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Gone Batts
with Patricia Martinek
In our fifth Sunday Spin-In, come play with the drum carders! We will have several on-hand with piles and piles of fibers and colors to layer, blend and spin in the mixtures of your imagination. We will cover color theory, the color wheel, optical blending, how to blend well two dissimilar fibers, card several ways to keep colors and fibers separate, and then spin from the batts to compare the results. We will also make garnetted yarns with thrums and yarns. Basic spinning experience necessary.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Sunday, 2/5/2012, 1 - 5 pm
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee: $15.00
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Very beginning knitting
with Loretta Banta
A support group for new knitters! Knitting is one of the easiest and most accessible ways to make your own fabric. Come and learn the two basic stitches that make up the lions share of knitting, a simple cast on technique, and how these simple stitches can be combined. You'll be off and knitting in a day.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 2/26/12 10am to Noon
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
Kit Fee: $5.00
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Jewelry For Your Knitting
with Loretta Banta
Have you seen the lovely new stitch markers now available, but winced at the price? Have you thought to yourself, “I could make those”? You're right, you could! Let's get together for a fun day of making our own!
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 2/26/12 1 -3 pm
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
Kit Fee: $10.00
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Spin Exotic Fibers A – Y
with Patricia Martinek
In the sixth Sunday Spin-in, we will spin a variety of animal fibers that come from around the world. We will learn double drafting, preparing and spinning variable staple fibers, how to prepare difficult-to-prepare fibers and blends, how to finish your skeins for a stable non-shedding yarn, and how best to use the unique yarns you make. Fibers will include angora, bison, camel, dog hair, huacaya alpaca, silk, yak, some unusual wool breeds, and possibly suri alpaca, cashmere, mountain goat, possum, and others if available. Basic spinning experience required.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Sunday, 3/4/2012, 1 - 5 pm
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee: $15.00
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Photo Transfer Fabric Collage –Telling Family Stories in Cloth
with Corinne Joy Brown
Preserve a copy of a favorite photo of someone you love in a brand new way: add the colors and textures that bring them to life, embellished with the jewelry or memorabilia they might have worn or owned.
Here is a great way to recycle found objects and household miscellany. Found objects take on new meaning when connected to a time and place in an individual’s life—buttons, pins, corsages, barrettes, and more. Even scraps of old letters or sheet music.
Why keep treasured photos in an album? Find new ways to connect to the past by creating an art form you can hang on the wall and enjoy seeing every day. Finish your wall hanging with a favorite saying or treasured quote.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.corinnejoybrown.com
Saturday 3/3/12 12 -4pm
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee: $5.00
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Knitting - the beginnings and ends
with Loretta Banta
Are your hand-knit socks too tight at the cuff, or even worse, floppy? Does your scarf pull in at the ends? If you've ever had a knitting project that was perfect, except for the edges, here's the class for you. There are lots of ways to cast on and bind off. This class will teach you several choices of each, so you can choose the one that's right for your project. We will be making a cast-on sampler for your reference.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 3/25/12 10 am to noon
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
Kit Fee: $8.00
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A Simple Toe Up Sock Recipe
with Loretta Banta
If you can knit a narrow tube, on double point needles, or using 2 circulars or the magic loop, you can knit socks. And knitting them toe-up has some advantages: you can try them on as you make them, to check the fit, and you can use up all your yarn. The simple recipe can be used for socks of any size and in any weight of yarn, and can be made fancier by adding patterning stitches.
We'll make a small sampler sock to learn the recipe, including an easy cast on method, a wedge toe, Cat Bordhi's brilliant Sweet Tomato heel and a couple options for a stretchy bind off. Then you can start your socks in class!
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 3/25/12 1 - 4pm
Member $35.00 Non-members $45.00
Kit Fee: $2.00
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Koolaid-Dyed Yarn and Wool Fabric
with Patricia Martinek
Come learn a wild and non-toxic way to safely dye your wool yarn, rovings, and finished pieces and fabrics in your own kitchen. We will space-dye animal-fiber materials using a variety of flavors, whoops I mean colors, into brightly-colored and blended-color pieces. You can even eat your socks for a high-fiber snack when finished (just kidding!).
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Sunday, 3/25/2012, 1- 5 pm
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee: 45.00
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Get Your Knitting into Shape
with Loretta Banta
When you're ready to move beyond rectangles, into knitting in 3 dimensions, you will need to know the shaping stitches. Increases and decreases make it possible to knit sweaters that fit perfectly, as well as socks, mittens – the list is endless. Increases and decreases can be tight or loose, decorative or subtle, depending on what you need. We'll cover one for every need.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 4/1/12 10 am to noon
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
Kit Fee: $8.00
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Felted Rocks, Beads, and Jewelry
with Patricia Martinek
There once was a cobble named Rox
Who lived with the river rock flocks
Then one day a felter
Decided to help her
Think way far outside of her box.
It was a brilliant mind bender.
And now at the TACtile Art Center
With fibers and fleeces and wild glitter pieces
You'll be a design rock inventor!
Using wet-felting techniques, you will learn to make colorful felted paperweights and doorstops, as well as felted jewelry beads, balls, necklaces, and bracelets. No experience needed.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Two Sessions Saturday & Sunday, 4/14 and 4/15 /2012, 1- 5 pm
Member $80.00 Non-members $95.00
Kit Fee: $12.00
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What the heck do they mean by that? Reading the knitting pattern
with Loretta Banta
Once you know the six basics (knit, purl, cast-on, bind-off, increase and decrease) you're ready to knit anything, right? Except that the instructions in front of you just don't make that much sense. Bring a project or two that you're stuck on, and we'll figure it out and get you off and knitting again. We'll talk about each project, the common pitfalls, and how to avoid them.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 4/29/12 10 am to noon
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
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The Burn Test! Solving The "what fiber is this" Mystery
with Loretta Banta
Do you have yarn or fabric you'd love to use if you only knew what it was? The burn chart shows the characteristics of the various fibers, and can help determine the content of yours. We'll work outdoors, first burning known fibers, to educate our eyes and noses. Then we'll burn the unknowns, and try to solve your mystery.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.FairIsleDesign.com
Sunday 4/29/12 1 - 3pm
Member $25.00 Non-members $30.00
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Marketing with Pizzazz for Artists
with Carol Naff
How to Find Your Place in the Market: Get Paid for your Creative Achievements
You know that you’re a great artist, so why not let others know it as well? TACtile presents a workshop for artists who want to learn the fundamentals of marketing their businesses and getting results. This workshop will teach you how to identify the best low-cost or no-cost marketing solutions for your business, avoiding dead ends and pitfalls that waste your time and energy, and the basics of creating and implementing a successful marketing plan that gets results!
From class participants:
“Thank you, Carol! Your class was invaluable to me. It really helped me understand how much is involved in, successfully, turning a hobby into a business and it gave me some great tools for making it happen. I also really enjoyed all of the interaction by the participants. What a great group! Hope I see you at TACtile ” Tish Gallagher
"I really enjoyed the marketing class for artists. Your information on press releases in particular was very valuable. It never would have occurred to me to write a release about myself. You have given me lots to think about. Thanks again, Carol, for the wonderful class." Carmen Kwolkoski, Montana Girl
Instructor’s Web Site: www.marinerco.com, http://solobizmarketing.wordpress.com/
Saturday, 8/25/12, 1- 4 pm
Saturday,10/13/12, 1- 4 pm
Saturday,11/10/12, 1- 4 pm
Member $35.00 Non-members $45.00
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Classes We Are Scheduling
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Beginning Weaving: weave a scarf
With Peg MacMorris ** Sold Out! Check Back for Additional Dates**
If you are a fiber enthusiast who has always wanted to learn how to weave, or someone who is intrigued with what weaving is all about, this is a class for you. Elementary weaving concepts and terms like warp and weft will be introduced. Each student will learn to use a rigid heddle loom (supplied) to weave a scarf. You will learn to dress the loom with your yarn, to weave and to do some finishing techniques for your scarf. Other kinds of looms will be discussed or demonstrated.
Saturday, 2/4/12 & 2/11/12 12-4pm
Member $80 Non-member $95
Kit Fee: $25 payable to the instructor (includes loom rental)
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Tapestry Weaving
with David Johnson
This is an introductory course in tapestry weaving. In this two session class students will learn to warp and weave on frame looms as well as learn about designing for tapestry. The lab fee includes the loom, warp, and some weft yarns. We will learn plain weave and soumac techniques. Design emphasis will encourage experimentation and having fun while we weave.
Instructor’s Web Site: jdjohnson81499@facebook.com
Two Sessions
Member $60.00 Non-members $75.00
Kit Fee: $30.00
The following classes will be offerred again in 2012.
Watch for new dates to be announced.
ReDesigning Sweaters
with Donna Christopher
Create a new look for an old sweater by changing the design!
Come see a collection of redesigned sweaters and explore style and new design ideas. Learn some quick and easy tips on how to visualize your design options.
Cut up your old sweaters or ones from a thrift store and go home wearing a new favorite sweater! As an example, you can turn a pullover or turtleneck sweater into a versatile cardigan, add panels, cut off cowls, lengthen or shorten sweaters or sleeves, or add some interesting fabric, trim, or buttons to update your sweater.
(This is not a class on how to felt sweaters – however, you can bring felted sweaters to work with.)
Instructor’s Web Site: http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h466/DonnaChristopher/ReDesigning%20Sweaters
Member $35.00 Non-member $45.00
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Japanese Temari Balls
with Patricia Martinek
Temari is Japanese for decorative balls filled with rice hulls and a rattle, then embroidered with thread, yarn and beads into precise geometric designs in colorful collages. Come learn an addictive use of simple stitching techniques to make ornaments, home decorations, handmade gifts, and toys. No experience needed.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee $6.00 plus Supply List
Felt Wallet w/ Needle Felted Design
with Lalania Carrillo
Learn the art of needle felting into felt fabric. In this class we will needle felt a simple design into a piece of felt fabric. When the design is complete, we will hand-stitch the felt fabric into a lovely, lined wallet, with a button hole closure. The wallet is the perfect size to hold a checkbook cash, or can be a small clutch.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.stitchfetish.etsy.com
Member $35.00 Non-members $45.00
Kit Fee: $10.00 PLUS Supply List
