2017 Fiber Arts Workshops “Sneak Peak”

2-Day Pre-Festival Workshop Start Spinning: Learn to Spin or Refresh Your Skills with Maggie Casey Thursday and Friday, May 4 & 5, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m

Wednesday Pre-Festival Workshops You Be the Judge with Harriet Boon Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Fabulous Felt Flower Fascinator with Dawn Edwards Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Beadaring, Beadelighted, Beadazzled, Bead ! with Lily Chin Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Perfect Pairs: Blending Wool with Exotic Fibers with Judith MacKenzie Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Natural Dye Rainbow with Jackie Ottino Graf Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. You Can’t Tell a Braid by Its Color with Maggie Casey Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Teach Your Old Wheel Some New Tricks with Maggie Casey Wednesday, May 3, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday Pre-Festival Workshops Landscape Bags With Harriet Boon Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cavalcade of Color Work with Franklin Habit Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Woodsy Forest Inspired Vessels with Dawn Edwards Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handpainting with Natural Dye Extracts with Jackie Ottino Graf Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Beginning Spinning: Diameter Control with Judith MacKenzie Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Reversible Cables with Lily Chin Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Art of Plying with Judith MacKenzie Thursday, May 4, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tips, Tricks and Hints with Lily Chin Thursday, May 4, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday Pre-Festival Workshops Cloche Hats with Dawn Edwards Friday, May 5, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Traditional Ikat and Shibori Techniques for the Indigo Dyepot with Jackie Ottino Graf Friday, May 5, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Snip ’n’ Zip: Steeks and Zippers with Franklin Habit Friday, May 5, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Embroider Your Knitting with Franklin Habit Friday, May 5, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Saturday Festival Workshops Cochineal Intensive--Pushing the Limits of the Natural Dyepot with Jackie Ottino Graf Saturday, May 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Knitted Tessellations: Playful and Powerful Patterns in Practice with Franklin Habit Saturday, May 6, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Garter Party: Garter Stitch Gone Wild (with Special Guest I-Cord!) with Franklin Habit Saturday, May 6, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday Festival Workshops Slash the Stash with Harriet Boon Sunday, May 7, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sheep Breed Walk-about with Judith MacKenzie Sunday, May 7, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Sunday Lectures No pre-registration required. Fee: $ of 15 payable at the door on a first come, first served basis. Design Inspiration with Lily Chin Sunday, May 7, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. B is for Purl: A Brief History of the with Franklin Habit Sunday, May 7, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m

Meet the Instructors Harriet Boon is a spinner, dyer, weaver, wool judge and retired shepherd. In 1976 she earned a master spinner certification and continues as an instructor with the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners certification programs. She has been involved with fibers and natural dyes, learning from travels in Europe and Asia, returning to share, and teaching workshops in Canada and the United States.

Maggie Casey is co-owner of Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins in Boulder, Colorado. She has been addicted to spinning for more than 30 years. Some people have wine cellars, she has a fleece basement. She holds Part 1 of HGA’s COE in Handspinning. Maggie teaches spinning at Shuttles, the Estes Park Wool Market, Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival and guild programs around the country. She has been a skein judge at the Taos Wool Festival, Estes Park Wool Market, Colorado State Fair and Convergence 2004. She is the author of Start Spinning, Everything You Need to Know to Make Great , an Interweave Press book. Her DVDs include: Start Spinning, Getting Started on a Drop Spindle, Big and Lofty , and Pre-Drafting for Spinning.

Lily Chin is an internationally famous knitter and crocheter who has worked in the yarn industry for more than 30 years, as a designer, instructor and author of 8 books on knitting and crochet. Lily teaches around the world and now has instructional DVDs as well as some online classes. She has created looks for the New York Fashion Week runway collections of designers Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, and Isaac Mizrahi, and her work has been on the backs of celebrities and super models. She was named a “Master Knitter” by Vogue Knitting. She is regularly cited in media across the U.S., including The Late Show with David Letterman,

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Martha, CBS Morning News, CNN, HGTV, Knitting Daily, Knit and Crochet Now, and more. Lily Chin has lived in New York City all her life and has been involved in the fashion industry since age 13.

Dawn Edwards is a felt artist and tutor based in Plainwell, Michigan. She sells her work under the label “Felt So Right” and teaches extensively within the U.S. and internationally. Her felt art has appeared in numerous exhibitions, shows, magazines and books, most recently Australian Felt Magazine, and images and essay in the new Worldwide Colours of Felt by Ellen Bakker. Dawn also is the co-coordinator of the not-for-profit Felt United with over 6,000 members worldwide. For more information, see www.feltsoright.com.

Designer, teacher, author and illustrator Franklin Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008). His new book, I Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet Coloring Book was brought out by Soho Publishing in May, 2016 and is in its second printing. He travels constantly to teach knitters at shops and guilds across the country and internationally; and has been a popular member of the faculties of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, STITCHES Events, the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat, Squam Arts Workshops, Sock Summit, and the Taos Wool Festival. Franklin’s varied experience in the fiber world includes contributions of writing and design to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Twist Collective; and regular columns and cartoons for .com, PLY Magazine, , and his popular “Fridays with Franklin” feature for Skacel Collection. Many of his independently published designs are available via .com. He first became known as the writer of The Panopticon, one of the most popular knitting blogs on the Internet. Readers worldwide continue to drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons, and the adventures of Dolores the Sheep. Franklin lives in Chicago, Illinois, cohabiting shamelessly with 15,000 books, a Schacht spinning wheel, three looms, and a colony of yarn that multiplies whenever his back is turned. You can follow him online as @franklinhabit on Twitter, @franklin.habit on Instagram, or through his Facebook page.

Judith MacKenzie is the ultimate textile artist and teacher. She has an in-depth understanding of every aspect of spinning, , knitting and dyeing. Her teaching career spans the globe from such fascinating places as above the Arctic Circle all the way to Turkey. Judith is the author of Teach Yourself Visually: Handspinning and The Intentional Spinner. She often writes for Spin-Off, Knits and Handwoven magazines. She lives in Forks, Washington.

Jackie Ottino is a dyer from Maine who feels incredibly lucky to be paid to do fiber things. She dyes yarns for her own brand, Forage Color, as well as curates dyestuffs from the local landscape and around the world. She also dyes and consults for other yarn producers, and teaches fun workshops all over the country. In her spare time she drives her kids to swim meets and knits sweaters while cheering them on.

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