From Sheep to Shawl (Spooky Week)

$730.00

Full

Spinning

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Friday)

Ages

Nov

Sun

Nov

Fri

04:00

12:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Sessions: 6

Session Hours: 6.00

Program Area: Spinning, Dyeing, Knitting

Instructor: Martha Owen

Studio/Location: Wet Room

Student Materials: Please bring the following: - Any tools that you own if it is convenient - spinning wheel, hand cards, combs, and drum carder. Otherwise, the Folk School has a good supply of tools and equipment. You can call the instructor for more information as to kinds. - Wool and other fibers on hand. (You are invited to bring fibers such as alpaca, but if it is very dusty or full of barn trash, pick out the cleanest bits and bring along a sample.) The instructor will also have other fibers to sample. - Onion skins, yellow or red -- the papery outside of the onion. Save them as you use them, and try to fill a gallon bag! (If you know someone in a restaurant, ask them to save them for you.) - Knitting needles, crochet hook, or cardboard or small loom (for making samples) - Notebook & pen, scotch tape for securing samples, or string hang tags - Apron - Rubber gloves - Ziplock bags and plastic bags (a few recycled from the grocery store) - Shoes for a barn visit, and a sun hat - A song recollection, story or poem about spinning, sheep, weaving etc.

School Fee & Materials: Vinegar - Ammonia - Dishwashing liquid - Baby oil & mister bottle - Old bath towels - regular wet room set up of wheels and other related equipment

Instructor Materials: Homegrown Wool and Angora and other fibers to sample - Dye stuffs - Handouts - Wool wash - pencil roving and "Junk yarn" for practice spinning

Equipment Needs: Wet Room The Folk School has all of the equipment necessary (wheels, hand cards, etc.)

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Total Materials Fees: $45-$55

1 Folk School Rd
1 Folk School Rd
Brasstown, NC 28902

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...or rug, tapestry, and socks. If you weave, crochet, or knit, personalize your pieces by acquiring the age-old skills of combing, carding, natural dyeing, and spinning. Make your own yarn to add visual interest, softness, color, and texture to any fiber project. Discover the qualities of various breeds of sheep, and play with color, fiber blends, and simple novelty effects. The Folk School has all the equipment needed for this yarn-intensive week for beginning to intermediate students.

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...or rug, tapestry, and socks. If you weave, crochet, or knit, personalize your pieces by acquiring the age-old skills of combing, carding, natural dyeing, and spinning. Make your own yarn to add visual interest, softness, color, and texture to any fiber project. Discover the qualities of various breeds of sheep, and play with color, fiber blends, and simple novelty effects. The Folk School has all the equipment needed for this yarn-intensive week for beginning to intermediate students.

$45-$55

Martha Owen is the Creative Program Advisor in Spinning, Knitting and Crochet, Felt making, Dyeing, and Surface Design. Her adventure in spinning began at this very school in 1978. Since then, her extended family has included sheep (mostly Corriedale, Shetland, Romney) and Angora rabbits (French). A banjo player known to tell a story or two, Martha's interest in sheep and wool, music, and dance has carried her quite literally and joyfully to Shetland and around the world. She reads historical fiction for sheep references and rewinds movies to see the shape of a hat or to draw a color repeat. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and was co-owner of Yarn Circle in Murphy, NC, until deciding to close in 2016. Find her on Facebook and Instagram at @marthaowenwoolens.

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