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SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes BEGINNING SPINNING Jennifer Bennett ON A WHEEL www.harmonywoolsalpacas.com Jenny Bennett is the owner of Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Harmony Wools, one of the Time: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM original founding alpaca farms Location: GSM Heritage Center, of the Southeast Alpaca Main Gallery Association and has always Cost: $45.00, includes Materials been focused on fiber. With Fee over 30 years of spinning, Maximum No. of Students: 6 processing, weaving, knitting, teaching and demonstrating, Jenny is a wealth of knowledge in the area of fiber and spinning. For anyone who wants to learn to spin yarn on a spinning wheel. This class will cover parts of the wheels, their maintenance and how to choose a fleece or roving to spin. High School or Adult newbie's or novice spinners are welcome. Students should bring their Spinning wheel and fiber if they have one. An assortment of fiber will be available at the class. With two weeks of advance notice, the instructor, can bring a couple of wheels as loaners. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes Intermediate Spinning Jennifer Bennett www.harmonywoolsalpacas.com Jenny Bennett is the owner of Harmony Wools, one of the Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 original founding alpaca farms of Time: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM the Southeast Alpaca Location: GSM Heritage Center, Association and has always Main Gallery been focused on fiber. With over Cost: $45.00 30 years of spinning, Maximum No. of Students: 6 processing, weaving, knitting, teaching and demonstrating, Jenny is a wealth of knowledge in the area of fiber and spinning. For spinners that can make a yarn that holds together, but wants a little more control over the yarn they make. This class will work on techniques and fiber handling skills in order to make the yarn you want, rather than “settling for whatever it makes”. Spinners should bring their wheels and any fibers they particularly want help with. An assortment of fibers will be available at the class (included in the class fee) and there will be a discussion about how each fiber’s characteristics influence the new yarn, what to look for when buying and blending. With two weeks of advance notice, the instructor, can bring a couple of wheels as loaners. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes BEGINNING DROP Jennifer Bennett SPINDLE SPINNING www.harmonywoolsalpacas.com Jenny Bennett is the owner of Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Harmony Wools, one of the Time: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM original founding alpaca farms Location: GSM Heritage Center, of the Southeast Alpaca Main Gallery Association and has always Cost: $30.00, includes Materials been focused on fiber. With Fee over 30 years of spinning, Maximum No. of Students: 6 processing, weaving, knitting, teaching and demonstrating, Jenny is a wealth of knowledge in the area of fiber and spinning. For brand-new-to-spinning or experience wheel spinners. This class will cover top and bottom whorl spindles. Spindle spinning is a very handy, portable way to thoroughly enjoy the tactile wonders of making yarn from a cloud of fiber. This class is suitable for students age 12 and up. Experienced or inexperienced spinners. Spinning fibers and a spindle to take home is included in the class fee. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes FIBER PREPARATION Jennifer Bennett www.harmonywoolsalpacas.com Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Time: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Jenny Bennett is the owner of Harmony Wools, one of the Location: GSM Heritage Center, original founding alpaca farms Main Gallery of the Southeast Alpaca Cost: $20.00, includes Association and has always Materials Fee Maximum No. of Students: 6 been focused on fiber. With over 30 years of spinning, processing, weaving, knitting, teaching and demonstrating, Jenny is a wealth of knowledge in the area of fiber and spinning. Hand-carding/combing spinning fibers! Make the most of your prep time AND your spinning time! Bring your hand cards and combs and we will look at efficiently getting the tangles out, blending, preparing for spinning on wheels or spindles. There will be an assortment of fibers to work with at the class and is included in the class fee. Bring any fiber you would especially like help with. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes CREATING ROLAGS ON Patty Benton A BLENDING BOARD Date: Friday, April 15, 2016 Patty has been a handspinner Saturday, April 16, 2016 for 10 years. She has produced Sunday, April 17, 2016 (11:30 only) art batts and rolags for sale at Time: 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:30 the Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts PM & 3:30 PM (1 hour each) Festival for the past 3 years. Location: Montvale Cabin Cost: $40.00, includes Materials Fee Maximum No. of Students: 4 Students will choose 4 oz. of mixed fibers varying in color and content to blend rolags for spinning or felting. This technique is great for woolen spinning! Learn to combine fibers and blend them on a blending board. Produce rolags made from wool, silk, bamboo and glitz. You can’t mess it up! Students should bring a towel or apron to cover lap. Blending boards will be available for sale on Sunday after classes are complete. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes NEEDLE FELTING WOOL Karen Bills FIGURE (FolK Person) Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Karen is a juried artist in the Time: 1:00 AM-4:00 PM Foothills Craft Guild. She began Location: Townsend Visitor needle felting with her friends Center from the 4-H Sheep Project. She Cost: $50.00, includes Material has taken classes at Fee Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair, Maximum No. of Students: 12 John C. Campbell Folk School, The Woolery and Appalachian Arts Center. Karen has taught at the Appalachian Arts Center and the Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival. Needle felting is the art of creating 3-D items with wool using a barbed needle. Each student will learn basic needle- felting techniques and leave the class with an adorable character. No sewing, no patterns, no water and no experience necessary. The class will use clean, carded wool. Suitable for students 12 years old and up. All materials will be supplied, you supply the imagination! SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes LEARNING TO TWINE Jonee Davis [email protected] Date: Friday, April 15, 2016 Jonee is from Wheaton, MO. Time: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM She has been active in the fiber Location: GSM Heritage Main arts since 1991. She first Gallery learned to weave, then spin. Cost: $45.00, includes Materials She is an avid crocheter while Fee dabbling in all aspects relating Max. No. of Students: 12-14 to fibers. She feels we are never too young or too old to learn new things about the world of fiber arts and loves to share her knowledge with others. Twining will bring out the pioneer spirit in you. You will learn how our pioneer sisters made rugs for their new homes as they crossed the prairies in their covered wagons. Like so many other fiber arts we have learned to modernize them Today we can not only make gorgeous rugs but also placements and totes to carry our crafts in. Join this adventure with me and have lots of fun! Learn how to weave a beautiful rag rug or placemats without the expense of buying a loom. I will show you how to use up those leftover scraps of material or yarn from prior projects, worn out jeans or even a bed sheet. After completing this class project, you will have a sample that can be used as a hot pad to adorn your table. All supplies furnished except scissors. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes LACE IS NOT JUST FOR Jonee Davis KNITTERS [email protected] Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Jonee is from Wheaton, MO. Time: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM She has been active in the fiber Location: GSM Heritage Main arts since 1991. She first Gallery learned to weave, then spin. Cost: $40.00, includes Materials She is an avid crocheter while Fee dabbling in all aspects relating Maximum No. of Students: 12 to fibers. She feels we are never too young or too old to learn new things about the world of fiber arts and loves to share her knowledge with others. Did you know that the written crochet pattern is a fairly new thing? In this class, you will learn how to read a diagram and you will practice until you understand how it all began. There will be a lot of information and patterns for you to take home. Lace can be done by crocheting! Join Jonee in the adventure of crocheting lace. You will look at the history of crocheted lace, talk about diagrams and how to read them, and then find a pattern you love (choices provided at class) and crochet. This class is for those that know how to crochet the basic stitches. Students will bring yarn; any size you are comfortable with and bring the appropriate hook. Pearl cotton, sock yarn or fingering weight yarns work great for this class. SMFAF 2016 Learn and Do Classes PEG LOOM? YOU Jonee Davis SAID PEG LOOM? [email protected] Jonee is from Wheaton, MO. Date: Sunday, April 17, 2016 She has been active in the Time: 10:00AM-1:00 PM fiber arts since 1991. She Location: GSM Heritage Main first learned to weave, then Gallery spin. She is an avid Cost: $50.00, includes Materials crocheter while dabbling in Fee all aspects relating to fibers.