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All classes will take place on Friday, January 19 or Saturday, January 20, 2024.

Schedule:

January 19, 2024

2:00pm - 5:00pm : 13 from 3 with Gina Levesque

In this class we will explore basic color theory using three natural dyes: indigo, cochineal, and osage orange. By combining each of these colors, students will learn how to produce secondaries and tertiaries. Materials fee includes a notebook of class information, a color wheel, and samples of each color.

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3:00pm - 5:00pm : Cross Stitch with Andi Bedsworth

Learn to cross stitch with Andi Bedsworth in this lovely collaboration with Forbidden Fiber Company. The pattern for this class is called Love is in the Air. Andi will show how to prepare floss and fabric needed for successful and beautiful cross stitch. Learn how to read the chart and instructions, and how to get started stitching.

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2:00pm - 5:00pm :Freestyle Weaving with Q from the Foldout Cat

Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple floor loom. Honor your inner sense of beauty and truth as you play with color, texture, and technique, and come away with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn basic skills of freestyle weaving on an approachable, easy-to-use two-harness floor loom designed for this type of weaving.Freestyle Weaving with Q from the Foldout Cat

Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple floor loom. Honor your inner sense of beauty and truth as you play with color, texture, and technique, and come away with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn basic skills of freestyle weaving on an approachable, easy-to-use two-harness floor loom designed for this type of weaving.

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3:00pm - 5:00pm : Introduction to Lace with Jennifer Miller

You’ll love this fun beginning class for knitters who are itching to make a lace shawl! Using the Ashton Shawlette pattern by Dee O’Keeffe, we’ll get started on an easy-to-follow lace pattern. This content-rich class will include information on:  construction and geometry; using the garter tab method; Reading a lace chart; How to make a shawl bigger or smaller; Bindoff methods; Creative  colorwork; Working with handpainted and tonal yarns.

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January 20, 2024

9:00am - 12:00pm : Crochet Christmas Stocking with Katie Clark

Christmas just ended, but don’t put away your Christmas yarn just yet. Using a vintage pattern as inspiration, we will create crochet motifs and piece them together to make beautiful stockings for next season. Depending on the motif design and colors you choose, you can create any style stocking from traditional to playful to modern. You will learn to create a motif, choose appropriate piecing techniques and leave with a template to make a set of stockings for your whole family! This is a wonderful way to use any advent or mini skein yarn collections.

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9:00am - 1:30pm : Two Color Shibori with Gina Levesque

Shibori is a Japanese surface design technique where fabric is stitched or folded to resist the dye bath. In this class, we will be exploring the art of layering multiple colors to produce stunning affects. Each student will take home a sample book, a pair of socks and a bandana that they have dyed in class.

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11:30am - 2:30pm : Knitters Bracelet with Marla Morris

Don’t you love beautiful jewelry? Even for your knitting or weaving? In this class, create a bracelet to keep track of rows, repeats, cables, increases/decreases—whatever your heart desires. In addition, we’ll make and attach coordinating stitch markers and progress keepers!

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11:00am - 12:30pm : Thread Painting Demonstration with Allison Movits

Join this free lecture to learn about Thread Painting. Thread painting and thread sketching involve using your sewing machine to create pictures. You “paint” with thread. This demonstration shows the tools and the processes for sewing down colors to create pictures, portraits, and more.

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1:00pm - 4:00pm : Crochet Lush Cowl with Katie Clark

Cables aren’t just for knitters. Crochet cables evoke the rich textures of the Vikings! The Lush Cowl uses the techniques of crocheting in front of and behind stitches, the first steps to creating cable patterns. Once you master these techniques, you’ll be ready to jump to more complex cabling patterns. Lush Cowl is decadently plush and will keep you toasty all winter long!

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9:00m - 10:30am : Next Steps in Knitting with Jennifer Miller

Perfect for anyone who is self taught or relearning to knit. You know the basic knit and purl, but it may not be as smooth as you’d like. You understand the concept, but you just can’t read the patterns. You follow all of the instructions but your final project just doesn’t look like the photo. This is a class to help you get from beginner to advanced beginner. Taught by Oxford Fiber Festival Crowd Favorite Jennifer Miller of Theodora’s Pearls, learn how to take the Next Steps in your Knitting Journey.

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2:00pm - 5:00pm : Arts Batts with Q from the Foldout Cat

What is an art batt? How might you make one? What can you do with it, and why would you want to? How do dog combs come into the fiber-prep picture? And what in the world is a rolag? Learn answers to those questions–and more! Students will leave with the basic skills needed to create art batts, knowledge of some handy creative-carding tools, and fibery clouds of various kinds designed using ingredients from the unique Foldout Cat Batt Buffet and created using hand cards, blending boards, and drum carders. We’re batty for batts–and we think you will be as well!

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2:00pm - 4:00pm : Kudzu Egg Baskets with Nancy Opalko

Learn how to make a beautiful egg basket woven with kudzu vines. Information on basic basketry and how to find your own materials for future basket weaving adventures will also be provided. All weaving materials are provided but you will need to bring your own hand pruners and needle nose pliers; some hand strength and dexterity required.

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3:00pm - 5:00pm : Brioche Knitting with Abigail Patterson

Brioche knitting can be fun! This class will help knitters learn how to brioche knit seamlessly in the round while knitting a basic headband or hat. Knitting pattern provided but students should bring their own yarn and needles.

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10:30am - 12:00pm : Nalbinding with Nharah Clark

Nalbinding, an old needlework technique popular in the Viking age in Scandinavia, predates both crochet and knitting. The stitcher uses multiple short lengths of yarn and a wooden needle, passing the full length of the working thread through each loop. Nalbinding fabric can be difficult to distinguish from regular knitting.

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Date : January 19, 2024 - Januray 20, 2024

Location :

Powerhouse Community Arts Center

413 South 14th Street

Oxford, MS 38655

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