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Wednesday Night Stitch Circle will be hosted at RAD Brewing until our studio is back up and running. After a long day at work, how about a little creative time with friends mid-week? This is not a class - you should know how to stitch, crochet, knit, or practice your favorite fiber craft but we suspect you will learn something along the way. We have experienced fiber enthusiasts in our group, so you can count on getting and giving some advice. Materials supplied by participants: Please bring whatever project/s you are working on, items for show and tell as well as yarn or fiber-y acquisitions and new project ideas. Bring your own supper or snack. Skill level: All skill levels are welcome, but some basic knowledge of fiber arts is encouraged. This is a free event for members, but please sign up so we know how many to expect. Cohosts: Judi Jetson & Mary Euler
Wednesday Night Stitch Circle will be hosted at RAD Brewing until our studio is back up and running.
After a long day at work, how about a little creative time with friends mid-week? This is not a class - you should know how to stitch, crochet, knit, or practice your favorite fiber craft but we suspect you will learn something along the way. We have experienced fiber enthusiasts in our group, so you can count on getting and giving some advice.
Materials supplied by participants: Please bring whatever project/s you are working on, items for show and tell as well as yarn or fiber-y acquisitions and new project ideas. Bring your own supper or snack.
Skill level: All skill levels are welcome, but some basic knowledge of fiber arts is encouraged.
This is a free event for members, but please sign up so we know how many to expect.
Cohosts: Judi Jetson & Mary Euler
Members! Join us for coffee or tea, conversation, and quiet handiwork. Suggestions: knitting, crocheting, hand sewing, sock darning, embroidery or any other portable project you have going lending itself to a get together. Let’s exchange ideas and chit-chat! The Handwork Circle will now be in person on the first and third Thursday of every month and on Zoom for the remaining Thursdays of the month from 1 - 3pm.
Bring. Yourselves, a mug, and your ongoing work. Also optional: bring a piece of your finished work to show others what your interests are.
Hosted by Susette Shiver and Ceil Jensen
Sign up at least 2 days in advance to receive registration information ahead of time.
Learn to create a sewing pattern directly from an existing garment without taking it apart. Using a woven shirt you own, you'll master fundamental techniques for copying a wide range of clothing items, including pants and knitwear. We'll cover essential elements like replicating shoulder fit, necklines, collars, and darts. You’ll leave with a complete pattern for your shirt. This hands-on approach to patternmaking empowers you to recreate your favorite garments with confidence.
Level: Beginner
Instructor: Mary Sigler and Sam Green (Read Mary and Sam's bio)
Members: $200
Non members: $ 240
Materials fee: $4 if student does not bring their own base to pin garment to (collected at time of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: cardboard base to pin garment into
Materials students should bring: Student’s woven shirt and classic T-shirt (washed), Large sheets or an 18" wide (or wider) roll of paper (white or brown), Scissors for paper, Pens and Pencils (in a few different colors), Paper for note taking, Ruler (grided, clear is best), French curve or Dressmaker's curve, Measuring tape, Straight pins (not too fine), Needle wheel (optional), Pattern Weights (optional) and Scotch tape. If time permitts bring muslin, basic sewing supplies and a sewing machine to test your pattern.
Learn about our COVID policy here: Workshop Policies
Special topic for this month: chain plying
Spinners should bring a bobbin of spun singles
The Spinning Study Group's purpose is to share the joy of handspinning. We welcome anyone from the professional spinner to those who are just beginning - all share a love of learning.
Supplies: Participants must bring their own spinning wheels and fiber. Some fiber may be available to share but is not guaranteed at each meeting.
Skill level: This is not a group for beginners to learn how to spin. All skill levels are welcome, but some basic knowledge of spinning is required.
Host: Judi Jetson
Knitters! Crocheters! Needlefelters! Let's get together with your needles or hooks and make stuff. This is not a class- you should know something about your chosen craft but my suspicion is that you will learn something along the way. Knitters, needlefelters and crocheters are just like that. We do have some experienced folks in our group so you can count on getting some advice too. Materials supplied by participants: Please bring whatever project/s you are working on, any FO's for show and tell as well as yarn acquisitions and new project ideas. Skill level: This is not a beginner's class. You should have some knowledge of your craft, but all skill levels are welcome! This is a free event for members but please sign up so we know how many to expect.
Knitters! Crocheters! Needlefelters! Let's get together with your needles or hooks and make stuff. This is not a class- you should know something about your chosen craft but my suspicion is that you will learn something along the way. Knitters, needlefelters and crocheters are just like that. We do have some experienced folks in our group so you can count on getting some advice too.
Materials supplied by participants: Please bring whatever project/s you are working on, any FO's for show and tell as well as yarn acquisitions and new project ideas.
Skill level: This is not a beginner's class. You should have some knowledge of your craft, but all skill levels are welcome!
This is a free event for members but please sign up so we know how many to expect.
Hosted by Eileen Berchem
This class will introduce you to the organic and beautiful practice of macraweaving, which combines weaving and macramé techniques! Macraweaving offers a chance to play in two fiber art worlds: we’ll learn three types of macramé knots and three essential weaving techniques. Our project will focus on a small hanging tapestry. There’s no loom involved — we’ll use macramé to create the space for inserting our weaving. You’ll leave with a finished product that you have designed! Curious about weaving or macramé? Dabbled in either? This class is perfect for beginners and individuals with weaving and/or macramé experience!
Level: Beginning
Instructor: Courtney LaCaria (Read Courtney's bio)
Members: $100
Non Members: $120
Materials fee: $80 (paid day of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: Macraweave Kit: Hanging Rod, Cotton Cord, Curated Fiber Pack with Yarn + Roving, Comb, Brush, Needle, Instructional Handouts
Students should bring: Sharp Scissors
Join us for a Local Cloth field trip to a farm in our fibershed! Wellspring Fiber Farm is located in Burnsville, NC.
We will enjoy a 1.5 hour experience including a guided tour of the Merino, Jacob and Tunis Sheep farm, including time to ask questions to learn more about the process of raising fiber animals.
We will meet in the Weaverville Ingles parking lot (140 Weaver Blvd, Weaverville, NC 28787) at 10:15am to organize carpooling.
Hosted by Susette Shiver
Sign up at least 2 days in advance to receive your Zoom log-in information ahead of time.
Oh Sew Asheville, an Apparel Sewing Interest Group meets monthly and is an opportunity for garment sewing enthusiast to share projects, tips, techniques, fitting help, and camaraderie. The Interest Group will have rotating activities such as actual sewing where individuals can decide whether to bring a machine or hand-sew their own project, “sew-a-longs” where everyone makes the same item with support from the group, field trips to local or regional fabric shops, sewing book exchanges, pattern exchanges, and fabric exchanges. Individual members or special subject matter experts may conduct mini tutorials for the group involving fitting, embellishing, pattern drafting, upcycling; alterations, dyeing fabric, etc.
You are welcome to bring a snack for yourself or to share. The Apparel Sewing Interest Group meets on the third Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is free for Local Cloth members (and $5 for non-members).
Hosted by Mary Euler and Mary Earle-Sigler
MENDING MATTERS:
A space for helping us each be accountable to our ever growing piles of holey items in need of mending; a space to get advice and inspiration and technique sharing on ways to mend items of all kinds; a space to also share with one another insights gleaned from our mending. Mending Matters sessions will be facilitated by Elizabeth Schell, but with all gathered teaching and learning from one another. Some tools and materials will be available to pull from at each session to help with your mending. Elizabeth Schell is co-owner of Purl's Yarn Emporium, and a life-long sewer, mender, maker and re-maker.
A space for helping us each be accountable to our ever growing piles of holey items in need of mending; a space to get advice and inspiration and technique sharing on ways to mend items of all kinds; a space to also share with one another insights gleaned from our mending.
Mending Matters sessions will be facilitated by Elizabeth Schell, but with all gathered teaching and learning from one another. Some tools and materials will be available to pull from at each session to help with your mending. Elizabeth Schell is co-owner of Purl's Yarn Emporium, and a life-long sewer, mender, maker and re-maker.
Let's make 3D felted hummingbirds! They are so pretty to look at. Your felted bird will be slightly larger than a live hummer. I have been experimenting with a new technique to make wings. I will teach some blending techniques to get the colors you want for your bird. We had a lot of fun in the last hummingbird class, I hope you can join us this time. Some felting experience will be useful for this class. When you take your bird home you may choose to embellish her with beads or embroidery. See you there.
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Claudia Lemacks (Read Claudia's bio)
Members: $50
Non-Members: $60
Materials fee: $10 cash or card (collected at time of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: I will supply everything you need including a foam felting surface, needles, wool, glass eyes, beak and wire.
Students should bring: Bring a snack if you want for yourself or to share, water is available. Bring a bag to carry your new felting supplies home.
Learn to cast on, knit and purl in this basic skills class taught using a no-tears approach, i.e. instructors are encouraging, patient and supportive to beginners of all ages. Whether you're 8 or 80, you'll be knitting like a pro (well, maybe advanced beginner) by the end of this three-hour class. We will focus on technique rather than product, altho those who are ready can start a scarf or hat (pattern provided). Plenty of examples of knitted garments will be shared for future inspiration. Instructors Judi Jetson and Lynne Noble have each been knitting for 50 years, and teaching others for almost as long.
Instructor: Lynne Noble and Judi Jetson (Read Lynne and Judi's bio)
Members: $35
Non-Members: $45
Materials fee: No materials fee!
Materials provided by instructor: teachers have knitting needles to loan, if needed
Students should bring: Knitting needles, size 7 or 8 and 4 ounces of worsted weight yarn
Learn about our cancellation & COVID policy here: Workshop Policies
Do you have the Itch to Stitch? This is a beginning embroidery class. We will learn a bit about needles and threads, and then practice several basic stitches. With these new skills, you'll be able to get started on an embroidery project.
Instructor: Lynne Noble (Read Lynne's bio)
Materials fee: $10 cash or venmo (collected at time of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: Hoop, two pieces of fabric, threads, needles
Students should bring: All materials provided.
May's meeting will take place at the West Asheville Library community room, 942 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Guild members work in several different mediums creating art dolls – clay, fiber, cloth, etc. Skill levels are beginner to professional. Meetings include current business, a demo of techniques and or materials, & Show & Tell of members’ figurative art. Guild membership is not required for attendance of this interest group.
No supplies are necessary. Participants are encouraged to learn from one another & encouraged to continue their individual journey crafting and appreciating the art of the doll.
While step by step instruction for creating a piece of figurative art is not offered at meetings, all skill levels are welcome to share in discussions of work that is presented for Show & Tell. Future workshops and demonstrations will be available for learning purposes.
Use this registration page to submit your $35 booth fee. Code for purchase provided in your acceptance email.
Join us on May 10th for the debut of FiberFestival at the beautiful Lutheridge Camp and Conference Center in Arden, NC! Shop our fiber farmer and fiber artist vendors and enjoy food, music, demos, along with a clothing swap.
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We are excited to offer this location as a stop for the 2025 WNC Yarn Crawl and embody the theme of "After the Storm" as we continue to repair our River Arts District studio location. Stop by the Local Cloth booth to enjoy make and takes and get your passport stamp if you are participating in the crawl. Interested in participating? CLICK HERE to learn more.
This introductory class provides an overview of Sashiko, the Japanese stitching and mending practice, and guides beginners in gaining basic skills and knowledge to apply this practice to both functional and decorative goods. This class is a prerequisite to the other classes in the series. Participants will learn to stitch a basic Sashiko geometric pattern, making a coaster or patch by class end.
Non members: $60
Instructor: Gail Clement (Read Gail's bio)
Materials fee: $30
Materials supplied by teacher: Supply kit containing Sashiko needle 2-pack, Palm thimble, Finger Cots , Coron naturally-dyed thick Sashiko thread on bobbin (24 m approx) , Yokota medium Sashiko thread (40 m), Daruma 20/4 thin Sashiko thread(40 m), 3 Fabric samples (Sarashi cotton; Kaufman Essex cotton/linen blend; thrifted linen 1 Lined water soluble transfer, Preprinted Washout Fabric
Materials students should bring: Embroidery snips and straight edge
Learn how to combine roving wool and fibers on silk gauze scarf and go home with a personally designed fashion accessory. Wear it as a scarf or add it to a Bag or existing article of clothing. Become a fashion designer in just one day. Imagine that!
This class will be hosted off-site at the home of the instructor. Directions to the home will be provided after registration.
Skill Level: Beginner
Instructor: Camille Daunno (Read Camille's bio)
Non-members: $60
Materials Fee: $15 (collected at time of workshop)
Materials Provided by instructor: Roving wool( assorted colors), Bubble wrap, sushi mats, pads to work on, Silk scarf, Water containers, soap, spray bottles, Netting
Student should bring: A large towel
Special Topic for this month: Long draw
Spinners can bring a charka if they have one
Please note location details. We will meet 225 Church St, Waynesville, NC.
Open to all tapestry weavers, or tapestry weaver wannabes. We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.
Supplies: Please bring a project you are working on, a finished piece to share with the group, any questions you may have about materials, techniques, etc. We are looking for a good discussion and sharing of ideas about tapestry.
Skill level: This is not an introductory class so will be no instruction, but by sharing ideas and experiences we will all learn from each other.
Led by: Betty Hilton-Nash
This beginning Weaving class covers the basics of weaving, including how to create shapes and texture, and transform them into an ocean sunrise! We’ll use lap looms (which you can take anywhere!) to create a small woven tapestry. During the class, we’ll cover how to warp our looms with a heddle bar as well as the basic weaving techniques, including twining, tabby, soumak, shapes, and rya knots. We’ll also use some embroidery to put the finishing touches on our seascapes! Finally, we’ll learn how to clean the backside of our weaving project and you’ll have the option to finish them off using a hanging rod. Don’t have a loom or weaving materials? No worries! My Ocean Sunrise Weaving Kit has everything you need to get started! Learn more in the Materials Section.
Materials fee: $75, if purchasing the curated Ocean Sunrise Weaving Kit (paid day of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: For anyone who needs it, my Ocean Sunrise Weaving Kit has everything you need! Here’s what is included: + 15” x 10” Wooden Frame Lap loom; curated fiber pack to complete two tapestries (customizable); 2 shuttles; comb; heddle bar; 2 tapestry needles; wooden rod to hang your weaving; instructional handouts
Students should bring: If you choose the kit with yarn, you only need to bring a sharp pair of scissors. If you already having weaving supplies or will purchase your own weaving supplies, please bring what is listed in the materials section as well as scissors, a strong cotton yarn for the warp and assorted yarn for the rest of the weaving.
Learn the art of standing wool! Standing wool was popular before the Industrial Revolution as a thrifty way to use up extra scraps and create rugs for the home. However, this technique fell out of use during the advent of machine-made products because the slow, handmade process is impossible to recreate using automation or machinery. Standing wool rugs are also called quilled wool rugs or quillies. This technique can be used to create rugs, trivets, coasters, and of course, wall art!
You will learn:
Instructor: Amy Reader (Read Amy's bio)
Materials fee: $25
Materials supplied by teacher: All supplies provided: strips of felt, embroidery floss, and needle to keep. Scissors to share.
Materials students could bring: N/a
Stranded color work is a heritage knitting technique used by knitters from many traditions. It is a simple technique which yields impressive results. Use two colors or many; the choice is yours. This is an intermediate class which will focus on aspects of a color work yoke sweater and assumes the knitter can finish the rest of the sweater on their own. We will take a deep dive into: yarn selection: how to choose colors and type of yarn, pattern choice, swatching to practice tension and color placement, yarn management- we will learn three ways of carry yarn to produce even floats. We will also learn steeking by turning our swatch into a mug rug. There will be knitting "homework" between the classes. Fell free to contact me if you have questions about the class.
Instructors: Joyce Tromba (Read Joyce's bio)
Prices reflect the 20% Summer Series Discount!
Members: $120
Non members: $144
Materials fee: $0
Materials provided by instructor: none
Materials students should bring: pattern ideas, yarn if already purchased, needles
Create a unique wall hanging using Celtic knot designs! Make samples of six different Celtic macrame knots and learn their historical and symbolic significance. Choose your favorite design to turn into a final piece, complete with color and tassel fringe embellishment. Techniques covered include knot work, wrapping, tassels, and finishing. Includes illustrated instructional booklet to take home for future reference and practice.
Instructor: Kimberly Tolbert (Read Kimmy's bio)
Non Members: $60
Materials fee: $60 (to be paid on day of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: Celtic Knot Wall Hanging Kit: Cotton Rope Skein, Embroidery Floss, Yarn, Cardboard and T Pins, Illustrated instructional booklet
Students should bring: Students do not need to bring anything! All materials included in kit.
Join us for a FREE spinning party event at Crescent Moon Farm in Canton, NC! Bring your spinning wheel or handwork to join in fiber loving community and enjoy a beautiful day on the farm. Hours are 11am-5pm, drop in whenever you'd like. There will be shopping of local fiber products available (with a discount for Local Cloth members!)
Light refreshments provided, but feel free to bring your own snacks to share. Bring a chair and dress appropriately for a day on the farm. Sturdy shoes and long pants are suggested for optional hiking and/or barn visits.
Space is limited, so please RSVP for yourself and any guests you will be bringing along.
Please note that any children attending must be at least 15 years of age or older.
Join us for a week-long day camp at Local Cloth! This Farm to Fabric camp will give campers opportunities to meet furry fiber animals, learn felting, try their hands at paper-making, and experience spinning, dyeing, & weaving. Kids aged 8-13 are invited to join us for a week of fiber fun!
Camp will run from 9am-3pm each day.
A limited number of FULL scholarships will be available for our June camps. CLICK HERE TO APPLY!
Email programs@localcloth.org with any questions.
If you've made a few books you may want to try bookmaking's cousin box making. In this class we will make two different boxes. The first is a classic hinged cover box that is made with book cloth and paper. It is fully lined and has a sturdy base. The second box is made with heavy paper and is designed to hold all your book making tools.
Instructor: Joyce Tromba (Read Joyce's bio)
Materials fee: $18 (paid the day of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: All materials and tools are supplied.
Students should bring: Nothing required but if you have your own bookmaking tools feel free to bring them.
Local Cloth is excited to offer a sewing camp for teens! This 3-day camp is geared toward teens 13-18 who feel comfortable with a sewing machine and want to dive deeper into projects of their own. Students will be invited to bring in thrift store items or their own project materials to work on with guidance from the instructor, along with the opportunity of a guided group project!
If your teen is a beginner, sign up for our July Teen Sewing Camp.
Textile Design: putting your design into repeat!
If you’ve created that great design or print, now what do you do with it? This class will teach you how to turn your ‘croqui’/ main motif into a repeat suitable for printing. It’s not as easy as repeating it all over…there’s actually a formula to follow. Every design has to fit into a multiple of the width of the fabric or wall paper so it can be repeated to match. You will amaze yourself and become a textile designer with the knowledge learned from this class. In the first class you will learn how to design a one way repeat, tossed pattern, square design and an all over design. You will choose one to paint in gouache.
In the next class, you will work with tracing overlays and putting your design into a half drop or full repeat. You will work with colored pencils for this class. Your work will be ready for printing! You can take this to any company and print yardage for fabric, pillows, sheets, and wall paper. You can even digitally print your design as well. If time permits, you will learn how to create a coordinate for you newly designed work of art. Let your imagination challenge what you can do…most of all have some fun!
Skill Level: All
Non-members: $120
Materials Fee: $20 cash or venmo (collected at time of workshop)
Materials Provided by instructor: Scissors, rulers, pencils, erasers, practice paper, colored pencils, tape, a set of gouache, brushes, palette, heavy paper to paint your design on, tracing paper for the repeat.
Student should bring: A snack if desired, instructor will provide tea and some snacks to share.
Spend some time with me and learn how to make a Fabulous 3-Dimensional Vessel using a Flat Resist! We will be using beautiful merino wool fibers, wool prefelts, silks and an assortment of fibers to create texture and interest!
You will learn~
Instructor: Betty Ann Winters (Read Betty Ann's bio)
Materials fee: $20 cash (collected at time of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: wool, silks, embellishments and a resist that you can use again and again at home.
Students should bring: 1 large towel, 1 small towel. We will be stuffing our vessels to block them, please bring at least 15 plastic supermarket bags or small towels/ rags. Note: Wet felting requires the physical ability to work with your hands in a repetitive motion. Please bring lunch or a snack for a mid-class short break.
Color Outside the Box!
In this all day workshop you will enter into the world of color in a fun and different way to create the color that’s all around you. You will learn a combination of color theory and basic color mixing by using fabric. This is not a painting class. It’s a fiber and fabric interpretation. You’ll create the color wheel, analogous colors, a grey scale, a monochromatic scale, warm and cool neutrals and arrange them in color collages and unique ideas. You will also design and make a fabric folder to take all your samples home in…your very own color record. Definitely come and color outside the box!
Materials Fee: $15 cash or venmo (collected at time of workshop)
Materials Provided by instructor: Fabric swatches, glue, scissors, ribbon, wool and fibers, card board, cloths, water containers, pads to work on.
Student should bring: Fabric swatches of your choice (solids, prints, florals, colors) these will be used to create the color combinations.
Eco-printing is a contact printing technique. Leaves are placed over mordanted fiber and rolled tightly in a bundle. Next boiling or steaming the bundle transfers the tannins from within the leaves to the fiber.
Beginner level. First day: Instruction on pre treatment ,scouring and mordanting cellulose fiber. We will mordant rayon scarves to be used on the second day of class. Discussion on leaves regarding tannin and storage. Technique for testing how much tannin is in a particular botanical prior to use in eco-print bundle. End the first day with eco-printing a test sample of leaves flowers that you are considering to use on cotton strip.
Second day. First bundle demonstrates the technique of folding larger pieces in half that produce minimal center lines. Color dye carrier blankets will be used to transfer color over our leaf and fabric bundle. The second print will be on a rayon scarf 14”x 72. The dye we will be using is Procion fiber reactive dye. The carrier dye blankets are cotton fabric that has been washed several times. You can use old cotton sheets. I find that the dye blankets themselves are very beautiful and I end up saving them for other uses. Example: Quilts, linings and art works. I like to use white off white or natural Kona cotton. There will be instruction on how to read your print results and adjust length of time in steamer.
Level: Beginners
Instructor: Denise Arcuri (Read Denise's bio)
Non-member: $240
Member: $200
Materials fee: $45 (to be collected day of class)
Materials provided by instructor: Mordants, dyes, cellulose fabric, written instruction
Materials to bring to class: Gloves (thin medical exam gloves), Apron, Plastic spray bottle with 50% vinegar and 50% water, 2 wooden dowels 1 1/4 to 1 1/2“ diameter by 15” length. (Lowe’s/ home depo will cut to size) White/ off white or natural cotton fabric 21/2 yds or old cotton sheets. Wash cotton several times. Micron pen can be bought Walmart, Joanns, Staples ( needs to be water resistant) Two old small kitchen towel sized rags, Rubber bands, Empty plastic gallon jug from water or vinegar (we will fill them with water to aid in making tighter fabric bundles ) Some Leaves will be provided ,however bring some of your own to experiment and share.
LEAVES THAT PRINT WELL: Maple, oak, any hard wood tree leaves Fruit tree leaves Rose Marigold petals Oak leaf hydrangeas Smoke bush Coreopsis, Pretty leaves that act more as a resist when using color dye blankets that leave interesting shapes Tulip tree leaves Kudzu Ginkgo Sassafras.
Eco-printing is a contact printing technique. Leaves are placed over mordanted fiber and rolled tight in a bundle. Next boiling or steaming the bundle transfers the tannins from within the leaves to the fiber. This is a one day class experimenting with iron, copper sulfate and titanium oxalate on protein fiber. Fabric provided will be soured and mordanted with Potassium aluminum sulfate prior to class. Two eco-printed bundles will be printed by each student. The first will be a test example of botanicals dipped in iron , copper, and titanium oxalate. The second print is guided by using the first bundles results on a 14”x72” silk crepe scarf.
Non-member: $120
Member: $100
Materials fee: $35 (to be collected day of class)
Materials provided by instructor: Mordants, two mordanted silk scarfs, written instruction
Materials to bring to class: Gloves (thin medical exam gloves) Apron, Plastic spray bottle with 50% vinegar and 50% water, 2 wooden dowels 1 1/4 to 1 1/2“ diameter by 15” length. (Lowe’s/ home depo will cut to size), Micron pen can be bought Walmart, Joanns, Staples ( needs to be water resistant) 3 old small kitchen towel sized rags Empty plastic gallon jug from water or vinegar (we will fill them with water to aid in making tight fabric bundles ) Some Leaves will be provided ,however bring some of your own to experiment and share.
LEAVES THAT PRINT WELL: Maple ,oak ,any hard wood tree leaves Fruit tree leaves Rose Marigold petals Smoke bush Coreopsis
Learn how to weave a washcloth on a 12 inch loom. Squares can be used for other items and will be discussed in class. What is continuous strand weaving on a square loom? Continuous strand weaving on the square frame loom follows the same principles as with the Triangle frame looms, in that the weaver is just weaving loops which become both a warp and two wefts woven at one. The main differences between weaving on the square versus the triangle are: the weaver only weaves in the top right corner, rather than alternating between the right and left corners and the weaver lays in two warps for every row woven, rather than just one
Instructor: Marilyn Haas-Haseman (Read Marilyn's bio)
Non members: $120
Materials Provided: Looms
Materials students should bring:
Optional
This is a two day class which will take your book making to the next level. On day one we will make materials for our covers: book cloth and surface design on paper. You can use some small, treasured pieces of fabric from your stash and convert it into book cloth. We will also learn a traditional form of marbling called Suminagashi which uses sumi ink. These papers can be also used for end sheets, cover paper, cards, collaging, etc. On day two we will learn a soft cover journal that has removable signatures. Your pages can be multiple types and sizes of paper or fabric. It is a great book to take along on a trip or keep in your purse for when your creativity strikes. The second book will be a traditional hard cover Japanese Stab binding with a decorative, intricate stitch called asa-no-ha-toji . As a bonus we will do some cyanotype printing IF the weather behaves, we need the sun for this
Price of this workshop reflects the 20% off Summer Series Discount!
Members: $160
Non Members: $192
Materials fee: $15-20 (paid the day of workshop)
Materials provided by instructor: Materials for Suminagashi, book board, text paper, bookmaking tools, chemistry for cyanotpes linen thread
Students should bring: A small piece of fabric, and a selection of papers or fabric for the journal, your bookmaking tools if you have them
The Anything Fiber Sale is the yard sale for fiber people. We have hanks and cones of unused yarns, piles of unloved fabric, obscure tools that we forgot we had, looms that need a new home, duplicates of knitting needles, fleece that doesn’t seem to get spun. Now it can be yours! We've cleaned out that closet and rented a space to sell our surplus fibers, materials and tools. Yard sale-type goods only! There will be no finished goods unless they are appropriate to use in other fiber techniques (i.e., hand-spun yarns, dyed yardage).
The sale will be at the Conference Center at AB Tech again where there’s air conditioning and parking! There will be plenty of shopping to do. RSVP so we know who to expect to see there!
Local Cloth is excited to offer a sewing camp for teens! Teens aged 13-18 are invited to join us for a week of making clothes with a sewing machine, upcycling thrifted clothes, and learning dyeing and surface design techniques.
As part of our summer series this class will take you on a deep dive into all things indigo. We will learn to set up and maintain two indigo vats: the thiox vat also known as the workshorse vat and an organic vat made with fructose. We will also dye directly with fresh indigo leaves. You will learn the essential components of each method, along with the chemistry behind it. We will dye on cellulose, wool and silk fabrics and learn the traditional resist techniques of shibori. including simple folding and clamping, stitched, arashi. We will learn the essential techniques and chemistry behind each of these methods as well as trouble shooting. At the end of the series you will have an excellent grounding in the art of indigo dyeing.
Instructors: Joyce Tromba and Denise Arcuri (Read Joyce & Denise's bio)
Prices reflect the 20% Summer Series discount!
Members: $240
Non members: $288
Materials fee: $45 (collected at time of workshop)
Materials supplied by teacher: all dyes, assists, fabrics, yarn and equipment
Materials students should bring: apron, additional fabric or small garments may be dyed. We will talk about this on the first day of class.
Delve deeper into the art of standing wool! Standing wool was popular before the Industrial Revolution as a thrifty way to use up extra scraps and create rugs for the home. However, this technique fell out of use during the advent of machine-made products because the slow, handmade process is impossible to recreate using automation or machinery. Standing wool rugs are also called quilled wool rugs or quillies. This technique can be used to create rugs, trivets, coasters, and of course, wall art!
You should already know:
You can review the basic techniques here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6xfvckuZ7tay6E1oArJ0f6MhEUaQRkXV&si=f7oOiwM2myn5mjww
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