Category Archives: Workshops & Classes

Classes….

By carmen | Published: February 3, 2012

I’ll be doing a lot more teaching at the studio this year.  Yes, my schedule is organized such that I have carved out more space for classes. Check back for some updates shortly!  I also am happy to hear from anyone who has a special request or an idea for  a class they would like [...]

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It Takes a Village

By carmen | Published: May 10, 2011

It takes a village to spin a village worth of fibre and yarn.  Here’s what’s still drying from the Saturday workshop. If you recognize your fibre, give it another day or so to dry and then it’s all yours.  For the record, you were a prolific and enthusiastic group. Again, no pink here anywhere.   Today [...]

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Dyeing to Learn

By carmen | Published: May 8, 2011

Yesterday I offered what I hope will be the first of many full day workshops at the studio.  The dyeing class was something that has been in the works for a while.  Almost a side effect of teaching spinning, if you will.  Once everyone has spun their requisite pound of crossbreed or corriedale (learning fibre) [...]

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All Yarn, All the Time

By carmen | Published: May 5, 2011

I finished reskeining the yarns I dyed on the weekend.  It was first and foremost a matter of getting it out of the way.  There was yarn drying everywhere. Here’s a bit of the spring in yarnie goodness. After putting the fibre away, I managed to card a bit for what will eventually be this [...]

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Dyeing to Learn Something New?

By carmen | Published: March 27, 2011

I’ve added a tab for classes.  I have the schedule now for the Dyeing Class in April. Check it out! No studio today, knitting at home.  Maybe a log for the fire and a movie.

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Sharing Knowledge

By carmen | Published: March 23, 2011

I’ve done something I have never done before.  I taught someone how to spin before I taught them how to knit. The woman who owns these hands can make magic.  Another knitter and spinner set loose on the world.  Excellent.

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Fibre Collective

By carmen | Published: March 3, 2011

Being open to change is a wonderful thing.  Embracing change is even more amzing.  The space is now either fibre related or in Joan’s case, fibre friendly.  With the new fibre crew on board, and realizing that basically we share the same brain when it comes to our likes and dislikes it was apparent that [...]

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A Mountain of Fibre

By carmen | Published: February 25, 2011

and none of it for me….Okay, I confess that I snagged two rovings.  I swear I am only doing that for quality control. My final class with my intermediate group finished yesterday.  Bittersweet, I would have to say.  This group was a joy to teach.  The yarns that came out of last night’s class were [...]

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Thinking it Makes it So = Change IS Good

By carmen | Published: January 20, 2011

All it took was a chat with Joan, a Craigslist ad and word of mouth and by March 1, the studio will be full with new and exciting possibilities.  In the meantime with the help of organized friends, I’m enjoying the new face lift the studio has received.    It feels like all this extra [...]

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Satisfaction

By carmen | Published: January 13, 2011

The spinning class tonight was full of rock stars.  I am deeply humbled by this shared love and passion for all that is fibre.  Whle I watched each student find their own rhythm, I thought about how not so long ago it was when I took the same journey.  Amazing.  Now I can’t imagine a [...]

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