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HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS and 2011 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
(Equipment rental, materials
and Bed and Breakfast are additional)
Hillcreek Fiber Studio Workshops: |
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Tuition: Two days, $140; three
days, $195; four days, $260; five and 1/2 days,
$345. |
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2012 |
| FIBER
FURLOUGH ONE, Spinning, Dyeing, Felting:
Five and one-half days
June 24 - 29, 2012 Focus on Spinning: beginning, designer yarns, and/or special fibers; Nature Dyeing, immersion of fibers and yarns, and/or fabric and yarn painting; and Felting, both wet and dry needle techniques, for vessels, wearables, and/or whimsical sculptures, Locker Hooking. Dye and spin your own designer yarns. |
| BLUE
PARTY: Bex Oliger, Instructor, One day, at Hillcreek Fiber Studio
June 30, 2012 Bex will have 4 different Indigo pots going: hydrogen sulfate for protein fibers, zinc/lime for shibori and resist dyeing on cotton and silk, Saxon blue for turquoise colors on protein fibers, and the ancient Woad blue. Bring items to dip into the vats. For more information, call Bex at TBFF Yarns and More - - - 573-443-8233 |
| FIBER
FURLOUGH TWO, Weaving of all Types:
Five and one-half days
July 1 - 6, 2012 Focus on what you can do with yarn: Rigid heddle, Four and more-shaft structures, Navajo, Continuous strand on triangle, square or rectangle, Tapestry, Inkle, Tablet, Kilim, Pile Carpet, Fingerweaving, Kumi-himo braiding, Lucet cordage, Macrame. Obviously, no one person can explore it all, but you may choose one, two or three types to explore during the week. And what you don't have time to explore yourself you can observe others doing. Students may choose both Fiber Furlough weeks for a 10% discount on both tuition and B&B for both weeks. Create a true heirloom by designing the whole textile process - weave something the second week from the yarn you created the first week! |
| NATURAL
DYEING, MISSOURI PLANTS:
Sat. & Sun.
Sept 8 - 9, 2012 A full color spectrum will be obtained from foraged plants within walking distance of Hillcreek Fiber Studio — red from pokeberries, blue, lavender and green from elderberries, yellows and oranges from flowers, browns and blacks from trees. Students will go home with over 60 dye samples on wool, cotton, and raw silk fabric. They may bring items of their fiber medium to dye: fiber, yarn, fabric, basket reed, quills, buttons, etc. |
| CONTINUOUS
STRAND WEAVING METHOD ON TRIANGLE, SQUARE, OR RECTANGLE LOOMS Two or three days Sat., Sun., & Mon. Nov 3 -5, 2012 In two days students can complete a full 7-foot Triangle Shawl using the simple, unique continuous-thread method. Or choose to stay three days, take your time and learn a few intermediate or advanced techniques, such as twill, leno lace, and double weave, plus color patterns such as log cabin, tartan plaids and color blending, or create wearable and household textiles on the square or rectangle loom. |
BEG, INTERMED & ADVANCED NAVAJO WEAVING: Five
and one-half days
Nov 11 - 16, 2012 Guest instructor tuition - $445 |
(For all Workshops, Equipment rental, materials and Bed and Breakfast are additional)
For more
information, and to register, call 573-874-2233, or 1-800-874-9328
(TRI-WEAV).
Bed and Breakfast is available for out-of-town students at $45 per night. Airport
shuttles available
Workshops@HillcreekFiberStudio.com).
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ABOUT "HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO
WORKSHOPS"
by Carol Leigh
Brack-Kaiser
Hillcreek Fiber Studio was added to Carol Leigh's Specialties in 1986, as the teaching part of the business, following numerous requests from the inquiring public as to "where can I learn how to....?" I have had the privilege of studying with numerous internationally known fiber experts, and try continually to add to my knowledge every year.
The Studio
is located in the Little Bonne Femme Creek valley just minutes from Columbia, in the woods
across from pastures and Rock Bridge State Park, and offers an informal Bed and
Breakfast, in house, for students attending classes. Lunches are shared, the Studio
providing the main dish and the students contributing. Also, for those coming from
afar, there's a commercial airport shuttle service which will bring you directly from the
St. Louis or Kansas City airports to our front door.
Some of the advantages of learning in a group atmosphere include: the comraderie of
sharing a learning experience with others of like interests; the expansion of ideas and
creative thoughts when several people are contributing to the thought process; making new
friends, contacts, and networking with people who share the same love for things natural,
less hurried, and handmade; generating enthusiasm, inspiration and energy; and finding a
support group of people who appreciate and understand our fiber obsessions and the
satisfaction we feel when we create something from scratch.
Why don't you treat yourself, this year, to some time away from a hectic life-style,
learning a new skill, and meeting some great people.
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Carol
Leigh's HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO, in addition to the extensive WORKSHOPS
Schedule, carries a LARGE SELECTION of Fiber-related Equipment, Tools, Materials, and
Books.
Click Here to go to the
beginning of the Product Lines area of our Website,
which also includes the HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO Shopping Cart WebStore.
To obtain
further information about workshop classes at Hillcreek Fiber Studio, or at other
locations (maybe Carol Leigh
could do a special class for your group), contact us (giving U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
address) at CarolLeigh@HillcreekFiberStudio.com or by mail or telephone-see "Contact
Us" page).
Workshop Registration Form (printable) Workshops Photos
