February - Strickler Presentations

Carol creates mixed media fiberart using original photographic images, which are digitally adjusted and printed on fabric. The carefully layered imagery is embellished with free motion stitching. Carol will demonstrate using photographic imagery in quilts. Beginning with a photograph, she will take us through all the steps involved in creating art quilts and stitcheries. She will show images and have samples of various materials available. For over 30 years Carol was a social worker and psychotherapist focused on healing and strengthening the body-mind-spirit connection. This background continues to inspire her artwork and teaching.

Amy is relatively new at the business of fiber art, but has been creating stitched work all her life. As a Strickler scholarship recipient, she has been exploring the process of developing a website. She will share her artwork and discuss what she has learned.

Workshop: Monday, 2/9, 1:30-3:00 pm

Jennifer Falck Linsson -- Shifu, the Japanese Art of Paper Spinning

Jennifer will demonstrate her process of preparing paper for spinning and then handspinning the long paper lengths on a drop spindle. Jennifer will bring demonstration spindles. Bring a lace-weight top whorl spindle if you like. A handout will be provided. Please bring a 12'X18" rotary mat, X-acto knife, 18" metal ruler (preferably cork-backed), clear plastic quilter's-style ruler and pencil. Extras will be available for those who don't already have these. Drop spindle experience helpful but not necessary. Registration is required. Registration forms are in the February Beat.

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March - Diane Fabeck

Diane Fabeck is an experienced weaver and quilter from Manitou Springs. She has lectured and taught extensively on several fiber techniques, skilled research being a strong component. She has been a seminar leader at Convergence and active in Complex Weavers. She is particularly interest in "Stephengraphs", small silk pictorials of Coventry, England woven on ribbon looms with a Jacquard mechanism. The history, looms and weave structures of Paisley Shawls is another keen interest.

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April - Sharon Costello

Sharon Costello is an accomplished fiber artist who has worked in hand-spinning, weaving, and knitting as well as having raised her own flock of naturally colored sheep. Once she discovered feltmaking, however, it quickly came to dominate her fiber fixation. These days, Sharon's work focuses on soft-sculpture dolls and one of a kind and limited-edition wearable art... hats, jackets, bags, boots, etc. She has also completed special works for clients such as Celestial Seasonings Teas (a tea cozy inspired by their line of teas). She has studied modern and ancient feltmaking techniques both in the US and in Turkey. Visit her website for more information.

Workshop: Tuesday, 4/14, 9:30 - 4:00pm

Sharon Costello - Nuno Felting

The workshop is full. If you are interested in being on the waitlist, please contact Margaret Tullis. Note: HGB and Shuttles Spindles and Skeins are co-sponsoring Sharon Costello's visit in April. Sharon will also give a 3-day workshop at Shuttles, Vessels and Masks, April 10, 11, 12. Contact Shuttles for more info.

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May - Nancy Finn of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks

Nancy Finn is the owner of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks in Willits, CA, where she dyes natural fibers in a rainbow of colors. Nancy has an amazing sense of color, and her colorways are vibrant and sophisticated.

Nancy has enjoyed a fascination with all things fabric from a very young age. Sewing and weaving since childhood, she graduated from college with a B.A. in Textiles and Clothing. When she moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Willits in northern California, it was to become involved with fiber animals especially angora rabbits and alpacas. Her custom dyeing and selling yarns and rovings at conferences and fairs evolved into "Chasing Rainbows." Nancy and her dyers work in a especially renovated studio surrounded with the pastures and forest. She is active in several wool festivals and has developed a teaching strategy to systematically create around eighty colors for reference and a very complete color wheel.

Nancy present guild programs on color theory and a dye workshop through Shuttles Spindles and Skeins. Contact Shuttles for more info.

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