In this tapestry class, students will learn to use various technical processes (plain weave, soumak, knotted pyle) to produce a sampler and then apply these techniques to a small finished piece of their own design. Registration for this class includes a warped loom that is yours to keep and a selection of weft yarns to get you started. Zoom students will have looms shipped to them.

Ever since someone long ago picked up two sticks and some string and knit the first loops, people have been dreaming up new ways to create textured knits.

Join Darla and Mark from Warp and Woolens to explore spinning with a drop spindle. Learn how to use a top whorl, bottom whorl or Turkish spindle, from making a leader, to spinning, and plying. You'll be amazed at how fun and easy it is to make your own yarn!

"Join us as we learn a new technique involving tufts of unspun roving to make tiny heart shapes (for Valentine's Day) on the outside, and a warm woolen lining. This hat is made with ?thrums? which creates a warm, fluffy interior to your knit that will keep the coldest of heads warm, and that you can then use to make any other hat or mitten pattern written for this method. Or if you prefer to jump in with mittens then bring in a pattern and yarn of your choosing - the technique is the same."