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2023 Ellen Halseth's "When there's a Twill, There's a Way" Workshop pictures

Creative Fabric Weaving at the Mat Su Valley Fiber Festival - July 20 & 21 Beginners Workshop! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E44AEAC2BA1FC1-49460756-creative I'm excited to announce that the sign up genius is now open for the Creative Weaving event at the Mat Su Valley Fiber Festival. This will be our first year holding it at the festival. I encourage you to tell anyone you think might be interested. It will be a fun festival with many other things to do, including the sheep to shawl event! Creative Fabric Weaving with the Anchorage Weavers & Spinners Guild Express your creativity with weaving! You provide the imagination; we will provide the tools. In this beginner workshop, you will be expertly guided in the process of weaving by our skilled weavers. There will be a variety of colors and textures for you to choose from to weave your fabric. Saori Piccolo looms are prepared with black cotton warp – the perfect canvas for any color you choose for the weft! There will be enough time for you to weave a beautiful piece of cloth - perhaps for a scarf, a table runner, a tote or a unique wall hanging. At the end of the session, you will be taking home your own exclusive woven creation! Dates & Times: Saturday July 20 & Sunday 21, 2024 Each class is 2.75 hours. Saturday 10:15 – 1:00 Saturday 2:00 pm – 4:45 Sunday 11:00 -1:45 PM Location: Mat Su Valley Fiber Festival, Palmer Fair Grounds in the Farm Exhibits Building, 2075 Glenn Hwy, Palmer, AK 99645 From the Glenn Highway, enter the large parking lot – identified as Rebarchek Road. Follow the road to the back access road for the fairgrounds. There is a parking lot near the Farm Exhibits building. Class Fee: $55 (per class) will be required at registration which can be paid via PayPal (@AWSGFullMembership) or checks may be sent to: Anchorage Weavers & Spinners Guild PO Box 244055 Anchorage, AK 99524-4055 Payment must be received by July 12th or class reservation will be cancelled. Cancellations shall result in the forfeiture of the class fee, unless a replacement can be found, whether from the waiting list or arranged by the person cancelling the registration in the workshop. If you have questions, please contact Lorri Wright, (907) 360-0276, or email Lorri.

Beginning Weaving Series for Fall 2024 Sign up link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E44AEAC2BA1FC1-49741222-beginning Please remember that scholarships are available for AWSG members. Beginning Weaving Workshops Barbara Keller of Barbara Unlimited will teach the beginning weaving class series. The class series will cover the basics of weaving a project and assumes students have no prior knowledge of weaving. It will include calculating the quantity of yarn needed, how to warp the loom, how to weave, and finishing techniques. At the end of the class, students will have completed a sampler and will have gained an understanding of how to plan and weave a project on their own. These classes are suitable for high school students through adults. Students will bring a 4-shaft loom, a warping board, and weaving equipment to the class. For students who are members of the AWSG, looms and warping boards are available for rental if arranged in advance of the class. Return of Rental Looms to be coordinated with the rental coordinator at the end of the class series. Yarn and instructions will be supplied by the instructor and are included in the class fee. The class series will consist of 3 days of instruction, taking place on Sunday from 1:00 – 5:00 pm. Dates: 2024 Fall Series 1 – October 6, 13 & 20 Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm each Sunday 2024 Fall Series 2 – November 3, 10 & 17 Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm each Sunday Location: Mt. Vernon Commons House, 3301 Commons Circle, Anchorage, AK 99503. (This is on the north side of West 34th between C Street and Arctic. You will arrive in the parking lot and will follow the tree lined path to the Commons House. If you have a heavy loom to drop off, you can drive to the Commons House to unload, then return to the parking lot.) Class Fee (per series): $295 will be required at registration which can be paid on-line through PayPal to awsgworkshop@gmail.com (see steps below): 1. Login to your PayPal account 2. Click the "Paid and Get Paid" tab in the ribbon near the top 3. Select "Send Money" under the Make Payments column 4. Type "awsgworkshop@gmail.com" in the field 5. Click Next and continue to follow the instructions or checks may be sent to: Anchorage Weavers & Spinners Guild, PO Box 244055, Anchorage, AK 99524-4055 Cancellations shall result in the forfeiture of the class fee, unless a replacement can be found, whether from the waiting list or arranged by the person cancelling the registration in the workshop. If the minimum number of registrants is not received by one week before the class begins, this class will be cancelled, and all money paid will be refunded. If you have questions, please contact Barbara Keller, (541) 400-0081, email her.

Solar Dyeing your own Handspun with Deborah Gray Deborah Gray is a textile artist based in Oban, on the West Coast of Scotland. Her recent work examines the links between land(scape), the natural materials (fibre, plants) which grow there, and the work created from those materials which reflects elements of the land(scape). Completed projects can be seen at www.deborahgraytextiles.co.uk/projects. She is currently working on a community artwork using wool fabrics and yarns which she has dyed with the 18 trees associated with the Gaelic alphabet. Deborah works mainly with wool, and has taught hand spinning, natural dyeing and knitting techniques for over 40 years, including workshops in Scotland, Italy, Iceland and Greenland and 10 consecutive years as guest tutor at Shetland Wool Week. She has been Artist-in-Residence at The Icelandic Textile Centre, Blönduós, NorthWest Iceland in 2018, 2019 and 2021. She was Lead Practitioner for the Eco Creative Cluster dye garden project at The Rockfield Centre, Oban, developing a dye garden and programme of natural dyeing workshops while building a network of local and international practitioners focusing on the use of natural dyes and related practices. She is a collaborator in Wool in the North, a project seeking to address the waste of wool around the North Atlantic by developing sustainable wool-based tourism and other initiatives. Solar Dyeing Workshop Notes

 

 

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