2012 Workshops
New Age Looping Basics eCourse
The next online class runs September 11-November 1, 2012. Registration is here, and there's more information about eCourses on this page. To get on the email list for early announcements, please use the link in the top right column of this blog.
Willow Gathering 2012
June 21-24 in Decorah, Iowa -- Quixote Coiling and Willow Spirit Constructed Vessels
Sievers, Washington Island, Wisconsin
Digital Fabric -- July 1-6, 2012. Digital Fabric Workshop FAQs are here. Additional information about GIMP on Macs for Digital Fabric studens is here. 6-2-12 note: With the introduction of GIMP 2.8, some things have changed. I'm working on updates for these orientation materials. If you have questions in the meantime, please email me.
Local Color -- September 30-October 5. Registration opens February 1, 2012 at www.sieversschool.comMichigan League of Handweavers
August 10-12, 2012 -- Digital Fabric Workshop, Digital Fabric Workshop FAQs are here. Additional information about GIMP on Macs for Digital Fabric studens is here. 6-2-12 note: With the introduction of GIMP 2.8, some things have changed. I'm working on updates for these orientation materials. If you have questions in the meantime, please email me.
Rocky Mountain Weavers' Guild
September 15-16, 2012 -- New Age Looping lecture and workshop
Llama Adventures, Arena, Wisconsin
October 20-21, 2012 -- Willow For Color. Contact Edie Benusa.
Digital Fabric Workshop FAQs --
6-2-12 note: With the introduction of GIMP 2.8, some things have changed. I'm working on updates for these orientation materials. If you have questions in the meantime, please email me.
Student Supply Lists
Most venues where I teach post student supply lists on their web sites or send them with registration confirmation materials. If you need additional information, please email me.
Bibliography
What's on my bookshelf? Here are a few of the titles, in no particular order.
- New Age Looping by Donna Kallner (yep, that's a plug for my book, which is for sale on Etsy).
- The Surface Designer’s Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric by Holly Brackman
- Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston
- Fabric Art Workshop by Susan Stein. Susan took a workshop with me at the Textile Center in Minneapolis a while back, so I got to gush about how much I love what she did with aluminum foil.
- From Image To Stitch by Maggie Grey
- Inspired To Stitch: Creative Experiments In Art Quilt Imagery by Melanie Test
- Quilted Memories: Journaling, Scrapbooking & Creating Keepsakes with Fabric by Lesley Riley
- Complex Cloth by Jane Dunnewold
- Imagery on Fabric by Jean Ray Laury
- The Textile Design Book: Understanding and creating patterns using texture, shape, and color by Karin Jerstorp & Eva Kohlmark
- The Quilter's Book Of Design by Ann Johnston
- Celebrate Your Creative Self: more than 25 exercises to unleash the artist within by Mary Todd Beam
- Design & Composition Secrets of Professional Artists from the editors of International Artist magazine
- A Weaver’s Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers by Rita Buchanan
- Wild Color: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes by Jenny Dean
- The Embroiderer’s Workbook; a basic embroidery course, designed to help embroiderers structure their approach to the craft by Jan Messent
- A Complete Guide to Creative Embroidery: Designs, Textures, Stitches by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn. Read anything you can get your hands on from this pair.
- Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide by Jane Davis
- Embeadery by Margaret Ball
- Beading on Fabric by Larkin Jean Van Horn
- The Beader’s Guide To Color by Margie Deeb
- The Folkwear Book of Ethnic Clothing by Mary Parker
- Beaded Embellishment: Techniques & Designs for Embroidering on Cloth by Amy C. Clarke & Robin Atkins
- The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese de Dillmont
- The Embroiderer’s Workbook; a basic embroidery course, designed to help embroiderers structure their approach to the craft by Jan Messent
- Adventures In Stitches by Mariska Karasz. Thank you, Carlene Fullerton, for sharing this one.
- Inspiration for Embroidery by Constance Howard.
- Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Quilts In A Material World by Linda Eaton
- Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity by Jane Davila & Elin Waterston
- The Knitting Experience Book 3: Color by Sally Melville
- Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmermann
- No Idle Hands: A Social History of Knitting In America by Anne Macdonald
- Colorworks: the crafter’s guide to color by Deb MenzDesign Language by Tim McCreight