Mary Jo and Nancy give three-day and mini workshops (three to six hours). All workshops can be altered in length to meet the needs of your conference or guild program.

Workshops (three days):

Weaving with Mixed Fibers (Breaking the Rules and Solving the Problems)

Use more than 20 different yarns in a single sophisticated warp! Learn tricks and efficient ways to use your stash yarns!

Design a scarf using a multitude of fibers, yarn weights and types. Learn how to successfully combine these elements by solving fiber problems. Play with a large pallet of elegant colors and discover pleasing combinations. Then, test your fabric for suitability using professional standards.

Everyone will leave with ideas and weaving tricks which will add a dash of pizzazz to his/her next project. (Also, gain an excuse to buy more yarn!)

2-4-1: An Elegant Duo

Create fabrics, linings, trimmings and closures that are guaranteed to go together elegantly.

Combine two or more fabrics and techniques to create subtle variations in color and pattern. Weave and/or knit innovative cloth, then dye, suface-design, and embellish your work.

Explore authentic techniques used by women from the four-corners of the world. Learn how to adapt these methods to our own personal signature in household items, clothing or accessories.

Record all your new ideas into a personal reference journal.

Changing the Tiger's Stripes

Explore traditional and cultural stripes as a form of communication. Participants will use several approaches, including mathematical and visual methods for designing stripes. Learn how to combine stripes on the loom for a harmonious effect. Then experiment with ways to change, subdue, or perk it up. See the effect of direction and drape in using stripes for clothing or household items.

Workshops (Mini Workshops):

Buttons and Bows

Snap it up with an expressive finish. Learn how to make easy frogs, toggles, buttons, and braids that become an impressive coordinated accessory to your next project. Show your individuality by creating your own one-of-a-kind fasteners for clothing, bags, and anything else you can imagine.

Put it all together in a memory book made in class.

One Pot Painting

Working with only one container, students will paint a scarf by continuing to use what they have left in the container. Not only will students learn how to paint and stamp a silk scarf, they will learn how to mix colors to change from one color to the next. This information is useful in dyeing, weaving, knitting, and other fiber arts.

Of Zebras and Zip Codes

Explore traditional and cultural stripes as a form of communication. You will use several approaches to design colorful and pleasing stripes. Learn how to combine stripes on the loom for a harmonious effect. Then experiment with ways to change, subdue, or perk up your stripes for variations on a theme. See the effect of direction and drape in using stripes for clothing or household items.

Picture Your Warp

This mini hands-on workshop features a visual approach to studying color. Participants will learn a series of exercises to develop creative thinking, color perception and proportion. The final outcome is a foolproof way of picking colors for your next project.

Dyeing to Dye Over

This is the perfect way to add a new look to that drab yarn, fabric, or paper. Working with commercially dyed yarns, learn methods for that hand painted look. You will obtain wonderful results with our easy technique of dyeing on cellulose (cotton) fibers.

Participants will learn dye safety, techniques, and ideas on how to use yarns, fabric, and paper. This is a great dye class for those who knit, weave, quilt, or do scrap booking. Make your next project unique and individual. Everyone will go home with a paper he/she dyed and samples of yarn (three-hour workshop). If the class is a full day (six-hours), everyone will get a chance to dye his/her own sample of yarn or fabric besides the paper.

Contact:

If you or your group is interested in one of these workshops or you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Mary Jo and Nancy!