Pick 'n Pick is an endlessly fascinating weaving technique that combines colors of yarns with a straightforward, single rigid heddle weaving technique. It creates eye catching patterns while using only one heddle and sometimes a pickup stick. From mug rugs to floor rugs, purses to wall hangings, this simple yet exciting weaving technique is a great tool to include in your weaving journey. This class is designed to teach the ins and outs of Pick 'n Pick while you play with colors and create designs that will serve as inspiration for future projects. We'll cover how to select yarns and plan a project, how to calculate and prepare a warp, how to thread the loom, and how to weave the in-class project. You will leave the class with a completed Pick 'n Pick sampler and the ability to use your Rigid Heddle Loom on future handwoven Pick 'n Pick projects.

This workshop explores techniques and processes that use natural fibers and basic elements such as iron, and local tannin plants to garner hues of grey to browns. We will be using soy as a mordant and will explore the magic of printing and dyeing. There will be yarn, textiles, rusty bits and plenty of inspiration to create samples in the first half of the day. In the afternoon lets get serious by expanding those samples into a larger textile pieces or yarn skeins.

There's a reason Silver Falls draws over one million visitors a year - it's gorgeous! If you're local, you've probably hiked behind South Falls. Now you can recreate it in wool and silk fibers - not an abstract landscape, but a recognizable 3D needle-felted "painting." Sarah will lead you through the picture in layers, from the muted background to the shadows of the rocky shelves behind South Falls to the tree in the foreground. When you're finished, you'll have a beautiful "painting" of one the Willamette Valley's best-loved waterfalls, framed in an 8x10 shadowbox.

Are you new to fiber processing or wanting to learn how to start from the beginning? If so, this is the perfect class for you! During this class we'll cover the basic types of wool and best preparation practices including skirting, picking, washing, carding, and combing. There will be plenty of time for questions and for those who have experience and would like, you'll have the opportunity to spin some of the fiber as well. In the morning we'll go over types of wool and washing of fiber, and in the afternoon, process it for spinning.

We will working through the steps for each portion of sock knitting - cuff, leg, heel flap, heel turn, gusset, foot, and toe. We will knit a baby sock in class, so we can work through all the steps, and we'll talk about tips to help our socks fit well.

Rug hooking has been around for hundreds of years, and it has always been a craft rooted in practicality. The motto might have been: You Hook With What You've Got. In this 3-hour class, students will learn the art of hooking heirloom-quality rugs with yarn, T-shirt strips, wool fabric strips, and cotton fabric strips. At the end of the class, you'll be able to go home and look at your stash and say, "Yup. I can hook a rug with that!"

Are you a spinner who loves knitting socks but who hasn't been happy with the results from your handspun, or who wants to expand your sock yarns into more interesting and exotic fiber blends? In this class we'll look at the possible twist structures 2-ply, 3-ply and 4-ply sock yarn as well as trying a variety of fibers and fiber blends. We'll also discuss fiber preparation and sock knitting tips for handspinners.

If you have always been intrigued by spinners demonstrating their craft, have been curious about yarn construction, and/or have always wanted to learn to spin yourself, then this class is for you. We will begin with some background knowledge on drop spindles (history, types, anatomy, weights and mechanics, and supplemental tools). Then we will get down to business learning the steps to spinning a single on a spindle (choosing a spindle and fiber, starting with and without a leader thread, drafting techniques, winding on and building a secure cop with each type of spindle. After spinning for a while and fine tuning our technique we will explore winding off options, plying options, and how to finish your yarn. And yes, you will go home a spinner! This class is also great for wheel spinners who want to master the spindle!

Ever since the Weave-it loom, the 3 pin small looms that became popular back in the 1930's, there have been fancy stitch patterns available to weavers on this little loom. There are people today still designing new stitch patterns for these looms. But those of us who are fans of the diagonally woven continuous weave looms, like the Hazel Rose Quilt Weaver Looms, have been more or less ignored by stitch designers. There has recently been an upsurge in interest for pattern stitches for this type of loom and this class will show you how to go about making your weaving more interesting!

In this class we will be weaving a small basket and turning it into wearable art! Using twining and plaiting we will create a 2-3" tall basket. We will use a variety of hand harvested barks and waxed linen colors to create patterns in our baskets. We will be using a form for this class so that we are able to achieve a consistent shape. We will then attach them to chains so we can wear them home. This class is open to beginners, this basket is suitable for students who have never wove a basket before, it is also open to more experienced weavers who want to make a basket necklace!

Dive into the fascinating world of Giant Angoras with this comprehensive course designed for enthusiasts, owners, and breeders alike. Explore the rich history of Giant Angoras and how they've evolved to become one of the most treasured breeds in the fiber community. Gain a clear understanding of the ARBA Standard of Perfection (SOP) and what it means for owners and breeders striving for excellence. Learn essential husbandry techniques to keep your rabbits healthy and thriving. Watch a live shearing demonstration and discover how to expertly sort wool into prime, seconds, and thirds for optimal use. Plus, hear firsthand why Tammy believes Giant Angoras are the superior breed among Angoras, sharing personal insights and experiences that will deepen your appreciation for these incredible rabbits. Discover the secrets to success in the showroom! Tammy will share her top tips for achieving that coveted Best in Show (BIS) award, drawing from her years of experience and passion for Giant Angoras. From grooming techniques to understanding what judges look for, you'll gain insider knowledge to help your rabbits shine on the table and stand out among the competition. Whether you're a seasoned breeder or new to the Angora world, this course will leave you inspired and equipped to care for and showcase Giant Angoras with confidence.

Do you already spin on a drop spindle or Turkish spindle but want to learn some more techniques that are possible on a Turkish spindle? Then come spin with me. We will go over the basics of spinning on a Turkish spindle and then dive into learning how to use the Turkish spindle as a supported spindle, how to accomplish different draws, and how to ply on the fly (meaning spinning a bit of single, then plying it, then repeating these two steps without removing the yarn from the spindle).

Learn to dye wool yarn using all natural dyes! In this class you will learn about natural dyes that create a variety of permanent, bright colors and how to use them in two different techniques to create different results. Immersion dyeing creates solid colors while the bundle dye method results in multicolored, speckled yarn. Together we will make multiple immersion dye pots using different natural dyes and you will go home with a solid-colored mini skein in each color. In the afternoon you will bundle dye your own 220 yard skein, choosing your own dye plants to create your own unique colorway. To keep the dye materials in contact with the yarn during the bundle dye process you will wrap it with a silk bandana, creating a beautiful accessory that will match your yarn!

Learn how to make the most of the Rigid Heddle Loom! These wonderful looms make it easy to weave just about anywhere and anytime. They are a relatively inexpensive way to get into weaving and are lightweight, portable, and practical. They can be used to make everything from everyday useful things such as hand towels to luxurious shawls for that evening at the opera. This class is designed to teach the soup to nuts of weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom. We'll cover how to select yarns and plan a project, how to calculate and prepare a warp, how to thread the loom, and how to weave the project. You will leave the class with a completed cell phone purse and the ability to use your Rigid Heddle Loom on your own to weave a variety of handwoven projects.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to spin your own yarn? It's fun, it's relaxing, and I can show you how! In this beginning class, you'll learn about wheels, spinning methods, best fiber for beginning spinners, and basic wheel maintenance. In the morning, we'll start with getting to know your wheel and how they work. After lunch, we'll move on to spinning singles and then plying. By the time you leave, you will have a basic understanding of your wheel and the skills to start spinning on your own. There is no experience needed and I'll provide the fiber, tools, and a resource guide to get you on your way - you just bring yourself and your wheel.

Students will get to choose from 4 different Critters, an Angora Rabbit, a longwool sheep, a Highland cow or an Angora goat. Creativity is encouraged in this fun class, where each student will take home one finished fluffy critter.

We will weave a little mat using the Peg, Jr. This will show you all you need to know to weave a round rug on a 22" or the 36" peg loom. These rugs can be woven using yarn, rag, roving or raw fleeces. And you can weave a regular rectangle on the same loom, of course.

Are you spinning in a fine-wool rut? Do you wonder how to make the most of some of the fleeces and wools that have tempted you but can disappoint when spun? In this class we will work with a longwool such as Wensleydale, Teeswater, Cotswold, Lincoln or Gotland, a Down wool such as Dorset, Cheviot, Southdown or Hampshire, and a primitive wool such as Shetland, Icelandic, Finn or Jacob. Each will respond differently to different spinning methods and techniques. You may discover a new favorite type of wool!

Do you want to make the warmest mittens possible for someone you love or perhaps for yourself? Well in this class you will learn just how to do this with a little bit of wool yarn and a little bit of angora fiber blended with wool locks. We will be thrumming which means we will be knitting the locks into our knitting to form a cozy warm lining in our mittens. We will be making a child's size mitten so that we can get through all the steps of mitten construction, but you will go home with the pattern to make men and women sized mittens too. These mittens are knit flat and then seamed. I will share my tricks and tips to secure the locks into the knitting and how to get consistent, neat looking fiber bumps on the right side of the mitten.

Students will learn how to use wool to embellish a design on a canvas totebag or throw pillow. You will get to choose from 3 hand drawn designs on your choice of a totebag or throw pillow. Our class choices this year are adorable fluffy Angora Rabbits, a longwool sheep face, or a Highland cow face. You'll get to be as creative as you choose as we learn many ways to use wool, longwool locks and Alpaca fiber to embellish your project.

Minerva is an entrelac cowl or scarf, knit flat. Why knit a round cowl flat? To learn all the elements you need to know for any entrelac project, and to avoid a huge game of yarn chicken on a long scarf or loop cowl knit from the long edge! Entrelac looks like it's woven, but it's just a lot of squares and triangles, knit one at a time. You'll want to knit just one more square. Choose your length: short or long cowl, or long scarf.

Do you wonder if you need hand cards, combs, or both? Do you have hand cards and/or wool combs that you wish you knew how to use or want to be more comfortable using them? We'll look at the various types of both as well as the types of fibers that work well with the various types of each. We'll also look at color blending and the creation of top, roving and rolags on cards, combs, a drum carder and a blending board.

Join the excitement of Tunisian Crochet! It is a form of crochet in which stitches or loops are carried on the hook like stitches are carried on the needles in knitting. It has gained in popularity over the last several years and many beautiful stitches and patterns exist. Check out Pinterest and Ravelry to view a few. In this course we will be learning the Tunisian technique from foundation to forward passes and return passes to finishing off. Along the way we will crochet the simple stitch, knit stitch, purl stitch, full stitch, and reverse stitch. In addition, we will learn how to change colors and maintain even edges. At the end of class, you will have a sampler dishcloth to take home and will be well equipped with the skills necessary to complete flat projects.

How do different techniques in the preparation and spinning of striped top (aka blended top) affect the finished yarn? Will the result be muddy, subtle, spotted, striped, or some combination of those? How can spinners preserve or tone down the colors? Can the colors be altered? In this class we'll explore answering these questions through discussion, fiber prep, and spinning practice activities.

In this botanical printing workshop we will use combinations of tannins and iron to create beautiful brown and grey backgrounds for leaf printed fabric. Oak gall tannin, a natural dye, has been used for hundreds of years to make black ink and dye cloth in a natural and permanent way. In class we will use this natural material, as well as other local sources of tannins, and explore the neutral colors they make in different strengths and combinations. Botanical printing - creating permanent leaf prints on fabric - also relies on tannins and iron working together and you will learn the techniques you need to produce clear and detailed prints from leaves on fabric. In the morning you will work on small samples of silk and wool fabric, making leaf prints with neutral colored backgrounds. In the afternoon we will study our beautiful samples from the morning then, choosing your favorite leaves and tannins, you will make a silk scarf to take home.

Overshot weaving is usually associated with multi-shaft weaving. This class will show you how to translate similar patterns onto your Rigid Heddle loom while you create exciting patterns and textures with only one heddle. Overshot weaving is a traditional pattern weaving technique that is used in more complex textiles. We'll break it down into a simple process of counting warp threads, using a pick up stick, and developing fun pictoral and colorful geometric patterns while using only one heddle and a pickup stick. From mug rugs to floor rugs, purses to wall hangings, this simple yet exciting weaving technique is a great tool to include in your weaving journey. This class is designed to teach the ins and outs of Overshot weaving on the Rigid Heddle loom while you play with colors and create designs that will serve as inspiration for future projects. We'll cover how to select yarns and plan a project, how to calculate and prepare a warp, how to thread the loom, and how to weave the in-class project. You will leave the class with a few completed handwoven Overshot examples that will be suitable as mug rugs and the ability to use your Rigid Heddle Loom on future handwoven Overshot projects.

This workshop will be an introduction to all things reproduction! The first half will cover normal cycling, reproduction, components of choosing animals for breeding soundness, different breeding strategies, and troubleshooting when animals are having trouble getting bred. The second half will cover lambing/kidding/cria-ing, we will go over normal and also our most common birthing emergencies. There will be an opportunity to use a dystocia model to practice turning and pulling a pretend lamb. There will be plenty of time for questions and group discussion about specific scenarios from workshop participants.

We will have 4 dye pots going with different local mushrooms. Each participant will get hand outs, mordanted wool and silk samples from each of the pots, plus a silk scarf to put in the color of there choice. I will go over how to collect, preserve, and use mushrooms in a dye bath ,how to pre-mordant fiber and what supplies you need for dying. There will be dye books to look at and many samples of mushroom dyed wool to look at. Please bring some used small plastic bags to put your wet samples in and wear old clothes, as this is a hands on class.

We love wearing our knits, and sometimes that means they need some TLC. Learn to repair your knits with duplicate stitch, knitted patch, or woven patch.

Discover the art of spinning Angora Rabbit wool into exquisite BeautiFULL yarns. Under Tammy's expert guidance, learn techniques like crafting felted and Wooly Bugger yarns utilizing Angora Rabbit fiber even the 2nds and 3rds to create your very own art yarn. Learn the technique of fulling that enhances the Angora halo, stabilizes your yarn, and leads to soft, durable, and unique creations. Say goodbye to flyaway fuzz and hello to stunning, artistic fluffy creations. Angora fiber is among the world's most luxurious and valuable fibers. Its incredible softness and beauty calls for treasuring the smallest remnants that this course will teach you how to transform into stunning yarns. Don't let a single strand go to waste - every piece of this luscious fiber deserves to be celebrated and cherished! This class is not just about spinning; it's about embracing your creativity and turning your yarn into wearable works of art. Each skein you create will reflect the love and care that goes into every step of the process. What is BeautiFULL Yarn? BeautiFULL yarn is a labor of love, from the birth and care of each bunny to the meticulous fulling and finishing of the skein. What makes it unique? It's all in the finishing. By fulling your skeins to the perfect balance - where the Angora halo blooms while the yarn stabilizes - you'll achieve a felted texture that elevates your handspun to a true masterpiece.

Did you take a beginning crochet class and find you are "hooked" and want more or have learned the basic crochet stitches on your own and are now ready for more? Then this class is for you! We will do a quick review of slip stich, single crochet, half double crochet, double crochet, and treble crochet. Then we will jump into crocheting in the round, joining new colors, and reading a written pattern and charted pattern. We will be crocheting Granny Squares and exploring options for joining them so that you leave able to put together future squares into pillow tops, afghans, or shawls. Once you have these basic skills, the sky is the limit with hundreds of Granny Square patterns and variations out there. They are also a very portable project and a great use of leftover yarn.

Silk qualities are pretty terrific: high luster, lovely drape, smooth hand - an overall sense of luxury. The focus of this class is learning about silk alternatives such as lotus, milk, bamboo, Tencel, and soybean. Participants will first examine several types and forms of silks (tussah, mulberry, muga, eri, sari, and peduncle; silk top, noil, and caps) and then will have time to combine and spin silk alternatives with a variety of wools.

Join Kandi to learn the new craze of wet felting on a ball. You will use the ball to make a colorful felted bowl. We will create the bowl from start to finish and the only thing left to do when you leave is to let it dry! You will get to take home a sheet of instructions to be able to make another bowl or vessel at home. This is an easy course for beginners through experts. Ages 12 and up.

Knitted log cabin blocks take their inspiration from their quilted cousins. Once you know how to make them, you can take off in many directions! We'll start with the simple square garter stitch log cabin block, and then we'll explore other shapes, and discuss the many ways you can play with them to make them your own. (Class updated with parallelograms and triangles)

Do you want to spin faster, with greater efficiency and productivity? This class will help you to improve your output with specific techniques and wheel adjustments. The goal will be to produce strong, balanced sport-to-worsted weight general purpose yarn more quickly than you currently can.

Have you ever wanted to ply the perfect yarn? Is your plying coming out underspun or over-energized? Then this class is perfect for you! In this three-hour interactive class, we'll talk about different types of plying and what methods are best for various applications,. Then we'll spin and learn how to ply a perfectly balanced yarn using some handy tips and tricks I've learned along the way!

There's more than one way to spin a gorgeous batt! We'll examine five types of batts, engage in spin-planning activities, and discuss the many options for spinning. (Highly textured or "wild" art batts will be mentioned briefly but the focus of this class is not on these.) Participants will plan the spinning for several batts and will have time to spin. Each batt is anchored by a fine (merino or Polwarth) or medium wool (such as Corriedale, Shetland, or BFL) and enhanced with other wools and fibers such as alpaca, lotus, bamboo, sari silk, soybean, and/or sparkly bits.

Does your favorite hand-knit scarf have pesky moth holes? Is your big toe peeking through the end of your sock? Do the cuffs of your store-bought sweater need some love? Or do you just want the confidence to take apart and re-knit your cherished hand-knit pieces? Join Elise Webb of Village Mending for a truly enlightening class. Together, we'll look at how to "read" your knitting to choose the right fix. Anything from a classic darn to invisible re-knitting!