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​Pop-Up Sale October 19th

10/27/2025

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OCTOBER 23, 24, 25, 2025 - Robyn Spady Program & Workshop

10/27/2025

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PROGRAM October 23, 2025
ROBYN SPADY - WEAVE STRUCTURES

In this program, Robyn Spady shared a  collection of weave structures that let you take advantage of fun and exciting yarns and to add new dimensions to your weaving.
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Robyn Spady was introduced to handweaving at a young age and has been weaving for over 50 years. She completed HGA's Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving (COE-W) in 2004 with the specialized study Loom-controlled  Stitched Double Cloth. Robyn is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of crossing threads and loves coming up with new ideas to create fabric and transform it into something new ​and exciting. Robyn is also the founder and  editor of Heddlecraft® magazine.

ROBYN SPADY WORKSHOP
A Parallel Threading is the Weaver's Playground
oCTOBER 24 & 25,​ 2025

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A Parallel Threading is the Weaver's Playground
A parallel threading can provide a weaver with a multitude of options and patterns – from echo weaves and corkscrew twills to turned taqueté and network-drafted twills. Then add weft variations in color and texture and a weaver will find themselves in a playground of possibilities.
Workshop participants will pre-warp their loom from a selection of threadings and during the workshop enter into a journey of discovery and exploration of how to transform a parallel threading into a myriad of patterns. The workshop is a combination of presentation/discussion, weaving, and hands-on exercises. Emphasis will be on understanding the design and drafting processes to empower workshop participants to create their own patterns.
(Note: Participants weave on their own looms, four-shafts minimum; eight-shafts highly recommended.)
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August 23 - October 11:The Mycelium Forest Fiber Arts Show: Roots 2.0 The Wood Wide Web

10/14/2025

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August 23-October 11 at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center.
Background: In fall of 2024, the show Roots, the Unseen World was installed and displayed at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center. This show is part 2 focusing on mycelium. (Mycelium is a network of thread-like fungal filaments that form a root-like structure. It's the vegetative body of a fungus, and it's found in soil and other substrates.)
The Mycelium Forest—the fiber component of the show—20-30 individual art pieces will be accepted to create the forest. They can be weaving, quilting, macramé, collage, assemblage, and any other creative representation of mycelium.
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christine miller - metal as fiber - August 26, 2025

10/1/2025

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July workshop - gasali adeyemo

8/14/2025

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6/6/2025

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May 27, tuesday morning meeting
Deb Robson
A fiber odessy: How the fleece and fiber sourcebook came to happen​

The plan was for a short jaunt: two authors would spend nine months putting together a small, pretty guide to wools, with color pictures of sheep and locks of wool, along with summary information for quick reference.
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Deb and Kinty
Ha! Here’s the inside story of the little project that grew, and of the four years I spent researching, writing about, and spinning every animal-grown fiber the team could reasonably get its hands on. Come learn how I tore my life apart to put a book together. If I’d known in advance what the project would involve, I would never have said yes (the task was impossible). In retrospect, I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. It was amazing and wonderful. 
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Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she worked at Interweave Press, editing both books and Spin-Off magazine. She has a DVD set now available from Long Thread Media and a class on wool types available to premium members at Craftsy.com, has done several guest appearances on KDTV, and is writing focused fiber-topic monographs.  Deb can be found on the internet at independentstitch.com.
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May 3, 2025 - bOSQUE rEDONDO FIBER FAIR

5/1/2025

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PROGAM FOR 4/24/2025 - ANA LISA HEDSTROMARASHI SHIBORI, A LANGUAGE OF STRIPES

4/12/2025

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Tonight we are going to watch Ana Lisa Hedstrom's video on "Arashi Shibori: A Language of Stripes."  Arashi shibori is a Japanese dye technique that results in diagonal stripes and intriguing textures.  We are sorry to miss Kevin's talk and wish him well.  Here is a teaser video:
ARASHI SHIBORI: A Language of Stripes • Ana Lisa Hedstrom
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March 7, 8, 9, 2025 -- Kate Larson spinning workshop

3/1/2025

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Kate Larson, editor of Spin Off and Farm & Fiber Knits led a 3-day spinning work- shop in March.  Day 1, Friday, March 7—Working with Gradient Yarns. Day 2, Saturday, March 8—Color & Creativity for Spinners.  Day 3, Sunday, March 9—Counting Sheep: Spinning for Breed Specific Yarn and Cloth—is at Fiber Arts On 4th.
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February 27, 2025 -- Corey Alston: Gullah sweetgrass basketes

2/22/2025

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​Corey Alston gave a 45 minute presentation on the culture of basket making in the slave culture in the Gullah Geechee Culture Heritage Corridor, the Atlantic coastal area from Jacksonville, FL to Jacksonville, NC.  He would not have been allowed to be a basket maker without the cultural connection through his wife Karen and her grandmother.  The Gullah Geechee is a blended lifestyle based on slave ancestry back to the 1500s, and is generally from the Ogeechee River area.  The grass used for the basket gets its name Sweetgrass from the sweet fragrance.  All the materials in the baskets are harvested in and around the marshes: sweetgrass, palmetto, bull rush.  Plants are not “grown” in gardens or yards.  The sweetgrass is harvested between March and October while it is green.  It is dried in the sun before weaving.  The baskets can have multiple colors depending on the materials used.  The bull rush is used to strengthen the baskets.  The threading is palmetto which is used “green” while it is flexible.  A small tool is used to make openings in the weaving for the threading to go through.​​Corey Alston spoke about Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets in a prerecorded Zoom presentation. ​
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