Primitive Breeds Wool
Friday 1pm-4pm $20

For tens of thousands of years, humans and sheep have traveled the earth together. These hardy creatures produced beautiful fleeces of many colors, milk, meat, leather, and bone. Some of these breeds still survive, and many modern shepherds have worked to create a modern Noah’s Ark for these special animals. In this workshop Judith will lecture about and show you some of the beautiful fleeces available to handspinners and discuss how to buy a fleece and prepare it for handspinning.

Intuitive Dyeing
Saturday 9am-4pm $75

This workshop is full.

This all day class is about dyeing with the right side of the brain in a short version for the “measurement impaired”. You will learn in a series of hands-on dye exercises that will help you examine your own subjective color systems and show you interesting ways to get repeatable colors. All materials included in the class fee.

A Stick and a Handful of Stones
Sunday 9am-12pm $35

This lecture and demonstration is about how to make and use a weighted warp loom. You can watch Judith weaving and teaching, then go home and easily set up your “new” ancient loom. Used by the Romans and Scandinavians, this ancient loom is flexible, portable, easy to set up and perfect for thick textured yarns.

Judith MacKenzie McCuin is a nationally known spinner, master weaver, and fiber artist whose articles regularly appear in Spin-Off magazine. She is the author of a new book, Teach Yourself VISUALLY - Handspinning. She has taught at all the major fiber events around the country. Judith is wonderful, an overflowing font of knowledge and experience.