. I currently teach nuno felting and jewelry making classes. You can see my work at www.thaliakeple.com.
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Date:
Sunday November 11, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
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| Price: $50 ($45 teaching fee, $5 materials fee)
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| Title: Needle Felting in Two and Three Dimensions Instructor: Jeff Merrifield
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We will learn to make flat art (tapestries) and a felted creature (sculpture). Suitable for all levels of skill, beginner to advanced. Materials supplied are needles, pad, felt, and fiber.
Maximum Number of Students: 10 Minumum: 4
Instructor's Bio: Jeff is the co-owner of Camp Feliz Alpacas. Of the many uses we have for fiber from our herd of alpacas, one is creating felt. A couple of years ago I purchased some felting needles and my adventure in fiber art began
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Date:
Sunday November 11, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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| Price: $40.00 ($25 teaching fee, $15 materials fee)
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| Title: Knitting the Continental Way Instructor: Renate Gyuro
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Whether you've never knitted or want to learn the Continental way, this is the class for you. It's a beginners class and the only requirement is patience.
Material supplied are one ball of alpaca yarn and two bamboo knitting needles.
Maximum Number of Students: 8 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: I learned to knit in Elementary school in Germany and have been knitting ever since. When my husband and I started to raise alpacas, I couldn't wait to start knitting with alpaca yarn. I started a knitting group three years ago and was amazed that most knitters used the "English" method - or "throwing" the yarn. It looks complicated and cumbersome to me, but works well for them, because that's how they learned. A few of my knitters have switched to the "Continental" method - or "picking" the yarn and agree it's easier and faster. Like everything else, it takes practice. renate is the co-owner of Alpacas at Lone Ranch.
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Date:
Sunday November 11, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
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| Price: $50
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| Title: Wild Potato Basket Instructor: Donna Sakamoto Crispin
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Based on the appalachian style potato basket, we will create a basket with built in handles. We will weave with vine rattan and reed, willow bark, iris leaves, philodendrom sheath, and other natural materials. Materials supplied by Donna.
Students will need to bring heavy duty scissors.
Maximum Number of Students:8 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: Donna lives in Eugene, OR. She has been creating baskets since 1986, and started teaching workshops shortly after. She is available to teach most types of basketmaking techniques, and can tailor workshops to meet your needs. This year, she is teaching for the EMU Craft Center/ University of OR., Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology, in Otis, OR, and Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Donna teaches adults and children. She has many years of experience with elementary school age children, as a teaching assistant, plus many art residencies at schools throughout
Lane County.
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Date:
Sunday November 11, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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| Price: $ 55.00 ($45 student fee, $10 for materials)
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| Title: Adventures in COLOR! Instructor:Janis Thompson
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Drum card your way around the color wheel with exciting bits of wool, mohair, silk, bamboo and lots of other glitzy stuff. Join in on this fun class to make spinnable batts of "art yarn" and or felting for your next project. We will tint, tone, shade and add texture.
Each student must have a carder. Janis has two carders that can be reserved for use on a first come first served basis. Contact her to reserve one if needed.
Maximum Number of Students: 10 Minimum: 4
Instructor's Bio: A whirlwind of artistic energy ... Janis is always learning and sharing various media ... mostly fibers, spinning, dyeing, knitting, felting, wire twisting, bead craft and RAKU. Janis is the owner of dyelots fiber studio in Eugene, an instructor at the Eugene Textile Center and the Educational Talks and Demonstrations chairperson for the BSG. She teaches, demonstrates and vends at many shows around the Northwest.
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