Some Class Descriptions for Hand Crafted in the Hills.

We have only received a few class descriptions from our teachers so far. I will continue to post the descriptions as soon as I receive them.

Here is what we have:

Teacher: W. Michael Woody
 I had the advantage of being taught to spin by my grandmother. I've been spinning, dyeing and weaving, off and on, tor over 50 years.I am now a retired elementary school teacher and I do woodworking and build tools for fiber artists right here in the Black Hills.
 

Beginning Spindle Spinning: In this two hour class you will learn the basics of drop spindling. You will begin with some wool fiber and walk away with yarn that you have spun. I will provide student spindles for you to use in the class. They will also be for sale after class if you want to keep the one you use at a reasonable price. ($20.00)  Supplies: 1 oz fiber available for $2.00



Fiber blending: In this class you will blend fibers on a blending board, Using English Hackles, Viking Combs and a Drum Carder. You will blend different colors and textures of wool and prepare it for spinning. You will also learn to use a diz to create roving from bats on the drum carder.


Teacher: Heather Gordon
Heather has been involved in fiber arts since she was 7 yrs old.  Being taught to knit and crochet by her grandmothers started a life-long obsession.  Several years ago she started spinning and fell down the "rabbit hole" hard.  She now shares a small farm with her husband and her daughter.  They raise sheep, angora goats, and llamas all for their fiber.  She is living out her dream combining her love of fiber, animals, and country living.

3-D Needle Felting:  

In this class we will be exploring the basics of sculpting wool with felting needles.  We will be needle felting a jointed teddy bear.


Supplies List: 

Felting needles:  36 gauge, 38 gauge triangle, 40 gauge triangle, 
5x5  Felting foam (foam rubber or sponges will not work), 
2 oz of clean wool for main color
, 1/2 oz of clean wool for contrast color
 (Wool may be in roving, batt  or cloud form)
, Bamboo skewer, 
Waxed thread(waxed dental floss
), and a 4 inch doll needle.

Teacher: Sue Jensen
Sue has been knitting since a tender young age and spinning and weaving for the last 15 years. She learned to weave on rigid heddle looms and then purchased a floor loom. She learned to weave on the floor loom with determination and a book and hopes to help others learn from her mistakes! She now weaves at c r yarn in Rapid City and discovered that weaving is necessary to living a balanced life.



Wacky Warping
An un-traditional method of warping a floor loom and a rigid heddle loom. You will learn how to wind a simple warp on the warping board, how to sley the reed and thread the heddles, tie onto the beams and tie up the treadles on a floor loom. You will also learn how to warp a small rigid heddle loom which will be provided to use. There will be no actual weaving in this class. There will be handouts and suggested resources, no materials fee.

Rigid Heddle Weaving  
We will take the previously (in the Wacky Warping Class) warped Rigid Heddle loom and learn the parts and learn how to weave a small scarf. There will be handouts and suggested resources. Warp will be provided for the class. Weft may be brought to the class with you, or purchased at the vendors booths.

Supplies: You will need bulky weight yarn. The Rigid Heddle Loom will be available for sale at the end of the class. There is a 5$ fee for the warp which is provided.

Teacher: Patricia Blaser-Mexican 
is a Mixed Media & Textile Artist whose interest in fiber techniques has changed and evolved as her media explorations developed since first exhibiting her photography in juried shows in the 1970’s. Her road to the fiber arts has been a process of building upon previous experiences and works to expand and develop new ways of using texture & color to tell a story. Over the years she has created and exhibited paintings, batiks, marbling, weavings, rug hooked art, quilts and embroidered and felted dimensional pieces, as well as alternative photographic processes printing on fabric and other surfaces.  She spins, weaves and enjoys designing purses & dimensional objects and rugs with the different colors and textures of handspun and dyed yarns, roving and recycled wool "cloth” employing different rug hooking and weaving styles. She prefers using local plant dyes in work.



Rug Hooking: The fiber art of rug hooking using wool yarn as your medium. Students will make a mug rug out of wool yarn on a burlap backing. There will be kits available to purchase at the Fiber Festival or you may bring your own supplies.

Supplies:The kit includes:Burlap with sunflower pattern (pattern by Backporch Fiberworks studio),
Embroidery  or quilt hoop size #10, # G hook, Yarn for flower, leaves and background, Yarn needle, Yarn for edging, Felt for backing, Color photo to use as a guideline, Instructions (This level is for beginners and up). This is NOT a latch-hook rug class.

Classes Updated! Purchase Here

Hi everyone, we have not forgotten you!

Here is the latest, as of March 28, 2013, list of Class Openings for Hand Crafted in the Hills.

Saturday
 April 27
9am Beginning Knitting (2 hr) 4 openings

11am Wacky Warping (2 hr) 1 opening

1pm Toe Up Sock Toes (1 hr) 4 openings

2pm Beginning Crochet (2 hr) 5 openings

3pm Beginning Wheel Spinning (2 hr) 3 openings

4pm Spindle Spinning (2 hr) 4 openings



Sunday April 28

10am 3D Needle Felting (2 hr) 5 openings

11am Hat Recipe (2 hr) 6 openings
12pm Blending Board (2 hr) 3 openings
12pm Toe Up Sock Heels (1 hr) 4 openings

1pm Rigid Heddle Weaving (2 hr) FULL
3pm Rug Hooking (2 hr) 6 openings
3pm Navajo Plying (2hr) 6 openings





If you are interested in taking any class that has an opening, PLEASE, use the Paypal link to the right.
And, MOST IMPORTANT, please put in the shipping description, the name of the class or classes that you want to take. Otherwise, we have no way of knowing which class you want and we want you to get a class!!


TOE UP SOCK CLASS is a 2 hr class offered on both days: toe first on Saturday and heel second on Sunday. You only need to pay 25$ for this class as it is ONE class.


We are so excited for the Fiber Festival and it is not very far away.

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People may take an unlimited number of classes, altho they may not register for two classes in the same time slot. we put people in classes on a first come first served basis. each class has only 6 spots. we expect them to go quickly.

Wacky Warping and Rigid Heddle go well together, as you will warp a rigid heddle loom (and work on a bigger loom also) in the Warping class, then weave a short scarf in the rigid heddle weaving class!

those who sign up for Toe up Socks--the class is divided into two parts. this way you learn the cast on, etc. on Saturday, then come back on sunday to work on the heel.

Purchasing Classes in Advance

On your right side over there>>>>>>>>>>>>
you should see some paypal buttons to purchase classes for HandCrafted.

A couple of things--sign up for a class and you get into the festival for free. so, if you buy a class, don't buy the entrance fee.

When you purchase a class, put the title of the class that you want to take in the notes of the purchase. Classes will be filled on a first come first served basis. there are 6 spots in each class, and if a class becomes full we'll post it here so you'll know, and if you try to sign up for a class that's full we'll refund your money.

We expect classes to fill up very quickly. you'll want to sign up quickly to get the classes you want!

OOPS! Updated HandCrafted Class Schedule

Seems like I don't know my days from my nights!! Also, we added two new classes: Color Blending and Navajo Plying.

CLASS SCHEDULE

Saturday April 27
9am-11am Beginning Knitting (2 hr) Classroom A (4 spots left)
11am-1pm Wacky Warping (2 hr) Classroom A (1 spots left)
1pm-2pm Toe Up Sock Toes (first half of class) (1 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)
1pm-3pm  Spindle Spinning (2 hr) Classroom B (6 spots left)
2pm-4pm Beginning Crochet (2 hr)Classroom B (5 spots left)
3pm-5pm Beginning Wheel Spinning (2 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)

Sunday Arpril 28
10am-12pm 3D Needle Felting (2 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)
10am-12pm Hat Recipe (2 hr) Classroom B (6 spots left)

12pm-2pm  Blending Board (2 hr) Classroom A (4 spots left)
12pm-1pm Toe Up Sock Heels (1 hr)Classroom B (second half of sock class)
1pm-3pm Rigid Heddle Weaving- (2 hr) Classroom B (FULL)
2pm-4pm Rug Hooking (2 hr) Classroom A (6 spots left)

3pm-4pm Navajo Plying (1 hr) (6 spots left)

Sue

Hand Crafted in the hills and Crafted in Rapid ROCK!

Well, we are zipping along with schedules and it looks like our Fiber Festival is really going to ROCK! We have the Hand Crafted in the hills Schedule and Class Schedule ready for you. Here it is:

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday

3pm-6pm—Vendor set up &check in

6pm—check in

7pm—One knitter’s Trash is another Knitter’s Stash

8:30pm—Fashion/unTalent show

Saturday

7am—late vendor set up

8:30am—check in

9am—classes begin (refer to class schedule please)

            MarketPlace opens

            Fiber circle opens

            Installation art piece yarn hand out

            Fiber collection begins

5pm—MarketPlace closes

            Classes end

Dinner on your own!

7pm—Raveling and unRaveling!

Sunday

10am—MarketPlace opens

              Classes begin

              Installation art piece needle felting fun!

              Fiber Collection/Drum carder demo

              Fiber circle opens

4pm—classes end

            Last minute purchases

5pm—MarketPlace closes

5:01: start planning for next year!

5-8pm Vendor take down

CLASS SCHEDULE

Saturday
9am Beginning Knitting (2 hr)
11am Wacky Warping (2 hr)
1pm Toe Up Sock Toes (1 hr)
2pm Beginning Crochet (2 hr)
2pm Beginning Wheel Spinning (2 hr)
4pm Spindle Spinning (2 hr)

Sunday
10pm 3D Needle Felting (2 hr)
10pm Hat Recipe (2 hr)
12pm Toe Up Sock Heels (1 hr)
1pm Rigid Heddle Weaving (2 hr)
3pm Rug Hooking (2 hr)

 The entrance fee for the Festival will be $5 and you will receive a goody bag full of fun things. Our vendors have been very generous to donate items for the goody bags and for the Door Prizes. We will post our Vendor List as soon as we have it completed. Tell everyone you know about the Festival, it is going to be so MUCH fun!

CRAFTED IN RAPID our consignment area of c r yarn is filling up with the most WONDERFUL items for sale. All items in our booths are hand-crafted from various materials. There are no two vendors alike and their merchandise is awesome. There are 3 vendors that come from other states but have ties to the Rapid City area and all the rest of our vendors make their items in Rapid City or real close! Here is the list of Vendors that are in the booths in the back. Not all of them are ready to sell, but their stuff is coming in soon.

Backporch Fiber and Metalworks Studio
Chinook Winds Bison Fiber and Yarn
Eagles Wings Enterprises
Fuzzbee Yarns
Native Life Designs
SageRidge Mill and Critters
Spindlers Cottage
Yarnsanity

So come in and C R yarn and C our Crafts in the back.