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Carol Leigh's
HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO

Upcoming Workshops

(Updated 1/17/2010)

We invite you to join us this year for
one or more of the workshops described below.

HILLCREEK FIBER STUDIO CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
and
2010 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
(Equipment rental, materials and  Bed and Breakfast are additional)

     2010   

During January, Carol Leigh will be working on, and hopefully, finishing The Book,
Continuous Strand Weaving Techniques for Triangle, Square, and Rectangle Frame Looms.

Hillcreek Fiber Studio Workshops:   For more information and to register, please 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. 

Tuition:  Two days, $130; three days, $185; four days, $240; five and 1/2 days, $325. 
Tuition includes a hot, nutritious lunch every day.  Tuition for Guest Instructor Workshops will be higher.
Deposit of one-half of tuition will hold a space for you. 

Beginning and Intermediate Four to Eight-Shaft Weaving,    Saturday through Tuesday        Feb 13-16, 2010
Beginning Students will complete two projects.  They will learn basic weaving theory, how to read and understand pattern drafts, will warp their loom twice for their two projects and learn basic threading and weaving techniques in plain weave and twills.
Intermediate Students will work independently on a project of their choosing with guidance from the instructor.  Projects include:  Colonial Weave Structure Sampler, learning Overshot and Summer & Winter block weave theory, Rosepath point twill, and Check, Houndstooth, and Log Cabin Color & Weave Effects; Tartan Dancing Shawl, learning tartan planning theory and techniques, "picking the cross" for fast warp measuring, dressing the loom back to front, and balanced twill weaving techniques with fine yarns;  Student's Choice, planning a whole project start to finish using any new weave structure the student would like to explore.
Equipment and Supplies:  Floor and table looms available to rent or purchase. Yarns of all types are available for purchase, cost depending upon projects chosen.
Times:  Saturday 10 am to 5 p.m, Sunday and Monday 9 am to 5 pm, Tuesday 9 am to 4 pm.  Students may work in the Studio on projects during the evening hours.
Four-day Tuition:  $240 A daily lunch with homemade soup, salad, drinks and more are included.
 

BEGINNING SPINNING                                                                       Sat. & Sun.                      Feb 20-21, 2010
Beginning students will learn basics of spinning, choosing and skirting fleece,  cleaning, carding & combing techniques, spinning on spindles and on a variety of spinning wheels.

SPINNING DESIGNER YARNS / SPINNING SPECIAL FIBERS           Sun. & Mon.              Feb 21-22, 2010
Designer Yarn students will learn color & fiber blending and Navajo 3-ply techniques.  They will create novelty yarns such as slubs, knop, marl, core-spun, loop, and feather yarns, among others.

Spinning Special Fibers students  will dress distaffs and spin Flax, unwind cocoons & spin Silk from several preparations, spin Cotton and other Fine Fibers on charkas & taklis, and will Comb Wool.
 
DYEING with the LESSER KNOWN  ANCIENT DYES:              Sat. & Sun.                           Feb 27-28, 2010
Explore recipes for the lesser known dyes such as alkanet, annatto seeds, fustic, lac, myrobalan, pomegranate rinds, quercitron,  red sandalwood, safflower petals, woad and weld. Obtain a full color spectrum and go home with dozens of colors on wool roving, raw silk, and cotton fabric.
 
BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE NAVAJO WEAVING:       Four days, Sat. - Tues.        April 10 - 13, 2010 
Students will warp their looms and learn basic Navajo weaving techniques and color joins.  The experience will include readings and discussions of the Navajo/Diné culture.  Most students will finish a sampler, learning finishing techniques for the tight ending.
 
CONTINUOUS STRAND WEAVING METHOD ON TRIANGLE, SQUARE, OR RECTANGLE LOOMS 
Two or three days                                        Sat.,  Sun., & Mon.                                                April 17 - 19, 2010 
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.
 
FIBER FURLOUGH ONE, Spinning, Dyeing, Felting:         Five and one-half days               June 13 - 18, 2010 
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.
 
FIBER FURLOUGH TWO, Weaving of all Types:           Five and one-half days                    June 20-25, 2010
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 11 - 12 2010
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 6 -8, 2010 
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 14 - 19, 2010 
Guest instructor Sarah Natani has become family.  This will be her thirteenth visit to Hillcreek Fiber Studio.   Sarah’s focus will be on Intermediate and Advanced Navajo Weaving techniques, including twills and two-faced structures (different design on each side) by using 4-shed techniques.  Carol Leigh will assist beginning weavers.  Sarah shares stories and traditions of her culture.

Guest instructor tuition - $425
 

(See Tuition Schedule near the top of this page)

(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
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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.

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).

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