Upcoming Workshop:

Workshops with Jacey Boggs
Save the dates to attend the upcoming spinning workshop with Jacey Boggs on Nov 16 - 18, 2012. Jacey is known for her fantastic novelty yarns. Even if you are not drawn to novelty yarns, you should seriously consider taking these classes. Novelty yarns are all about using unique materials and/or new yarn construction techiques. Learning new approaches can be very inspirational. Open your horizons and create yarns you have not even imagined yet.

Jacey is a wonderful instructor who has been teaching for several years for local guilds, and bigger venues like SOAR and Madrona. She has a very popular instructional DVD called Sit and Spin. She also has a new books out: Spin Art: Mastering the Craft of Spinning Textured Yarn. Check out Jacey's website at http://www.jaceyboggs.com/.

Wendy Smith-Wood Workshop
Wendy Smith-Wood will offer a one-day workshop on Shibori Dyeing in the Fall, in the Palmer Junior High art room (it has a wet lab). The cost will be $165. If enough people are interested, we’ll offer two one-day workshops. The cost covers two silk scarves to dye, in addition to instruction, and you can buy additional scarves if you have time to work on them.

Shibori Scarf Workshop
Wendy Smith-Wood presented a wonderful program on Shibori at our November 2011 monthly meeting/program. She offers a one-day workshop on creating your own hand-dyed Shibori Scarf! The workshop is one day and costs $165. This includes all materials (dyes and silk) for two scarves and a location (Palmer Jr Hi). Wendy has noted that some students have time to do more than two scarves. She will have additional materials available for those students, but there will be an extra charge.

We have enough interest in the workshop that Wendy and I will tentatively schedule two workshops, estimating 10-15 people per workshop. There is a maximum of 20 per class.

So keep May 2012 in mind for the Shibori Scarf Workshop! Email me your name, phone number and email if you want to be on the interest list. I’ll be sending out sign up sheets once we have final dates. Registration will be $80. The remaining $85 will be due the day of the workshop.

Check out Wendy’s web site at www.wendysmithwood.com
Kathryn Young
AWSG Workshop Coordinator

Possible Workshop for 2012
We are considering bringing Pam Patrie, renowned tapestry weaver, to teach a workshop for the Anchorage guild. Pam’s training includes time at the Portland Museum Art School, Independent studies of the Gobelin Technique in France, Independent Study of Aubusson Technique and time spent at the San Francisco Tapestry Workshop as Associate Weaver. Pam has published many articles and has been featured in several weaving magazines. She has participated in numerous exhibitions – solo, invitational, and juried, as well as receiving many selected commissions.

Pam offers three, five day or two week residencies or she can design a special session to meet the needs of our guild. An intensive session can be designed for the different weaving levels of participants. Her workshops are limited to 15 participants and materials are included with the class fee.
At this time we are seeking interest for her workshop and plan to bring Pam up sometime in early 2012. At the guild meeting on March 12 there will be an interest sheet on the back table for you to sign.
Pam’s website: http://pampatriestudios.com/

Upcoming Workshops Ideas
Pam Patrie may be coming to do a Tapestry Workshop in Spring 2012;
Barbara Walker, an extraordinary weaver, is being considered for a Fall 2012 workshop;
Pamela Grefsrud will present a Boundweave workshop in the Fall.
Other ideas include Ikat or Shibori workshops. It was also noted that Judith MacKenzie is interested in coming to Anchorage again to teach spinning, perhaps in March.

Workshop Committee is working on the following for the next two years (no specific dates or contracts set with these people).

• Spining Class in Fall
• Another Drop Spindle workshop with Tom
• Weaving Class in Winter
• Dyeing workshop: Pam Gresfrud, Chris Abshire, and/or Michelle Coburn
  

A contemplative moment...
From Finding Balance – Jennifer Shafer
Spinning is a combination of art and science, philosophy and physics, intuition and logic. We’re taught to draft and join and spin, but only skill and experience can tell us how much twist is enough for a particular fiber. We learn the attributes of two-ply, three-ply, and cabled yarns but choose to do one or the other “because it feels right.” Perhaps this is why spinning is so satisfying: both halves of our brains—the intuitive, emotional side and the calculating, rational side—get a chance to shine.

"Pretty Colors"
Multi colored rovings for a Spinning for Color class taught by Deb Menz.

Long time knitter, spinner par excellence Gayle Andrus took a beginning rigid heddle weaving class this past year. Photographed here by Mary Werner is her very first hand woven project, a beautiful bag, using handspun fibers and embellished with beads.

Gayle was pleased to have had her bag displayed at a First Friday Art Show at Changepoint Church where she also demonstrated drop spindle spinning. Gayle’s husband made the display stand for the bag.

   

The natural dyeing class was tons of fun.
Gathered the dye supplies...

and had some fun!

Every color of the rainbow!

 

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